USC’s Gamepipe brings us Lockdown, which they describe as “a serious game for incident response to school shootings.” Obviously, this game, or simulator, or training application, however you want to bill it, isn’t about graphics, but I can’t stop thinking of Playmobil as I look at the video.
It’s supposed to be used to teach SWAT […]

Age of Conan went live last week, and I couldn’t help but see how it compared to Funcom’s last MMORPG offering: Anarchy Online. I just got it yesterday; follow the jump to read my impressions.

Last Wednesday, Philadelphia heavy hitters Clockcleaner played a show in Brooklyn with The Dustheads and the reunited Midwest hardcore legends Negative Approach. I missed the show but word is that it was pretty epic. The ‘Cleaner are no strangers when it comes to pulling epic pranks but it’s pretty safe to say that Negative Approach […]

The 2006 documentary film American Hardcore does a decent job of telling the story of the rise and fall of the first wave of hardcore bands. One interesting segment in the movie occurs when the film makers gets all the original members from the Boston hardcore band Society System Decontrol back in the same room together. […]

Sami hooked me up with this kid. He can speak for himself.

The record industry is crumbling. The RIAA is sueing people for illegally downloading music. College kids don’t care about things like that, though. They just wanna be able to excercise their god-given right to download illegal Dave Matthews Band cds in peace.
At Villanova University, students illegally downloading stuff has gotten so out of hand that […]

I always thought that PA Governor Ed Rendell seemed like a pretty cool guy but a recent Huffington Post article (posted before Hillary Clinton’s “big” win in Pennsylvania) shows the ex mayor of Philadelphia acting like a salty old baby to a small group of college kids.

In case you didn’t read the newzzz today [post, ht], America is at new highs in both our prison population and the percentage of our population in prison. We’ve smashed our records. We’re the worldwide champs. Most overall people in jail - 2, 300, 000! What’s up now, China? 1/99 Americans in jail! […]

A few weeks ago, before the flu absolutely crippled me for a while, a friend pointed out a weird posting on the Philebrity blog. Philebrity editor and co-founder Joey Sweeney has long since held a giant grudge against (or hard-on for) the Philadelphia noise-punk mess known as Clockcleaner. This grudge is childish to the point […]

The writers strike is over. They kinda settled for a deal that isn’t so great. Whatevs. I’m just glad that the strike’s over so we can get back to hilarious new episodes of our favorite television shows.

“Friends, now is the time to calm the waves we have stirred.” said Marc Whitten, GM of Xbox Live, to his colleagues after weeks of his service being plagued by outages and inoperability. He continued, “We’re going to give them a free game, we’re going to give them Undertow.”

This is kind of insane.  Yesterday, A&E announced the Jan. 8 premiere of Parking Wars a 20-episode series that looks at the men and women who, depending on your point of view, either help keep our streets clear or make our lives miserable -  the ticket-writers, booters and tow-truck drivers of the Philadelphia Parking Authority.
My favorite […]

Lil Wayne’s been fucking shit up lately. Since his last “official” release “Tha Carter II”, dude’s dropped an insane number of mixtapes: freestyles, remixes, live tracks and collabs. Many are available for free on the interweb but sometimes they have ads edited over the music, “YOU JUST GOT HIT IN THE HEAD BY AN […]

Our main man and sometimes FV contributor DES is one of the peeps at House 33. He sent me an email the other day from a very unhappy and hilarious customer detailing what was wrong with his purchase and what he was going to do for revenge. I was praying the House 33 demigods would […]