Hooray! Blizzard finally announced a new release! And by “new,” I mean “another installment in an 11-year-old franchise.” It’s a relative newcomer compared to the gaming mammoth’s Games That End In -Arcraft series, but another Gothic dungeon crawler with the same name as the first two is hardly groundbreaking, despite the ravenous Diablo fans that have been marking days off their calendar since the original installation. Ironically, unless you count the “-arcraft” games as separate franchises, wacky old Diablo’s still the newest goose in Blizzard’s golden-egg-laying flock.

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Stealing a page from Take-Two’s play book, the Boston Celtics have flipped EA the proverbial avian critter and let them know exactly where they can shove their fancy predictions. In open defiance of an NBA LIVE ‘09 prediction that the LA Lakers would triumph in 7 games, the Celtics unceremoniously tossed the Lakers out of the 2008 NBA finals. It may well be the gaming EA’s biggest setback since SimPresident1870 predicted Samuel Tilden would obliterate Rutherford B. Hayes in the second overtime of the 1876 elections.

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Rumor has it that much of the long lusted-for Who’s Next album will never make it to Rock Band. Someone unearthed a February 2008 interview in which Pete Townshend casually mentions that half of the master tracks for Who’s Next have been stolen, which has led to speculation that classic songs like “Baba O’Reily” and “Bargain” will never grace Rock Band’s proverbial teenage wasteland.

Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away (July, 2007), Harmonix made the undershorts of gamers and rockers everywhere just a little tighter when they announced that not only were they going to provide a steady stream of downloadable new tracks, but they were also going to open the festivities with one of the greatest albums of all time: Who’s Next.

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TMZ.com, the high-tech mother of all supermarket tabloids, is riding the cutting edge of the internet’s lust for all things salacious and earning itself an unlikely new title: YouTube killer. Editor Harvey Levin and his wacky band of paparazzi won’t be putting a serious dent into Google’s online video superpower any time soon, but they have proven that there’s room out there for independent producers of original content who don’t bow to the ‘Tube… provided they’re bankrolled by Time Warner and don’t know the meaning of words like “shame” and “restraint.”

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The folks at GameRail turned off the lights last month, ending an innovative experiment that promised to drop your ping and thus give you the extra milliseconds needed to blast the everliving snot out of those Counter-terrorist weasels.

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