Tag: MICHAELJACKSON

Today, a small Internet extravaganza occurred with the release of 'All Day,' the third album from Girl Talk, a.k.a Greg Gillis. If you've been living under an Internet rock, Gillis is famous for mashing-up songs, pairing classic rock jams with new hip-hop acappellas, or reminding pop music junkies of forgotten hits. Adrenaline-fueled and famous for raucous live shows, Girl Talk doesn't skimp on ...

The Gloved One may have departed this earthly coil, but his celebrity certainly hasn't. Jacko has found considerable postmortem refuge in video games, from motion-sensing dance contests to zombified iPhone apps. Those games have been bootleg at best, though, so this news should warm the hearts of fans just as it lines the pockets of his estate. In just a matter of months, the world will become ...

Michael Jackson is dead. And his family, apparently, wants to keep it that way -- even in the world of iPhone games. According to MTV, Jackson estate lawyers recently forced gaming company PopCap to change a character in one of its iPhone apps, 'Plants vs. Zombies,' because said character bore a striking resemblance to the King of Pop. From now on, the Dancing Zombie character will no longer be ...

Michael Jackson may be dead, but your killer moonwalk doesn't have to be. At E3 yesterday, Ubisoft, the makers of 'Just Dance,' announced its latest creation: an "interactive, performance-based" game featuring none other than the King of Pop. As DailyCaller reports, the still-unnamed game will be among the first to feature the Kinect and Move motion-sensing camera systems for XBox 360 and ...

Share Whatever 2010 holds for Facebook, it's going to have a hard time competing with 2009. The social networking site truly exploded into the mainstream this year -- and suffered some growing pains along the way. As the new year approaches, we take a look at some of the biggest Facebook moments of 2009, and how those instances defined the way the '00s will be remembered. Read on. ...

Four months after his shocking death, Michael Jackson continues to make headlines, and his legend continues to grow. His name's been atop music charts worldwide, a movie documenting his last scheduled concert was a box office hit, and now, a long held rumor about his collaboration with Sonic the Hedgehog has reportedly been confirmed. Black & White, a French magazine devoted to everything ...

This time of year, there's not much better than a good year-end list. A list is one of our last chances to reminisce about the year that was before turning our attention to the year that will be and all its promises. In the year-end spirit, Yahoo! released its list of "2009's Most Popular Searches" today on the CBS Early Show. Number one, to no one's surprise, is Michael Jackson. His shocking ...

When King of Pop Michael Jackson passed away earlier this year, we knew the line of people waiting to profit from his death would be a long one. These bling-tastic exploitations, though, took us by surprise. The Michael Jackson phone, manufactured by a Chinese imitation goods company, is in the very poorest of spectacularly poor taste. It boasts enough faux gold and jewels to make a Liberace ...

If you've ever dressed up for Halloween, you've probably bumped into someone at a party or bar who's wearing the same costume as you. From experience, we can say it's a deflating feeling. While the holiday is practically upon us, you might want to quickly scan this list of popular costume searches before you head out into the night. What costumes are in this year? Well, CNET News reports ...

To further the media saturation of Michael Jackson's death, numerous Web sites now plan to broadcast today's memorial service, which is set to include musical performances by Stevie Wonder, Mariah Carey, Lionel Ritchie, and Smokey Robinson, according to CNET. News outlets surprisingly haven't reported whether or not Jackson's pet chimp Bubbles will attend the star-studded event. Live Web ...

It certainly didn't take spammers long to capitalize on the death of the King of Pop. Appearing almost as quickly as the tasteless jokes, spam messages claiming to have information surrounding Michael Jackson's mysterious death have been sweeping the Net. According to The New York Times, security firm Sophos originally discovered the first set of spam messages, which offer details of the gloved ...

The King of Pop is dead, but if the flood of news covering the entirety of the Internet overnight is any indication, his legacy will live on for quite some time. It was shocking and unexpected news, so, of course, folks were quick to let everyone know, usually through online sites like Twitter. In fact, so many people were logging on to see whether this sad news was for real yesterday that many ...