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Matt Damon is slated to appear in the HBO film "Behind The Candelabra," about famous piano man Liberace. Michael Douglas will star as Liberace. The Steven Soderbergh film ("Magic Mike," "Ocean's 11") is not the first time the three men have teamed up.

According to MSN, former NBA bad boy Dennis Rodman is hard at work authoring his first children?s book.

According to Reuters, J. K. Rowling, famed author of the ?Harry Potter? series of children?s novels, has launched an online book club in conjunction with the series? US publisher, Scholastic.

Just days after the Ouya developers announced that their Kickstarter-sponsored console will be launching with OnLive support, Square Enix Japan becomes the first major developer to sign a deal with the Ouya.

James Bond is back. After waiting four years for his return to the silver screen amidst MGM?s financial difficulties, ?Skyfall?, the twenty-third film in the long-running spy series, will be hitting screens in October of 2012.

MTV?s 2012 Video Music Awards (VMAs) nominees have been announced (courtesy of MTV.com) and Rihanna?s duet with Drake, ?Take Care? is a front-runner with five nominations (including Video Of The Year).

According to EGMNow.com, the PEGI software ratings system found on video game titles in Europe is now officially a legally binding law in the UK.

Arnold Schwarzenegger turns 65 Monday, amid rumors that he left “bad energy” in his former home with Maria Shriver. Apparently this news comes from Shriver herself, who’s “very spiritual” (according to WebProNews). The California home rests in Santa Barbara, and was formerly inhabited by Clark Gable, John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart at various points in its history.

Heath Ledger won an Academy Award for his portrayal of The Joker in Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight.” While his award was posthumous, his impact on the realm of cinema and villainy lives on. An actor, in preparation for the role, often will look at various material to assimilate and channel as a performer. It would seem, according to Kotaku, that Heath Ledger channeled a little bit of Tom Waits.

According to gaming site Polygon (via The Verge), the Electronic Entertainment Expo will remain in Los Angeles for at least the next three years. The trade show dedicated to video games has been around for nearly twenty years, and with this new commitment to the LA Convention Center, which is in proximity to the Staples Center. The trade show draws upwards of fifty thousand attendees every year, and though common opinion is that the show has (in recent years) been a bit on the weak side, with fe...

Legendary film composer Hans Zimmer ("The Dark Knight," "Inception") has released a haunting piece of music entitled "Aurora" as a tribute for the victims of the shooting in Colorado, available for download here.

According to CNN.com, the first world record of the London Olympics has been set by South Korean archer Im Dong Hyun, 26, who delivered a stunning 699, edging out his compatriots on the team. The team, as a whole, delivered a groundbreaking score of 2,087, which places the team far ahead of the field. Hyun, legally blind, struggles to read a newspaper and has only ten percent vision in his left eye and twenty percent in his right.

Too soon? Comedian Dane Cook, taking the stage at yhe Laugh Factory in L.A., jokes about the shootings that occurred in Aurora, Colorado, during a screening of “The Dark Knight Rises.” The comedian, after claiming that the movie is a “piece of crap,” then goes on to make the all-too-obvious and offensive joke that someone in the audience thought “oh, f----ing shoot me.”

After Twitter went down yesterday, there are reports of a new malware virus being spread under the guise of picture-posting, according to Naked Security. The virus apparently tweets at various users, stating "It's you in photo?" After the grammatically incorrect dialogue, there is a link to the supposed image, where your computer is then infected via a Blackhole exploit.

The Ouya is getting sexier by the minute, with the announcement that the console will include OnLive support. OnLive, the game-streaming service that allows players to play hundreds of games on your PC over an internet connection, will support the open-source game console, according to The Verge. This potentially allows players (who pay a subscription fee, of course), access to hundreds of games on day 1 of their Ouya console purchase.

According to the New York Times, strip clubs in Tampa, Florida are more than ready to receive those attending the GOP convention. The convention, which will begin Aug. 27, will have plenty of strip clubs within walking distance of the Tampa Bay Times Forum (home of Tampa Bay Lightning hockey team), and the economy won’t be the only thing stimulated.

According to gaming site GameRevolution, Apple has patented a dual-shock gaming controller. Back in April, Kotaku speculated that Apple was secretly developing a video game console that was similar, in concept, to Microsoft's Kinect console add-on. This would mean that their console would support movement, and, in typical Apple fashion, would work in harmony with Apple's touch-screen television.

Gamasutra reports that Mark Pincus, Zynga CEO cashed in his stock in the company months before the price dropped. After selling shares at around $12 each, the company has watched as the shares have dropped as low as $3, following disappointing performance on the stock market. Zynga has consistently reported losses since going public, however; news of the CEO dumping his stock is a blow to the company's image.

Much like Google Talk going down earlier today, Twitter is experiencing service issues all over the globe, according to TechCrunch.

"Spy Kids" star Alexa Vega is making waves after news her marriage two-year marriage ended in divorce. The 23-year-old actress then took to Twitter to post a rather revealing pic via Instagram. The actress is slated to appear in director Robert Rodriguez’ “Machete Kills,” the follow-up to the Danny Trejo action film, “Machete.”

Screenwriter John August hates “Diablo III”’s narrative, according to Kotaku. The BAFTA-nominated August claims (via his blog) “the storytelling in Diablo III is pretty damn weak.” The game has been slammed for its overall storyline, which mines previous entries in the series, while offering new concepts here and there in terms of gameplay.

Lolo Jones, 29, is one of most popular Olympic athletes. She’s incredibly popular on Twitter, where she discusses her faith, her romantic life, and her training regimen. Always candid, the athlete didn’t take home the gold back in 2008, but she’s looking to gather some forward momentum going into the 2012 Olympics in London.

Olympian Zoe Smith, 18, has found herself the target of online attacks from bullies courtesy of Twitter, according to The Huffington Post. The young weightlifter is representing England in the 2012 Olympics, and was recently featured on the BBC's Girl Power - Going For The Gold, a program which highlighted her battle to make it onto the Olympic team alongside heavy lifters Helen Jewell and Hannah Powell. The attacks started via Twitter, and the young Olympian was forced to respond via...

Nicole Snooki Polizzi, pregnant star of The Jersey Shore was at CitiField for the July 23rd Mets game against the Washington Nationals. She was also booed to the point where her Let's Go Mets message was completely drowned out, according to NBC Sports.

Tom Hardy portrays the villainous Bane in “The Dark Knight Rises,” a character known for doing serious bodily damage to Batman over the years. The hulking Hardy, who had bulked up for previous roles in films like “Bronson” and “Inception”, would be playing a character literally juiced on steroids, though that aspect of the character is lost on film. It doesn’t matter, really, as Hardy apparently knew practically nothing about the character before agreeing to play him, according to Yahoo.

Actor Mickey Rourke (“The Wrestler”, “Iron Man 2”) apparently has the makings of a world-class track star. Even at age 59, Rourke says he was able to vanquish the 25-year old Usain Bolt, gold medal winning Olympic athlete and so-called “fastest man alive”.

According to Gawker, Iranian nuclear facilities have been hit by a new computer worm. A computer worm that has excellent taste in music, apparently, as AC/DC's Thunderstruck has been heard blasting late at night on facility computers.

Despite “Mass Effect 3”’s controversy surrounding its endings, Hollywood has been hot to adapt the popular action/roll-playing hybrid series into a major motion picture.

The 2012 Olympics in London have just added a bit more spice. The 90’s girl-power pop group Spice Girls has been given the task of closing out the London Olympics in style.