Grand Theft Auto gets an '80s redux (heroin for 20 bucks back then seems a little unrealistic, however). If you ever wondered what the game would have looked like on the original NES, this one's for you: Undoubtedly "the most violent game on the original Nintendo, besides Duck Hunt." [via Kottke]......

An animal near and dear to the Gothamist heart has been embroiled in a Super Bowl controversy! This year's wardrobe malfunction is now the debate over an animated ad from SalesGenie.com that features pandas. During the commercials, two pandas discuss how to stay in business while speaking with Chinese (English-as-a-second-language) accents. There is also one panda who speaks in non-accented English. After the growing criticism (even College Humor dubbed it "the first commercial to......

Isn't it sweet (or cliché) when you go to a baseball game and the jumbotron flashes a marriage proposal? It's such a nice personal event that the couple is sharing with thousands of other people. While we secretly hope that someone says no, this prank proposal at Yankee Stadium takes things to a whole new level. Some background: two College Humor guys have been engaged in a "Prank War" starting earlier this year. The......

The NY Times article about Calvin Klein's perfume division's attempts to gain market share from twenty-somethings with a new perfume made us wonder many things. For starters, why did Calvin Klein Inc. (actual Calvin Klein the human is not involved) allow its marketing and positioning strategy to be exposed to so much ridicule? The new fragrance, the "millennial" version of ckOne, is called CK in2u, which has its own online community website. THis would......

The NY Times is reporting that both hipsters and blipsters like Justin TImberlake. Of course, there's been a long history of indie holding hands with MTV pop stars. We recall numerous covers of Britney Spears "Toxic", Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone" (mp3) and more recently Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" (mp3). It's about time we all embraced JT! The Klaxons recently covered Justin Timberlake's "My Love", you can find that mp3 here, and Rock Plaza Central......

-- The city has seized control of the BAM Cultural District in Fort Greene. After their huge successes in the WTC, West Side Rail, and Brooklyn Yards projects, what could go wrong? -- Did you know that Ocean Parkway was the first bike path in America? It's getting a facelift this year. -- But wait, there's more: Ron Popeil's Biography episode is on tonight! -- Shaolin's Mid-Island team is going to the Little League......

If New York wasn't the center of the universe already, we'd say the title would go to MySpace. The phenomenon has even inspired a song. The first band to play at our first ever Movable Hype show was The Fresh - which is pretty much composed of one man, John Fulton. Recently, he wrote and recorded a song in homage to MySpace, and today he has finally released a video for that song. A digital......

Kermit the Frog visited our fair city this past weekend, and did many typical New York things: He visited the Empire State Building, took a taxi, sat in a tree, and rode the subway. Our only questions are "Did the subways seem safer than the swamp?" and "Where was the pig?" At any rate, this visit was more G-rated than the steamy pre-Thanksgiving night canoodling Kermit the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon engaged in,......

- Downtown take-out joints rejoice: The Weinstein brothers lease thousands of square feet at 345 Hudson Street for their new company - Pedestrian death on 6th Avenue and 14th Street - Rising rents strike favorite gay pick up joint, Big Cup; Gothamist cries with you, as we've put in our share of faghag time there - Police don't think that Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum's "stalker" is that much of a threat - Critical Mass has......

The NY Times' Sunday Styles section should be retitled "Internets and Weddings"! One article looks at the multimillion dollar success of College Humor, and another piece is about Stephanie Klein's blog, proving that everyone loves a single girl in New York City. It would be a trifecta if the Modern Love column involved online dating; however, it was about date communications via text message. And don't forget to vote in Gawker's NY Times Hotties poll;......