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Why We’ve Wanted Our MTV For 30 Years

8:20AM August 2, 2011 | Kwame Opam

Shortly after midnight on August 1, 1981, MTV enjoyed its first-ever broadcast, accompanied by the now- iconic spot featuring the 1969 launch of Apollo 11. Iconic and appropriate; music television was space age stuff, so naturally Buzz Aldrin would stand reverently beside that first MTV logo. More »


Software

Jackass: Ten Years Of Stupid For iPad Is Infinite Years Of Fun

4:03AM May 25, 2011 | Casey Chan

Jackass: Ten Years of Stupid for iPad is a behind the scenes look of the biggest Jackasses we know: Knoxville, Steve-O, Pontius, Wee-Man, etc. There’s video clips, gross photos and essays on the entire history of Jackass. I love it. More »


Cars

Xzibit Pimped My $US500 Buick And I Sold It For $US18,000

2:20AM May 21, 2011 | Matt Hardigree

MTV’s Pimp My Ride had a simple premise: rapper Xzibit and his band of merry customisers would show up at your house and make your crappy beater awesome. A former “pimped car” recipient explains what happened when MTV left. More »


Entertainment

Watch The Best Use Of 600 Balloons Since Up!

8:00PM May 6, 2011 | Brian Barrett

It may be the best thing to happen at MTV since Jesse Camp crawled back into whatever mouldy hemp lair he came from: a video that tells a weird little tale about Slash and Ozzy Osbourne, by popping roughly 10 illustrated balloons per second. More »


Entertainment

Why Can’t I Just Watch TV On The Goddamn Internet?!

1:00PM April 1, 2011 | Adrian Covert

News Corp, Viacom and Discovery issued formal complaints to Time Warner this week, demanding the cable provider remove any of the trio’s channels (MTV, FX, Discovery, etc.) from their iPad app, which streams live television to cable subscribers while they’re at home. Today, Time Warner caved and removed the channels. More »


Software

MTV Might Actually Help You Discover New Music Again With The Music Meter App

6:00AM March 5, 2011 | Kyle VanHemert

Would you believe me if I told you MTV might actually help you find some new music to listen to? Not by playing videos on their TV station, of course, but with their free new Music Meter app for iOS and Android. More »


Science

The Attack Of The Zombie Satellite

12:00AM May 19, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

There has been a zombie satellite in space for the last few days. Apparently the sun’s radiation – or space Gremlins – turned it into a crazy spacecraft. Since then Galaxy 15 has been threatening other cable TV satellites, like MTV’s. More »


Online

Goodbye, Productivity: MTV Music Site Posts Every Music Video Ever

12:30AM October 29, 2008 | Adam Frucci

I hope you’ve got some time to kill, because the new MTV Music website is pretty much the coolest thing ever for music fans. At long last, the MTV name is being associated with music videos again, because the “music” channel has gone and put its entire archive of music videos online, all embeddable and in high quality. It’s like Hulu for music videos, only with less ads (for now). And it’s awesome.

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Gaming

Rock Band Dated For Oz: November 9

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6:20PM September 22, 2008 | Nick Broughall

Like many of you, we’ve been hanging out for EA to get off their backsides and launch Rock Band in Australia. But when they announced they were releasing Rock band 2, and we still hadn’t seen an Australian release date, some of us here turned our attention to Guitar Hero IV, and their firm release date of November 17.

Well, now EA is trying to get our attention back by announcing that the original Rock Band will finally hit Aussie shelves on November 7. Of course there’s no word on pricing, or whether or not Rock Band 2 will be launching straight afterwards either, but a date of any description is better than nothing for rock-hungry gamers.

But, as ex Giz editor Seamus (who’s taking care of Kotaku at the moment) said to me when we discussed the announcement – it kind of makes you wonder, now that Rock Band 2 is available overseas – whether or not we’re just getting the old Rock Band 1 stock they couldn’t shift anymore. Probably not, but the timing is a bit suspect…

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Entertainment

Justin Timberlake Presents New MTV Reality Show Called “The Phone”

11:00AM May 11, 2008 | Gizmodo US Edition

Hey, Justin Timberlake here. Just checking to see if you senoritas are n*sync with my plans to bring sexy back to reality television. Next season, MTV’s going to rock your body with a new reality game show called “The Phone,” to be executive-produced by yours truly. Here’s the premise:

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