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Beta testers in NCsoft's upcoming MMORPG "Aion: The Tower of Eternity" have used the game's detailed character creation to make a spitting image of President Obama. Check out the video of the commander in chief questing, battling enemies and... sprouting wings? Yes, he can! [via Massively]

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Motörhead will be included in next month's "Guitar Hero: Metallica," with singer/bassist Lemmy as a playable character, and new "Rock Band" DLC this week features White Zombie and Turbonegro. Read more...

Yesterday, I wrote about a few icky encounters I had on PlayStation's Home over the weekend.

But I logged on again last night and had an entirely different experience. And it was even more unexpected than guys proposing marriage... Read more...

In the virtual world of PlayStation Home, I'm the hottest thing around.

Over the weekend, I logged on and created an avatar that sort of looked like me: short black hair, T-shirt, jeans, sneakers. Nothing out of the ordinary -- so I thought.

When I finished making my avatar, I headed into Central Plaza where throngs of mostly male avatars were milling around, chatting and dancing. Wanting to bust a move myself, I left my avatar doing "The Robot" and went to the (real-life) kitchen to grab a snack.

But when I returned, I had some unusual encounters... Read more...

You can debate whether it says more about me or the Xbox 360, but my New Xbox Experience is very... male.

Since the NXE transformed most of the Xbox 360 dashboards in the U.S. this week, I've witnessed a stark reminder that almost everyone my 360 is connected to is a guy. Or at least they play one as an Avatar.

I have 59 friends on my Xbox 360 friend's list, 50 of whom have made Avatars. All but two of them have made male Avatars. When I flick through the NXE's line-up of my friends' Avatars, it seems like I'm looking at the line for the men's room.

Microsoft's creation of the Avatars has been seen as an attempt to emulate the approachability of the Wii brand and Nintendo's Miis. But the gender balance of my friends' Avatars and my friends' Miis are as different as Microsoft and Nintendo's apparent success at courting more than guy gamers.

Take a look at this: Read more...