knockknock.biz luggage tags. Photo courtesy of justinph. I guess it's finally time for me to level up. It was the summer of '99 when I convinced my then editor to send me on a tour of the U.S. videogame industry. When I finally returned three weeks later, my head was still spinning. I felt as though I'd seen the future of entertainment. It ...

knockknock.biz luggage tags. Photo courtesy of justinph.

 Rockstar promotional party for Grand Theft Auto IV at Cielo in New York City  In the run-up to the Launch of Grand Theft Auto IV, Rockstar Games hosted a series of intimate parties at a variety of New York City hot spots. Dubbed ''Rockstar Games Presents Music From Grand Theft Auto IV,'' the events were pitched to us via email by ...

Rockstar party for GTA IV at APT

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AOL's Robin Yang, Level Up's N'Gai Croal and Harmonix's John Drake play Rock Band Our Twitter post of yesterday--''Playing Rock Band's Judas Priest album DLC at MTV's offices. Devil horns!''--pretty much said it all. MTV had originally planned to host journalists last Friday to play the first complete album available for download in its Rock ...

AOL's Robin Yang and Harmonix's John Drake, rocking at The Lab

 The 1957 classic ''The Sweet Smell of Success,'' courtesy of Film Forum  For a while now, we've been meaning to find a proper home for some of the on-scene reportage that characterized Level Up's carefree infancy, when we would belly up to the VIP bar with Kaz Hirai and Sir Howard Stringer inside the Sony Style store on ...

AOL's Robin Yang, Level Up's N'Gai Croal and Harmonix's John Drake playing Rock Band

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