Curse to air the CGS WoW Championship2009-08-28 00:00:00Curse is pleased to announce a partnership with the Championship Gaming Series to broadcast the 2008 CGS World of Warcraft 3v3 Championship. The semifinals and finals match will be broadcast here on the Curse Network on Saturday, July 19th beginning at 4 pm ET / 1 pm PT.
You can watch the action live at http://www.arenajunkies.com/cgs/
The 2008 CGS World of Warcra...
Fun with Photoshop2009-08-13 00:00:00Five hundred Gazillion Web video channels and nothing good on? Google this: You Suck at Photoshop. Narrated by the fictional Donnie Hoyle--an angry, sarcastic, cuckolded Photoshop expert--it was launched in late December and ended 10 episodes later, in April, when Donnie mysteriously disappeared. Not that you ever saw him. In the videos, the camera remains centered on a computer desktop and follows Donnie's cursor as he conducts mock tutorials on how to use the photo-altering application. Sound obscure? Maybe not. With the explosion of blogging and do-it-yourself publishing, Photoshop has become one of the Web generation's indispensable tools. Accordingly, the Donnie series has been viewed nearly 8 million times and is up for two 2008 Webby Awards: Best Comedy and Best How-To Video.
How a goof became a phenomenon is a Web-age love story almost as sweet as Donnie is bitter. Many fans believed the video series had to have been made by a professional comedian; Dane Cook was a favorite suspect. But it turns out to be the work of Troy Hitch, 37, and Matt Bledsoe, 39, both of Covington, Ky.--two former ad-agency guys who met while recording a radio commercial in nearby Cincinnati, Ohio. They bu...
