Here's what went down today in the world of videogames, popular culture and technology:

• Unlike the next Guitar Hero game, there will be no original music in Rock Band 2.
• Weird people are showing up in England.
• Director Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man) has signed on to helm a remake of the 1992 Harvey Keitel cult classic Bad Lieutenant.
• Wii survival-horror title Sadness has a release window: Autumn, 2009.  
•  Megaman 9 is en route to hit the WiiWare intertubes this September.
• The company that brought everyone Bioshock, 2K Games, has confirmed their line-up for this year's E3 convention.
•  Google must turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users' names and IP addresses.
• Sony has decided to 'temporarily' take down its latest 2.40 firmware update. Here's Seybold's entry.
• A Halo board game is coming.
• The looooong awaited debut solo project from Rage Against The Machine frontman Zack De La Rocha is finally hitting stores
• A gallery of Midnight Club screens are yours to enjoy.
• Eddie Murphy is staying around.
• Ever wonder how it feels like to be a company executive? $4.76 million.

• LG has given us a phone to obsess over with the enV2, which is exactly what we're going to do to the little bugger on this edition of Gadget Pr0n. 
• That Diablo III vid you saw on youtube is fake.
• Venom games may close.
• Check out new screens of the PS3 exclusive, third-person, sandbox action game, inFamous.
• Rock Band guitar peripherals work perfectly with Activision's Guitar Hero: Aerosmith.
• Sony is releasing their new Will Smith film, Hancock, in 4K Digital.
• Anyone out there that has a MasterCard gets free downloads from the entire Universal Music Group catalog from priceless.com!
• A Blizzard representative has clarified the developer's stance on player-killing, griefing, and PvP for the recently announced Diablo III.
• Guitar Hero: On Tour is a big hit.
• A criminal got jail time for imitating Mortal Kombat.
• Exclusive Lost Ones trailer!
• 2K Games has enlisted the help of Digital Extremes, the makers of Dark Sector, for help on the PS3 version of BioShock.
• Chief Judge of Delaware William B. Chandler III made a World of Warcraft-inspired decision arising out of a litigation case that links to the Activision-Blizzard merger.
• Epic Fail looks at Patriots.
• While you wait for the 12 tracks from The Who, you'll be happy to know that next week's Rock Band DLC is amazing.
• A new Sessler's Soapbox is yours to enjoy.
• Animal Crossing for Wii may be coming.
• Dust off those Halo 3 disks and get ready for a new map... for FREE.
• Got a brand new gameplay video of Electronic Arts upcoming cartoony boxing game, FaceBreaker.
• A new MMO report is yours to enjoy.
• Southpeak Games has announced their unique hybrid RTS/FPS game Raven Squad: Operation Hidden Dagger for the PC and Xbox 360.
• Got a new developer video for Darksiders: Wrath of War.
• Take cover in style with some perty new screens of the multiplayer combat in Gears of War 2. (Xbox 360).