In a speech delivered in the event celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the NAACP, President Barack Obama calls upon parents to "put away the Xbox," so the kids can hit the sack at a reasonable hour. This won't certainly be the first time that Obama throws a metaphorical sidewinder against gaming, but this time, his comment gets a formal reply. Catch what Microsoft said after the jump.

The London Movie Comic Media Expo isn't known for its gaming section, with much of its attendees preferring other forms of entertainment. But all that's gonna change this year, or improve at the very least, because apart from the support of some of today's A-list publishers, the London MCM Expo is attempting to set the World Record for "largest number of people in costume for a video game."

Year of the PS3? Who knows, but the 360 keeps on doin' it's thing, putting out hit after hit after hit. '08 was another banner year for the console that's grown in leaps and bounds. It was tough, but we've picked our favorite games of the year.

Will Wrath of the Lich King's new Death Knight class be relegated strictly to 5-man raids and gimmick raids? A player over at the World of Warcraft forums thinks this might be the case, but Bornakk has his own opinion in mind. You can catch up on the details over in the full article.

Homebrew developer hc finally got around to update the rather useful Apple iPhone homebrew application, Time Capsule. This homebrew application's latest build clocks itself at version 0.37b1 and includes several useful changes since our previous coverage. Find out all the new changes that were included in Time Capsule v0.37b1 in our full article after the jump.

Microsoft has sent some cross-court love again for its Mac users with Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Update 12.0.1. The latest changes takes on critical bugs and stability issues among others. For the complete details, jump to the full article.

If you thought that all the StreamMyGame service can do is stream your video games from your PC to your console, then think again. StreamMyGame has announced that its software now allows you to run 2D applications like those found on Microsoft Office on your low spec Windows notebooks, Linux devices, and even your PlayStation 3. To find out more about this, check out the full article.

Johnny Rotten may think of Guitar Hero 3 as a joke, but some guitar teachers would probably disagree. Dan Emery, owner of the New York City Guitar School, says that the game's popularity may truly motivate fans to learn the guitar for themselves.

Some guitar teachers, however, are worried that the game may actually kill interest in learning the real thing since people would find that playing a real guitar is harder than playing on a console. More in the full article.

If you still haven't had enough hardcore off-road racing action from the videos of THQ's MX vs. ATV Untamed (Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, DS) we've previously posted, then you'll be glad to know we have five more videos lined up for everyone's viewing pleasure today.

You can check out the extreme videos we have right after the jump!

Here's another entry to the Neo Spring Coding Competition 07 courtesy of homebrew developer pucelano. The program is a fully functional Spreadsheet for the PlayStation Portable known as PSP SpreadSheet. Do take note that this is not the first build for the application as it was first released back in July.

The latest release, version 2.00, comes with a lot of new features aside from the usual stuff that comes with a spreadsheet application. Among the more notable ones include basic mathematical operations and formatting capabilities to the cells texts and cells numbers. Here's the complete list of features as provided by pucelano:

• English and Spanish language menus and functions.
• Format cells options: Font, size, bold, color, decimals, alignment and superpose.
• The integrated functions are named and work like those of Excel (English or Spanish version), to facilitate the exchange of files and the learning.
• Exchange of files with Excel, using txt files.
• Show or hide gridlines.
• Turn on-off the USB connection.
• Save screenshots in Memory Stick.
• Possibility of changing the columns width.
• Cut-Copy-Paste-Delete the content of the cells.
• Clock and indicator of battery on screen.

Before installing PSP SpreadSheet v2.00 on your handhelds, the developer included a comprehensive manual in .pdf format. Read that first to avoid any problems while using the application.

Download: PSP SpreadSheet v2.00