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Watch Lana Del Rey on Letterman

Lana Del Rey took a stripped down version of “Video Games” from her recent Born to Die to Late Night with David Letterman last night. The performance included Del Rey, along with piano and a string quartet. It seems like the emerging singer learned a thing of two from her infamous Saturday Night Live performance.  read more

Paste's Holiday Gift Guide For Game Lovers

While there's plenty of excellent individual games to pick up this holiday season, there's also a ton of stuff ranging from nerdy accessories to excellent bundles available that you won't want to miss out on.  read more

9 Halo Franchise Innovations

With the anniversary remake of Halo: Combat Evolved arriving on store shelves next week, we take a look back at the franchise and remember the features and innovations that made the multi-million dollar franchise so influential.  read more

Eight Reasons Why Lana Del Rey Blew Up

Of the countless musicians on YouTube, very few ever attract much of an audience. For a long time, Lizzy Grant found herself among that crowds of lookalikes and wannabes. Then she became Lana Del Rey and rocked the blogosphere with a grand total of two songs.  read more

Lana Del Rey Signs To Interscope Records

Although we saw something big like this happening for awhile now, Lana Del Rey has officially signed on with Interscope Records. As pointed out by Pitchfork, Billboard recently referred to the the vintage-styled singer-songwriter as "a recent Interscope Record signee" in this week's issue.  read more

Lana Del Rey Wins Q Award, Says Album Due Out January

You know you're the next big thing when you receive a "next big thing" award before even releasing your first album. Among big-name indie stars like Bon Iver and WU LYF picking up annual Q awards for Best Album and Best New Act, hit internet sensation Lana Del Rey (aka Lizzy Grant) snatched the award for Next Big Thing. Considering the amount of internet clatter going on over just two YouTube videos, we'd say she probably deserves that award.  read more

Selling Your Soul for Fun and Profit: The 10 Best Advergames

Product placement and targeted advertisements in videogames—from billboards in racing games to energy drink adds in shooters—are bound to cause rage on the forums.  read more

London Philharmonic Orchestra To Release Video Game-Themed Album

There have been countless YouTube videos of musicians covering the themes from video game classics Super Mario Bros. and Zelda to modern hits like Halo and Call of Duty. Now the London Philharmonic Orchestra has turned those 8-bit tracks into full fledged classical orchestrations.  read more

Faith, Choice, and the Higher Power of El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron

What happens when you give an apocryphal religious text to a Japanese game studio and ask them to make a videogame about it? In this case, you got a narrative experience that resonates with people of many faiths, even if for wildly different reasons. Richard Clark explains his own experience with El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron, and the ways it draws out the player’s own views of faith, choice, and a higher power....  read more

Hear a New Song by Lana Del Rey

The pouty-lipped retro princess, Lana Del Rey, has announced new tour dates and the debut of a new song and video. Lana Del Rey is the moniker for New York City singer-songwriter Lizzy Grant, who created a substantial amount of buzz around her self-directed music video for her song "Video Games".   read more