Gamers grow a mustache this month.

Let’s face it, gamers like us don’t run, we like a more casual approach to life so anything easy is great. To fit in with that there’s a great thing you can do with little effort to both possibly help yourself one day and help others now, it’s even fun! Grow a mustache. No, it’s not a joke. You know how people are sponsored when running marathons how about instead of running just getting a few people to sponsor you growing a mustache over November?

It’s not as crazy an idea as it sounds. All this month an initiative called Movember is going on in countries all over the world with the purpose of getting blokes like us to grow a mustache and earn some money for charity. For those in Ireland the money raised this time around will go to Action Prostate Cancer - an initiative of the Irish Cancer Society. To find out who your money would go to in the UK, US or anywhere else just check out the local charities concerned on the website listed below.

To Irish gamers, in addition to myself other Irish celebrities have also put forward their support to Movember including Cork Hurler (and testicular cancer survivor) Joe Deane, TV and journalist Joe O’Shea, radio DJ’s Tom Dunne and Sean Moncrief, and top Irish bands The Blizzards and Dirty Epics. Original Mo Bro, TV and radio presenter Marty Whelan has pledged to be a Mo Mentor giving Mo Bros tips on how to grow. Esteemed Minister Willie O’Dea TD is also giving his full support to the campaign. Mo Sistas can get involved too by lending support, raising awareness and helping to raise money and Mo Sistas, TV hottie Michelle Doherty and DJ Mo Kelly are encouraging men to sign up.

Why would you do it? Call it an insurance policy, the fact is, at least in Ireland men have a one in twelve chance of developing prostate cancer and the statistics are almost as bad all over the world. So why not take out some insurance in a fun way, help others now and make sure the situation is better should you ever face it.

To help out simply go to www.movember.com and show your a good bloke helping others with a cool mustache like Magnum P.I. Girls can help too and that info is included also on the website, don’t worry it doesn’t involve a mustache! Plus you can have some fun with the Movember Facebook page at http://apps.facebook.com/ccmovember/ I’m proud to be a spokesperson for Movember and all of us can help in our own way, but hurry as time is running out.

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Tags: Campaign, cancer, Charity, facebook, fun, Gamers, gaming, Ireland, men, Movember, Mustache, sponsor, UK, US

Trek grabs onto Bond

It has been reported that the second trailer for J.J. Abrams Star Trek feature film will be tagged onto US prints of the new James Bond movie on its cinema release. This could be seen as a bonus for US audiences as it is yet to be seen if it will be included in other markets since the US will only be getting Bond after the UK and China.

Previously a teaser trailer was released showing only the building of a Starfleet ship which appeared to be very much against Star Trek cannon and caused a general outcry by trekkies the world over in comment pages. The remarks made this week by Trek helmer Abrams stating he is a Star Wars, and not Star Trek fan will only inflame opinions. Adding to the general pessimism surrounding the new film made primarily for audiences who have not watched any Star Trek before. While not confirmed it should be expected that within a week of Bond’s US release date the Star Trek trailer will be online in the usual places like Apple’s Quicktime trailer site.

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Tags: james bond, quicktime, Star Trek, star wars, teaser trailer, trekkie, usa

High School Musical to Pirates 4

In a surprise from Disney the second major cast signing for Pirates 4 has been announced. The sidekick to Johnny Depp’s Jack Sparrow in the fourth film will be Zac Efron. Who you may ask, well, after a quick bit of googling he’s listed as “the hunk from High School Musical” which are their words, not ours. Apparently the actor told Disney he didn’t want to do another of the movies aimed at the tweenage market so to keep him under contract Disney has signed him to Pirates 4. While signed to play a sidekick it is planned that assuming the fourth movie makes enough cash he will replace Depp as the lead in a fifth.

While this is an obvious attempt to cash in on the High School Musical audience it may be unfair to criticize early the casting since we don’t know what role he will be taking or have any real measure of his acting talent. At least he is an actor where some movie franchises have taken rappers instead to play major roles just for the buzz, like Steven Seagal’s later movies for example. All we can say is good luck to the bloke.

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Tags: action, disney, film, High School Musical, Jack Sparrow, johnny depp, movie, pirates 4