For a guy who hasn’t produced a ton of music in the past couple of decades, Gene Simmons has been able to stay in the sight of the pop culture radar. I mean, he is pretty iconic. Simmons has been a part of a few notable ad campaigns and starred in a pretty popular reality show.

Now, in an interview with Industry Gamers, he explains how he plans to tackle the word of mobile gaming. Apparently, a KISS Angry Birds game is at least being talked about.

Simmons talked to IG at the Sundance Film Festival, and one of the topics of conversation was gaming. He said that KISS and Angry Birds will be making a deal. He also talks KISS golf courses and Hello Kitty. Check out the whole quote below:

Well, we’re talking with Sony games now. We are really trying to take it in areas that haven’t been done before and have stayed out of the marketplace because the ideas simply weren’t exciting enough. So while the gaming world is waiting for the KISS games that are going to explode, we’re busy taking the brand to places where no band has gone before. So Hello Kitty is one of the biggest brands on planet Earth. Now there’s KISS Hello Kitty, which we’ve already launched in 90 countries.

We’re talking with Angry Birds, KISS and Angry Birds, which will become a deal. The KISS and the Archie world have now teamed up and the first issues of KISS Archie comic books hits the world this month. KISS golf courses are starting in Las Vegas right across from the Hard Rock. That opens in January. It’s just endless what we can do, but we only do things when it’s right. Just because there are games, and just because there’s this or that out there, unless the deal is right and unless the content is exciting to our fans, we don’t do it.

He also talked playing Angry Birds himself:

The Angry Birds people were up here and we sat down and we played Angry Birds. We blew some buildings apart, catapulted some of the birds, and then their eggs were stolen.

I can only hope that the game would involve flinging little Peter Criss heads at groupies, or something like that.

[Via GeekOSystem]

“The arrest once again sheds light on the increasing amount of DDoS attacks by criminals and hacktivists that are sometime out for financial gain or just looking to make a political or ideological statement,” Mike Paquette, Chief Strategy Officer at Corero Network Security, tells WebProNews.

“Traditionally, DDoS attacks have consisted of massive floods of network packets that overwhelm a company’s bandwidth, routers, firewalls, switches and servers,” he says. “ In 2012, blue chip corporations, retailers, banks and government agencies can expect more sophisticated application layer attacks that cause a denial of service without filling up all of the available bandwidth.”

“In other words, they don’t require a large volume of traffic to have their effect,” Paquette continues. “So in essence the attackers will profile a company’s Web application and build botnet scripts that use ‘heavyweight’ application transactions to overload backend databases and other servers. Attacks using these scripts cause the targeted application to become unreachable, thus making the DDoS attack successful.”

While many of us may think about Simmons as a rock star, Simmons all about business. He talks about this all the time. Have you ever seen the insane amount of Kiss merchandise there is? Simmons himself is always pitching it.

The lesson for businesses is to improve your security.

“In 2012, IT administrators should update their business continuity plans and improve their overall security posture in preparation,” says Corero. “The negative impact of business and productivity losses makes it essential to be diligent in preparation.”

“When working with technology providers, organizations should make sure their DDoS Defense solutions are flexible, improving the likelihood they are able to accommodate future variations of DDoS attack techniques,” he says. “Being prepared, vigilant and ready to act fast will go a long way in thwarting the DDoS attacks of tomorrow.”

That’s 5 billion legally purchased downloads. The company is also proud to announce along with that milestone, iTunes customers are renting or purchasing around 50,000 movies per day, making the virtual media store the most popular online movie destination.

At 99 cents per downloaded song, that’s easy math, and an easy $5 billion shared among the music industry and Apple. Simmons may wish he’d seen those numbers before spouting off with this priceless quip:

"The record industry is dead. It’s six feet underground and unfortunately the fans have done this. They’ve decided to download and file share. There is no record industry around so we’re going to wait until everybody settles down and becomes civilized. As soon as the record industry pops its head up we’ll record new material."

After what happened in the Nineties, you sure that’s a good idea, Gene? As old as you are, it might not be wise to try to put the "P" in MP3.

Despite how high on music lovers’ lists new KISS material is*, Apple has proven the dollar per song model is a winner. With the current numbers, Apple is officially the largest music retailer in the US. When iTunes was still on the rise, Apple CEO Steve Jobs denied recording industry executives demands to raise prices to an inexplicable $2.99 or $3.99 per song, despite not having the costs of physical CDs and lower distribution costs.
Prices like that would have killed iTunes along with the recording industry.

Here’s the hard truth: If the recording industry’s really dead, it killed itself with greed.

_{*Somehow I think we’ll survive without it. Imagine the consequences if every famous band or artist suddenly bowed out until fans stopped downloading. What would happen? Simple: New great bands we’ve never heard of step up to fill their shoes and are, surprisingly, big fans of downloading.}

In a t-shirt, no pants.

And a blonde who’s definitely not Shannon Tweed (I’d heard they had an "open" relationship, never thought I’d see it in action.) And that just makes the whole thing extra ewwwwy.

Like watching somebody’s dad get it on (creepily casually, chewing gum, as though being serviced) with the babysitter. Ewwy, again.

After the shock wore off (this involves a rather elaborate process of eye-drops, self-flagellation a la Opus Dei, ritualistic interpretive dance, a chicken sacrifice, and a promise to never, ever do that again), I remembered that Valleywag is a Silicon Valley gossip site.

So, if Bill Gates or Eric Schmidt (double-dawg ewwwy) popped out a tech-billionaire romp vid taken from inside one of the Google Jets or at a hotel in Davos, it might make an inkling of journalistic/blogolistic sense why their Full Monties would be displayed. The safe route even then might be just to link out and give it the old NSFW warning, along with a you-probably-don’t-want-to-see-this warning.

But Gene Simmons and some Australian spokesmodel (NSFW) who both look like it’s more about business than pleasure? Scratch that last part, doesn’t matter how they looked, and I’ll need to repeat the purging process mentioned earlier.

Valleywag’s sister site Gawker, where you expect celebrity smut news to be, didn’t even go quite that far. There are very selective screenshots taken from the vid, which are still yucky, but might pass the safe-harbor broadcast test.

It wasn’t even the writer you’d expect. It was Owen Thomas, not Melissa Gira Grant, Valleywag’s resident Valley sex reporter and reputed "page-view champ" at the site.

Oh. Maybe that’s it. Nick Denton did change the way his writers were paid: per page-view. If that’s the case and Valleywag’s writers are desperate for some extra cash in the upcoming pay-cycle, then we might expect to see more porn pop up at Valleywag.

They probably should be working on that age-verification thing, then, you think?