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]

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.}