Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs is scheduled to be laid to rest today. Jobs passed away Wednesday due to complications that have not been confirmed, but Jobs had been battling pancreatic cancer for several years. The time and location of the funeral is only known by those who were invited to the gathering such as family and friends.

If this one doesn’t tug at your heart strings, I don’t know what will…

At least one game company is re-embracing the rogue, indy – dare I say, ’80s Atari – spirit of videogames this year. If you watched any G4 coverage this week, you saw this company’s employees a few times, dressed as chickens and roosters, guzzling brews and even parading a few booth babes at its offsite pseudo-E3 gathering, E.I.E.I.O. (Expo for Interactive Entertainment Independent and Original) Fun Fest 2007, an event that happened to take place the same time as E3, featured videogames as well as a skateboard ramp and strippers.

The company is Gamecock and they make crazy games (Hail to the Chimp, Dungeon Hero and Mushroom Men) and are even having a funeral procession for E3 2007 on the last day of the expo (July 13, 2007). Sure, it’s a bit of a publicity stunt but, considering the companies and gamers that think this might be the end of E3…