Month: April 2008

This is Vegas?

/ Tim / 8 Comments

Get ready gamers and Las Vegas fans alike. Coming later this year to a PC or gaming console near you: This is Vegas. From the preview video, it seems the goal of the game is to complete a series of missions proving you’re the biggest douchebag in Sin City. Thanks to Johnnie Velour for tipping us off to this one.

Five Hundy by Midnight 162: An Encore for Gans

/ Tim / 17 Comments

Las Vegas podcast #162 includes:

  • Miss USA opener
  • Spamalot closing
  • Gans moving
  • Braxton ailing
  • Criss Angel believing
  • Tina Turner returning?
  • Liger ligering
  • MGM Mirage firing
  • Listener calls and comments about Bodies, salt-water pools, Flight, the $20 trick, Double Helix and blue tape at Palazzo, Goldfish slot machines, Las Vegas side trips, hookers at Wynn Las Vegas, airport trams, downtown and more
  • Call us at (702) 866-9494


Five Hundy By Midnight 4/20/08 (42:05 min, 38.7 MB)

Five Hundy by Midnight 161: Stripping Elvises, Closed Museums and Buttless Pants

/ Tim / 15 Comments

Las Vegas podcast #161 includes:

  • 12 Sexiest Las Vegas Jobs opener
  • Harrah’s Entertainment becomes Caesars Entertainment
  • Harrah’s diamond lounge update
  • Guggenheim and Society of Seven are closing
  • Matty-O’s 1973 Las Vegas video
  • Listener calls about free concerts at Green Valley Ranch, Fireside Lounge at Peppermill, Cowboy Cabaret show review, fun with a raspy voice, Bodies, getting bumped from a hotel, Planet Hollywood’s pool and Prince-themed slot bonus round ideas
  • Call us at (702) 866-9494


Five Hundy By Midnight 4/13/08 (46:51 min, 43 MB)

Goodbye Harrah’s Entertainment, Hello Caesars Entertainment

/ Tim / 9 Comments

Harrah’s Entertainment, the ginormous casino owner we love to hate and hate to love, announced today it is changing its name to Caesars Entertainment. This isn’t a huge surprise, as the Caesars name carries more prestige.

In 2004, Park Place Entertainment, then-owner of Flamingo, Bally’s, Paris and Caesars Palace along with a bunch of casinos outside of Las Vegas, changed its name to Caesars Entertainment. Harrah’s Entertainment acquired Caesars Entertainment a few months later.

So what does this name change mean? When we complain about diminishing diamond lounge benefits and 10 minutes later rave about free room offers, we’ll be calling it Caesars instead of Harrah’s. Other than that, probably not much.