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Law firm recruits banned Xbox owners for class action suit

Law firm recruits banned Xbox owners for class action suit

When my latest Xbox 360 broke and I had to call my old friends at 1-800-4MYXBOX, the first thing I...
 
Which American city loves Modern Warfare 2 the most?

Which American city loves Modern Warfare 2 the most?

Amazon.com did some fancy math to figure out which American city bought the most copies per capita of Modern Warfare...
 
Microsoft to deliver more ingame ads, but in new places

Microsoft to deliver more ingame ads, but in new places

Based on a conversation with a Microsoft VP and a mysterious fellow named Richards who isn't identified anywhere in the...
 
New York Daily News announces the fall of the Nintendo Wii

New York Daily News announces the fall of the Nintendo Wii

The New York Daily News infers from Nintendo's declining profits that the Wii has "lost its cool factor" and gamers...
 
Beatles Rock Band vs. Guitar Hero 5: Who won the first round?

Beatles Rock Band vs. Guitar Hero 5: Who won the first round?

And the winner, by nearly 100,000 copies in the first month, is Beatles Rock Band! Following the release of NPD...
 
Digital Domain's new Florida office to make videogames

Digital Domain's new Florida office to make videogames

Effects studio Digital Domain is opening a new office in Florida, partly to work on videogames. And while some...
 
Nintendo no longer content to beat other videogame companies

Nintendo no longer content to beat other videogame companies

It's not enough that Nintendo has trounced Microsoft and Sony. Now they're moving on up, trouncing companies like Apple, Google,...
 
Pirate Batman and you'll drown in poison gas

Pirate Batman and you'll drown in poison gas

If you try to play the pirated version of Batman Arkham Asylum for the PC, you will plunge into a...
 
Epic failure rate for the Xbox 360: one in four

Epic failure rate for the Xbox 360: one in four

Gamespot found a survey that pegs the failure rate of Xbox 360s at 23.7%, which I've rounded up to the...
 
Shadow Complex sales figures shrug off gay rights controversy

Shadow Complex sales figures shrug off gay rights controversy

If you're making a game somehow affiliated with someone whose politics are controversial, don't sweat it. Microsoft proudly announced the...
 
Pay a little extra to get Interplay's classic games from Steam

Pay a little extra to get Interplay's classic games from Steam

I'm not your garden variety Steam basher. I love Valve's convenient and slickly integrated online games service as much as...
 
Happy birthday, System Shock 2!  We still want you!

Happy birthday, System Shock 2! We still want you!

To further thumb my nose at the Netflix VP of marketing who (quite rightly) said that "a videogame from 10...
 
Netflix officially uninterested in videogames

Netflix officially uninterested in videogames

Joystiq posted an interview with a marketing VP at Netflix who wasn't interested in sharing any hard data about the...
 
Spielberg <em>allegedly</em> interested in Halo movie

Spielberg allegedly interested in Halo movie

Entertainment site IESB (I have no idea what that stands for but it makes my brain think of Empire Strikes...
 
Was Starcraft II delayed because of Prototype?

Was Starcraft II delayed because of Prototype?

In case you had some crazy idea that you were going to play Starcraft II this year, I can sympathize....
 

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