Brash Entertainment Goes Under

Brash Entertainment, which developed games based on Hollywood studio films, is ceasing operations. The games it produced (described below) didn't meet with much success, perhaps for obvious reasons. The overall...

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters – Review

Back in high school I worked at a local arcade where the days were filled with kids puking on the floors, drunk teenagers crapping on the walls, and parents complaining that the arcade cabinets stole their...

Lara Croft Tomb Raider US profit warning from Eidos

Lara Croft sales in the US have been poor and this coupled with US price reductions has seen Eidos, the creators of Lara Croft and Tomb Raider, forecast sales will be £20 million less than what they had...

Fallout 3 Review

When you escape the oppressive confines of Vault 101, you'll stumble into the irradiated landscape known as The Wastelands, a place so desolate, dangerous, and depressing that it’s enough to turn any...

Gamers to line up for Gears of Wars 2

The much anticipated game, Gears of Wars 2 for the Xbox 360 is scheduled for release on November 7th, 2008. The midnight launch is expecting huge lineups at Future Shop and Best Buy for all the gamers who has...

Gamers face off at World Cyber Games

The World Cyber Games 2008 begins today in Cologne, Germany, with teams from 70-plus countries competing for over $500,000 in prizes. QuadV will have live video coverage with English language commentary...

EA Admits Piracy Does Not Equal Lost Sales

Electronic Arts, that titan of the gaming world, has finally figured out that the alternative to game piracy isn't necessarily buying the game. If price is a factor, then the alternative is simply not getting...

Record Labels Seek $2.5 Million in Damages From Pirate Bay

No Joke, the swedish industry has put a price on Pirate Bay's activities. The response was, I guess, expected..."Record Labels Seek $2.5 Million in Damages From Pirate BayBy Eliot Van Buskirk EmailMarch 31, 2008 |...

Microsoft movie downloads will harm DVD sales?

"Concerns surrounding the future of DVD are arising this week following Microsoft’s E3 Business & Media Summit confirmation that its 120GB Xbox 360 Elite videogames console will be hitting European shores on August 24. The Elite’s 120GB hard drive represents a massive...

Xbox Live, Xbox.com Back from Maintenance... Sort of

Yesterday, Xbox Live and Xbox.com were down completely for maintenance and updates. While both Live and the website have come back online this morning, there are still issues that are being worked on and worked...

Xbox Live Down For Maintenance

Planning on doing a little gaming on Xbox Live today? Forget about it, it's down all day (until midnight PST) for maintenance and some mysterious updates.Don't bother asking what these secret updates are, they're...

No Wii For You!

"It seems the game stores of the world may have underestimated the power of Nintendo's Wii. Jorge, one of my workmates, spent a good deal of his morning, up to and including his lunch hour, unsuccessfully trying to pre-order the upcoming console.Today was the first day the...

Web Reporting Shenanigans

"Reading internet gaming news and blogs is like playing the telephone game in Junior High. Take an original story or report and watch it morph, sometimes subtly, sometimes not, into something if not completely else, then not completely what it was.Take as an example, this...

Won't Somebody Think About the Children?

"Microsoft is pushing a new initiative to "educate parents and other caregivers about how to protect children in this digital age." linkThe campaign, called Safety is no game. Is your family set? will spread the word by nationwide bus tour as well as via the web at...

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