Ongoing business squabbles over revenue from songs sold as downloadable content for games such as "Guitar Hero: World Tour" and "Rock Band 2" are about to make things ugly for gamers.Warner Music Group CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. made headlines recently when he went toe-to-toe with Activision CEO Bobby Kotick, whose [...]
Interested in seeing "The Watchmen" and in the market for Xbox 360 merchandise? Best Buy has an offer going where you get two tickets to see the movie with the purchase of a qualifying Xbox 360-related purchase. Eligible items include, but are not limited to consoles, prepaid cards for Xbox [...]
We've all tired a bit of watching supposed experts debate on cable news networks whether video games are turning the current generation of children into an army of ruthless, unfeeling killers. In a recent Onion News Network video, the satirical newspaper/website, which, like yours truly, originally hails from Wisconsin, turns [...]
After a blogger for Cheap Ass Gamer snapped a pic of a Toys R Us retail display offering money for used games, a company representative confirmed to AOL-owned blog Joystiq that the nation's second-largest toy retailer is experimenting with entering the used video game market.Right now, the idea's only being [...]
Nintendo recently announced the next iteration of its DS (short for dual screen) handheld will hit U.S. stores on April 5. It'll sport two LCD screens, a pair of digital cameras, Wi-Fi capability and an SD card reader. That list of features suggests a lot of lifestyle-type uses that go [...]
As far as game endings go, it's hard to beat that of beleaguered MMO "Tabula Rasa," which flopped badly enough that the developers made it free to all comers late last year.Last week, word trickled out that publisher NCSoft would essentially end the game by having the game's alien armies, [...]
"Killzone 2" (rated M, $60 on PlayStation 3): Regardless of whether you think you need another humans-vs.-aliens shooter in your gaming library, it's easy to make the case for "Killzone 2," Sony's latest attempt to come up with its own "Halo"-size franchise of first-person shooters. Simply put, "Killzone 2" might [...]
When The Consumerist's Meg Marco blogged about Teresa, a gamer who identified herself as a lesbian in her Xbox Live profile, then was harassed by vicious homophobes before being booted off the service by Microsoft, the implication was that the company saw no place for talk of sexual orientation on [...]
A review copy of "Killzone 2" showed up today. Obviously, I haven't had a chance yet to play it. (They don't let me keep a PlayStation 3 at my desk, sadly.) But I'm already familiar enough with it to know that it might possibly be the best-looking console first-person shooter [...]
Regardless of whether you agree with it, Friday's striking down of California's law barring the sale or rental of violent video game to minors should come as no surprise to anyone who's followed the issue. Similar laws have been passed and struck down in other states, and there's pretty clear [...]