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Xbox 360 failure fiasco explained in-depth

6 September 2008 |Hardware issues were so prevalent Microsoft stopped producing systems for half a year, according to Dean Takahashi's new report on the "Red Ring of Death."

THQ arming Warhammer 40K shooter?

6 September 2008 |Purportedly leaked, developer-annotated video appears online seemingly confirming publisher is at work on third-person shooter set in Games Workshop's sci-fi universe.

Square Enix drops Tecmo bid, hints at new deals

6 September 2008 |Japanese RPG giant formally scuppers $200 million offer for Ninja Gaiden maker, in talks with "quite a few" companies regarding mergers and buyouts.

Head Coach heads up PSN releases

6 September 2008 |Football management sim for PS3 now downloadable for $49.99; other releases include new Pure demo, Haze expansion, weekly Rock Band tracks.

Microsoft slashes XBL DLC prices

6 September 2008 |Variety of content--including Elder Scrolls IV expansion, Mass Effect add-on, and Guitar Hero III--will be discounted up to 60 percent cheaper through end of October.

ESPN, EA team for Virtual Playbook

6 September 2008 |Sports network to integrate new technology to meld Madden into upcoming broadcasts; debut set for this week's Sunday NFL Countdown.

Dead Space facing international bans

6 September 2008 |Community manager says EA's space shooter won't be allowed into Germany, China, or Japan.

Far Cry 2 howling October 21

6 September 2008 |Ubisoft reveals release date of its semi-sequel to acclaimed 2004 shooter, which will ship in Europe Oct. 24; both territories to get collector's edition.

Guitar Hero touring with Sting, Tool

6 September 2008 |Police frontman to have song, likeness included in Activision's upcoming World Tour; prog metal band offers trio of songs, designs in-game venue.

Sins of a Solar Empire total 500K

6 September 2008 |Stardock and Ironclad Games' critically acclaimed DRM-free spaceborne RTS for the PC hits half-mil milestone after seven months.

Billy Frontier iPhone Review

7 September 2008 |Billy Frontier (iPhone)The good, the bad, and the alien.

Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness - FAQ/guide

7 September 2008 |Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness (DS)Harvest Moon Island of Happiness, Nintendo DS

RefleX Screenshots

6 September 2008 |RefleX (PC)After 11 years it's finally out.

Tokkyu Tenshi Imagery

6 September 2008 |Tokkyu Tenshi (PC)Some big, some small -- all independent.

Citizens of Grand Theft Auto: Gas Station

6 September 2008 |Fill 'er up...with FIRE!

NBA 2K9 Video

6 September 2008 |NBA 2K9 (X360)Garnett at his finest.

Vampire Rain: Altered Species Review

6 September 2008 |Vampire Rain: Altered Species (PS3)These nightwalkers still suck.

Perfect World First Look

6 September 2008 |Perfect World (PC)The popular free-to-play MMO from Asia takes aim at America.

Gleam of Force Images

6 September 2008 |Gleam of Force (PC)Kawaii anime girls fight it out with super powers.

Warhawk Operation: Fallen Star Review

6 September 2008 |Warhawk -- Operation: Fallen Star (PS3)'Scuse me while I kiss the sky.

Max Payne Director Upset Over MPAA Treatment

7 September 2008 |Director accuses ratings board of giving Batman, ahem, sexual favors.

Tecmo Settles Overtime Pay Lawsuit

7 September 2008 |One lawsuit down, but former Team Ninja leader Itagaki's is still pending.

Rock Band DLC: All That Remains Track Pack

7 September 2008 |Next week's DLC brings two new songs and one oldie from the metal group.

1UP Specials: Spore

7 September 2008 |Watch three exclusive interviews with the creators behind Spore and Spore Creatures.

Dark Horizon First Look Preview

6 September 2008 |Saving humanity with a space ship.

Mount & Blade First Look

6 September 2008 |Our first look at this medieval action strategy.

Pirates vs. Ninjas Dodgeball Review

6 September 2008 |And the loser is...you!

Steam Slashes Prices on id Software For the Weekend

6 September 2008 |50% off almost every id Software game on Valve's Steam network.

Impressions of EA Sports Virtual Playbook

6 September 2008 |EA's new tech helps ESPN stay 'the worldwide leader in sports.'

Dragon Quest: Ye Complete Dragonography

6 September 2008 |Prepare for Dragon Quest IV with this guide to Japan's favorite series.

Report: EA Considering Licensing Spore ‘Engine’

6 September 2008 |Although it's not quite an engine in the sense of Epic's Unreal, much of the tech behind Spore could be applied to other games and licensed out to developers for all sorts of interesting applications.

Tecmo Settles With Team Ninja Employees

6 September 2008 |Apparently little bloodshed happened in the unpaid overtime lawsuit filled by two former employees. We'll see about Itagaki, however.

Sting and Tool Appear in Guitar Hero World Tour

6 September 2008 |We're sending out an S.O.S. for the legendary frontman of The Police along with alternative metal band Tool.

Grand Theft Auto IV Could Sell Over 23 Million Units

6 September 2008 |Take-Two expects the game to surpass its predecessor. Also, analysts seem split on whether EA will ultimately prevail in its bid to acquire the GTA publisher.

Spore Coming to iPhone This Month; EA Mobile Announces 9 More iPhone/iPod Games

6 September 2008 |EA confirms that Spore Origins is definitely on its way to iPhone in September. And nine more games are in development for iPhone as EA throws its weight behind the platform.

Call of Duty Showing the World at War on November 11

5 September 2008 |The world's favorite tactical shooter series will be back this Fall, with PC and Xbox 360 multiplayer betas coming in October.

Grand Theft Auto IV Fuels $52 Million in Profit during Take-Two’s Q3

5 September 2008 |Not surprisingly, GTA continues to be a huge money maker for Take-Two. GTA IV has now sold over 10 million copies. The game lifted Take-Two to nearly $52 million in net income for Q3.

EA Mobile Secures PopCap’s Bejeweled Through 2010

5 September 2008 |One of the most popular casual titles in the world will continue to be offered by EA Mobile from now until 2010.

Rock Band Song Export for Rock Band 2 to Cost $5

5 September 2008 |What, you thought it would be free? Ha! Because of extended licensing fees, you'll have to cough up 400 MS Points if you'd like to transfer your original RB songs. More details within...

Peter Molyneux Keynoting GCAC 08

5 September 2008 |Fresh off of his 10 Questions from GameDaily BIZ and a recent vacation, Molyneux will travel to Singapore to give a speech on Fable II's development.

Best Of Indie Games: Adventures in Space

6 September 2008 |[Every week, IndieGames.com: The Weblog editor Tim W. will be summing up some of the top free-to-download and commercial indie games from the last seven days, as well as any notable features on his sister 'state of indie' weblog.] ...

Saling The World: Mercenaries 2 Tops Multiplatform Charts in UK

6 September 2008 |Gamasutra's weekly column, "Saling The World", covers the top five sellers for every available platform in the United States, Japan, and Europe, providing an important update of sales patterns worldwide. This week's charts, with ...

Sony Unconcerned About Xbox 360 Price Cuts

6 September 2008 |Microsoft's recent move to reduce Xbox 360 prices across the board may turn out to be especially significant for the console wars. It means that for the key holiday season, the mass-market Xbox 360 Arcade SKU is less expensive than ...

In-Depth: EA’s Gibeau On Spore, Reinvigorating EA Games

6 September 2008 |Since its unveiling during Game Developers Conference 2005, Will Wright's evolution sim Spore has become a huge investment for EA, one which the company hopes might eventually expand into an entire division of the company, as has ...

Game Connection Europe Exhibitor Registration Deadline Approaching

6 September 2008 |Game Connection Europe announced that only two weeks remain for exhibitors to register for the annual acquisition-oriented event to be held in Lyon, France from November 5 - 8, 2008. The deadline for business-focused video game ...

Report: Tecmo Settles Overtime Lawsuit

6 September 2008 |Developer and publisher Tecmo announced a settlement with Team Ninja employees Hiroaki Ozawa and Tatsuki Tsunoda, who filed suit against the company and accused Tecmo of implementing an illegal overtime structure. The suit, which ...

Opinion: Diamond In The Rough - ‘A Body in the Dark’

6 September 2008 |[In a new opinion piece, writer Tom Cross takes a look at the saving grace of the critically panned Alone In The Dark - how "...no other game available today inserts you so forcefully into the body of your character."] When playing ...

Microsoft Banks On Second-Place Finish For Xbox 360

6 September 2008 |"We will sell more consoles this generation than Sony," says Don Mattrick, senior vice president of Microsoft's interactive entertainment business -- while admitting Wii's lead is too much to overcome. "I'm not at a point where I ...

HMV Revenues Rise As Video Game Console Demand Increases

6 September 2008 |Rising demand for video game consoles boosted UK music retailer HMV Group's 18-week revenue by 4.3 percent at stores open for at least a year, according to a report by the Bloomberg news agency. Same-store sales were up 1.3 percent ...

Report: Dead Space Banned In Germany, China And Japan

6 September 2008 |Survival horror Dead Space has been banned in Germany, Japan and China, according to comments attributed to Electronic Arts community manager Andrew Green. Consumer website Destructoid says that according to Green, the game is ...

News: Take-Two’s Europe, Asia and worldwide revenues soar 336%

6 September 2008 |Non-North American markets surge to account for 45% of the publisher's total net revenue

News: Publishers call for UK government to adopt PEGI

6 September 2008 |Nintendo, Codemasters and Mastertronic respond to calls from the culture minister to propose age ratings solution

News: Sins of a Solar Empire sells 500k

6 September 2008 |Publisher says low system requirements were key to success

News: Videogames boost HMV sales

6 September 2008 |Demand for consoles drives up sales and counters Waterstone's lacklustre performance

News: Square Enix withdraws Tecmo offer

6 September 2008 |Final Fantasy publisher says that it will not pursue a takeover

News: DS continues to outpace PSP in Japan

6 September 2008 |Sales increase as DS holds top spot while PSP sales tumble

News: Take-Two reports net revenue of $433m

6 September 2008 |Publisher's third quarter sales and income gain a boost from the release of high profile titles

News: Kuju: There’s “more imagination” in business models now

6 September 2008 |Ian Baverstock on countering rising dev costs with new kinds of publisher deals

News: EA extends Bejeweled license

5 September 2008 |PopCap Games grants mobile publishing rights through to 2010

News: Molyneux to keynote GC Asia Conference

5 September 2008 |Famous developer will discuss using new technology to create realistic and complex game worlds

Dead Space Ban in Three Countries? We’re Not Buying It

7 September 2008 |Yesterday we mentioned a Destructoid report which said that EA's upcoming space-horror-survival title Dead Space had been banned in Germany, Japan and China. Destructoid sourced the info to "Dead Space community ...

Boys Nuke Cat, Court Bans Violent Games

7 September 2008 |The Edmonton Journal reports that a pair of Canadian teenagers have been barred from playing violent video games after they pleaded guilty to killing a family cat by placing it in a microwave.The boys, now 16, were placed on ...

Wal-Mart Wants to Turn the Game Biz Green

7 September 2008 |Perhaps the video game industry is taking environmental concerns raised by Greenpeace last year to heart?According to Walmart’s official blog, Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, and a few publishers such as EA and Activision ...

Halo Named in Accidental Shooting Death of Wisconsin Boy, 11

6 September 2008 |Police in Watertown, Wisconsin believe that an attempt to imitate Halo may have played a role in the death of an 11-year-old boy from an accidental gunshot.As reported by the Watertown Daily Times, Joshua Nimm apparently ...

GoW Creator Defends Calling Sarah Palin a MILF

6 September 2008 |The other day I called out God of War creator David Jaffe for a vlog in which he referred to Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin as "the perfect definition of a MILF." (see: God of War Designer ...

Video Games Will Help You Understand Sarah Palin

6 September 2008 |Video game columnist Dave Davies of the San Antonio Express has tongue firmly planted in cheek as he ticks off a quartet of video games that he says can increase one's understanding of Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin.In what ...

I’m Just Not Sure What to Make of This…

6 September 2008 |This picture just showed up in an e-mail from Jack Thompson.There was no explanation, other than the subject line:First feeder bands from Hurricane Ike hit Miami!Color me confused. Is the man growing a sense of ...

Ex-NFL Wideout Pushes Money Sim at RNC

6 September 2008 |Cnet's Declan McCullough reports that former Minnesota Vikings star Cris Carter was on hand at the Republican National Convention this week to hype Financial Football. The free game, created by Visa and the NFL, is designed to ...

Summarizing the Gaming Platforms in Presidential Race

6 September 2008 |In an article titled, Who Is The Gamer's Candidate?, Edge Online has recapped the positions of both parties' presidential tickets as they relate to video games.It's good to know that none of the four candidates have ever gotten ...

EA’s Free Gas Stunt Angers Politician, Police, Local Residents

6 September 2008 |A member of Great Britain's Parliament had harsh words for Electronic Arts after a marketing stunt for Mercenaries 2 gridlocked her district during the morning rush hour.Hoping to draw attention to the game, EA gave away ...

The Mountain Goats and Kaki King record musical tribute to Toad

7 September 2008 |Filed under: Culture, Rhythm It's very rare that we ever write about happenings in the rarely-agreed-upon realm of music -- then again, we suppose it's also pretty rare that two extremely talented musical entities collaborate on a ...

Multiverse exec reveals Buffy MMO details, discusses fate of Firefly

7 September 2008 |Filed under: PC, MMO Okay, we reacted with violent disbelief to the recent news that Multiverse, the company behind the heard-but-not-seen MMO based on Firefly, would produce a second MMO using yet another of Joss Whedon's IPs, ...

Dead Space banning rumors come under fire

7 September 2008 |Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action We imagine that video game developers and publishers aren't pleased when their blockbuster titles receive the banhammer's blow before their release dates -- which is ...

Too Human update fixes connectivity, nothing else

7 September 2008 |Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, Action We turned on Too Human this morning (no, really) and found an auto update. Hoping it might have shortened the Valkyrie death sequence, we immediately unequipped all weapons and armor and ran ...

Sting gets MoCapped in Guitar Hero: World Tour preview

7 September 2008 |Filed under: Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Rhythm Have you been curious about what Sting would look like all wire-framey and covered in ping-pong balls ever since you heard the news that ...

X3F interviews Gears 2 lead artist and writer

7 September 2008 |Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, Interviews Between all the hip nerdrock concerts and multifaceted gaming marathons, it was easy to forget that PAX 2008 was a pretty sweet place for developers to show off their big titles. ...

Joystiq Interview: GRiN’s Simon Viklund on rearming Bionic Commando

7 September 2008 | Despite a near-vertical difficulty curve and gameplay that suffers at the fumbling claws of the Xbox 360's questionable D-pad, Bionic Commando: Rearmed has still proven itself to be a 'friggin juggernaut' in the digital space. ...

X3F Week in Review: August 29, 2008 - September 4, 2008

7 September 2008 |Filed under: Features, Microsoft Xbox 360 This week pretty much rounds out our PAX 2008 coverage. We've got interviews with The lead artist and writer behind Gears of War 2 as well as an interview with the creator of Schizoid. ...

WRUP: WRUP Edition

6 September 2008 |Filed under: Meta (about Joystiq) That's right, folks, this week we've gone recursive. Who says we can't be our own special edition? Here's what we'll be playing this weekend. Be sure to let us know what games will be occupying ...

First GameFly casting call in LA next Tuesday

6 September 2008 |Filed under: Culture GameFly's first open casting call for its next commercial will take place next Tuesday in LA. The event will be held at Hollywood and Highland Center, 6801 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood between 12-6PM. Those trying ...

Meet Owlboy. He Looks Great.

7 September 2008 |This is Owlboy. It's a game from D-pad Studio. This is their description of the game: <!-- Gawker Tags/Categories: owlboy, media, news, pc, pc games, xbox 360, xna -->

Who Thinks All These Game Mergers and Takeovers Are Good?

7 September 2008 |It's Friday! Time for, that's right, TELL US DAMMIT. here's how it works: We ask a question, you answer it. Simple and no strings attached! This isn't some marketing survey or whatever. It's an emotional investment in you. Yes, ...

Pro Evo 2009 Kicks Off In Europe In October

7 September 2008 |Time to go trade in that copy of Pro Evo 2008, kids, because the 2009 edition's been dated for release. Continental Europe, you get it first, on October 15. Britain, you get it October 17, because traffic on the channel tunnel is ...

Spore Gets World’s Tiniest Billboard, Requires Telescope To See

7 September 2008 |Go tiny or go home. That's the Spore marketing philosophy apparently, as the folks from EA have installed what is probably the world's daintiest billboard in San Francisco's Union Square. At just 14" by 6", the Spore billboard ...

Square Enix Still Hungry Like The Wolf

6 September 2008 |Square Enix wanted Tecmo. Still do, and may well make another pass at both Tecmo and Koei. But for now, they've got other fish to fry, with bossman Yoichi Wada reiterating the companies desire to go buy some more companies. Inside ...

Tragedy As Kid Plays Halo, Re-Creates Action With Real Gun

6 September 2008 |There's been a tragic death in the town of Watertown, Wisconsin, as an 11-year old boy has accidentally shot and killed himself. Having taken the day off school for some Halo, Joshua Nimm was playing with a rifle, re-creating the ...

A Week In Comments

6 September 2008 |Square Enix Takes "No" For An Answer, Withdraws Takeover Offer Comment by: Xagest <!-- Gawker Tags/Categories: hyper multi-tap, multi-tap -->

David Jaffe: I Am Not Sexist Because I Want To Bone Sarah Palin

6 September 2008 |<object width="500" height="418"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JGLJw0pnpEI&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&fs=1"><embed ...

Spore Kinda Broken In Europe

6 September 2008 |It's the Yin and the Yang. The black and the white, the good and the bad. So it is with all things in life, and so it is with Spore in Europe, as although the game's finally been released (yay!) it's kinda broken (boooo). ...

The History Of The Defective Xbox 360

6 September 2008 |How, exactly, did Microsoft wind up shipping a notoriously defective Xbox 360, resulting in thousands upon thousands of gamers burning through temporarily working consoles and over a billion dollars in warranty expenses? That's ...

Review: Civ Revolution DS

7 September 2008 |Fresh from a successful summer campaign on home consoles, Civilization now marches into handheld territory with a slimmed-down but essentially identical version of Revolution, joining similar strategy-orientated franchises Age Of ...

Underworld: Tomb Raider’s Future

7 September 2008 |Eidos’ adventurer is no stranger to puzzles, but Underworld’s teaser trailer, with its snapshot of Croft Manor in flames, poses a particularly tricky conundrum: how much do you really want Tomb Raider to change? ...

What Is “Fun” Anyway?

6 September 2008 |What is it that motivates you to play a game? There’s the catch-all term, ‘fun’, which I love and loathe in equal measure.   read more

Xbox Live VP at TGS

6 September 2008 |John Schappert, Microsoft corporate VP of Live, will be keynoting the Tokyo Game Show, the software giant said Friday. His keynote is dubbed "A Canvas for the World." Microsoft didn't offer details on the keynote's ...

Analyst Convinced EA Will Buy Take-Two

6 September 2008 |EA and Take-Two's drawn-out acquisition dance has been dragging on since February of this year, but in the end, Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter is certain EA will buy the Grand Theft Auto maker. "We remain convinced ...

Report: Team Ninja Lawsuit Settled

6 September 2008 |Tecmo's Team Ninja has settled a lawsuit in which it was accused of not paying employees overtime, Kotaku reports. The Japan-based maker of Ninja Gaiden resolved the lawsuit on September 1 this year as part of a judicial ...

Play Tool on Fake Instruments

6 September 2008 |Songs from Grammy-winning progressive metal band Tool will be part of Guitar Hero World Tour's growing roster of rock tunes, Activision announced Friday. "Parabola" and "Schism," both from the 2001 album ...

Sony Shares Drop to Three-Year Low

6 September 2008 |Sony shares fell more than four percent to their lowest in almost three years on Friday after the company was forced to recall 438,000 Vaio laptops due to possible overheating problems that could cause burns to users. According to ...

Publishers Voice PEGI Support

6 September 2008 | A number of publishers have responded to calls from UK culture minister Margaret Hodge for the games industry to work together to find the best solution to videogame age ratings. Discussing the findings of the Byron report in an ...

MS Drops Price of Some Xbox 360 DLC

6 September 2008 |Microsoft has reduced the price of downloadable content for a number of popular Xbox 360 titles. “For a limited time only (well, until the end of October) the Marketplace is running an ‘Extended Play Download ...

Top 5 Famous Sci-Fi Aliens Your Can Play in Spore

8 September 2008 |As the best video game in 4.5 billion years finally launches this weekend, PM's resident geek crawls the best of Spore Creature Creator for the handful of otherworldly invaders, from Predator to the bloodsucks of H.G. Wells, that ...

Solar Empire moves 500,000 units, shows PC gaming done right

8 September 2008 |It looks like Stardock's strategy of ignoring game pirates has paid off, as the publisher has announced that it has sold around 500,000 units of Sins of a Solar Empire. Broken down, this number includes 400,000 via retail, with the ...

Find the Treasure [Preferably on Drugs]

7 September 2008 |WTF

The Shocking Inside Story That Killed Millions of Xbox 360s

7 September 2008 |Dean Takahashi, one of the most respected tech journos around, spent years putting together this mind-blowing expose that reveals the truly epic scale of the problems that lead to millions of dead Xbox 360s. It really is one of the ...

9 Best Gaming Moments from South Park

7 September 2008 |Given that South Park revolves around four pop-culture savvy eight-year-olds, how could they avoid addressing game culture? It shouldn’t come as a surprise that our favorite episodes revolve around skewering this hobby o’ ours, ...

Why you’re actually playing as bad guys in Gears Of War

6 September 2008 |Gears Of War 2 is going to be great, right? Huge battlefields comprising hundreds of warriors. New levels of devastation that genuinely elevate things to the state of all-out war. A truly, truly epic fight for the future of the ...

This is war: insider describes how devs punish game journos

6 September 2008 |It's not rare to hear talk about the pressure developers put on game writers for favorable coverage. What is unusual is hearing someone from the other side describe how he or she can break game writers... and why they think it's ...

Showdown: is the Xbox 360 price cut desperation or boldness?

6 September 2008 |The Showdown continues. In the Showdown, we pick a topic, argue both sides, and then present the results to you. Today, Ben and Frank discuss whether the newly-announced Xbox 360 price drop is a sign of desperation or boldness on ...

Rumor: GTA IV DLC Actually, Really Coming This November

6 September 2008 |Last month, VG247 had a super secret Rockstar source telling them that the Grand Theft Auto IV DLC wouldn't be available until January. Now, Eurogamer has a different super secret source saying that things are still on track for a ...

Why we Love the Classics: Doom

6 September 2008 |It's time to take you guys back.It's the early 90's, game consoles are still the Kings of Gaming, and computers are just finding their ways into the homes of Mr. Average American.PC games exist, but they have yet to reach a fever ...

Examining a Game Character’s Physical Presence

7 September 2008 |GameSetWatch is running a feature about the evolution of game characters' physical presence. In many games, you can look down and not see your feet, or pass right through other players or NPCs. Other games rely on a believable ...

Examining a Game Character’s Physical Presence

7 September 2008 |GameSetWatch is running a feature about the evolution of game characters' physical presence. In many games, you can look down and not see your feet, or pass right through other players or NPCs. Other games rely on a believable ...

Carmack Talks Quake Live

7 September 2008 |CVG spoke with John Carmack about the in-development browser-based version of Quake III Arena called Quake Live. He discusses the development team's reasons for the new project and mentions that current mods will not work. However, ...

Carmack Talks Quake Live

7 September 2008 |CVG spoke with John Carmack about the in-development browser-based version of Quake III Arena called Quake Live. He discusses the development team's reasons for the new project and mentions that current mods will not work. However, ...

Dead Space To Launch Early, Banned in Three Countries

7 September 2008 |EA Redwood Shores' Dead Space seems to be one of the few games that has its release constantly moved forward. Shortly after news that the game's European debut was moved up to Oct. 24th, the company announced that the US launch ...

Dead Space To Launch Early, Banned in Three Countries

7 September 2008 |EA Redwood Shores' Dead Space seems to be one of the few games that has its release constantly moved forward. Shortly after news that the game's European debut was moved up to Oct. 24th, the company announced that the US launch ...

A History of the Xbox Red Ring of Death Fiasco

6 September 2008 |VentureBeat has a lengthy story about the situation surrounding the Xbox 360's "Red Ring of Death." It starts with the developmental phases for the 360, looks at the marketing decisions that drove Microsoft to aim for a release ...

A History of the Xbox Red Ring of Death Fiasco

6 September 2008 |VentureBeat has a lengthy story about the situation surrounding the Xbox 360's "Red Ring of Death." It starts with the developmental phases for the 360, looks at the marketing decisions that drove Microsoft to aim for a release ...

Classic Shooters Heretic and Hexen Released Under GPL

6 September 2008 |phanboy_iv writes "Fans of both of the Raven classics, Heretic and Hexen, have been trying for almost a decade to convince Raven Software to release engine source code for the games under the GPL, much like the DOOM engine on which ...

Classic Shooters Heretic and Hexen Released Under GPL

6 September 2008 |phanboy_iv writes "Fans of both of the Raven classics, Heretic and Hexen, have been trying for almost a decade to convince Raven Software to release engine source code for the games under the GPL, much like the DOOM engine on which ...