Monday, April 26, 2010
The debate about how harmful the violence portrayed in some video games might be to children has raged since just about the earliest days of the medium. It’s responsible for the formation of the ESRB and the E/T/M ratings system that’s on most pieces of interactive entertainment software. Now, that debate’s moving to the Supreme [...]
The question of whether or not Gawker Media’s $5,000 purchase of a misplaced next-generation iPhone would result in legal backlash has been answered by a recent police raid on Gizmodo editor Jason Chen’s California home.
It seems that Google’s own flagship Android phone, the Nexus One, won’t be coming to Verizon after all. The ordering page used to list the handset as “coming soon” to Verizon, although today shoppers are greeted with a message attempting to persuade them to purchase the soon-to-be-available DROID Incredible instead.
It sure is sad news, but I have to tell you that it looks like Legend of the Seeker has been axed after only two seasons.
To celebrate the imminent release of their gritty third-person-shooter, Namco Bandai’s giving us one Xbox 360 and one PS3 copy of Dead to Rights: Retribution to give away. Since the game’s all about the crimebusting partnership of Jack Slate and his dog Shadow, we want you to name the other great human + non-human heroic [...]
So last weekend I was at this books festival in Los Angeles. Wait, it gets better.
The final installment of Doctor Octoroc‘s now-viral 8-bit tribute to Dr. Horrible’s Sing-A-Long Blog is out, and I couldn’t be happier. Each part of the game-inspired treatments still captures the charm and humor of Dr. Horrible, right down to the heartbreaking end. Even Penny’s death in 8-bit was hard to watch. (Watch the full screen [...]
Kids love games and diabetic kids hate testing their blood sugars. Bayer hopes its new DIDGET meter, which connects to Nintendo DS and DS Lite systems, will convince diabetic kids to test their blood sugars more often.
Earlier this month, we brought some details about the single-player experience in Red Dead Redemption, the upcoming Western from the makers of Grand Theft Auto. Rockstar Games is now unveiling what the multiplayer action in RDR will look like.
