Joseph Bunger, 34, faces up to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to smuggling firearms internationally, with the parts hidden inside Xbox 360 consoles. » 3/06/14 8:00pm 3/06/14 8:00pm

The mother of imprisoned Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm says that since her son was extradited from Sweden to Denmark, he has been placed in solitary confinement as though he were a "dangerous, violent and aggressive criminal". » 12/13/13 3:00am 12/13/13 3:00am

So McDonalds in Sweden held a competition earlier in the year. The winner got to name a burger. And now we have a burger named after an eSports team. » 10/24/13 12:00am 10/24/13 12:00am

I normally don't like making such crude comparisons between games, but given the character design in Aer - and the fact I only just played Wind Waker again - I can't help it. Don't worry. It's a very, very good thing. » 9/25/13 2:00am 9/25/13 2:00am

Welcome to the 21st century. » 9/20/13 4:00am 9/20/13 4:00am

Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan (via The Local) is reporting that over the weekend, a group of kids playing Call of Duty got a little more than they bargained for when they got all excited about the game. » 1/30/13 2:00am 1/30/13 2:00am

Over last week and the weekend, over 10,000 PC gamers from Europe and across the world gathered in Sweden for Dreamhack Winter, the world's biggest LAN party. » 11/26/12 9:00am 11/26/12 9:00am

If I was in a pitch meeting with this story as a screenplay, I'd say it was The Last Starfighter » 11/21/12 9:00pm 11/21/12 9:00pm meets with a little bit of . Vugar Huseynzade, 21, of Sweden, got a job as a supporting manager despite having no experience managing a football team, other than in Sega and Sports Interactive's series.

Well, maybe you will. Mojang, the folks behind Minecraft, is a success story. Great news for them! That not only means Mojang honcho Notch (aka Markus Persson) can afford nicer hats, it also means the studio can afford nicer digs. And boy, look a these digs. » 10/02/12 5:45am 10/02/12 5:45am

Fatshark's upcoming Krater has one of, if not the most expensive collector's edition I've ever seen. There's only one available. And it costs $10,000. » 5/30/12 3:40am 5/30/12 3:40am

Hopefully they, and we, look something like this. » 3/22/12 12:30am 3/22/12 12:30am

Earlier this month, it was revealed that a Swedish "bishounen" (beautiful young boy) named "Yohio" will be making his debut in Japan this spring.

Yohio currently plays for a Swedish visual kei band called "Seremedy", and he became interested in Japan after getting into anime as a kid. Some of his heroes are Japanese… » 2/13/12 7:20am 2/13/12 7:20am

Sweden's Pirate Party had a booth all paid for at this weekend's Gamex, the nation's largest video games expo, until someone from Gamex came to their senses, phoned the pirates and said GTFO. The real head-scratcher is why, as Piratpartiet says, they were invited in the first place. » 11/06/11 6:00pm 11/06/11 6:00pm

The grim-faced soldier gracing the packshot of Battlefield 3 has a history with the series. He's Dennis Lennartsson, a motion-capture actor selected by DICE to star on the cover of this year's game. » 10/29/11 6:00pm 10/29/11 6:00pm