Motorola Wants Ban On Xbox 360 Sales

The US International Trade Commission currently has Microsoft under investigation, following a complaint from Motorola that the Xbox 360 violates a number of patents held by the telco. It’s seemingly a response to a lawsuit filed by Microsoft earlier in the year, alleging Motorola was ripping the Xbox 360 manufacturer off with “royalties that are…

Super Meat Boy’s WiiWare Release Canceled; Disc Release ‘Looking Grim’

The creators of PC and Xbox 360 hit Super Meat Boy have aborted the game’s WiiWare release, saying they’re unable to fit a quality version of the game under the size limit Nintendo imposes on titles for the download service. Team Meat’s struggles to pare down Super Meat Boy delayed its originally planned November release.…

Brother Against Brother In Fight Night Champion

After watching the latest trailer Fight Night Champion’s new narrative mode, Champion, four times, I’m still shaky on what’s going on here. Andre Bishop, the protagonist, I recognize. His brother, I know, ends up in the ring. Who’s scorpion guy? Fight Night Champion producer Brian Hayes filled in IGN on the mode’s themes and features…

Cataclysm Review Gallery

A musical tribute to the Worgen starting experience. The music makes the Goblin starting area. My experiences under the sea as a Worgen Mage in Vashj’ir. I wanted to use “Under the Sea” from The Little Mermaid for this, but Disney is high on my list of companies to not get sued by. Just oe…

Oh, Great, QWOP Just Got 4000 Percent More Impossible

QWOP’s staggering, shambling sprinters have entertained and infuriated us in a flash game for two years. How can we make this game even more frustratingly difficult? Why, let’s use the iPhone’s multitouch and accelerometer controls in concert! QWOP’s now out on the iPhone (it went up on Monday). If you don’t know what the joke…

Can You Smell What Santa Is Cookin’?

The Rock’s been a bad boy this year and Saint Nick’s gonna give him a big lump of coal. From THQ and its arcade wrestling title, WWE All-Stars, due next year.

From Rafts To Surfboards In 24 Hours

To: Ashcraft From: Totilo Stories from the day shift you may have missed Giving your loved one a Wii this holiday season? A piece of Congo’s war zone may be inside Why The Wii Cooled Off Stacking, An Adventure Game Of Class Struggle, Doll Collecting & Fart Skills Rock Band Creators Gone From MTV, Taking…

Arcade Legend Sets Joust Tandem Record — With His Son

Steve Sanders, one of the first competitive professional gamers during the 1980s arcade boom, now holds a world record in his best game: Joust. He and his son, Isaiah (pictured), recently set the tandem high score record, with 745,000. Sanders reached the current world No. 3 (then No. 2) on Joust after coming out of…

Gaming Addicted Woman Strangles Toddler, Leaves His Body On Floor For Three Days

Here’s a story full of holiday cheer: A Korean woman, who’d just finished a four-hour social gaming session when her 3-year-old urinated on the floor, strangled the toddler and left his body to decompose in the home for three days. How many of these kinds of stories are we up to for 2010? There are…

Xbox Live Indie Clips: Aphelion 2 Flies On The Wings Of Omega

In this week’s Xbox Live Indie clip we take a look at Aphelion 2, the second chapter in Lunatic Studios’ epic turn-based role-playing game. How does it compare to the first? I have no clue, quite honestly. I saw pink-haired girl and RPG and figured that was all I needed to know. Who needs a…

Former Sims Head Becomes The Boss Of Second Life

First Rod Humble worked on EverQuest. Then he headed the EA Play label, which manages The Sims franchise. After those jobs becoming the new CEO of Second Life creator Linden Lab seems like a natural progression. Way back when I was first playing EverQuest, I’d hear about Rod Humble all the time. Back then he…

Harley Quinn Looks Crazy Good In DC Universe Online

Dr. Harleen Frances Quinzel was an Arkham Asylum psychologist who thought she had a shot at curing Batman’s insane nemesis The Joker. Obviously that didn’t work out too well. Harley Quinn is one of the more distinctive super villains to appear in Sony Online Entertainment’s DC Universe Online for several reasons. For one, she started…

Holiday Travel Ahead? Calm Your Kids With Smart Apps

There is nothing like the holidays to bring a family together … together in a car, or on an airplane, together for long stretches of time … time in which children grow bored and frustrated and really really grumpy … and whiny (don’t forget whiny) … in fact, whiny to the point they could nearly…

Rock Band Creators Gone From MTV, Taking Hits With Them

The people who make Rock Band and the breakout Kinect dancing game Dance Central have been sold by MTV’s parent company Viacom. But they can keep making sequels to those series, if they want to. The new owners, investment group Columbus Nova, have purchased Harmonix for an undisclosed sum, according to a Viacom statement this…

Lame Castle Is Not Nearly As Lame As Sony Advertised

You’d think a game inspired by a Sony PSP ad — an ad that implied an iPhone game called Lame Castle would suck — would be a quick cash-in. You’d think that, but you’d be wrong. Lame Castle, which was made after the Sony ad aired by the enterprising Bradley Johnson, is an endless-runner type…

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Stacking, An Adventure Game Of Class Struggle, Doll Collecting & Fart Skills

Don’t let the farting, the peeing of pants and the tossing of cookies let you think that Russian doll adventure game Stacking is just about sophomoric humor. There’s depth to this downloadable game, layers to this tale of a pint-sized chimney sweep. Double Fine Productions founder Tim Schafer calls the gaseous characteristics of Stacking the…

The Ultimate Gran Turismo 5 Racing Wheel Is Actually $600

Would you pay $600 for a more realistic Gran Turismo 5 experience? Thrustmaster has made the T500 RS racing wheel official, delivering new details and specifications on the accessory that costs twice as much as a PlayStation 3. Earlier this month we caught our first glimpse of Thrustmaster’s T500 RS, a racing wheel controller specifically…

Why The Wii Cooled Off

Remember when the Wii was the hottest thing? It’s cooled off and the people at National Public Radio needed to figure out why. I tried to help, but it was a lady named Elizabeth Bewley who made the best point. The 57-year-old Arizona woman had enjoyed her Wii and Wii Fit the way so many…