Hall of Famer running back Jim Brown isn’t happy. It seems his likeness (though not his name) is in Madden NFL 09 and no one paid him for it. The character, on an all-time Cleveland Browns squad, wears his number 32 with a similar body size. Brown stated in his complaint he “… never signed [...]

Said to replacing the aging 20GB model which has been on store shelves since launch, the latest Xbox 360 60GB version has been found already in stores. Never mind that it doesn’t actually have an official release date. Target and Wal-Mart have already begun putting the consoles out for sale.
Maybe this is Microsoft’s new marketing [...]

European VP of Xbox Chris Lewis has stated that European Xbox players hardly make up a large sum of the user base. The number resides under 25%, which Lewis explains is a language barrier problem:
“Up until fairly recently we just haven’t had enough on the service for non-English speaking folks. On a community service like [...]

Will it or won’t it be coming out? That’s the top question among fans looking forward to Sierra’s upcoming Ghostbusters game. Upon the recent news of Activision hanging on to a number of Vivendi IPs, a couple were noticably left off the list, with Ghostbusters being chief among them.
That said, you can all rest easy. [...]

Thanks in large part to the sales of Alone in the Dark, Infogrames reported a 79.8 percent increase ($149.6 million) in their first quarter sales. Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit was also a major part of those sales, and CEO David Gardener thinks its the beginning of a turnaround for the company.
“I’m particularly pleased with [...]

Vivox’s Station Voice service is now available in a number of Sony Online Entertainment products, as revealed by the company this afternoon. The service will allow current users of EverQuest II and Star Wars Galaxies to talk to each other in-game for free.
“SOE’s commitment to the player experience and their game communities is unrivalled and [...]

Activision and Logitech will partner to produce premium instruments for Guitar Hero World Tour, as confirmed by the companies this morning. The products will be releasing for every version of the game, will also be compatible will the game’s advanced feature set allowing users to play the game at full capacity.
“Logitech is the leading producer [...]

Earlier this morning, GameTap announced the launch of American McGee’s Grimm to their broadband games service. Comprising of 24 episodes each based on a classic fairy tale, the first episode (“A Boy Learns What Fear Is”) will sell for the wallet-burning price of free.

“The opportunity to work with GameTap to develop truly unique content in [...]

Earlier this afternoon, THQ reported their financial results for their first fiscal quarter of 2009. Despite the sales of games like WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2008 and WALL-E, the company reported a net loss of $27.2 million, an increase of nearly $18 million from the previous year.
“We continued to make progress against our key initiatives [...]

It’s Wednesday, so naturally it’s time for another edition of Zero Punctuation. In this episode, Yahtzee takes a break from the games and reviews a couple of trailers that debuted during E3 a a few weeks back. You can check the episode out for yourself below.
While he’s certainly entitled to his opinion, I don’t particularly [...]

If you turned on the TV this morning and checked out The Today Show on NBC, chances are you ran into a feature on Rock Band during the program. While the main piece was purely a fluff piece about how much people enjoy playing the game, it was what followed that will probably get the [...]

Search engine giant Google has made it clearly known over the last few years that they’d like to be involved in many types of advertising. From deals with rival Yahoo! to integrating video ads into your favorite YouTube clips, they’re everywhere. One noticable omission to their ad profile is in-game advertising, and and if a [...]

Out of the four new characters being introduced in Street Fighter IV, producer Yoshinori Ono says he was a bit surprised at who most of the crowd was playing at Comic-Con last week. Talking to MTV Multiplayer’s Patrick Klepek, Ono noticed quite a few folks were taking control of Abel, the game’s resident frenchman.
“With all [...]

Sony loves to update stuff. With 2.40, PS3 owners gained the ability to message other users through the in-game XMB, in addition to a variety of other options. 2.41 fixed that update which had the slight tendency to screw up everything. Now owners can thrill to the latest update, 2.42 which offers, well, pretty much [...]

Ludlum Entertainment has reacquired exclusive rights to produce, publish, and develop games based on Robert Lundlum’s novels, as confirmed by the company this morning.
“Robert Ludlum’s works are an ideal vehicle for realizing the promise of multi-platform gaming and capitalizing on the accelerated migration from personal computers and game consoles to a wide variety of mobile [...]

Signature Services announced this morning that their open source gaming development platform, the Elemental Engine II, is now officially available for download. Capable of creating and editing 3D games in real-time, the engine also covers other other features like GUI, 3D audio, and buit-in networking capabilities for multiplayer games.

“Signature Devices has naturally felt that we [...]

Electronic Arts announced their preliminary financial results for the first quarter of their fiscal 2009 year this afternoon. For the period ending on June 30, the company’s net revenue was $804 million, up $409 million from the previous year.
“We are now seeing the early returns of the change agenda we started last year,” said John [...]

The constant array of videos available on PSN, Xbox Live, and the internet for the upcoming Brothers in Arms title has wet the appetite of many. Apparently, the incredible destruction effects showcased in those many trailers means some heavy duty fine tweaking is needed to make it actually work. The game is now pushed into [...]

The first lineup of discounted PlayStation 3 games in their HD-DVD style case (ha!) should be in stores as you read this. If not, then you should see a price drop to $30 on the regular editions until the HD-DVD (ha!) cases arrive. The full game roster is as follows:
Resistance: Fall of Man, Warhawk, Motorstorm, [...]

Blizzard Entertainment announced this morning that tickets for their third BlizzCon event will go on sale August 11. For fans who can’t make the trip to the show, the event will be covered live exclusively on DirecTV Pay-Per-View, with Blizzard promising a minimum of eight hours of live coverage which will also be available in [...]