Seven people are dead after a stabbing spree in the Akihabara district of Tokyo, Japan, according to a report this morning by the Associated Press.
Claiming he was “tired of life”, 25-year old Tomohiro Kato drove a rented truck into the popular video game district and, via public broadcaster NHK, ran over three people. He [...]

MP David Ruffley joins countless others in the wake of Grand Theft Auto IV’s release by condemning retailers for selling the game to minors. The following quotes come from an article in the Daily Mall on a recent surge in crime amongst females.
“Selling 18+ rated violent computer games such as Grand Theft Auto IV to [...]

Grand Theft Auto IV continues to make its mark in the mainstream media, being featured last night as a skit during Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update (about 3:00 into the video above). Don’t expect to laugh too hard, though.

The upcoming Guitar Hero: Aerosmith (and possibly Guitar Hero: On Tour) tracklist got a new addition today, as “One Armed Scissor” by At the Drive-In was confirmed by the band to be in the game. While the press release specifically mentions Guitar Hero IV, this wouldn’t be the first time a band confused which game [...]

You can call Stephen Colbert many things, but a sore loser isn’t one of them. Falling to third place in Time Magazine’s Most Influential People of 2008 behind Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto and Korean pop star Rain, the host of Comedy’s Central The Colbert Report promptly issued a dance off challenge to the singer following the [...]