The trial is over. The decision has been made. Jack Thompson, game hatin’ attorney extraordinaire, is no longer such. Judge Dava Tunis has handed down her ruling in Thompson’s case with the Florida Bar, and the result is:
Gamers 1, Thompson pwnd.
If Thompson was to get anything done, like stopping the upcoming DS version of Grand [...]

It happens so often, one could make a recurring series about it. “It” happens to the mainstream media completely mucking up a story about how violent video games caused a crime. The latest is a 13-year old French kid who decided it would be a good idea to set some cars on fire. The story’s [...]

Check the 26th through the 28th off on your calendar. You need to play some Grand Theft Auto multiplayer for those three days. The appropriately titled “Cause Chaos” weekend will feature a chance to play with Rockstar developers, registration (by downloading a free Gamerpic) could net you some free schwag, or even an entire home [...]

It what took an amazingly long time, Ubisoft has finally come around to include subtitles in their games. While other developers have been doing this since, well, a long time, Ubisoft apparently didn’t see the need. Now, all of their in-house products will include the feature. The first games to make it out from the [...]

Nintendo covered all of their bases during their press conference, introducing new accessories such as the microphone called Wii Speak. The mic sits on the TV and lets everyone in the room chat with friends during Animal Crossing: City Folk sessions, the latest game in that series.
Pro Snowboarder Shaun White introduced the aptly titled White, [...]

Are you troubled that kicked players are brought back to single player? Do you experience lack of reliability with PS3 leaderboards? Have you or your family ever experienced hanging, or ridiculous scores in Cops ‘n Crooks?
If the answer is “yes,” then don’t wait another minute. Load up your PS3 or Xbox 360 and download the [...]

There are countless Xbox 360 players eagerly awaiting the downloadable content for GTA IV, and now the wait is going to be a little longer as Take-Two announced today that the game’s exclusive DLC has now been pushed into the first quarter of 2009.
Theoretically, this could only push it into November, or the worst case [...]

Thanks to the success of Grand Theft Auto IV, the Xbox 360 has gained an 18% lead over its rival in the UK. The game itself followed a similar path, outselling the PS3 counterpart by a 57% to 43% margin.
Current Chart-Track panel figures place sales of the game in the UK at over 1.3 million, [...]