Xbox Live (Fool's) Gold Is Free This Weekend
Good news for freeloaders: Xbox Live Gold, which costs $60 a year, will be free Thursday through Monday. Continue reading…
View ArticleAuthor's Lawsuit Claims Ubisoft Ripped Him Off With 'Assassin's Creed'
To most people, the concept behind the Assassin’s Creed games seems unique. But the setup, in which corporations jack into ancestral memories to relive the past, sounded a bit too familiar to sci-fi...
View ArticleFacebook Games Cause Mom to Sue Company
A bunch of free-to-play games aimed at kids are geared to trick ankle-biters into buying upgrades and charging them to parents who game makers hope don’t check their credit card statements. Continue...
View ArticleMicrosoft Wants Your Boss To Fire You Via Xbox Skype Chat
It’s getting closer to 2015 — the year Marty McFly gets canned by his boss through his TV in ‘Back to the Future II’ — so tech companies had better hurry up and make such a thing a possibility before...
View ArticleSkype Really Gets Around, Spreads Its Seed To Vita
Like Netflix, Skype is a dirty tramp of the app world. Not long after we spotted it over in the corner hitting on the Xbox, now it’s gone and jumped the bones of our PlayStation Vitas. And it’s already...
View ArticleZynga Loses $85 Million; Is 'SlumVille' Next?
Zynga, the company responsible for cluttering your Facebook updates with nonsense having to do with FarmVille, CityVille, CastleVille and pretty much every other time-wasting thing that ends with...
View ArticleGameFly Starts Giving Out Free and Discounted Mobile Games
GameFly really wishes it could get subscribers to cough up a monthly fee to play things like Angry Birds Space and Ziggurat, but its mad scientists have yet to find a way to stick a game disc or...
View ArticleGameStop Wants To Get Its Paws On Your Android Gadgets
GameStop is starting to approach Bill Belichick levels of strange-sounding but ultimately savvy trades. Continue reading…
View ArticleSony Scopes Out New PlayStation Plus Subscription Prices
Sometimes Sony’s $50-a-year PlayStation Plus program is worthwhile, but most of the time it leaves subscribers thinking “Now why am I giving you guys $50 a year again?” Sony is aware enough that...
View ArticleNew Facebook Messenger App Update Scares The Hell Out Of Us
The best and worst aspect of email and instant messaging is that they make it easy to blow people off and give you at least a glimmer of hope that your recipient hasn’t seen your unreturned messages....
View Article'Star Wars: The Old Republic' Is Losing Players Faster Than Skywalkers Lose Arms
Subscription-based MMOs have it rough — They’ve got to prove themselves worthy of your money month in or month out, or you’ll stop paying and playing, as will your friends. A game can go from a...
View Article'HBO Go' Mobile App Review
Let’s get one thing out of the way — Just because we subscribe to HBO doesn’t mean we’re made of money. Sure, you can subscribe to the premium channel in the...
View Article'Minecraft' Punishes Folks Who Lack HDTVs
The moment that finally spurred us to take on even more credit card debt in the name of scoring an HDTV was when the menu text in Dead Rising was illegible on our old, boxy 25-inch standard-def set....
View Article'Diablo III' Problems — Server Downtime, Log-In Issues Reported
As far as introductions go, Diablo III had a rougher time than we did in our atomic wedgie-filled first day of high school. Blizzard’s PC lootfest came out Tuesday, cursed with overloaded servers and a...
View ArticleBlizzard Experimenting With Bringing 'Diablo III' To Consoles
The good news is that the long-awaited Diablo III hacked and slashed its way to PCs today, but the bad news is that there’s no release in sight for consoles. Continue reading…
View ArticleGameStop Is About To Get All Steamy
GameStop and digital PC game distributor Steam have always given each other the stink eye. The retailer even tried to swipe some of Steam’s customers by buying one of Valve’s rivals, Impulse, but has...
View ArticleXbox Live (Fool's) Gold Is Free This Weekend
Good news for freeloaders: Xbox Live Gold, which costs $60 a year, will be free Thursday through Monday. Continue reading…
View ArticleAuthor's Lawsuit Claims Ubisoft Ripped Him Off With 'Assassin's Creed'
To most people, the concept behind the Assassin’s Creed games seems unique. But the setup, in which corporations jack into ancestral memories to relive the past, sounded a bit too familiar to sci-fi...
View ArticleFacebook Games Cause Mom to Sue Company
A bunch of free-to-play games aimed at kids are geared to trick ankle-biters into buying upgrades and charging them to parents who game makers hope don’t check their credit card statements. Continue...
View ArticleMicrosoft Wants Your Boss To Fire You Via Xbox Skype Chat
It’s getting closer to 2015 — the year Marty McFly gets canned by his boss through his TV in ‘Back to the Future II’ — so tech companies had better hurry up and make such a thing a possibility before...
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