New York Subpoenas Sony Over PSN Breach According to Bloomberg the New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman recently subpoenaed Sony as part of a consumer protection inquiry. He is seeking information on what Sony told PSN subscribers and when. If a safety guarantee was made, of any sort, or if consumers were not adequately [...]

Though we provided a PSN news update today, this particular tidbit of info was important enough to warrant its own article. Hazuo Hirai, chairman of the board of directors for Sony Computer Entertainment of America, recently wrote an eight page letter to congress detailing the circumstances behind the PSN breach. It appears as if we [...]

Sony Hires Three Companies to Catch Hackers Sony is not sleeping until they find the people who are behind the PSN hack job. To aid them in their search, they have hired two teams of private investigators, and a third team of consultants. Joining Sony in the hunt is Data Forte, a P.I. company led [...]

Dragon Quest is one of the coolest RPG franchises out there. While Final Fantasies and Mass Effects get their release dates revealed at press conferences, the next Dragon Quest‘s release date was announced at a concert … of Dragon Quest music! Kick ass! Last Friday, in Fukuoka Japan, Dragon Quest series composer Koichi Sugiyama mentioned [...]

Last week, we posted a story about how Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata regretted not teaming up with other companies when marketing the Wii. We thought he meant advertising tie-ins, but according to Nintendo’s official translation, Iwata was actually talking about the Wii’s online capability. Iwata was regretting the fact that Nintendo did not team up with [...]

Across Japanese websites, community forums, and the ever-present Twitter, Capcom superstars Christian Svensson, Yoshinori Ono, and Ryota Niitsuma have been discussing Capcom’s current game line-up, and what will come in the future. Here is a short run down of what they had to say. Ono Street Fighter X Tekken characters are being built with their [...]

A surprising amount of news today was centered around games getting new DLC packs either now or sometime in the near future. We aren’t sure who made today DLC day, but we aren’t complaining. Here are some of the new things you can download within the next few months. Portal 2 DLC Coming in a [...]

Well the Playstation Network is still down, and it has been one hell of a roller coaster ride since last Thursday, when the outages first began. We went from minor annoyance to the biggest identity theft case in the history of the internet, in a mere few days. The personal information for all PSN users [...]

The Conduit was largely regarded as one of the first and only good shooters on the Wii. However, it still missed the mark in certain aspects. The characters weren’t really believable, the story was less than thrilling, the enemy encounters felt like something out of an N64 era shooter, and overall the game lacked polish. [...]

It’s hard to be funny or entertaining when reviewing Mortal Kombat because Mortal Kombat is basically already a farce. This is a fighting game where the most complicated moves to pull off are basically elaborate taunts that you can only use after you have already won! Considering that many fighting game communities frown at taunting [...]

Everyone is looking for the perfect Xbox 360 controller. The official controllers are heavy, slightly unwieldy, and have a d-pad that is made of pure fail. Sure it works fine for first person shooters, but it starts to fall behind in just about every other genre. That is why third party peripheral developers are working [...]

The endless debate on whether it is better to play fighting games on a pad or on an arcade stick rages onward even today. Personally I think that a stick is the way to go. I say this, not because a stick gives you quicker inputs, or that arcade buttons or more accurate, or that [...]

Back in the day before we really had a formula to go by, there was a wrestling game called Saturday Night Slam Masters that controlled more like a fighting game than anything else. Then somewhere down the line, game developers got the official WWE license, and insane anime brawlers like Mike Haggar took a back [...]

Garry Newman, the creator of the toolbox/open-ended game Garry’s Mod for the Half Life 2 engine, has just dealt with pirates in one of the most effective ways we have ever seen. There was no DRM involved, no complex anti-piracy protection, nothing more than a clever trick that took advantage of the instability of pirated [...]

A while ago, we got the depressing news that Guitar Hero was, unfortunately, dead. Activision simply had better things to do with their time and effort. With music games slowly falling out of the public spotlight and Rock Band taking up so much of the market share, Activision was better off hinging their bets on [...]