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 [...]

For a long time, the Wii 2 (otherwise known as Project Café) has been advertised as “more powerful than both the PS3 and the Xbox 360.” However, we are now getting conflicting reports that say this may not be the case. The guys over at Kotaku have received new information from, once again, an anonymous [...]

Hell on Wheels AMC is batting well over .500 right now with shows like Mad Men and Breaking Bad racking up Golden Globes and Emmys like it’s a forgone conclusion. Now it looks like they are getting into Deadwood (prematurely canceled by the way) territory with their unique take on the post-civil war Western. Check [...]

Mortal Kombat DLC Coming This Week Excited to get a chance to play with Skarlet and Kenshi, the latest Mortal Kombat Kharacters with a K? Well, all that delightful partially-on-disc DLC content can be yours, tomorrow! Joining the club, are seventeen on disc DLC character skins. Personally, I can’t wait to play with classic Reptile! [...]

Just when you think things are finally going to get back to normal, Sony comes out with another press conference telling us how screwed we all are. Previously Sony said that there was no evidence that credit card information had been stolen as part of the PSN security breach. They warned us to be vigilant [...]

The other day I saw a link that said “Adult Horror Game Catherine Unveils Special Edition”. That should have been fair warning that the link was NSFW. I thought they meant “adult” as in “rated M” not “totally sexy.” So yeah, now I have to worry about my job … wait a minute, this is [...]

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 [...]

The Cabin in the Woods If you hear a strange sound outside . . . have sex. First of all, best tagline of all time. Hands down. Secondly, how has this film been stuck in development for the last year and a half. TCITW was originally slated for an October 2009 release, but then with [...]

We are coming back online! Not only that, but we are getting compensated for the downtime! New posts on the U.S. Playstation Blog go into detail about new developments regarding the Playstation Network outage. First of all Sony made absolutely certain that no cases of identity theft have yet been reported. To Sony’s knowledge, the [...]

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 [...]

Django Unchained Despite Tarantino’s mild (to put it lightly) obsession with Uma Thurman, the auteur has apparently put his potential Kill Bill 3 project on hold to delve more fully into the Western genre. Quentin teased at the Western in Kill Bill 2, and went all out Sergio Leone spaghetti in Tsukiyaki Western Django, even [...]

News keeps coming in on the Sony front. The PSN still isn’t up, but more developments in the case of what may be the largest identity theft in history keep popping up. Here are some news stories that managed to make headlines over the weekend. Sony Considering Compensating PSN Subscribers Sony had previously said that [...]

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 [...]

1992 Reservoir Dogs — Seven Samurai Reservoir Dogs: A rag tag group of characters must come together to protect themselves and uncover what when wrong in the aftermath of a bank heist. Heavy casualties are sustained. Seven Samurai: A rag tag group of characters must come together to protect a village from corrupt bandits. Heavy [...]