A newspaper is offering cash for your stories on how videogames made you "turn to a life of crime."
A listing on recruitment site StarNow, a hub for actors and musicians looking for jobs, has appeared reading, "a national newspaper wants your story and will pay hundreds of pounds to the right person."
The listing comes in the wake of last week's Byron report, which made newspapers all across the UK, some with questionable ...
» Read MoreA new study from the NPD Group has found that 72 percent of Americans play videogames, but the research firm says online gaming is still not fully addressed.
The number of gamers in the US rose from 64 percent of the population in 2006 to an all-time high of 72 percent in 2007, according to NPD's latest study, Online Gaming 2008.
Of the total amount of gamers in the US, over half play games online, according to the ...
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Analyst Billy Pidgeon with IDC tells Next Generation that in the wake of the Wii's success and the explosion of casual, community gaming, the PlayStation 3 could be the last of the state-of-the-art consoles. At launch, researchers estimated that Sony lost around $240 per 60GB PS3 sold. A pricey Blu-ray drive, state-of-the-art GPU and multicore Cell processor drove costs to new heights. Xbox 360's per-unit loss wasn't much better at launch at ...
The title of the new Sonic game has been doing the rounds on the trademark circuit for a while now. But as of today we can confirm that Sonic Unleashed is the next game in the blue hedgehog's shaky 3D platforming career - because half a ton of screenshots have been leaked to the internet. The official word from Sega is "no comment," but apparently the mass of screenshots appeared on a Sega FTP by accident, and now the internet is going ...
Parents up in arms about a new online game which encourages the use of diet pills, breast enlargement and taking advantage of rich male types. ...
KBC Securities Japan has downgraded Nintendo's stock investment rating and target price due to concerns over a drop in demand for Wii and DS systems. DS and Wii sales are currently peaking in the US and Europe where Nintendo achieves most of its sales, according to KBC analyst Hiroshi Kamide, who said it is now "reasonable to expect a tougher trading environment." Bloomberg reports that Kamide has lowered Nintendo's stock investment rating from ...
Environmental campaign body Greenpeace has once again slammed Nintendo for its policies on toxic chemicals and recycling. In Greenpeace's latest Guide to Greener Electronics, which ranks the 18 top manufacturers of PCs, mobile phones, TVs and games consoles according to their policies on tackling environmental waste, Nintendo remains bottom of the pile, having been the first brand to score a zero out of ten when it was first included in the ...