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Region locking has always seemed criminally consumer-unfriendly (publishing agreements or no). So how about a big round of applause to Datel for finally releasing their Wii Freeloader which lets you “play ANY region of Wii or GameCube game on ANY…

As in Borders the international bookseller, and they’re reportedly testing a handful of PC titles in their Oxford Street, London store with potential plans to expand to Wii and DS games. David Kohn, Borders UK and Ireland commercial director, recognizes…

How would you like a device that actually induces localized electric shocks each time you’re punched or shot in a game? Mindwire Limited has just the thing for roughly $200 USD and it works with the PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube,…

It’s coming in April at last, though even with wireless and SIXAXIS support, the DUALSHOCK 3 seems a tad pricey at $55 compared to its older sibling the DUALSHOCK 2 which runs just $25. No word on charge life or…

You can, and it’s actually called “homebrew,” which is one of those words that always sounds like a neologism (a newly coined word) but in fact originated in the mid-nineteenth-century, meaning “an alcoholic beverage made at home.” Go beer, then,…

More data futurism for you this morning by way of Global Industry Analysts, who predict the world video games market will exceed $61-point-9 billion by 2012. For the record, it’s thought that 2007 worldwide sales from video games and related…

Take-Two Interactive Software, publishers of the popular Grand Theft Auto series of games, has received and rejected a US$2 billion acquisition bid from Electronic Arts but left the door open to a possible acquisition later.

The head of Sony’s in-house game studio and one of its longest serving executives, Phil Harrison, will resign from the company at the end of February, Sony said on Monday.

GamePro lists the new and notable games for the week of February 25, 2008. Highlights include Patapon on PSP; Frontlines: Fuel of War for Xbox 360, PS3, and PC; and Sega Bass Fishing for Wii.

Okay, if I have to read one more article bleating about the visuals in some edgy new game I think my head’s going to explode like a giant bullet-riddled tomato. Seriously. I won’t point any fingers at the text that…

Corporations are hostile by nature, so it’d be easy to view news that Sony president Phil Harrison is leaving the company as somehow related to last year’s poor PlayStation 3 sales. But the rumor du jour is that he’s actually…

It’s Monday and the word of the day is consolidation, right after three others and a number — Grand Theft Auto IV. The latter may be the single most important reason Electronic Arts made an unsolicited public offer of $2…

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