If you’ve watched a decent amount of television over the last few years, then you probably remember seeing commercials from Sony where an executive named “Kevin Butler” will arrogantly shill the next big thing coming out of Sony. These commercials have been pretty successful, but it...

38 Studios, the development company started by former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, is about to have its last remnants auctioned off. If you recall, 38 Studios was the company that had made Kingdoms of Amalur earlier this year, but due to some bad investments the company was unable to make payments on its...

When I had my Nintendo DS years ago, I’ll admit that I didn’t really use it a whole lot. You see, quite frankly handheld systems don’t normally hold my interest. The one game that I absolutely fell in love with, however, was the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney games, and man did they provide...

Last night a lawsuit was filed by the law firm Newman Ferrara against Zynga over potential violations of federal laws that are meant to protect investors. The law firm claims that the top level employees, including Zynga CEO Mark Pincus among others, knew that the stock would crash back in April when they...

Saturday morning Minecraft creator “Notch” had a bit of an unexpected surprise waiting for him in his email. He found out that he was being sued by Uniloc for patent infringement because of the way that Mojang prevents unauthorized access to data on a device. It gets ridiculous, though, when you...

THQ has been in deep water recently. They’ve been forced to close many different studios, and lay off hundreds or even thousands of employees. And, worst yet, for the last 6 months or so they’ve been under the threat of delistment from the NASDAQ stock exchange unless they can get the share...

So far, it’s been a bleak year for THQ. After the failure of the uDraw tablet system for the PS3 and Xbox 360 during the 2011 holiday season, the company has lost millions of dollars and cut thousands of jobs, and its stock is now worth pennies. Now it’s looking like things are only getting...

It’s a common Australian gamer nightmare: an awesome game like Left 4 Dead is released worldwide, but because Australia has no “M” equivalent game rating, and because of the games mature themes, that game is refused classification by the board and thus can not be sold in the country. Well,...