On Thursday, Oct. 5, the world lost a great innovator of technology.

Steven Paul Jobs will be remembered by most people as an esteemed founder CEO of Apple. His inventions, the “Mac,” iPod, iPhone, and iPad are all household names that are revolutionary because of their visual aesthetics and accessibility.

According to a release provided by the Jobs family, Jobs passed peacefully surrounded by his family.

While we don’t regularly cover happenings in the tech world, Jobs definitely did have an impact on ..read more

It takes quite a lot to really annoy me when it comes to PC DRM schemes. One time activation of games before playing isn’t too onerous. I can tolerate Games for Windows Live and its attempts to shoehorn console conventions onto the PC. But one thing I can’t tolerate is Ubisoft’s ridiculous draconian always-on DRM.

Ubisoft’s upcoming reboot of the Driver series, Driver: San Francisco is set to launch later this month with Ubisoft’s very well known and very well loathed ..read more

Nintendo uses their press conference to celebrate The Legend of Zelda’s 25th Anniversary, give a shot in the arm for the Nintendo 3DS’ fall lineup, and unveil their next console, the Wii U.

Nintendo began their press conference with a miniature concert to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of The Legend of Zelda before talking about their full plans to continue the celebration for the rest of the year. Those plans began with the release of The Legend of ..read more

Sony apologized to everybody for the damages caused by the PlayStation Network outage, talked about a ton of PS3 games, and announced key details for the Vita’s upcoming launch.

It wasn’t a huge surprise that Sony began their press conference by apologizing to retailers, their publishing and developing partners, and most importantly, their customers for the issues and damages that the PSN outage caused. With the situation is nearly wrapped up at this point, Sony used the rest of ..read more

In an interesting off-year for Microsoft, they get to focus on games for the Xbox 360 and Kinect. Lots of demos, a few game announcements, and some Xbox Live news topped the majority of what Microsoft had to announce.

Microsoft showed that they know what the biggest franchise is on the Xbox 360 by putting Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 on at the beginning of the show with a demo that did what we all expected. The Tomb Raider demo ..read more

In the last few articles we speculated on what the Big Three could and should do to make their keynotes a success. Now though we’re going to branch off a little bit and let our editors express themselves a bit more. This time it’s more personal and will focus on what we’re looking forward to seeing at the show.

I think I say this every year, but I really mean it this time. This year’s E3 will ..read more

Nintendo potentially has the most exciting show of all with a brand new console to show off and a new handheld that debuted a few months ago that will be getting its second wind at E3. Their press conference begins on June 7 at 9 AM PST (12 PM EST).

Before we get to the new console, let’s take a look at the Wii. Nintendo recently dropped the price to $149.99 and changed the pack-in game (Wii Sports) to Mario Kart, ..read more

Coming off of a horrendous situation with the PlayStation Network hack and subsequent downtime, Sony certainly has a lot of bad will to try to reverse with what looks to be a stacked lineup of games, a new handheld that will be launching in the near future, and some secrets to unveil when the Sony E3 Press Conference takes place on June 6 at 5 PM PST (8 PM EST).

The first item that Sony should be addressing to start ..read more

Microsoft can coast on the success of the Xbox 360 and Kinect in North America by talking about games, games, and more games during their E3 press conference on June 6 at 9 AM PST (12 PM EST).

Chris Selogy

As the Xbox 360 continues to be the best-selling console so far this year and Kinect continues to surpass expectations of their skeptical hardcore audience, Microsoft is in an interesting position to gloat about their success and just show off ..read more

The Wall Street Journal reports that Activision will be introducing a subscription-based online service for their Call of Duty franchise. Pricing in less than $8/month, the service—named Call of Duty Elite—will supposedly offer subscribers exclusive extra content as well as advanced gameplay tracking tools they can’t get anywhere else. But the question is: will it be worth it?

Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has come under fire in the past for being perceived as a bit of a money-grubber. Keep ..read more

As we go into E3, it seems like a good idea to us to take stock of where the games industry is. We take stock of what’s going on, and get an idea of how we’re feeling going into what could be one of the most change-filled shows in years.

Since the uncovering of Nintendo’s Project Cafe, Microsoft and Sony have to really think about how much longer they want to milk the current generation for. The industry saw ..read more

Though nobody expected a Cleveland Brown to win EA’s Madden NFL 12 Cover Tournament, the Cleveland Browns fanbase pulled through for running back Peyton Hillis to earn the cover of Madden NFL 12 with a huge 66% of the vote. With over one million votes being made between Philadelphia QB Michael Vick and Cleveland RB Peyton Hillis, it’s surprising that Peyton won with over 700,000 votes, which tops his previous highest total of over 500,000 votes that it ..read more

While the players and owners do as much as possible to make sure that we will have a terrible NFL season ahead of us, EA is keeping our fantasy football hopes alive with the Madden 12 Cover Vote that pits 32 potential cover athletes against each other in a March Madness-style tournament to determine who will be on the cover this year. We are now in the semifinals with four remaining athletes that include some expected players and ..read more

eastasiasoft and SideQuest Studios, the publisher and developer of the Soldner-X games on PSN respectively, have announced a new game for PlayStation Network called Rainbow Moon. Rather than make another shooter, Rainbow Moon is instead a strategy RPG that is an interesting new project for a developer that’s known for quality shooters. The story stars a man named Baldren, who has been warped to a beautiful planet called Rainbow Room by his arch nemesis. The dimensional gate that brought ..read more

With the Guitar Hero series being nixed by Activision, it seemed like a good time to look back at the various titles in the franchise and figure out what worked and where it started to go wrong. This is by no means a scientific study of mechanics ..read more

This week it was revealed that Microsoft’s Kinect may be last to the game but is certainly not least among the Big Three’s motion sensing technology.

Less than two weeks into its launch, the Kinect has already pushed over a million units, and with bundles selling for $250 or more, these profits are allegedly pushing Microsoft further ahead of Sony in the race, albeit a race for a distant second to Nintendo. When you observe that the Move only ..read more

Though Gamescom hasn’t been a place for many publishers to make big announcements, Sony has followed up their PS3 Slim and price drop announcements at 2009′s Gamescom Convention in Cologne, Germany with two big games announcements from Insomniac Games and some other interesting bits of news during their press conference today. The first of Insomniac’s announcements was Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One, which is being made by Insomniac’s new North Carolina studio for release in Fall of 2011. ..read more

When you think of the game BioShock, naturally many think of that underwater utopian society that tragically fell to the pressures of genetic splicing and the mind of Andrew Ryan.  While the sequel focused its sights on new characters and events, Bioshock still took place in the fallen city of Rapture, a beautifully created city filled with Big Daddies, Little Sisters and plenty of other dangerous things looking to kill you quickly.  But Irrational Games’ latest project is taking the ..read more