Filed under: Culture, Microsoft Xbox 360 Anyone who has stared into the pitch-black eye of madness known as the Fox News Network’s “coverage” of Mass Effectand its “Luke Skywalker meets ‘Debbie Does Dallas’” gameplay, is probably now familiar with psychology specialist Cooper Lawrence, who laughingly admitted on the show that she had never played Mass [...]

Filed under: Culture We don’t mean to tell you what to do during your Friday evenings (or early Saturday mornings), but we thought we might at least wedge a single suggestion in-between “pwn sum n00bs” and “stop destroying the English language.” If you or your trusty PVR device were to eye Spike TV at 1amET/PT [...]

Filed under: Culture Los Angeles Times Magazine spent some time breaking down the rules of Hollywood, schooling would-be fortune-seekers and laying down some hard truth: “Hollywood can’t win at video games.” Filmmakers are advised to avoid video games as source material because games’ “weak narratives” haven’t transitioned to the big screen as well as comics [...]

Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business Much like the dim-witted kid you constantly taunted in kindergarten, Activision is having extraordinary difficulty making it past the number “1.” Constantly cited in press releases, it appears uno is the only number the publisher cares to count on: #1 US publisher in 2007; [...]

Filed under: Action, Driving So, we (like many of the film fans out there) heard yesterday that James Bond’s 22nd adventure would not, as we had secretly hoped, be called James Bond 22. No, producers decided to go once more to Ian Fleming’s back catalog and dredge up the name Quantum of Solace, lifted from [...]

Filed under: PC, Online, MMO Everywhere you look, it seems there’s news of some real life business jumping into the virtual world of Second Life. Carcompanies, HR firms, clothing makers; you name it, it was being sold on the virtual frontier. But, as PRI’s Marketplace reported earlier this week, many businesses are having trouble turning [...]

Filed under: Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business The Electronic Arts and Microsoft executive shuffle isn’t over. Former EA Chicago studio head Kudo Tsunoda is the latest to move from the venerable game maker to Microsoft’s Xbox division, according to GameTap. Tsunoda joins Xbox division head Don Mattrick and VP of Live John Schappert as [...]

Filed under: Culture, Microsoft Xbox 360, RPGs In what looks to be a standstill, MTV Multiplayer’s Stephen Totilo contacted Fox News to follow up on a letter sent to them yesterday by Electronic Arts asking to “correct the record” on the ignorant Mass Effect “sexposé.” An unnamed spokesperson replied, “Fox News Channel has extended several [...]

Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3 It really does seem like we can’t throw a stick without hitting a new PS3 SKU or news of a price drop — a recent advancement in Blu-ray technology could signal the creation of yet another PS3 model or lowered price for the system some time in the near future, [...]

Filed under: Nintendo DS Just as with our beloved DS Lite, DS Fanboy Lite is like the original, but smaller. Sleeker. Only not necessarily better. Herein you can see some of the best we’ve had to offer in the last week, encapsulated for your reading ease.Community DS Daily: CheatingConfess! StarLite blinks outAnd a small part [...]