Archive for the 'Industry News' Category
Boy hires hitman to kill parents after being denied PlayStation
We’ve certainly gotten cranky after being denied some quality gaming instance, but 16-year-old Cory Ryder took it to the next level by attempting to hire a hitman to kill his parents after they took absent his PlayStation and denied him television. Seems young Cory had been making threats around…
Rumor: GameStop and EB Games no longer selling new GBA titles?
The current buzz around the Cheap Ass Gamer community indicates that both GameStop and Electronics Boutique, the latter being a subsidiary of the former, are supposedly suspending the sale of new GBA games. Similar to how the two retailers recently converted their dusty GameCube stock, GBA titles th…
Best Buy sells Rock Band a little early
It looks like a Best Buy in Marina, California was a little confused about what “floor model” meant and accidentally put a boxed 360 version of Rock Band out for sale instead of setting it up as a demo unit — and the eagle-eyed Tim Menz managed to spot the oversize box poking out of the Guitar …
Best Buy sells Rock Band a little early
It looks like a Best Buy in Marina, California was a little confused about what “floor model” meant and accidentally put a boxed 360 version of Rock Band out for sale instead of setting it up as a demo unit — and the eagle-eyed Tim Menz managed to spot the oversize box poking out of the Guitar …
Low-fi fix for malfunctioning Guitar Hero III Les Paul
We’re not precisely certain whether that problem is widespread, but for those currently dealing with malfunctioning frets on the new Guitar Hero III Les Paul, you should certainly give that a once by. An incredibly industrious gamer went out of his way to show us all what a few rubber bands and …
Australians play DS, set record
Parramatta, Westfield Australia was the site of a record-breaking event on October 12th, where 381 folks came together and played DS. Breaking the record for most citizens playing DS in one place, at one duration (what was the preceding record, 8?), the day showed 15 lucky folks walking absent w…
Nintendo mends wounds, hires new execs to replace old, ditchy ones
No company can stop employee turnover (especially when it bifurcates its US operations and expects everyone to uproot their families just to be closer to press it’d really rather ignore), but at least Nintendo’s got a game plan to start bandage its wounds from executives lost in the rapid-fire d…
