Canadian Internet Service Provider Rogers has agreed to stop throttling its customers' connections, after pro-Internet group OpenMedia.ca and the Canadian Gamers Organization filed multiple complaints with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). read more Read more on Gamepolitics:
Walmart has finally decided that it will share its video game software and hardware sales data with research firm NPD Group. The firm had been hampered by not having sales data from Walmart and instead had to estimate weekly and monthly figures related to the retailer. NPD today confirmed that it has reached an agreement [...]
A sad story from Sky News (by way of The Escapist) details how the dead body of a man in a New Taipei city, China cyber cafe went unnoticed for a full nine hours. The man, who was playing an undisclosed online game, died on Tuesday night according to local reports. The cyber cafe had [...]
Electronic Arts has confirmed that it has laid off a number of its staff at EA Canada. The company would not disclose just how many employees were affected by the layoffs. The cuts are part of a restructuring plan at the Vancouver office and its studio in nearby Burnaby. That studio is responsible for the [...]
Rex Ng, the chief executive of 6waves Lolapps, has come out today strongly denying allegations that his company violated a non-disclosure agreement in a lawsuit filed by Spry Fox’s related to its social game Triple Town on Facebook. Seattle-based Spry Fox filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against 6waves Lolapps because alleging that 6waves’ Yeti Town [...]
Yesterday during THQ's conference call to discuss its third quarter results, the company acknowledged that it has had some trouble developing Warhammer 40,000: Dark Millennium Online, and is no looking for an outside developer to handle future development on the title. In January rumors surfaced that THQ had canned the project altogether. With this revelation it [...]
Destructoid points out in this story that Ubisoft's plan to take down servers next week shows why "always on" DRM is a bad idea. During the maintenance the publisher has planned next week, any game that has "always online" DRM will not be playable. That means that legitimate copies of games won't work. Which games [...]
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has asked all parties involved in the MegaUpload criminal case to halt any plans to delete or otherwise dispose of data hosted on severs once leased by file-hosting services. With its assets frozen and its operators in jail, MegaUpload is unable to pay for storage of the data. read more [...]
According to a new study conducted by the Institute for Special Populations Research in New York, some types of games are more addictive than others and have the potential to create "problem gaming" habits in a small percentage of gamers. While the mental health community is not quite ready to make the leap of faith [...]
Yesterday during THQ's conference call to discuss earning with investors and the media, the company admitted that they were wrong about a number of things. "On our last call we told you we anticipated that our third quarter would be the largest in our company's history, " said President and CEO Brian Farrell at the [...]