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BBC NEWS | Technology | Microsoft previews new controller
Source: BBC News

This device is certainly a precursor to augmented cognition technology which will change the way we do everything. Though this only eliminates a Game pad, the possibilities seem endless.

Halo gets animated
Source: CNET.com

A few years back in 2003, when the new Matrix movies were debuting, Warner Bros. also released a straight-to-video compilation of animated short stories based in the Matrix universe called "The Animatrix."

U.S. Video-Game Sales Fell Most in 9 Years Last Month
Source: Bloomberg.com

U.S. video-game sales fell the most in almost nine years last month on slumping demand for Nintendo Co.'s Wii console and a lack of new hit titles. Microsoft Corp. posted a 9.5 percent gain in Xbox 360 sales.

Video - WFTV - Energy Vampires costing you money
Source: wftv.com

OK. Im going to make some changes here. PS3 cost $109 a Year just on standby. Ill be having a talk with my son.

Obama Wins Gamer Vote
Source: talkxbox.com

Presidential candidate Barack Obama has won an unofficial election poll that took place over Xbox Live.

Troy Davis: The Final Moments. Why any action at all matters!

I have been reading the headlines, the updates, the latest developments in this very sad case. Troy Davis, claiming his innocence and deserving of fair justice, is less than 24 hours from being executed.

Fraud boy hires hookers to play video games
Source: metro.co.uk

A teenage boy has been caught using his dad's credit card to hire prostitutes - to play computer games with him.

Teen threatens mother with knife after not getting X-Box
Source: TCPalm.com

Police arrested a 19-year-old man whose mother accused him of threatening her with a knife after she wouldn't buy him a new Xbox and replace a $200 jersey, according to an arrest affidavit released Tuesday.

Insomnia is the curse of Generation X-Box
Source: the Mail online

Computer games and fast food have been blamed by doctors for a startling rise in the number of children being treated in hospital for sleep disorders. The problem is especially pronounced among young boys, with thousands now being treated every year.

The 10 biggest flops in video games
Source: gamepro

# 10. Super Mario Sunshine, # 5. Shaq Fu , see the rest of the list...

Hitler gets screwed by microsoft
Source: YouTube

For all you gamers out there...some foul language, but definitely a LOL!

Wii just 620,000 units behind Xbox360, 3 weeks to go!!
Source: vgchartz.com

The countdown is on! With only 620,000 units seperating them and Wii selling around 200,000 units per week more than 360 worldwide we should see total Wii sales pass Microsofts console in around 3 weeks time! So in 9 months Wii will have sold as much as it took Xbox360 to sell in …

Microsoft Xbox 360 Sales Plunge 60% As Problems Mount
Source: MicroTechXP

Microsoft said it shipped 700,000 Xbox 360 units in its latest fiscal quarter, compared to 1.8 million in the same quarter in 2006.

You Grew Up Playing Shoot'em-Up Games. Why Can't Your Kids?
Source: Wired News

I was playing a round of Gears of War, trying to redo a level on "insane" mode, and the walls were painted with guts. I slaughtered my way to the boss, revved up my chainsaw, and sliced into his chest -- releasing a fractal fountain of gore. Woo!

Mexican police to swap Xboxes for guns
Source: ZDNet

MEXICO CITY--Police who have raided vice-ridden Mexico City neighborhoods in a push against drug violence hope to take guns off the streets by offering to swap them for computers and Xbox video game consoles.

10 New Titles for Xbox 360 in coming weeks
Source: User Submission

Ten New Titles Approach the Xbox Live Arcade Horizon

Top Cities in America for Video Gaming
Source: chicago.about.com

Usually when you read these types of surveys you find that cities that are ranked in the top ten of something tend to be in the same general area. ie. 10 Fattest cities in America ten to be in the midwest. This list however debunks this myth.

Father who murdered his child over Xbox 360 on trial
Source: destructoid.com

Tyrone Spellman is a jerk.

Poll: What Will You Play This Fall?

It's a bit unlike me to submit a short article, but as I'm sure my loyal fans missed my unabashed Nintendo fanboyism for the last few days, and as I am curious to try this new polling module, I thought I would conduct a poll I've been wondering about for a while.

Game makers bow to feds on secret smut
Source: NY Daily News

Secret Codes to smut have penalties

Macworld: News: Microsoft readying PSP challenger, reports say
Source: Macworld

By the time Microsoft gets its product out to market, Sony will already have a new product to compete

Are Older People Playing Games Or Are Gamers Getting Older?
Source: Techdirt

I say both. It essentially is the same thing. Those born in the age of the video game revolution are now pushing, if not already in, their thirties.

X-Box Live: More than Meets the Eye

After transferring my account over from the original X-Box to my highly coveted X-Box 360, I realized that Live had undergone a gigantic facelift.

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