A mom in Orange County has suddenly become an online gaming celebrity after posting an entirely serious article trying to explain why she feels that videogames were invented by the devil. Some of the classic nuggets from the article are she always dreamed off all the neighbourhood kids crowding around her kitchen demanding she feeds them. Her friends kid is …

Nintendo’s president, Satoru Iwata, has been discussing the DS’s successor with a Japanese newspaper and had the following to say "[It will have] highly detailed graphics, and it will be necessary to have a sensor with the ability to read the movements of people playing,” Firstly I would be a little worried about the next DS forcing us to wave …

Piracy is rife on just about every platform imaginable. Torrent searches will turn up illegal copies of games for PC, PSP, Xbox 360, DS, Wii and even the IPhone. The only current system that’s been impervious thus far has been Sony’s PS3 – but that may be set to change, as hackers have claimed success in playing copied games on …

One of the primary reasons I hardly play anything online anymore is that behind the veil of internet anonymity, your average guy becomes a whining loudmouthed douchebag with the general demeanour and prepubescent angst of a 12 year old tourettes sufferer. Online gaming is great; but thanks to cockbags like that I’ve rediscovered the joys of the single player experience. …

Ten-year-old Kade Goodman’s Christmas – and quite possibly his life – was ruined by the unfortunate sight of exposed male genitalia, when it was discovered that the used PSP he’d received for festivus contained an explicit picture of a penis. The offending image was discovered by the lad’s 13 year old brother, who found it in the background images. Kade’s …

Michael Pachter, the infamous industry analyst who nailed it 100% with his Borderlands prediction has spoken from behind his crystal ball again. This time, he reckons the game industry’s gonna bounce back from last year’s lows, and the recession that saw the end of so many studios. His reasoning? Why, it’s all about the games! Last Updated: January 6, 2010

Official NPD stats are out on the 14th of January but Nintendo are the first of the big players to break rank and release some figures of their own. While the figures are not exact they have estimated sales of 3 million Wii units in the US alone for the month of December and that lifetime sales of New Super …

Midway is dead. Warner Bros. picked up its festering barely re-animated corpse, along with most of its intellectual property (Braaaaaaaaains!). One licence that they didn’t acquire though is a particular favourite of mine, and if the rumours are right is one that we may see again – courtesy of EA Sports. According to ESPN, EA sports have been tasked with …