It’s been almost a year since Toshiba threw in the towel for ill-fated HD-DVD. While sales of the Blu-Ray format have yet to reach the levels of current home video king DVD, market penetration (*chortle*) is on an incline. Figures show that of the almost 11 million blu-ray players sold in the US, over 70% are in the form of …

Remember a while back Capcom were caught out using an IGN watermarked image in their box art? Well this time they have gone one better and appeared to have leaned heavily on a fans box art cover when coming  up with their own design. If you take a look at the image above (slapped together by Bingegamer) you will see …

Funcom is now in the process of shutting down/merging a whole whack of their Age of Conan servers, presumably to save costs and keep their not-so-popular MMO afloat. Of the 49 initial servers, only 19 will remain in service for the unwashed barbarians players. The American audience took with biggest hit with a closure of 19 of the 25 servers. …

It’s true that console comparisons have gotten a little tired now but this one is different. First of all, I need to mention that the first Skate on Playstation 3 was a worse experience on PS3. This is not my opinion, this is the opinion of a lot of PS3 users who were left feeling very upset with Skate’s terrible …

Thanks to Stephen Totillo at MTV Multiplayer, this wonderful anecdote is available for all to read. This comes form the Associated Press reporting on October 11th,1982 about a speech given by Reagan in Irving Texas. "Ad libbing during a highly partisan speech to a rally for a Republican candidate, the president said the demands of office sometimes prevent him from …

A patch is finally on the way for Fable 2, set to drop alongside today’s “Knothole Island” DLC. This will hopefully fix the myriad of game-breaking bugs that have plagued what is an otherwise delightfully charming game. Unfortunately, no word on whether they intend to fix the broken co-op. Last Updated: January 13, 2009

Lately, I have found more and more faith being is being placed in Sony as a company. They seemed to have stopped doing the ridiculous things they did before, like Katuragi talking about the broken square button on the PSP or the original pricepoint of the PS3, and finally getting their act together. Especially after playing Metal Gear Solid 4 …

A Swedish website (who shall not be named*) has become instantly famous for breaking the embargo on Killzone 2 reviews by putting up it’s review. The Sony SWAT team quickly swung into action and the offending piece has now been removed but not before the entire thing was syndicated around the Internet and the damage done. So let’s get to …