Federal authorities in the U.S have dropped the case in a first-of-its-kind ‘game console modding’ trial. The law around console modding is ‘a grey area’ to say the last and it seemed like prosecutors wanted to throw the book at Defendant Matthew Crippen and send a clear message to all those game pirates out there. [...]

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Google has started having problems already regarding the streamed content for their Google TV. There have been reports that ABC, CBS and NBC have all been blocking the system from their shows. Although there has been no publicly announced reason as to why this is yet, it is speculated that the studios are concerned about [...]

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has been saying some pretty interesting things in a Lecture to London School of Economics students including that “Piracy in China is twenty times worse than the UK and twelve times worse than in India and that, coupled with China’s growing economic power, makes him “nervous.” On another note, Ballmer also [...]

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Last week I was frustrated and annoyed, and for once, it was not due to having to go to work, the wife, or even my pay packet. No, it was because I am a PC gamer. I don’t have a PS3, nor an Xbox 360. I have forgone these for an expensive graphics card and a Razer mouse. Sometimes I wish I had not though because If I had a PS3, I would now be playing Assassins Creed 2, the PC version of which has been pushed back until the first quarter of 2010.

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