Vivendi has sold its remaining shares in Activision/Blizzard to an unknown buyer. The deal, ($1.1 Billion for 5.7% of the company) comes after seeing the stock grow 85% in the last year. Big move.. but it’s not the end of Vivendi in...
I roped one of my good friends, Josh into a monthly chat about news in the gaming world. I originally called it “This back and forth”, but that was horrible. I’m not sure his suggestion was better. Read on!...
Working on a couple longer stories for the next couple days, but here’s an interesting bit of information, as Amazon tries to get its claws deeper into the video game market. They announced today that Amazon Prime members ($99/yearly) would get...
Just saw this announced today. Origin is offering a service offering access to a dozen or so games for $4.99 a month. The selection is somewhat limited, but there are some interesting gems there. More after the jump....
Not a big story, but we are working to upgrade the software for the blog, as well as getting a faster internet connection. We may have a bit of downtime over the next day or two, but it probably won’t be...
So, when we last visited a Galaxy far far away, the console crash had killed the home market, and the arcade boom was slowly dying out. So where do we go from there? How about attaching themselves to the Nintendo boom and...
One of my friends posted two pictures on facebook taken a couple seconds apart of what caused the local power outage. A tree fell across a powerline, caught on fire (fortunately the line snapped before the fire spread down the tree...
We’ve suffered a power outage at Casa De Yellope, which really hurts as my nearly completed second part of the Star Wars retrospective disappeared into the ether at the same time the power went out! We’ll be back and running soon....
I think we’ve discussed my fandom, some would say addiction, to the Football Manager series. But I don’t think I ever quantified WHY I have that game open so much. Until now, at least....
