Not content with ruining football games by eliminating the competition, Electronic Arts is looking to lay waste to the rest of the video game sporting world. EA has begun its $2 billion “hostile takeover” of Take-Two Interactive They are currently offering stakeholders in Take-Two Interactive $26 dollars per a share, 2 dollars over what Take-Two is currently trading for. The offer is set to expire on midnight April 11^th, but can be extended.

So for all of you who love Golden Eye the UK magazine Xbox World 360 has info in its next issue all about it, including what appears to be the world’s first hands on impression of it.


Now its time to sit back and wait for the information to come rolling in and wonder if there is going to be a Perfect Dark remake.

Source: Xbox World 360

Gary Gygax passed away at his home in Wisconsin tuesday. Gary spawned one of the most arguably influential hobbies of the past 35 years when he co-created the roleplaying game Dungeons and Dragons in 1974 and is considered to be one of the grandfathers of role playing. 

In an interview with gamespy he told them that  "I would like the world to remember me as the guy who really enjoyed playing games and sharing his knowledge and his fun pastimes with everybody else. " and I think it would be hard to remember him any other way.

Both Penny Arcade and Order of the Stick have posted some fitting tribute comics.  If it's been a while I recommend grabbing some friends and  start by rolling 4d6 starting at the top.

Having found Osama bin Laden (see image), making Iraq a safe place to live, and winning the war on conventional terrorism, the Department of Homeland Security is going after terrorists in the last place they can hide: World of Warcraft.

Dubbed the Reynard project is where US intelligence agents are scouting out Azeroth for "suspicious behavior", most likely Orks in turbans.

However, what is the real game here? The notion that wandering around such an imaginary world with a computerized body is dangerous to anyone seems itself cartoonish and calls into question the public hand-wringing by security experts.

Source: Wired blog