By Brendan Sinclair, GameSpot – Posted Aug 31, 2010 10:10 am PT Microsoft addresses oft-made complaint with a new wireless pad due out November 9 with play-and-charge kit for $65. In the past five years, Microsoft has encountered a number of complaints regarding its Xbox 360 hardware. The most vociferous of those were likely related [...]

By Tom Magrino, GameSpot – Posted Aug 31, 2010 4:05 pm PT Publisher claims sales victory for the month as gridiron sim sales rise 5% across all platforms; Madden NFL Superstars now available on Facebook. The NPD Group isn’t expected to release its August game-industry sales breakdown for at least a couple more weeks, but [...]

By Brendan Sinclair, GameSpot – Posted Aug 30, 2010 9:59 am PT US annual subscription jumping $10 to $60 as prices go up across North America, UK starting November 1; discounts offered in meantime. Microsoft gave Xbox Live Gold subscribers some good news and some bad news today. The bad news is that starting November [...]

By Eddie Makuch, GameSpot – Posted Aug 26, 2010 10:00 am PT Activision announces every song for upcoming turntable rhythm game; artists include Lady Gaga, DeadMau5, Metallica, The Chemical Brothers, 50 Cent, Eminem, Kanye West. Last week Activision confirmed the leaked 93-song Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock setlist. Today the publisher is taking a more [...]

UK retailer schedule lists LucasArts and EA’s MMORPG as coming to Microsoft’s console in spring 2011; BioWare says no console version planned “at this time.”

EEDAR analysis finds slightly more titles fighting over fewer customer dollars, increasingly scarce shelf space; 2010 to see fewer new retail games. Judging from the glut of potential blockbusters that were delayed to next year, one might get the impression that 2009 saw fewer games released than normal. That’s actually not the case, according to [...]

Microsoft on Monday said that millions of Xbox Live members have used the new social-media features that the company pushed live a week ago. In June, Microsoft announced it would begin offering Xbox Live users access to Facebook, Twitter, and Last.fm. And while the manifestation of each of those services is scaled down on Xbox [...]

Australian gamers have long considered South Australian attorney-general Michael Atkinson as the biggest obstacle in the path toward an R18+ classification for video games. Despite his part in delaying a public consultation on the issue, Atkinson declared himself the scapegoat in the matter, claiming he was not the only attorney-general opposed to R18+ for games [...]