Recent content by Logan Frederick

Because nature is taking care of California.

Thought is in the right place, but I'd imagine that could be just as much work as throwing your own event if you have to cooperate with a whole other organization to host your own mini-event or panel within someone else's conference.

Didn't see this one coming. The industry consolidation only continues with the economic times.

Gamers Prefer Local Multiplayer Over Online Ars Technica's non-scientific study found the personal touch of gaming within punching range of your competitors trumped talking over headsets and dealing with lag. Gaming, since its early days of competitive Pong play and the 80s arcade boom...

Sony Charges Third-Parties for Selling DLC A recent, unannounced fee on publishers offering downloadable content over the PlayStation Network has third-parties considering pulling their extras from Sony's online store. Discretely starting last October, Sony started its "PlayStation...

Games Give Retired Wrestler Young Fans Bret "The Hitman" Hart has recently released his autobiography and now realizes how popular he still is to fans through their experiences with him in videogames long after he retired. As one of the few men to ever successfully sport pink tights in...

Sony Admits It "Under-Supported" PSP Since last year saw some of the greatest software for the PlayStation 3, Sony intends on fixing its past portable mistakes and promises a strong 2009 for the PSP. God of War: Chains of Olympus and Patapon appeared on the PlaySation Portable last year...

Vin Diesel's Dream Game Is an MMO Don't expect fast cars or furious gunfights in the Vin Diesel-funded Barca B.C.; the movie star is taking gamers to the violent world of ancient Europe. In development at Diesel's personally funded development studio, Tigon, Barca B.C. will be set in 200...

well the most recent "news" in the piece covers and links to all the new emulators and updates for the platform. Those are things that are not more than a year old. *stops feeding troll*

Linux on PS3s Runs Old-School Emulators PlayStation 3 gamers with an itch for classic games have seen a huge burst of emulators while promoting Linux hacking on the console. A year ago, blogger Stevie Novoselac published his how-to tutorial...

Guitar Hero: Greatest Hits Confirmed with Details, Tracks Activision has started discussing the details for its second Guitar Hero band game, this time recycling songs from older titles with new instruments added. With a backlog of online songs and no direct sequel to Guitar Hero: World...

Three French Teens Arrested for Stealing Games in Japan Three international students stole one million yen in games, tried to fight the law, and the Japanese law won. Moving to Japan from France to continue their educational studies, a trio of sixteen year-olds traveled to the Akihabara...

David Jaffe: Used Game Issue is "None of the Consumer's Business" David Jaffe would prefer that gamers butt out of the used game debate and leave game companies and retailers to battle it out. In his never-ending quest to comment on every new major gaming issue that tends to spring up on...

Capcom: Xbox Key For Overseas Success Capcom's Kenji Inafune is continuing to follow his long-held hypothesis that the Xbox platform will help Capcom and Japanese companies grow into foreign markets. While being questioned for a Capcom-hosted public relations interview...

ESA, ESRB Execs Paid Like Wall Street Bankers? Managing a videogame industry association provides some pretty perks, and I'm not talking about free arcade cabinets. Two of gaming's leading associations, the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB) and Entertainment Software...