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Sony will not be including any HDMI or component cables with the PlayStation 3, not even with the higher tier model. This is kind of sad when you consider the price that Sony charges for the console, and the fact that the only real benefit the premium console has over the cheaper one is the [...]

YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen comment on the Google acquisition. They thank the users for making the site a success, then go on to talk about how much extra work will go into the features and reliabilty of the site as a result of the buyout.

Today, Google has merged Writely and Google Spreadsheets into one integrated package: Google Docs & Spreadsheets. This adds another office suite component, the word processor, to Google’s web 2.0 office application offerings.
If Google could produce or acquire a presentation application such as Thumbstacks, it will have the components that the majority of home and [...]

The Wiire reports that GameStop and EB Games will be taking pre-orders for the Wii on October 13th. Given that there are only 1 million consoles being shipped to North America at launch, you might end up having to camp out for this one, given that with all the hype this console is receiving the [...]

The US Congress has passed a bill banning most forms of Internet gambling. Now all that remains is for the President to sign the bill into law. Of course, you can bet that state lotteries aren’t on the list of banned Internet gambling sites. Oh no, definitely not. If we didn’t have online state lotteries, [...]

The US has decided to renew it’s ownership of ICANN, the organization responsible for governing domain names. While I’d much rather it be an international body, I suppose this isn’t too bad a deal since they’ve been running it for a long time now and doing a relatively good job of it. As long as [...]

Now that DVD movie download services are taking off, with Apple, Amazon, and Wal-Mart all in the mix, Target complains that online DVD download services will hurt it’s retail store sales. Well, of course online DVD download services will hurt Target’s sales, if only because their competitors are providing a better variety of services than [...]

Not long after the rumors were flying regarding a potential YouTube buyout by Google, we have confirmation. Google now owns YouTube. The acquisition was made at a price of $1.65 billion in Google stock. Well, congratulations to YouTube on this deal. I guess now the video site will survive a bit longer after all. Now [...]

South Park’s latest episode covers World of Warcraft, making fun of how serious it’s many addicted players take it. Trey and Matt really nailed it with the use of Teamspeak, gaming terminology (the first time I’ve ever heard the words noob or pwn in a South Park episode). They even throw in a Grand Theft [...]

The new trend in video game development seems to be to develop games in terms of short episodes instead of long storylines. This is probably due in part to the fact that casual gaming (meaning playing games in short spurts as opposed to long binges) is becoming mainstream. A growing number of casual gamers are [...]