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FAIL EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Rumor: IWNet giving Modern Warfare 2 players viruses 89 The ghost of dedicated servers continues to haunt Modern Warfare 2, as the flawless IWNet has been apparently struck down with a Trojan virus. Infinity Ward's replacement for dedicated servers ha... Activision unaware of Modern Warfare 2 glitch (and jokes) 45 Evil publisher Activision may know how to make vast sums of money, but it doesn't seem to know when someone's yanking its chain. Edgy Gamer wrote a rather amusing email to Activision, talking abo... FOX News tries to debate Modern Warfare 2 144 It wouldn't be a videogame controversy without FOX News trying to have a ham-fisted, awkward and ill-informed debate about it. Modern Warfare 2 has generated all sorts of intelligent and interes... Kid pirates Xbox 360 games, gets banned, tells BBC 81 The BBC is hilarious when it tries to cover technology news, because it clearly has no idea what it's talking about, especially with videogames. Case in point: A kid got banned from Xbox Live bec... Daily Mail jumps on Modern Warfare 2 'outrage' 53 How pathetically predictable. The first of the big mainstream "news" outlets has finally taken the bait, with British tabloid (read: glorified toilet paper) The Daily Mail claiming that Modern Wa... Microsoft man mocks the idea of Facebook on a game system 44 Eric Neustadter, Xbox Live operations manager, thinks that Facebook connectivity on the DSi is silly. He finds it a pointless idea, considering we have other, better alternatives for staying conn... N-Gage is officially dead, no one attends funeral 40 Do you remember the first time you heard about the N-Gage? I do. It was an advertisement in EGM and it had a kid on a skateboard playing the game while jumping at the camera or something. It was ... Muramasa outsells Spyborgs and Dead Space: Extraction 49 Let's start with the facts- Muramasa was released by relatively small publisher Ignition on Sept 8th and cost $50 new, Spyborgs was released by relatively big publisher Capcom on Sept 25th and co... Q explains why Lumines hasn't come to PSN yet 10 When Lumines first arrived, it was considered a vanguard title for the brand new (at the time) PlayStation Portable. The rhythmic block busting puzzler was excellent, and really helped the PSP to... Konami announces Rocket Knight ... again 8 Seriously, Konami? You've just gotten around to doing this?Despite having already revealed Rocket Knight to 1UP weeks ago, Konami has seen fit to announce Rocket Knight yet again, having finally ... PSPgo failing hard in Australia 32 Australia is a land where games are late and cost twice as much, so it's hardly surprising that the over-expensive PSPgo isn't doing so well over there. A number of Australian retailers have even... Wiitard accident caught on live TV 51 Don't you just love live TV? The Home Shopping Network was selling a Wii with a 15 Wiimote accessory pack when the best thing that could have ever happen, happened. The host goes to swing the Wi... PSPgo Rewards scheme screwed over by DRM restrictions 42 I want to submit the word "Sonying" as a new English language word. Sonying is the act of having good ideas and then sabotaging them personally so that they don't work. The latest schem... PSPgo 'will fail miserably' 54 You know what Sony's PSPgo hasn't had lately? Some bad press! Things have been far too positive surrounding the latest PlayStation Portable, so let's darken the general tone of the news, shall we... PSPgo? More like PSPslow! 22 Yesterday, Sony reported that PSPgo sales were "in line with expectations," but refused to give any figures. There might be a reason for that, if UK retailer ShopTo is to be believed. A... PSP Minis service launches, prices are atrocious 63 PSP Minis, the bite-sized downloadable game service for the PlayStation Portable, has now launched in the US and UK, just in time for today's arrival of the PSPgo. In the States, seven games are ... NFS: Shift crashing on Xbox 360, tries to access PSN!? 55 This is absolutely hilarious. A ridiculous and peculiar glitch in EA's new racing title, Need for Speed: Shift, has allegedly been unearthed, and it's amazing. The title supposedly contains a gam... Sony doesn't care that PSP-3000 is way cheaper than PSPgo 67 Sony recently announced a Japanese price drop for the PSP-3000 in what seems to be a dedicated effort to undermine its own PSPgo system. Some would say that making a previous PSP model even more ... Guess what! PSPgo Rewards scheme is not for Americans 71 You remember yesterday when we announced that Sony had introduced one not-quite-awful idea for the PSPgo? Well, this is Sony we're talking about, so I guess I was naive to think it would last. Th... PSPgo UMD conversion not happening for 'legal reasons' 99 Earlier today, it was announced that Sony was offering three of seventeen downloadable games to PSPgo upgraders who registered their older PSPs online. This seemed to hint that Sony would not be ... Wall Street Journal talks videogames, fails SPECTACULARLY 98 This is simply adorable. The Wall Street Journal recently attempted to talk about videogames as it reported on the speculated corporate takeover of THQ and the valuable "IP" a publisher... Watchdog attempts to humilitate Sony, fails hard 72 Earlier today we talked about how UK TV show Watchdog was running a scathing feature on the alleged high failure rate of the PlayStation 3. In a bid to shame Sony, the show parked a branded van o... TV show rips Sony apart for PS3 hardware failures 130 Sony has responded to serious allegations leveled by UK BBC show Watchdog. An episode of the consumer complaints program airs tonight, claiming that the PS3 has a huge hardware malfunction proble... Analysts predict Wii sales will continue to drop 64 As the prices of the other consoles out there continue to steadily drop, sales of the Wii have taken a turn for the worse. In fact, last month, Wii sales were down a whopping 39 percent from the ... Wikipedia orders Tecmo to stop editing its Wikipedia page 14 Oh Tecmo, is there any shameless low to which you won't sink?Continued editing of one's own Wikipedia page isn't always considered a classy use of one's time, even less so when you're attempting ... Protip: This is not how you use a Pokewalker 32 Pokémon SoulSilver and HeartGold launched this Saturday in Japan, and already people are finding ways to cheat. The image above is somebody using the Pokéwalker -- a pedometer that'... Project Needlemouse site is fake (no Green Hill for you) 38 Yesterday we were all freaking out over the announcement of Project Needlemouse, a codenamed game that promised to be a brand new 2D Sonic the Hedgehog due for release in 2010. Don't worry, the g... PS3 Firmware 3.0 is breaking controllers 48 Oh dear oh dear, Firmware 3.0 has not won any fans since it launched for the PlayStation 3 this week. After installing the new system update, some users have complained of new bugs in Uncharted: ... Guitar Hero 5's World Tour import feature is bullsh*t 60 The Guitar Hero franchise is one of the most saturated and whored-out franchises there is, with a new main sequel every year and plenty of spin-offs in between. Fortunately, Activision made the d... This happened: Mega Drive Guitar Idol 24 Tectoy in Brazil has this beast of a game system put together for your last last gen gaming needs. Mega Drive Guitar Idol is what they call it, though the name sounds closer to a sequel to a guit... Box art fail averted for Record of Agarest War in UK 40 We're getting the PSN download-only treatment for the upcoming strategy role-playing game Record of Agarest War, but the UK is getting a fully boxed title, just like Japan did. The issue here isn... Argentine reporter reports on the abuse of grog by teenagers 38 Hold on to your copy of Brain Age boys and girls, because we are about to get really stupid up in here. Any self respecting gamer knows what grog is, but for those non-self respecting gamers out ... Man steals Wi-Fi to play Halo in a library 55 The above picture shows a genius. A criminal mastermind so brilliant it's amazing that he was ever caught. Sitting in a library, with headphones on, a mysterious big bag under his desk, and a new... Looks like camera-based games fail on the PSPgo 16 Invizimals and Eye of Judgment are looking like two hot PSP properties, using the portable system's camera peripheral to either scan cards or hunt for invisible creatures. The only problem is, i... Xbox 360 fail rate: 54 percent, says Game Informer survey 89 Game Informer's survey asked around 5,000 of their readers about the fail rate of their Xbox 360s, and the fat number of 54.2 percent came back. Ouch. Compare that to the survey's 10.6 percent fo... PlayStation World Magazine bites the dust 17 I know we talk here and there about the death of the print magazine, but seriously folks, it's not looking so good. This morning, MCV reported that Future Publishing has announced that they will ... SGC 09: Metal Gear FAIL 41 It seems that every gaming convention needs some genius in a cardboard box, pretending to be Solid Snake. Everyone laughs like it's the first time they've ever seen it, and even cynical bastards ... Double Dragon, Speedball 2 vanish from XBLA 14 A few months ago, Empire Interactive went into administration following years of money problems, and it seems that the effects of the company's fall have spread to Xbox Live. Two of the publisher... Are PS3 exclusives failing to perform? 94 A bit of recent number crunching suggests that Sony's first party exclusives are coming up short in the sales department, despite receiving critical acclaim. When compared to the AAA titles of ot... Germany wants to stop the Austrian internet 26 I'm not sure what Germany is thinking, messing with a country that spawned a man who can take down a Predator, a Terminator and be twin brothers with Danny DeVito, but Germany doesn't make sense ... Castlevania movie gets stake through heart? 27 Remember the Castlevania movie that Paul W.S. Anderson was working on? Well, it looks like that terrifying prospect may never come to pass. The project appears to have officially been consigned t... Slim PS3 'evidence' looks pretty bloody fake 44 A Chinese blog has caused a stir by posting photographs that apparently prove the existence of a slim PS3. This "evidence" comes a day after Sony emphatically denied any and all rumors ... Yahoo uses "the Internet" as a source 54 Face and palm. So here's the story, but I suggest watching the video below before you dive in. Yahoo does gaming news and vids, and ThinkGeek sometimes sells stuff. What happens when the two coll... Interplay has no money, could fail yet again 24 Interplay, like a toddler without arms, is trying to swim but failing badly. Having only recently returned from the dead to forge a new path following its 2004 shutdown, the house of the original... Wii Fit MURDERS innocent man 48 The Telegraph, Britain's most passive-aggressive newspaper, is today reporting that a 25-year-old man has died playing Wii Fit, proving that "casual games" are a bad idea. Tim Eves, who... Capcom's severed limb stunt turned out to be a disaster 37 When we reported that Capcom was marketing Resident Evil 5 in the UK by making fans hunt for severed limbs and wave them around on Westminster bridge, we predicted it would end in tears. What we ... How Sigourney Weaver turned down Ghostbusters and regretted it 34 Aliens star and Ghostbusters leading lady Sigourney Weaver claims she was never offered a role in Terminal Reality's upcoming Ghostbusters game, but the developers are claiming that she's a dirty... PlayStation 2 made of wood? Yeah, that might be fake 17 Joystiq has posted a gallery of fake PS2s which apparently made their way to retailers and eventually got returned to Sony for credit. The pick of the bunch has to be this above image ... a PS2 c... Upcoming ESC conference rips the Virtual Boy to shreds 26 You may think you read that title wrong, but at this year's Embedded Systems Conference in Silicon Valley aims to do just that. In a panel hosted by Allan Yogasingam, an analyst with TechOnline, ... Cheerleader Pom Poms, the worst videogame accessory of 2009 13 GoNintendo spotted the worst Wii accessory of 2009 earlier this week and it's called the Wii Hip Street Cheer Pom Poms. It's a pretty bold claim calling this the worst accessory of 2009 since it'... Actor Fred Willard promotes the DS and Personal Trainer: Cooking to fail results 11 Disclaimer: I fully understand that this ad is not intended for me and for pretty much the majority of you out there watching this. With that said, this is one of the worst ads for the DS yet. La... Microsoft hopes Xbox Live won't fail this year 26 Do you remember the great Xbox LIVE blackout of 2007? Thanks to the holiday season, along with huge titles like Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4, the Xbox 360's much-lauded online service wasn't being o... Microsoft admits the NXE can break 360 audio outputs, working on fix 25 Oh Microsoft. Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft. After a somewhat successful launch of its New Xbox Experience, you would think that for once, we had escaped widespread reports of the usual bullsh*... Activision no longer cares about games it can't milk to death 35 This is some rather unsurprising news, but it lends further credence to the idea that Activision has truly taken EA's place as the crowning dick of the industry. When asked why Activision decided... EA to 'kill' at least one game a year, forever 23 Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello has been a talkative boy today, and lately the silver-maned executive has been talking about game quality. According to Riccitiello, EA is prepared to shut do... Fail: Nintendo's 'Celestial event' = bubble machine 45 Do you remember when we told you about Nintendo's "one of a kind" celestial event that was supposed to happen today? We guessed that Nintendo was going to pull off some cool stunt to pr... Wii Music: oh my Dog, also accordion 15 [video]103043:329[/video] Back at E3 2006, I waited in the now infamous Wii Line of Death to play the new console for the first time. Somehow I was magically whisked out of line by a Nintendo rep... CNBC 'proof that Sony is winning' reporter follow-up 29 How could we forget the headline "The Ultimate Proof That Sony is Winning," from CNBC reporter Jane Wells a couple of months ago? This statement was solely based on her 16-year-old son'... Metal USB controller seems useless 14 Sometimes it’s really hard to find a practical use for videogame peripherals. Recently, Engadget (via technabob) showcased the aptly named “USB Metal Game Pad” that is being off... Double dose of nostalgia: Street Fighter IV meets Faith No More 35 Spotted on Power Glove's always epic C-blog, this new trailer for Street Fighter IV could be the most thought provoking yet. 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