By now, most Xbox 360 owners have probably had the chance to spend time tinkering with the New Xbox Experience update. It’s a radical reimagining of the console’s interface and has added a load of new features, including the oft-debated Avatars. But if you’ve only spent time customising your new character and ripping Gears [...]

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Will there ever come a time when World of Warcraft isn’t utterly dominating the Massively Multiplayer scene? Now just a couple of days short of its fourth birthday and getting on a bit in gaming terms, WoW is going stronger than ever. Developer Blizzard reveals that the latest expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, [...]

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Remember how we suggested that the latest PlayStation Portable version, PSP 300, might be unhackable? How wrong we were. The security’s been cracked and a UK company, Datel, is about to launch the Lite Blue Tool, a special kind of battery that puts the PSP into service mode.

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Saucer of milk for the Sony table! Just before Xbox 360’s much-hyped New Xbox Experience launched with its shiny new Netflix streaming service, a load of films were suddenly withdrawn from the list of available titles. The films in question, including Superbad and Bad Boys, were from Columbia Pictures, a subsidiary of Sony Pictures [...]

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Sick of getting hand cramp trying to send text messages to your PlayStation Network buddies? Don’t worry, salvation for your twisted sinews is now in sight; Sony has revealed the launch details of its new PlayStation 3 Wireless Keypad accessory. The Chatpad clone will be available from 28th November - just in time for [...]

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A Swedish teenager collapsed after an extended World of Warcraft session. The 15-year-old boy had been celebrating the launch of the latest WoW expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, by inviting friends to his house for a 24-hour marathon bout of gaming. He suffered an epileptic fit caused by a combination of sleep deprivation, [...]

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A teenager has been jailed indefinitely after being convicted of committing sex attacks on four women. Ryan Chinnery, 19, chav, prowled the streets in his car looking for victims after “obsessively” playing Grand Theft Auto for “hours on end”, as well as doing other utterly irrelevant things like indulging in an unhealthy amount of [...]

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Nintendo legend, Shigeru Miyamoto, has described the development process for Wii Music as being “relatively easy” in a recent interview. He explained that normally he has to coax his team into inserting silliness, but this time the silliness – including a cat suit and a cheerleader instrument – came of its own accord.

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