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Racking up nearly 12 million views on YouTube over the last 72 hours, a North Carolina man named Tommy Jordan, father of a fifteen-year old teenage girl named Hannah, decided to respond to his daughter's complaints about their family life. His daughter posted a lengthy rant about her parents on Facebook and attempted to hide the post with the privacy settings Facebook provides for all users. However, her father somehow ended up with a… Read More

[Updated with new info] Call of Duty: Black Ops hits store shelves at midnight tonight and gamers everywhere are already lining up. Unable to wait, some fans have already taken matters into their own hands. The Harford County Sheriff's Office reports that at least two men robbed a Baltimore, Maryland GameStop when it was about to close on Saturday night. Armed with guns, the duo stole four crates, or more than 100 copies of the game,… Read More

What is Google’s stance on privacy? That’s the question being asked, at least by Ken Boehm of the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) after The Smoking Gun website reveal court papers filed by the search giant in a privacy suit over its Street Views mapping tool. In its filing Google asserts that “complete privacy doesn’t exist.” But, says NLPC’s Boehm, Google had responded to a politician by saying… Read More

Viacom's MTV Networks and well-known television and movie producer Jerry Bruckheimer (CSI,Armageddon,Top Gun, the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, etc.) have inked a deal to launch a new video game development studio. The new units will operate with the existing MTV Games operation and work on developing new games and intellectual property that, of course, can be promoted and leveraged across the entire MTV broadcast and digital… Read More

The third installment of Electronic Arts' Command & Conquer real-time strategy game series is now available for the Xbox 360. Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars takes the franchise back to its beginnings in the Tiberium universe and finds the the self-replicating green alien goo has infected the planet Earth. An alliance of nations plans to defend the planet, but the Command & Conquer villain Kane has some other ideas.… Read More

A new study published in the February issue of Archives of Surgery suggests a correlation between a surgeon's video game competence and skills at performing laparoscopic surgery. Laparoscopic procedures involve small instruments inserted via body openings or small incisions, where the physician conducts procedures by watching a video feed on a separate television monitor rather than by direct observation of the surgical field. In… Read More

When S2 Games' new title Savage 2: A Tortured Soul goes on sale this October, the company plans to bypass brick-and-mortar publishing and distribution channels for games to sell the game exclusively via download on the company Web site. By moving to a download-only model, SE hope to both cut the costs of producing and marketing a game and increase the percentage of sales revenue retained by the company. S2 Games is gambling that… Read More

Microsoft today announced the Xbox 360 day one launch lineup as they detailed information on the 18 games and 13 accessories which will be available when the next generation system takes its initial curtain call. For those who've been under a rock, that date is Nov. 22. The initial game lineup is: “Amped 3″ (2K Sports) “Call of Duty 2″ (Activision Inc.) “Condemned: Criminal Origins” (SEGA… Read More

Quote from the review at Elite-Guild: “What else could a money hungry terrorist want more than new terror toys?! Unfortunately, they sort of get the short end of the stick. They only get one new toy whereas those justice loving Counter-Terrorists get a couple. On to it then! Each side has been given a new rifle that they can buy. The starting round in any game of CS involves going head to head with a pistol and no armor (Or if… Read More