Categories Posted inin Business ‘Bout Time: Sega Genesis Guitar Hero Clone Posted byby GamesBeat September 2, 2009 1 min Sure, Guitar Hero 5 lets you disgrace famous rockers, but it’s way too complex for us. That game must have at least a 100...
Categories Posted inin Business OnLive launches its much-anticipated beta test for video games on demand Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 2, 2009 2 min OnLive stirred a lot of passion in March when it announced it would launch a video games on demand service in the fall. Today,...
Categories Posted inin Business Microsoft makes a move for Japanese gamers Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 2, 2009 1 min A week after it cut the price for the Xbox 360 in North America and Europe, Microsoft followed up with a price cut in...
Categories Posted inin Business Discarding Inspiration: What to Do with My Old Gaming Mags? Posted byby GamesBeat September 2, 2009 5 min Editor’s note: Freelance writer Andrew Hayward loves video game magazines. This passion inspired him to go into journalism. In his first Bitmob post, Andrew...
Categories Posted inin Business About 24 percent of Xbox 360 game consoles fail within two years Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 2, 2009 2 min It looks like the Xbox 360 is the most unreliable video game console in history. Most gamers already know that. Microsoft acknowledged the “red...
Categories Posted inin Business GamerDNA launches major upgrade for gamers social network Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 2, 2009 3 min GamerDNA is launching a major upgrade to its gamer social network web site as it tries to fend off the competition and become everything...
Categories Posted inin Business Defending the MMO: A Haters Guide to MMOs Posted byby GamesBeat September 2, 2009 5 min Editor’s note: Spurred by our discussion on a recent Mobcast, Christian writes in defense of MMOs, explaining not only the dynamics of the game...
Categories Posted inin Business Yeahhh Boyyy: Guitar Hero 5 Gives Kurt Cobain a Bad Name Posted byby GamesBeat September 2, 2009 1 min One of the funnier aspects of Guitar Hero 5 is the inclusion of fame-hating Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. Because, well, the guy probably would...
Categories Posted inin Business Writer's Schlock Posted byby GamesBeat September 2, 2009 5 min Once again, I’m dredging up an old story from SoreThumbsBlog.com — a blog site Dan “Shoe” Hsu and I used to share. And let...
Categories Posted inin Business So That's How You Ride Her: NES-Controlled Statue of Liberty Posted byby GamesBeat September 2, 2009 1 min Ever since Ghostbusters 2 came out in 1989, we’ve been wondering two things: 1) Why the hell did the kids at the beginning of...