A 14-year-old kid in Georgia wounded his grandmother and killed his great-grandmother with a "34- to 36-inch sword" on Monday. Fourteen years old! It had to be rap music, right? Or heavy metal? Or—no—videogames.
College Humor spoofs one of those video games that make more money than any blockbuster movie and thus define a generation. The clip below is only funny if you've played online shooters, but according to sales stats that's 90% of you, so we're set.
Microsoft's games division has inched its way back into the black, fueled by, you guessed it, Halo 3 sales. The Entertainment and Devices division posted $165 million profit for its first quarter (no thanks to the Zune). [Ars Technica]
Yes, the tiresome comparisons between movie and videogame revenues have resumed: Microsoft's Halo 3 scored $170 million in sales on its U.S. debut. The biggest weekend box-office opening was $151 million for Sony's Spider-Man 3. We look forward to the day when the phenomenon of videogames outselling movies is…
Remember back in June of last year, when Microsoft and CAA dispatched an impressively armored battalion of messengers carrying the scripts for a movie adaptation of Halo to the studios, telling executives to read the scripts at lunch and commence an afternoon bidding war, or have face their faces fragged off by a…
