Combat Arms, the Free2Play FPS Open Beta Is Now Open

Combat Arms features fully customizable characters, weapons, and game modes, choose where and how you want to play, and what you want to take into battle with you

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Rock Band 2 Preview Shows Journey, Foo Fighters, Motörhead +

Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Who, Journey, Motorhead, Foo Fighters, System of a Down, Cheap Trick

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Pictures Reveal Solar System is Not Round But Egg-shaped

The Solar System is not round, but an egg shape with its bottom edge squashed inward, according to data beamed back from a three decade old space probe. The outer limits of the system of planets around our own Sun, where the influence of our local star ends, are being probed by the Voyager spacecraft, which were launched in 1977.

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PS3 trophy addicts can track their games at PS3Trophies.org

In little over a day, PS3 fans will be able to join in the addictive fun of achievements and trophies. Our favorite site for achievement tracking, Xbox360Achievements.org, has just opened a sister site: PS3Trophies.org. This will help trophy addicts keep track of their goals and share tips with like-minded fans.

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Metal Gear's Top 5 Awkward Moments

Hi again, Mister Gear. It's been a few years and it's good to have you back. We've had some good times and some bad times. But let's not forget the "holy hell, what on earth am I watching and why did I decide to play this with my girlfriend in the room" moments. Because those were the best.

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2.40 includes hidden PSN Store upgrade

The new look PSN Store is definitely something to behold, even if we've mostly gotten used to what it looks like by now. Unfortunately, it suffered from not caching images properly and, as a result, slow loading of items on the store.

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Chrono Trigger officially coming to the DS

A new page on publisher Square Enix's Japanese web site reveals that the company is planning to port its acclaimed SNES RPG Chrono Trigger to the Nintendo DS.

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Dear MS: Thx for the money. We still hate IE. Love, Facebook

Buried inside Facebook is an error page. If you access the site via an unsupported browser, Facebook tells you to download a better one. On the list: Firefox, Safari, Opera, and even Flock. But no IE!

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PS3 Trophies Not Applied To Old Saves

The folks over at PS3 Fanboy are reporting that older PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Network games patched for support of the new trophy system will not award trophies retroactively. This means that you will essentially have to go back through and play the game all over again in order to earn your much-deserved Sony achievement points.

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Everything you need to know about PS3 firmware v2.40

We go in depth with the the next PlayStation 3 firmware update. Includes plenty of info on what to expect from in-game XMB and trophies once the firmware lands on July 2nd.

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Managing the PlayStation 3 Wi-Fi network

Terra Soft shows you how to configure, encrypt, and maintain the built-in PS3 Wi-Fi network

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Why Women Should Embrace Porn

Just because someone likes looking at naked bodies exchanging bodily fluids does not make him a pervert, disrespectful, an infidel, disinterested in his lover or dissatisfied with his lover. It makes him human.

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GoDaddy VP Caught Bidding Against Customers

A GoDaddy Vice President has been caught bidding against customers in their own domain name auctions. The employee Adam Dicker isn't just any GoDaddy employee; he's head of the GoDaddy subsidiary that controls the auctions. Dicker won some of the domains he bid for, and pushed up the bid price on auctions he didn't win.

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Iran To Ready Thousands Of Graves For Enemies

Iran is to dig 320,000 graves in border districts to allow for the burial of enemy soldiers in the event of any attack on its territory. General Mir-Faisal Bagherzadeh said, "We have plans to dig 15,000 to 20,000 graves in each of the border provinces or a total of 320,000, some of them mass graves if necessary."

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Rock Band 2 Announced With Fully-Functional Cross-Title DLC

Shocker! Harmonix has done and made Rock Band 2. The sequel will feature a new set list, and the RB2 bundle will feature "quieter, more realistic, and more reliable instruments" says Lead Designer Dan Teasdale.

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Fantasy Baseball Owner Rips Team Apart In Media

BROOKLYN, NY—Mark Mendicus, 26-year-old Staples employee and principal owner of the fantasy baseball team Beat With Uggla Stick, blasted his underperforming team in the media Monday, going so far as to single out individual players, criticize their recent play, and question their commitment to winning.

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Big haul of Crohn's genes shows disease complexity

Scientists have linked 32 genetic variations to Crohn's disease, a bowel disorder, highlighting the complexity of many common diseases and the difficulties facing researchers seeking treatments.

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No-Hit Win by Dodgers Makes No Sense, Except in Baseball

Baseball is the best game in part because every night you go to the ballpark, you might see something you've never seen before. No other sport can say that like baseball can, and Saturday night at Dodger Stadium was just such a night, a night that made no sense.

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What are the Costs You Will Face With New Copyright Bill

$20 000 fine for Posting music using the Internet or peer-to-peer technology and Posting a copyright-protected work, such as a picture or video, onto a website such as Facebook or YouTube.Also Selling, renting or giving away a device (e.g., iPod) that contains copies of music that were originally copied onto the device by you for private purpose.

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Disney's WALL-E wows box office

"WALL-E," bolstered by near-unanimous critical praise, sold an estimated $62.5 million of tickets in its first three days, said Pixar's Walt Disney Co parent.

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Undercover NYPD Officers Frame 4 On Drug Charges

Undercover police officers who arrested four men on drug charges are under investigation after surveillance video proved the men they arrested committed no crime.

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Women prefer men with stubble for love, sex and marriage

Stubble is the way to win a woman’s heart, a study has shown. Researchers found that women are more attracted to men with stubbly chins than those with clean-shaven faces or full beards

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Google plugs YouTube into Playstation 3

To the surprise of no one, Google is now offering software that streams video, photos, and music from your PC to your television.

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Sony granted patent for handheld with touchscreen

Sony Computer Entertainment America was granted a patent on Friday for a "hand-held [sic] device with touchscreen and digital tactile pixels." It'd be a stretch to say any of this is explicitly indicative of a PSP 2.0 or PSP phone, but it is interesting to note that "game device" is listed as one of the potential applications,

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The controversial JCPenny Commercial.

This is the commercial everyone has been talking about. Did you also know that this spot was awarded a Cannes Lions 2008 Film Bronze award..?

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