As part of a recent monologue about YouTube Gaming, comedian/late night host Jimmy Kimmel joked that watching people play video games makes no sense. That video was swiftly ripped apart by commenters, and now, it's become the most disliked video (out of thousands) in the history of Jimmy Kimmel Live.

Right now, the video has close to 60,000 dislikes and about 5,000 likes.

Sometimes there are so many glitches in the Madden titles that they do feel like added features. Just having a little fun

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While The Sims has always let players have direct control over a wide swath of their characters' lives, whenever the Sim goes to work, he just disappears. But that's set to change with The Sims 4 expansion: Get to Work.

According to a press release from EA, you'll be able to take an active role in four different job types

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Sony Online Entertainment, the company responsible for MMOs such as Planetside 2, H1Z1, and DC Universe Online, has broken away from Sony and is now operating as an independent company.

The extraordinary transition was made possible after Columbus Nova, an investment management firm based in New York, had bought out the company for an undisclosed sum.

An announcement on the GoG.com website read:

Today we are excited to announce GOG Galaxy, a truly gamer-friendly, 100% DRM-free online gaming platform that will finally provide the GOG.com community with the easy option to play together online. GOG Galaxy will allow you to share your achievements, stay in touch with your pals and get the updates for your games automatically. We've developed this technology to improve your GOG.com experience. We think GOG Galaxy really deserves your attention and we hope many of you will give it a try!

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata will not attend next week's E3 in Los Angeles on the advice of his physician, a company representative told GameSpot. There's no reason to be alarmed, however, as the company says it's "business as usual" for Iwata.

"You won't be seeing Mr. Iwata at E3 next week. He's been instructed by his physician not to travel overseas in the immediate future, and so he will not be making the trip to Los Angeles," the representative said. "Please understand that it is business as usual for Mr. Iwata, and he continues his normal duties as president of Nintendo Co., Ltd. while he remains in Japan. As always, he will be actively involved in all of Nintendo's activities at the show."

Complete article: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendo-president-not-coming-to-e3-on-doctor-s-advice/1100-6420132/

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For the next 24 hours, Rebellion's World War 2 shooter Sniper Elite V2 will be free to download on Steam. The better news is that once you're done playing, you don't even need to return it - it's yours, forever.
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After breaking launch day sales records for Ubisoft, the publisher announced today that its open-world action game Watch Dogs sold through more than 4 million units during its first week. Sales at that level make Watch Dogs the "best-selling new IP at launch across the video game industry." Not only that, but Ubisoft says Watch Dogs is now its best-selling game of all time in terms of first-week sales.

"With such strong sales momentum and positive feedback from gamers, Watch Dogs has positioned itself as the must-have game of the moment," Ubisoft marketing executive Tony Key said. "We're really proud of this achievement, and are confident that the Watch Dogs brand has a promising future."

Life lessons that video games taught us is a parody series that tries to examine exactly what they are teaching us about the world around us.

Today's episode takes a look at what Half-Life 2 tells us about surviving an alien invasion.

Ubisoft's open-world action game Watch Dogs is the fastest selling game the French publisher, which also is behind the Assassin's Creed and Far Cry franchises, has ever released. The company announced today that the game sold-through more copies in its first 24 hours of availability than any previous title in the history of Ubisoft.

Bethesda's recently released first-person shooter Wolfenstein: The New Order has been illegally downloaded more than 100,000 times, according to a report from TorrentFreak.

The number could have been even higher if it weren't for the massive file size for the game--around 43.65GB.

Nintendo is planning a revenue-sharing affiliate program for those using gameplay footage of its games on YouTube. Video bloggers and "Let's Play" creators alike will need permission from the publisher to broadcast their gameplay clips, according to two tweets from the publisher (as translated by Gamasutra).

Valve announced today that its new in-home streaming feature, which allows you to stream games from a "main" computer to any other rig in your home, is now available to all 75 million Steam users. Previously, the feature was only available to some users in beta.

One of the main benefits of Steam in-home streaming is that you can play your PC games on a lower-spec computer because they are not actually running on that rig, only being streamed to it. Video and audio are streamed from your main computer over your network.

Full Article: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/valve-introduces-a-new-way-for-you-to-play-pc-games-in-your-home/1100-6419789/

A 19-year-old man from Colorado robbed a Wells Fargo Bank last Wednesday, only to be discovered and arrested just hours later after buying a new gaming system at Wal-Mart, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by the Canon City Daily Record.

Tyler Matthew Schnapp handed a bank teller a folded piece of paper that explained he was robbing the bank, informing the teller to give him money from the cash drawer. She complied, and Schnapp made off with around $1,300.

Full article: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/teenager-robs-bank-is-caught-hours-later-after-buying-new-gaming-system/1100-6419760/

Variety reports that according to "sources familiar with pact," Google's YouTube has reached a deal to acquire the video game streaming platform Twitch for more than $1 billion.

Twitch's PR Director said on Twitter that "Twitch doesn't comment on rumors." Google hasn't made an official statement yet either, but the report claims that the deal should be announced soon.

According to Variety, Google is preparing for U.S. regulators to challenge the acquisition. Given that YouTube is already the most popular platform for internet videos, the Justice Department could see the acquisition as anticompetitive in the online video market.

For the fourth month running, the PlayStation 4 was the top-selling video game system in the United States, followed by the Xbox One (which sold 115,000 units), the NPD Group said today.

As part of its US sales report for April, the NPD Group reported software sales for both next-gen consoles continue to be promising. "Life to date, sales of PS4 and Xbox One hardware have more than doubled the combined sales of PS3 and 360 hardware through their first six months of sales," the press release issued today states.

As part of Ubisoft's earnings report today for the year ended March 31, the French publisher officially confirmed Far Cry 4, the next entry in the action series. It's not much of a surprise, as Ubisoft told GameSpot last year at E3 2013 that a follow-up to Far Cry 3 was a sure-thing based on the sales of that game.

"The year's performance will be led by five games--Assassin's Creed Unity, Far Cry 4, Just Dance, The Crew, and Watch Dogs," Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot said in a statement. "Watch Dogs' pre-orders are at record levels and it is perfectly positioned to become the industry's most successful new IP in history."

The Wii U may be struggling at the moment, but it's not the first Nintendo platform to come out of the gate slower than than expected. Speaking with analysts recently about the company's recent poor financial performance, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata reminded people that the Game Boy also was a slow-starter before rising fast thanks to the release of a single title.

"The fate of a video game system is often influenced greatly by the introduction of a single title. As many of you probably remember, before the release of the Pokémon game, Game Boy had been showing slow growth, and many people wondered whether it was the end of Game Boy," Iwata said. "But the Pokémon game singlehandedly changed the landscape of the system, which then started to show the strongest sales in the lifecycle of the system."

In a surprise announcement today, Microsoft officially revealed a Kinect-free Xbox One unit. The system goes on sale June 9 for $399 (Ł349 in the UK), putting it directly in line with the rival PlayStation 4. Microsoft will continue to offer the $499 standard Xbox One with Kinect.


"We've heard that you want more choices from Xbox One. You want a wide variety of options in your games and entertainment experiences and you also want options in your hardware selection," Head of Xbox Phil Spencer said. "To be clear, as we introduce this new Xbox One console option, Kinect remains an important part of our vision."

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On Wednesday, Sony announced that PlayStation Plus subscribers who downloaded a copy of a special PS Plus version of PlayStation 4 racing game Driveclub could upgrade to the full version for $50--$10 less than retail. Otherwise, all subscribers get a stripped down version of the game for free. But what sounded like a good upgrade deal became problematic when Sony also said that you'd lose access to the full game's content if your PlayStation Plus subscription lapsed. As you'd expect, fans spoke out against this policy.

Sony has now reversed that decision. In a statement posted on the PlayStation Blog, Sony writes: "Our priority for Driveclub is to enable you to play and enjoy everything it has to offer and PlayStation recognises that the prior plan for Driveclub entitlement for the upgrade to the PS Plus edition was not appropriate. As a result, we have adjusted the PlayStation Plus terms for Driveclub. Now, If you intend on downloading Driveclub PlayStation Plus Edition, and upgrading to the full game experience, you will have access to the full game even if your PlayStation Plus subscription runs out."

Nintendo has posted a 46.4 billion yen ($457 million) loss for its fiscal year ending March 31, making it a third year of annual losses in a row for the beleaguered company.

The Wii U--which Nintendo revised sales estimates down from 9 million to 2.8 million back in January--sold just 2.72 million units over the last 12 months. Lifetime sales stand at 6.17 million units.

Full Article: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/wii-u-sales-slow-to-a-crawl-as-nintendo-posts-457-million-loss/1100-6419475/

Update: Nintendo has told GameSpot that the reports are not true, and it will not be showing off any new hardware at E3 2014.

Original story: A new report on VideoGamer has said Nintendo will unveil new hardware at E3 2014.

Citing a "third-party publishing source" that also claims new games will accompany the hardware, and be playable at the show, VideoGamer then suggests that the hardware reveal will be a successor to the Wii U.

For the second year in a row, Mario and Zelda company Nintendo will forgo a traditional E3 press conference in favor of a digital presentation. Nintendo announced today that it will hold a "Nintendo Digital Event," what it calls a "new kind of video program," at 9 a.m. PT on Tuesday, June 10. That's Nintendo's typical Tuesday slot, one day after Microsoft and Sony hold their press briefings in Los Angeles on Monday, June 9.

The "Nintendo Digital Event" will bring news about games coming to Nintendo platforms in 2014 and beyond, Nintendo said. No further specifics were announced.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security advised computer users to consider using alternatives to Microsoft Corp's Internet Explorer browser until the company fixes a security flaw that hackers have used to launch attacks.

The United States Computer Emergence Readiness Team said in an advisory released on Monday morning that the vulnerability in versions 6 to 11 of Internet Explorer "could lead to the complete compromise of an affected system."

Despite some controversy over its length, newly released stealth-action game Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes has shipped over one million copies worldwide, publisher Konami announced today.

It's unclear how many copies of the game were actually sold. In the United States, Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes was the sixth best-selling game of the month, outpaced by Dark Souls II, Call of Duty: Ghosts, South Park: The Stick of Truth, Infamous: Second Son, and Titanfall in that order.

The Entertainment Software Association--the group that represents the video game industry's interests in Washington D.C.--today released its annual "Essential Facts" report that reveals a number of interesting statistics about the business.

One of the most interesting findings from the report is that 56 percent of parents say video games are a positive part of their child's life. Other notable facts include statistics like 59 percent of all Americans playing games, the average gamer age (31), and the average age of the most frequent game purchaser (35).

Video game publisher Ubisoft and men's clothing company Frank & Oak today announced a partnership for a special line of real-world apparel inspired by the upcoming open-world game Watch Dogs.

BioWare's upcoming fantasy role-playing game Dragon Age: Inquisition will launch across Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PC on October 7. The studio announced the release date through an all-new gameplay trailer, which you can see above.

The trailer also reveals that if you preorder Dragon Age: Inquisition, you'll receive the "Flames Of The Inquisition" pack, though it's unclear what this includes or which retailers are offering it.

Sony has the early sales lead over Microsoft in the PlayStation 4 vs. Xbox One "console war," but it's not over yet. New Head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, has pledged that Microsoft plans to "win" this console generation, making clear that the company needs to do more to come out on top.

"Definitely in to win," Spencer told a fan on Twitter. "We need to do more, that's 100% of my focus." As Head of Xbox, Spencer--who has already worked at Microsoft for over a quarter century--oversees Xbox and Xbox Live, as well as creative teams at Microsoft Studios.

Sony announced today that global sales of the the PlayStation 4 have exceeded 7 million units as of April 6, 2014.

Andrew House, president and group CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment wrote in a press release: "The response from the global gaming community for PS4 has been overwhelming and we are truly humbled that gamers are selecting PS4 as their next generation console of choice. The PS4 journey has just begun, and although we are still facing difficulties keeping up with the strong demand worldwide, we remain steadfast in our commitment to meet the needs of our customers, and surpassing the wildest expectations of gamers by delivering new user experiences that inspire and engage. We look forward to unveiling many of these experiences to our fans in the coming months."

In a new interview with TorrentFreak, a Square Enix business manager explains that anti-piracy measures like digital rights management (DRM) systems are a necessary part of doing business and are not expected to go away anytime soon.

"The primary benefit [of DRM] to us is the same as with any business: profit," Square Enix senior manager of business and legal affairs Adam Sullivan said. "We have a well-known reputation for being very protective of our IPs, which does deter many would-be pirates. However, effectiveness is notoriously difficult to measure--in short, we rely on the data available to us through our sales team and various vendors, along with consumer feedback."

Virtual reality headsets like the Oculus Rift must expand beyond visuals and allow for touch-based human-to-human interaction, creator Palmer Luckey said in a new interview from PAX East in Boston, Mass. All of this is in the way of creative a fully immersive experience that makes you feel like you're really in a "virtual reality," Luckey said.

"[Virtual reality], it can't just be a visual thing. If VR remains a visual only thing, then certainly we'll never replace human touch-based interactions," Luckey said in a group interview captured by Maximum PC. "But for many interactions, it could."

So, yet another big steam sale is upon us. This one promises up to 75% off on Ubisoft titles. Is the sale worth it? It depends on how you look at it. But there are some good sales to be had

Here are my thoughts on the latest Irrational Games news. Yet another major studio gone. At least as we know it. What will happen next? Who knows

What's stranger than fiction? How about real life. Yes, this IS an actual product sold by a retailer.