A 21-year-old man has sued US Airways for $1 million over the alleged theft of his Xbox 360. He claims that after he picked up his luggage following a flight home during the holidays, he noticed how light the bag was and discovered that his console was missing. He also claims that his system had a s...

EA announced today that Godfather II has gone gold -- the Corleone family is ready to take over Xbox 360 and PS3 on April 7 in North America and April 10 in Europe. The publisher sent word last month that it was planning for an April release, but considering the previous February launch date was vio...

Wedbush Morgan soothsayer Michael Pachter foresees the next console Grand Theft Auto releasing next year and estimates sales of DLC The Lost and Damned reaching two million units by year's end. Pachter feels Take-Two remains a "one-hit wonder" with Grand Theft Auto, that one franchise has been (putt...

The latest video of Demigod is actually a four-minute walkthrough of the game with Executive Producer (and Stardock CEO) Brad Wardell. It's been hard to describe Gas Powered Games' Demigod because it's not a conventional RTS. Players mainly focus on leveling up and keeping alive their main deity cha...

Let's role-play: You're mega-publisher Activision Blizzard, with $3 billion in cash and no debt. What do you do? ... NO, building the world's largest ball pool is not an acceptable answer. According to Activision Publishing's top man, Mike Griffith, Blizzavision is considering going on an acquisitio...

The PSN PixelJunk series will be bundled in the PixelJunk 3in1 Pack for the Asian market, reports Siliconera. The bundle will include Racers, Monsters and Eden. All games have English or Japanese language options, but there's no word yet if the disc includes the Monsters expansion or the Eden soundt...

Wisconsin will implement a 5 percent sales tax on "digital goods" starting October 1, reports The Spectator. The tax is expected to raise $10.9 million over the next two years; meanwhile, the state currently has a $6 billion budget deficit. That's like trying to melt an iceberg by licking it. The ta...

For this week's WRUP we'd like to take a moment and celebrate the diversity of our readership ... well, the diversity of those who read English (or American), anyway. Although the comments section can sometimes turn into nationalistic flame wars, it's still great to have an audience that represents ...

Nintendo, lifting a periscope out of the sea of cash it's been running deep in, sent word by Morse code that the DSi will release in Europe on April 3. Due to the antiquated technology delivering the message, it seems the price for Europe got lost in translation. The Times online reports that it may...

Selections from Nirvana's breakthrough album, Nevermind, are offered up as this week's content for the Wii's Rock Band music store. As we pointed out last October, when these tracks released on XBM and PSN, notable songs from Nevermind that are unavailable to download are "Come as You Are" and "Smel...