(A few days ago, I talked some trash about Killzone 2. Sony has since patched the game to fix roughly 1/3 of the things I hated. This is good news, but I'm not sure why they waited two months after the game went to press to figure out how an analog stick works on a PlayStation 3. Anyway.) Street Fig...

Watch out, Kindle 2. The Authors Guild is still steamin' mad about your text-to-speech feature. This time, you know they're serious, because they wrote a letter! Just so happens that since it was published by The New York Times , it becomes an op-ed: You may be thinking that no automated read-aloud ...

Today, The Consumerist blasted Microsoft's Xbox Live service with an anonymous accusation: that a user who identified herself as a lesbian in her Xbox profile was harassed while playing online games by other users, then found herself banned from the service. The story doesn't entirely add up—m...

This April, Neverland Ranch will be taken apart bit-by-bit in auction form. Wouldn't those gates look nice in front of your Capitol Hill condo? They'll be up for sale, as will a pair of official scissorhands from Edward Scissorhands, rhinestone-covered gloves, rhinestone-covered socks, a life-size s...

New video games have been piling up. Thoughts on three: Deadly Creatures (Wii): I'll get to the game in a second, but I have to ask: Why does its box look like something on a guy's T-shirt at the Puyallup Fair? This looks like bargain-bin crap. Not sure why THQ didn't try adding in-game actors Billy...

Goldeneye: It's back. Until someone sends a cease and desist letter, anyway. The latest version of Goldeneye Source, a PC version made by fans, went live this morning. (Grab it here, read install instructions here.) For a fan project, this is a beaut, and first impressions of the deathmatch-only rem...

Some cherry-picked stuff from tech/games sites this week to save Slog's lazier geeks the trouble: * Closure is the best free Flash game of the week. Hand-drawn white-on-black look with a clever gimmick—the world around you only exists if it's lit up. Try it. (ht Joystiq) * There is a college c...

There is no right way to enjoy a Video Games Live concert as an outsider, a bystander. To isolate the barest meat of Saturday's show—popular video game songs performed by a talented orchestra—would result in a fine thing to attend, gamer or no, but that's not the show VGL puts on. Theirs...

Some of you might have been fired today, but your gift to the world—Microsoft Songsmith, a PC program that "automatically" builds songs out of your bedroom singing attempts—lives on. Begs the question—what would've happened if more classic pop songwriters bailed on their bands and ...

Cool! According to Merge Records' press release, Seattle's The Stranger says, "[Michael Benjamin] Lerner has an ear for bright, easy, slightly retro pop hooks, and his songs take unexpected, off-kilter turns." Nice shilling there, Eric. Three cheers and hearty congrats to local one-man-band Lerner, ...