Major League Gaming (MLG) rides a fine line between technology, entertainment, and sports—if you consider teams of players duking it out over games like Halo 3 and Rainbow Six Vegas a sport. It holds its Pro Circuit tournaments in spaces like the Hard Rock Hotel Las Vegas and the Meadowlands; game...

GameStop brought in about $2 billion in revenue from used-game sales last year, but those numbers will be far lower this year if Amazon, Best Buy and Toys R Us have their way. Last week, the three retailers staked claims to their own slices of the market by launching used-games programs. While Best ...

Sources are telling the WSJ and CNET that YouTube and Universal Music Group (UMG) are in late stage talks to launch a music video site tentatively called Vevo. The plan is to boost music video ad revenues by hosting them in a more brand-friendly environment than YouTube currently provides; YouTube w...

If GameStop can rack up $2 billion in revenues from used-game sales alone—is there room for another mass game reseller? A Cheap Ass Gamer forum member spotted a sign in Toys R Us enticing gamers to "sell back" their used games in exchange for store credit today (pictured); Joystiq confirmed with a...

YouTube helped fuel Barack Obama's popularity. Now, the site has also gotten the new president into some hot water with privacy advocates. The Obama administration has stopped using embeddable YouTube videos on the Whitehouse.gov site, in favor of clips powered by Akamai (NSDQ: AKAM), after media ou...

THQ had a rough second half of 2008: ballooning losses and sluggish sales of a few of its games led the Saint's Row and WWE publisher to shut down at least five of its studios and ultimately lay off 600 staff, or about a quarter of its workforce. But President and CEO Brian Farrell told attendees at...

Microsoft is known for keeping its paid subscriber stats for Xbox live close to its vest, so when the company said it had topped the 17 million subscriber mark during back-to-back presentations at CES, it was hard to put a financial value on that. Ditto when it said it added three million new subscr...

— The Lost and Damned puts downloadable content in the spotlight: Xbox 360 owners will sink their teeth into a new chapter in Rockstar's GTA franchise next week, when The Lost and Damned, an expansion pack for GTA IV, goes live; PS3 owners will get their own episode later this year. IDC analyst Bi...

This week has shown that for all its engineering might, Google (NSDQ: GOOG), just like every other tech company, is vulnerable to glitches and hacks. First was the "human error" that flagged every search result as a link to a malicious site on Saturday—Google didn't release stats on how many queri...

—E-Trade wins, Denny's loses in report on Super Bowl ad/search integration : IPG's Reprise Media released this year's Search Marketing Scorecard, which ranks Super Bowl advertisers on how well they paired their TV spots with search/social media presence. A big winner this year was E-Trade: the com...