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...

Right in time for March Madness—and a challenging environment for online advertising—ESPN360 last week starting allowing marketers to place ad insertions into live event streams.  Since Friday and continuing through March 15, advertisers will be featured in live streams of at least 124 coll...

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...

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...

In another sign that cable advertising is holding up better than broadcast advertising, fourth-quarter revenues at Discovery (NSDQ: DISAB) Networks were flat versus the same period 2007, at $904 million, while ad revenues were up 6 percent. The results were boosted by growth at the U.S. networks, bu...

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...

AOL (NYSE: TWX) and NBCU have struck a syndication deal. AOL will syndicate posts from its FanHouse blog to NBC Universal's Local Media TV station websites—marking the first time those two entities have worked together. For AOL, it's a start to fulfilling its new content strategy under its web pub...

The news cycle spins fast and flimsy these days. Late Friday night, TechCrunch posted an unsourced rumour that CBS-owned Last.fm handed a "giant dump" of user data to the RIAA. The music org was said to have requested the data, which could be used to find users who are listening to as-yet-unreleased...