Take-Two Interactive today announced its financial results for Q1 2009, ended January 31. The company's Q1 net revenue was $256.8 million, up a modest $16.4M over Q108's $240.4M. Its net loss for the quarter was $50.4 million, $12.4M worse than Q108's $38M. Sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchise ac...

Take-Two Interactive has shipped over 13 million copies of Grand Theft Auto IV , the company announced today, revealing sales of more than $256 million for its holiday 2008 quarter and a $50 million loss. GTA IV figures were dated to January 31st, prior to the release of the first downloadable episo...

When it comes to the DMCA, it seems that Google has been nothing but a headache. In the past four years of this site, I have lamented Google’s lack of email contact information, developed a hack to get around that, I have faxed a 17-page DMCA notice to their Adsense department (which is separa...

Rockstar Games and Microsoft haven't disclosed exact sales of the Grand Theft Auto IV expansion The Lost and Damned , only boasting that it has broken Xbox Live Arcade records. But one analyst has a guess. We're sure it's more of an informed estimate than a guess, really, considering the source is W...

A computer breach at the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) has led to the theft of personal information on more than 45,000 employees and retirees, the agency confirmed this week. All told, the FAA said the hackers hijacked 48 files, two containing sensitive personal information that could expose the...

If crime didn’t pay, there wouldn’t be any criminals.  Throughout history, the successful criminals have used technology to stay above and beyond the law, developing new techniques to hedge their bets and avoid arrest.  While some tech masterminds have escaped the long arm of the law, ...

Filed under: Video Games With all of the recent uproar over a lesbian's being banned from Xbox Live and a cartoon penis in 'Grand Theft Auto IV,' we've grown accustomed to the media's stern look and wagging finger. But Winda Benedetti, MSNBC's 'Citizen Gamer,' is using all ten of her fingers, not to...

A recent post in the New York Times entitled “Copyright Challenge for Sites That Excerpt” has caused a controversy on the Web. The article, by Brian Stetler, talks about the frustrations of copyright holders, specifically large media companies, with sites such as the Huffington Post and ...

This is daily column on Plagiarism Today where the site brings you three of the days biggest, most important copyright and plagiarism news links. If you want to offer your feedback on the column, use the contact form or just follow me on Twitter at @plagiarismtoday. 1: Shahanda Moursy sues the RIAA ...

Hey guys and gals, Cool shiters and gamers all…  As many of you will know up until pretty recently i was a bit of a luddite when it came to next-gen gaming, i had no Boxes of X, be they normal or 360.  I had no Stations to Play upon, one, two or three, and never once had i been able to Wii i...