The Screen Savers turned into Attack of the Show, which then turned into sucking

Found this clip on Youtube, I really miss these days, once Sarah Lane and Brendan Moran left, things went south....fast.

Apparently Kain and Lynch do more than just rob banks...

They change review scores to fit their needs:

It's not like the relationship between Kane & Lynch and review scores wasn't messy enough. But now this? Visitors to the game's official site will notice, once the page's flash intro is done, that two review scores for the game are flashed for your perusal. One from GameSpy, one from Game Informer. Both look positively glowing! Both give the game a very encouraging five stars! Thing is, both are...well, not real. They're fabricated. Lies, if you will. (Full Story on Kotaku)

Eidos has really fucked itself royally with this one...

User Generate Everything!!

From CNN Money:

"From our research we predict that up to a quarter of the entertainment being consumed in five years will be what we call 'Circular'. The trends we are seeing show us that people will have a genuine desire not only to create and share their own content, but also to remix it, mash it up and pass it on within their peer groups - a form of collaborative social media," said Mark Selby, Vice President, Multimedia, Nokia. (Full Story)

How many Naruto music videos do we really need to see on Youtube? The answer is 7. 7 videos.

Match made in heaven?

The Associated Press has a pretty good article on the Vivendi-Activision merger:

The two companies are behind some of the most popular and critically acclaimed video games of all time. The deal would create an $18.9 billion electronic entertainment juggernaut," rivaling the world's current No. 1 publisher, Electronic Arts Inc., in terms of the variety and types of games it would offer worldwide. (Full Story)