How many lives do you really get when gaming?

Weve all heard the warnings that parents give us in regards to playing video games, obesity, laziness, a drop in grades, violent and aggressive behavior. But now thanks to a 30-year-old man in China there is now one more reason to add to their list, a cause of death.

The 30-year-old man collapsed and fell into a coma in an internet café just outside of Beijing. According to witnesses he had been gaming online nonstop for three days. During those three days the man consumed very little food or drink and was getting absolutely

Social Network site used often to invade Privacy

Steps to becoming even more of an obnoxious post break up wreck!

And I thought the see friendship feature that lets you stalk every wall post, mutually attended event, photo and probably daydream between two people was creepy enough. Apparently not.

Because of sites like Breakupnotifier.com, you can now keep tabs on the girl who walks past you like you dont exists relationship status

Halo: Reach Defiant Map Pack now with three new maps in March

It has been officially announced by Microsoft that a set of three new multiplayer maps will be available come March. For just 800 Microsoft Points, the new maps can be yours!! The three maps are, Condemned, which is set in space, Highlands, a large outdoor map mostly useful for a large number of players, and Unearthed, also an outdoor map which will cater to smaller matches with out to four players. A description of each of them maps

Gears of War set to be released in September

Great news! As of Wednesday (February 23^rd), Gears of War 3 officially has a release date. This is great to know, especially since we were all expecting it this spring and it unfortunately got delayed.

Microsoft now announced that Epics third installment to the Gears of War series will be dropping as an Xbox 360 exclusive on September 20^th in both the US and Japan. The final chapter of the trilogy, the game is expected to bring the series to a great closure with exhilarating single and multiplayer features. The game will supposedly take place eighteen months after the events of Gears of War 2, featuring the survivors stranded on an island, living in a converted aircraft carrier.

Microsoft held a media event

Record breaker opens up Arcade near Orlando Airport

If you watched "The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters," you know Billy Mitchell, the man who has been sort of labeled as the evil villain of the retro-arcade gaming world. Well he recently opened an arcade at Orlando's airport with the name that of the movie. What's more oddly enough is that with good guy Steve Wiebe is also featured as part of the arcade's entrance as seen here but I think the way Billy made the picture was to glorify himself and make Steve look a bit....dull and confused. If that's true, the guy's living up to the vision

Vietnam places a gaming curfew!

While China was facing issue with the deaths of those who were addicted to online gaming Vietnam has came up with a plan to help cut down the amount of time spent playing online games and eliminate side effects.

The Ministry of Information and Communication has asked internet service providers to block access to on-line games from 10:00pm to 8:00am. "Provincial departments of information and communication will inspect on-line games activities nationwide and deal with organizations that violate regulations by canceling their services," said the ministry's Deputy Minister Le Nam Thang (

Games - Soul Calibur in the near future!

The designer of the Soul Calibur IV, Daishi Odashima,opened up a Twitter account on Christmas day and one of the first few tweets was to surprise his followers with a tweet saying "SC is back! Get ready, fans!". He then sweetened the deal with a tease. The tease comes in the form of him at his desk and drawing what islikely to be the new Soul Edge in the game.

With this confirmation, it looks like Namco Bandai is hard at work with now THREE franchise fighting games. They got Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Tekken vs. Street Fighter, and now a new Soul Calibur on the way.If you want to follow his tweets, follow him here: http://twitter.com/#!/daishi_calibur

Gaming Modz

Gaming Modz showcase those characters and titles that the gaming community really seem to latch on to. Guinness just asked over 13,000 gamers to vote for their favorite video game characters at their Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition website. The top 50 list compiled seems fairly accurate if you take a lesson from the gaming modz you see within gaming communities.

In the top 5 of this list you'll find characters that have been used for hundreds of gaming modz as well as some very cool community driven gaming modz based off these personalities.

Video Game News:
Civilization Music Composer awarded
Music's Highest Honor.

It's a first in video game history, never in its history has any part of video game's music industry won a Grammy. Christopher Tin who done recent work for Red Dead Redemption, Mass Effect, the Civilization series and various other video games, has beaten out other Grammy Nominees in the Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists category. Christopher won the award for his piece "Baba Yetu" which he wrote for Civilization IV back in 2005. Sure it was composed six years ago and is now later nominated and won for the 2011 Grammy's but hey, the video game

I was happy enough to be invited to a release party for Marvel vs. Capcom 3 on Valentines hosted by the nice people who organize the annual Devastation tournament, which, in my opinion, was certainly better than some lame date with some guy I barely know that felt obligated to have a Valentine. Although it was over an hour of a trek, another Evil coworker and I gladly drove out, Evil D-pads and swag in arms to give away to attendees.

The party was at the Best Buy out in Surprise, AZ, and probably housed over 50 excited gamers in attendance. Both Evil Controllers and Monster attended the event and handed out goodies (apparently Monster drinks now come in turbo form with even more energy boosting capabilities….oy vey). People from all sorts of backgrounds attended, young, old, mid life crisis range, to play Marvel vs. Capcom 3 hours before the official release, using both our Evil D-Pad controllers or joystick pads