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Electronic Arts has, yet again, extended its offer to buy the remaining shares of Take-Two. Take-Two shareholders yawned indifferently, apparently too busy playing Grand Theft Auto IV to acknowledge the unchanged offer.Read More...

MovieBeam has found a new home. After many an ill-fated attempt to make something out of the movie-watching service, Indian investment firm Valuable Group has taken it off of Movie Gallery's tied hands for the princely sum of $2.25 million. Read More...

In-game advertising is becoming an increasingly important aspect of the game industry, and Sony has signed a contract with IGA Worldwide to combat Microsoft and Massive. Read More...

EA has extended its offer to buy-out Take-Two without sweeting the pot, leaving Take-Two to reiterate its stance that EA has undervalued the company. Read More...

Wild Tangent founder and CEO Alex St John has announced that he no longer believes in-game ads are an effective marketing tool. His new approach? Maintaining the flow of the game by letting users opt into ads. The money men agree: ad revenue is way up.Read More...

EA has decided not to renew its contract with NCAA baseball, and instead will not be making any baseball games at all.Read More...

Google's Chrome browser achieved a 1% market share in its first 9 hours and currently sits at 1.16%, according to figures released by market research firm Net Applications.

Paramount apparently stiffed the estate of Godfather author Mario Puzo for royalties from Electronic Arts' tie-in game... someone's going to be waking up next to a horse's head.Read More...

This is the second time that publisher Electronic Arts has eased the DRM restrictions of some of their upcoming games due to Internet protests from gamers worldwide. Electronic Arts had initial plans to force users to activate the games Mass Effect and Spore over the Internet which had to repeated regularly if the player wanted to continue playing those games.