TechWeb - Microsoft is asking a court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by an Illinois family that claims their infant died in blaze sparked by a faulty Xbox video game system.

AFP - US Customs authorities launched Wednesday a sweeping crackdown on the sale and distribution of modification chips and electronic devices that lets users play pirated video games.

Nintendo has issued a press release which praises the U.S. Raids on circumvention devices. They state they have worked closely with Homeland Security and fully support their actions and OTHER investigations CURRENTLY underway.

SCEA has confirmed that Lair for the PS3 is to be delayed by a few weeks and will be released on September 4th 2007 instead of August 14th. It is claimed that an extra step in Quality Assurance testing is the reason for the lengthy delay.

Driver: Parallel Lines wasn’t a good game when it came to conventional consoles over a year ago, and putting it on the Wii hasn’t helped matters at all. This Grand Theft Auto clone suffers even more because it’s been shoehorned onto the Wii and is saddled with some annoying control shortcomings. Not that sketchy control […]