Last month, British rock legends Def Leppard appeared on Rockline Radio to promote their 10th studio album Songs From the Sparkle Lounge, slated for release under Universal Music Group’s Mercury Records label on April 29. During the Q&A portion of the show, guitarist Phil Collen said that the band’s hit singles “Photograph,” “Animal,” and “Rock […]

Although many a question mark swirls around EA’s proposed $2 billion buyout of Grand Theft Auto IV purveyor Take-Two, one of the more pressing mysteries involves 2K Czech’s–nee Illusion Softworks–Mafia franchise. Would EA choose to continue with the series, even though it heavily overlaps the theme and setting of the publisher’s own Godfather line of […]

GnomeIllusionist writes “In their continuing tribute to Gary Gygax, Wired has created character sheets for nine celebrities. Apparently, Stephen Hawking can do 10D6 radiation damage to his enemies and Rick Astley is a 20th-Level bard. Steve Jobs’ black turtleneck is actually magical armor with +6 against edged attacks.” Most of them are kinda cheesy and […]

azuredrake writes “NCSoft’s City of Heroes has just announced that in-game ads are being added to the game, provided by an advertising firm Double Fusion. However, unlike in many games, the ads being brought to CoH have been defined as ‘always optional’. The publishers see the ads as a purely additional revenue stream, not as […]

Ant writes “Colin Stewart’s OC Register Inside Innovation blog has up a post discussing Blizzard Entertainment’s success in the games industry. According to the site, Blizzard has learned eleven lessons on innovation that can help almost any business. The industry leader used these innovation methods not only to create the world’s most popular massively multiplayer […]