Articles By: Dan Landis

Rumor: Microsoft Becomes The “Ultimate” With Yet Another 360 SKU

Tweet It will even cook your breakfast! If the people over at Stuff.tv are to be believed (and why wouldn’t they be?), Microsoft is planning on beating themselves in the next-gen console war with the introduction of the Xbox 360 Ultimate.

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Pepsi Develops New Videogame To Combat Mexican Fatness

Tweet At least she’s drinking diet PepsiCo, makers of delicious salty snacks and sugary beverages, has created a new videogame called “Live Healthily”. The game is being added to the curriculum of over a million primary school students and will be evaluated by the National Pediatric Institute. The goal of “Live Healthily” is to teach [...]

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Top 5 Reasons To Love Xbox Live

Tweet As we previously reported, Xbox Live has not been having a good time, what with all the disconnects and general wonkiness. All this was meant to be fixed by the end of the weekend.

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360 Holiday Sales Wreak Havoc on Xbox LIVE Servers – Seriously

Tweet All I want for Christmas is to play online, but Microsoft won’t let me As of Wednesday the 26th, my experience with Xbox LIVE could best be described as “inconsistent”. I am randomly and sporadically kicked off of the service, and by that, I mean any time I try to do something — anything.

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Videogames Don’t Kill People, Idiots Do: Why Games Are a Scapegoat

Tweet Exhibits A and B: Idiots The recent story we reported about the kids supposedly using Mortal Kombat moves to kill a seven year old girl has got me thinking: How do people go about linking videogames to real-world violence?

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Activision Wins in Preliminary Hearing over Guitar Hero: Rocks the 80′s

Tweet It appears The Romantics’ request to have their song “What I like About You” removed from Guitar Hero: Rocks the 80′s has been denied, at least for now. The ruling official, Judge Edmunds, stated on Monday that:

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In-Depth Preview of Rainbow Six Vegas 2: Story, Setting & Character Customization

Tweet It seems we’ll be revisiting Vegas through the eyes of Team Rainbow a little sooner than expected, with Rainbow Six Vegas 2 hitting in three short months. Anyone who’s finished the first Vegas may be wondering how that “To Be Continued” story is going to, uh, be continued. Worry not! We here at Ripten [...]

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2007, This is Duke Nukem Calling

Tweet Ten years and counting, should have been titled “Duke Nukem: Taking Forever” Hello, this is 2007 speaking. Oh, Duke Nukem! Long time no see, my friend! What’s that you say? You’re going to drop by tomorrow? Ha ha ha! That’s a good one! You’ve pulled that one on almost every year before me — [...]

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