A student in Missouri found their stolen Xbox 360 by using their wireless controller to hunt it down. It was stolen from his dorm and he located the thief by looking at the lights to see when it went out of range. Unfortunately, the naughty thief had wiped all his game saves. In my opinion, that sort of crime deserves the death sentence! Buy an Xbox 360 now New: Buy an Xbox 360 Bundle from Amazon.com from $129.99
A Microsoft employee who spoke out about the Xbox 360 hardware failures has been sacked. He said on record the failure rate could be as high as 68%. Unfortunately he didn’t work out that saying this would have a 100% chance of him being sacked.
11 Sep, 2008
EA caused a stir in Finsbury Park last week by hijacking a petrol station and giving away £20,000 of free petrol to commuters to promote Mercenaries 2 – let’s just say the locals weren’t best pleased.
Fancy making £200,000 for selling a Nintendo Wii? Well try chucking it on eBay and hope a small child bids on it by accident. 5 yr-old Archie Lovett did exactly that and his Dad wasn’t too happy when he got the bill. Luckily they sorted it out – he already had a Wii. Related: Man sues Nintendo over copyright, Lifesized Lara Croft doll owner arrested
Not content with just releasing a dedicated Guinness Book of Records Gamers Edition, the GWR team have teamed up with Telltale Games (that’s right, the talented folks behind Lego Star Wars and Lego Batman) to produce a Nintendo Wii and DS game based on the famous book. The game is chock full of records that you can study and then try to beat yourself and hopefully stand a chance of getting your name in the real Guinness World Records book. We don’t quite understand how Guinness World Records Wii will work yet but we are intrigued. We’ll let you know...
A man from Illinois is trying to sue Nintendo for copying his idea. He claims the Nintendo DS breaks the patent for his ‘amusement and gambling machine with touch screen capability’. Doesn’t sound much like the DS to me and it came out a year before his patent. Good luck with that one.