UPDATE: The 807 comments that were on the Dancing Petey video, after the jump.
video games
Sony’s PSP Blog Flog Revealed
We’re a day late and a dollar short to this story, but the forces of the internet outed a marketing company working for Sony for creating fake PSP blog.
Nintendo To Solve Wii Strap Break Problem By Selling More Wiis
- “Nintendo’s president acknowledged Thursday the just-launched Wii video-game machine may have a problem with a strap that secures its trademark wandlike remote-controller to the player’s wrist.
The News is Incredibly Newsy
• Reporter buys a cheap Dell and opens every spam and suspicious file to see how much malware and viruses he can get before Geek Squad declares it a total loss. [Wired]
Hot Hot Kotaku on E3 Man Machine Love Association
If you lovvvvvvvvve video games, go to Kotaku. They’re covering the E3 game conference with reckless abandon, fanboy intensity and of course, Gawker Media Network’s trademark wit and panache.
HOWTO: Return an Opened Video Game
Most stores won’t give you your money back for an opened video game box. Instead, they will give you the same title.
Game Quest Direct Thwarts eBay Gougers
Silicon Era has posted a great expose of Game Quest Direct, a once-retail video game chain that hit it big by acting as a bulk republisher of particularly sought-after games. Inspired by the absolutely mad eBay prices on games like Disagaea or Resident Evil 3 for the Gamecube, these guys decided to strike up deals with the publishers to get these games back in circulation at a reasonable price. The problem? The very same gaggle of eBay speculators who inspired GCD’s business are now calling foul: