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Aaaaaaaaand it begins. Damn, and I just got paid today too lol. Looks like I'll be picking up some random stuff as usual! Also, Sleeping Dogs is on sale right now for $4.99 and is a great buy/fun game!

Sorry we missed this yesterday, Irish. Happy Birthday, man! I wouldn't had even known if it weren't for Aiirantou. =]

If you're a streamer, you'll also need to re-connect Twitter etc to your account. @Dat All new stream keys will need to be distributed to any casters still wishing to stream to the GC channel.

"This was an unprecedented situation," he told reporters today. "Most of these breaches go unreported by companies. Forty-three percent notify victims within a month. We reported in a week. You're telling me my week wasn't fast enough?" So much for remaining humble. Read the rest, here. Source - [GI] Also, some of the comments on that article are spot on. Sony may want to gauge their fans reactions to all this.

Can you imagine a world where video games series like Grand Theft Auto, BioShock, Call of Duty, and World of Warcraft are all owned by the same juggernaut publisher? If the recent rumors about Activision's plans to acquire Take-Two are true, then this could happen. "There are very strong rumors amongst people at a very senior level within the global business," an anonymous senior executive told MCV regarding the supposed deal. "But they're not much more than that at the moment – they are just rumors," the executive continued. "And, of course, given Activision's news this week, everyone is now looking to see what their next move is. But you can definitely put two and two t…

Well between this and Star Wars Battlefront I may be busy this fall, picking up an Xbox one today, teaser looks good I am guessing the relase date will be announced at E3 https://fallout.bethsoft.com/

Happy Birthday!

So, I conducted a little experiment and want everyone's input. Please be honest.

In a case that’s sending a frightening message to the blogger community, a U.S. District Court judge ruled that a blogger must pay $2.5 million to an investment firm she wrote about — because she isn’t a real journalist. As reported by Seattle Weekly, Judge Marco A. Hernandez said Crystal Cox, who runs several blogs, wasn’t entitled to the protections afforded to journalists — specifically, Oregon’s media shield law for sources — because she wasn’t “affiliated with any newspaper, magazine, periodical, book, pamphlet, news service, wire service, news or feature syndicate, broadcast station or network, or cable television system.” The Obsidian Finance Group sued Cox in Janu…

During the Conan O ‘Brien fiasco, Microsoft made an attempt to get the late night comedian to do shows for Xbox Live, however Executive Producer Jeff Ross revealed that Microsoft really did not show any plans for what they planned to do with Conan and instead signed with TBS. “A lot of the conversations were ‘well, it’s a show, but it’s not a show and there are no breaks, but maybe there are breaks and it’s not 60 minutes, it’s this’ and nobody really knew what it was,” Ross told Morris. “So it was really going to be a leap of faith to jump in with these guys and figure something out which we didn’t know. Plus there were 100 people of jobs and that didn’t bode well f…

It's super easy. Post one time. There's only five people in the top 20 for today (and past several days). http://gamercide.org/forum/index.php?app=forums&module=extras&section=stats

https://obsproject.com Starting at 19.99 a month! Love it. Haha.

Yesterday Sony blamed the “hacktivist” group Anonymous for the late April attack on the Playstation Network that has their online servers down for weeks and angered their users and sparked a congress wide investigation. Now that the investigation has begun the testimonial stage, can Sony point the finger at themselves after recent findings? Dr. Gene Spafford, a professor at Purdue Universtity and a security expert took to the stand yesterday and made claims that Sony knew that their servers were at risk for months, because of out of date Apache software. “….some news reports indicate that Sony was running software that was badly out of date, and had been warned about …

It's awesome.

Hailing from the UK, we have Dawn Matthews and her 11 year old son Brendan Jordan. Brendan Jordan recently went on a spending spree and spent a total of $1,743.49 on XBL all while using his mother’s credit card. His mother, 37 year old Dawn Matthews is blaming Microsoft despite the little fact that she provided information to her son’s account. Matthews, who’s son claimed he did not know that the charges were going to his mother’s bank account had the following to say regarding her son’s expenses. “When I put my card details in 18 months ago I thought it was just for his membership to play online with his friends. I work two jobs just to look after my family and pay th…

My headset arrived today in Astro headquarters. I get an email telling me 10 days until I'll hear something back, cool. 30 minutes later: You're item has been replaced and shipped back. Holy hell.

http://youtu.be/k6_7BOGUXHM http://www.tmz.com/2013/03/19/joe-rogan-transgender-mma-fighter-fallon-fox-ufc-mma/ Would love to hear your thoughts on this. It created quite a stir on Twitter and other social media. I actually watched the podcast that video was made from, live and just knew it'd create controversy. When more than a week went by, I thought I was wrong. I guess TMZ just caught wind of it or something. Also, I'll share my thoughts on this later.

Major Nelson released a video showing the new Xbox 360 controller that is slated for November 9th. It sports a newly improved D-Pad and new more comfortable triggers. The D-Pad twists and becomes an actual D-Pad instead of the disc based pad of the current design. The new controller will sell in a Play And Charge Kit for $64.99. Take a look at the video below and let us know what you think in the comments or on the forums. View the full article and video on the front page.

Happy Birthday, EvilDawg. Have a great day, little man. I won't get to call you that for much longer. You'll be an adult by this time next year. Take care, be good and I love you.

So I've had an idea I've been kicking around for a little while. I still like to write and I think occasionally, maybe once a week, I think I'm going to write up a short and humorous response article just here on the forums to something that irks me that I've read recently on the other major gaming sites or a counterpoint to something I disagree with. I was going to just call it "Chris's Counterpoint", but lately I like the idea of "The Pejorative Panda", because I'm a sarcastic *** and probably will be writing an article that may be a little belittling. That being said I'm looking for some sort of graphic I can pin to the top of my article. I'd save the base image but …

There is a trailer up on elderscrolls.com but the servers are pretty swamped. Fortunatly its also up on game informer so check it out and be happy. http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2011/02/24/mindblowing-new-skyrim-trailer-shows-epic-dragon-action.aspx

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ASSASSIN/FAPERTURE!!! Have an awesome day, man. I really want to thank you for all you've helped me with these past few years. Many of the successes we've had here, are a direct result from your help. I'll always appreciate and regard you as the wonderful person you are. Thanks for being my friend.

Wow man, we are ALL getting old! You're almost a quarter of a century old now! I should buy you a giant gummy bear or something to celebrate haha.

Hooray! Another birthday! Have a great one today!

Can you imagine fighting locusts with COG members in Gears of War alongside Halo‘s most recognizable character, Master Chief? It almost happened. Cliff Blezinski spoke to Complex about what could been. ”I actually approached Microsoft on getting Master Chief into the game, but those guys are kind of squeamish. One of Halo’s successes is that it’s a soft M [rating]. Gears pushes it further. I’m creatively comfortable with that, though it can limit what you do. If you had to break it down, I’d say that Gears is like Mortal Kombat and Halo is like Street Fighter. But if we were to get Master Chief, we’d get his model, put him in a COG suit, make it blow up, and do some…