Here's what went down today in the world of videogames, technology and popular culture.
- Yahoo has turned down Microsoft's buyout bid.
- Zero Punctuation is teaming up with X-Play.
- Two news games have been added to the Wii's VC.
- A Florida ex Marine has been missing for more than a week, and relatives think it might be partly because of Call of Duty 4.
- Electronic Arts announced this morning that the ubiquitous videogame publishing company will be rolling out a slew of "casual" games based on Hasbro properties.
- Microsoft snatched up Danger, the makers of the Sidekick.
- Marvel Universe Online, long rumored to be ailing, is now officially, unequivocally dead.
- Researchers at NYU's Stern Business School have published a study that attempts to show a correlation between online buzz (in blog posts and social networking traffic) and album sales.
- It's looking increasingly inevitable that the United Kingdom will be legislating videogames.
- Capcom has released a huge new batch of images from Street Fighter 4.
- The writers' strike is nearly over.
- The Mobile World Congress show is going down in Barcelona and a few companies are showing off some prototypes running Google's Android OS.
- Lost Planet's demo has been pulled.
- Apple has filed a patent for the handheld gaming device.
- Anonymous targets Scientology.
- Check out our review of the Sony LocationFree Wireless Base Station.
- Netflix has gone Blu Ray.
- A Crysis movie is in the works.
- Frontlines: Fuel of War has released a multiplayer demo DLC on the Xbox Marketplace
- NPD will begin keeping track of MMO subs.
- EA has something special in mind for Valentine's Day.
- Charge gaming costs to your phone!
- Rock Band's DLC is all punk this week.
- This week's Xbox Live Arcade content will be Commanders: Attack of the Genos and Discs of Tron.
- Polaroid to stop making instant cameras.
- Banjo Kazooie 3 is coming in 2008.
