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.