Here's what happened today in the world of video games, technology and pop culture.
- Square-Enix is setting up a development studio in El Segundo to work on an original Xbox 360 title.
- A 15-year old Swedish boy suffered epileptic seizures after a marathon 'World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King' session.
- Video Game Price Charts lists 30 rare and expensive games for GameCube.
- NSW acting police superintendent blames poor teenage driving on videogames.
- Paul Preece, creator of the excellent 'Desktop Tower Defense', launches The Casual Collective web site.
- Sony's director, hardware marketing claims it has 14-million active PlayStation Network accounts and other juicy numbers.
- Vietnam has opened its first rehabilitation clinic for game addiction.
- Ex-Firaxis and current Maxis designer talks about why used game sales are good.
- Nerdcore hip hop king YTCracker is on this week's 'Freestyle 101' in TheFeed.
- Less than a week after the release of World of Warcraft's second expansion, there is already talk of future expansions.
- Ubisoft purchased Massive Entertainment last week in hopes of tapping into the MMO market.
- To celebrate Creepy & Cute Parts Pack expansion release, EA has added 24 limbs in a new Spore patch.
- Sacha Baron Cohen crashes the set of 'Medium' as Bruno.
- Championship Gaming Series comes to an end.
- The Chimera ruin a wholesome graduation celebration in this TV spot for Resistance 2.
- Another Nutty Professor film may be in the works. (Why?)
- New puzzle game Trism for the iPod and iPhone has its developer $250K in profits the first two months.
- SEGA will not confirm whether they are coming out with a brand new 'OutRun' game.
- A new Law in Tennessee forces Universities to patrol for copyright violations.
- The EQ saga continues with the release of the latest expansion EverQuest II: The Shadow Odyssey.
- Co-founder of Yahoo, Jerry Yang announced that he is stepping down as CEO.
- National Geographic is taking a stab at video games with 'Hunting Unlimited 2009.'
- Continue the Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix fight in the latest trailer.
- The 'Guitar Hero: World Tour' drumset will be studied by famous English drummer, Clem Burke.
- Epic Games is aware of matchmaking problems in Gears of War and is working on a fix.
- The XM Sirius merger has left some users upset with changes.
- Some Montreal-based gaming companies may be trying to collude on salary caps.
- Investigate New York's most shocking murders in the video game version of CSI: New York.
- Xbox 360's gigantic overhaul, NXE will not be getting any Columbia Pictures content on Netflix.
- The details of a settlement with the NFLPA show what sort of monopoly EA has with their 'Madden' franchise.
- Pending shareholder approval, Japanese game makers Koei and Tecmo have announced their merger.
- The demon-fox legendary child asks you to believe it once more as Naruto: The Broken Bond goes live today.
- Reggie Fils-Aime hints at new community features for the Wii.
- We sit down with The Last Remnant director Hiroshi Takai.
- Developer Monolith Productions deconstructs story and design in F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin.
