Well, you might want to open your eyes, too. Sometime "next week," a surprise will go up on the official Mass Effect 2 web site. Whatever could it be? Well, it was also called "the coming surprise," and, you know, ew. Alright, that was lifted out of context for a cheap laugh. Here's the verbatim post ...

Pandemic Studios, scene of deep job losses and the effective closure of the studio earlier this week, pumped out one final piece of happy news - The Saboteur has been gone to gold master - with an apropos and semi-ironic signoff. Says Mathew Everett, the Pandemic Community Manager, in a message on Saturday ...

Every week Mike Pereira, the NFL's chief of officiating goes over some of the league's more controversial calls and, as hawkeyed reader Matt M. spotted, he does so with the aid of an Xbox 360 controller. Actually, it's likely an Xbox 360 Controller for Windows - I doubt they're using a console to display ...

A Microsoft exec who also owns a Tesla Roadster writes that he provided recordings of his car for both the Forza and Project Gotham Racing teams, which some take as further confirmation of PGR 5. Tom Burt, who owns #203 of the all-electric sports car made by the Silicon Valley company, wrote on Tesla's ...

This week church in Guam pronounced a man and his copy of dating sim Love Plus husband and, well, wife, and the happy couple will be hosting a reception in Japan that you are cordially invited to view tomorrow. The unnamed man took his DS and the game to Guam where he said vows with to Nene Anegasaki, ...

Members of the Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers engaged U.S. soldiers stationed in Iraq in a Guitar Hero battle, which would have been a heart-warming story if brickheaded quarterback Ben Roethlisberger hadn't called the game "Rock Band" on the teevee. Well, alright, maybe it's a heartwarming ...

New Super Mario Bros. Wii released a week ago, and even its lighthearted cartoon environment and four-player cooperative mode still manage to bring out the worst in multiplayer behavior - if you don't know your partner, that is. "Being granted the opportunity to be friends or adversaries, games allow ...

The National Institute on the Media and the Family - whose annual report cards were more fair and reasonable than such an Orwellian name might imply - will close at the end of 2009 after 14 years of watchdoggery. The closure is apparently tied to the end of funding from a primary NIMF source, Fairview ...

Some video game sports moments are so indelible we remember and narrate them the same way we do the ones from real life. I'm not saying we confuse the realities, necessarily, although anyone who's completed his third season of a dynasty in any simulation can be forgiven for wandering into an alternate ...

This Friday won't be the death of Internet specials, but you can bet retailers with a physical location will be trying to drag you in there for values, rather than ship 'em to your door. Online shops will be trying to keep up, too, but come Nov. 27, everyone's gonna try to make both their quarter and ...