Daily Wrap-Up 4.10.08

Here's what went down today in the world of videogames, popular culture and technology!

• The Ghostbusters The Videogame website is live.
• Muqtada al-Sadr was a gamer.
• Everyone is courting Yahoo!
• Homestarrunner's Strong Bad, the originator of comedy on the internet, is making a game for the Wii.
• Vote for Freestyle 101!
• Lair is changing to analog controls.
• Konami has revealed the pricing structure for Metal Gear Solid 4 and the Limited Edition.
• Check out our Call of Duty 4 video.
• Rockstar is pushing for an 18 and up maturity rating for GTA IV in Australia.
• Details on the PS3 Firmware update.
• All the tracks of Mario Kart for Wii, on video.
• SEGA has hit the brakes on SEGA Racing Studio.
• Nintendo announced today that Mario Super Sluggers is coming to America.

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Daily Wrap-Up 4.4.08

Here's what went down today in the world of videogames, technology and popular culture.

• Set your sundial for July 1st. That's the day Trauma Center Under The Knife 2 comes to the Nintendo DS.
• Gears of War 2 info blowout.
• The Web gives G4tv the respect it deserves in the form of Webby nominations.
• Gary Busey showing off the features of Saints Row 2.
• Paranoiacs hate this game.
• Chengdu, China will play host to the World Cyber Games Grand Final Tournament and Festival.
• Rock Band finally has a European release date.
• X-Play is going to be monstrous tonight. Don't miss.
• The new and improved PlayStation Network Store is set to go live.
• Andrew Ainsworth, who designed the original prop costumes for Star Wars's stormtroopers, is being sued by Lucasfilm.
• Some Web protections may be falling.

Daily Wrap-Up 4.3.08

Here's what went down today in the world of videogames, technology and popular culture.

• Sessler's Soapbox: Review to Kill -- if you missed this yesterday, make sure you watch it.
• Four Exclusive Haze Videos -- Check out new footage of the PS3 exclusive, Haze.
• G4tv.com dishes out the Epic Fail's on the worst April Fools Gags.
• Grand Theft Auto IV could have over 7 hours of cutscenes.
• A release date was announced for Star Wars: Force Unleashed.
• Relic Entertainment is officially working on Dawn of War 2.
• SEGA officially announced Sonic Unleashed, which had been leaked.
• Ubisoft announced Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X., a flight combat game. (Trailer)
• Battlefield Heroes is only shipping with two maps.
• Mercenaries 2 is finally set with a release date: August 31, 2008.
• Alone in the Dark has been delayed once again. New release date: June 20, 2008.
• Car damage is finally coming to Gran Turismo 5 as a downloadable update to Prologue.
• Bungie released a new trailer for the upcoming Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack.

Daily Wrap-Up 3.31.08

Here's what went on today in the world of videogames, popular culture and technology!

• A couple big titles are out for the Wii's virtual console.
• The Gears of War movie may have a release window and a director.
• There will soon be original video on your Xbox.
• Check out the portable SNES.
• "Still Alive," the song from Portal's end-credits, will be downloadable for Rock Band this week.
• Realtime Worlds, developers of the sleeper hit Crackdown, just raised $50 million dollar
• Call of Duty 4 has a lot of players.
• The PlayStation Store is getting an overhaul.
• Established PSP hacker, Dragula96, has found an exploit in the newest PS3 firmware.
• Capcom has just purchased K2 Studios, developers of the recent Tenchu games.
• A group of hackers descended on a support message board for epileptics last weekend and posted animations designed to trigger epileptic seizures.

• A hacker demonstrates how to change someone's mood in the Moods application on Facebook.
• Ubisoft is revising its profit expectations upwards.
• Hackers are inserting malicious code into a reported 1 million websites.
• On July 8th, Square Enix Inc. will release Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon.
• The achievements for Grand Theft Auto 4 may have leaked over the weekend.
• Superman's creator is finally getting paid.
• The CIA just bought a mess of hardware from Google.
• NBC released their season line-up.
• Endless Ocean has Nice music...and fish!
• Check out the trailer for Guitar Hero: Aerosmith.
• Aldous Huxley's dystopic novel Brave New World will finally get its first film treatment.
• Much beloved puzzle game MR. DRILLER is coming to the Xbox Live arcade this Wednesday.
• Want a look at the Call of Duty 4 Variety Pack multiplayer maps that come out this Thursday?