Candy Crush Saga Developers Manage to Trademark ‘Candy’
King, the developers of the smash hit mobile game Candy Crush Saga, have successfully trademarked the word ‘Candy’ under US law, almost a year after the request was filed to the US trademark office. From now on, if...
PS4 Users Experiencing Game Crashing Error
The PlayStation forums are ablaze with complaints of PlayStation 4 error CE-34878-0, which is causing save file corruptions, game crashes, and in some cases, making the console completely unusable. It appears as though no sing...
Nintendo Cuts Estimates After Weak Market Performance
After some destructive results in the marketplace, Nintendo announced today that profit estimates have come way down from where they were at the beginning of the fiscal year. Original projections had the house of Mario looking ...
US Appeal’s Court Strikes Down Net Neutrality Rules, Could Mean Bad News for Gamers
A federal appeals court struck down the Federal Communication’s Commission’s rules on net neutrality this past Tuesday. Companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon have been fighting this consumer friendly rule fo...
PlayStation 4 Stock Might not Arrive in France until March or April 2014
With PlayStation 4’s already hard to come by everywhere, nothing hurts more than hearing about more delays, especially if it’s in one’s own territory. Our friends over in France might have an even harder time acquiring a ...
Many More Reports Flowing in About the Xbox One “Gray Smoke of Death” Issue
Thinking that the first few Gray Smoke of Death issues were a few one-offs, I was hoping that these few problems were caused from some very rare manufacturing mishaps. But as more and more of these “pop†and “smoke†rep...
NBA 2K14 Online Component A Mess
It would appear that a number of NBA 2K14 players are experiencing technical issues with 2K Games’ latest basketball simulation on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, including server crashes and being completely unable to access...
Disgruntled Xbox One Customer Offered (Free) Free Game
An unfortunate Xbox One owner has been experiencing problems with his new console, which sounds like it’s taking a jackhammer to any disc he inserts into it. Not exactly newsworthy by itself; after all, defective units ha...
Abnormal Amount of Xbox One Controller Issues Reported on Xbox Support Forums
100 million dollars. That’s the amount of money that has gone into the Xbox One controller’s research and development, which Microsoft has stated many times over. Yet even with all that funding, there have been a great ...
European PlayStation 4 Owners Experiencing CE-34861-2 and CE-34878-0 Errors
Well, it seems like the PlayStation is not without its issues either. Various reports of problems when trying to access the Playroom, or when trying to check the PlayStation friends list, are cropping up, and users are starting...
Battlefield 4 Banned In China
Battlefield 4 is banned in China due to the latest China Rising DLC. The Chinese government feels that it’s a “new form of cultural invasion,” and that the DLC “smears China’s image” – ...
Microsoft Charges 50 Cents for Child Account Verification to Comply with COPPA
One user named pumkinut on the ArsTechnica forums came across an interesting issue when trying to create Xbox accounts for his 3 young boys on their new Xbox One. After registering himself, he came across a surprising policy wh...
EBayer Selling Xbox One for Way Below Cost…Or Are They?
Of course this will probably be gone by the time this is published (keep reading), but one Ebayer either has no desire to keep their brand-new Xbox One, or they’re in some dire need of money. Seller iknowthetruelv doesn&#...
Xbox One Replacement Console Support Forums are a Nightmare: Many Issues
In spite of all the issues that have been reported with the Xbox One (Green Screen of Death, defective optical drives, smoking issues, artifacting graphics, etc.), it seems like Microsoft are doing the right thing. They’re ad...
Enormous Spike In Hacking Attempts Since Next Gen Launch – UPDATE
UPDATE: It seems as if the Consumer Affairs news report that our article (and Gamespot’s) is based on, was taking an official press release from Kaspersky and prettying it up a little too generously. The 34,000 average at...
