If you haven’t heard about Carl Icahn, well you should, or maybe you’re not into Wall Street that much. He’s known as an activist investor, meaning he buys up lots of shares in a company and then shakes things up. Like in Blockbuster. And Yahoo. And now, Take-Two. Icahn has acquired an 11% stake in the GTA publisher, and Wall Street is already waiting for a shareholder revolt in the company.
Despite the success of GTA 4, Take-Two stock is only worth half of what it was two years ago, and since Icahn acquired the 11%, the Take-Two share has risen almost 10%. Expect some turmoil at Take-Two in the next few months.
After the War update, a few things weren’t running quite smooth on Team Fortress 2, and if you played the game since the update, it has likely crashed on you — it sure crashed on us lots of times.
Luckily, Vavle’s quick when it comes to patches, and has already issued an update that fixes the crash bug, among other things.
DICE unveils a brand new multiplayer game mode for Bad Company 2, called Squad Deathmatch, where up to four squads of four members battle it out against each other.
We’ve seen some pretty ridiculously pimped out consoles in the past but a $490,000 Wii? That’s a first.
What you see above is just that, a half million dollar Nintendo Wii made out of over 2,500 grams of solid gold. If that wasn’t crazy enough, the front buttons have 78 diamonds which clock in at 0.25 carats a peice.
If you’re looking to purchase one of these, you better do it fast as only 3 of these are being made.
There have been talks for some time now regarding a possible subscription plan for the Playstation Network, which is currently free, for some time now. However, there have been no details regarding what exactly the pricing scheme would look like or what subscribers will get.
Well today thanks to a market survey we get a look at some of the ideas Sony has cookin’ and quite frankly, they don’t look too bad. They have prices ranging from $29.99 a year to $69.99 which will give you thinks like unrestricted access to PSOne Classics and PSP Minis in addition to exclusive DLC and one hour game trials.
You can read more about it in the market survey below.
Have you ever wanted to dress like John “Soap” MacTavish from Modern Warfare 2? No? Me neither, but just in case you did our friends over at Complex have broken down his attire from the “ClifHanger” level.
Of course, it’s going to cost you upwards of $1,100 but if you’re still intersted, the list is below:
Not a fan of RPGs? Think that the latest Final Fantasy title wouldn’t even scratch the sales numbers of games like Modern Warfare 2? Well then, read on –
It seems that Square Enix’s latest title, Final Fantasy XIII, managed to sell a full 1,000,000 copies on its first day on store shelves.
According to ThatVideoGameBlog, this means that approximately one in ever 4 PS3s in Japan now has a copy of FFXIII. Crazy? Yes.
While Take-Two announced rather disappointing year-end results, where sales declined 47% compared to last year, it also revealed that Borderlands has sold 2 million units since its release, making it the most successful new IP of 2009.
Take-Two had sales of $968 million, compared to $1.54 billion in 2008, where it was mostly fueled by Grand Theft Auto 4.
Australia, recently at the forefront of Internet and videogame censorship, has apparently decided to unban Aliens vs Predator, which wouldn’t have otherwise seen a release in the country, as developer Rebellion refused to dumb-down the game for the Australian audience. Publisher SEGA appealed the decision, and now the Classification Review Board of Australia has overturned the initial ban of the game, and it will now be available to release in its original form, with no changes.
If you haven’t heard about Carl Icahn, well you should, or maybe you’re not into Wall Street that much. He’s known as an activist investor, meaning he buys up lots of shares in a company and then shakes things up. Like in Blockbuster. And Yahoo. And now, Take-Two. Icahn has acquired an 11% stake in the GTA publisher, and Wall Street is already waiting for a shareholder revolt in the company. 
After the War update, a few things weren’t running quite smooth on Team Fortress 2, and if you played the game since the update, it has likely crashed on you — it sure crashed on us lots of times. 
