On December 6, the Xbox Live dashboard update will be pushed to all Xbox Live members. Along with the new look will come new video services from a wide variety of content providers. Verizon is one of the companies that partnered with Microsoft to bring certain features from its FiOS TV service to the console. Today, Verizon outlined what Xbox 360 owners will be able to do once Verizon FiOS becomes their internet and television provider.

Oh Ubisoft, we thought these extreme DRM methods were behind us. That doesn’t seem to be the case anymore. When Driver: San Francisco releases for PC, it will need the internet in order to function. That’s typical of a lot of PC titles these days, but the connection for Driver has to be active all the time.

Score one point for DRM Ubisoft DRM haters! The PC version of Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood will be free of the shackles of always connected DRM methods when it releases on March 22. This means you won’t need to be constantly connected to the internet to play the single-player campaign. Multiplayer will obviously require an internet connection. Ubisoft previously patched out this kind of DRM for Assassin’s Creed 2 and Splinter Cell: Conviction.

We’ve been covering cloud-based gaming companies such as OnLive and Gaikai for a little while now. Cloud gaming is far from perfect, but it presents an opportunity for more gamers to experience titles in a different way. Streaming games digitally also saves a videogame company money in the long run. So far cloud gaming has been released to the public through PCs and Macs, but that’s changing. OnLive will release its television-based Microconsole before 2011. Gaikai’s CEO David Perry believes television makers will adapt to cloud gaming by making more of its product compatible with the internet.

Meeting strange people from the internet has always been dangerous but sometimes the allure of a good deal is too hard for some to pass up. Unfortunately for an Illinois man, the allure for buying a PS3 in a parking lot cost him $250 and his dignity.

For those of you who live under a rock and are unfamiliar with Twitter, it is one of the biggest sites for social networking or just sharing your opinions with the world through updates and link sharing.

But what if we could use Twitter for more then just letting the world know that we just got back from the dentist and are skipping work today? Perhaps it could be used to tell ongoing stories. Well, actually, now it is being used for that.

No doubt following in the footsteps of Netflix, Blockbuster has also decided to bring movies to other media outlets as well.

The movies offered will be a combination of Blockbuster and CinemaNow movies, which Sonic acquired last year. The company is hoping to be able to stream videos through the Xbox 360 like Netflix.

Will video games be next? Blockbuster offers the rental of video games at their stores and through the mail, so it would only make since to include these in their new package deals…

Title:GRUVme Games GRUVme GamesPrice: FreeSystem(s): PC/Mac (web-based)Pros: A website full of fun an downright addictive games. The site has more than 1000 titles so there is something for everyone. It is free to sign up and play.Cons: A lot of the games are poorly done and not always translated into English. Plus there is no rating system so you never know how vulgar your game will be.Overall Score: One thumb up, one sideways; 89; B+; * * * 1/2 out of five.

GRUV games is part of GRUVme.com. It’s a gaming site where you can play 100s of short, fun games for no money. These games are quirky, entertaining, complicated and frustrating all in one.

GRUVme is relatively new and looking for members every day. You don’t have to pay to use the site, so the site earns money from advertisers. Also, some of the games allow you download, for a price, a full version offers more features and…

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The UK is all set to revamp the videogame rating system according to the recommendations made by Dr. Tanya Byron, who is heading a review into the ill effects of games and the internet in the U.K. Byron told Next-Gen that the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has assured her that the government will adopt her recommendations in full.

Byron also talked about the appreciation her report has drawn from British parents but her suggestions might be…

We interrupt your steady stream of run-of-the-mill blogging, to bring you this awesome tale of revenge.

At the center of this case is a stolen Xbox 360, pilfered alongside a laptop and TV from one Jesse McPherson of Philadelphia while he was away at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin at the beginning of March.

McPherson eventually managed to track the laptop to a local pawn shop. Upon examining the security footage, he found pictures of the culprit…