Gawker Media, which produces sites including Gizmodo, Gawker, io9, Kotaku, and Deadspin, has confirmed through a release it had a major security breach. Its servers were compromised, releasing the usernames and passwords of commenters on several Gawker sites onto the Internet. Gawker put out a statement reassuring users that it is working on the problem.

Once again we find the subject being our most love-to-hate video game retail giant, GameStop, at the center of another consumer foul. This time the illegal kind.

Kotaku took it upon themselves to claim what thousands of consumers have already claimed, that selling employee “checked out” games as new is illegal. However, Kotaku, rather than whine on a forum, point blank asked the Federal Trade Commission where the legality of this practice stood among the FTC’s rules and guidelines.

How did the FTC respond? How did you think they were going to respond? With a generic “no comment” statement. And who could blame them? What you are asking the FTC to comment on is something of conjecture. Yes, we consumers know that certain GameStop retail stores do have employees that “check out” un-played games but to make a case of this you have to have physical evidence that such an action took place.

With favorable reviews, de Blob has succeeded in achieving a feat that few titles on the Wii can claim: being a favorably-received third-party release. Considering that most Wii titles that are not developed by Nintendo tend to flounder, this is no small accomplishment. It should come as no surprise, then, that a sequel is inevitable.

THQ confirmed as much saying that…

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There is no doubt that Resistance: Fall of Man has remained one of the Playstation 3′s stand-out titles. This popularity can be attributed to its large-scale environment and the ingenuity of the game’s developers at Insomniac Games. With Resistance‘s sequel due this holiday season (2008), and a side story for the PSP titled Resistance: Retribution expected later in the year, players will have ample opportunities to defeat the Chimera at their own game.

Players who choose to purchase both games will have the opportunity to “infect” their copies of Resistance: Retribution through the connection of their PSP systems to their Playstation 3 consoles…

In the global fight against terrorism numerous government and private organizations have kept their ears to the ground, trying to prevent the next 9/11. Now it seems that Bethesda Softworks, a Maryland based developer which created the Elders Scroll series, has unwillingly become part of terrorists’ war on the Western world.

No, Bethesda isn’t dropping the controller and mouse for AK47s and joining Al-Qaeda, but it seems that even the world’s most fearsome terrorist group is also a fan of Bethesda’s upcoming game, Fallout 3…

Kotaku has just rolled out one of the most impressive holiday buyer’s guides… ever. Instead of stating the obvious by listing the hottest or highest rated titles of the season (i.e. things every gamer already knows), the Kotakuites have compiled a comprehensive list of cool gaming-related items, from kitschy toys to expensive tech to avant-garde more »

2007 will no doubt go down in gaming history as one of the best years in the industry’s history, both for quality and gross revenue. Not since the days of the original Playstation and the N64 has the public been bombarded by such a large choice of gaming goodies. Now with Christmas just around the more »