Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs is scheduled to be laid to rest today. Jobs passed away Wednesday due to complications that have not been confirmed, but Jobs had been battling pancreatic cancer for several years. The time and location of the funeral is only known by those who were invited to the gathering such as family and friends.

Yet another retail/service time management game, Dress Up Rush attempts to incorporate high fashion, pink hearts and fancy furniture. In the game you have discovered your inner fashion designer, er consultant, and open a store.

Now you don’t get to design any clothes in this game but you do have to stock new fashions, hire a couple employees and keep you high-class clientele happy (but not waiting too long).

Christmas 2007 wasn’t the season for Xbox Live. If you remember, and I’m sure you will, Xbox Live was out of commission for about two weeks due to Microsoft’s servers not being able to handle the onslaught of users, leaving quite a lot of Xbox Live paid subscribers a bit angry.

The 2008 holiday season won’t see the same problem, at least that’s what Aaron Greenburg is promising in an interview with Kotaku: “We’ve built a lot of infrastructure, a lot of behind the curtain no one sees. This is something that Microsoft is good at. We are well prepared for the type of growth we expect this holiday. We will have people…

In a push statewide to educate parents on how to use the Entertainment Software Rating Board as a tool for deciding appropriate games, Delaware Lieutenant Governor John Carney and State Representative Helene Keeley joins ESRB president Patricia E. Vance to announce the launch of a new PSA campaign. The campaign is directed at parents and more »

Xfire and Blizzard Entertainment is bursting with joy that they have passed their original goal of 8 million subscribers with more than 100 online games supported. It’s much more than a community and data collection tool, it’s also an online instant messenger and more.

Unlike other IMs, players can send and receive messages from inside their games without having to minimize (Alt+Tab) the game window. The messages appear right on screen: just hit Scroll Lock + X to respond…

To go along with newly reimagined Nokia N-gage platform/service, Vivendi Games Mobile is releasing another game in the Crash Bandicoot franchise.

VU previously released a port of Crash Nitro Kart as an N-Gage cart in 2003. The details for the new Bandicoot game were pretty sparse, only indicating that it will follow “the original storyline where the crazy marsupial must save the world” and be filled with the usual antics and humor found in earlier games. No word on release date, exact game title or pricing.