Novint Technologies Inc. announced that it will be releasing drivers for the Falcon game controller which will allow users to experience "realistic game actions and force feedback" while playing Blizzard's World of Warcraft. More in the full article.

Good news, Rock Band fans! We've got some juicy new details related to the upcoming Rock Band 2. Find out the platforms the game will be headed on, the number of tracks, and the general release date of the game after the jump!

Players may have been able to get their hands on Rockstar North's Grand Theft Auto 4 already, but that doesn't mean that the game has escaped the notice of certain concerned parties. In fact, Jack Thompson and Gavien Mckiernan of the Parents Television Council are still speaking out on this controversial game. It's all in the video after the jump.

Talk about rubbing it in: Best Buy is giving out US$ 50 gift cards to all of its customers who bought HD DVD players or HD DVD attachments before February 23. What's with the date? This was within the week that Toshiba dropped the format and sealed HD DVD's fate. Details in the full article.

Remember the news about the satellite that the US lost contact with back in late January? Well, someone believes that it might be harmful to denizens of planet Earth once it re-enters after all. The Pentagon's top brass that think shooting it down is the best way to stop NROL-21, the recon satellite, from burning up in the atmosphere and releasing its poisonous rocket fuel.

*UPDATE*: They're gonna shoot it. And they've probably launched now!

It looks like Chinese company The9, the Chinese distributor of World of Warcraft, is on the up and up. The9's shares rose after an analyst posted a higher fourth-quarter estimate for the company, based on the positive response China has had towards the Burning Crusade expansion.

More on this intriguing development after the jump!

Major news cable television network CNN announced today their plans of entering Linden Lab's MMORPG virtual society Second Life in the hope to understand what's making news in the new territory. According to the company, it will also be encouraging Second Life residents to submit reports to its virtual I-Report hub.

Read the full details of this development right after the jump!

CNN recently released an analysis piece discussing the Wii's place in the stock market, and the judgment? There's a possibility that the Wii may get too big for its britches by being valued too high in the market but for now it's still strong and it's not showing signs of reaching its peak yet.

Nintendo stocks remain high in Japan: it's still a buy and it's still going up and up. Read more in the full article.

If you thought Nokia's partnership with YouTube and Reuters was big, you have no idea how much bigger the loop of friends gets for the mobile handset giant. The company has announced through a press release that it now has deals with fellow giants CNN, IBN, Jamba, Sony Pictures, RooftopComedy, ROK, and Versaly Entertainment.

Under the deal, all of these media and film firms will have content on Nokia's Video Center placed on display, ready to be accessed by N-Series phones via 3G, Wi-Fi, or PC.

The alliance expands the Nokia Video Center's content capabilities and gives Nokia N-Series users one simple place to stop and get content in order to satisfy their video cravings. Be it news, copyrighted clips, or user content, users will find something they like here.

For as long as there are rules to follow, there will always be someone who will try to go around them, or even break them. In that respect the game world isn't that much different from the real world. In a recent article, CNN takes a closer look at cheating in MMORPGs via the new book "Exploiting Online Games" by Gary McGraw and Greg Hoglund.

They observe that some online game companies seem to have accepted that cheating is an inevitable part gaming so instead of tightening security they just observe game play and look for anything suspicious. Some companies really crack down on cheating though.

Nexon America Inc., for instance, apply patches to remove every method of cheating they discover in their games. Others just actively boot cheaters from the game. The problem with this though is that most of the time they can just return with another identity.

One idea from Intel sounds promising. To prevent cheat commands coming in from a player's computer to the game's server, a chip will be embedded unto the PC itself. The chip will monitor if the PC sends commands that don't coincide with the rules of the game, like if a single mouse click sends a "fire 100 shots" command.

Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa on the other hand, says they've done all they can do to prevent cheating in the game. Starr Long, producer of Tabula Rasa, comments on cheating in MMORPGs:

In the old days we didn't really think through what would happen once we started letting people play together. Every single piece of content we put in the game, the first thing we say is 'Here's what we want this thing to do.' And the second thing we say is, 'OK, how are players going to try to exploit this?

Developers certainly don't benefit from cheating. What about the players? Hubert Thiebolt, who leads one of the largest teams in World of Warcraft says that cheating degrades the experience for everyone else. Perhaps measures for preventing cheating should start with the only ones who benefit from cheating.