I remember some years ago when an SUV lost control and plowed through our fence. I was gaming at the time, with speakers and subwoofers blasting away and everything - I did NOT notice a thing. I found out hours later when I stepped out, finding the wood scraps that used to be our fence. Had no one been in our house at the time, things could've gotten worse. If something like that has happened to you, then you might find this new service useful - New York State will be sending real-life emergency alerts via Xbox Live.

Nearly two years after she took a VP seat at Nintendo of America, Denise Kaigler has announced that she will be leaving the company, citing family reasons as the reason for her departure.

The admin folks of the New York Public Schools must have been inspired by the amazing PS22 Choir, but to leave music education to a video game? That's right, and it's not just any other music video game. It's Timbaland's Beaterator taking on sub duties for these public schools. Hey, if you want street cred, that's it right there.

GameStop may not be threatened yet by digital distribution, but they're certainly taking steps to profit from it as soon as they can. The retail giant has revealed that they plan to start selling console DLC in-store starting next year. Details after the jump.

Nintendo currently has the motion-controlled console market in a chokehold, but Sony and Microsoft are planning to cut into Nintendo's slice of the market pie with their own motion controllers. NoA president Reggie Fils-Aime, however, isn't worried.

Although Blizzard has always been one to decline from giving out any release projections unless they're damn sure they'll meet it, StarCraft II's 2010 launch seems to be firmly set in stone. Not so for Diablo III, which was most recently given one hell of a wide release window.

The official launch of Modern Warfare 2 is only a couple of snoozes away, but apparently, it just can't wait. Another game has its street date broken again, frustrating people who haven't gotten in on those early purchases. One retailer raking in the dough out of this whole deal is GameStop, whose outlets in the Northeastern states have started selling Modern Warfare 2.

Remember that gigantic PSP billboard that Sony put up high and proud over SoHo in New York? Well, if you're expecting a PSP Go version of that for its much-anticipated launch, sorry, but you're gonna have to be disappointed.

Now that the groundwork has be laid for the integration of social networking apps into the Xbox 360 Dashboard, Microsoft has given out a date for when gamers can try out the console's new online features.

The release was supposed to be for early September, but now that the PS3 Slim is available, retailer supplies aren't even gonna last until then . The newly-announced, slimmed-down model of the PlayStation 3 is apparently selling so hot that retailers' first shipments have already been sold out.