Phil Villarreal
Microsoft Wants Your Boss To Fire You Via Xbox Skype Chat
It’s getting closer to 2015 — the year Marty McFly gets canned by his boss through his TV in ‘Back to the Future II’ — so tech companies had better hurry up and make such a thing a possibility before that deadline. Rest assured that Microsoft is on it, possibly upgrading its lackluster Xbox 360 video chat by integrating Skype into the fray.
Facebook Games Cause Mom to Sue Company
A bunch of free-to-play games aimed at kids are geared to trick ankle-biters into buying upgrades and charging them to parents who game makers hope don’t check their credit card statements.
Author’s Lawsuit Claims Ubisoft Ripped Him Off With ‘Assassin’s Creed’
To most people, the concept behind the Assassin’s Creed games seems unique. But the setup, in which corporations jack into ancestral memories to relive the past, sounded a bit too familiar to sci-fi author John L. Beiswenger, who says the franchise ripped off his 2003 novel, ‘Link.’
Xbox Live (Fool’s) Gold Is Free This Weekend
Good news for freeloaders: Xbox Live Gold, which costs $60 a year, will be free Thursday through Monday.