It's an odd statistic, yes, but also an interesting one! The Financial Times have looked at some of the world's top-earning companies, and worked out how much cash each generates per capita (ie divide the total profit by the total number of employees). Each worker at money grubbers Goldman Sachs, for example, is worth $1.24 million.

You run a game for around five years, you can't expect it to be cheap. You've got to run servers, pay customer service reps, pay for marketing, etc etc. World of Warcraft's been running for five years now, so how much has the upkeep cost Blizzard?

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Whether it's user reviews on Amazon.com, downloading torrents or posting on YouTube, the industry's anti-piracy measures are inspiring gamers to speak out. The latest flap over EA's inclusion of SecuROM (a Sony technology) in Spore has also inspired some user-generated content.

Think you're hardcore? By current standards you might be. But you're still a noob. Once, we were a proud warrior people, adept in every skill, discipline and combat technique required to earn mastery over our every digital domain.

EA and Maxis released Spore to the world last week, and while we still don't have sales information for the title, the big news wasn't the game play. In fact, we found the game itself rather lackluster in most ways.

The greatest thing about owning a next-gen console is that you know you won’t be needing to upgrade that puppy to play the latest and greatest games on it. Gone are the days of the Nintendo 64 era when one had to go out and buy the Expansion Pak to increase the console’s memory from a whopping 4mb to 8mb, just so you can access all the bells and...

These picks are pretty good! Any better casting suggestions? Let's hear them!