A gamer has revealed that he revealed a death threat on Xbox Live as a competing player couldn't hold his own during a Call of Duty battle. The threat he received went along the lines of - \"I'll kill you in real life with a real gun\", so he decided to cough up $12.50 to change his gamertag as MS wouldn't do so.

Waukesha Police are recommencing charges after two brothers who are both in their 30's ended up choking and stabbing each other after a fight over whose turn it was to play on a PS3 game.

A study has found an unusually high level of bisexuality among women who play online MMO's. The study looked at 2400 members of the population who played Everquest II.

A rumour has it that as of Spring 2009, Microsoft will start patching achievements into a number of Xbox original titles starting with Halo and Fable. Their will be an overall aim to updated the entire back catalogue by the Winter of 2009 apparently.

A Dutch program called Radar has run a special about the PS3, and claimed that after a year, the Blu-ray drive of the system just stops working. Their 'evidence' for this claim is that they have received 300 reports of this from PS3 owners in the Netherlands.

The president of a 3D certification and advocacy group has revealed that Sony fully intends to support 3D gaming and Blu-ray 3D on the PS3 in 2009. It will need a BIOS upgrade to work and it is speculated that 3D gaming may be unique to the PS3 out of all the other consoles.

Developer Jonathon Blow has implied that their is a possibility of BRAID making its way to the PS3. He commented, that it certainly is a possibility but depends on whether Sony is interested in bringing it over to their platform.

Members of the German public have published an anti-video game paper which is known as the Cologne declaration. The declaration indicates that violent computer games are harmful to children and threaten society. Social scientists have backed the declaration by describing such games as "killer games" and "landmines for the soul".

It has been revealed that the new PS3 exclusive Zombie shooter from KuJu Entertainment called Redwood Falls has officially been put on hold. The title was first unveiled back in 2006.

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced that World of Warcraft, its award-winning subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game, is now played by more than 11.5 million subscribers worldwide. This new high was reached following the November 13 release of the game's second expansion, Wrath of the Lich King.

Players of FIFA 09 on Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION who upload their replay videos to www.easportsfootball.com now have the chance to show their super-strikes to thousands via the site's popular new Top 10 Goals feature.

Bob Pelloni, the man who spent five years making a DS RPG called Bob's Game all by himself is ready to do something pretty drastic. As Nintendo won't give him the software development kit, he's prepared to lock himself in for 100 DAYS in protest. He won't have any luxuries like a TV, just enough power to check his e-mail in the hope Nintendo will actually get in touch with him.

MaxConsole reader Mark has informed us that EA Customer Support has told him that the Wii Rock Band 2 registration code is not printed on the back of the Wii manual. However, Harmonix will make an announcement about the 20 downloadable tracks for Wii in the 'near future'.

FIFA 09 is the Christmas number one in the UK and deservedly so in our eyes. For the week ending December 20th, FIFA 09 topped the UK charts beating off Call of Duty and Mario Kart. A major reason for FIFA 09 surging up so much recently is due to some heavy discounting and promotion at retailers.

David Jaffe has been speaking about the recent God of War III footage that he saw and stated that it looked better than Gears of War 2. It was so beautiful that it actually made him nervous and sweaty and wondering how to compete as God of War III's visuals have raised the bar.

Here it is, a first ever picture of the XCM Cross Battle adapter in the wild. This adapter allows you to connect a wired Xbox 360 controller to the PS3 and also features a built in rapid fire function.

A company called Storage Media has released the first ever Hybrid and Blu-ray and DVD disc in Japan. The new media has capacity of 33.5GB and is compatible with all existing DVD and Blu-ray players. Obviously, the major benefit of this is that you can play it on either your DVD or Blu-ray player.

ReSolve, the appointed administrator of Free Radical has revealed that there is significant interest in purchasing Free Radical. The administrator is very confident of a sale if they decide to market the business.

Resident Evil 5 Producer Masachika Kawata has rubbished reports that the Playstation 3 is a lot harder to develop for than the Xbox 360. He noted that he can't really say one platform is more difficult to develop for than the other and that the PS3 isn't too tough.

Scientists at the University of Massachusetts and Alabama have solved a mystery about the speed at which black holes stop vibrating. What's so special about this discovery? Well the mystery was solved exclusively on a 16 strong PS3 cluster.

Great, a major force is finally doing something about one of the most irritating packaging forms of all time - ClamShell packaging. Check out the following video in which Sony announce death to the ClamShell packaging...

British doctors are reportedly bracing themselves for a rise in 'Wii Knee' patients this Christmas, a condition in which those unused to exercise will be more likely to be diagnosed with. Richard Milner, a consultant plastic and hand surgeon added - \"We treated a patient this week who had injured herself using a Wii. She was playing tennis with a partner and fractured one of the bones in her finger when he hit the back of her hand with the control.\"

Playstation Home update v1.05 is due to be released today. With the update, users will be able to use the voice chat once again within their personal space and clubhouses!

Eidos Interactive, creator of some of the world's leading videogame properties, introduces PUZZLE ARCADE, an interactive jigsaw puzzle game coming to Xbox LIVE Arcade for the Xbox 360 from Microsoft this Christmas.

MaxConsole reader Mark has informed that some copies of Wii Rock Band 2 are missing the registration code that is supposed to appear on the game manual. Without the code it is not possible to get any of the DLC or the additional 20 free songs.