XBOX 360 MADDEN NFL 08 DEMO NOW AVAILABLE

A demo of Electronic Arts Madden NFL 08 for the Xbox 360 is now available for download in Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Singapore, Spain, United Kingdom and the United States via the Xbox Live Marketplace. Download size is 813.50MB.

• Madden NFL 08 – Official website

Don’t mind the mess – We’re getting ready to move

We’re just preparing to jump servers and as such are moving all of our old blogs over to WordPress format. If you’re currently looking for NYLatenite’s Gamer’s Paradise – (also known as nylatenite.com) – we’re still over at http://www.nylatenite.com. Thanks!

ACTIVISION NOW TARGET OF UNPAID OVERTIME LAWSUIT

Hot on the heels of the Electronic Arts lawsuit settlement, Gamasutra is reporting that Activision is now the target of a class-action lawsuit based on unpaid overtime. It should be pretty interesting to see just how many of these lawsuits hit the industry now that EA settled. I sense a grave disturbance in the force… as if millions of voices suddenly cried out… “Where’s my damn money?!” These guys work hard, and hopefully they’ll stop being taken advantage of for it.

BIZARRE CREATIONS ANNOUNCES PGR3 LEADERBOARDS TO BE RESET

Bizarre Creations announced that because of the changes made to the ranking system in the “World Tournament” patch, they have reset all Project Gotham Racing 3 online leaderboards as of this morning. From things I had read recently, it had seemed a lot of people had stopped racing competitively in PGR3 for fear of losing their standing because of the way rank is now calculated. According to Bizarre it should only take a few races for people to wind up back in their correct skill classes.
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Now I wasn’t big on racing in PGR3 online against strangers, so this really doesn’t affect me much, but I’d like to hear news from people who do race on Live often and how wiping the leaderboards has affected them and if it’s done anything to rectify the problem created by the Tournament patch where no one was willing to enter ranked races.

PHILLIPS PATENTS A DEVICE TO FORCE YOU TO WATCH COMMERCIALS

This isn’t really video game related, but since I’m a technology nut and love the shinies, I’m posting this anyway. An article over at C|Net News states that Phillips just took out a patent for a device that would either not allow you to change a channel during a “flagged” advertisement or to not be able to speed over flagged commercials on your DVR.

An option would also be available for the user to pay a fee to the broadcaster to allow the channel change.

Phillips claims they developed it for on-demand television and not for regular broadcast use, but they also state that it would be up to the individual broadcasters as to if they wished to implement the service.

Here’s to hoping this is an idea that will die a short, yet oh so painful death. Click here for the C|Net article.