You thought I didn’t really notice. But I did. I wanted to high-five you.

Yesterday I had a pair of brothers in my store. One was maybe between 15-17. He was a wrestler at the local high school. Kind of tall, stocky and handsome. He had a…

Streaming video on game consoles is up over last year, according to the Nielsen, which found in a fall survey that streaming and video-on-demand make up a larger weekly share of activity on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii.

Streaming now represents 14 percent of Xbox 360 time, 15 percent of PS3 time and 33 percent of time spent on the Wii, according to an October survey.

Yesterday, my friends and I went to Best Buy to get a part to fix a broken PS3, and one of their employees approached us asking if he could help us find anything. We told him that we already found what we needed, but he wanted to know what we were using…

With an average review score of 69.5 (that’s almost a C-minus!), the PlayStation 3 had the highest average Metacritic score of the three big consoles in 2011. The Xbox 360 came in a close second with an average score of 68.9 per game and the Wii … well, Nintendo’s little white box sat at a 62.2. If this…

Activision has promised that their promises will be fulfilled, eventually, when it comes to Call of Duty Elite. While the service is still lacking those promises, we are finally starting to get dates from them and can look forward to something happening for once. Well that is unless you are a PS3 player paying for Elite and expect to be treated equally.

Activision finally got the game and Elite at a stable status, but that is just one of the many features they needed to work on. Well…

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings will pay a $1.5 million penalty for blunders that alienated the video subscription service's customers and pulverized its stock.

The punishment will be delivered with a 50 percent reduction in his stock option awards next year, according to regulatory documents filed Thursday. Instead of the $3 million stock option allowance he received this year, Hastings will get $1.5 million in 2012. His base salary will remain unchanged at $500,000.

It would have…