#money You collect coins. You then use those coins to get extra lives or buy things. Get used to it, because that's the way the world works. More »

#uncharted As someone who snuggles up to his copy of Raising The Bar every night, I'm one to appreciate a good video game art book. And Uncharted 2's looks damn good. More »

#blockquote At SXSW, The Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde helmed a conference via Skype, where he likened P2P to Coca Cola, and The Pirate Bay to sugar. He also said he could make Sergey Brin "want to marry me." [TechRadar] More »

#video What do you do when a laptop breaks down three months after purchase? Get it repaired? Sell it? Or do as this Chinese man did, and destroy it silently at a HP store, with not a single swear-word passing your lips? More »

#ps2 No, a superfan. If you know this game, feel free to say it out loud and pat yourself on the back. Good job! If not, read on. More »

#nintendo GDC is over for another year, but the omission of any solid Nintendo news—particularly in the shape of a new handheld console—was not enough for RPAD.tv, who spent the whole show digging for DS2 information from developers. More »

#kotaku Later this month, citizens of the United States will take part in the 2010 Census, an event aimed at helping the government learn more about the people it's trying to serve. We're doing exactly the same thing. More »

#att You don't need a smartphone to get smartphone-like services, claims AT&T. They of course have a few new handsets backing up that boast, but what's most interesting is the free online syncing for both contacts and media. More »

#microsoft When Xbox 360 conked out in the past, folks would send their Xbox 360s to Microsoft in cardboard boxes affectionately called "coffins". Here is a real honest-to-goodness Xbox coffin. More »

On this day, back in 1985, the first ever dotcom URL was created, Symbolics.com. There were just six dotcoms registered that year, compared to the 100,000 that are created every day now. More »

#screengrab As seen on Ben Heck. More »

#legal The Tokyo Metropolitan government is moving forward on legislation that sets out to ban provocative "visual depictions" of characters who appear to be 18 years-old and younger. And some of Japan's most famous manga creators are fighting it. More »

#playstationmove The initial lineup of PS3 games compatible with Sony's new Move controller was, SOCOM aside, geared heavily towards the casual user. The list of compatible games on the Move's website, however, is a little more promising. More »

#truecrime Activision, the company that publishes Guitar Hero and Call of Duty, did not get the memo. The recent Game Developers Conference is not the venue for half-naked pole dancers. More »

#toys In the upcoming Iron Man movie sequel, Tony Stark won't be going it alone. He's got James Rhodes, aka War Machine, to help him out. And you know what that means: yes, Don Cheadle action figures. More »

#squareenix For the uninitiated, Final Fantasy XIII might seem like the sequel to Final Fantasy XII. It's not. Each game is its own title, so if there was a FFXIII sequel, it would be FFXIII-2. More »

#nintendo RPAD spent the entire Game Developers Conference trying to dig up information on Nintendo's successor to the wildly-successful DS handheld. His findings? Of interest. More »

#callofduty Capping off a fairly terrible fortnight of news surrounding Call of Duty developers Infinity Ward comes word this morning that Modern Warfare 2's map pack is one of the most over-priced pieces of downloadable content we've ever seen. More »

At Google's panel today at SXSW in Austin, a Gmail team member named Jonathan Perlow asked the crowd to raise their hands if they think Gmail is too slow. We love Gmail, but certainly we can sympathize with the fair percentage of those audience members who raised their hands—the problem is pretty much limited to those, like us, who are power users with hundreds of thousands of messages (most of which are junk, we're not bragging, but still). Perlow had a response, confidently saying "We are fixing it." He didn't elaborate, but Google's always improving Gmail—hopefully this means we'll be seeing some improvements for power users soon. [TechCrunch] More »

#imagecache This picture shows entrants in this year's FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Breakaway match. Teams of ambitious high school kids build robots to compete in what's basically the American Gladiator version of soccer. It's pretty amazing. More »