A college student from Cal State Fullerton was arrested by federal agents on Monday by illegally running a home business of modifying Xbox, Playstation, Wii and other video game consoles to enable the machines to play pirated video games.

If you were hoping to play the game based on Heroes, the popular TV series from NBC, then too bad. According to Ubisoft PR director, Jaime Cottini, Peter, Claire, Hiro, and the rest of the gang won't be coming to your gaming platforms anymore. Oh well...

It seems like SCi Entertainment is finally getting into the role of the reluctant "father", ready to give away his daughter (i.e. Lara Croft) at the altar. It was confirmed recently that SCi will be entertaining the possibility of opening a major business investment in the near future to help get the company back on track. You can read a statement released by the company explaining this move in our full article.

Keeping up with the SCi Entertainment takeover bid? Well, if you put money on Time Warner, then this update might make you re-think your wager: it seems that NBC is putting forward big money to be the king of the hill, in terms of being considered as the top buyer. Just how big, you ask? Try a hundred million greenbacks. Enough money to choke a mammal of colossal proportions. Check out the details in the full article.

A lot of people have split opinions on the effectiveness of in-game advertising. However, Sony's chief executive Howard Stern expressed his doubts on the potential of that particular marketing trend. He wasn't alone in the idea either; other big names from major companies such as NBC Universal and Activision Blizzard voiced similar sentiments.

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We here at QJ always thought the show "Heroes" would make for an interesting gaming experience. Imagine our surprise when we found out that it was actually going to come true.

You read that right folks. Ubisoft and NBC Universal have announced that they will be working together to develop and publish a video game based on the hit television show.

Said Christian Salomon, vice president of worldwide licensing at Ubisoft, about the arrangement,

With a gripping storyline and rich characters, 'Heroes' lends itself naturally to a video game format. By offering people the chance to interact directly with the show's captivating universe, there is no doubt that the game will appeal to both fans of the series and avid gamers.

There's no word yet on what platforms the game will be headed to, but there's a good chance that such a game will be multi-platform and definitely worth checking out.

In related "Heroes" news, you'll also be glad to note that the future holds a free "Heroes" pilot episode download on the Xbox 360. There's also no word yet on when that'll happen, but you can expect to be sooner rather than later.

This video has been up on YouTube since April 16, but we think with the way people have been responding to it, plus the new rage against the Wii care off good ol' Mr. Jack Thompson, it deserves a splash across QJ's front page.

So, what is this video all about? It's Carson Daly's addiction to the Nintendo Wii, and how his staff at NBC intervened for his rehabilitation. It's pretty funny, really, especially since we see how it can be possible that people will be holding the Wiimote even in their sleep and giving out a cheer if they score in whatever game it is they are fixated on.

Anyhow, we do know how much of a rave the Nintendo Wii is causing, especially with the new health benefits that have been found to go along with it. Let's just hope none of us get hooked so bad to the extent that we'd have to show up on Tyra's show for their "intervention".

Jack Thompson and Dr. Phil have obviously found an ally in the person of NBC's Meet the Press">Tim Russert, host of NBC's "Meet the Press" talk show. In the show's episode yesterday, Russert pointedly suggested that the Virginia Tech massacre could have been an offshoot of the growing violent video games culture.

Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, a guest in the show, gamely (no pun intended) asserted that "we do have evidence that children... exposed to violent television and video games, that that certainly does net out in more violent behavior." As to what those evidences are, she never really did expound on.

But Russert wasn't content with merely getting a nod from Secretary Spellings. He then turns to Mike Leavitt, Secretary of Health and Human Services, and asks, "Any thought of looking into video games and the impact they may have on young children?" While certainly not being impressionable, Leavitt also wasn't exactly forthcoming, stating that "we have to look at a lot of things."

And this might actually be the better answer between the two guests. After all, it's rather foolhardy to outright believe that video games are indeed responsible for the macabre act Cho Seung-Hui launched against his schoolmates. In fact, the so-called "Counter-Strike theory" is just as good as stale meat on a shiny silver plate. The policemen have already searched through Cho's room in campus, and they have yet to find any evidence that he was a video game player, much more, of violent ones at that. Even if they did, this will do little in tangibly proving that it was the "Counter-Strike demons" in Cho's head that prodded him to carry out his deadly deed.

At the end of the day, while the rest of the nation is busy looking under rocks trying to find off-tangential answers to questions that are shaking up our system, and while there are some who are spectacularly trying to spin their blame-game, there remains 33 families waiting for justice and mourning for the loss of their loved ones who will never be coming home.

After all of the intense courtroom drama that we've had just a few days ago about video games being involved in murder cases, the situation has turned tail. A defense attorney just claimed that video games made his client "do it." But before we get into the whole mix of things, let's open the court record:

Over at Klamath Falls, Oregon, 20 year-old Patrick Morris is charged with the murder of 15 year-old Diego Aguilar, who died after being shot five times with a 12-gauge shotgun. Ouchie. The story goes that Morris was in a fit of rage and intended to kill Aguilar after finding out that the diamond he received in some drug-related exchange was, in fact, a fake. More on the legalese side of things, to quote KOBI NBC 5:

The attorney for the defense says that violent video games such as Mortal Kombat and Grand Theft Auto may have blurred Morris' ability to distinguish reality and the consequences of his actions.

HOLD IT! After Devin Moore's murder case from a few years back, once again, GTA has been thrown into the mix. Further details of the entire case are still a bit foggy, but whatever the scenario, the on-going debate on violent video games triggering murderous actions will never end. You can't deny the fact that violent games are available in all gaming platforms. But arguing about its influence on a murder... That's something else.

Well, what do you know? The Wii Sports Experiment sure is going places with, er, his Wii Sports Experiment. Yup, that's right. After enjoying a healthy dose of media coverage, from TV guestings to Radio interviews, he's now making his way to the local bookstore near you.

Uh-huh, thanks to the big buzz generated by his Wii Sports exercise program, he's now landed a book deal with no less than Sanford J. Greenburgers Associates, Inc. For those not in the know, it's one of the bigwig agencies on Fifth Avenue, NYC. Mickey DeLorenzo narrates that when his story broke out on The Philadelphia Inquirer and on the NBC 10 O'clock news, he received an email from Jeremy Katz, who expressed interest on working with him.

Katz is responsible for over two dozen New York Times bestsellers in a span of two decades, including "Pete Rose: My Prison Without Bars" and "The Abs Diet". He is currently with Greenburgers, who in turn represents other bigwigs like Kafka and existentialist Sartre, as well as contemporary authors Nelson DeMille and Dan Brown.

What about you? What have you been doing with your Wii lately?