Time Warner Cable is offering
free Slingboxes to subscribers – if they’re willing to pony up for the company’s more expensive Internet service.
The cable/Internet giant plans to offer a complete rebate on the device, which allows people to access their home television (and DVR) from anywhere, to people who subscribe to its Wideband Internet – a service that costs $100 per month.
SpongeBob Frozen Face Off 
has a bit of dual personality disorder. It can’t decide if it’s a game or a book. It succeds more as the later. The story, taken from a new episode of the show, is certainly funny. And the voice acting is fantastic (due to the use of the same actor who voices Plankton on TV). It’s even nice to have an alternate ending, depending on how successful you are in finding jellybeans in the story. But ultimately, the app falls a bit short — leaving you with the feeling you’ve just watched an overly long introductory sequence and wondering exactly what you had paid for.
A video game 
isn’t usually considered a particularly romantic form of expression.
But when Gary Hudston’s girlfriend Stephy celebrated her 21stbirthday this week, he relied on a game to help express his feelings — and what resulted is one of the best video game marriage proposals of all time.
Educational games get a 
bad rap, but occasionally you’ll find a game that manages to teach you something without becoming a snoozefest. Learn a thing or two with these 10 terrific educational titles.
If video games and 
traditional toys were to have a secret love child, it might look a lot like the Sifteo cube.
Introduced as a prototype at a TED conference in 2009, the gadget/toys are a fusion of classic building blocks and cutting-edge tech. And while it’s a bit early to label the Sifteo this year’s frenzy-inducing hot holiday toy, don’t be surprised if it ends up on a lot of gamer wish lists.
Amazon and Google caused 
a stir when they launched their cloud music storage initiatives. Rather than following the path Apple eventually would, both companies decided to bypass securing permissions from the record labels, causing quite a tempest in a teapot in the process.
Now it seems the pair have the courts on their side.
Can the latest round of 
executive hires turn Atari around with a focus on the fast-moving social gaming and digital space? Gamasutra editor-at-large Chris Morris looks at execs who’ve come and gone — and he’s skeptical.
With all due respect to the incoming executives at Atari, I really can’t understand why anyone in their right mind would take a high-ranking job with that particular publisher.
Sure, it’s a company that has proven almost Rasputin-like in its will to live, but it has also spent the last four years floundering – desperately searching for a viable business plan and hiring a slew of notable industry executives, only to see them racing for the exit in short order.
As the bidding war for 
Hulu heats up (with Google, reportedly, making a strong push at the end), the impact of networks choosing to delay the online broadcast of episodes is starting to become clear. And it’s not pretty.
Fox recently enacted a policy to wait eight days from the original airdate before putting episodes onto Hulu – unless you had a Hulu Plus or Dishn Network subscription. The immediate result of that appears to be a sharp spike in piracy.
Matthew Eshelman found 
himself on the receiving end of a three-year suspension from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Disciplinary board last week. The reason? Video games.
The Pennsylvania attorney says a video game addiction is to blame for his sloppy legal work over the past four years that resulted in 17 complaints about mishandled cases.
It’s hard to stay 
out of trouble on the Internet. Even if you avoid sites with questionable content, there are plenty of pitfalls and traps that subtly install programs which then wreak havoc on your computer.
It’s known as malware — a generic term for the various ways your PC can be infected, compromised, and crippled.
Chris Morris: Journalist 