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Now here\'s a difficult question. It is no secret that Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney isn\'t the best looking footballer out there, infact he is most likely one of the ugliest. And currently, he is going through something of a dry spell, not scoring enough goals at club or international level? So how does Rooney SCORE five times a night if it\'s not with his wife? The answer has something to do with EA. Yes you guessed it, Rooney has admitted he\'s a FIFA 08 fanatatic and revealed \"I probably play about five times every night at home. I love playing it online because you're speaking to different people and trying to build your points up.\" Apparently, Coleen (his wife) goes mad when Rooney gets on the game as she doesn\'t get a look in...

Gamers are getting pretty angry with EA as their latest game Spore is full of MAJOR known bugs such as random crashing, graphical glitches and buddy sharing issues as well as many more. However, this is only half of the problem is EA/Maxis are allegedly completely ignoring the tech support section of the official forum since its birth.

The writer of Penumbra has expressed a view that developers should start blaming themselves for bad reviews, poor sales and general failure of a game as rampant piracy is no longer the catch all excuse that it\'s commonly employed as. However, he admits that revenue on some piracy PC titles may be down 15-20 percent due to piracy but he\'s yet to see evidence for any greater piracy related impact on the decline of a platform.

The following video hows you how to turn the PS3 into an illegal torrent downloading machine (depending on the content). It looks like an updated version of Torrentrelay has made this all so very possible!

The following video shows rappers The Game and Bow Wow going head to head as part of a Madden NFL 09 challenge. They were both so confident that they were the best at Madden, that they bet $100,000 each, with the winner donating the \'prize\' money to a charity of their choice...

ThatGamingSite has posted up a list of 16 \'tricks that Sony doesn\'t tell you\'. These \'tricks\' are as follows: 1) Play games from any country, 2) The secret video reset, 3) See how much charge is on your pad, 4) Download game saves, 5) Make free video phone calls, 6) Browse multiple internet downloads, 7) Upgrade your hard drive, 8) Share your bought downloads, 9) Force a PS3 to show your files, 10) Change your album art, 11) Customising your PS3, 12) Mastering removable media, 13) Boost your WiFi, 14) PSP and PS3 remote play, 15) Play PS3 games remotely on your PSP and 16) Those secret button features.

The SOCOM team has issued an apology over the load related issues for the Socom: Confrontation public beta. These issues are causing longer than usual loading times, login errors and disconnects. They expect to have resolved the issues fully by the end of the next week.

GameSpot has posted up a fresh hands-on with BioShock on the PS3 platform and report back that all is well in the BioShock PS3 camp. They confirm that this version incorporates all the downloadable content that\'s been on the Xbox 360 and the trophy support includes some different achievements to those on the Xbox 360 version.

On Friday, Rapper The Game took on Bow Wow in a Madden NFL 09 Xbox 360 challenge. Previously, the pair were caught trash talking in the run up to the contest, but The Game proved his number one ranking by thrashing Bow Wow by 55 to 23 points. After the win, The Game childlishly joked \"I\'mma take my kids to Disneyland.\"

Two teenagers who killed the family cat by putting in a microwave have been banned from owning a pet for at least two years and BANNED from owning or playing violent video games for the next year. The judge has laid down this ruling on them so that\'s settled.

A video from a talk hosted on the 11th August by hackers \'Mist\' and \'Tmbinc\' discusses the Xbox 360 security and its associated weaknesses. Enjoy a good look and listen to their pearls of wisdom below...

A report from Everything Machine states that an Xbox (we think Xbox 1 as the article then goes onto mention an Xbox 360 which burned down a house in April) which was left on for FOUR days managed to spark off a huge house fire. The machine as it was left on for so long overheated and this set a nearby spiral notebook on fire and the rest was history...

According to reports and an official investigation, it is believed an 11 year old boy who died from a gunshot was trying to imitate scenes from the Halo video game. The boy reportedly took a gun and tried to recreate some things that had occurred in the game but with an automatic rifle it can be confusing as to whether its loaded or not and this confusion is expected to have led to his death.

Here are the latest news and rumors from the new PSM 3. Sony\'s PlayTV experienced a 6 month delay as Sony tried to implement Freesat which is a HD capable alternative to Freeview. The new Medal of Honor is set to take place in Afghanistan and there\'s a new Sly Racoon game coming to the PSP. More inside...

Joe Blancato of GiantRealm has hit the nail on the head regarding Spore. Using a baseball analogy, he says that everything regarding Spore looks like its about to hit a home rune but unfortunately falls 10 feet short of the fence and lands in the fielder\'s glove. This is what makes it disappointing and prevents a good game from being great.

According to website GamePlayer, a number of different development studios have quit work on the PSP and given the dev kits back to Sony recently. Apparently, one of the studios to have begun the quitting process is Ready at Dawn Studios who have finished with God of War for the PSP and have packed their bags to walk away from the PSP.

Here is a new KillZone 2 beta video, its a bit blurry but still the game shines through...

CNBC news editor Jane Wells once posted that the ultimate proof that the PS3 is winning due to the fact that her son got rid of his Xbox 360 and purchased a PS3. However now she returns to her thought by saying that her song REGRETS trading in his Xbox 360 as all his friends are on Xbox Live and he\'s not actually playing the PS3 that much as he\'s waiting for new games!

Sins of a Solar Empire proves that games with a low budget and without DRM protection can indeed be hugely successful. The game has sold over 500,000 and has previously spent a number of weeks in the top 10 best seller charts. Amazingly, the game cost less than a million dollars to create!

Dean Takahashi has decided to let rip into the Xbox 360\'s defects and history of video game woes using his insider information. He states that MS knew all about the flawed machines but did not delay launch because it thought it would ride the learning curve and improve production. Takashi further asserts that MS didn\'t ensure resources to handle returns and quickly debug bad consoles and there were plenty of warning signs but they selected to IGNORE THEM with a poorly aligned business.