With the rapid rise of social media, Nielsen and Twitter have entered into a multi-year agreement that will see social activity complementing existing Nielsen ratings to help improve programming. More...
Sony has been feeling the pinch for the past four years, but things just slightly worse for the Japanese tech giant. Fitch has dropped their credit rating from a BB- to a BBB-. More...
The Australian Federal Parliament has finally passed a law that allows console and PC games to receive an R18+ rating. The new rating should go into effect in early 2013. More...
Microsoft has been working hard to create top tier products that are well received from its consumers. After fumbling with Vista, Microsoft continues to climb in its customer satisfaction rating. The rating information comes from... More...
The Better Business Bureau doesn't quite believe Google's “Don't be evil” mantra. In a recent report, the BBB gave Google a C- reliability grade. While it's not the worst grade in the class, Google's classmates... More...
Originally slated for release on the Wii, PlayStation 2 and PSP on July 10, Rockstar Games' Manhunt 2 was temporarily suspended from release following ESRB rating the game AO (for adults only). Developer Rockstar Games... More...
In April Greenpeace listed Apple at the bottom of its rankings but now the environmental campaign group has bumped the company ahead of Sony, LG Electronics, Panasonic and HP to tenth place on the 14-company... More...
Wal-Mart, which already has year-round cell phone and ink cartridge recycling programs as well as computer recycling efforts, is now interested in expanding its focus on "environmental sustainability". At the "Take it Back" conference, the... More...
Kansas Republican Senator, Sam Brownback, has reintroduced the Truth in Video Game Rating Act (originally filed August 4, 2006) which ensures that video game rating companies play any game all the way through before assigning... More...
It has long been said that one of Microsoft's greatest challenges has been to support the wild and unpredictable PC hardware market, stemming from the fact that unlike Apple, Microsoft has little control over the... More...
Microsoft is retooling a PC rating feature in Windows Vista following criticism from hardware makers and others, an example that the next-generation operating system may not yet be ready for mass consumption. The critique... More...
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has been re-rated as AO (Adults Only) in the USA as the result of an investigation by the Entertainment Software Ratings Board into a sexually explicit mini-game that could be... More...
Increased global competition in its core electronics business prompts the first downgrade in over a decade. Today, the globe's preeminent provider of credit rating and risk analysis, Standard & Poor's, downgraded Sony's... More...
A new pan-European age rating system for computer and video games is to be introduced to help protect kids from unsuitable content. Known as PEGI (Pan European Game Information), the new system will eventually replace... More...