Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello may have failed in his plan to acquire Take-Two and capitalize on the success ofGrand Theft Auto IV, but hedoesn’t seem to regrettrying. He called the whole thing “a waste of ink, primarily in theNew York Post” and said that EA chose to cease its pursuit of the company because quot;time was of the essence, because we wanted to impact holiday 2008 sales ofGrand Theft Auto IV....

Hey, are you sitting down? I’ve got some shocking news for you, and I don’t know if you’re going to be prepared for it — Electronic Arts has folks working onThe Sims 4. It hasn’t been announced yet, and while I have them, I don’t need sources to back this one up. Why? Well,The Sims 3sold 1.4 million copies during its first week on shelves. You do the math. Here’s some not-so-damning evidence of its existence — a domain name!...

During my time here, there has always been one game that seems to be met with universal praise whenever it gets mentioned, and it’s a game you might not immediately think of:SSX Tricky. When the conversation turns to that of snowboarding videogames, everyone always gushes their love forTricky(and alsoSSX 3). Talking togamesindustry.biz, EA Montreal general manger Alain Tascan utters the words we’ve been waiting for: “Ah,SSX. We have a big catalog and we were talking about what people like....

Bethesda Softworks is celebrating the fifteen-year anniversary of theElder Scrollsfranchise in a delicious way: starting today the second title in theElder Scrollsseries (subtitled “Daggerfall”) is available as a free downloadthrough the studios’ Web site. Yep. This isn’t an illegal download from a garbage abandonware site. This is the real thing in all its dated and buggy glory. As Bethesda notes on theirdevelopment blog, this sort of fan service isn’t exactly new....

Am I the only one who finds this just a littlefreakin’ insane?Enslaved: Odyssey to the Westfailed to even sell half a million copies, while the absolutely dreadfulKane & Lynch 2— with its half-finished campaign, crappy multiplayer, and total lack of polish — does over a million. The worst game of 2010 more than doubling one of the year’s most beautiful, original, and well-crafted titles just demonstrates to me how screwed up the market truly is....

Our newly-adopted buddies over atEpileptic Gamingsent us a reminder today that their usual live Thursday show is actually tonight. That’s right, tonight at 7 p.m. the Epileptic boys will be broadcasting theirmost excellent show. Best part is, you may get involved via Skype. Call in and let your gamer voice be heard!

AGD Interactive, makers of the fantasticKing’s Quest II+, will be releasingKings Quest III Reduxnear the end of next month. Just as with their previous remakes in the series, the game features a massive graphical overhaul along with new music and effects and updates the game to a point-and-click interface rather than the original text parser. Now, this isn’t the first VGA remake ofKing’s Quest III, asInfamous Adventures released onein 2006. ButReduxis supposed to be a bit more of a reworking and adds plot elements introduced inKing’s Quest II+....

We get it, we get it — you’re skeptical aboutCall of Duty: World at Warbecause it’s developed by Treyarch, those “villains” who “ruined”Call of Duty 3. Surprise — it’s good! According to the first review in European magazinePSW, not only is it good, but it’sbetterthanCall of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. “That’s right,” they write, “Treyarch has toppled Infinity Ward.” Strong words, especially when many considerModern Warfareone of Infinity Ward’s best efforts to date, if not one of the best games of 2007....

The PS3’s distributed computing program Folding@home has been adding somemajor muscleto Stanford University’s research capability, and that makes it the first game system to actually do some good in the world. Things tend to get a bit boring with all of that number crunching, so Sony has added a musical feature in the latest FAH client version. Packed within the new PS3 version 2.1 update is this new client, which adds a background music player....

Playing through all four 3DLegend of Zeldagames would take awhile, wouldn’t it? Damn, how long would that be? Days, surely. I hopeAndrew Scheeris well-versed in these four games as he plans to blast through all four to raise money for the Child’s Play charity. I’m all about giving games to kids holed up in hospitals, and you should be too. The event will run from Friday at 4 p.m. PST to Sunday at 4p....

Last week’sDotAdebateconfused me more than the game ofDotAitself. Either we don’t have a lot ofDotAgamers reading Dtoid, or they’re all just too busy playingDotAto add to these debates. Sure, the lack of votes last week could be that not a lot of people play the game mod, but when thesitethat only hosts the newest version of the map consistently gets more Internet traffic than our site, that leaves me wondering how many people actually play this game daily....

Looks like Microsoft is getting more and more ambitious by the day. According toBloomberg, they are now looking to enter the handheld gaming market. Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software maker, will introduce video games for its Zune music player within 18 months to match features available on Apple Computer Inc.’s dominant iPod. Peter Moore, a vice president in the company’s Xbox video- game business, confirmed the plan yesterday, saying the Zune’s large screen will offer a better way to play handheld games....

By the time the nineties rolled around, cartoon makers were really scraping the bottom of the barrel for toy/cartoon crossover lines. The best animals and objects had already been anthropomorhized, and even though bipedal sharks that breathed oxygen didn’t make much sense, it was all Mattel had left. Hence,Street Sharkswas born. Speaking of bipedal sharks that breathe oxygen, we played some videogames this week. Hit the jump to find out what these videogames could have been, and be ready to kick some serious fin....