Google Mines YouTube Videos for AdSense Gold

Google Mines YouTube Videos for AdSense Gold

Google is introducing ad-supported video clips from YouTube — what it calls “video units” — to its AdSense platform, one of many steps in a strategy designed to glean a return on its massive investment in the video-sharing Web site. Google is working with select YouTube content partners, including TV Guide Broadband, Expert Village, Mondo[…]

PlayStation Pricing Shakeup Hits Japan

PlayStation Pricing Shakeup Hits Japan

Sony’s PlayStation 3 price shakeout spread to its home territory in Japan Tuesday with a price cut on its 20 GB and 60 GB PS3 models, the company announced. In addition, Sony Computer Entertainment Japan said it will make the latest 40 GB model available to Japanese gamers. The announcement comes less than a week[…]

Brits Won’t Bend on ‘Manhunt 2’ Ban

Brits Won’t Bend on ‘Manhunt 2’ Ban

British regulators on Monday banned a toned-down version of the violent video game “Manhunt 2,” saying the changes didn’t go far enough to alter the game’s “bleakness and callousness of tone.” The game’s maker called the decision “a setback for video games.” In June, Take-Two Interactive suspended plans to distribute the game — because it[…]