EA vehemently stated that it was "not desperate" to acquire Take Two Interactive. The latest deadline given to the Grand Theft Auto creators was due to expire this May 16 with still no response from the company. Jeff Brown, EA VP of corporate communications, had a few choice words regarding the initiative to acquire Take Two. Find out what he had to say in our full article after the jump.

It looks like Lara finally has a daddy to come home to. Warner Bros Home Entertainment recently subscribed up to £15 million (US$ 30 million) new shares in the company and announced a new strategic partnership with the house behind the Tomb Raider series. For more details regarding this, read our full article after the jump.

In the video games industry, many of the respected names include Rockstar Games and its Dan Houser. So when the guy talks, you better listen.

Recently, the guy was interviewed about marketing titles and moving away from the annual sales bottleneck during the holiday season. You can read about these after the jump!

Homebrew developer Deniska has come up with the latest version of the great port of the well renowned top down shooter OpenTyrian PSP for the PlayStation Portable.

This latest version includes some minor tweaks to the music volume, as well as a rather interesting "Christmas mode." For more details, check out the complete changelog since our previous coverage of the game in the full article.


Download: OpenTyrian PSP v0.9

Earlier this month, comScore found that the Nintendo Wii was the most popular item in UK search engines, which is why it doesn't really come as all that surprising that the console has turned out to be the most popular item on UK's eBay. Read how the handhelds and other consoles fared in the full article.

(Editor's Note: Got that post-Christmas hangover, eh? Let's take things one at a time though, so here's QuickJump QuickPeek 27 for all of you who've been snowed in since last week.)

Not only are we bringing you this week's news today. But come next week, we'll be rolling out a whole slew of QuickJump QuickPeek special editions to cap the whole year off. Better keep an eye out for those updates! For now, issue #27 is sleighing in!

Article originally  posted on Dec. 29, 2007 at 02:59PM.

Season's greetings are coming in, courtesy of Zx-81. The developer has just announced the release of his special Christmas homebrew pack. Each pack contains a compilation of the dev's previous works, which ranges from homebrew applications to games, calculators, and emulators. More details await in the full article.

For those of us curious about the state of development of StrmnNrmn's Daedalus, the Sony PlayStation Portable homebrew that smoothly emulates the Nintendo 64, here's a special yuletide update from the developer himself.

Check out what StrmnNrmn's up to at the full article.

Various game companies are out to spread the holiday cheer by delivering several personalized digital Christmas cards dedicated to all gamers. You can take a look at the Christmas cards presented by PopCap Games, Marvelous Entertainment, Naughty Dog, Bioware and Square Enix in the full article.

Those excited over the fact that Dark AleX is working on 3.80 M33 custom firmware may have heard about the rumor about DAX himself stating that the CFW will be released on December 24, just in time for the holidays. However, homebrew developer Mathieulh dismissed it as a mere hoax. Details in the full article!