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Culture

Dropped Connection Sends Starcraft Swede Into Stabby Rage

9:30AM Owen Good | A balky Internet hookup is said to have triggered a Swedish Starcraft enthusiast’s random knife attack of a 15-year-old girl. More »
Media

A Final Look Inside GRIN’s “Fortress”

8:30AM Owen Good | An anonymous tipster attended GRIN’s going-out-of-business sale at the closed studio’s offices in Stockholm and snapped several pictures that seem to be of its work on the Final Fantasy game it was rumoured to be making for Square Enix. More »
Media

More Art From GRIN’s Cancelled Final Fantasy Project

3:30PM Luke Plunkett | We don’t normally enjoy loitering around what is essentially a corpse, but when it’s a Final Fantasy game that was in production at a Swedish studio, well, you can excuse us for being curious. More »
News

GRIN Were Working On A Final Fantasy Game

1:45PM Luke Plunkett | There were the faintest of rumblings about this months ago, but now that GRIN are officially out of business, it can officially come to light that they’d been working on… a Final Fantasy game. More »
Rumours

PS3 Slimpocalypse Advances Into Sweden

8:30AM Owen Good | The PS3 Slimpocalypse continues to play out like an establishing sequence from V: The Final Battle or something. “The world trembles at rumours retailers are told to clear off stock. Sightings are reported in the U.K., Germany, and now Sweden.” More »
News

GRIN Is Officially Dead, Spawns Outbreak

5:00AM Michael McWhertor | It’s official. No more gold teeth will be added to that gruesome smile, as GRIN, the Swedish developer responsible for games like Bionic Commando, Wanted: Weapons of Fate and more is closing its doors due to “an unbearable cashflow situation.” More »
Rumours

Bionic Commando Developers GRIN In Big, Big Trouble

1:40PM Luke Plunkett | Poor GRIN. For a little while there, people were excited with the games the Swedish devs were putting out! Then they went and released some awful, awful games. And now they’re on the brink of oblivion. More »
Rumours

Saints Row PSP Apparently Confirmed By… Swedish Metal Band

10:00PM Brian Ashcraft | According to a posting on the website of Nordic rocker band Opeth, THQ’s sandbox title Saints Row is coming to the PSP. Did you know this? I didn’t. *throws up devil’s horns* More »
Culture

Gizmondo Honcho Gets 18 Months In Fängelse

7:00AM Owen Good | That’s Swedish for “the slammer.” Bo Eriksson, lesser known for his role heading the failed portable called Gizmondo, more known for bizarre behaviour including wrecked cars and arson threats, is headed there. More »
News

The Pirate Bay Purchased

9:00PM Brian Ashcraft | The Pirate Bay has been purchased and is perhaps looking to go legit. Software company Global Gaming Factory X AB has shelled out approximately US$7.8 million for the site. More »