If your strumming hand for Guitar Hero is becoming a bit worse for wear, then good news: Ben Heck, modder of all that is next-gen, has come up with a way to make your foot do all the work instead. Introducing Ben Heckendorn's own brand of pedal controllers, a peripheral that lets you strum and whammy with the merest movement of your foot. All the details in the full article.

If you're one of the many burners in Criterion Games' Burnout Paradise (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360), then you might want to check out this news update: there will be a PC version of everyone's car-smashing game in the very near future, with loads of added content packed in. Great announcement or greatest announcement? You decide in the full article, which is waiting for you after the jump.

For those of us who wanted to enjoy BioWare's Mass Effect (Xbox 360, PC) on their gaming rigs, but found themselves wanting after the ten-day re-authentication period that EA's SecuROM dealie popped on all of us, here's good news: that is now officially a thing of the past, thanks to the loads of fans who reacted against the issue as well as the gamers in the armed services. All the details in the full article.

Upgrading your PC can be a very complicated thing, but it seems that NVIDIA is going to try and make things just a bit more customer-friendly, and how Content Business Development VP Roy Taylor thinks that it's a challenge for the company to overcome. Here's hoping that they do manage to pull this one off. Check out all the details in the full article, and see what this one means to you.

If you're familiar with videogame piracy, then you'd know about the harmful effects it can do to the industry, and in this update we hear about NVIDIA game boss Roy Taylor speaking about how it's unfair that piracy is still rampant, even though he believes we're at a point where it shouldn't even exist. All his opinions and statements about this matter after the jump, so read on and find out just what this means to you.

Can't wait for the upcoming Street Fighter movie, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, so that we can finally find out just why she was picked as the focus of the entire film? Well, it seems we won't have to wait next year, with none other than the movie's own writer Justin Marks coming forward with his own answers. The exact answer why Chun-Li became the protagonist in this movie after the jump!

If you're one of the many eagerly anticipating the PC version of Bioware's Mass Effect (Xbox 360, PC), then here's something that could turn out to be a bit troublesome: the Securom implementation in the game will pretty much have users re-authenticating their CD keys every ten days via an internet connection. History repeating itself? Let's hope not. All the details in the full article, so you'd best jump to it.

If you were worried about Midway, what with its rather bloody-looking first quarterly earnings report for the year of 2008, then fret not, as Wedbush Morgan's own Michael Pachter thinks that this year will be a good year for the company. In fact, his own firm is telling investors to hold on to Midway shares, as they truly believe that they're going to bring in the dough soon enough. All the details in the full article.

It's always a bit daunting (in a good way) to see the quarterly financial figures of your favorite gaming company, and it's the same here, as Midway Games has just posted its numbers for the first quarter of 2008. Sure, they're still losing quite a bit of money, but they're also making quite the killing when compared to previous quarters. In any case, all the numbers, facts, and figures after the jump. Bring your own calculators.

It seems that Rockstar's own Vice President of Creativity, Dan Houser, has something to say about the recent boom in casual gaming. Before you ask, no, he actually appreciates what the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS are doing - but as far as casual games are concerned, you might as well color him unimpressed. Check out what Dan said in the full article and see what it means to you.