If you thought the North American games press was too far in bed with the publishers, it’s worse in Australia. In addition to massive perks from publishers, some prominent journalists are literally in bed with publisher PR. [/r/Games]

Grand Theft Auto V is coming to PS4/XB1 on November 18th and the PC version is coming out on January 27, 2015 (Yay! PC gaming master race FTW!). Before then, Rockstar gave GameStop managers a little preview of the next-gen version of the game. [NeoGAF]

The man who started the now-banned /r/TheFappening subreddit wants his privacy back. There’s just a slight irony to that. [The Verge]

And for something different: Before he was The Doctor, Peter Capaldi was a superstar as Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It. Here’s a collection of some of the best Tucker quotes as motivational posters but be warned that Malcolm Tucker’s language isn’t anywhere near as family friendly as The Doctor. [BuzzFeed]

For something else on the light side, here’s a look at the evolution of console graphics over the last 37 years from the Atari 2600 to the latest generation of console. Bonus points for calling out Gran Turismo 2 as the best looking PS1 game. That was my favourite GT game and it has the best intro video of any game in history. [Ars Technica]

It’s been a well-known fact for a while now but just in case you didn’t know, women make up almost half of all gamers and adult women outnumber under-18 boys. [Wall Street Journal]

Phil Fish is leaving gaming and selling Polytron and Fez after being hacked by people who claimed to be 4chan and wanting to shut down “social justice warriors.” I’ll try to get an article up next week but in case I’m covering something else, I’ll leave you this link. [Develop]

Blizzard’s promised World of Warcraft tribute to Robin Williams has been spotted in the data for the Warlords of Draenor expansion. [Eurogamer]

I might have called IEM ESL’s flagship tournament series but I’m not so sure any more. The ESL One series is looking like the real flagship after peaking at over 400,000 for last weekend’s $250,000 Counter-Strike: GO tournament. [ESL Gaming]

Even wonder who torrents the most and who torrents what in the US. Our old friends at Movoto have been digging through the data for an answer. [Movoto]

Loved The Sims 3 and looking for The Sims 4? Well, don’t expect anywhere near as much content at launch. Expect EA/Maxis to make up for it with DLC. [Sims 4 News]

The man behind an unofficial Minecraft seems to have disappeared and so has over $500,000 in ticket money. [PC Gamer]

The folks behind the NASDAQ website looked into the future value of eSports. Sure, the article is poorly researched but the fact that they wrote the article at all kind of provides the answer. [NASDAQ]

John Oliver and most of the internet is behind net neutrality. Leading civil rights groups are throwing their lot in with Big Telecom because net neutrality will “harm communities of colour.” I think my brain just shut down from the sheer stupidity of that statement. [The Nation]

Big Telecom is also buying off people to troll articles in support of net neutrality. You know, if they spent less on lobbying, they could spend that money on better infrastructure, higher speeds or lower prices. That would mean that those companies are run by people with brains though. [Vice]

Dial-up might be dead but don’t tell AOL. They’re still making money off of it. [Quartz]

Microsoft isn’t planning a second major update for Windows 8. It looks like they’re going all-in on Windows 9. [Forbes]

Could Galaxy Quest finally get a sequel? Probably not but it’s fun to dream. [/Film]

While Forbes is a reputable business publication, the web content is a little bit more dodgy. It’s quasi-community based, Bleacher Report-esque setup of web content leads to some poor stuff under their branding. That includes an ill-advised defence of Comcast. [The Consumerist]

I know that we have some League of Legends fans around these parts. Perhaps you’d be interested in this detailed look at the ongoing ownership turmoil of North American LCS team LMQ. [OnGamers]

The International may have come and gone but ESPN’s interest in eSports hasn’t. After a successful run streaming The International, ESPN was so impressed with their viewership that they want to expand their eSports programming. [Daily Dot]

Have you ever wanted to know how little money you needed to make an Xbox One indie game? Happion Labs rushed out Sixty-Second Shooter for Microsoft and did so for just over $5,000. [Game Dev Blog]

What do you do with far too much time on your hands? You review all 30 characters in Mario Kart 8. [The AV Club]

A security expert has found security backdoors that Apple has included on their iPhones and iPads that gives unencrypted access to a whole host of information you’d rather no one saw. Doesn’t this make you feel great about every tech company? [Times of India]

It probably wouldn’t surprise you to hear that World of Warcraft is worth over a billion dollars to Blizzard annually. However, you might be surprised to hear that Star Wars: The Old Republic generated $165 million in revenue last year. For a game that was a critical and commercial flop, it still prints money. [SuperData Research]

If you’re a Yogscast fan, it’s been a rough couple of weeks. First, the team announces a questionable sales commission program. Then, it’s half-million dollar Kickstarter campaign fell apart and everyone’s blaming everyone else. [Kotaku]

It’s been nearly 25 years since Twin Peaks debuted and most of the cast did a reunion to celebrate the show’s upcoming Blu-Ray release. Much to no one’s surprise, David Lynch and Ray Wise haven’t aged. Fortunately, neither has Madchen Amick. [Warming Glow]

PSA: The Destiny beta has been opened up to everyone. Get to it, people. [Bungie]

I’ve never mentioned the show Heroes of Cosplay on the blog because cosplaying friends say that the show is the usual reality show dreck and has nothing to do with cosplay other than cosplayers. But since there’s been a bit of Heroes of Cosplay drama lately, here’s a look at how the show affects conventions and what the non-reality star cosplayers think of this outside intrusion into their hobby. [Rebel666]

So you’re paying for a 75 MBPS connection on Verizon FIOS. How fast is Netflix streaming? If you guessed 0.5% of your maximum speed and 12.5% of Netflix’s maximum streaming speed, you’d be right. There is a way around that, though. [I Am Not A Programmer]

Apple will censor iTunes so games with any sort of message can’t end up on the App Store but they don’t care if you blatantly steal someone else’s game and try to sell it as your own. [Action Trip]

It seems to be Yogscast week this week. First, they come up with a questionable revenue model. Now, they’re in the middle of a Kickstarter controversy over a cancelled Yogscast game. [Gamasutra]

Since we’ve been talking about shady YouTube deals, free-to-play games and DLC on the blog lately, how about we let Dorkly explain how they came into existence. [Dorkly]

The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority have said that EA’s ads for Dungeon Keeper Mobile are misleading. That’s not surprising. Calling it a game is misleading. [Eurogamer]

The court-ordered Google plan to remove search results in Europe is already being used for evil. A former Merrill Lynch banker whose investments cost the company millions has gotten a BBC report about him pulled from Google search results. So now Google has been forced to remove a legitimate story because someone didn’t like it. Amazing… [BBC]

Which game engine is the best according to industry experts and indie devs? It’s still the Unreal Engine. Just because it doesn’t seem to have taken off with the triple-A devs doesn’t mean Unreal 4 won’t still be big. [Develop]

The latest controversy to strike eSports isn’t a cheating scandal but a social network promotion scandal. Prominent eSports news site OnGamers has been banned from Reddit for a year leading to the resignation of Rod “Slasher” Breslau from the site after a submission and upvoting scandal. [OnGamers]

Fox News, the conservative pseudo-news channel that hates liberals and youths, ripped of BioShock Infinite’s logo for a logo of one of its pandering crusades. The irony. [The AV Club]

The MPAA tried taking down /r/FullLengthFilms because of piracy and all that. What they didn’t realize is that 1) Google isn’t going for it; and 2) They more than quadrupled the popularity of the subreddit in a textbook case of the Streisand Effect. [Vice]

Are you interested in being a YouTube Let’s Player and trying to become internet famous? A video game lawyer has some tips to help you avoid copyright issues on YouTube. [Gamasutra]

I’ve got two Vice links for you today. This one looks at the first video game and internet addiction rehab centre in America. [Vice]

Living in Northern Ontario, eSports isn’t really a big deal. So it’s pretty cool to see the scale of some of these events like this look at how big DreamHack Summer 2014 was. [Red Bull]

eSports just hit another small milestone. Robert Morris University is creating a League of Legends varsity team to compete in the Collegiate Star League. It’s going to be a real team complete with scholarships, a coach and practice squads. This could be the start of something big. [GamesBeat]

In the battle between the Oculus Rift and the Project Morpheus, which VR machine reigns supreme? [Rolling Stone]

Couldn’t make it to E3 but want some E3 swag? It’s on Ebay and it’ll cost you. [Yahoo Games]

I don’t know if you’ve heard but the media can’t get enough of PewDiePie’s $4 million annual YouTube earnings. [New York Post]

Remember when local cable channels had various call-in shows to fill in the time? Here’s the tale of Ten Forward, a Star Trek TNG fan show from Scarborough, ON. [Blog TO]