Is iTunes killing full album sales? That's what a few recording artists think so, as although online music sales continue to rise, overall album sales as well as CD sales in general have steadily dwindled. They're pointing to the now-popular method of freely choosing what particular songs to buy from an album as the reason.

Tecmo's unquestionably in a bubbling tub of hot water the past couple of months, but could their luck be changing? Square Enix has revealed earlier that they have a proposal for a friendly takeover on the beleaguered developer.

The iphone-dev team has released updates for the PwnageTool and QuickPwn Release Candidate. These are minor updates to squash some incompatibility errors that have been reported from their previous versions.

Download: PwnageTool 2.0.3.1
Download: QuickPwn RC3

Leipzig's over and the Tokyo Game Show won't be till October. But that doesn't mean there won't be any other conferences around to satisfy ever-curious gamers' appetites. And this time, we won't even have to fly overseas. The Austin Game Developers Conferences is coming up next, and they've added in a nice touch to this year's event.

If you're bored with all the unicellular screenshots and videos of Maxis' upcoming life simulator Spore(PC, Nintendo Wii, DS, Mac, and Mobile), then feast your eyes on this latest trailer for the game. Producer Kip Katsarelis and Software Engineer Soren Johnsen explain how the civilization stage of the game works and show just how cool it can be waging war against your fellow life forms. Video and details after the jump.

For those of you waiting for a public release of the new build, the wait is finally over. ZodTTD recently announced that gpSPhone v2.5.0, which includes all of the new features previewed in the beta release of the homebrew emulator a couple of weeks ago - including support for Apple's firmware 2.0. Find out the details to the public release of gpSPhone v2.5.0 in our full article.

If having Spore on your computer isn't enough, then get yourself a copy of Spore Origins. It's a spin-off of the game for mobile platforms. The game isn't out on all platforms yet, but it is out for the Classic iPod and iPod Nano. Details in the full article.

Don't look now, but the iphone-dev team recently released a new version of the iPhone and iPod touch jailbreaking tool, PwnageTool. The latest version bumps itself up to 2.0.3 and includes a lot of useful new additions for any freedom-loving Apple gadget user. You can view the complete list of changes in our full article.

Download: PwnageTool 2.0.3

I'm sure that iPhone 3G users would have heard of the persisting network problems users have been experiencing. Perhaps you may even be one of them. I even heard of one woman who sued Apple for false advertising over the speed of the iPhone 3G's connection.

A new independent research says that it doesn't have anything to do with the device's hardware at all - the problem lies with the carrier networks. More in the full article.

We've had a couple rumors dropping in for the past couple of months about upcoming plans for Apple's future line of hardware and software products. Recent rumors suggest that all these changes are growing imminent: the next-gen iPod Nano and iPod Touch, the latest iTunes update, and Mac OS X 10.5.6 introducing Blu-ray might be just around the corner!