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Now that Sony’s old guard has taken what was once a strong electronics and gaming brand and run it into the ground, the company’s new guard is circling back to resurrect it. This morning the company announced a management overhaul that will see CEO Howard Stringer succeed Ryoji Chubachi as president and assume responsibility for Sony’s key electronics division.

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In a month when some 533,000 jobs were lost nationwide, Americans bought an astonishing amount of videogame paraphernalia–$2.91 billion worth, according to market research outfit NPD Group. That’s a 10 percent increase over November 2007. Said NPD analyst Anita Frazier, “With $16 billion realized for the year so far through November, the industry is still on pace to achieve total year revenue of $22 billion in the U.S.”

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Gaming piracy is as antiquarian a concept as PONG. So says Atari founder Nolan Bushnell. And who are we to disagree with the man who invented the world’s first (or second, depending on your view) video arcade game?

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Want to put a Nintendo Wii under the Christmas tree this year? Then follow a delivery truck. Otherwise you’re going to have to make do with a slip of paper, which is slightly better than nothing, but not much.
Unable to keep store shelves stocked with the highly sought video game console, Nintendo today said it [...]

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Trip Hawkins, Founder & CEO of Digital Chocolate, and Robert Kotick, CEO of Activision, take the stage to discuss “core gaming” with Webb Alert host Morgan Webb.
A bit slow getting started here, but Hawkins soon gets things moving by claiming traditional content is dead. We’re headed toward a world of immersive, social content, says Hawkins, [...]

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Note: John Paczkowski is on vacation and won’t be writing or posting videos until he returns Monday.

To keep you abreast of tech news while he’s away, we’re compiling a daily digest of 10 must-read tech stories. We’re calling it the Tech 10 and it appears below.

1. As inevitable as death and taxes: YouTube, the world’s No. 1 video site, will begin placing ads in its videos, All Things Digital’s Kara Swisher reports. The animated advertising will appear no earlier than 15 seconds into a video, overlaid on the bottom fifth of the screen. Citing viewer revulsion, a YouTube product manager told NewTeeVee the site will not use the dreaded preroll or postroll.

2. Apple, leveraging its deal-brokering with AT&T stateside, has signed up European partners for iPhone sales and service. A report in the Financial Times notes that three telecoms–T-Mobile in Germany, Orange in France and O2 in the United Kingdom–will fork over 10% of the revenues made from iPhone calls and data transfers.

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Though a public high school’s outdoor amphitheater might seem an unlikely location for Microsoft’s event at this year’s E3 Media Summit in Santa Monica, Calif., it was particularly apt given the schoolyard beating the company’s taken in the gaming market recently. Microsoft’s Xbox 360 strategy has been generally unimpressive and, in some cases, disastrous thus [...]

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