Forget console wars: this is real, serious, deadly war. A story from Yahoo crossed our desk. It’s about how a metal that’s used in consumer electronics, most prominently the PS2 and PS3 has resulted in a blood feud in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, extending the bloody fighting that had previously been about diamonds.

Hit the jump for more on this and feel free to scorn Sony as much as you like.

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It’s a recession here in the US of A and that means belt-tightening times for many Americans. Less money for frivolous expenditures like say… video games and consoles. It also means that the value of companies that sell those games can take quite a dip, if forecast revenues don’t measure up to reality. This isn’t a bad situation to be in if you’ve been saving trillions of pennies to buy one of those companies. You get where I’m going with this? Hang in there… (more…)