What? o_O

Am I a poor english speaker or did you just write a senseless post ?

I use the derogatory term "pubetard" to refer to those under 18 years old who act like entitled, spoiled, opinionated brats. You know, the kid screaming over the mic with vulgar profanity and threats to use his hack when you are beating them in a multiplayer game. Likewise, I don't expect these same kids to know the proper use of "release" much less what an adverb is.

Senseless, at the time. Senseless now? No, I have explained the term.

http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/707811/beyond-good--evil-hd-releasing-on-psn-xbox-live-in-2011.html
http://www.1up.com/news/big-planet-psp-finally-releasing
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/11/23/rumor-kingdom-hearts-birth-by-sleep-not-releasing-on-psn/
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2010/01/08/heavy-rain-officially-releasing-on-february-23/

Also headline English is somewhat different than normal English. Basically writing a headline gives you the right to ignore most grammar in order to get shorter punchier sentences.

That's actually a very good point. "Release" is transitive, so it should be used passively in this case.

But there's a different definition of the word "release" in gaming. It becomes an intransitive verb, which means "to be released". It's not the original sense of the word, but the English language is constantly evolving.

Sorry, but no. Just because some people who don't know proper English use a word in an incorrect manner, that doesn't mean it took on a new meaning. It means just that: They don't know proper English.

This is just like what I've seen some people do to the word "bias" on this site, which happens to be a noun. The proper adjective is "biased". A person is biased, not bias. Again, this is not an evolution of language, it's simply incorret. Nothing else.

EDIT:
Another nice example is "definitely". Some people on the internet spell it "definately". That doesn't mean it'll ever be right.

To quote Urban Dictionary http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=definately : "definately - Idiot-speak for "definitely". One of the most common moronic misspellings found on the internet."

To be honest I just see it as an evolution of the language. It's becoming more popular because it cuts down the length of the sentence (by three words no less) while still retaining 100% of the conveyed meaning while not appearing as a grammatical mistake to most people. It seems to meet all the criteria for language evolution.

The use of "bias" rather than "biased" is incorrect word ge. "Definately" is a misspelling. And "I could care less" is just idiocy because it makes no sense whatsoever.

"Release" is something different. When a word is used in a certain context by a majority of the population over a long period of time, it becomes part of the language.

Examples:

We don't use "thou" as a second person singular pronoun.

We don't hyphenate "weekend".

We use the verb "[to] lunch" as a noun, in place of the actual noun "luncheon".

It really bothered you so much,that you had to make a thread about it. lol

I think its a combination of both.  People don't know grammar, so they write things improperly.  This may be the case in just one industry (such as gaming), or for everything.  Eventually, after not using the term correctly for a prolonged period of time, it does become the accepted term to use.  You also have to remember that titles are not the same as articles (at least I think).  If everything in a title was supposed to be gramatically correct, then you would have to have completely sentences, and they are always.

I'm not a grammar genius, but shouldn't there be a comma in the title after verb, or is it one of those that can go either way?