Apple's iPhone has emerged as a serious videogame platform, fulfilling the long-held promise of mobile phone gaming and positioning itself as a legitimate competitor to handheld consoles.
A U.S. crackdown on European online gambling breaches World Trade Organization rules and would justify action at the World Trade Organization, the European Commission said on Thursday.
A new videogame company is aiming to challenge the big three console makers by providing a cloud-based gaming system promising on-demand access to games and no lag time.
The take-up of Nokia's N-Gage gaming service has accelerated since the top cell phone maker has started to pre-install it in new mid- and higher-end phone models, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
Nokia has dropped plans to add its gaming service to the older, but very successful N73 model, a spokesman for the top cellphone maker said on Monday.
Videogame publisher Gazillion also will develop Marvel Universe, an MMO game for PC and consoles. Financial details of the licensing deal were not disclosed.
Analysis of Americans' usage of online gaming sites showed that the category has grown 27 percent during the past year to 86 million visitors in December 2008, according to new research.
Amid a swathe of negative publicity against its Playstation 3 device, Sony fired back late Wednesday, issuing a press-release blasting its competitors as lacking features and value.
Chinese online gaming company NetEase.com, Inc. reported on late Wednesday its first-quarter net earnings declined from the previous year.
Nokia began the roll-out of its N-Gage gaming service and Share on Ovi media sharing site on Tuesday as falling handset prices spur the world's largest cell phone maker to expand into mobile Internet services.
Nokia has again pushed back the launch of its gaming service N-gage due to delays in software testing, a spokesman said on Thursday, in the latest blow to the Internet services ambitions of the world's top cell phone maker.
The European Commission dealt a blow to European online gaming companies on Monday when it accepted a U.S. offer of openings in other sectors to compensate for closing the U.S. gambling market to foreign firms.
The mobile-gaming market suffered a reversal of fortune in the second quarter of 2007 as revenues for title publishers declined by 9 percent sequentially, compared with 11 percent growth in the first quarter, according to iSuppli Corp.
Oil's rally to record price highs has sparked a rush of bets on just how far it can go -- from workers in London's East End to Manhattan industry gurus.
Nokia's move into Internet operations faced headwinds on Friday, as the cell phone maker postponed the start of its gaming service due to software testing delays, and Warner pulled its songs from Nokia's music shop.
Nokia, the world's top mobile phone maker, unveiled on Wednesday a new online music store, new top-end handsets and a global gaming service as it takes on recent rival U.S. rival Apple.
Boys who play video games on school days spend 30 percent less time reading and girls spend 34 percent less time doing homework than those who do not play such games, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
Tattersall’s Ltd agreed to buy Golden Casket Lottery Corp. on Monday for $530 million, giving the firm a dominant position in Australian lottery sales.
Mobile Phone maker Sony Ericsson announced it is extending support for 3D graphics into its upcoming phones, adopting specialized hardware and software as it seeks to usher in a new era of mobile gaming.
Technologically advanced games from some of the largest game developers draw widespread attention, however a new research report indicates that mobile gaming will drive the gaming industry, led by casual and female gamers.
Electronic Arts, the world largest video game developer, announced the acquisition the creators of the Battlefield franchise on Monday, vowing to expand the franchise to next-generation consoles and platforms.
Online gambling firms faced their biggest-ever crisis on Monday after U.S. Congress passed legislation to end Internet gaming there, threatening jobs and wiping 3.5 billion pounds ($6.5 billion) off company values.
