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Nokia kills off Ovi mobile brand
May 16, 2011Nokia is to stop using the Ovi brand to sell music, games and mobile apps. The company said it planned to wind up the four-year-old project and would be offering services under the Nokia name in future. In its early days, critics claimed that Ovi was...
Sony PlayStation relaunch begins
May 15, 2011Sony has announced that it will begin restoring its online PlayStation video game network on Sunday. The phased restoration of services will begin in the US, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East. The move comes more than three weeks after...
Guitar Hero video game series is axed by Activision
February 10, 2011The popular music video game Guitar Hero is being axed by the company that publishes it after nearly six years. Activision Blizzard, which makes the Call of Duty and World of Warcraft series, says it's ditching the franchise because "the popularity...
Free iPhone game written by a 14-year-old topped the App Store charts
January 17, 2011By Stela Roman /Chișinău / Moldova.ORG/ -- A free game written by an eighth grader is on top of the iTunes App Store charts. Bubble Ball is the game coded by Robert Nay, a 14-year-old from Spanish Fork, Utah. The game is a physics...
Kinect blamed for 'red ring of death' Xbox 360 failures
January 06, 2011Owners of Microsoft's Xbox gaming console have blamed its new Kinect hands-free controller for causing their consoles to fail. Console owners told the BBC that their machines crashed shortly after plugging in Kinect. Kinect allows gamers to control...
Nintendo issues warning on 3DS games for children
January 03, 2011The eyesight of children under six could be harmed by 3D games played on Nintendo's forthcoming handheld console, the company has warned. The games giant posted the health warning on the website devoted to the 3DS handheld. It said specialists had...
Call of Duty cyber attack prompts arrest of boy, 17
December 13, 2010A teenager has been arrested in connection with a cyber attack which put the online version of the computer game Call of Duty out of action. The 17-year-old was arrested in the Beswick area of Manchester by the Metropolitan Police's central e-crime...
14 year old boy's iPhone app hits almost 1 million downloads
October 10, 2010By Stela Roman /Chișinău / Moldova.ORG/ -- Abdulrahman Alzanki, at the age of just 14, has authored an Apple iPhone app that has been downloaded no less than 900,000 times! Alzanki created "Doodle Destroy" a puzzle of manipulation...
Fifa video game comes to Facebook
June 04, 2010The latest video game in the Fifa football series has launched on Facebook rather than on games consoles. The popularity of social media games has risen in recent years with up to 250 million global players logging on to various games each month. Previous...
"Casual" software games are easy for old and young
August 30, 2007"Casual" software - the sort of games anyone of any age can quickly learn to play. Titles like "Nintendogs," "Brain Age" and "Clubhouse Games" have propelled sales of Nintendo's portable DS, making it the most popular...