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• Sony and Lego collaborating on toy research

  By Jay Alabaster | 24 May, 2013 11:12

  Sony and Lego are working together on creating a new generation of products that bridge the gap between toys and video games.

• Yahoo acquires gaming infrastructure startup PlayerScale

  By John Ribeiro | 24 May, 2013 04:54

  Yahoo has acquired PlayerScale, a startup developer of infrastructure software for cross-platform gaming, adding to its string of recent acquisitions.

• US ITC refuses to ban Microsoft's Xbox at Google's request

  By John Ribeiro | 24 May, 2013 03:03

  The U.S. International Trade Commission has turned down a request for a ban on Microsoft's Xbox after finding that the gaming device did not infringe a patent owned by Google's Motorola Mobility unit.

• Microsoft brushes off claim Xbox Live accounts were compromised

  By Jeremy Kirk | 24 May, 2013 02:32

  Microsoft brushed off a dubious hacker's claim on Thursday that he stole 47 million account credentials for Microsoft's Xbox Live gaming service.

• In Pictures: The 16 best iPhone/iPad games of 2013 so far

  By Bob Brown | 23 May, 2013 08:53

  Fish turn into money, sorcerers rule and things get creepy in these iPhone and iPad games

• Microsoft Xbox One: Five important things we still don't know

  By \Ian Paul | 22 May, 2013 20:51

  For all the things we do know about Microsoft's Xbox One, there's a lot of things we still don't. For instance, how much will the console cost and when it will be released?

• Microsoft makes a play for the living room with Xbox One

  By Martyn Williams | 21 May, 2013 17:45

  Microsoft is making a big play for the living room with a new Xbox console that marries games with live TV, Internet browsing, music and Skype.

• Microsoft's Xbox One will succeed where Google TV failed

  By Mark Hachman | 22 May, 2013 00:34

  Microsoft developed the Xbox One to be the future of the living room. Instead, we got a Google TV that we'll actually want to use. And it even plays games.

• Sony PlayStation 4 vs next-gen Apple TV

  By Mark Hattersley | 21 February, 2013 18:11

  Sony has finally announced (sort of) the PS4 console, although it has no design, price or release date. We think this will fare badly against any app-enabled Apple TV box or full-blown Apple Television.

• How Windows 8 rewrites the rules of PC gaming

  By Loyd Case | 05 December, 2012 17:00

  PC gaming is primed for a renaissance—or at least a reinvention—like we haven’t seen since the advent of 3D acceleration in the late 1990s. For this, we can thank the mobile revolution and all its attendant technologies. Game developers can now tap into accelerometers, touchscreens, and the cloud to add new features and gameplay scenarios. And even Microsoft’s comprehensive approach to Windows—merging desktops, tablets, and smartphones under a common code base—is changing the ways in which game creators should approach their work.

• Best products of 2012: Entertainment

  By PCWorld staff | 28 November, 2012 15:40

  We saw a bevy of digital entertainment technology in 2012, but quantity rarely signifies quality. For every fabulous video game, HDTV, and pair of headphones that we evaluated this year, there were probably ten products that weren't worth the impossible-to-open, sealed-plastic clamshell enclosure they were shipped in.

• Nintendo Wii U: What you need to know

  By Ian Paul | 17 November, 2012 00:48

  Nintendo's Wii U gaming console hits store shelves in the United States on Sunday, November 18, and the new console is already garnering criticism for missing some key features Nintendo promised.

• Chinese developers take a bite of the Apple

  By Maria Korolov and Wang Fangqing | 22 August, 2011 20:39

  If you've ever gone to Apple's mobile app store and purchased games like High Noon, Gamebox1 or Doodletruck, then you've downloaded an app from the burgeoning Chinese software development community.

• Cloud drives speech recognition forward for Microsoft

  By Nancy Gohring | 14 December, 2010 06:43

  For years, using voice recognition technology on phones or other devices has been a novelty -- something people try once but never again, usually because it works so poorly. But recent developments, including harnessing the computational power of the cloud, have made it more usable and will make it even better in the near future, according to Microsoft.

• Apple's switch to Sandy Bridge: Impact for gamers?

  By Keir Thomas | 11 December, 2010 09:28

  Rumors suggest that Intel's forthcoming Sandy Bridge integrated CPU/graphics platform will find its way into the lower-end range of the next generation of MacBooks. Bearing in mind Apple's cozy relationship with Intel and its habit of adopting each new generation of Intel's processors, this would make a lot of sense.

• Hacker turns Kinect for Xbox 360 into Kinect for Linux PCs

  By Ian Paul | 13 November, 2010 02:06

  Well, that was fast. Do-it-yourself electronics kit maker and hobby retailer Adafruit recently announced that a hacker had won the company's Open Kinect Bounty. Spain-based hacker Hector Martin Cantero, who is known online as "marcan," released a proof-of-concept video Wednesday night showing the Kinect interfacing with his Linux-based laptop.