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• Nintendo applauds first criminal arrest in Japan for selling DS flashcarts

  By Jay Alabaster | 31 May, 2012 13:21

  Japanese game maker Nintendo applauded the first arrest of and criminal charges against a Japanese individual for selling devices that allow illegal copies of games to be played on its DS handheld console.

• Diablo 3 being called "Big Pineapple" in China to dodge sales ban

  By Michael Kan | 29 May, 2012 12:04

  Vendors on one of China's largest e-commerce platforms are resorting to calling the hit PC game Diablo 3 "Big Pineapple," which sounds similar in Mandarin Chinese, as a way to dodge the site's censors. The site has banned the sale of the overseas product pending a review from government authorities.

• Kinect now knows when you're happy, sad, planning to turn it off

  By Kevin Riggle | 23 May, 2012 04:31

  Now your computer can tell when you're angry at it.

• MediaTek and Gameloft team up to put more games on phones

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 12 May, 2012 01:10

  Semiconductor company MediaTek and Gameloft have joined forces to develop games for phones based on MediaTek's chipsets, they announced on Friday.

• PopCap Games CEO: Android still too fragmented, China helping company innovate

  By Michael Kan | 10 May, 2012 23:47

  Android's increased fragmentation across hardware devices and OS versions, and its lack of a central app store, have left game developers disappointed with the OS, according to the CEO of "Plants vs. Zombies" publisher PopCap Games.

• Angry Birds reaches 1 billion downloads

  By Jeff Bertolucci | 10 May, 2012 07:12

  Rovio announced today that its Angry Birds games have been downloaded more than one billion times, an astounding accomplishment for a simple slingshot game with a goofy birds-vs-pigs backstory.

• Angry Birds maker Rovio plans for amusement parks in China

  By Michael Kan | 10 May, 2012 01:39

  Mobile game publisher Rovio is planning to build theme parks in China revolving around its hit product Angry Birds, months after a local amusement park in the country sought to cash in on the franchise's popularity with its own real-life version of the Angry Birds game.

• Lenovo-backed firm sidesteps hardcore gamers, with Chinese video game system

  By Michael Kan | 03 May, 2012 23:23

  The Lenovo-backed company behind China's newest homegrown video game system is aiming for product sales to reach hundreds of thousands of units over the next fiscal year ending in March, as it tries to build consumer interest in a country where the world's hottest gaming consoles are banned from sale.

• 10 fantastic websites you need now

  By Christina DesMarais | 30 April, 2012 05:10

  What the Web offers consumers and technophiles evolves quickly, so keeping up with the latest and greatest sites can be a full-time job. Eye candy, slick utility, and superb shopping are a few themes designers and developers are getting better at serving up.

• The 12 best free entertainment services and apps of 2012

  By Megan Geuss | 24 April, 2012 22:52

  Whether you consume it or create it, entertainment is likely a huge part of the reason you love tech. You probably already have a subscription to big names such as Amazon Instant Video, Hulu Plus, or Netflix, and those are all good services, but they're not free.

• The most annoying Android apps

  By Sarah Jacobsson Purewal | 19 April, 2012 23:35

  Not all Android apps are created equal, and most are far from perfect.

• 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.

• 10 games you probably don't know about but should

  By Matt Peckham | 08 November, 2010 11:39

  Sometimes we can't play everything. And sometimes we're too focused on Madden NFL this or Mass Effect that, missing more-intrepid games. What's a consumer to do?