New Research In Motion CEO Thorsten Heins has a small window of opportunity to resuscitate the long-stumbling smartphone maker.

A lot is riding on Thorsten Heins, who's been charged with resuscitating stumbling Research in Motion as its new CEO.

Sega said Friday it has acquired U.S. online game developer Three Rings Design, in an effort to grow outside its traditional video game business overseas.

Japan’s games industry is struggling. A combination of a difficult domestic economic environment, as well as the natural disasters that hit the country earlier in the year has led to a significant drop across the whole industry for the first half of the year.

Hackers have stolen the personal data of some 1.29 million customers of the Japanese game maker Sega, the company said, in a theft via a website of its European unit.

Video game company Sega had a database hacked and sensitive information on about 1.3 million customers has been compromised, according to media reports.

Nintendo’s deal with major online merchant sites to stop selling R4 chips has done little to dampen the rampant piracy of games on the company’s handheld console.

The video games industry has certainly come a long way from its humble beginnings of coin-operated arcade machines and monotone graphics. Remember washing all your pocket-money away on Space Invaders at the local fish and chips shop?