Perhaps you’ve seen that recent Microsoft demo where a game could save and load progress from Xbox 360, Windows 7 and Windows Phone 7 Series devices. My first thought upon seeing that was “So, why doesn’t Microsoft have something that can do that on Xbox and PC right now?” My second thought was “Boy, [...]

Students of the hadouken have a new venue to test their fighting mettle: Street Fighter IV launched Wednesday for the iPhone and iPod touch. This seminal arcade fighter brings high-end graphics, complex combos, and a memorable cast of characters to the mobile platform.
With a price of $10, everything about this iPhone game is high-end. I [...]

During the 1990s, the Square brand was synonymous with the role-playing video game. A generation of gamers got hooked on the challenging quests, quirky characters and sweeping story lines of Square RPGs like “Chrono Trigger,” “The Secret of Mana” and, of course, the “Final Fantasy” series.
Over the last decade, though, the Japan-based company — now [...]

The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that Sony is involved in a pair of intriguing products: first, a phone that could download and play PlayStation games, as well as an iPad-like tablet device.
The entire story is written in the so-called “voice of God”: no sourcing, except for an unknown number of people “familiar with the [...]

As an electronic reader, Apple’s iPad has been touted as a possible “Kindle killer” but what has videogame makers buzzing is the potential of the touchscreen tablet computer as a gaming platform.
“It’s going to be a really powerful handheld game console,” said Asbjoern Soendergaard, founder and chief executive officer of Tactile Entertainment. “It’s going to [...]

Sony is countering Apple by developing its own handheld products that include a tablet-like device and a smartphone that can download and play PlayStation games, The Wall Street Journal said in a news report on Thursday.
The tablet-like device being developed will include netbook, e-book reader and gaming functions, the Journal said, citing people familiar with [...]

Activision Blizzard Inc is forming a business unit for its blockbuster “Call of Duty” franchise, following the departure of two senior executives at the studio that developed the video game, the company said on Tuesday.
Jason West, president of the Infinity Ward studio, and Vince Zampella, its chief executive, have left the company, Activision said.
In a [...]

Coming soon to an iPhone near you — a selection of new movies? Netflix, the pioneer of home DVD delivery that recently stated streaming movies online and onto game consoles, appears to be testing the waters for an iPhone app.
A single-question e-mail survey began reaching Netflix users this week trying to gauge interest in such [...]

Time to dust off that resume, Spider-Man. You’re fired!
Don’t fret, the web-slinger will still be keeping New York City safe from Venom and Carnage and any number of other dastardly villains he’s tangled with over the years. But beginning tomorrow, he’s going to have to do it between trips to the unemployment line.
That’s the day [...]

Japanese electronics giant Sony assured millions of users that a system bug halting play on older versions of the PlayStation 3 had been fixed.
The company “verified that the symptoms are now resolved and that users are able to use their PS3 normally,” Sony spokesman Patrick Seybold said on the PlayStation blog.
Sony earlier indicated that the [...]