No date yet on PlayStation Store's return, but free games for European and US markets detailed.
Following the return of core PlayStation Network services over the weekend, Sony has detailed which games will be included in its 'Welcome Back' programme.
Plan to catch up with missed releases will accelerate store updates.
Sony has revealed that it will bring the PlayStation Store up to speed with multiple updates each week once the service is relaunched. Prior to the attack on PSN last month, the store was updated once a week - on Tuesdays in the US, and Thursdays in the UK.
Cave's Deathsmiles to reach US players unaltered with original Japanese language.
Japanese developer Cave's scrolling shooter Deathsmiles IIX will become the first title to be released in unaltered form for the US Games on Demand service next week.
According to Cave, Microsoft approached the developer directly, but it will now "be giving this format a try for getting some of our other Japan-only shooters released overseas".
Entrant who can "electrify the senses" will win $10,000.
Rez game director Tetsuya Mizuguchi is set to judge game development competition Experience the Music, which promotes the upcoming release of Child Of Eden, Rez's spiritual successor.
Ubisoft has partnered with gaming portal Kongregate for the competition, which will award the winner with a prize of $10,000, with second and third place netting $3,000 and $2,000 respectively.
Industry veteran's studio Spicy Horse will produce 3D free-to-play versions of PopCap's games.
Spicy Horse, the Shanghai-based developer behind Alice: Madness Returns and fronted by indusrty veteran American McGee, has announced a long-term development deal with PopCap Games along with a new $3 million investment from Vickers Venture Partners.
Format: PC
Release: Out now
Publisher: Paradox
Developer: Taleworlds / Sich Studios
Rebrand will see company name used instead following recent deal with Microsoft.
Nokia has announced that it will scrap the Ovi brand of services - which includes its Ovi Store - moving everything under the Nokia brand. The store, through which Nokia users can purchase apps and games, will remain intact during the transition which is scheduled to begin in July and extend into 2012.
Source says websites cloud service was used by hackers posing under false names.
The hackers responsible for the recent security breach of Sony's PlayStation Network may have used Amazon's cloud-based server service to stage the attack.
According to a Bloomberg source, Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service was not hacked itself, but instead used under a fake name. The offending account has now reportedly been shut down.
Two UK developers top the all-formats chart for the week ended May 14.
London-based Splash Damage's online shooter Brink debuts at number one in this week's UK chart. Another UK developer, Cheshire-based Traveller's Tales, just misses out on the top spot with it's Disney-published Lego Pirates Of The Caribbean.
Last week's number one, Zumba Fitness, drops to third while Portal 2 drops two places to fourth. Call Of Duty: Black Ops rounds out the top five.
01. Brink (Bethesda)
Developer restores access to its games following confirmation of PSN service rollout.
MMOG developer Sony Online Entertainment has confirmed that its networks are now back online, meaning that games such as DC Universe Online, Free Realms and EverQuest are now accessible again after nearly a month of downtime.
CVs and up to 25,000 email addresses taken in attack on Eidos and Deus Ex sites last week.
High volume of requests causes bottleneck as Sony rolls out phased restoration programme.
Due to the large volume of PlayStation Network users attempting to reset their passwords following the restoration of some services over the weekend, Sony had to shut down its services again this morning.
Regulators demand further assurances before PSN can be reactivated.
Following the start of a phased restoration of Sony's PlayStation Network services across Europe and North America, the Japanese company has faced a legal block in its domestic territory. Until it provides security assurances to regulators, PSN services cannot be restored in Japan.
Online gaming, friends lists and chat restored as "phased rollout" begins.
Over the weekend, Sony began restoring online gameplay and some other services to its PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment's soe.com after more than three weeks offline.
Increased PS3 trade-ins, an attack on Deus Ex website and a huge game leak - the key stories from a week in the game industry.
Monday
Details of entire game, screenshots and audio, posted six months ahead of release in one of gaming's biggest leaks.
Gaming blog Kotaku has revealed a vast number of details regarding Activision's upcoming firstperson shooter sequel Modern Warfare 3, a full six months ahead of its supposed release date. The move appears to leave Activision with very little left to hide, disrupting a no doubt carefully planned PR campaign over the coming months that's likely to kick off at E3 next month.
Acclaim titles which breached child protection laws shut down in addition.
Disney-owned social game developer Playdom has settled for $3 million with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) following accusations of improper collection and distribution of children's personal information.
Fiscal report shows year-on-year sales increase of 104.8 per cent; Sonic Colors a key contributor.
Sega Sammy has reported profits of ¥41.5 billion ($513.94m/£315.95m) and sales of ¥396.7 ($4.91bn/£3.02bn) billion - year-on-year increases of 104.8 per cent and 3.1 per cent respectively - for the financial year ended March 31, 2011.
Strong domestic sales see Japanese developer and publisher return to profit.
Following losses last year, Disgaea developer Nippon Ichi has returned to profit this year. The company has reported a sales increase of 4.4 per cent to ¥2.22 billion ($27.5/£16.9m), while operating income rose from a loss of ¥235 million yen last year to a gain of ¥315 million ($3.9m/£2.4m).
Calls for greater cooperation between the UK's game development and investment industries.
Ed Vaizey, the UK minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, has called for more co-operation between the game development and investment industries in this country. Speaking to Gamesindustry.biz, Vaizey revealed that he thinks one of the biggest challenges facing the game industry is access to finance.
Clint Hocking eulogises the game industry and the talented individuals who make it up as they go along.
Microsoft aiming to significantly bolster Kinect line-up by the end of the year; showing new games at E3.
Following its success in April's NPD report, Microsoft has said that it will triple its Kinect games portfolio by the end of the year. According to the company, the Xbox 360 has been the top-selling console in the US for ten out of the previous 11 months.
John Blakely takes up general manager position at the social games studio after nearly a decade with SOE.
Sony Online Entertainment vice president of development John Blakely has left his position to join Zynga. Blakely will take on the role of general manager at the social game developer's Austin branch, according to an update spotted on his LinkedIn profile.
Later Easter holidays and higher average retail prices contribute to 20 per cent year-on-year growth.
The US videogame market has seen 20 per cent year-on-year growth in April, amassing $961.2 million in sales, according to the NPD group.
NPD reports that software sales have risen 26 per cent in year-on-year to $503.2 million, while hardware has enjoyed a slighty more modest uptick of 12 per cent to $279.9 million. Accesorries, meanwhile, grew 20 per cent to $147.6 million.
