The royal wedding results in another four-day weekend.
As today is now a designated bank holiday in the UK, adding to Monday's existing holiday, we've decided to take advantage of the free time to catch up on all those uncompleted games.
We look back to when Bungie started the fight, and defined the console firstperson shooter.
Firm erred in hiring more lawyers instead of more security experts, claims PS3 hacker.
PlayStation 3 hacker George “Geohot” Hotz has offered his own take on Sony’s loss of 77 million customers’ personal information, saying that it is those that make the decisions – not those who design the security – who are at fault.
Movie streaming service sympathetic to PSN users’ plight; assures customers their personal data is secure.
Lovefilm, the movie streaming service normally available to PS3 owners through PlayStation Network, has moved to reassure its customers that their personal information is safe despite the attack on PSN, and told disgruntled users: “We’re as frustrated as you are.”
EA-published sequel straight in at number one, knocking Lego Star Wars from top spot.
Valve’s Portal 2 is evidently as popular in Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Norway as it is in the UK – as was the case in this week’s UK chart, it’s the week’s highest new entry at number one.
Amazon has issued a response to the lawsuit filed by Apple last month over the retailer’s use of the phrase “app store” for its Android software marketplace, Amazon Appstore.
Battle And Get! Pokémon Typing DS goes straight in at the top as PSP regains hardware lead from 3DS.
The latest Media Create charts have a familiar look to them, with Pokémon back at the summit of the software charts and PSP the week’s best-selling hardware.
Promise of dramatic leaps in CPU and graphics processing in new Snapdragon chips, coming later this year.
Chip manufacturer Qualcomm says that its next-generation Snapdragon chips will see "console-quality gaming" on smartphones.
A leaked presentation, seen by Electronista, has Qualcomm promising that its MSM8270, MSM8930, MSM8960 and APQ8064 chips, based on future Krait architecture, will be as much as five times as fast as their predecessors in terms of CPU power and four times faster in graphics processing.
First lawsuit filed, accusing Sony of negligence and dragging its heels; seeks damages, credit card monitoring and class-action status.
An Alabama man has filed the first lawsuit against Sony over its loss of 77 million PlayStation Network users’ personal data.
Talent and select IP acquired from Wonderland Software as social studio continues its rapid expansion.
Social gaming firm Zynga has formed a dedicated UK studio, Zynga Mobile UK, after the acquisition of mobile developer Wonderland Software.
Zynga – which reaches over 265 million players each month on Facebook – has acquired talent and some IP from Wonderland, though its iOS title GodFinger was not part of the deal.
Insists it has seen no evidence of stolen credit card data, which was encrypted and stored in separate location to personal information.
Sony says that it hopes to have PSN up and running again, albeit in a limited capacity, within a week.
All our coverage of the digital service's ongoing outage and reported data breach in one place.
Below you'll find links to our coverage of the recent attack on Sony's digital service, along with expert and developer interviews on PSN's ongoing outage.
Senator Welcomes Sony's "Strong First Step"
Sony Delays PSN Return
Launches delayed as Sony's service remains offline, developers offer mixed reactions.
The ongoing PSN outage resulting from an "external intrusion" is beginning to affect developers as well as users. This has been especially true for studios whose games were scheduled for release this week.
Security expert urges those affected by digital service data breach to take defensive action rather than wait it out.
Streaming TV firm offers one week of credit to Hulu Plus subscribers unable to access service through PS3.
US TV streaming service Hulu is to compensate users who have been unable to access the service due to the ongoing PlayStation Network downtime.
In an email sent to Hulu Plus subscribers seen by gaming blog Kotaku, the firm points out that the service is available through a variety of other devices before telling customers that they will be compensated anyway.
Yet another milestone falls to indie success story, just three months after it hit a million.
Indie hit Minecraft has passed two million sales, creator Markus “Notch” Persson has announced.
But information rights body ICO says under UK law Sony terms are not applicable; is threatening penalty of £500,000.
Under the UK's Data Protection Act, any individual or company which handles personal information (including names, email addresses and payment details) is required to keep that information secure, but Sony's PSN terms and conditions suggest otherwise:
Publisher plans to lure advertisers to its social, mobile, online and console portfolio: “Brands want to go where gamers are.”
Dave Madden, EA’s new senior vice president of global sales, believes that there are “buckets of money” to be made from advertising real-world products in videogames.
Issues service alert cautioning of phishing messages sent to players of Modern Warfare 2.
Microsoft has issued a service alert for Xbox Live, warning users of a phishing scam targeting players of Modern Warfare 2.
In a post on the Xbox Live status page, Microsoft warns: “Users may receive potential phishing attempts via title-specific messaging while playing Modern Warfare 2.
Connecticut senator Richard Blumenthal criticises “troubling lack of notification” to customers affected by PSN hack.
Richard Blumenthal, Democratic US senator for Connecticut, has written to SCEA president Jack Tretton, taking the firm to task for its failure to notify in good time the users whose personal information was taken by the hacker who breached PSN’s security.
CryEngine editor coming in “early summer” with full SDK to follow in August.
Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli has announced that mod tools for Crysis 2’s CryEngine will be released this summer, with a full, free SDK to follow in August.
Says system “has not been selling as expected since the second week” and promises revamped marketing strategy.
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has admitted that its new 3DS handheld “has not been selling as expected”, and that the firm must “step up our efforts to further promote the spread” of the system.
Format: 360, PS3
Release: Out Now
Publisher: Ubisoft
Developer: Housemarque
A heavily stylised blend of twitch platforming, exploration and combat, Outland stars an unnamed dreamer, the reincarnation of an ancient warrior responsible for restoring balance to creation by the time-honoured means of jumping, smacking things, and changing colour.
Japanese mobile gaming platform Gree has acquired US-based social gaming network OpenFeint in a deal worth $104 million.
Gree, the fastest-growing technology firm in Japan, is also to invest further capital to help OpenFeint grow. Together the two firms will reach a userbase of over 100 million people and seek to “build a global ecosystem of distribution channels for game developers.”
Chief executive says retailer is “on a journey” after sales fall 8.3 per cent and operating profit slumps 68 per cent.
UK retailer Game remains bullish despite announcing a miserable set of financial results for the year to January 31, with chief executive Ian Shepherd saying he is “encouraged by the good progress we’ve seen in the early months of this year.”