Motion-sensing remotes: A ‘must’ for Web TVs and set-tops?

Movea, a CEA-Leti spin-off, has launched MotionIC platform designed to let OEMs quickly integrate two to nine axes of motion processing and control in their new consumer devices.

How Angry Birds Took Flight

Angry Birds (iPhone) Rovio tell us the inside story on one of this year's biggest games.

Mod chip or freedom to choose?

Sony’s legal case to stop a handful of tiny Australian retailers distributing a device – known as a ‘mod chip’ – which would allow consumers a much higher level of control of the PlayStation 3 hardware is only one example of the dominance which this approach is gaining.

Will motion controls reinvent gaming?

Four years ago, Nintendo's gesture-tracking Wii system proved the power of motion controls to extend the mainstream appeal of video games.

Top 50 fall video games

Chad Sapieha lists the 50 games he’s looking forward to most ahead of the annual autumn rush

Trials HD dev announces MotoHeroz for WiiWare

RedLynx, creator of the stunt racing game Trials HD , is returning to the "physics-based side-scrolling stunt racer" well for its next project, but something tells us people won't mind. MotoHeroz for WiiWare expands the gameplay into a kind of adventure, in a "rich, challenging world." Players will be able to race in a single-player story mode, and compete in multiplayer races in a four-player ...

Apple TV to rival Xbox+Windows; Game Center to rival Windows Phone 7

PlayTo media streaming is an often-overlooked feature built into Windows 7. Xbox Live is being integrated into Windows Phone 7. And Apple now has products to rival both.

Saling The World: Mafia II Leads UK Multiplatform Sales

Gamasutra's weekly column, "Saling The World", covers the top five sellers for every available platform in the United States, Japan, and Europe, providing an important update of sales patterns worldwide. This week's charts, with data taken from August 26th, 2010, find 2K's Mafia II heading Xbox 360 and PS3 software sales in Europe, while Madden NFL 11 and StarCraft II continue to lead the charts ...

Chinese PC Maker Lenovo to Market Video Consoles

Lenovo Group Ltd announced it willlaunch its own video game console in an attempt to open up that lucrative market for the Chinese computer maker, news reports said Friday.

Chinese computer maker Lenovo to enter video console market

Beijing - Lenovo Group Ltd is to launch its own video game console in an attempt to open up that lucrative market for the Chinese computer maker, news reports said Friday.