Expanding its business role, Zynga Game Networks has declared purchasing Japanese social game maker Unoh. Zynga, a highly admired social game developer, flashed the news of the acquisition on Friday. The deal will help Zynga increase its market share in the fields of social game development and launching new mobile products, says a media analyst. Zynga has already expressed...

Sony has acted fast to relieve its PlayStation 3 owners of recent HDD woes. Apparently, the latest system software update which the company had released on July 27 was causing a few hitches when it came to those who had replaced the hard disk drive in the home gaming console. Though with identical names, Sony assures that the software update to the erratic firmware 3.41...

Some think white is classy. Some just love the way it goes with the rest of their home décor. Whatever your reason is, Sony has painted the whole PlayStation 3 Slim white and incorporated a 160 GB capacity. On July 29th, Sony will start selling the new higher-capacity white version with matching white peripherals et al. Good news is it will be available at the same price...

The 3D thing is getting bigger and bigger. And like in every new technology, Sony is anything but getting left behind. But this time around, it is doling out the good stuff in small pieces. Only in June had Sony released the 3D Firmware Update 3.30 for every PlayStation that was connected online. Now the Japanese corporation has declared various new developments, in stages....

All’s well for casual gamers. Confirming recent reports, Microsoft has declared that they will be launching a $199 slimmer version of the Xbox 360 this fall and has also stated that they will offer Kinect bundled with this new product. According to the retailing document obtained by Kotaku, Microsoft answered the question “Will you sell a $199 version of the new Xbox...

Sony has let us in on more details of PlayStation Plus, with just a few days left before its scheduled June 29 launch. The subscription-based model for PlayStation Network has kept gamers in high suspense, revealing only the package costs until now $50 for a year and $18 for three months. After the recent E3, we are a bit more knowledgeable about the scenario. Sony intends...

At the E3 this year, Nintendo revealed the new and exciting 3DS with a warning. The picture they then released could be a far cry from what would eventually be released. We guess the trick was just to keep the curiosity alive. According to an interview between Nintendo 3DS platform producer, Hideo Konno and Wired, the case is otherwise. Ironically, the little tête-à-tête...

OnLive, the much-anticipated online streaming games service, has finally come alive. With initial plans of catering to just the American customers, the first year of its run will be fully sponsored by AT&T for the first few, after which playing cloud games will be $50 dearer to us every year. At launch, OnLive offers 20 assorted games. The list includes Assasin’s...

In yet another win-win situation for casual gamer, Microsoft supplied a moniker for its newest motion-sensing game as “Kinect”, on Sunday. And in yet another following of the gamer’s heart, thin, console-less gaming is in. Taking the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles by storm, Microsoft officially lifted the veil off Kinect, with a Cirque du Soleil...