You know you've hit the big time when you have enough money to advertise in the Super Bowl. Still, we didn't expect to see the “Angry Birds” app jump from our smartphones to our TVs.
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Sony's taken some strong steps against PS3 cracking in the past week -- not only has it taken to the courts and won a temporary restraining order against Geohot and fail0verflow for cracking the console, but it also released firmware 3.56, which locked things down again. ...

With the announcement of the Sony NGP (aka the PSP2), we suddenly have quite a mobile gaming competition on our hands. As the increasingly popular smartphone gaming market starts to encroach on the territory long held by Nintendo and Sony, it's time see how these platforms compare.
See our infographic for a side-by-side comparison of the features.
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Although the headline oversimplifies Nintendo UK’s James Honeywell’s comments on piracy(what are headlines for?), it’s more or less what he said, and Nintendo seems to actually think that its steps to curb piracy are going to be effective. To be fair, Honeywell also described crowing about piracy countermeasures as being “like a red rag to a bull,” which mirrors my own thoughts. It’s the basis for the following diagram, which I don’t expect to ever go out of date:

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The giant PC gaming rigs of the last decade are so passé. Hot this year are sleeker, more cut models, models like the DARWINmachine Hammerhead HMR989. It looks like a crazy casemod but it's actually a custom-built rig you can order, priced at $2,899 and sporting a vertically mounted NVIDIA GTX460 graphics accelerator, a 2.8Ghz Core i7-860 processor, a combination of SSD and platter-based storage, and a power supply left hanging on the side. It's all aluminum and resin sheets and lovely, though we could probably do without the blue LEDs.
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A new study concludes that about 10 percent of children who play video games are at risk of developing a pathological addiction that could result in depression, anxiety, social phobias and lower school performance. Relatively new motion-sensing technologies may exacerbate the problem. "People often 'suspend disbelief' and immerse themselves cognitively in the environment," said ISU professor Brian Mennecke.
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