Angry Birds, the best selling game for iPhone, is finally coming to Android – but if you want in then you'll need to sign up for the beta trial.

With the first month of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty behind us, millions of gamers around the globe have purchased Blizzard's latest blockbuster. In a brief sales update, the company said it's shipped over three million copies in the initial month of availability in North America, Europe, South Korea, Australia, Russia and many other regions.

Playboy, famed for its intellectual interviews and bunnies with breasts, has shown off its latest online game and it strangely looks like a GTA knock-off.

Microsoft is investigating how one of the most hotly anticipated Xbox titles of the year appeared on the net three weeks ahead of its official release.

Ever thought of starting up your own World of Warcraft server? A recent court ruling suggests it probably isn't worth the effort. A federal judge has awarded Blizzard over $88 million in damages inflicted by a private gaming server found guilty of violating the companies EULA along with aspects of the DMCA.

UK Defence Secretary Liam Fox said he was "disgusted" that Medal of Honor allowed people to recreate attacks on Nato forces. An updated version of the popular game, due to be released in October, is based on the struggle between allied special forces and the Taliban - with players being allowed to choose which side they want to represent.

When we first saw the recent footage of Gran Turismo 5 and its new kart mode, we could not contain our excitement. However, who would have thought that such a mode would be so important to a game. In the past the racing sim has been accused of being too boring, as it was not thrilling enough.

Microsoft's new slimmer version of the Xbox 360 (now dubbed the 'S' by Microsoft) stormed to the top of US console sales for July with nearly half a million units sold according to the US NPD hardware chart.

The creator of Sony's PlayStation Move technology believes that having no controller at all – like rival Kinect technology from Microsoft – is 'limiting'.

Starcraft II was purchased an incredible 1.5 million times in the first 48 hours of its availability. Launched worldwide on 27 July, Activision Blizzard's real-time strategy sequel has already sold more copies in the UK than its 1998 predecessor managed in its entire lifetime.

Racing games such as Mario Kart and Wipeout feature some pretty insane courses. Designer Malte Jehmlich and his team wanted to recreate that for real, rather than building a digital world, deciding to drive a real car through a real track.

The massive multiplayer online role-play game (MMORPG) Star Wars: The Old Republic is nearing completion. While the Canadian developer BioWare would not be drawn on an exact date, it said that spring 2011 "was not unrealistic".

Disney has thrown over three quarters of a billion dollars to bring it up to Goliath status in the online gaming world, acquiring two and a half year old Playdom, which offers games for social networks – the new buzzword in gaming that has all the VCs on the planet hopping onto investments.

The long awaited real-time-strategy game StarCraft II has gone on sale, 12 years after the popular first edition was released.

YouTube has included the classic arcade game Snake as a hidden "Easter Egg" bonus on its videos.

AMD and ATI's three-pronged approach to PC computing - encompassing CPUs, chipsets and graphics - has established itself over the last few years as the budget gamers' champion. Now, the company is going to give a little back to the PC community with the launch of its Gaming Evolved initiative.

Pac-Man creator Toru Iwatani shares some of the original concept art used while making the game.

Before booking your tickets for New Vegas, it doesn't hurt to do a little travel planning. Get up to speed on the 25-year arc that stretches from a small influential RPG to a multi-million dollar production, Fallout 3, that would go on to become the hottest game of 2008.

Microsoft started to talk about a system that it was developing that would allow console gamers and Pc gamers to compete directly against each other. Evidentially Microsoft killed that plan off after the PC gamers dominated console gamers so thoroughly that MS feared it would be an embarrassment to the Xbox franchise.

A group of six gamers in the Netherlands has proven that you really can play video games non-stop for days on end without kicking the bucket — sleep be damned.