The Sci-fi game Dark Void has recently been released with some new PhysX effects. Airtight Games and Capcom released the game for the PC, Microsoft Xbox 360, and Sony PlayStation 3 on 19th January of this year. Dark void is basically a Sci-fi game which is set in the World War 2 era.

The sci-fi veteran composer Bear Mccarthy, who is best known for his work on Battlestar Galectica, has composed the music for Dark Void.

Dark Void has been criticized by the critics on the lack of depth in its lackluster flight mechanics. The game has got a highest professional score of 7 out of 10 and earned Metacritic rating of 57.

Electronics giant Sony is all set to release its very own reality show, The Tester, on PlayStation Network. The show can be seen on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation portable game devices.

Part of Sony plans to create original digital content, Tester is going to go live February 18 till April 18. The eight episode series is part of the growing catalog of entertainment offerings on the PlayStation Network. It is about contestant who will have to undergo grueling exercises to be able to win the prize.

Bioware, a big gun of the gaming industry, unveils its new RPG (Role Playing Game). The game is expected to be the biggest hit of the year.

The sparks of its early success are clearly seen as it has already shipped 2 million copies. This edition is huge; it serves as an eye candy and promises to deliver better than the previous sequel. This is clearly illustrated by the quote of Mr. Ray Muzyka (co-boss Bioware) best of our work is "still ahead of us".

XBox New Zealand has announced the release of a Limited Edition XBox 360 Elite, the move which will coincide with the release of BioWare’s Mass Effect 2. The Limited Edition package will be bundled with a 250GB hard drive, a headset, two controllers and a special copy of Mass Effect 2.

Mass Effect 2, the sequel to Bioware's award winning title which was released in 2007, has come after a long wait of a little over 2 years. In the previous edition, Commander Shepard had successfully defeated the Reapers, and once again, with Mass Effect 2, players will control Commander Shepard as he takes on, and tries to stop, a new deadly threat.

Giant publisher of video game titles, Electronic Arts has again pulled back its outlook for the 2010 financial year, mainly on the back of weaker-than-expected sales over the holiday period in Europe and a shift-over to its lower-margin distribution units.

EA, whose popular games include Madden NFL and Need for Speed, has shared that the industry-packaged software sales across Europe declined by a whopping 15% in some countries. Yet, the company has stressed that it had managed to generate about $75 Million more than targeted in revenue from games that it had distributed, but did not own, for example, Left 4 Dead 2 and The Beatles: Rock Band.

On these distribution sales, however, the company earns narrower margins.

Reports have confirmed that Google is currently in the process of trying to patent "a method of providing an interactive game based on a digital video" using its popular video portals like Google Video and YouTube.

Filed in February, the patent was released to the public this week and has managed to reveal Google's attempt to build games in addition to digital videos with the help of an "interactive annotation system".

Capcom has revealed some new stages of the famous video game Super Street Fighter IV, which is noted to be an updated version of the original Street Fighter IV, which was unleashed in the last year.

There was already some news in the September that Super Street Fighter IV will be released on the gaming consoles like Sony PS3 and Xbox 360 in the year 2010.

London, Dec 4 : The Nintendo Wii has become UK’s fastest selling games console, with nearly a quarter of all households now owning one.

The Japanese brand has in less than three years of its launch in Britain become a fixture in more than six million homes, reports the Daily Express.

According to Michael Brook, editor of gadget magazine T3, the secret of its success is Wii’s motion sensor controls, which make it popular with adults as well as teenagers. (ANI)

To make the Bioshock 2 video game experience richer for players, 2K Games recently announced the availability of the Bioshock 2 Special Edition for XBox 360, PS3 and Windows Live, starting early 2010. The exciting announcement was made in Australia and has managed to spur much interest.

A buzz was created everywhere as soon as Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was quoted by Gizmodo magazine as saying that a Blu-Ray accessory for the X-Box 360 might be coming soon. All speculation, however, died down recently when the software giant made it clear that no such accessory is on its way.

Zapak.Com, a privately-held online gaming portal, has entered into an agreement with DesiMartini.Com, a social networking site.

Under the arrangement, Zapak.Com will power the exclusive gaming section on DesiMartini.Com and this game section will feature more than 70 games across genres like Action, Puzzle, Strategy, Racing and Sports.

DesiMartini is a social networking site where visitors, from all over the world, can connect to each other, make new friends, share photographs, videos, messages and engage in discussions.

Beijing  - Chinese gamers will be able to play the popular online role-play game, World of Warcraft (WoW), for free while the operator awaits official approval from government censors, local media reported Sunday.

In April, Chinese players' access to the game was cut off when the operating rights were transferred from one company, The9, to another, Shanghai Netease.

Reliance Mobile has entered into an alliance with US-based Gameloft, a mobile games company that specializes in developing   mobile games based on world celebrities and Hollywood movies.

As per this tie-up, Gameloft will soon release an unique mobile game based on the life of Paris Hilton. The game will be called Paris Hilton's Diamond Quest.

It should be noted that the proposed game will be the first official mobile game from   Paris Hilton, showing the star's glamorous side and elegance.

According to industry analyst NPD Group, US video games' year-on-year sales plunged almost 17 percent in April, marking the second successive monthly fall! As compared to the month-before sales figures, the April sales tumbled 30 percent.

NPD said that the video game industry reported $1.03-billion revenue in April, as against the year-before figures of $1.24 billion.

While game software sales for the month dropped 23 percent to $510.7 million; hardware sales fell 8 percent to $391.6 million; and accessories' sales were down 15 percent.

Rolling out its new entry-level gaming console Xbox 360 Arcade in India, Microsoft intends substituting it with the Xbox 360 Core model. The new console offers five interesting Zbox LIVE Arcade games - Uno, Luxor 2, Boom Boom Rocket, Feeding Frenzy, and Pac-man Championship Edition.

Los Angeles - Dave Arneson, who co-created the Dungeons & Dragons game, which pioneered the format for role-playing video games has died aged 61 after a two-year battle with cancer. Wizards of the Coast, the company that produces Dungeons & Dragons, said Friday that Arneson died in a hospice in Minnesota on Tuesday.

Arneson developed the game in 1974 together with Gary Gygax, who died in March 2008. The game was one of the first to allow players to assume and develop an individual character while embarking on complex quests, and has inspired countless computer games.

San Francisco - A new study has found that action video games can improve players' eyesight, researchers said Monday.

The study, which was published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, found that the visual processes needed to play games like Call of Duty 2 improved players' contrast sensitivity. Contrast sensitivity allows people to notice different shades and is particularly important for such tasks as driving at night and discerning patterns and facial expressions.

Packed with Qualcomm's cell phone technology, start-up Zeebo's first video game console for "the next billion" will be launched next month. Priced at $199, the console will specifically target the "emerging" BRIC - Brazil, Russia, India and China - markets.

Given the fact that Zeebo's console is developing world-specific, it is not intended to offer any direct competition whatsoever to the "big three" namely - Sony's PS 3, Microsoft's Xbox 360, or Nintendo's Wii.

Video-game publishers are pressurizing Sony Corp to take its pick out of two alternatives - one, lower the price of its PlayStation 3 console; and two, face the possibility increased development funds going Nintendo Wii's way! At its starting price of $399.99, the PS3 is $150 more than Wii and $200 more than the most-economical Xbox 360.

According to analyst Mike Hickey, of Janco Partners Inc. in Greenwood Village, Colorado, even though Sony has thus far stood unyielding against calls for lower price, there is likelihood that it might trim the price of PS3 by $50-$100 in the near future.

On 3rd April, UK would see Nintendo launching its new DSi, two days before its release in the US - at a retail price of 149 GBP.

A source, on condition of anonymity, disclosed, "A third iteration of Nintendo's hugely successful handheld hardware, the DSi adds two cameras while slimming the proportions, and perhaps most significantly adds both an SD card slot and 256MB of memory, transforming the DS into a multimedia tool."