The classic Sonic the Hedgehog will soon be launched in mobile devices powered by the Google’s Android platform, Apple iOS as well as and Windows Phone OS.

The popular PC game Sonic the Hedgehog from the US based publisher, Sega. The publisher said that the 'Sonic the hedgehog 4: Episode 2' game will soon be launched for the devices. The game is one of the best selling games for the PC.

The game features a blue hedgehog named Sonic as the central character, who tries to save the world from various threats including that from Dr Ivo Eggman Robotnik with the help of his friends. The Sonic the hedgehog 4: Episode 2 comes with new character animations and will expand the storyline of the series.

According to some reports, Shigeru Miyamoto is planning to step down from his position of head of Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development.

Miyamoto is behind popular games like Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong, Pikmin, and others and is often described as the man behind the modern evolution of the video gaming industry.

He is expected to leave his position to work on smaller projects by himself or with younger developers instead of huge names like Zelda: Skyward Sword that has been under development for around five years. He is planning to stat work on one such small project in the coming year.

US-based cloud gaming service provider, OnLive has released a new gaming app allowing users of tablets like Apple's iPad, Samsung's Galaxy Tab and Amazon's Kindle Fire to play advanced games on their tablets.

The new app is expected to offer the same games that are available on latest consoles and gaming PC. The apps will offer popular titles such as "Batman: Arkham City" and "Assassin's Creed: Revelations". Mobile users will be able to play games over Wi-Fi and over high-speed 4G cellular data connections.

Software giant, Microsoft has released a new update for its Xbox 360 video game console to add more features to the popular gaming system.

The launch saw a slight delay as it was first expected to be released before 7 a. m. PST Tuesday morning, but Larry Hryb, the director of programming for Xbox wrote on Twitter that "FYI: The timing for Xbox 360 dashboard update has been slightly delayed. I'll have a status update later today."

The popular arcade racing game, Mario Kart appears to have kept its originality in the new version of the game developed for Nintendo 3DS, "Mario Kart 7" video game.

The biggest different in the game is that the carts are now not just meant fort eh surface as they can travel above the ground with gliders and underwater with propellers. Even as the features are new they appear to be natural and retain the racing ways of the popular game title.

According to Activision, its newly released `Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3' game title has set a new five day worldwide sales record of more than $ 775 million.

The new figure is higher than the record of $ 650 million set by Activision's Call of Duty: Black Ops previous year and the $US550 million set by Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 two years ago. Activision claimed that Modern Warfare 3generated $400 million in revenue in its first 24 hours on store shelves.

Gaming major, Activision Blizzard has said that its "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3" had the biggest launch of any game, continuing the successful trail of the popular franchise.

Modern Warfare 3 has sold about 6.5 million copies making roughly $400 million in sales in the first day in just Europe and UK, according to data released by Eurogamer. The success of the game has been very important for the company as it has shifted its focus to releases lesser number of games.

The new upcoming gaming title, Modern Warfare 3 is topping the sales charts on Steam due to the high number of pre-orders received for the game ahead of its official launch.

Many fans had expected Battlefield 3 to not compete against Modern Warfare 3 to top Steam sales as it will only appear on Origin, which is EA’s personal store. Modern Warfare 3 has been topping the Steam charts since weeks and appears to give more competition than expected to other tiles.

According to a new survey, about half of the video game developers in UK prefer to self-publish games developed by them.

The survey showed that out of 47 percent game developers in UK who self-publish games, 67 percent release games for the Apple iPhone smartphone. Smartphones have now emerged as the single most popular gaming platform in the market.

The new FIFA 12 football game title has started the week at the top position in the UK game charts and become the third biggest launch ever in the UK multiformat chart behind Modern Warfare 2 and Black Ops.

Remedy is reportedly working to develop its Alan Wake 2 game title for the next version of the Xbox, dubbed Xbox 720, according to a report.

The report by Xbox World's inner section indicates that Remedy has started work on the game suited for the newer gaming console. "We hear a number of Microsoft-friendly developers are hard at work on prepping next gen games as we speak. Could this be the reason why Remedy are so quiet about Alan Wake 2? " the report read.

Earlier reports had suggested that Remedy is carrying out development tasks on Alan Wake 2 but if the new reports are to be believed, the game will not be out until the release of the next generation Xbox by Microsoft.

Japanese electronics major, Sony has announced that it will put its PlayStation Network off the internet to carry out maintenance between 5PM and 9PM of British Standard Time.

The announcements follows unscheduled maintenance last week and again on Monday. Besides PlayStation Store, the Account Registration and Account Management will be unavailable during maintenance hours.

Gaming major, Ubisoft has released the extension of the trailer of the upcoming game title, Assassin's Creed: Revelations E3, showing more details about the game.

The extension shows more of the premise where master assassin Ezio Auditore finds himself. It also shows more about how the journey will come to an end with the confrontation with Templar. The game takes Ezio to Constantinople, where an army of Templars are threatening the peace of the region.

BioWare is planning to release Star Wars: The Old Republic on 20 December in the US and on 22 in countries in Europe.

The game is the most expensive title from Electronic Arts was announced by the founders of developer BioWare, Dr. Ray Muzyka and Dr. Greg Zeschuk. The game is expected to have cost more than £100 million to Electronic Arts. However, experts point out that the company could earn billion from the game.

According to some reports circulating on the internet, the Final Fantasy X HD will not simply be a HD transformed version of the original version of PS2 original. Instel, the Final Fantasy X HD will be a full-remake with Square Enix's Crystal Tools engine.

The new ‘Space Marine’ game title by Relic Entertainment, which has been making real-time strategy games set in the Warhammer 40,000 (40K) tabletop wargame universe for years, has impressed gamers and reviewers with the elaborate scientific fantasy.

Gaming major, EA Sports has releases new FIFA 12 demo on Xbox LIVE for gamers with Xbox 360.

The demo is now available on Xbox Live ahead of the official release FIFA 12, which is expected later in the month. The huge 1.2GB FIFA 12 demo is available for download to all Gold Xbox Live members.

Gamers in their thousands have reached Los Angeles this weekend to attend the first Call of Duty convention called, Call of Duty XP.

Gaming major behind the popular title, Activision has arranged the huge airplane hangars of Playa Del Rey and a sniper's shot from Electronic Arts' headquarters in the city. The hangers turned into multiplayer gaming centers and conference halls for Call of Duty XP 2011.

The upcoming arcade-style shooter game, Bodycount will come with a blood pumping fast“Hybrid Soundtrack” aimed at maintaining the intensity in the game while gamers engage in it.

The team at codemasters, which took-over the development from the game from Stuart Black, has hired composer Mick Kiely to create an original soundtrack to match the setting of the game. The tea aims to make sure that the game lives up to its standards.

The team behind the development of affordable low cost Raspberry Pi computer has showcased the device running the advanced Quake 3 game.

The tiny educational computer is under development in the UK. The Raspberry Pi Foundation, which is a charity organization based in the UK, is aiming to develop a tiny, low-cost computer to fill the digital divide and to promote the study of computer science within schools.