'NHL 09' first star in hockey franchise

In the world of sports video games, not much can really change year to year. The game at its core is the same, but it's what video-game developers add that makes it worth spending the cash.

Survey: Nearly every kid a video gamer

Katherine Graden doesn't really like shoot-'em-up video games. She prefers games on her Wii system that test her fitness and agility - the ones her guy friends tease are her "sissy games."

Of gyroscopes and gaming: the tech behind the Wii MotionPlus

The new "MotionPlus" add-on for the Nintendo Wii is supposed to again revolutionize motion-controlled gaming. Check out this exclusive look at the tech in the MotionPlus direct from the source of the unit's powerful brain, InvenSense.Read More...

Keeping Up Nintendo's Momentum

After overseeing several years of rapid growth at Nintendo, President Satoru Iwata faces new challenges: how to keep players of the company's videogames interested, and how to cultivate a new wave of customers.

Europe should say non to Platini's interference

The state supports clubs in France. This will be the elephant in the room when Bernard Laporte, the French Minister of Sport, arrives in England this week to browbeat Government ministers, in the hope they will be suckered into a Gallic plan to ruin English football. The French think that English debt is cheating, but see nothing wrong in local authorities supporting Ligue 1 clubs to the tune of 2 per cent of the total budget or paying for the transport infrastructure around the new stadium proposed by Lyons.

OpenCL gets touted in Texas

Attendees at the SC08 high-performance computing conference in Austin got a progress report on OpenCL, the the Apple-spearheaded parallel computing API that figures to be a prominent new feature in the upcoming Snow Leopard update to OS X.