World of Warcraft's developers have confirmed they are looking at porting the hit video game to mobile devices. In an interview with Eurogamer, Blizzard Entertainment also linked a drop in subscribers to the launch of a rival Star Wars-themed title. The firm revealed in November that WoW had 10.3 million subscribers, down from a peak of 12 million in 2010.

Resident Evil 6 will be released in November 2012, Capcom have confirmed. The games developer announced they are currently working on the new installment of the popular zombie series.An official trailer for the game was released on Thursday (19 January), and hinted that parts of it will be set in China.

The number of illegally downloaded video games has gone up nearly 20% in the last five years. Figures from research firm Envisional also suggest the top five games from 2010 were pirated online almost a million times.

Japanese gaming giant Nintendo looks set to kill the current version of Nintendo 3DS as the appeal of the third dimension in gaming isn't strong enough to pull developers and customers.

Popular online role-playing game World of Warcraft (WoW) is to be offered free up to level 20. Previously fans of the game, which has 11.4 million subscribers, had to pay a monthly fee of £8.99.

The US Supreme Court has struck down a Californian law banning the sale or rental of violent video games to those aged under 18.The court voted 7-2 to uphold an appeals court ruling that declared the law contrary to free speech rights enshrined in the US Constitution.

A great darkness is set to consume part of the Star Wars universe in late 2011. Sony has announced that its Star Wars Galaxies online game will be shut down on 15 December. The news was broken in e-mails sent to players and via messages posted on the game's support forums and website.

Earlier this week, Duke Nukem Forever finally shipped to stores in the US. The first person shooter which took 15 years to complete, hasn't gotten the best reviews from critics but so far the game has been selling well. Now comes word that a fan who pre-ordered the game back in 2001 not only got his pre-order honored but the game's development team sent him a boatload of Duke Nukem swag for waiting so long.

Nintendo took the wraps off a high-definition version of its hit Wii, adding a touchscreen to its controller and more bells and whistles to appeal to hardcore gamers. Early reviews of the Wii U were mixed to positive, with analysts saying the device fell short of being gamechanging.

Duke Nukem Forever fans have received an early treat from Gearbox Software ahead of the June 14th release date in the form of a playable demo, now available for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. The demo of the Duke in action was made available to fans who pre-ordered the game, as well as gamers who picked up the Borderlands Game of the Year Edition, and sees Duke battling it out with a typically gargantuan alien invader in an American football stadium.

EA has revealed that it is going to start its own digital download service with more than 150 games available to purchase at launch. It's also going to be the only place to buy Star Wars: The Old Republic digitally, when it's out.

The rush of users back to the PlayStation network is seemingly overwhelming the servers on Sony's end, with some gamers looking to redeem their offer of free goodies being greeted with a characteristically cryptic error message (80710D36) preventing them from getting at their free content.

California dreamin’ crime-spree sleuth-a-thon L.A. Noire may be causing PS3s and Xbox 360s some technical consternation, but at this point it's anyone's guess how prevalent the issue is. What we have are reports scraped from public forums, which suggest a handful of users are experiencing game lockups or system freezing, linked anecdotally to overheating issues.

Angry Birds creators Rovio teamed up with Deutsche Telekom to promote new services for the German telephone operator by filming a life-size version of the popular smartphone (and now desktop) game.

Depending on which Internet rumor you believe, it will be called Wii 2, Project Café or Stream. The only thing we know for certain about Nintendo's new video game system is that it's coming in 2012. Nintendo is widely expected to unveil its successor to the Wii, the top seller among the current generation of gaming consoles, next month at the E3 trade show in Los Angeles.

A downloadable map featuring Osama Bin Laden's hideout has been developed for the video game Counter-Strike: Source. Created by developer Fletch, the software map is called fy-abbottabad after the town in Pakistan where the al-Qaeda leader was found in hiding.

The recently relaunched web site for Microsoft Game Studio Vancouver, combined with a resume from one of its team members, has shown that Microsoft is prepping to make a more hardcore shooter game that will use the Kinect camera-controller.

Kotaku is reporting that Nintendo is planning to unveil the successor to the Wii this summer at the E3 conference, and it'll be more powerful than both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

Bioware has announced several new story details for upcoming space-based RPG, Mass Effect 3 - the biggest reveal of which includes which characters are confirmed to rear their heads in the final act of the trilogy.

Garrett lost his sight in 1997 at age 10. That same year, his older brother brought home Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee. Today, Garrett can beat the entire game, executing every jump and step with near-perfect precision. He’s honed his hearing to the point where he can recognize exactly which sounds refer to each object and act accordingly.