With Japan having already banned the sale of R4 cartridges in the country, the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has now said in a recent announcement that the import of R4 cart - or other similar flash cart devices for the Nintendo DS - has also been made illegal.

The PS3 "super slim," which has been rumored for a quite a long time, is poised to shake the console market and strengthen Sony's position against Microsoft, M2 Research analyst Billy Pidgeon said.

Users of Nintendo 3DS, Wii U consoles will soon be able to use an eShop gift card for the 3DS to download an item on the Wii U and vice-versa, Nintendo representative David Marshall has announced.

Mr. Marshall said the Japanese video games giant would launch a unified account system for the 3DS and the Wii U to allow gamers to create one online account and use it for both platforms.

John Carmack, the programming genius behind Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein 3D, has said that there is nothing to be excited about the next generation video game consoles.

As gamers are eagerly waiting listen about PlayStation 4 and Xbox 720, Carmack said the next generations of Sony's and Microsoft's popular games consoles will allow gamers to play games fundamentally the same as we play on today's consoles.

Zynga, well-known for social videogames like Farmville and Cityville, has confirmed its partnership with Chinese social-networking site Sina to release Chinese versions of its Draw Something mobile game.

The simplified and traditional Chinese-language version of Draw Something will be produced target Zynga fans in mainland China.

The PC version of Ghost Recon: Future Soldier action game, which was released on Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Sony’s PlayStation 3 consoles, was has been delayed to June 28th. The version was originally slated for June 12th.

The PC version of the game will come with a number of striking features, some of which are:

The PC edition will allow gamers to play it with keyboard and mouse, or with the help of either wired or wireless X360 pads. It will feature enhanced dynamic lighting, volumetric lighting effects and soft shadows.

The Amazon Instant Video app – which was launched on the PlayStation 3 earlier this year – has now been added to Xbox Live for its online entertainment section, giving the US users of Xbox 360 gaming console an instant access to Amazon's collection movies and TV shows.

The launch of the Amazon Instant Video app will allow the Xbox Live for Gold subscribers in the US to gain instantaneous access not only to the library of movies and TV shows which they have already bought from the online retailer, but also to the entire span of streaming videos that are available to Amazon Prime members.

In a Wednesday announcement in Los Angeles, the two bigwig gaming companies, Activision Blizzard and Electronic Arts (EA), said that they have worked out a settlement in their legal scuffle over executives’ departures.

The announcement implies that Activision and EA have settled a lawsuit which accused EA of improper recruitment of two executives - Jason West and Vincent Zampella - who were the key forces behind the creation of the blockbuster videogame, "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2."