In a recent announcement pertaining to the impending release of `Diablo III', Blizzard Entertainment has revealed that the title will be available in the market - both in physical and digital store outlets - on May 15; and that the much-awaited game is now available for pre-order on the Blizzard website.

Acknowledging the fact that the game will be much in demand all over the world, Blizzard has announced that the copies of the forthcoming title will be available from retailers in the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Macau, and Hong Kong.

With streaming service provider Netflix and bigwig cable operator Comcast both competing for viewers, Comcast has recently declined the idea of a potential partnership with Netflix aimed at the integration of the services of both the companies.

The decision by Comcast to refuse a potential association with Netflix shows that the cable provider is confident of being on its own – more so as it has its dedicated video-on-demand services -, rather than striking an agreement with a service which is largely seen as one of its direct rivals.

Good news for game lovers as Germany has gave green signal to Doom and Doom 2 to be sold in the country. Earlier, both the games were banned under the 'List of Media Harmful to Young People'.

The list is usually used to classify extreme pornography, but an appeal was made by their copy right owner ZeniMax Media which also owns the copyright for Bethesda. After their appeal, they were removed from the list, and now simply termed as index.

Research carried out by Newzoo, on behalf of the game firms, exposed that over 153 million people across the three countries, including UK, France and Germany, played maximum video games.

However, the National Gamers survey covered the informal game sites, social networks, mobile, downloadable game applications and boxed games troupe to concluded that among these countries, UK clutched the highest ratio of gamers because 68% of men and 59p% of women, played the games