Game developer Oberon Media on Monday announced that it landed $20 million in additional funding from the Infinity I-China Fund to help it grow its mobile and casual gaming business. Acquiring the funding is part of a global strategy by Oberon Media to expand its business overseas and establish a foothold in China--a key battleground for casual gaming services.

via news.cnet.com

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.'s two-day gaming festival, BlizzCon(R) 2008, begins on Friday, October 10, at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. The convention celebrates the communities of players surrounding Blizzard Entertainment(R)'s Warcraft(R), StarCraft(R), and Diablo(R) game universes. Attendees of the sold-out show will be able to play the latest versions of Blizzard Entertainment games as well as speak with developers in special panels.

via marketwatch.com

The impending PS4, which we last heard was coming in 2010, might be based on the same Cell processor that currently powers the PS3. Japanese tech site PC Watch said that Sony will forgo designing a completely new processor in a cost-saving attempt, and try to squeeze out some moderate technical advancement on its existing investment. Bad news for those hoping Sony would continue its one-upmanship war with Microsoft.

via gizmodo.com

Bally Technologies said it has settled with the Securities and Exchange Commission over an investigation of its historical revenue accounting. However, the SEC filed a civil injunctive action against two former accounting executives of the gaming-machine maker. Under the settlement, no fines, civil penalties, or other monetary sanctions were imposed on Bally, formerly known as Alliance Gaming Corp.

via cfo.com

Trion World Network, a Redwood City, Calif.-based games-as-a-service company, said Tuesday that it raised a whopping $70 million in its C-round. The company's investors range from Trinity Ventures and Rustic Canyon to Time Warner (nyse: TWX - news - people ) and NBC Universal. Despite the current economic crisis, Trion Chief Executive Lars Butler says his company closed its funding in a "matter of weeks."

via forbes.com

This C-MACC cabinet (also known as Complete - Multi Arcade Console Computer System in full) was specially designed to be the grand-daddy of all other arcade cabinets you’ve seen in your life ths far. What makes it stand out from the rest is its inherent ability to play virtually every emulated game available, in addition to non-emulated ones thanks to the inclusion of a PS3.

via coolest-gadgets.com

People like banning things — books and films have been dealing with this issue for quite a long time, and the banning of games is no different. We watch the decisions of approval and censorship boards, waiting to see what will slip past, what will receive a de facto ban, and what will be banned outright. Vancouver Game Design wonders if this doesn't have to do with a fundamental.

via kotaku.com

Stephen Harris, or "Stevomaru," as he's known to his online friends, watched coolly from the back of Spring Hill Mall's center court as Annie Leung, or "Ecstacy," took on and slew challengers on "Guitar Hero" one by one.
Harris, an avid gamer from Milwaukee, smiled when asked if he's into gaming. "You could say that," Harris says. "I'm semipro."

via dailyherald.com

This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Wireless Gaming in Millions of US$. The major Product Segments analyzed are Messaging Based Wireless Gaming, Browser/Web Based Wireless Gaming, and Downloadable Wireless Gaming. The report provides separate comprehensive analytics for the USA, Japan, Europe, and Rest of World.

via marketwatch.com

Progressive Gaming International Corporation("the Company"), a leading provider of diversified products and services used in the gaming industry worldwide, announced today that it plans to effect a one-for-eight reverse split of the authorized.

via marketwatch.com

Datamonitor's Casinos & Gaming in Canada industry profile is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the casinos & gaming industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, plus textual and graphical analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, leading companies and demographic information.

via marketwatch.com

Do you indulge in a night gaming session with your buddies? Or do you love cool usb gizmos to show-off your nerdy-side? If your answer to anyone of the question is straight YES then check out this cool LED Light Tube speaker system. One of the major draw of this gadget is it's design combined with LED lighting.

via pclaunches.com

If you’re tired of having the same old boring controllers to go with your favorite games, you’ll like this new design. It features chrome and not just shiny plastic that looks like chrome. Granted that means that you’re stuck making fingerprints all over it every single time you pick it up. However, having a shiny controller like this might be worth the extra trouble it would cause.

via coolest-gadgets.com

The Sony PSP has been around for quite a fair number of years already, and has always been playing second fiddle to the more successful Nintendo DS Lite despite looking as though it will crush all competition when it was first announced. I guess this proves yet again that software is king - after all, take a look at the original iPhone when it was released.

via coolest-gadgets.com

IOpener's GPS technology is made so you can take real-time data from an F1 race and use it to race against those same drivers in a video game. By placing combination of Differential GPS and an Inertial Management Unit on a car, it can track its location accurate to 30cm and get the data to gamers in under 5 seconds.

via gizmodo.com