Chatham, UK – Railsimulator.com Ltd., the leading innovator of rail simulation and modelling tools, announced today that the sequel to the best-selling and award-winning RailWorks 2 will launch worldwide on September 23. RailWorks 3: Train Simulator 2012.
“We’re amazed and delighted by how enthusiastically the community has supported the RailWorks simulation line,” said Paul Jackson CEO of [...]

Sony has confirmed at the Tokyo Games Show that the Japanese launch date for the PlayStation Vita handheld is set for December 17 an that the device will start selling with 24,980 Yen when it is out.
The 4 GB memory card model will be priced at 2,200 Yen, which is the equivalent of about 30 [...]

Frank Gibeau, the head of EA Labels president, told CVG last week during Gamescom that he believes the PlayStation Vita has some unique advantages over the Nintendo 3DS that will allow it to compete better against smartphone competition.
I think that part of the videogame business is tough right now because they have had some significant [...]

Californian10 year girl hacker CyFi isn’t any ordinary kid, and instead decided to try and work around her frustrations with the farm-style games she liked playing.
That tinkering led to the discovery of a zero-day exploit in a number of games on iOS and Android platforms.
The exploit is to do with the clock used on devices running [...]

The Xbox Deal of the Week this week is a bit of identity shifting on the cheap: For the next seven days, you can change your Xbox gamertag for 560 Microsoft Points, that’s 30 percent less than the usual cost of a gamertag change, so this is the perfect chance to go deep undercover… although, [...]

John Carmack, one of the most innovative and tech-savvy games designers of  generation, thinks that mobile smartphone gaming is the future.
Carmack has recently released the critically-acclaimed Rage for iPad and iPhone and iPod touch, a game that has caused many gamers and hardcore games developers to take a long, hard look at the potential of [...]

Google’s latest site promises a big win – if you work hard enough. Prizes lets users create “contests”, asking other people on the service to answer a question or complete a task with the best answer receiving a cash prize. It’s like a combination of question-and-answer site Quora, online job boards and Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service, with slightly [...]

There’s no such reality show called “When Gamers Attack,” but if there was to be one, Frogster’sRunes of Magic game would take center stage.
Here’s the deal. A user who goes by the nick “augustus87″ is pretty pissed off with how the German outfit is running its game. Taking matters into his own hands, augustus87 hacked [...]

The legendary Civilization game franchise of has officially gone social with last Wednesday’s launch of the open beta for Civ World. The Facebook offering aims to bring complex strategy to a space currently dominated by more casual games such as FarmVille.
Will longtime Civ fans be satisfied by a social version of the game? Will Facebook’s [...]

Almost unanimous approval of merger of bwin Interactive Entertainment AG (bwin) and PartyGaming Plc. Gaming includes internet betting, software games, sports betting, skill games, casino games