Adam Powell and Donna Williams, the original creators and founders of the Neopets online social network, have launched Meteor Games, a new independent game studio based in West Hollywood, Calif.

EA unveiled new game details and the line-look for its Wii exclusive "All-Play" products, starting with next month's NCAA Football 09 All-Play, designed for social play and featuring unique controls, distinct presentation and a style of play that is inviting to players of all skill levels.

EA's The Sims Carnival website has entered open beta, now with added content, features and new game creation options. This games destination website has hundreds of games of all kinds and creators are adding more every day. There is bound to be a game that you love -- and if not, you can make it!

NVIDIA and NaturalMotion announced that they have teamed up to offer game developers and publishers easy-to-use, highly integrated solutions for adding animation and physics in next-generation games.

Between May and Sept. EA Games will launch a line-up of titles from some of the world's most critically acclaimed development studios including BioWare, Criterion, DICE, EALA, Maxis and Pandemic, as well as EA partners Harmonix and Valve, that rivals any independent publisher, with offerings that appeal to the explorer, adventurer, action junkie, creator and rock star in all of us.

EA Sports GameShow is the only live-hosted, interactive online sports trivia game. Featuring programming that is updated daily, each trivia session is broadcast from the EA Sports GameShow studio in Orlando, Fla.

200 Illegally copied NDS games stored on a single discs marked ‘Volume 9 DS Games’ were recovered as part of an 85,000 disc haul at an East Yorkshire Sunday market raid turned out to be the first of their kind seized in the UK, ELSPA forensic experts today revealed.

Hothead Games and Penny Arcade have teamed up to launch a new distribution platform dedicated to supporting independent game development worldwide, offering gamers an alternative to traditional boxed games that otherwise may be overlooked in a crowded retail marketplace.

Epic Games makes its debut on Steam today, delivering the Unreal franchise to Steam gamers everywhere, including Unreal Gold, Unreal 2: The Awakening, as well as Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition, Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor's Choice Edition, and the recently released Unreal Tournament 3. For the ultimate Unreal experience, nab the Unreal Deal Pack, for just $59.95.

During the keynote address at this year's GDC, Microsoft promised to soon allow Xbox LIVE members to play, rate and share community-created games, introducing a new, open distribution service quickly doubling the size of the X360 game library.

So Blonde, written by Broken Sword's Steve Ince, is an adventure game based around beautiful (anti-)heroine Sunny Blonde, featuring jet black humor that goes far beyond trite clichés, gorgeous cartoon graphics, puzzling riddles and a ton of gameplay surprises.

Wizards of the Coast, known for Magic The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons, announced an agreement with UK developer Stainless Games to produce an exciting new online downloadable game.

Medical News Today has published a research paper based on tests of 2,500 kids by psychology professor J. Ronald Gentile and his son Douglas Gentile, assistant professor of psychology and director of research for video game critic National Institute on Media and the Family. The document claims that frequently playing violent video games produces hostile actions and aggressive behaviors.

Competing against more than 700 gamers from a record 74 countries, the United States overcame the stiffest competition in World Cyber Games history to capture three gold medals, two silver medals, a bronze medal, and the overall team title at the Grand Final in Seattle.

Deadline Games has concluded a major three-year deal with game publisher EIDOS to develop ten titles based on cartoon characters from the Hanna-Barbera studio licensed by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.

Are you a sports trivia nut? Think you know more sports facts than anyone else? Get ready to prove it! EA Sports GameShow is a new online sports trivia game giving players the opportunity to compete against sports fans from around the nation with a live game show host.

SouthPeak Games, in co-operation with German distribution partner Flashpoint, announced its product line-up for this year’s Leipzig Games Convention, including its first entries into the PS3 and Wii markets, as well as an increased focus on handheld formats.

EA has signed the worldwide rights to create digital games based upon an array of Hasbro's intellectual properties, including Monopoly, Scrabble, Yahtzee, Nerf, Tonka and Littlest Pet Shop, to name a few, with the first games scheduled to launch in calendar year 2008.

A new pan-European games ratings initiative has been launched to make online gaming safer and to help boost parental confidence in the online games industry. The PEGI rating system is now to be expanded to include games playable online via consoles, PCs and mobiles.

Former EA and Black Box Games industry veterans announce the newly formed independent development studio Atomic Robot Games!

AI middleware provider Kynogon, and Deadline Games, known for Total Overdose and Chili Con Carnage, announced today that Kynapse would be used as the AI solution for their next generation engine.

Valve announced that Sid Meier's Railroads! ($19.95), as well as Railroad Tycoon II and Railroad Tycoon III now available for purchase on Steam, separately or, you can purchase all three titles as a package for $29.95. Golden oldie X-COM: Terror from the Deep is now available for purchase on Steam for $4.95.

Former Electronic Arts Canada, industry veterans announced today the formation of Jet Black Games, a video game development company that will focus on developing original and licensed intellectual properties for the Nintendo DS and Wii.

Electronic Arts plans to make an equity investment in Korea-based online gaming company, Neowiz Corporation, and expand the existing co-development and publishing relationship with that company.

EA announced that starting today the music from its best-selling games, from Madden to Need for Speed, will be available for purchase from the iTunes Store, including exclusive mixes, non-album cuts and previously unavailable international tracks.