GAMING

A young Scrabble player was booted from the board game’s national championship tournament in Orlando, Fla., after getting caught hiding blank letters -- essentially cheating.

Video game developers are hailing the Oculus Rift, a hardware attempt at making 3-D and virtual reality gaming accessible and functional for the consumer.

According to gaming site GameRevolution, Apple has patented a dual-shock gaming controller. Back in April, Kotaku speculated that Apple was secretly developing a video game console that was similar, in concept, to Microsoft's Kinect console add-on. This would mean that their console would support movement, and, in typical Apple fashion, would work in harmony with Apple's touch-screen television.

THQ, the struggling developer behind videogame franchises including Warhammer 40k, Saint's Row and WWE Raw Vs. Smackdown narrowly avoided being delisted on NASDAQ today after undergoing a massive internal restructuring.

Mojang, developer of the enormously popular independent video game Minecraft, announced Saturday it is being sued for patent infringement. Because of the nature of the claim by a small company based in Plano, Texas, and named Uniloc USA Inc., it is believed by some that Uniloc may be a patent troll.

Gamers are rallying around one of the most explosively popular developments in gaming history -- an open-source console called Ouya.

The manhunt is on for Aubrey Lee Price, the Georgia money manager who disappeared after telling acquaintances that he had lost a large amount of money through trading activities and that he planned to kill himself.

Sony has finally revealed the release date for its ?PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale,? which is expected to be the Sony equivalent to Nintendo?s ?Super Smash Bros.? franchise. The fighting game mash-up will be available on Oct. 23 in the United States, Oct. 24 for most of Europe Oct. 26th for United Kingdom players.

One of the biggest first-person shooter gaming titles on the market will expand to mobile platforms in the near future. Activision has just confirmed that its recently established studio in Leeds will develop handheld and iOS versions of ?Call of Duty.?

Steve Nash is now a Laker, but they have more work to do if they want to win an NBA title.

Sports Video games are a huge part of the more than $20 billion video game market. Here is a list of some of the best of all time.

Neversoft, the developer behind the Tony Hawk series, announced that it will be tied to an upcoming ?Call of Duty? release.

Numerous ?Diablo 3? players have recently reported that their Battle.net accounts have been hacked. Blizzard has responded to the issue and assured fans that they are addressing the matter.

All In: The Poker Movie is a fascinating look at the international poker boom that began in New York and quickly spread to casinos and online. The clever documentary examines the unfathomable political take down of the poker industry and the effects of such. It features interviews with Matt Damon (who starred in the poker film Rounders), pro poker player Chris Moneymaker, and many more

Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim plans to enter the online gaming market in his home country, offering more than 600 free titles to some 8 million users of his high-speed broadband for a month, with the aim of charging for the service afterward.

The capabilities of the CryENGINE 3 SDK 3.4.0 engine are blowing the gaming community away in a mind-blowing new video.

At the Penn Arcade Expo (PAX) East Mass Effect panel, Bioware developers may have earned back their consumers' good faith. Discussion of the process behind creating the game and a promise that the upcoming DLC will be more than just a few cinematic scenes,” was met with rowdy applause and good will.

Angry Birds maker Rovio said on Tuesday it had bought Futuremark Games Studio, the gaming arm of Finnish benchmarking software firm Futuremark, for an undisclosed sum.

Draw Something, the Pictionary-like iPhone app, is the newest addition to a growing number of casual games designed to take advantage of the increasing numbers of people connected through smartphones. Much like the Internet has changed hardcore gaming, wireless devices are transforming the way non-gamers look at easy to play, social games. Instead of first-person-shooting and dungeon style adventure games, smartphone users are flocking toward games that take advantage of fast wireless connection...

GameStop Corp gave a fiscal-year outlook on the high end of analysts' estimates, saying it expects to boost sales of used videogames and to benefit from new hardware from Nintendo Co Ltd.

Just under one year ago, highly-skilled blackjack player Don Johnson won nearly $6 million playing blackjack in Tropicana -- not to mention the other $9 million won in other casinos in Atlantic City, N.J. -- in one night, in an assault which has caused the casino's revenues to plummet drastically by nearly $2 billion.