Ever wanted to turn your favourite website into a giant maze around which you can roll a ball and collect gems for points? Of course you have - and now you can, with Google's Chrome World Wide Maze! More...

After porting their game to Windows RT a UK game developer bashes the Windows Store for not promoting developers' apps, but Microsoft takes notice and fixes the situation. More...

Thanks to information posted on GAME's website, it seems we could be getting a re-release of the older Hitman titles in the near future. Only a 360 version is known so far, though we would expect PC. More...

Today marks the third anniversary of Battlefield Heroes; EA's first foray into the world of free-to-play PC gaming, which launched all the way back in 2009. More...

Carmageddon is coming to Android and iOS this summer as a showing of gratitude to Kickstarter backers. Now you can finally mow pedestrians down from the palm of your hand. More...

The Game Group has been acquired by a group advised by OpCapita which will allow the remaining retail stores in the UK and Ireland to remain open for business and save over 3,000 jobs. More...

The GAME Group has announced that the retail game store company shut down 277 stores in the UK this week with over 2,000 people losing their jobs in the process. More...

UK brick and mortar retailer GAME has officially announced it has entered administration, stating that the company had "not made sufficient progress" to find a solution for its financial issues. More...

OnLive, the streaming game service, has finally launched overseas in the UK and also announced a partnership with the GAME brick-and-mortar retailer in that country. More...

A new study by DFC Intelligence predicts that sales of games via download will surpass those sold in retail stores by as early as 2013. More...

Fraps is a universal Windows application that can be used with all games using DirectX or OpenGL technology. In its current form Fraps performs many tasks including: Benchmarking Software - See how many Frames Per Second... More...

Young people will soon be able to get a taste of what it is like to be a "MP for a Week", as the Parliament Education Service releases their own computer game. Commons speaker, John... More...

EA Sports is set to continue with plans to introduce a new Tiger Woods online game, despite the golfer's recent public relations meltdown as a result of his adultery scandal. The move comes just days... More...

Slightly bizarre news has been reported on the BBC Technology website today. Swine flu is hitting the world pretty hard at the moment, but we seem to be doing well. Millions of doses of anti-viral... More...

Microsoft Research have released an online game to help fine-tune search results for Bing. The game is named "Page Hunt" and the basic idea is to show the player a random web page, and... More...

British company Game Domain International has launched a new download service called "Awomo", which will slash game download times by allowing users to start playing a game before it has finished downloading. With many digital... More...

The NPD Group, the top game-industry research firm released its list of the top 20 PC game titles for the month of February this past week. The month's most popular title was World of Warcraft:... More...

Infinity Ward's Call of Duty 4 took three awards at the 2009 British Academy of Film and Television Arts video game ceremony last night, while best-seller Grand Theft Auto IV received no awards, despite several... More...

A new skin condition, believed to be caused by excessive use of games consoles, has been identified by skin specialists in Switzerland, according to the BBC. The condition, dubbed 'PlayStation palmar hidradenitis', was discovered when... More...

MTV Multiplayer posted highlights of New York's Comic Con today, where Todd Howard, Executive Producer and Game Director for Bethesda Softworks, revealed that one of Bethesda's next projects will be for Apple's iPhone. News... More...

A recent survey at Rock Paper Shotgun has shown that 47% of all PC games purchased are digital downloads. According to the survey, 93% of PC gamers have bought a game via digital download over... More...

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LG is taking the Hz game to the next level with its TrueMotion LCD TV. LG will be showing off its overkill 480Hz TV at this years CES. While Sony just got done... More...

GameSpy has announced their list of 'Best of 2008' PC games, and also gave a "State of the PC" address. There have been quite a few discussions over how well PC gaming did this... More...

November sales of video game consoles and software reached nearly $3 billion in November, according to a story posted by the Associated Press today. The data, which comes from market researcher NPD Group, shows that... More...

X-Play on G4TV recently gave out their "Best of 2008" awards in several different categories. The hit PC game, Sins of a Solar Empire, took the award for "Best Strategy Game of 2008". ... More...

National Geographic announced today, the creation of National Geographic Games, a new division dedicated to the development of video games for major consoles and computers, as well as mobile and hand held devices. The division... More...

Electronic Arts' EA Sports division has today unveiled a new fitness game for the Nintendo Wii. Titled "EA Sports Active", the game is expected to hit store shelves in March 2009 for $60. In a... More...

According to a study carried out by Verdict Research, video game sales are set to exceed that of music and video in the UK. The research firm has predicted that, despite the current economic problems,... More...

Stardock announced its next major PC game, Elemental: War of Magic today. Stardock, the company that has released such award-winning PC games such as Galactic Civilizations, Ironclad's Sins of a Solar Empire and is nearing... More...

Following an announcement in June stating that Belgian rental shops will no longer be able to rent out newly released games, another announcement has been made that states from December 1st it will be illegal... More...

Stardock, the company behind such games as Galactic Civilizations, Sins of a Solar Empire, and Demigod has made available The Political Machine Express. This free strategy game puts players in the role of the campaign... More...

Muslim Massacre is a game which puts players in control of a soldier whose mission it is to rid the world of every last Muslim. Nice. The Internet-only game caused controversy amongst the Muslim population... More...

Microsoft has hit back at claims made by Nintendo that the Wii sells the most third party games, saying instead that it's Xbox 360 sells the most. Last week, Nintendo of America's vice president of... More...

Kicking off the festivities at QuakeCon, id CEO Todd Hollenshead took the stage during the keynote presentation and promised he would be showing off either Rage or the previously unannounced Doom 4. So which did... More...

Obesity experts today slammed Nintendo after its Wii Fit game told a 10-year-old girl she was fat. They fear the game could damage children's body image and called on the company to warn parents it... More...

Formula One is to have its first official computer game in more than two years next season following the capture of a new official licencing deal with British gaming company Codemasters, autosport.com can reveal. With... More...

One of the popular reasons given for sometimes-sluggish game sales on the PC is piracy. If people can get the game for free, why would they pay for it? Go to any popular torrent site... More...

They're the leading figure in PC benchmark programs, technology showcases and cutting edge demos. You'd be forgiven if you thought there was nothing else that Futuremark Corporation could do but amazingly there is, and today... More...

The Source engine is a 3D game engine developed by Valve Corporation. Its unique features include a large degree of modularity and flexibility, an artist-driven, shader-based renderer, accurate lip sync and facial expression technology, and... More...

NPD Group reports a record-breaking year in video game sales. Video game sales topped $17 billion last year, according to the NPD Group, making 2007 by far the biggest year in gaming history. These numbers... More...

The US space agency is exploring the possibility of developing a massively multiplayer online (MMO) game. The virtual world would be aimed at students and would "simulate real Nasa engineering and science missions". The agency... More...

U.S. sales of video game hardware and software rose 28 percent in December from a year earlier as holiday shoppers snapped up new consoles like Nintendo Co Ltd's top-selling Wii, market research firm NPD said... More...

After the suggestion was made by one of our members, CelticWhisper, the Neowin staff agreed on adding a new subforum: "Game Ratings". As with Movie Ratings, the idea behind the subforum is that you share... More...

Tokyo show shifts from September, confirms Oct 9-12 dates The dates for this year's Tokyo Games Show have been revealed, and organiser CESA has decided to push it back from last year's September slot... More...

After the Xbox online gaming network was plagued with connection troubles over the holidays, probably due to the huge and sudden increase of users connecting to the service, Microsoft Corporation plans to offer a free... More...

VGEE allows you to add your own information and box-art into the Games Explorer of Windows Vista. You can edit or delete existing games as well add new games. This is BETA software!, please... More...

The Neowin Community Game Awards are unlike other "Best of Year" awards. Every step of the process is voted on by Neowin.net community members. From the initial nominations to the final voting, you, the people... More...

Aspiring game designers have more functionality at their fingertips with today's release of XNA Game Studio 2.0, Microsoft's own toolset for encouraging indie game development. XNA Game Studio 2.0 is a refined toolset that introduces... More...

A SENIOR HACK working for the C|Net affiliated gamer's website Gamespot apparently has been fired for panning a game marketed by a major advertiser. Reportedly Gamespot Editorial Director Jeff Gerstmann was summarily fired because game... More...