A spate of PlayStation 3 shutdowns Wednesday prompted Sony Corp. to pull the latest firmware update for its game system.

Version 2.40 went out late Tuesday, and almost immediately word circulated that systems everywhere were turning to bricks just after installing…

Sony Corp. wants to improve your life with PlayStation 3 by introducing none other than “Life with PlayStation.”

The new interactive feature isn’t a game or alternative digital universe; it’s a stream of information providing mainly international, national and local news…

The arrival of Nintendo’s motion-sensitive controller for the Wii console nearly two years ago was revolutionary; it changed not just how we play video games, but what we think about and expect from new titles.

And it spurred competitors to…

Here’s a thought, St. Louis. If you want an Major League Soccer team so bad, ask a gaming company to help get one.

That idea seems to have worked for Seattle, which on Wednesday announced that its MLS expansion club, Sounders…

Fans of the “Madden NFL” franchise knew the game’s 20th anniversary this year wouldn’t pass unrecognized in some special way.

The question was, how would “Madden” mavens celebrate?

Well, now we know. Game maker Electronic Arts and hardware specialist Sony apparently…

Anyone out there waiting for Sony Corp. to unveil its own version of Second Life must continue waiting — until autumn, at least.

That’s the new, if rather vague start time for the three-dimensional online virtual world called “Home” that Sony…

Electronics giant Sony Corp. is warning of a security breach of its PlayStation Network online gaming community, and some personal information stored by gamers at the site may have been altered as a result.

But the breach this morning, conducted through…

Saving your pennies for a new Xbox 360 with built-in Blu-ray technology? Spend them elsewhere.

Microsoft Corp. has no immediate plans to incorporate Blu-ray in the game console following HD DVD’s recent demise, according to an Xbox product manager, though…

It could be for training. It could be for fun.

It could be to create a monster computer that rules the world.

Regardless, the U.S. Air Force has posted its interest in acquiring 300 Sony PlayStation 3s at the Federal…

It’s official: HD DVD will go the way of Betamax, the Edsel and every TV series that has starred Ted McGinley.

After a month of speculation over the technology’s future, most of it negative, the chief of Toshiba Corp., Atsutoshi Nishida, announced…