Consoles, 
beware: this year, the PC is making a push for the living room. And Valve Software is leading the charge.
Last year Valve announced the Steam Machine, a system designed to let people play games traditionally locked on PC monitors in the comfort of their living rooms. The company showed a bit more of its hand at CES 2014, announcing 13 partners who will be creating Steam Machine hardware and giving press some hands-on time with the controller.
Not 
so fast, Microsoft.
During a keynote speech at the CES Show in Las Vegas, Sony Computer Entertainment President and Group CEO Andrew House, announced Tuesday that the company has sold through 4.2 million PlayStation 4 units worldwide as of December 28, 2013.
The 
3DS, currently Nintendo’s best-selling piece of hardware, is about to be a bit less profitable.
U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff has ordered the company to pay 1.82 percent of the wholesale price of each 3DS it sells moving forward to a company called Tomita, after Nintendo was found to be using patented camera technology without permission.
The 
New Year is off to a lousy start for some of the gaming industry’s largest digital distribution sites.
Valve’s Steam, EA’s Origin, and Blizzard’s Battle.net were the target of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks Thursday night, which overloaded servers and took the sites offline. All three have adjusted their firewalls and are back online at this point.
So 
you think you can dance? So does Carrie Swidecki – and she’s got the record to prove it.
Last year, the 37-year-old teacher played Ubisoft’s Just Dance 4 for 49 hours, 3 minutes and 22 seconds without stopping to throw up. That marathon play/dance session turned her into a record holder.
We’re 
just guessing here, but we suspect Jaxxyn Wood’s parents aren’t going to be telling him to put down his controller and go to sleep anytime soon.
The 12-year-old gamer is being hailed as a hero for saving his family from a fire in their Danville, Kentucky home last week.
“Ho 
Ho Ho!” turned into “No No No!” for tons of gamers over the Christmas holiday.
Several major online game networks experienced notable performance issues — and outright crashes — as a new influx of players jumped online.
Now 
that the last gift has been unwrapped, the eggnog’s depleted, and the obligatory family day is over, it’s time to play with your presents.
If you’re a gamer, that means tearing open some shrink wrap and losing a few hours (or days, possibly weeks) to a huge new game or three. After all, you hopefully have a little time off now to enjoy them.
You 
told your relatives you already had a copy of Grand Theft Auto V. You made it very clear to Santa that you didn’t own a Wii U, so there was no need to bring you Super Mario 3D World. But somehow, you once again ended up with games you either already own, didn’t want, or can’t play.
Now what?
To 
succeed on the U.S. hockey team, you have to have excellent skating skills, tremendous stick control, and a wicked slapshot.
It also helps to be really, really good at Asteroids.
Chris Morris: Journalist 