The 
Sith are doing a number on the Horde.
Blizzard Entertainment has acknowledged that the December launch of EA’s Star Wars: The Old Republic is a notable part of the reason subscriptions to World of Warcraft have been on the decline lately.
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U.S. House calls for warning labels on video games
Just 
days after the Smithsonian opened an exhibit celebrating the art and cultural achievements of video games, a pair of U.S. representatives is renewing the effort to restrict them.
On Monday, Reps. Joe Baca (D-Calif.) and Frank Wolf (R-Va.) introduced The Violence in Video Games Labeling Act (H.R. 4204), a bill that would force games ranging from “Grand Theft Auto” to “Tetris” to carry a warning label for parents.
Is the video game industry Apple’s next victim?
While 
Apple has a well-earned reputation as the inventor of new markets, it’s also something of a serial killer.
The company’s advances in digital music players made the Walkman an afterthought. The introduction of iTunes sounded a virtual death knell for many record retailers. The iPad cut the legs out from under the once fast-growing netbook PC market. And the iPhone has put Motorola in a fight for its life.
Outrage over ‘Mass Effect 3′ ending reaches the FTC
Bioware’s 
Mass Effect 3 has earned plenty of praise from gaming critics, but a small, vocal percentage of players aren’t thrilled with the game’s ending, to put it mildly.
And now they’re bringing their issues to the Feds.
Vegas lays odds on next ‘Madden’ cover
You can 
bet on pretty much anything in Vegas, but gambling over the cover of a video game? That’s a new one.
Indeed, oddsmakers are letting die-hard Madden fans put their money where their loyalties are — and the returns aren’t bad.
Diablo III coming in May
After 
literally years of teasing fans with a release date, Diablo III is finally about to hit store shelves.
Blizzard Entertainment announced Thursday that the hotly anticipated hack-and-slash RPG will launch on May 15. Players who don’t want to waste a second jumping back into Tristram can pre-order a digital copy of the game from Battle.net now.
Answers to 5 famous riddles
The 
original Words With Friends, riddles have pleased puzzlers for thousands of years. They’re often deceptively hard at first, then glaringly obvious once you figure out the answer.
Some are timeless, like the old standard “What’s black and white and red all over?” (Note to children of the digital era: It’s a newspaper. Ask your parents.) Some are confounding. But a handful have achieved a fair bit of fame.
Video games may help ease Parkinson’s symptoms
The 
health benefits of video games are adding up quickly.
Researchers at the University of California at San Francisco have launched an experimental program to determine whether video games could replace existing exercises for patients with Parkinson’s disease.
Research: Old video games were really hard
Think 
the original Super Mario Bros. was hard? You’re right!
Gamers, by nature, are a nostalgic bunch. We tend to fawn over the games that got us into this hobby, often forgetting the agony and frustration suffered at the hands of those very same classics.
Cat takes on humans in video game, goes undefeated
It’s one 
thing to lose a game to a friend or online opponent, but can your ego handle being trounced by your cat?
Friskies, who already made waves by creating a series of single-player video games for your favorite feline, has unveiled the industry’s first multiplayer — and, as far as we can tell, multi-species — game. And early evidence shows that cats are better at it than us.
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