Even 
if you’re a local, it’s hard to keep up with everything going on around your community. Roamz is a location-based app that lets you know what’s happening in your area.
Wii U info bonanza: Day one downloads, leaked Rayman trailer
Nintendo 
usually likes to keep things pretty close to its vest, so you’d expect details about the Wii U, the company’s next generation console, to be pretty scant right now.
Nope. With the system’s big coming out party planned during the E3 video game expo just over a month from now, we’re learning plenty about what the company has in store, though far from everything.
Apptastic: Zombie Gunship
Most action games featuring zombies use blood and gore as a crutch, but Zombie Gunship turns things around.
3DS price cut drives Nintendo to its first loss
Last 
year’s decision to slash the price of the 3DS helped the handheld gaming system from falling on its face, but it sure took a toll on Nintendo’s bottom line.
For the first time in its history as a publicly traded company, the game maker has reported an annual net loss, today posting figures that were $533 million in the red. That follows a $960 million profit for the previous fiscal year.
Apptastic: Postcard On The Run
Sharing photos online is all well and good, but there’s still a slight thrill when you get a letter in the mailbox. Postcard on the Run lets you transfer a picture from your iPhone onto a physical postcard, which you can mail to friends or family.
Apptastic: Tally Tots
Looking 
to add the 1-2-3s to your child’s A-B-Cs? TallyTots is an educational app that teaches toddlers to count to 20. Rather than making learning a chore, it rewards them with interactive games as they learn their numbers. (For example, after the number 7, they’re asked to build a sandwich with 7 layers).
Apptastic: Strip Designer
You may not have the artistic skill to put together a comic book, but now there’s an app that circumvents that problem.
Judge: Xbox 360 infringes on Motorola patents
As 
the Xbox 360 enters what appear to be its swansong years, Microsoft might find that there’s no such thing as a smooth finish.
A U.S. International Trade Commission judge has ruled that the console infringes on four patents held by Motorola, reports Bloomberg. Worst case scenario? It could result in a blockade of Xbox 360 consoles imported to the U.S.
‘Ice Age’ coming to videogames
Fox 
is looking to extend the Ice Age.
The studio plans a trio of videogame tie-ins for the franchise — on consoles, mobile phones and Web browsers — to both whip up excitement about the film’s fourth installment this summer and give fans a way to stay engaged long after “Ice Age 4: Continental Drift” leaves theaters.
Study: Video game helps teens beat depression
Video 
games get plenty of negative press, but it turns out they can do some real good as well.
Researchers in New Zealand have created a fantasy game that helps teens conquer depression. And not only does it work, it can be even more effective than traditional treatments.
Chris Morris: Journalist 