As 
the first full workouts of 2014 Spring Training begins this week, Major League Baseball managers may want to give their players gamepads instead of gloves.
A study by the University of California at Riverside, which was published in the current issue of Current Biology, suggests that playing video games can make you a better ballplayer.
The 
family of a 17-year-old Georgia student who was shot and killed by police last Friday is claiming their son had a Nintendo Wii remote in his hand — not a gun, as police have stated.
Christopher Roupe was shot when police in Euharlee, GA (about an hour northwest of Atlanta) showed up to serve a probation violation warrant for Roupe’s father. The officer says Roupe pointed a gun at her when he opened the door, but the family argues otherwise.
I 
choose you, Pikachu! And so do about 80,000 other gamers.
A user of the online video streaming service Twitch launched an interesting social experiment last week, letting as many people who are interested attempt to control a single Pokémon trainer in the classic Pokémon Red/Blue — at the exact same time.
Irrational 
Games, the developer of the hit games BioShock and BioShock Infinite, is calling it quits.
Ken Levine, head of the studio, announced the stunning news Tuesday, saying all but 15 employees would be let go as he and a core team begin a “smaller, more entrepreneurial endeavor.”
The 
PlayStation 4 is fast becoming a juggernaut.
In a statement early Tuesday, Sony announced that sales of their flagship next-gen console have topped 5.3 million units worldwide through February 8. That’s significantly ahead of schedule, as the company was predicting sales of 5 million by the end of March 2014.
The 
Last of Us ranks as one of the greatest games of the last generation and was our pick for the 2013 Game of the Year. But while the solo campaign had a very definite ending, developer Naughty Dog wasn’t quite done with it.
Enter The Last of Us: Left Behind, a long-awaited slice of new single-player content. Like the full game, it’s being warmly embraced by critics. Arriving today, the PlayStation 3 DLC currently boasts a Metacritic average of 86, with several outlets giving the expansion a perfect score.
The 
Angry Birds juggernaut is spinning off another property.
Rovio has unveiled Angry Birds Stella, a multimedia project that centers around the pink, female bird made famous by the original series. It will also introduce a new band of companions to keep her company.
The 
app world loves a good bandwagon. Once a game hits it big, it’s just a matter of time before imitators arrive. And when the developer of the original game stops selling his product, the feeding frenzy really goes into overdrive.
That’s exactly what’s happened with Flappy Bird, the game that took the app world by storm overnight only to leave just as quickly. A flood of dodgy Flappy Bird-like apps has taken its place, however, exposing users to some potential security issues.
Dong 
Nguyen, creator of the massive mobile hit Flappy Bird, says he didn’t discontinue sales of the app because of legal threats. And he didn’t do it to put an end to the torrent of angry comments he was receiving.
He did it, he says, because the game was too addictive.
Now 
that Flappy Bird has flown the coop, some smart eggs are trying to capitalize on the mega-popular app’s disappearance.
Flappy Bird developer Dong Nguyen yanked the game from the Apple and Google app stores Sunday. And now that the game is no longer available, some owners are auctioning off their phones with copies of the game installed on them.
Chris Morris: Journalist 