Doodling 
on your iPhone could lead to big money and big prizes.
CBS is developing a primetime game show based on Zynga’s popular Draw Something app. The network won a bidding war for the rights to the game and is reportedly fast-tracking the show as a possible mid-season replacement to step in when one of its new series ultimately fails.
If 
you’ve got a Civilization fan in your life, you might want to say goodbye for a little while.
This week’s release of Civilization V: Gods & Kings is being heralded as a terrific add-on to the much loved strategy series, adding a wealth of new content and ensures that the franchise’s well-known “one more turn” gameplay is as addictive as ever.
Microsoft 
left a lot of people hungry for details about its next-generation console system at this year’s E3. This past weekend, however, those people had plenty to chew on, courtesy of a leaked document that purports to offer plenty of previously unannounced details on the system.
The 56-page document, which first surfaced in the popular NeoGAF forums, presents itself as a road map for the Xbox system through 2015, including alleged details on the so-called Xbox 720, a unique glasses display, and a focus on cloud gaming.
Web 
surfers tend to be pretty loyal to their browsers. Once you figure out the shortcuts and placement of everything, it’s kind of a pain to upgrade to a dramatically revamped interface — or a new browser altogether.
The problem is, programming sites for those antiquated browsers can be a major headache. Now one online retailer is fighting back, announcing plans to add a 6.8 percent “tax” onto the purchases of anyone who visits their site using Internet Explorer 7.
Rockstar 
Games is considered a nearly bulletproof game developer. They take their time crafting their games, and their releases are always major events. The company’s last three blockbuster titles — Grand Theft Auto IV, Red Dead Redemption and last year’s L.A. Noire — enjoyed chart-topping success, a testament to the company’s dedication to quality and terrific sense of timing.
But the release of Max Payne 3 is putting their impressive streak at risk.
The 
obituaries started for the PlayStation Vita before the device even went on sale in the U.S. Some critics called it “overly expensive.” Others noted the odds of a dedicated game system succeeding in a smartphone world were formidable.
Three and a half months down the road, those critics haven’t let up — even as Vita sales have topped 1.8 million. And it’s not hard to see why.
For 
Activision-Blizzard, hell on earth meant a cash bonanza in May. For every other video game publisher, it was just hell.
The PC/Mac blockbuster Diablo III was the month’s top selling video game — even without taking in the title’s (presumably substantial) digital sales. But demand for the long-in-development action role-playing game couldn’t prop up the industry’s sales charts.
Cheaters 
might be an unavoidable reality in multiplayer gaming, but they still stink.
Rockstar Games, though, has an interesting way of dealing with the problem: isolate the troublemakers and force them to play against each other.
Think 
you spend too much time playing the same video game?
Try playing it for a decade.
It’s 
a tradition at the end of every E3: the Entertainment Software Association hangs a banner on the last day of the show, thanking attendees and simultaneously announcing the dates of next year’s event.
But as people limped out of the Los Angeles Convention Center last Thursday, that banner was noticeably missing.
Chris Morris: Journalist 