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.
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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.
Video game sales woes continue in February
2012 
continues to be a real stinker for the video game industry.
Video game software sales were down 23 percent in February compared to 2011 figures, according to the NPD Group.
Online retailer mistakes ‘Madden’ for ‘Mass Effect’
Mass Effect, 
Madden. Tomato, To-mah-to.
Some customers of online retailer Newegg got a rather unwelcome surprise earlier this week, when a screw-up by the company resulted in them getting a copy of the six-month-old ‘Madden NFL 12’ instead of the brand new ‘Mass Effect 3’ they were expecting.
Peter Molyneux leaving Microsoft
One 
of the biggest names in Microsoft’s stable of developers is leaving the company.
Peter Molyneux, the creator of games like Fable, Populus, Theme Park, and Black & White, has announced plans to leave both Microsoft (where he serves as creative director) and his own Lionhead Studios once development is complete on his latest title, Fable: The Journey.
LulzSec leader turns informant, feds arrest key hackers
Hacker 
group LulzSec, whose reign of online terror last summer compromised companies ranging from Sony Pictures to Bethesda Softworks, has been dismantled by federal officials, with the group’s leader apparently acting as an informant.
The U.S. Attorney’s office on Tuesday announced it had charged five people with computer hacking and other crimes. Hector Xavier Monsegur, better known as LulzSec leader “Sabu,” had pled guilty to those crimes.
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