Tennis has had a historically important, if sometimes forgotten, role in the history of video games. As the U.S. Open concludes at Flushing Meadows, it’s worth looking roughly 60 miles east of the U.S.T.A

Mashable – Penny Arcade has launched a menacing robot — that is, a mobile app called the Decide-o-tron to help you decide on video games you might like to buy.

AP – At the height of what he calls his addiction, Ryan Van Cleave would stand in the grocery store checkout line with his milk and bread and baby food for his little girls and for a split second think he was living inside a video game.

Reuters – Chinese Internet video games maker Shanda Games posted a jump in quarterly sales helped by strong demand for its massively multi-player online role-playing games (MMORPGs).

Reuters – Video games publisher Electronic Arts (EA) is upbeat about Christmas holiday sales as it expects to release top titles and prepares its most high profile launch ever: “Star Wars: The Old Republic”.

AFP – Two video games used by far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik in planning his July 22 killing spree have been withdrawn from a number of stores across Norway, one co-op chain said Tuesday.

The big business news of the month when it comes to the video games market is the acquisition of PopCap by publisher Electronic Arts, with the value of the transaction set to reach 750 million dollars. But the main executive of PopCap believes that

Real Life Have you ever wondered what would happen if classic video games met real life?…Graphic designer Aled Lewis has created a fantastic series of video game/real life mashups. Whether it’s Link braving the never-ending fields of Hyrule or Mac

Appolicious – A remarkable thing happened earlier this week: the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 7-2 decision, ruled that video games are protected expression under the First Amendment.

California’s restrictions on the sale of violent video games to minors violate the 1st Amendment, the Supreme Court says in a 7-2 ruling. Five justices rule that under no circumstances can the government be allowed to protect children by limiting

- Majesco Entertainment Company (NASDAQ: COOL), an innovative provider of video games for the mass market, in association with TWC Games, announced today that Spy Kids: All the Time in the World will release on Nintendo DS™ this August. A platforming

AP – There’s a sequence in “Duke Nukem Forever” (2K Games, for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, $59.99; PC, $49.99) that’s destined to be remembered as one of the all-time low points in the history of video games.

Appolicious – One of the biggest game developers in the mobile sphere, best known perhaps for making games that are thinly-veiled clones of super-popular video games on traditional platforms, has set a new milestone in mobile downloads.

Appolicious – One of the biggest game developers in the mobile sphere, best known perhaps for making games that are thinly-veiled clones of super-popular video games on traditional platforms, has set a new milestone in mobile downloads.

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Investor’s Business Daily – It’s hard to imagine life today without video games.

The father of PlayStation, Ken Kutaragi, last week announced his intention to retire from his executive role at Sony Computer Entertainment. Today Screen Play pays tribute to a man who has made one of the most significant impacts on the video games

AP – Sales of console and portable video games grew 26 percent in April versus last year, a rise that a market research group that tracks the figures attributes to a stronger lineup of games such as “Mortal Kombat 2011″ and “Portal 2.”