Microsoft has acquired video search engine VideoSurf for a reported $70 million and plans to add its video tagging technology to Xbox Live.

It seems Australians' home networks are underutilised. Many Internet-enabled devices are not being connected, and therefore do not deliver to their full potential.

Mobile phones are now the most prevalent platform for games and the average gamer is an adult well past 30 years of age  while just a quarter of gamers are children, according to a new survey. What's more, nearly half of all gamers are women breaking the stereotype of gamers being teenage male children.

Microsoft registered the domains microsoft-sony.com and sony-microsoft.com last week. Why?

Telstra will launch, next Sunday June 26, a range of Foxtel content to users of its T-Box connected to Telstra's cable broadband services, with the same offering to be available over Telstra ADSL a couple of months later, all quota free.

THQ's uDraw GameTablet is heading for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 in time for Christmas.

Microsoft has agreed to purchase Skype only days after news reports suggested either Google or Facebook was interested in the company, with Microsoft aiming to blend Skype throughout its offerings, but at a massive price: US $8.5 billion!

A fair few people have been fiddling with the Kinect since it was launched, finding ways of putting it to work with hardware other than the Xbox 360. Microsoft is now preparing to release an official Kinect for Windows SDK.

The long push for a R18+ rating for videogames in Australia is almost complete, with South Australia’s Attorney-General pledging support for the revised system.

Americans' propensity to shop on the Friday after the Thanksgiving has contributed to the sale of 2.5 million Kinect sensors for the Xbox 360.