AFP - Intel has revealed details of a new generation of chips designed for video game lovers, multi-taskers, and people seeking power-sipping computers adapted to increasingly mobile lifestyles.

Reuters - Britain could give all computer games cinema-style age ratings to protect children from increasingly realistic and violent titles, the government said on Thursday.

Reuters - Although the future team colors of quarterback Brett Favre are unknown, when the 20th Anniversary "Madden NFL 09" game is released in August he will be wearing the Green Bay Packers' colors on the cover.

NewsFactor - Facebook's online Scrabble application came up blank Wednesday as an apparent hacker attack pulled down the application. Game maker Electronic Arts, partnering with Hasbro, the publisher of Scrabble, released a statement that read in part, ""We're working with our partners to resolve this issue and have Scrabble back online and ready to play as soon as possible."

Reuters - Nintendo Co Ltd's (7974.OS) quarterly profit rose 31.5 percent on the runaway success of its Wii game console, but the Japanese video game maker kept its annual outlook well short of market expectations.