Reuters - Electronic Arts Inc will drop its hostile $2 billion bid for rival video game publisher Take-Two Interactive Software Inc on Monday and instead pursue private talks with the company.

AFP - Playing video games improves manual dexterity among surgeons, making them faster and less likely to make mistakes, US researchers have said.

Reuters - Microsoft Corp's Xbox 360 beat Sony Corp's (6758.T) PlayStation 3 in Japan weekly sales for the first time two weeks ago, riding robust demand for a recent Xbox 360 title produced by Namco Bandai Holdings (7832.T), a magazine publisher said.

Reuters - Sony Corp (6758.T) does not plan to announce price cuts to its flagship PlayStation 3 games console at Europe's biggest video games fair in Leipzig, Germany next week, a company spokesman said on Friday.

Macworld.com - Cynical Peak Software on Thursday announced the release of Rivet 1.2, an update to its application that helps Mac users stream content to an Xbox 360 video game console on the same network. A free update for registered users, Rivet 1.2 costs $18.95.

Reuters - Take a group of scientists and a video game designer and what do you get? Spore, a game that can help teach players some evolutionary biology.