A booming market of tweens is changing the landscape of online games. This audience of boys and girls aged 8 to 11 has game publishers launching new games like Disney Online's "World of Cars Online" and Sony Online Entertainment's "Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures." 

NEW YORK CITY – Verizon Wireless has launched a major redesign of the Verizon Games service portal and desktop application in conjunction with games-on-demand partner Exent. The new app delivers a more intuitive and interactive experience for customers exploring the world's largest PC games-on-demand subscription service, with more than 1,500 game choices. Drawing on insights and feedback from its network of users and on-demand game service providers, Exent designed an animated and easy-to-use game-navigation service.  Unlike other game services, the new Verizon Games app, built with GameTanium, creates a more engaging, game-like environment designed to appeal to a mass market audience.

Michael Cera played Nintendo games on the set of the new Scott Pilgrim vs. the World film. Ubisoft has launched Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game on PlayStation Network for the PlayStation 3 with the Xbox Live version for Xbox 360 coming soon. Developed in partnership with Universal Partnerships & Licensing, the game is based on Bryan Lee O’Malley’s award-winning graphic novel series and the new Universal Pictures film directed by genre-smashing filmmaker Edgar Wright. Cera talks about his retro gaming in this exclusive interview.

Ubisoft launches Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game on PlayStation Network for the PlayStation 3. Developed in partnership with Universal Partnerships & Licensing, the game is based on Bryan Lee O’Malley’s award-winning graphic novel series and the upcoming Universal Pictures film directed by genre-smashing filmmaker Edgar Wright. The cast talks about the new game in this exclusive interview.

The man who introduced computer-generated technology to Hollywood with TRON has spent 28 years bringing TRON Legacy to the big screen. As executive producer of the new film, he was on hand at ComiTRON to discuss the journey and explain why this movie couldn’t be made even three years ago. He talks about the new film in this exclusive interview inside Comic Con’s Flynn’s Arcade in San Diego.

The level designer behind some of the best shooters of all time, including Doom II and Quake II, has spent the past decade adding his unique spin on classic stories like Alice in Wonderland (American McGee’s Alice), Grimm’s Faerie Tales (American McGee’s Grimm) and now American McGee’s Crooked House. The senior game director at Shanghai-based Spicy Horse talks about his latest game and chimes in on episodic gaming and 3D stereo gaming in this exclusive interview.

Tetris Online has surpassed 1 million registered users on the official Web-based Tetris game destination in North America, Tetris Friends Online Games (www.tetrisfriends.com). This user milestone was reached just as the new community-based game Tetris Arena launched on Tetris Friends Online Games.