Square Enix is bringing key games from its E3 lineup to San Diego Comic-Con, set to take place July 21-24. The Japanese game giant will also host two panels focusing on Dead Island and Deus Ex: Human Revolution, both of which will be playable at on the convention floor at booth 3829. San Diego Comic-Con will also mark the debut a total of five new DISSIDIA and METAL GEAR SOLID PEACE WALKER Play Arts Kai figurines.

U.S. consumers purchased an estimated 1.75 million Blu-ray Disc 3D (BD3D) discs at retail during the format's first 12 months on the market, and brought home another 1.7 million units as part of hardware/software bundling deals, according to the new IHS Screen Digest report entitled “Life in 3D: BD3D's First Year of Sales,” from information and analysis provider IHS. These sales were spurred, in part, thanks to the free PlayStation 3 upgrade that turns any PS3 into a Blu-ray 3D player. The lower cost of 3D TVs from companies like Vizio is also helping sales.

Research In Motion has consistently been known in the mobile industry for making safe and secure devices from both an enterprise and engineering standpoint. Devices that didn't really take risks, but opted to be designed for a crowd that wanted to read their e-mails and do it securely. Sure, over the years in order to compete with Apple and the Android OEMs, RIM has made the Blackberry a little more fun. But let's be honest--when making a choice for gaming, few would point their peers toward Blackberry. Will the Blackberry Playbook shift that stigma? Read on to find out.

Driven by a pronounced change in marketing and promotion strategies as well as price declines and an increasing availability of content, worldwide shipments of 3D TVs will catapult by a spectacular 463 percent to reach 23.4 million units in 2011, according to IHS iSuppli research. The strong push from Sony Computer Entertainment in the 3D video game arena with hit franchises like MLB 11: The Show, Killzone 3 and SOCOM 4.

People of the World--there is an Angry Birds infestation. It's invaded your smartphones, your computers, and your gaming consoles. And now, the evil geniuses at Rovio have joined forces with the legion of Google to bring you Angry Birds in your Chrome Web Browser--for free.

New processors and advanced graphics are always a hit at GDC 2011, but digital audio companies like Cakewalk, Dolby and DTS also had a presence at the convention. With new PC games starting to take advantage of Dolby 7.1 surround sound -- and DTS’ unveiling of 11.1 surround sound with DTS Neo:X technology at CES 2011 -- sound is playing a more important role in today’s video game landscape.

As consumer confusion continues in the 3D TV market, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has stepped in. The CEA is the nation’s largest technology trade association, representing more than 2,000 technology manufacturers, retailers, service providers and installers and is best known for hosting events like CES 2011. The organization is seeking proposals for standardizing 3D active eyewear that uses an infrared (IR) synchronized interface from consumer electronics (CE) manufacturers. The organization has launched the 3D Technologies Working Group to work through submissions. More consumers, especially gamers, are migrating to 3D with Sony PlayStation 3 and NVIDIA pushing active 3D.

Adult film starlet Bree Olson burst onto the scene four years ago at the age of 20 and took the porn industry by storm. These days, the actress has been making the news as one of Charlie Sheen’s close friends as the “Two and a Half Men” star has struggled with his addiction to porn stars, drugs and alcohol. The actress was recently in Las Vegas for the AVNs in tandem with CES 2011. She talks about her love of video games, especially Nintendo Wii and Mario Bros., in this exclusive video interview.

A new report from Research and Markets finds that television manufacturers are viewing 3D developments as the next big thing for the 3D TV industry, and expect it to boost sales and interest as much as color TVs did to black and white entertainment decades ago. The 3D TV market size is expected to grow to more than $100 billion by the end of 2014 as more big games from companies like Sony Computer Entertainment, including MLB 11: The Show, Killzone 3 and Motorstorm Apocalypse hit the gaming space. Hollywood is also increasing the number of Blu-ray 3Ds based on big movies like Disney’s Alice in Wonderland 3D, Sony Pictures’ Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D and Weinstein’s Piranha 3D. And CES 2011 once again focused on 3D TVs like the 92-inch Mitsubishi in the video below.

After teasing journalists with a sneak peak in Las Vegas at CES 2011, Google finally pulled the covers off of Android 3.o, better known to the tech community as Honeycomb. At a press conference in its Silicon Valley headquarters, Google showcase a slew of new features that its new open source operating system will bring to the next generation of tablet devices like Motorola Xoom and LG G-Slate. NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 technology, which made its official debut at CES, was featured during the press conference on new devices like the Motorola Xoom and LG G-Slate tablets. War Drum Studios showed off its new Monster Madness game during the event. Check out this exclusive video interview below.

LAS VEGAS -- Research In Motion (RIM) and Sprint used CES 2011 to announce plans to launch a new BlackBerry PlayBook tablet model featuring connectivity to the blazingly fast Sprint 4G network. The BlackBerry 4G PlayBook will be the first BlackBerry PlayBook model to include wide area wireless connectivity, featuring Sprint 4G to give customers download speeds up to 10 times faster than 3G1. This new 4G model is expected to be available from Sprint in the summer. Check out this exclusive video preview below.

Starz Digital Media, the digital and on-demand licensing arm of Starz, announced today the upcoming launches of its first social media game, Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, and iPad multimedia script app for the “Spartacus” Starz original series. The Spartacus: Gods of the Arena social media game is free to play and brings players into a world of fame, fortune, glory and (of course) blood, all via a Facebook social gaming experience.  A full public launch of the Spartacus: Gods of the Arena social media game is planned for January 20, prior to the exclusive debut of “Spartacus: Gods of the Arena” on Starz, January 21. Actress Erin Cummings talks about games in this exclusive video interview.