Sony’s San Diego Studio has been working on ModNation Racers: Road Trip, a portable PlayStation Vita incarnation of the hit PlayStation 3 game. The PS Vita game allows players to connect online to share and play any creations from both the PS3 game and the new travel-sized version. Gamers can quickly create karts and tracks and then jump into competitive ad hoc races against friends (there’s on online racing support). The developer walks through the new game in this exclusive video below.

This past weekend at Miami Beach’s Art Basel, the international art festival’s first-ever 3D art installation transformed Ocean Drive’s famed Tides Hotel into Art Basel’s largest canvas at more than 8,000 square feet. Inspired by the famous graphic design style seen in 1980s and early 1990s video games, now referred to as 8-bit art, the installation was presented by Hyundai and created by Pearl Media, a non-traditional media and production company specializing in groundbreaking media and art experiences.  The program was conceived by media agency Initiative and their Innovations group.

Legendary Entertainment (The Dark Knight Rises) is developing several videogame projects, including WarCraft based on Blizzard Entertainment’s game franchise and Mass Effect based on BioWare’s franchise. The producers of the Mass Effect movie were at San Diego Comic-Con this year. They didn’t have time to answer all of the fan questions at the panel, so they posted the below questions on their Web site. Filmmakers are working with Mass Effect creator Casey Hudson on the project, which is being written by Mark Protosevich (Thor).

To celebrate the launch of the Super Mario 3D Land game for the Nintendo 3DS handheld system, Nintendo had hundreds of Marios invade Westfield Horton Plaza in San Diego. But that was just the start. The game maker is also giving fans in New York City a rare opportunity to experience the new 3D game early. Anyone who visits Times Square on November 12 will be invited to play inside Mario’s 3D world with life size warp pipes, trampoline coin jumps and a flag pole finale. Consumers will also have a special opportunity to play Super Mario 3D Land in advance of its official November 13 release date.

Sony Computer Entertainment’s San Diego Studio has gone the fantasy route with its newest PlayStation Move game. After developing the launch title, Sports Champions, the game studio is working on Medieval Moves: Deadmund’s Quest for PlayStation 3. The developer talks about the the new game in this exclusive video interview below.

With San Diego Comic Con 2011 now over, NcSoft has shifted its focus across the Atlantic to Gamescom, Europe's largest game expo. This annual celebration of games and entertainment takes over Cologne once again from August 17-21, and the game publisher will be there in full force - and developer ArenaNet is bringing a brand new Guild Wars 2 demo to Germany. 

The cast of “Spartacus: Vengeance” was on hand at San Diego Comic-Con 2011 to talk about the upcoming season of Starz hit TV series. The new season stars Liam McIntyre (Spartacus), Lucy Lawless (Lucretia), Katrina Law (Mira), Manu Bennett (Crixus) and Dustin Clare (Gannicus), among others. Starz has released the full trailer for the new season of Spartacus: Vengeance below.

Sony Online Entertainment has worked closely with Dave Filoni, supervising director of the Cartoon Network computer animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, to create the exclusive storyline in the Mission on Iceberg Three summer campaign for Clone Wars Adventures. Filoni was at San Diego Comic-Con 2011 to talk about season four of the TV show and the new online video game adventure in this exclusive video interview.

Its been a week since Comic Con stormed through downtown San Diego, and so much happened that we're still writing about it! Two shows, in particular, have created plenty of buzz as must sees in the future. Here's our coverage of the Relativity Media  films you will not want to miss.  

Actress Ashley Eckstein, who’s married to former MLB star David Eckstein, has been keeping busy in the video game space. The actress voices Ahsoka Tano in Cartoon Networks’ hit computer animated TV series, “Star Wars: The Clone Wars.” She’s also brought that character to life in a slew of Clone Wars video games, including LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars, Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Republic Hero. Most recently, she can be heard in Sony Online Entertainment’s Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures MMO and the upcoming Bioware Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO. She talks about Clone Wars and video games in this exclusive video interview from the San Diego Comic-Con 2011 convention.

Steven Spielberg made his first trek to San Diego for Comic-Con this year. He was joined on a panel for The Adventures of TinTin: The Secret of the Unicorn by producer Peter Jackson, who flew in from the set of The Hobbit. Based on a popular European comic book franchise, the first of three TinTin movies will hit theaters this Christmas. There’s also a new video game from Ubisoft that will be out this fall in tandem with the live action/computer-generated film. Jackson and Spielberg talk about the new 3D movie in the video below.

NcSoft was on hand in San Diego to show off the latest content for its free-to-play massively multiplayer online (MMO) game, City of Heroes Freedom to convention attendees. At Comic-Con 2011, the game maker talked about what’s new with its superhero MMO in this exclusive video interview.