The IOS market has been around for roughly six years and has helped revolutionize everything tech related from movies, music and games. It has given artist and developers a new platform to communicate and speak directly to audience and that’s exactly what Aoineko Studios is doing.

Over the past few years, Konami Digital Entertainment has worked closely with school districts in Hawaii and West Virginia to integrate its bestselling DanceDanceRevolution (DDR) game into their physical education programs. Now the game publisher is taking things a step further. This fall, schools around the nation will be able to use DanceDanceRevolution Classroom Edition, a PC-based game crafted specially for schools and fitness classes. Sweeping the nation one classroom at a time, Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. has collaborated with  the nation’s leading health and fitness organizations including the American Diabetes Association, The National Foundation on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition and Let’s Move in Schools to promote fitness in schools through the new DanceDanceRevolution Classroom Edition.

It looks like the $18 million James Cameron invested into the 3D conversion of his Oscar-winning Titanic was money well spent. The director spent time meticulously going over every frame of the film to convert it to 3D. And the movie opened with $25.7 million in the U.S. and an additional $35.5 million in 84 foreign territories. Cameron talks about Titanic and 3D in the video below.

Epic Games and Train2Game have assembled a lineup of video game luminaries to participate in Make Something Unreal Live, the groundbreaking game development competition coming to the Gadget Show Live on April 10-15, 2012 at the NEC in Birmingham, UK. One of the judges is Cliff Bleszinski, design director at Epic Games, who can be seen below in an exclusive video interview from GDC 2012.

Even when a game gets optioned by Hollywood, there’s no guarantee that it will ever make it to the big screen. Developer Irrational Games is finding that out the hard way with BioShock. Universal Pictures and Gore Verbinski (The Lone Ranger) were originally on board to turn 2K Games’ bestselling game franchise into a big screen movie. But he dropped out and Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (28 Weeks Later) stepped in to write and direct the big screen adaptation. But now Fresnadillo has exited the project to develop “other stuff.” BioShock creator Ken Levine, who is working on BioShock Infinite, talks about Hollywood adaptations in the video interview below.

Blizzard Entertainment today released a lot of new details today about the fourth expansion of its "World of Warcraft" franchise it announced at the last BlizzCon, "World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria." We caught up with "World of Warcraft" Game Director Tom Chilton for an exclusive video interview where he goes into detail about the new features and visuals gamers can expect from the latest "Mists of Pandaria" expansion. We also have a bunch of screenshots from the new expansion after the break. Get ready for lots of Pandas!

SAN FRANCISCO -- The franchise that laid the foundations of the city building simulation genre is back, empowering players to create the world of their imagination. Electronic Arts announced that SimCity is breaking new ground in 2013. SimCity for PC, a brand new entry in the franchise is currently in development at Maxis Emeryville, and was revealed today during Game Changers @ GDC, a symposium that featured inspirational speeches from Academy Award-winning director Davis Guggenheim, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, and charity: water CEO and founder Scott Harrison.

Doing a “director’s cut” of a game is nothing new in the game industry.  A lot of companies have come through with Game of the Year editions, featuring extra downloadable content right on the disc or offering a small bonus to those who may have missed out on the game before.  This time, it’s Mortal Kombat’s turn, and one of 2011’s best games, a successful relaunch of a long-running fighting franchise, gets a great package with the Komplete Edition.

Sony has unleashed its newest portable game system in the U.S. PlayStation Vita is now available for $250 for the Wi-Fi version and $300 for the AT&T 3G/Wi-Fi device. There are also 25 games supporting the launch, including critically acclaimed titles like Uncharted: Golden Abyss, WipeOut 2048 and ModNation Racers: Road Trip. John Koller, director of hardware marketing, Sony Computer Entertainment America, talks about the present and future potential of the new hardware in this exclusive interview.

Believe it or not, play-by-play commentary can have some vital importance in a sports game.  Have it running too long and it becomes irrelevant to what's happening in the game.  Make it too silly and it can take away from the seriousness of your contest.  Make it disjointed and it sounds like a hideous mess.  There's a proper tone you have to nail when it comes to doing running commentary, but THQ recognizes this, as the development team has worked very closely to making UFC Undisputed 3's commentary better than ever.

LAS VEGAS – The world has converged in Las Vegas for what’s expected to be a record crowd of media, analysts and tech companies for CES 2012. And for good reason. According to the latest forecast figures from GfK Digital World, produced in partnership with Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), global spending on consumer technology devices will surpass $1 trillion in 2012 for the first time, increasing by 5% over 2011’s figure of $993 billion.

LOS ANGELES – 20th Century Fox has enlisted first-time director Josh Trank with a brand new superhero franchise. And for good reason. He created it with screenwriter Max Landis (Frankenstein). Chronicle, which hits theaters February 3, 2012, follows the thrilling journey of a trio of teenage boys who uncover super powers in Seattle.  The thriller was filmed in the found footage sub-genre made popular by movies like Cloverfield and Paranormal Activity. Chronicle is shaping up to be one of the big movies of 2012, as the trailer below shows.