The hugely popular Chinese micro-blogging site, Sina Weibo, is set to introduce new rules on what topics users can and cannot post, as the country's social networks face increasing pressure to crack down on online rumors.
Norway's alleged mass killer testified on Thursday that he played video games as a way to train for a shooting spree that killed 77 people last summer. In particular, Anders Behring Breivik said at his trial that he played "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" as a means of shooting practice, according to CNN's report.
The comment on the Facebook page of the Norwegian tabloid newspaper Verdens Gang last July was unequivocal. "The death penalty is the only just sentence in this case!!!!!!" it said. Written by Thomas Indrebo, the "case" to which the message referred was the meticulously planned mass murder of 77 people in Oslo on July 22, 2011by Anders Behring Breivik.
CNN's Diana Magnay assesses the prosecution strategy and talks with Anders Behring Breivik's attorney.
China's major microblogging sites have suspended comments sections after being "punished for allowing rumors to spread" of a coup attempt in Beijing, state-run media reported Saturday.
Singer-songwriter Katy Perry will lend her "distinctive talents, style and personality" to the virtual world of The Sims through an extensive collaboration with Electronic Arts, the computer game company said Tuesday.
China is taking another cautious step forward in reforming its media industry with preparations to list the website of People's Daily, the ruling Communist party's mouthpiece.
Shares of online gaming giant Zynga closed below their initial public offering price on Friday, after soaring 10% at the start of trading.
Turns out there's billions to be made from FarmVille cows and crops. Zynga priced its initial public offering at $10 a share late Thursday, a mark that values the gamemaker at about $7 billion.
Zynga is poised to fling itself into a public market that has recently turned cold toward its peers: a crop of Web companies with lots of buzz but fledgling business models.
From Pac-Man to "Pretty in Pink," Dungeons and Dragons to Devo, Rush to "School House Rock": If this pop culture laundry list brings back fond memories, then do yourself a favor and pick up a copy of Ernest Cline's new novel, "Ready Player One."
Google's social network, Google+, recently sent tremors through the gaming world with the announcement that it would be launching a new social games service.
Dedicated social gamers devote many hours to tending their online farms and digital pets -- and lots of money, too. This year they'll spend an estimated $650 million in real cash on virtual goods.
What do you get when you combine the top-selling PC game franchise of all time with the world's biggest social network?
If last week's volatile stock market was too much to bear, maybe it's time to start trading your friends, and strangers, based on their Facebook updates and how much they tweet.
Rebecca Black hopes to step beyond her one-viral-hit-wonder status next week when she releases her second music video, which her publicist says is titled "My Moment."
Investors are betting on video game publishers...and winning big.
Will Wright wants to tell stories.
The stock price for Activision Blizzard hit a sour note Thursday, the day after the video game company said it was abandoning "Guitar Hero" and focusing on battle games such as "Call of Duty."
Critics often accuse video games of making players lazy, inept and socially awkward. Contrary to popular belief, though, many build, not burn brain cells by requiring extensive problem solving, teamwork and dynamic decision-making skills.
From an explosion of social games and iPhone apps to the rise of motion controls, cloud computing and retro revivals, 2010 has been a year of surprises and revelations for gaming enthusiasts.
Instant messaging, texting, Facebook, and ... "Call of Duty?"
November: From the Cold War to zombies, the new "Call of Duty" aims to get fans shooting.
Tencent, the world's third largest Internet company by market share, launched its popular instant messenger service in English, Japanese and French.
Despite some skepticism about America's appetite for purchasing digital trinkets in games and on the internet, the "virtual goods" market is growing at a healthy clip, according to an industry report issued Tuesday.
Science fiction, fantasy and comic book fans take to the streets of Atlanta for the 2010 Dragon*Con.
Sandeep Parikh, Jeff Lewis and Sean Becker were fresh from their raucous "The Guild" panel at Dragon*Con when they sat down with CNN to answer our fan-oriented questions.
Lazy, promiscuous, confused, selfish, brain damaged and overall hopeless are all labels that have been given to China's so-called post-90s generation, or those who were born after 1990 who are now mostly in their teens today.
A principal ingredient in Toyota's success has been the job of the chief engineer, or shusa. Unlike a chief engineer at GM or Ford, whose role is essentially coordination, the Toyota shusa has complete responsibility for a vehicle, beginning with its conception and sometimes lasting through its entire sales life. Besides engineering decisions, the shusa is responsible for a program's business success. He defines a vehicle's intended market and is responsible for hitting targets of cost, weight, performance, and quality.
Here are a handful of people who used the web in creative ways to land a new job.
Take a little bit of World of Warcraft, mix with some Cartoon Network and bake it all in the Star Wars mythos and you will get the latest creation in online gaming.
Zed Drebin has a pretty fantastical life.
CNN's Eunice Yoon reports on the uneasiness in the international business community in China.
Nene Anegasaki is a witty, doe-eyed beauty. She looks perfectly perky in sexy skirts, doesn't pick fights and is always at one Tokyo man's beck and call -- that is why the 27-year-old decided to marry her.
A man so loves his video game that he "married" a character from it. CNN's Kyung Lah reports.
In the ongoing saga of paid content on the Web, Rupert Murdoch is once again threatening to pull his Web sites from Google's search results.
"China is not on the Internet, it's basically an intranet. Everything is banned by the Great Firewall," says Sherman So, co-author of "Red Wired: China's Internet Revolution."
Author Sherman So talks about how the Internet makes popular culture accessible to the least educated in China.
Twitter users on Thursday will, for the first time, be able to make voice calls directly to each other through the microblogging service.
Look out, Facebook users: Here comes voice chat. Sometime in the next few weeks, the social network's tens of millions of users will begin to be able to have high-quality voice conversations, even as its third-party developers are able to start including voice in their applications.
CNN's Justin Armsden reports on the popularity of virtual golf in South Korea.
Sometimes it seems like Barack Obama rules the Internet.
While China is seriously cracking down on the exchange of virtual currencies for real cash, virtual economies backed by newfound legitimacy elsewhere are quickly gaining ground in the real world.
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