comScore released a study of global visitation to Beijing2008.cn, the official Web site of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.

ZTE is enhancing 3G mobile TV viewing experience during the forthcoming Beijing 2008 Olympic Games as it officially rolls out U728, the industry’s first-TD-SCDMA TV handset, a wireless device that is capable of receiving crisp and quality TV signals.

Adobe announced a strategic relationship with CCTV International Networks to deliver the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games’ coverage through the Web.

Samsung announced the launch of the Samsung innov8, which is to be made available in the global market from August 2008.

The Seagate Barracuda ES Series has been selected as the hard drive of choice for the Omneon MediaDeck media servers and MediaGrid active storage systems that will enable NBC’s coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, to be held August 8-24. The media servers and storage systems will allow NBC to produce 3,600 hours of coverage during the Beijing Olympic Games – a three-fold increase over the coverage during the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.

Activision and Vivendi, two of the biggest video games creators, have merged and formed one giant: Activision Blizzard. The new company will take aim at Electronic Arts’ market dominance and tries to become the biggest video game creator, according to The Guardian.

Yahoo! announced that Yahoo! Games will offer ad-supported downloadable games from the top casual games publishers.

A “Final Fantasy” game can be summed up with the following words: long and touching storyline, memorable characters, huge number of secrets, great looking movies and very high replayability. Keeping this in mind, you might be thinking how could a Final Fantasy for the PSP keep these things, and, like all Final Fantasy games before it, bring something new to the table. Well, can it? Punk?!

Beginning with this week, Soft32 in collaboration with Games32 team will present you the most important reviews and previews on all the major consoles. So we start with “Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Conspiracy” a game developed by High Moon Studios for XBOX360 and PS3, based on the The Bourne Identity movie. A game that was never expected to deliver such an intense action and cinematic feeling.

AOL announced the launch of BigDownload.com, http://www.bigdownload.com, a new content- and service-centered site for the PC gaming audience providing free downloads, game reviews and industry news.

Sophos is warning computer users to be on their guard against unsolicited emails following the discovery of a new malicious spam campaign that claims another earthquake has just occurred in China, and could derail the upcoming Olympic Games.

Nokia today launched the worldwide Mobile Games Innovation Challenge, a global competition with €70,000 in prizes, designed to encourage development of innovative game concepts.

SanDisk and Big Fish Games today announced a new web site offering a large library of casual games that run on USB flash drives enabled with U3 smart technology.

Seagate announced it will sponsor this year’s World Cyber Games Australian Tournament by providing Barracuda 7200.11 hard drives for all the gaming stations.

Sierra Entertainment, a division of Vivendi Games, announced that World in Conflict — the groundbreaking action-strategy game that claimed the coveted E3 2007 Game Critics “Best Strategy Game” award and topped many “Best of 2007″ lists — will appear on the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and Playstation 3 computer entertainment system this fall.

Today Greystripe, a distributor of ad-supported mobile games and applications, announced early results from its partnership with Opera, the world’s leading mobile web browsing software company to bring free mobile content faster and easier to consumers browsing on their mobile phones.

Freeverse is proud to announce the release of three new games for the Macfun.com game portal: Chocolatier 2, the sequel to the popular confectionary game, Electropy, an action title with a twist, and 5 Realms of Cards, a revolutionary new solitaire game.

AMD today announced the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3000 series, a new family of discrete graphics for high-definition gaming and video in notebook PCs.

Sandio Technology Corporation, a California-based 3D input company, is demonstrating its 3D mouse on various 3D applications at the 2008 International CES show that opened yesterday in Las Vegas. The demo will include Sandio’s newest mouse, the Sandio 3D Game O2.

The October 28 launch of “Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock” struck the first chord in a highly anticipated battle of the bands between music-based videogames that will only get louder when rival “Rock Band” arrives November 20.

When the annual trade show once known simply as E3 kicks off this week, attendees will discover a distinctly downsized event.

Forget peace and happiness. Most U.S. adults want a computer under the tree this holiday.

Geoff Robinson does not fit the stereotype of a hardcore geek gamer. The Oregon State University student is sociable, an avid weight lifter, studies English and history — not computer science — and wants to be a high school teacher.

Broadcom announced sampling of the industry’s first low power multimedia processor that enables a high definition (HD) video camcorder and playback in cell phones and portable media players.

Giant video games with throaty diesel engines powering monster-sized earth movers, excavators and dump trucks have hardened miners at a metals conference this week in Peru giggling like children.