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How time-wasting video games escaped the arcade, jumped into our pockets and took over our lives.

Modern Web standards are taking gaming on the Web to the next level. We took a brief look at how Mozilla and Google are contributing to the effort. Standards-based open Web technologies are increasingly capable of delivering interactive multimedia experiences; the kind that used to only be available through plugins or native applications. This trend is creating new opportunities for gaming on the Web.

We're going to feel a little guilty if this news gets you fired. But you can now play "Angry Birds" on Facebook.

Roku hopes addition of 'Angry Birds' game spurs sales of its latest flock of set-top boxes

While 50 per cent of men admit to frequent online gaming, a shocking 49 per cent of women confess they too are addicted - and one in five admits to gaming in bed.

Japanese video game developer Sega Corp said on Sunday that information belonging to 1.3 million customers has been stolen from its database, the latest in a rash of global cyber attacks against video game companies.

"I come from the orcs, we eat with spoons and forks, we love to eat our pork!" That's the sound of a male orc in online roleplaying behemoth World of Warcraft. In China, it may also be the sound of an orc male working on the chain gang, by which I mean an actual Chinese prisoner playing an orc male in Blizzard's mega-MMO to rack up very serious (and very real) coin for Chinese prison guards.

Sony Corp is considering resuming its U.S.-based online games service on Tuesday, following a massive security breach last month, Kyodo news agency said on Friday.

A consumer spending study from research firm Newzoo breaks down the percentage of dollars spent on video games by country. According to 2009 Today's Gamers Survey, The U.S. shelled out $25.3 billion on games and around 40 percent of that went to used, mobile, or online games.

Millions of people download 99-cent games for their iPhones. An increasing number of Web sites offer free online games.