Adam Hartley

Blizzard is currently readying its next major multiplayer online game, with the company's CEO outlining the plans for the latest MMO from the hugely successful studio behind World of Warcraft.

The iPlayer for radio

Sony detailed the media format that NGP will use at a panel for the next-gen handheld at GDC 2011 this week.

Facebook group chats should soon be arriving, following a deal which sees Facebook acquiring group chat specialists Beluga this month.

MSI has launched its latest Windows 7 tablet PC, powered by AMD's new C-50 processor and AMD Radeon HD 9250 graphics at CeBit this week.

In what is one of the more interesting gaming-related announcements from this month's CeBit event in Hanover, Asus has been demonstrating its new PC-based gesture-controlled technology.

Sony demos latest virtual world tech at GDC

Exclusive Following the earlier news that the global market for mobile apps is set to explode over the next five years, one leading UK iPhone app developer has revealed the secrets of app development success.

Google is courting the world's leading games designers this week, gifting free laptops to devs at the Games Developers' Conference in San Francisco.

The global market for mobile apps is set to rocket to $38 billion (just over £23 billion) by 2015, according to Forrester Research.

Apple has quickly followed up the announcement of a new line of MacBook Pros with the news that it is nearing the release of its next operating system, Mac OS X Lion.

Apple has announced that current Mac users will need to pay a whole 59 pence to download the new version of FaceTime for Mac, although those buying the new MacBook Pro laptops will get it for free.

Sony Ericsson's forthcoming new gaming mobile, the Xperia Play "is cooler than iPhone" and "probably not as expensive" according to Sony Ericsson exec.

Spotify has been valued at around $1 billion according to a number of venture capitalist sources, with a major new round of investment on the way to the Swedish music streaming service.

PS3 hackers have figured out a way of circumventing Sony's PSN bans on those that jailbreak their PlayStation 3 consoles, as the war between the hacking community and Sony rumbles on this week.

Apple has stopped shipping its current MacBook Pro models online, suggesting that a refresh of the high-end laptop range is set to arrive in the coming days.

Ministry of Sound Recordings (MoS) is reviewing its policy of sending letters to alleged filesharers, following a recent court ruling criticising such activity.

Google has bought Ireland's tallest commercial building in Dublin to house its EMEA headquarters.

If you are in the market for a 25-inch OLED TV and happen to have a spare £17,880 under the bed, then Sony's latest pro display is just the thing you've been looking for.

Dell has confirmed that its forthcoming new Streak tablet which it first teased back at CES in early January is set to use Android 3.0 'Honeycomb'.

The latest Nvidia financial results show that the graphics giant is confidently handling the shift from PCs to mobile chips and bullish about the potential for Tegra 2.

Music label bosses at some of Britain's major record labels are looking towards streaming music services as the future for commercial music.

Warner Bros has announced new 'app editions' of feature films, Inception and The Dark Knight for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.

Dell is rumoured to be looking to acquire Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), according to the latest Wall Street chatter.

MWC 2011 Samsung has launched a PMP version of its popular Galaxy S smartphone, with the new Samsung Galaxy S WiFi Smart Player unveiled at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week.