Kirby's Block Ball, Crush3D demo on Nintendo 3DS eShop
Kirby-themed Breakout puzzler Block Ball headlines this week's Nintendo eShop update. First released on the Game Boy in 1994, the new digital version costs £2.70/€3 and is available to download from this Thursday. Classic NeoGeo brawler King of Fighters '97 arrives on the Wii's Virtual Console, meanwhile. It costs 900 Points (about £6.30). Read more…

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective tops iPhone Games of the Week
The latest entry in Capcom’s stable of App Store games is also our best game of the week. It’s Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, a game in which you play a ghost working to solve his own murder (and a bunch of puzzles along the way).

App Store Update: February 2
Every day hundreds of new apps make their debut on the App Store, and hundreds more are updated or reduced in price. We have sifted through the noise and highlighted those select few that might be worth your attention. Wiki of the Week! A final reminder that IGN's mobile game wiki of the week i...

Top free iPhone apps: Temple Run, Monkey Flight
The application Temple Run is themed around a staple scene of all treasure-hunting movies -- the escape from the temple. Players of the app have to dodge a variety of devious devices in order to escape with the treasure and their lives intact. Temple Run was the most downloaded free iPhone application in both the USA and the UK over the past seven days. The application Monkey Flight, which ...

Why women are dialing up HSN to play games
By Mark Albright, Times Staff Writer Friday, February 3, 2012 Named one of the 40 most influential women under 40 in Silicon Valley in 2007, Jill Braff made a career digitizing games and social engagement for today's ever-changing high-tech devices. ¶ Now 43 and executive vice president of digital commerce at HSN in St. Petersburg, she brings a background ranging from marketing the Game of Life ...