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The corporate logo for Zynga is seen on a screen outside the Nasdaq Market Site in New York

Zynga, Hasbro partner to make toys, games

Is a Mafia Wars board game on the way, or a cuddly toy horse from FarmVille?     

A woman shows a Sony's PlayStation Vita handheld gaming device at Tokyo Game Show in Chiba

Gaming is going great guns

Sony PlayStation, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii and other gaming consoles have introduced a new level of superior gaming to the South African market.

Need for Speed: The Run

In the early 1970s I saw Vanishing Point. In it, Barry Newman was a driver contracted to take a muscle car from Colorado to California. Next minute he was being pursued by half the police forces of North America and an assortment of others. Newman was guided by God through his radio. It all ended in major explosions on the outskirts of LA. It was an existentialist nightmare.

Game console

Man dies in a 23-hour computer gaming feat

A Taiwan man has died after playing a computer game at an internet cafe for 23 straight hours, local media reported Friday.

Classic games

Classics: Frogger

Developed by Konami in 1981, Frogger was one of the earlier games to use multiple CPUs, using two Z80 processors, it is considered to be an arcade classic. Can you get that frog home? Give it a try here.

Classics: play Pac Man

Pac Man was one of the early arcade classic. Originally created by Namco, and distributed in the US by Midway, it was the break out hit that created a whole new genre, appealed to both genders and being one of the highest grossing games of all time - generating $2.5bn in quarters by the 1990s.

Game Reviews

Mario Kart 7

Karting wonderland is a 3D burst of colourful fun, writes Bruce Gorton