The first clinic specializing in addition to gaming – and in particular video and online computer games – opened this week in Amsterdam. “It can start with a Game Boy… From there, it can progress to multilevel games that aren’t made to be won”

Check Raised’s RBCalc.exe has the Backdoor.Win32.Small.la (Small.la for short) rootkit trojan hiding in it. It contains the following trojan files: utlsrv.exe, comclg32.dll, d3dclsrv.dll and ndsdavsrv.sys.

A recent study has shown that Internet gambling in the United States has doubled in the past year, and that many people who take part in Internet gambling have no idea that what they are doing is illegal.

A new trojan virus, Win32.WOW, steals your World of Warcraft password and lets the trojan’s author steal your World of Warcraft gold and World of Warcraft items, and sell them out from under your nose.

Free online multiplayer games are coming to a cell phone near you!

Sudoku puzzles are now available to Verizon Wireless subscribers over their cell phones!

Nintendo DS games can be played over the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection at McDonalds around the country. Would you like free wifi with that?

Urban Othello is an outdoor game of Othello, using city streets, and the T-Mobile Sidekick.

Phishers are thwarted and games are enjoyed with new anti-phishing and game add-ins, each offered free by Microsoft for their MSN search toolbar. Free download available at the MSN website.

Online games in general, and online poker in particular, lack the feel and sound of the real experience. PokerPadz has built a new mousepad to change all that.

Nintendog Hot Biscuit mod rumours are flying. Did someone really create a Hot Biscuit mod for the new Nintendogs, much like the Hot Coffee mod for GTA: SA? Or is it all just an elaborate spoof?

Online game community and security experts are warning about PrsKey.a, a keylogging worm which steals your username and password, and allows those behind it to steal all your game booty.

Well, thanks to Grant Robinson, I have a new time waster: Guess the Google. Guess the Google should be more properly named “Guess the keyword which resulted in these images being returned in a Google image search”, but I guess that was too long, and the acronym – GKWRTIBRGIS –…

A man in Japan has just been arrested for virtual mugging. Really. He set up a player-bot – a virtual virtual gamer, if you will – and had his player-bot beat up other online gamers’ virtual characters, and steal their lunch money. Ok, I made that last bit up. It…

The scandal over the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas so-called “Hot Coffee mod” continues to have a ripple effect on the gaming industry, and not necessarily all as negative as the lawsuit by the grandmother who bought GTA:SA for her 14-year old grandson. For example, the International Game Developer’s Association…