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Video-game publisher THQ, who makes the popular uDraw tablet and fighting game UFC, has signed a deal with Mattel to bring Barbie, Hot Wheels and other brands to gaming consoles. Can it help give the gaming company -- whose stock has soared 47% in less than two months -- increase its revenue?

If you're one of the more than 11 million players of the immensely popular online game World of Warcraft, you also are the target of numerous scams that prey on users' zeal for competition. Our partners at SiteJabber.com (whose search bar in featured on the Consumer Ally page) have visually...

In Google's latest effort to expand into online gaming, the search company has acquired Jambool, which provides a technology platform that allows online game developers to create virtual currency, along with virtual goods and services.

Apple is reportedly in talks to acquire China-based online game and social-networking developer HandSeeing Information Technology, according to a Reuters report. If finalized, the deal would mark the U.S. computer maker's first acquisition in that country.

StarCraft II, the sequel to one of the most popular PC games of all time, has been a dozen years in the making. But the wait has paid off. Game maker Blizzard Entertainment says it sold 1.5 million copies in the first 48 hours after launch.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Google, the Internet search giant that's recently lost share in the search business, is developing a potential competitor to Facebook, the social-networking behemoth with half a billion members.

Disney is snapping up social networking games developer Playdom in a deal worth up to $563.2 million, it announced Tuesday. The transaction, will bolster Disney's digital gaming lineup and give it a greater presence on such social networking sites as Facebook and MySpace.

Disney expanded deeper into iPhone territory with the purchase of a young start-up that has garnered top billing in Apple's App Store with millions of downloads for its Tap Tap Revenge game, among others.

I wanted to talk to Maha Ibrahim because I kept running into Watercooler. Not a real watercooler, but the community-based fan and games network that's generating lots of buzz in social networking. Ibrahim is a general partner at Canaan Partners, a $3 billion venture capital fund that's one of...

If you're a parent, that means you have children (my drum-tight logic is amazing, isn't it?), and if you have children, they just may be playing online computer games.So I thought I'd offer my money tip of the day: check your bank account and see if you're paying monthly charges for these games....