According to recent reports, the OnLive remote gaming service, which has been in the research and development mode for the last eight years, will launch on June 17 this year.

At the 2010 Games Developer Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, Sony marked its foray into the motion-controller arena, with the unveiling of its forthcoming motion-sensitive controller – the PlayStation Move - for its PlayStation 3 console.

Seven45 Studios has declared a new music game, Power Gig: Rise of the SixString. It will be a treat for the players because it will allow them to strum a real six-string electric guitar instead of tapping buttons on an artificial instrument.

Jeff Walker, Vice President of Marketing at Seven45, said, "The leap to playing guitar will be seamless".

The developers of the Final Fantasy XIII had thrown a launch party at the Regency Center.

In a Monday announcement that reflects game company Valve's inclination towards the Mac platform, Valve revealed that it is finally bringing its digital distribution service Steam, and its proprietary gaming engine Source, to Macs.

According to Gamasutra report, a new report by the Strategy Analytics Connected Home Devices (SACHD) has predicted that not only will the sales of Sony's PlayStation 3 gaming console eventually surpass the sales of its rival products, Nintendo Wii and Micorosft Xbox 360; but the system will also continue selling much longer than its rivals.

For the forthcoming European launch of the much-awaited Final Fantasy XIII, the newest addition to the long-running Japanese role-playing game series, thousands of gamers in the UK will likely be in London.

According to the Strategy Analytics Connected Home Devices service, PlayStation 3 system will beat its rivals Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii in terms of sales.

The report forecasts that PS3 sales will sooner or later strike 127 million globally, in comparison to approximately 103 million Wii units.

Over a thousand UK gamers in London are set for the European launch of Final Fantasy XIII.

Final Fantasy XIII is a console role-playing game developed by Square Enix for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It has sold 92 million copies globally.

On Monday, gaming company Valve declared that will get its Steam digital distribution platform to Macs.