StarCraft II is still headed for a release in the first half of the year, according to production director Chris Sigaty.
"We were targeting three to five months for the beta, we're really at a three month period of time for the beta at this point," Sigaty said during the BlizzCast podcast.
Pop Cap Games has unveiled the findings of its 2010 Social Gaming Research report looking into UK and US gamers.
The research confirmed the perception that most social gamers are women, who occupy 54% of the total in the US and 58% in the UK.
Graham Hopper, executive VP and general manager of Disney Interactive Studios, has said the company hopes to match Nintendo in software sales by taking cues from how it develops its key titles.
New Line Productions had already secured the rights to make a movie adaptation of Quantic Dream's Heavy Rain as early as 2006.
The option was filed with the US Copyright Office only a week after the game's E3 2006 announcement. The option was then renewed in 2007 in a deal between the Lord of the Rings film studio and Quantic Dream's David de Gruttola.
Sir Clive Sinclair, entrepreneur and inventor behind the Sinclair ZX80, has revealed he "can't be bothered" to use a computer any more.
As a home computer, the ZX80 quickly became one of the most popular platforms among gamers. However, Sinclair hasn't kept up to date with the latest developments in home computing.
"I don't use a computer at all, the company does," he explained, adding that he even had people read and write e-mails for him.
When asked why, he responded: "Sheer laziness I think. I can't be bothered."