The App Store's rotten with platformers. Everywhere you turn, there's some developer revisiting his or her childhood with their own take on the hoppy/jumpy left-to-right adventure genre. Many of these stink or are otherwise unremarkable. But 5th Cell's Run Roo Run is different.

A triple dose of Sam Fisher comes to the PlayStation 3 this March with the long-rumored release of the Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell HD trilogy. He'll be joined by three times the Prince of Persia on a Blu-ray disc.

Back in 2008, Sony sold its Nagasaki chip plant to Toshiba. The factory produces chips for the PS3. Reports say Sony now wants the factory back.

Sony and Nintendo are in talks to add 3G network connections to their next line of handheld game machines, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.

Rumors are circulating today about the death of IBM's Cell processor, which powers Sony's PlayStation 3. Kotaku spoke to IBM about the fate of the Cell and its commitment to the PlayStation 3.

Now hang on a minute. It doesn't seem like five minutes since some gaggle of market pundits were proclaiming that the iPhone had turned the mobile games market inside out and pointing at developers rolling around in pits of cash like Scrooge McDuck. Well, that's all well and good, but a different gaggle of experts…

In 2009, Sony and Toshiba are to begin mass production of the 45nm version of the Cell processor used in the PlayStation 3, reports Gizmodo. The smaller processor uses around 40% less power than the current 65nm chip and generates proportionally less heat. It also costs substantially less to manufacture. It would be…