Further delays for Gran Turismo 5

Sony has revealed that the highly-anticipated Gran Turismo 5 will not be ready for release in November as planned, reports IT Pro Portal.

The news comes as a bit of a shock for the industry and excited gamers alike, who have been eagerly waiting for the game since it was unveiled back in 2006, the report says.

The Japanese gaming giant had previously confirmed that the racing game will be released on 3 November. However, the company now says that the release will be delayed in Europe, as well as Japan and North America.

Japan's DeNA mobile games company says it will acquire American mobile gaming company Ngmoco, and add it to its stable of gaming platforms, writes Yahoo News.

DeNA will pay $300 million in its shares, stock options, and cash in November to buy Ngmoco and will pay up to an additional $100 million if the company meets performance milestones. Part of the deal is dependent on Ngmoco's earnings for 2011.

Terms of the deal were not announced by Ngmoco.

The console and games industry is moving towards what has been called 'social gaming', where users are more interactive and use actions to play games rather than just a controller, states AME info.

While this form of gaming may not appeal as much to the traditional users, console manufacturers are increasingly going after the family market which has been exploited so well by the Nintendo Wii, according to the report.

Sony, utilising its Playstation 3 Eye camera, released the Playstation Move, the system most like the Nintendo Wii. Using a motion controller not too dissimilar to the Wii's, it can gauge depth as well as width and length, something the Wii can only do in a limited fashion. Microsoft on the other hand, ditched the controllers altogether. The Kinect system for the Xbox allows a gamer to control everything on screen using nothing but their movements.