Jobs hope after Realtime Worlds collapse

More than 20 staff made redundant last week by video games firm Realtime Worlds have been given their jobs back, says The BBC.

Bafta-winning Realtime went into administration on Tuesday with the loss of 157 jobs at the company's headquarters in Dundee.

The redundancies came on top of 60 announced last week, but 23 people will now go back to Realtime.

GameStop, the world's largest video-game retailer, fell the most in more than seven months in US trading after its second-quarter results and third-quarter forecast fell short of analysts' predictions, writes Bloomberg.

The retailer, based in Grapevine, Texas, tumbled $1.70, or 8.2%, to $19.06 at 4:01pm in New York Stock Exchange composite trading, the most since 7 January. The shares have declined 13% this year.

Profit for the third quarter will be 35c to 38c per share, the company said today in a statement. That compares with a previous prediction of 38c to 41c and analysts' projections of 39c, the average of eight estimates compiled by Bloomberg.

Mechanical keyboards quickly became a trend in the peripheral world, and they are now leaking over into the world of PC gaming with Razer's introduction of the BlackWidow Mechanical Gaming Keyboard, reports CNET News.

Mechanical keyboards use a different technology to register key presses. Rather than using the common membrane and scissor-switch style key designs, each key uses its own mechanical switch underneath the cap to actuate the stroke. Mechanical keys require less vertical travel distance to register a press, and therefore add speed and accuracy for the touch typist.

According to Razer, it designed the BlackWidow's key architecture to deliver half the throw action of what you'll find on other mechanical keyboards, such as the Das Keyboard or the Matias TactilePro 3.0, giving users faster key presses during gameplay.