Gaming competition launched

Zero Friction, along with Electronic Arts, has launched Vixture, a gaming competition targeting more than 50 000 gamers in India, says DNA India.

All one needs to do is make a team of five players, and play as a team in Crysis, manage Need For Speed ProStreet, Cricket 07, FIFA 08, and Fight Night Round 3 individually.

The 64 finalist teams from the country will be battling it out in Mumbai during the finals from 13 to 15 June.

As chief executive of Westwood videogame company Turbine, Jeffrey Anderson is launching Play Hard Sports, a company that plans to create an online haven for sports game fans, reports Boston.com.

Bolstered by $5 million in funding from venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates, Play Hard will offer easy-to-play "casual" sports games for desktop computers.

Play Hard will run fantasy sports leagues and offer news feeds about events in the real world of sports.

A recent study of consumers across the US indicates that 25% of US households or 28 million now have at least one HDTV set, states Max Console.

Due to falling prices and the upcoming digital transition, a larger percentage of younger adults 21-34 purchased HDTV's over the holiday season.

Among those who purchased their HDTV set in the past year, 18% say they did so to connect it to a high definition video game console like Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3.