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PC World – Sony’s PlayStation 3 and Microsoft’s Xbox 360 have both hit sales milestones in Japan in the last week.

Reuters – Microsoft Corp has signed up multiple software partners for its upcoming cellphone software marketplace, including Web music service Pandora, game publisher Electronic Arts Inc and social site Facebook.

PC World – Want to improve your eyesight? Fire up your gaming machine and start shooting the bad guys in action-packed video games. That’s right, those grotesque, gratuitous, and gory shooter games may be an excellent tool for improving eyesight. The conclusion comes from a study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, and was conducted by the University of Rochester.

AFP – Slaying hordes of bad guys — the more the better — in fast-paced video games improves vision, a study published Sunday showed for the first time.

Reuters – Adults who play a lot of action video games may be improving their eyesight, U.S. researchers said on Sunday.

AP – Not every video game creator was musing about how to sell more hardware or craft more realistic virtual weaponry at the this week’s Game Developers Conference, the annual convention of game designers, programmers and executives. Several impresarios were more interested in pushing the limits of the interactive medium with their ideas.

Macworld.com – Hereâ??s an analogy for you: Shigeru Miyamoto is to Nintendo as ____ is to iPhone games. Every platform and technological breakthrough needs a face and a name that pushes the idea further than ever before. While the iPhone doesnâ??t have a Miyamoto quite yet, Neil Young has been making a strong case for the role.

AFP – High Voltage studio’s Matt Corso says videogame lovers that think Nintendo’s family-friendly Wii consoles are for seniors and little siblings are in for a big surprise in June.

AFP – Post-apocalyptic adventure “Fallout 3″ has been crowned Game of the Year at a major gathering of videogame makers in San Francisco.

Macworld.com – Utah Governor Jon Huntsman (R) has vetoed HB353, a bill in Utah that proponents had hoped would impose fines upon retailers who sold children violent video games. Announcing the veto in a letter sent to Utahâ??s speaker of the House and Senate president, Huntsman said the bill would likely face stiff constitutional opposition, were it passed into law.