ANALYSIS: CEO David Scott and venture capital firms Menlo Ventures, Worldview Technology Partners and Mayfield Fund will come away with many dollars when the deal is done. - In the aftermath of the out-of-control bidding war that recently concluded with Hewlett-Packard out-spending Dell at $2.35 billion for storage maker 3PAR, the winners undoubtedly are enjoying one of the sweetest Labor Day weekends of their lives. Those victors include CEO David Scott and venture ...

Sam & Max episodic game developer Telltale Games has followed up on the teaser it posted to Gametrailers last week with an announcement of a brand new title called Poker Night at The Inventory. The game will feature "a new style of poker" and feature high profile characters from games and comics, including Homestar Runner's Strong Bad, Penny Arcade's Tycho, Sam & Max's Max and The Heavy from Team Fortress 2. Telltale CEO Dan Connors ...

Over the years, Windows has gotten progressively better at laptop power management--but it still doesn't tell you much about your battery.

Google says Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is investigating whether its Web search rankings are fair.

Facebook has added more functionality to its search results by including all the articles a user's friends have said they "like."

Playing video games by moving your body rather than by pressing buttons on a controller is sweaty, sweaty work.

Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: In January, a 7.0 quake hit Haiti, and 230,000 people died. Today, a 7.0 quake hit New Zealand, and early indications are that it caused relatively few major casualties. Why the difference?

SEATTLE -- You can take that toe tag off Duke Nukem Forever: The game, presumed dead after developer 3D Realms pulled the plug on it last year, is alive and kicking at Penny Arcade Expo. Some hands-on time with the demo makes it obvious Duke will be just as obnoxious as ever.

Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
See, YouTube ads can be awesome: A hunter shoots a bear  —  Nice timing.  Just a few hours after The New York Times reported that YouTube's ad revenues have grown to the point that the Google-owned video site will be profitable this year, I spotted a video that demonstrates why some of YouTube's potential as an advertising platform.

It's been six years since the release of a new game in the Oddworld franchise, but thanks to UK-based developer Just Add Water, a remake of the EA-published Xbox title Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath is coming to PlayStation 3 next year. Oddworld founders Lorne Lanning and Sherry McKenna are working closely with Just Add Water to create the remake, which will feature remastered dialogue, 720p visuals and PlayStation Move support. Additional bonus materials will be packed ...

See the second half of the cutscene that premiered at Gamescom!

[Sister site FingerGaming rounds up the week's most popular paid and free iPad gaming applications on the App Store as of today, with Brisk Mobile's Medieval HD and Telltale Games' Puzzle Agent HD charting among the App Store's biggest-selling titles.] This week's top paid titles are: 1. Angry Birds HD ($4.99) 2. Medieval HD ($2.99) 3. Pinball HD ($0.99) 4. Zombie Infection HD ($0.99) 5. Sudoku 2 HD Pro ($2.99) 6. Fruit Ninja HD ($4.99) ...