PC World - China will allow popular online game World of Warcraft to be relaunched for some players in the country after weeks offline, but it will still require changes to objectionable game content.

Macworld.com - Blizzard Entertainment’s legendary Warcraft franchise has spawned a series of video games, toys and books, so it’s only to be expected that it’d make the move to the big screen one of these days. Today the company announced that Sam Raimi has been hired to direct the film.

Reuters - China plans to implement a five year program advocating clean online games, starting next year, an official from the General Administration of Press and Publication told an industry conference Wednesday.

AP - Raptr, a social network targeting gamers, is hoping to make it easier to see what your friends are currently playing on a broad range of platforms such as the Xbox 360 and personal computers.

AP - A trade group that represents software and video game publishers sued the Chicago Transit Authority on Wednesday, saying a rule barring ads on trains and buses for "mature" and "adults only" games violates the right to freedom of speech.

Macworld.com - Disney Interactive Studios has announced plans to release a video games based on “Alice in Wonderland,” the live action movie directed by Tim Burton that will be coming to theaters early next year. The iPhone and iPod touch are on the list of supported platforms, though the Mac is noticeably absent.

AFP - Microsoft said Thursday that it is collaborating with Japanese anime studios to make short action films based on its blockbuster "Halo" videogame franchise.

Reuters - News Corp hopes to transform MySpace, which has been losing users to Facebook, into a stronger online videogaming platform as it works to reposition the six-year-old site as an entertainment destination.

Macworld.com - Electronic Arts (EA) on Tuesday announced the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, a video game based on the upcoming movie. It debuts simultaneously on multiple platforms including the Mac. It costs $30.

PC World - Upcoming real-time strategy Windows game StarCraft II will ship without Local Area Network multiplayer support in an effort to combat piracy, says Blizzard, in an official statement sure to annoy if not outright confound series fans the world round.