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When games like Farmville have 83 million users, designers who are used to working on games that took years to build have little choice but to embrace the era of Facebook games.. Read the rest at CNET News. ...

Steve Jobs personally threatened to sue Sun Microsystems, Jonathan Schwartz says. Sun warded off that and a Microsoft threat with its own patent portfolio.. Read the rest at CNET News. ...

The Unreal Engine 3 is on its way to the iPhone, though creators Epic Games have had to make some compromises to get there.. Read the rest at CNET News. ...

Harmonix and MTV Games are getting the band back together, with Electronic Arts handling distribution once more.. Read the rest at CNET News. ...

Sony’s PlayStation 3 has suffered from poor sales over the past few years. But the console is making a resurgence and at least one analyst firm believes it will triumph.. Read the rest at CNET News. ...

Apple-owned company on Tuesday releases next major version of its database product, FileMaker Pro 11.. Read the rest at CNET News. ...

Ngmoco’s Eliminate was one of the first games to offer 3G multiplayer on the iPhone. But how did they do it?. Read the rest at CNET News. ...

An analyst report says that Apple gave plenty of warning that it intended to sue competitors it believed moved too close to iPhone’s territory.. Read the rest at CNET News. ...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain a copy of the iPhone developer agreement from a federal agency and doesn’t like what it found.. Read the rest at CNET News. ...

The smartphone maker’s WebOS Plug-in Development Kit enters its public beta phase, and Palm shows off some games built by PDK developers.. Read the rest at CNET News. ...