In this week's Gaming News Round-up: The Kinect Star Wars game and Xbox 360 Limited Edition bundle become available locally, whilst the creator of indie-hit Minecraft unveils his new project. FULL STORY >

European Commission launches two antitrust probes into Motorola Mobility's patent practices, after it had received complaints from Apple and Microsoft. FULL STORY >

Analytics firm comScore releases its latest statistics on the US mobile phone market for the period between December 2011 and February 2012. FULL STORY >

Net Applications releases its latest browser report, detailing desktop browser usage as of the month of March. FULL STORY >

comScore releases its latest statistics on the US mobile phone market for the period between November 2011 and January 2012. FULL STORY >

Microsoft makes a commissioned IDC report available, that deals with cloud computing's role in job creation within the ITC sector. FULL STORY >

Microsoft announces the availability of the Consumer Preview (pre-release beta version) of Windows 8. FULL STORY >

Net Applications presents its latest desktop browser trend report, detailing PC desktop browser usage for the month of February. FULL STORY >

The latest figures from market research firm Strategy Analytics indicates that Nokia has overtaken HTC and the other Microsoft smartphone partners, to become the biggest Windows Phone OS vendor. FULL STORY >

Microsoft has announced the winner of its Windows Phone Application Development competition, with a South African developer receiving R50 000 for his mobile game. FULL STORY >

Many of the new features to grace Windows Phone 8-running handsets later this year have been prematurely leaked in a video intended for Microsoft's hardware partners. FULL STORY >

Microsoft releases the Kinect for Windows SDK version 1.0 and starts shipping the hardware to its distribution partners. FULL STORY >

Net Applications presents its latest desktop browser trend report, detailing PC desktop browser usage for the month of January. FULL STORY >

Redmond-based software giant Microsoft announces the start of the Office 15 technical preview phase in the development of the next version of its Office productivity suite. FULL STORY >

In the first part of this week's Gaming News Round-up, Microsoft may employ an anti-used games measure within the next version of the Xbox and The Witcher 2 is given an Xbox 360 release date. FULL STORY >