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The Xbox 360 version of BioShock 2 topped the sales charts in February, moving half a million copies in a month packed with big game releases, the NPD Group said Thursday. Boosted by BioShock , Dante’s Inferno and continued sales of Modern Warfare 2 , the Xbox 360 was the best-selling home game console in the U.S

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February NPD: BioShock 2, Xbox 360 Top the Charts

SAN FRANCISCO — Search behemoth Google buttered up the game development community at the Game Developers Conference Wednesday by handing out free mobile phones. At the tail end of the panel “Bring Your Games to Android” presented by Jack Palevich — the programmer who recently ported Quake to the Android platform — representatives from the company gifted a Motorola Droid to every developer who listened in on Palevich’s pitch session. Google launched the Android operating system for mobile phones in 2008.

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GDC: Google Courts Game Devs With Free Phones

SAN FRANCISCO — OnLive, the streaming games-on-demand service, will launch on June 17 for $15/month, the company announced Wednesday at Game Developers Conference. Only the PC and Mac versions of the service are launching on the 17th — the tiny box that connects to your television won’t launch until later this year.

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OnLive: Money For Nothing

Defend your eyeballs against some screens Promethium Marketing — formerly the Gamerscore Blog crew — has released Tweet Defense on the iPhone, a tower defense title that rewards players with bonuses for linking up and using their Twitter account. The title features ten different levels, five different enemy types and six different towers to choose from.

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Tweet Defense shambles to iPhone

You might have heard that Square Enix recently shipped a new entry in the all-but-forgotten Lufia series of role-playing games in Japan. Or maybe you didn’t. Called Estpolis: The Land Cursed by the Gods in Japan, the game shipped in late February to little fanfare and meager sales (it didn’t even make the top 10).

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About That New Lufia DS Game

Ubisoft today offered up a bit of an explanation to those of you on PCs yesterday who were desperately trying to play the publisher’s games with the cumbersome new DRM ( Assassin’s Creed 2 and Silent Hunter 5 ), only to find yourselves unable to authenticate said DRM because of the outage . Apparently it was (gasp!) …

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Ubisoft’s PC DRM verification was out because ’servers were attacked’

Ubisoft today offered up a bit of an explanation to those of you on PCs yesterday who were desperately trying to play the publisher’s games with the cumbersome new DRM ( Assassin’s Creed 2 and Silent Hunter 5 ), only to find yourselves unable to authenticate said DRM because of the outage . Apparently it was (gasp!) …

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Ubisoft’s PC DRM verification was out because ’servers were attacked’

It’s officially official: Valve will bring its Steam online distribution service and titles from its massive library of hit games to the Mac this April, the company confirmed Monday. The successful content-delivery service will bring Valve titles like Left 4 Dead and the upcoming Portal 2 , as well as games from other publishers, to Apple computers for the first time

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Valve Brings Hit Games, Steam Service to Mac

Portal 2 is real, and coming this Christmas, Valve said Friday. And it looks like Mac owners might get to share the love.

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Portal 2 Is Official… And Maybe for Mac