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UK games industry to receive dedicated SIC codes for development and publishing
The games industry will be recognised in the 2026 UK Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) framework, providing video game development and publishing with dedicated four-digit codes to accurately reflect the scale of the sector. Set for…
Online Casinos Play A Growing Role In The Online Gaming Industry
Online casinos used to sit in their own corner of the internet. The separation is still written into licensing and platform rules, but culturally it has thinned. Casino-style play shows up beside mainstream games in mobile stores, in short clips…
GTA 6 publisher Take-Two responds to the Google AI that sent game industry stocks crashing: Project Genie is 'not even in the same ballpark' as a real game engine
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Winter Olympics 2026 live updates: Today's latest from the Games including hockey and curling
While the opening ceremony isn't until Friday, the early events of the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics continue today. Curling kicked off the competitive action yesterday with four mixed doubles matches and is set to continue in the round robin…
Management sim Manifesto is the first game ever without politics: Grind workers into dust under your bootheel in a carefree romp that is 'definitely not about the video game industry… stop reading into things that aren't there'
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Olympics 2026 live updates: Today's latest from the Winter Games, including curling
Follow our live coverage as the 2026 Winter Olympic Games begin Unlike the Summer Olympics, the Winter Games have fewer sports. But that doesn't mean it's short on excitement. Here is the list of sports taking place at the Milan Cortina Games:…
Xbox Game Pass adds 12 games in February including GOTY contender prequel
Xbox has revealed a dozen titles being added to Game Pass in February 2026, with two ready to load up immediately. The line-up includes a day-one release, a timely sports sim addition and the prequel to a game many considered 2025's finest…
Three key Super Bowl matchups, from Sam Darnold vs. pressure to run game
We're nearly there. In just four days, the Patriots and Seahawks will kick off the unlikeliest Super Bowl in modern history, based on preseason odds. More recently in Vegas, Seattle opened as the 3.5-point favorite, a line that's now moved to 4.5…
Gaming's new coming-of-age genre embraces 'millennial cringe'
I've noticed an interesting micro-trend emerging in the last few years: millennial nostalgia games. Not just ones that adopt the aesthetic of Y2K gaming – think Crow Country or Fear the Spotlight 's deliberately retro PS1-style fuzzy…
Nioh 3: Demons, death and an early contender for game of the year
If FromSoftware's games were a painting, they would be a Goya — darkly visceral, yet marked by a restraint that deepens their artful gloom. The Nioh franchise, by contrast, has all the manic, infernal frenzy of a Hieronymus Bosch. Since…
IOC won't put pressure on L.A. Games chair Wasserman
MILAN -- The IOC showed no interest Wednesday in putting pressure on 2028 Los Angeles Olympics chair Casey Wasserman over personal emails released in the latest Jeffrey Epstein files. Wasserman has faced calls from lawmakers and those in political…
Is NFL pushing boundaries on international games? Australia trip could test limits of global growth
LONDON -- The Los Angeles Rams landed in London just 30 hours before kickoff against the Jacksonville Jaguars in October. That won't fly when they play in Australia next season. The Melbourne game is part of a multiyear commitment and represents a…
Dev Wins $2,600 For 'Emotional Distress' Over Abandoned Game
Motoaki Furukawa, the former Konami composer behind the likes of Policenauts, Snatcher and the Nintendo 64 version of Castlevania, and Pixel Co., a small Nintendo Switch-focused Japanese dev team, have lost their respective legal battles against…
NRL 2026 Big Board: Ranking the best young talents in the game
The 2026 rugby league season is no longer a distant fantasy looming in the back of our minds - it has arrived. While the NRL holds most footy fans' attention throughout the season, the buzz around the brightest youngsters in the sport has already…
Nintendo Switch becomes gaming giant's best-selling console in history
The Switch is now the best-selling Nintendo console in history, having surpassed 155 million sales since it launched in 2017. It means the device, which saw a huge boom in sales over the pandemic, has now surpassed the Nintendo DS as the firm's…
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