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What the Digital Fairness Act means for the games industry
After it was leaked earlier this week, the European Commission has formally presented its draft for the Digital Fairness Act today. If adopted, the Act will have a massive impact on the games sector, particularly where virtual currencies are…
Games Workshop Group rallies Wednesday, outperforms market
Games Workshop Group PLC GAW shares advanced 1.52% to £167.00 Wednesday, on what proved to be an all-around positive trading session for the stock market, with the FTSE 100 Index UKX rising 0.78% to 10,835.47. Games Workshop Group PLC closed…
Nostalgia is paying off big for video game makers
Gen X and millennial gamers might be feeling a heavy dose of deja vú right now. Major developers are leaning into nostalgia, releasing new video games this month from beloved, decades-old franchises. So far, it seems to be paying off.
U.S. loses grip on $121 billion mobile gaming sector to China
Yang Liu's parents planted roots in suburban Michigan hoping their son, who was born in China, would find success in the world's biggest economy. In early 2020, they got their wish: End Game Interactive, the mobile game startup he co-founded in…
Watch Dogs 2' Video Game Retro Review
When it comes to video games, second impressions matter almost as much as the first. There've been many major franchises with decent beginnings whose immediate sequels helped those franchises take off and feel like the developers' fuller vision.
Indie Game Awards AI Boycott Sparks Big Walk Controversy
For game developer teams, the Independent Games Festival (IGF) is a very big deal. A nomination for the IGF Awards provides a game with priceless publicity, including a showcase at the festival, and a shot at winning one of the industry's most…
Built on Googlebook: Play Henry Cavill's video game to support Movember
Henry Cavill teamed up with Google to build “Mustache Protocol,” a 16-bit video game, on his Googlebook. Over the past few weeks, we've watched Henry's creative process unfold. In the first episode of our behind-the-scenes series, he…
9-foot-tall Game Boy Color plays all the classics
A pair of California-based engineers have built what they say may be the largest Game Boy Color ever. Standing more than nine feet and weighing around 300 pounds, the Pokémon-yellow goliath requires a U-Haul to transport and took over 1,500…
The CyberPowerPC Gaming PC RTX 5060 Ti Prebuilt Gaming PC Drops to $1,199 at Walmart
Ahead of Black Friday, Walmart is offering the best deal right now on an affordable 1080p-capable gaming PC. For a limited time, you can pick up a CyberPowerPC prebuilt gaming PC featuring the newest Intel Core Ultra 5 Plus CPU and GeForce RTX 5060…
Patriots' Alarming 3-Game Trend Draws Mike Vrabel Warning Before Lions Game
The New England Patriots have had to wipe out early deficits the past three weeks. Head coach Mike Vrabel knows that can't continue. New England has fallen behind in the opening stages of three consecutive games, including Sunday's 45-27 loss to…
Intel's Gonna Have a Hard Time Beating AMD's Next-Gen Gaming CPUs
Want to know what's coming next for your AMD-based desktop PC? We can glean an inkling of what's coming next from AMD through its latest Zen 6 EPYC enterprise-grade processors. These are server-level chips that are built for a specific use case, so…
'Grand Theft Auto VI' Is Latest Big Swing for Take-Two CEO's Video Game Empire
Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. Chief Executive Officer Strauss Zelnick wanted to run a Hollywood studio when he was a kid. The Harvard University business and law school graduate worked his way up to become president of 20th Century Fox by his…
CHIP 8: The Pong Game's Afoot!
Writing a computer game has always been hard. It is only the nature of the difficulty that changes. A modern game is as much about graphics, sound, and storytelling as it is about programming. But in the early days of computers, writing a game was…
Acer's Popular Gaming Handheld Couldn't Go Two Weeks Without a Price Hike
There is little reason to hold out hope for future generations of cheap gaming gadgets. Today's case in point is the Acer Predator Atlas 8, a gaming handheld that became so popular it sold out. Now, just two weeks after launch, it costs $150 more.
Big Walk used AI to fix a bug. Now the indie gaming world is having a reckoning.
The last few years have seen significant debate over the widespread use of AI-powered tools in game development and the responsible disclosure of that usage to players. That debate has exploded into a full-blown controversy in the indie game…
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