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UKIE calls on government to modernise Video Games Expenditure Credit ahead of Autumn Budget
Ahead of this week's Autumn Budget, UKIE is urging the UK government to modernise the Video Games Expenditure Credit (VGEC). The trade body is also pushing for a new fund to address the £500,000 to £2 million domestic growth capital…
7 Reasons FF7 Is the Ultimate Video Game Fairy Tale
When you think of a fairy tale, what comes to mind? A medieval European setting, with soaring castle spires, imposing forests, brave knights, and fair maidens? Your first example probably wouldn't be a video game from the late 1990s that opens with…
The Onion's First-Ever Video Game Skewers American Politics Just Ahead of the Midterms
For decades, satirical publication The Onion has been the leading voice for razor-sharp political comedy. Now, at a time when the site feels like it's reaching an unhinged peak, it can add another accomplishment to its résumé: video…
Why Isn't Anyone Funding Video Games Anymore?
These days it can be hard to remember, but the whirring machinery of the video game industry used to occasionally produce a successful hit without immediately collapsing and exploding. There are many factors to blame for this clear erosion of…
A24's Massive 180-Page Elden Ring Script Hints at a Nearly Three-Hour Epic That Could Break Video Game Movie Norms
A few new details on the story for A24's Elden Ring movie have emerged, including its possible runtime. And, if that remains the case, it's going to be epic. Deadline reports that writer-director Alex Garland's screenplay, based on FromSoftware's…
Cyprus has second smallest video game market in Europe
Cyprus has the second smallest video game market among 36 European countries, with only Malta spending less, according to a report published on Tuesday by the European audiovisual observatory. Consumer spending on video games in Cyprus reached…
'Women love video games,' Dressmaker dev says, there just aren't enough games for them: 'We were definitely targeting women from the get-go'
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Top Video Game Stocks To Keep An Eye On - October 27th
Turtle Beach, Allied Gaming & Entertainment, Motorsport Games, Brag House, and Alliance Entertainment are the five Video Game stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Video game stocks are shares of publicly traded…
Epic Games Is Suddenly Anti-AI Now That It's Being Hurt by It
For years now, the video game industry has been hellbent on adopting AI, using it for everything from rapidly cranking out code to auto-generating high-resolution textures and sloptastic upscaling algorithms. Some publishers have even relied on AI…
Take Two stock is a buy ahead of a GTA 6-fueled earnings boom, BofA says
November 19 will mark an event that some gamers have been waiting more than a decade for, but it should also be a date for investors to mark on their own calendars. We're talking about the release of Grand Theft Auto 6, Rockstar Games' sprawling…
What is 'Maxxing'? Viral trend named Dictionary.com's word of the year
Dictionary.com has named Maxxing its word of the year for 2026. Short for maximising, the slang term refers to optimising an aspect of life or doing something to the fullest. Usage of the word in digital media surged nearly 19 times in August 2026…
Why Party Plenums Matter So Much to Xi
Welcome to Foreign Policy 's China Brief. The highlights this week: The Chinese Communist Party begins its fifth plenum, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits Dandong, and China's first entirely AI-generated animated feature flops at the box…
Mini Market Tidy Up - Kotaku
A cozy pixel-art organizing game about tidying up messy supermarkets. Sort products, stock the right shelves, earn money, unlock upgrades, and take on bigger stores as you turn every chaotic market into a perfectly organized space. Games metadata…
'Hi Sandy. Are You Well? This Is Wrong.' 2 Doom Creators Are Arguing Over the Legendary First-Person Shooter's History
The 1993 first-person shooter Doom is legendary. Its place in history is both untouchable and inarguable. The details of that history, though, are currently being debated on social media. Not by fans, mind you, but instead by two of the very people…
Elden Ring' Will Be Biggest Movie At A Market, Amazon Joins A24 Film
EXCLUSIVE: A24 ‘s fantasy video game adaptation Elden Ring is heading to the American Film Market where it'll be the biggest-budget standalone project ever on sale at a film or TV market. We hear from sources the budget is being pegged…
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