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The Best Prime Day Deals on Video Games, Controllers, and Peripherals
Prime Day is June 23 to 26, and Lifehacker is sharing the best sales based on product reviews, comparisons, and price-tracking tools before it's over. Follow our live blog to stay up to date on the best sales we find. Browse our editors' picks for…
Inside Skybound's video game strategy
Skybound Entertainment is continuing to rack up wins with the recent release of Invincible VS. The game is both another successful adaptation of co-founder Robert Kirkman's superhero comic Invincible and a successful debut for in-house game studio…
General Intuition's $2.3B bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world
As soon as I entered General Intuition's R&D floor at its New York office, the company's 31-year-old co-founder and CEO Pim de Witte directed my attention to a monitor perched on a standing desk. Someone appeared to be playing something like…
Can video games help us better understand quantum mechanics?
The blocks keep falling. A pale yellow square awkwardly lands on a green block shaped like the letter “z”. Next to them stands a pillar made of smaller turquoise blocks. We've all seen Tetris, you can probably picture it. But there is…
The Best Books, Movies, Video Games, and Podcasts to Check Out After Watching 'Succession'
Shakespearean in the depth of its family dynamics and populated with some of the most hilariously awful people ever imagined, Succession was deservedly a phenomenon over the course of its four seasons. Watching the Roy children simultaneously…
Aussie rockers, giant video games and groovy nudity: July's best shows
As the middle of winter descends, there's never been a better time to be indoors, or rugged up in Adelaide's bedazzled streets, taking in this month's pick of live shows around the nation. Michael Bailey Arts & Culture editorMichael Bailey writes…
Video Games Are Changing, And Meccha Chameleon's Absurd Popularity Is Proof
Another week, another series of reminders that the video game industry is in serious trouble. Pillars once thought unshakeable are collapsing right and left as AI renders hardware unaffordable to all but those with deepest pockets. Whatever emerges…
Grand Theft Auto 6 demand may be so high it will 'likely outstrip supply' this holiday season, a video game retailer warns
Major retailers may not have the stock of consoles necessary to bear the incoming wave of demand this holiday season, thanks to Grand Theft Auto 6 's release, it's claimed. According to a new article by The Game Business, game shops are expecting a…
Don't Miss These 11 Exciting New Video Game Releases This July
We're coming up to July, which means we're heading into the second half of the year. The first half included a bunch of really good games, and that trend is set to continue in the second half, starting with some July releases. A few major…
What Does Mark Zuckerberg Want With Prediction Markets?
The basic story of Meta is that, after creating Facebook, which grew into one of the largest advertising businesses in the world, Mark Zuckerberg fortified his empire by acquiring fast-growing competitors and ruthlessly cloning the ones he couldn't…
Conspiracy Theories Twice as Likely to be Believed by Young Male Gamers, UK Study Finds
A new study has found that young male gamers in the UK are twice as likely to believe conspiracy theories compared to the country's general population. The statistic comes from a new report by research firm More in Common and The AKO Storytelling…
Le Sserafim Confirmed For Blizzcon 2026 This September
A video game industry favorite in the world of kpop is coming back to collaborate once again. Blizzard confirmed in their news blog that Le Sserafim have confirmed that they will be returning to perform at BlizzCon 2026. The girl group will perform…
Le Sserafim to return to BlizzCon stage
K-pop girl group Le Sserafim will return to the BlizzCon stage this year to deliver the closing performance for Blizzard Entertainment's flagship community event in September, the U.S. game developer said Friday. The five-member act is scheduled to…
Sony Is Reducing Bungie's Workforce By A 'Significant' Number Of Employees
Sony and Bungie have finally pulled the trigger. Bungie has revealed they will have ‘a reduction in force' in social media. Shortly afterwards, Hermen Hulst shared this message: We have made the decision to reduce Bungie's workforce…
Stop Killing Games Pivots To Amending Digital Fairness Act In EU After Loss
Well, perhaps the demise of the Stop Killing Games movement in the EU was overstated. We were just talking about how the attempt to introduce new legislation to support the goals of the movement were defeated, despite a petition with over a million…
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