Video Games Industry News
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The Best Video Games of 2025
Like the TV and movie industries, video games navigated choppy waters in 2025. There were yet more immiserating layoffs amid painful, executive-led pushes for AI. Yet the games themselves bore few traces of such hardship, sparkling from our screens…
Live-Action Tomb Raider Series Will Interconnect With The Video Games
Tomb Raider fans know more content is coming their way. It's been a bit of a hiatus when it comes to brand-new installments for the beloved video game franchise. The last major new release came in 2018 with Shadow of the Tomb Raider, finishing the…
Video games can teach designers deeper lessons than 'high score streaks' and gamification
“Gamification” is one of software design's hottest buzzwords. The idea is to leverage the mechanics of video games–points, high scores, win streaks and leaderboards–to keep users engaged over a longer period of time. But…
Viral Video Game Playing Goldfish Has Died At The Age Of Three
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 ‘s European concert is selling out in record time. Megabonk is back in the running for The Game Awards. Also RIP to the fish that did what many players couldn't. It's the latest edition of Morning Checkpoint…
Fortnite Has Once Again Proven Why It Is The Future Of Video Games
They destroyed the Battle Bus. I repeat, they destroyed the Battle Bus. Following the excellent Zero Hour live event, Fortnite Chapter 7 opened with The Dark Voyager showing up to blow the iconic vehicle to smithereens, leaving its many parts…
Video Game Stocks To Watch Today - December 1st
Turtle Beach, Alliance Entertainment, Motorsport Games, and Allied Gaming & 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 companies whose…
AI Takes Over? 'Final Fantasy' Maker's Bold-and Risky-Reboot Signals New Era For Video Games: 'An Extremely Difficult Decision' - NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)
'Final Fantasy' maker Square Enix Holdings Co. Ltd. announced cutting jobs while unveiling plans to integrate generative artificial intelligence across its game development process. A Square Enix spokesperson said in a widely circulated statement…
Former Nexon CEO Says AAA Games Are In End-of-Days And AI Is About To Rewrite Everything
Veteran games executive and former Nexon CEO, Owen Mahoney, believes the video game industry is on the cusp of a massive transformation--and that AI is at the center of it. He argues that AI is already integrated into many aspects of game…
UK Games Industry Shadow Council forms to address 'good and poor practices' in sector
A temporary independent body has launched to address 'transparency, accountability, and ethical reform' in the UK games sector. The UK Games Industry Shadow Council (UKGISC) is 'a group of likeminded people who have given their personal time to…
Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA after buyout
Saudi Arabia's sovereign Public Investment Fund (PIF) is poised to become the majority owner of EA as part of a $55 billon take-private that will see an investor consortium take control of the Battlefield and Apex Legends publisher. The deal was…
'Fewer people are playing Call of Duty this year than they have been before' Why has Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 seemingly sold below expectations? Is it simply not good enough?
There's been a lot of chatter surrounding Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 since its launch. The latest release in a juggernaut franchise, some are seeing cracks in the armour due to a mixed reception to various parts of the game, as well as the little…
EA makes eight new accessibility patents free to all
Electronic Arts has added eight more patents to its Accessibility First Patent Pledge, including grapple assist technology, speech and audio generation tools, and improvements to its text size and contrast tool Fonttik. One of the patents is…
Google Daily Hub: Anatomy of an overambitious system shaping the future of search
Google's Daily Hub is more complex than it first appears. It's part of the broader acceleration toward hyperpersonalization we've been seeing in recent months – Preferred Sources, Profile Pages with followable elements in Discover, Brand…
We played Metroid Prime 4, ask us anything
Share all your burning questions about Samus' latest adventure. Share all your burning questions about Samus' latest adventure. Ash Parrish is a reporter who covers the business, culture, and communities of video games, with a focus on marginalized…
Former Battlefield devs had 'something to prove' with Arc Raiders and The Finals, ex-Nexon boss says, and that's why they succeeded where other veteran-led studios failed
Former Nexon CEO Owen Mahoney reckons he knows why Arc Raiders developer Embark has been so successful compared to other veteran-led studios: because the people in charge actually care about something other than money. And Mahoney would know -…
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