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polygon.com - Jason Venter - The 12 Biggest Video Game Flops of All Time
The 12 Biggest Video Game Flops of All Time
Polygon.com

No one sets out to build a flop. Game development costs too much to justify anything but a genuine effort, sometimes at the cost of creative freedom. Even the industry's true auteurs must eventually answer for their bold decisions. With so many…

gamerant.com - Ollie Tuscarny - 5 Most Perfect Video Game Consoles, Ranked
5 Most Perfect Video Game Consoles, Ranked
GameRant

Video game consoles as we know them today have been around for over 50 years, with the promise of at-home gaming only becoming more and more impressive as time has gone on. We have seen dozens of generations, reinventions, and revivals from some of…

gamedeveloper.com - Chris Kerr - WINGS really, really wants to fund your neat indie video game
WINGS really, really wants to fund your neat indie video game
Game Developer

WINGS, the investor focused on supporting women and gender marginalized developers, has rebranded and announced new financing pathways in a bid to offer more flexibility to prospective partners. It's notable news in a funding climate that has…

collider.com - Rohan Naahar - John Wick' Meets 'The Departed' Video Game Adaptation Gets Official Update After 1 Year of Silence
John Wick' Meets 'The Departed' Video Game Adaptation Gets Official Update After 1 Year of Silence
Collider

Video game adaptations aren't as risky as they were a decade ago. Some of the most high-profile movies at the time — Assassin's Creed, Warcraft, and Tomb Raider — struggled critically or commercially, or both. More recently, hits such…

marketbeat.com - Top Video Game Stocks To Add to Your Watchlist - August 18th
Top Video Game Stocks To Add to Your Watchlist - August 18th
MarketBeat

Turtle Beach, Allied Gaming & Entertainment, Motorsport Games, Alliance Entertainment, and Brag House are the seven Video Game stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Video game stocks are shares of publicly traded…

bleacherreport.com - Paul Kasabian - NBA 2K27 Announces New Gameplay Features in Videos from Global Game Reveal
NBA 2K27 Announces New Gameplay Features in Videos from Global Game Reveal
Bleacher Report

The NBA 2K27 Game Reveal dropped on Tuesday, and it showcased a host of new features, including ones coming to Gameplay, MyCareer, The City and MyPlayer Builder. 2K dropped an entire rundown of the new features. You can read the thorough breakdowns…

polygon.com - Elijah Gonzalez - New AI Report Confirms the Games Industry Is Officially at a Dangerous Tipping Point
New AI Report Confirms the Games Industry Is Officially at a Dangerous Tipping Point
Polygon.com

The research firm Bain & Company just released its annual report on the video game industry, and it's a depressing read. For starters, players are becoming increasingly comfortable with generative AI in video games. Overall, 14% said they had…

ign.com - Wesley Yin-Poole - No Disc No Buy' Comments Dominate Sony's Phantom Blade Zero State of Play Livestream, as Planned PlayStation Boycott Nears
No Disc No Buy' Comments Dominate Sony's Phantom Blade Zero State of Play Livestream, as Planned PlayStation Boycott Nears
IGN

Sony held its planned Phantom Blade Zero State of Play livestream with — somewhat surprisingly — the comments turned on, and they went exactly how everyone thought they would. The YouTube chat, for example, was dominated by “no…

cyprus-mail.com - Cyprus enters Europe's gaming big league with €3.2 billion industry
Cyprus enters Europe's gaming big league with €3.2 billion industry
Cyprus Mail

Cyprus has broken into Europe's ten largest video game industries by revenue, with more than 400 companies on the island generating an estimated €3.2 billion from games in 2025. The finding comes from the first industry report published by…

engadget.com - Deven McClure - Are your retro games still worth money?
Are your retro games still worth money?
Engadget

That old pile of games could fetch some cash, but it depends on how rare the games are and the shape they're in. If you've got a large collection of video games sitting in the back of your closet, you might be wondering if it's an untapped…

androidauthority.com - Matt Horne - Rare deal on the latest Fire HD 8 tablet drops it to Prime Day price of $89.99
Rare deal on the latest Fire HD 8 tablet drops it to Prime Day price of $89.99
Android Authority

Ryan Haines / Android Authority The Amazon Fire HD 8 is built for the basics most people use a tablet for every day, and right now, there's a nice deal on the newest model at Amazon. It's a budget-friendly tablet from Amazon with an 8-inch HD…

vice.com - Luis Prada - McDonald's Built a 515-Page Dossier on One Customer to Predict What He'd Order Next
McDonald's Built a 515-Page Dossier on One Customer to Predict What He'd Order Next
VICE

When we think about data collection and the potential for some all-powerful entity to amass a comprehensive dossier of our behaviors, we tend to think of shadowy government agencies. You probably never would've suspected that McDonald's has one on…

ign.com - Wesley Yin-Poole - It's Just Not as Much Fun for Me Anymore' - Deus Ex, System Shock, and Thief Developer Legend Warren Spector Announces Retirement
It's Just Not as Much Fun for Me Anymore' - Deus Ex, System Shock, and Thief Developer Legend Warren Spector Announces Retirement
IGN

Video game developer legend Warren Spector has announced his retirement from video game development. The 70-year-old founding father of the immersive sim genre announced his retirement in a post on LinkedIn, saying he felt he had done what he set…

theguardian.com - Sarah Butler - Ikea to take on eBay and Vinted with UK online secondhand site
Ikea to take on eBay and Vinted with UK online secondhand site
The Guardian

Ikea is taking on eBay, Facebook Marketplace and Vinted with its own secondhand selling site in the UK. The new platform, which will enable shoppers signed up to the Swedish company's membership scheme to connect directly to one another to buy and…

washingtonexaminer.com - Lisa Britton - Why young men are entering the world of digital distraction
Why young men are entering the world of digital distraction
Washington Examiner

These lost pathways — weakened institutions of marriage, work, education, faith, and civic life — have left many young men adrift. Traditional routes to adulthood, responsibility, and belonging have thinned. Prescribed life paths have…

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