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Shigeru Miyamoto named first video game-related recipient of Japan's Order of Culture
Shigeru Miyamoto, the legendary figure behind Nintendo franchises such as Mario and The Legend of Zelda, has been named the first-ever video game-related recipient of Japan's Order of Culture. On Friday, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports…
Shigeru Miyamoto Will Be The First Video Game Developer To Receive Japan's Order Of Culture
Shigeru Miyamoto will be given one of Japan's highest honors. He will receive Japan's Order of Culture, the highest cultural honor the government can give, to be personally bestowed by the emperor himself. Miyamoto gave a brief statement himself in…
Epic Games Offering Rs 47 Lakh To Use AI To Develop New Video Game
Epic Games' AI Mega Jam invites individuals and teams to build games with AI and Unreal Engine. Summary is AI-generated, newsroom-reviewed Epic Games offers up to Rs 47 lakh in grants and prizes for AI-based game development The 2026 AI Mega Jam…
10 2010s Video Games That Are Officially Classics in 2026
It feels like it has only been a few years since the 2010s, when the world was obsessed with Marvel movies and Pokémon Go. However, it has been over a decade and a half since the start, and seven years since 2019. It is getting to the point…
Half-Life 3 speculation reignited by Valve dev mentioning three sweet little rumored codenamey letters amid technical chat about video game noises
Wake up. There's Half-Life 3 chatter occurring again. This time because, about an hour into a panel about sounds in video games, a Valve composer has uttered three eyebrow-raising letters. HLX. In an industry rife with acronyms, what's so special…
Call Of Duty video game franchise seeks to win back fans with warfare spectacle
PARIS – The latest instalment in the Call Of Duty video game franchise, arriving on Oct 23, brings back the high-adrenaline action that fuelled its success in an effort to revitalise a series that has been losing momentum. Breaking from the…
Entertainment 360 and Griffin Gaming Partners Launch HITpoint Entertainment
Entertainment 360, a talent management and production company, and Griffin Gaming Partners, a venture capital firm that focuses exclusively on the video game industry, announced in a recent press release that they're launching a new company called…
This Was Entirely Predictable' - BioWare's Future Was in Jeopardy Well before EA's $55 Billion Acquisition, Analysts Say
Games industry analysts told IGN that BioWare was likely doomed well before EA's $55 billion acquisition, explaining that games like Mass Effect are now considered “prestige projects” for the company, and it's unlikely the sci-fi…
A Canadian Politician Says BioWare Devs Should Be Given Government Funding To Buy The Studio And Get Back To Making Mass Effect - Kotaku
With the closure of BioWare, a staple of Canadian game development for 30 years, people who you don't usually expect to see weighing in on video games suddenly are. Usually it's when a politician catches whiff of just how fucked things have become…
A farewell to BioWare, maker of some of the best games of the 21st century | Lucy James
Earlier this week, EA announced the closure of BioWare, a game studio with a 30-year history of compelling role-playing games, complex characters and bold, choice-driven narratives. Its forthcoming game in the Mass Effect sci-fi series has been…
Who Will Save Bioware Now? The Mass Effect TV Show? Or The Canadian Government?
As expected, BioWare's closure was received with a lot of sadness in and also outside of the video game industry and community. Surprisingly, there are now people outside video games who seem to want to save it. The first unexpected candidate is…
They Should Be Given Federal Support' - Canadian Politician Wants the Government to Bail Out Mass Effect Developer BioWare
Avi Lewis, leader of one of Canada's top opposition parties, wants the Canadian government to save Mass Effect developer BioWare. The leader of the New Democratic Party took to social media to speak out against publisher EA. On October 21, EA…
Palmer Luckey Is Getting Into the Cybernetically Outfitted Super Soldier Dog Market
Palmer Luckey, the billionaire CEO of defense startup Anduril, is on a mission to equip the United States for the future of warfare—or at least his own, deeply sci-fi-inflected vision of that future. That includes the raising of genetically…
Is Gaming the Future of Humanity? - LessWrong
One hot topic of conversation right now is “What are all the humans going to do when AI plus humanoid robotics becomes better at everything?”. As William Gibson famously said “The future is already here — it's just not…
Pindemonium - Kotaku
A roguelike pinball deckbuilder. Beat each stage's target score before you run out of balls. Between stages, buy passives and upgrades in the shop to build your deck. Choose from 10 flippers, clear 12 stages, then see how far your build can go in…
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