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Ex-God Of War Writer Answers Why Japanese Video Game Devs Seem To Keep Their Jobs More - Kotaku
Why is it that while the western video game industry remains a neverending tire fire, Japanese devs and those in other Asian countries are getting raises? YouTuber Alanah Pearce set out to answer that question in her latest video, and the answer…
5 Most Perfect Video Game Consoles, Ranked
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…
Play Jay Worthy's 16-Bit Video Game 'P of the Week': 'It Feels Like a Mix of My Two Favorite Games'
The West Coast MC (by way of Vancouver) continues the follow-up to his stellar Once Upon a Time series with Generation P, a collab album with none other than the legendary George Clinton, as he and his partner-in-crime producer Sean House form like…
WINGS really, really wants to fund your neat indie video game
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…
John Wick' Meets 'The Departed' Video Game Adaptation Gets Official Update After 1 Year of Silence
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…
NBA 2K27 Announces New Gameplay Features in Videos from Global Game Reveal
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…
New AI Report Confirms the Games Industry Is Officially at a Dangerous Tipping Point
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…
No Disc No Buy' Comments Dominate Sony's Phantom Blade Zero State of Play Livestream, as Planned PlayStation Boycott Nears
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…
Forget 'Halo' - the latest 'Futurama' episode has a ring world covered in super-intelligent rats
Futurama Season 14 | Ring Crash - YouTube Ringed worlds seem to be a fertile source of science fiction material, whether it be in sci-fi master Larry Niven's circular alien constructs in his 'Ringworld' novels, the spherical megastructures of…
GTA 6 Gameplay and Map Appear to Leak Online, Group Reportedly Responsible Threatens Rockstar Over All-Digital Future
Grand Theft Auto 6 appears to have suffered yet another significant leak after what looks like legitimate gameplay videos and an image of the full map appeared online. Two videos showing GTA 6 gameplay have emerged: one featuring protagonist Jason…
Cyprus enters Europe's gaming big league with €3.2 billion industry
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…
Are your retro games still worth money?
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…
Is Steam Down? Is It Tuesday? It May Just Be Maintenance Day
About half an hour ago, I logged off my work computer and went to my living room, where we've got a PC setup attached to a TV so we can play our Steam games on a Good Screen instead of a Bad Screen. I was going to boot up some Fields of Mistria and…
Rare deal on the latest Fire HD 8 tablet drops it to Prime Day price of $89.99
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…
McDonald's Built a 515-Page Dossier on One Customer to Predict What He'd Order Next
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…
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