On August 15th, 2024 with 69 comments
Slate's Derek Heckman, an avid fan of Magic: The Gathering since the age of 10, expresses concern about the potential replacement of the game's distinctive...
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On August 14th, 2024 with 66 comments
Manny Fidel, reporting for Sherwood News: When you're immersed in a game like "Cyberpunk 2077," it's easy to get lost in its realism. As you run around the...
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On August 9th, 2024 with 63 comments
QuakeCon 2024 kicks off today with the announcement of enhanced remasters of the first two Doom games, which will feature online cross-platform deathmatch,...
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On August 8th, 2024 with 75 comments
The Russian Chess Federation is suspending a player who is facing jail time for allegedly trying to poison her rival with mercury during a chess tournament....
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On August 5th, 2024 with 52 comments
Members of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) are striking against the video game industry due to failed negotiations over AI-related worker protections. "The...
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On August 3rd, 2024 with 91 comments
A proposed European Union law seeks to ensure that video games sold or licensed in the EU remain playable even if servers are shut down or studios close. The...
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On August 2nd, 2024 with 16 comments
ROMhacking.net, a prominent platform for fan translations and modifications of classic games, is shutting down after nearly two decades of operation. The...
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On August 2nd, 2024 with 15 comments
Game Informer, the longest-running gaming magazine in the U.S., is officially dead and GameStop killed it. Kotaku: It began publishing in 1991 and has been one...
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On August 1st, 2024 with 39 comments
Rob Thubron reports via TechSpot: It's a sad case of another day, another round of mass layoffs at a game studio. On this occasion, Destiny developer Bungie...
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On July 31st, 2024 with 60 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Microsoft's revenue from Xbox console sales was down a whopping 42 percent on a year-over-year basis for...
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On July 25th, 2024 with 53 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: Hollywood's video game performers voted to go on strike Thursday, throwing part of the...
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On July 24th, 2024 with 37 comments
Ash Parrish reports via The Verge: More than 500 developers at Blizzard Entertainment who work on World of Warcraft have voted to form a union. The World of...
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On July 23rd, 2024 with 31 comments
Humble Games, the indie game publisher behind the popular pay-what-you-want "Humble Game Bundle," has laid off its entire staff of 36 people. However, the...
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On July 23rd, 2024 with 89 comments
merbs writes: Video games -- and the people who make them -- are in trouble. An estimated 10,500 people in the industry were laid off in 2023 alone. This year,...
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On July 19th, 2024 with 42 comments
Master Chief has fought his last battle at Paramount+. The streamer has canceled its video game adaptation Halo after two seasons. The show originally debuted...
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On July 19th, 2024 with 15 comments
The FTC says the across-the-board price increases that Microsoft recently announced for its Xbox Game Pass subscription service tiers represent "exactly the...
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On July 17th, 2024 with 83 comments
Valve had its employee and payroll data leaked through a poorly redacted document in an antitrust lawsuit in May, offering a rare glimpse into the company's...
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On July 11th, 2024 with 16 comments
Speaking of Xbox, the Xbox 360 Store and Marketplace are coming to a close later this month. From a report: Microsoft announced this last year and put an...
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On July 11th, 2024 with 86 comments
The video game industry is grappling with a severe financial downturn that's hitting independent developers particularly hard, as exemplified by Necrosoft...
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On July 10th, 2024 with 63 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: For years now, Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass has set itself apart by offering subscribers launch-day access to new...
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On July 5th, 2024 with 20 comments
Mojang Studios, the creator of the globally popular video game Minecraft, is diversifying its revenue streams amid slowing growth in the gaming industry. Chief...
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On July 5th, 2024 with 24 comments
Nintendo has announced the end of repair services for its Wii U console, following the earlier decision to shut down all Wii U servers. Nintendo cited the...
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On July 4th, 2024 with 24 comments
An Italian video game, 22 years in the making, has finally hit the market, setting a record for the longest development time in gaming history. "Kien," an...
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On July 4th, 2024 with 7 comments
Epilogue, the company behind the GB Operator emulator, which lets users play Game Boy cartridges on a PC, announced that it's working on an update to turn the...
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On July 3rd, 2024 with 18 comments
Mario and Luigi aren't jumping on the AI train. From a report: In a recent Q&A with investors, Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa addressed the issue....
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On July 1st, 2024 with 25 comments
Tennis is betting on video games to lure young fans. Two titles are set to compete: TopSpin 2K25, out now, and Tiebreak, coming in August. TopSpin lets players...
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On June 26th, 2024 with 4 comments
Microsoft's canceled Xbox cloud console, codenamed Keystone, has been detailed in a new patent spotted by Windows Central's Zac Bowden. From the report: Back...
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On June 25th, 2024 with 123 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: An online gaming dispute made its way to the real world when a New Jersey man flew to Florida to...
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On June 25th, 2024 with 170 comments
UPDATE (7/14/2024): Apple has now
reversed their decision for UTM SE, and allowed it into their App Store. Slashdot's original story appears below...
An...
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On June 18th, 2024 with 46 comments
After years of playing second fiddle to Link in her own franchise, Princess Zelda is finally getting a video game of her own this fall. From a report: During...
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