On February 6th, 2022 with 29 comments
Rockstar Games recently acknowledged the "unprecedented longevity" of Grand Theft Auto V (and its online component Grand Theft Auto Online) — and...
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On November 21st, 2021 with 32 comments
Friday Rockstar Games issued an update in the Announcements section of the company's web site "regarding the unexpected technical issues that came to light as...
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On November 14th, 2021 with 40 comments
Kotaku reports:
Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy — Definitive Edition was released on November 11 on all major platforms including the Switch. However, for...
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On February 7th, 2021 with 31 comments
Long ago there were plans for a remastered Xbox 360 version of the Nintendo 64 game "Goldeneye 007" — but they never materialized, and that game became a...
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On August 30th, 2020 with 25 comments
Oakland's nonprofit "Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment" housed 40,000 historic pieces of videogame memorabilia — including 11,000 playable games....
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On June 2nd, 2019 with 102 comments
John Romero has finally released Sigil, his unofficial fifth episode of Doom with nine new single-player levels and nine deathmatch levels. It's available...
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On July 21st, 2018 with 196 comments
The Guardian revisits the disastrous 2016 launch of the massive open-universe videogame No Man's Sky, in a new interview with company director Sean Murray:
"I'v
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On June 2nd, 2018 with 138 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader t0qer writes: In the early days of PC gaming, there was 3 major titles. Doom, Duke Nukem, and Descent. Descent was the first game...
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On April 7th, 2018 with 39 comments
"The folks at Nightdive Studios this week released the source code for a Mac version of Looking Glass Studios' 1994 classic System Shock," reports Gamasutra. ...
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On October 16th, 2017 with 184 comments
The new anti-cheating system installed in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has been banning more than 6,000 suspected cheaters every day. An anonymous reader...
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On August 13th, 2017 with 107 comments
An anonymous reader quotes Engadget's new article on No Man's Sky:
Developer Hello Games has gone some way to giving the people what they've wanted Friday with...
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On June 3rd, 2017 with 133 comments
An anonymous reader quotes CinemaBlend:
Tequila Works and Grey Box had previously announced that the DRM for the PC version of Rime would be removed if it...
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On March 26th, 2017 with 161 comments
The classic 90s-era videogames StarCraft and StarCraft: Brood War will be re-released this summer -- remastered in 4K Ultra High Definition. An anonymous...
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On February 20th, 2017 with 105 comments
An anonymous reader writes:
"At least one intruder is taking advantage of a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive exploit to flood lobbies (even private ones) with...
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On January 30th, 2017 with 77 comments
Released five days ago, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard already has over 800,000 players -- and 84,036 of them are using a PlayStation VR headset. An anonymous...
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On January 1st, 2017 with 99 comments
An anonymous reader quotes PC Gamer:
In a surprise announcement today to kick off 2017, Valve has revealed the 100 best-selling Steam games of 2016... Although...
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On November 27th, 2016 with 112 comments
"No Man's Sky changed a great deal this morning, getting new modes and a ton of gameplay tweaks thanks to update 1.1, the largest one yet," reports Kotaku. ...
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On October 30th, 2016 with 121 comments
An anonymous reader writes: "In compliance with US embargoes and sanctions laws, Origin is not available in Cuba, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, and...
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On October 17th, 2016 with 59 comments
An anonymous Slashdot reader writes:
"Amazon.com's first big-budget video game is like street basketball, except played in a mythological world where athletes...
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On August 28th, 2016 with 467 comments
thegarbz writes: As was covered previously on Slashdot the very hyped up game No Man's Sky was released to a lot of negative reviews about game-crashing bugs...
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On August 20th, 2016 with 72 comments
Eleven days after its release, No Man's Sky already has over 100 unofficial mods by fans intent on improving the game. "We don't have time to wait for...
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On August 13th, 2016 with 65 comments
An anonymous reader quotes The Verge:
GoldenEye: Source received its first update in more than three years this week. It's free to download and it features 25...
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On July 24th, 2016 with 37 comments
An anonymous Slashdot reader quotes a report from HNGN: Game maker Valve is threatening to shut down sites dedicated to gambling with add-ons to its popular...
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On October 26th, 2015 with 74 comments
An anonymous reader writes: PC gaming seems to have fended off the threat from consoles, and it's due in no small part to livestreaming services and eSports....
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On August 21st, 2015 with 119 comments
_xeno_ writes: A recent article on Steam Spy talks about how a "target audience" for game genres doesn't exist — or, more specifically, how there is no...
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On July 29th, 2015 with 41 comments
SlappingOysters writes: This article takes a closer look at the emerging crowdfunding platform Sprked, which aims to follow the Patreon support model, but...
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On July 3rd, 2015 with 94 comments
_xeno_ writes: Just over a week after Warner Bros. pulled the PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight due to bugs, Square Enix is now being forced to do the same...
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On June 25th, 2015 with 223 comments
An anonymous reader writes: The Batman: Arkham series of video games has been quite popular over the past several years. But when the most recent iteration,...
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On June 6th, 2015 with 126 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Professional e-sports have been slowly but steadily gaining a following in the U.S. over the past couple of decades, but in South...
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On June 6th, 2015 with 46 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Several outlets are reporting that Amazon is preparing to dip its toes in yet another market: PC video games. They're specifically...
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