Phil Spencer, CEO of gaming at Microsoft, speaks during the company’s Xbox event ahead of the E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles on June 10, 2018. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft said on Thursday that it will release four of its video games on competing consoles. Phil Spencer, head of … Read more
Despite LGBTQ people making up nearly one-fifth of all active gamers in the U.S., only 2 percent of all video games have LGBTQ storylines or characters, according to a new report from GLAAD. “We are nearly invisible in game representations despite being a significant percentage of gamers,” Sarah Kate Ellis, the president and CEO of … Read more
Nintendo has kept players interested in its ageing Switch console series through key games with characters such as Super Mario and Zelda. Charly Triballeau | AFP | Getty Images Nintendo said on Tuesday it now expects to sell 15.5 million of its flagship Switch consoles in its current fiscal year, upping a previous forecast, after … Read more
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By the time you read this, there’s a chance that Palworld will have sold over 10 million copies. That is a stunning achievement for a game from an independent developer, but it goes to show just how voracious our collective appetite for survival games has become. The genre seemingly never stopped growing after Minecraft hit … Read more
Screenshot: YuriRetro/ YouTube I wasn’t allowed to play video games growing up, which never really bothered me until it came to racing games – I always envied the kids who would come to school and talk about the latest automotive games they played. I still don’t play video games, but thankfully Yuri Tereshyn from the … Read more
Most of Hollywood might be in need of a breather from talking about the consequences of AI after the topic dominated most industry conversations for the better part of last year, but SAG-AFTRA is still looking for ways to keep its members protected as the tech advances. The guild announced Tuesday that it had inked … Read more
Amid a lengthy contract negotiation with the video game industry, SAG-AFTRA has inked a deal with Replica Studios regarding the use of AI digital voice replicas in video games. The guild’s National Executive Director and chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland announced the deal with Replica on Tuesday alongside the studio’s CEO Shreyas Nivas at the Las … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The falling-block video game Tetris has met its match in 13-year-old Willis Gibson, who has become the first player to officially “beat” the original Nintendo version of the game — by breaking it. Technically, Willis — aka “blue scuti” in the gaming world — made it to what gamers call a … Read more
A gamer uses a computer powered with an Nvidia Corp. chip at the Gamescon video games trade fair in Cologne, Germany, on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. Gamescon runs until Sunday, Aug. 27. Photographer: Alex Kraus/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images It’s not just human life that will be remade by the … Read more
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