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Exclusive: PlayStation Portal usage peaks at night, an hour after the PS5's does
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Psst. Ubisoft just released a new game. (It has Rayman and NFTs)
Fired Bungie developer who is suing Sony could have made $84 million from Bungie-Sony deal
Microsoft’s CEO: Being an Xbox fan means playing Xbox games on “all your devices”
The best speech at The Game Awards
Three red flags for the game industry after Ubisoft’s latest shutdown
Review: Indiana Jones' excellent new video game
Monument Valley 3 was designed to (maybe) improve the world
What they made last time: Twin sisters fighting Nazis
A wildly popular pandemic video game gets a surprise sequel
A win for U.S. gamers with disabilities was just reversed
It was tricky to write about video games this week
A horse game went viral, and a horse game expert feels vindicated
Oh, my kids actually like PlayStation's new Lego game
Interview: Phil Spencer is big on Indiana Jones, but is wary of overdoing it with licensed games
How Nintendo found a possible pirate
Interview: Microsoft's Phil Spencer has a lot to say about Xbox's game line-up
The PS5 Pro doesn't feel $200 better right now
Calls to boycott Wordle, Connections show where game industry strikes could go
American kids are playing fewer video games, survey says
Scoop: PlayStation's Wolverine creative director is now leading Xbox’s Perfect Dark
New law could help gaming industry by clarifying what video games are
Microsoft CEO's pay will be tied to Xbox more than ever in 2025
Why Animal Well is 10x bigger on Xbox (and 3x on PlayStation)
Scoop: Netflix shuts down 'AAA' Team Blue gaming studio, amid gaming shake-up
The best new PC game demos I played from Steam Next Fest
A top game streamer’s apology hits some familiar (and unfamiliar) notes
It's a tricky time for Destiny to come to cell phones
My chat with Jason Schreier, who just wrote the book on Blizzard
Nintendo's new $100 clock is the welcome return of weird Nintendo
Mario's last big Switch adventure?
Paradox Interactive's leaders think you deserve an explanation
In our house, the new Zelda is a great multiplayer game
An ambitious competitor to The Sims is in the works, for some personal reasons
Valve tells judge, not the public, why it dropped Steam’s forced arbitration clause
Ubisoft in crisis mode (again)
How Astro Bot's iconic PlayStation bots were made
New law will change how digital games are sold, at least in California [Update]
What they're fixing in Star Wars Outlaws, and why
A brief Star Wars Outlaws Endgame Q&A [Spoilers]
The perfect video game for 2024
The divisive return of Flappy Bird, and the untold, decade-long chase to claim the game's name
Nintendo and the Pokémon Company sue Palworld maker Pocketpair [Update]
EA isn't making The Sims 5, as it 'disrupts the sequel model'
My kids’ first PlayStation game
Microsoft to cut 650 more gaming jobs [Update]
Sony PlayStation’s headcount was flat this year, snapping three years of growth
Sony to sell a more powerful $700 version of the PS5
Hands-on with Nintendo’s next bold Zelda game
Star Wars Outlaws really clicked for me in hour 11, or maybe it was hour 17
How the hideous beauty of an unusual Capcom game came to be
What's new is old, as remakes fill Nintendo's newest showcase
Sony’s new game Concord has an unexpectedly lovely map
New Madden’s lack of launch week review scores was partially by EA’s design
Microsoft's Indiana Jones twist: It's back to being a PlayStation game, too
I'm really enjoying Arco, a gorgeous pixel-art western
Epic’s Tim Sweeney: Fighting Apple and Google has cost Epic about $1 billion
It’s video game delay season. And release date season, too.
The surprises that followed Animal Well’s near-perfect launch
A cat role-playing game, reviewed by my twins (age 7 1/2)
This fall's push for a video game industry code of ethics
Saving Game Informer: The effort to protect gaming history after GameStop's shutdown
Two video game previews that almost got away
Bungie's deep job cuts were in the works prior to Destiny's most recent release, sources say
Arranger is a smart new puzzle game that’s free, if you have Netflix
Video game actors to go on strike over AI
Kamala Harris’ weird video game cameo
The average age of video game makers keeps going up
This was 2024’s best week of new video games
Take Two warns investors that review bombings can hurt profits
Nintendo puts more women in charge in Japan, but is not chasing a 'specific target'
Ubisoft fine print reveals small CEO pay bump, a nixed Driver show and more
What to make of Microsoft’s Game Pass overhaul
A former Fallout artist on life after the game industry
My kids’ favorite games of 2024, so far
How PlayStation engineered its next great game
A few things I learned about Star Wars Outlaws
In New York, experts wonder how games can help save the world
An extraordinary Netflix-backed game turns sign language into gameplay
Exclusive: Palworld’s lead creator on his wild 2024, biggest dream for the game, and more
Playing Elden Ring, two years late
One of 2024’s coolest gaming secrets has been hiding in plain sight
Nintendo's Next Zelda Game Lets You Play As Zelda [Update]
Some Made-Up Summer Game Fest Awards
Two (or is that 51?) fascinating new video games about...video games
Assassin’s Creed Shadows developers talk Animus, Yasuke backlash and more
New Gears of War game will be somber, linear and very detailed
Xbox focuses on impressive games, not the elephants in the room
The story behind a head-turning billboard mourning game studio shutdowns
Five Nights At Freddy’s creator made $26 million in series’ first two years, records show
Hype season for video games has changed since E3 ended
Blizzard’s major esports pivot will be put to the test this weekend
PlayStation's new showcase is headlined by the unusually cheerful Astrobot
Another red flag for the video game console market
The hold-outs: Why some gamers haven’t upgraded to the PS5 (or Xbox Series)
Bungie’s wildest Destiny 2 cheating lawsuit heads to trial this week
Survey: U.S. gamers are mostly adults, who mostly don’t call themselves “gamers”
Facing skepticism, The Entertainment Software Association says it is for game preservation
Nintendo, Microsoft, Square welcome us to the era of fewer big video games
Animal Well is a great and shockingly tiny video game
Nintendo, long overseen by men, wants to add three women to its board of directors
Some of the world's biggest gaming storefronts still don't credit who made the game
The U.S. video game industry's unemployment rate is likely far higher than the national average
For PlayStation and Xbox, the unthinkable is now the norm
Nintendo’s innovative, ingenious, nearly extinct StreetPass games
Exclusive: Fortnite’s longtime lead creator Donald Mustard speaks about his epic run and what's next
The upstart indie publisher behind PC gaming’s next big hit
What it’s like to make a video game with Nintendo
Aerial_Knight is trying (once again) to turn a bad break into a great video game
My bewildering return to Destiny 2, after a one-year live-service break
Indie showcase’s biggest stars are AAA game characters
To process his grief, actor Abubakar Salim became a game developer
Interview: Baldur’s Gate III exec on what’s right and wrong with today's game industry
Indie developer has a plan to keep parts of his game secret, even from data-miners
AI video game NPCs can be fun to chat with, but there's a big financial catch
$400,000 worth of Playdate game consoles disappear in Las Vegas, hardware maker says
Some of the world's best game developers briefly played by my rules
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom programmers share some of their amazing feats
A new PS5 epic does smart, little things to respect its player’s time
Interview: The $2 billion success of Monopoly Go, the world's hottest phone game
“The more diverse voices we have in the room, our games are only going to get better.”
Interview: CD Projekt RED has learned its lessons for the next Cyberpunk
My kids have thoughts about Nintendo’s new Princess Peach game
Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast have "about 40" video game projects in the works
Spider-Man 2 facts that Insomniac wants you to know
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth starts well, even if you never played any FFVII before
Activision studio Toys For Bob is going independent
Exclusive: The making of the PlayStation Portal
I wasn't sure what Skull & Bones really was, until Ubisoft emailed me
"You can call ambition foolish, if you want." What went wrong with Immortals of Aveum
Microsoft's Phil Spencer on Xbox growth, recent job cuts and the future of games on discs
Microsoft will bring four games to rival consoles, teases next-gen Xbox
Microsoft calls on game industry to do AI right, not get 'dazzled' by new tech
In a twist, some video games can end early. Really early.
You only have one bullet in the best game demo I played this week
Take Two denies NBA 2K microtransaction theft claim, says virtual currency is a “fiction”
Xbox’s confusing, PlayStation-friendly future
Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League is a tough game to judge
EA promises a “lighter release slate” in 2024
The Best Video Game Controls Of 2023
Microsoft's deep gaming job cuts, and where they came from
Too many video games, but maybe also too few
Palworld is the hottest video game on Earth, and one of the most controversial
More video games should float inside my living room like this
Apple tries to weaken Epic's lone win in Fortnite case
New war video game is set in a hospital
2024's first excellent video game: Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
A recurring mystery: Who is making that game?
Source: Xbox has considered bringing hit Sea of Thieves to PlayStation
What Nintendo’s late president Satoru Iwata told me, a long time ago