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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 Wii U gets the last laugh

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]

A new game publisher is all about brain-breaking PC strategy games (and making them easier to get into)

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

Playing Pokémon by ear

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

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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

What to make of Hellblade II

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

Stellar Blade kicks high

Embracer to break up

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

Lawyers behind a raft of video game addiction lawsuits pin some blame on AI, say 'robots' don’t get First Amendment protections

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

Nintendo sues to shut down popular Switch emulator Yuzu, partially blames it for 1 million pirated Zelda games

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