Video Games

Microsoft Brings Call Of Duty To Game Pass In Major Bet

Microsoft for first time makes major Call of Duty release available on Game Pass subscription plan, after $75bn Activision Blizzard…

3 weeks ago

Ubisoft Shares Skyrocket On Buyout Speculation

Shares in game developer Ubisoft surge after report Guillemot family and China's Tencent considering taking company private

1 month ago

Hollywood Video Game Performers Strike Over AI Fears

Performers for major game producers including Activision and EA go on strike after 18 months of negotiations over generative AI…

4 months ago

China Approves Microsoft-Activision Deal ‘Unconditionally’

Chinese regulator approves $69 Microsoft-Activision Blizzard takeover 'unconditionally' amidst opposition from US and UK

1 year ago

Sega Offers £625m For Studio Behind ‘Angry Birds’

Sonic the Hedgehog maker Sega offers 706m euros for Rovio, studio behind pioneering mobile game Angry Birds

2 years ago

E3 Video Game Gala Event Cancelled

Organisers cancel E3 video game gala return to in-person event as long-running conference struggles to adapt to post-Covid world

2 years ago

Study: Nine In Ten UK Game Sales Went Digital In 2022

Industry figures find nearly nine in ten video game sales were digital downloads last year, amidst pandemic-inspired home entertainment surge

2 years ago

Twitch Confirms Huge Data Breach Of Confidential Data

Amazon's video streaming service Twitch admits it has suffered a huge data breach, after source code and earnings information is…

3 years ago

‘Evolutionary’ AI Tricks Classic Video Game Q*bert Into Delivering Points Overdrive

New research demonstrates evolutionary techniques may hold promise for training artificial intelligences of the future

7 years ago

Microsoft Ends Windows 10 Kinect Adaptor Production

Microsoft hammers another, possibly final, nail in Kinect's coffin as businesses are encouraged to migrate from the platform

7 years ago

PyeongChang 2018: Intel Brings 5G And eSports To Winter Olympics

Intel uses its Olympic technology partnership to bring 5G and eSports to Winter Olympics in PyeongChang 2018

7 years ago

Pokemon Go Fest Suffers Connectivity And Server Problems

Pokemon Go suffers more technical issues, but this time on a much more micro level, highlighting need to support special…

7 years ago

Microsoft AI Beats Ms Pac-Man Top Score

The AI training techniques could be used to train better AIs for other tasks

7 years ago

Tales In Tech History: The Xbox & Microsoft’s Big Gaming Adventure

In November 2001 Microsoft introduced its Xbox console which, despite some hiccups, remains the main competitor to Sony's PlayStation

8 years ago

Tech Quiz: Video Game Technology

The original Xbox was released in the UK 15 years ago, but what do you know about video game technology?

8 years ago

Nintendo Bug Bounty Programme Rewards Hackers For 3DS Vulnerabilities

Nintendo has launched a bug bounty programme, offering rewards of up to $20,000 for vulnerabilities around its 3DS family of…

8 years ago

How Google Cloud Helped Pokémon Go Cope With 50 Times Expected Launch Traffic

Pokemon Go developer Niantic Labs said it took just four engineers to scale up to support massive demand for the…

8 years ago

Minecraft: Education Edition Launches 1 November

Schools will be able to access the building game for $5 per year, per user

8 years ago

Pokemon Go To Add Location Ad Sponsorship In The Ultra-Popular Game

ANALYSIS: Businesses that want to be featured in Pokémon GO will now be able to pay to sponsor the locations…

8 years ago

Security Researchers Find 215 Fake Pokemon Go Apps And Issue Android Ransomware Warning

Pokemon Go's popularity is inspiring cybercriminals as first ever Android lock screen app is found

8 years ago

Quiz Of The Week: Video Game Technology

Do you know your AR from your VR and your Nintendo from your Sony? Take our video game technology quiz…

8 years ago

EE 4G Had 350,000 Pokemon Go Players Before Official UK Launch

Pokemon Go has arrived in the UK but popularity of pre-launch downloads on EE 4G highlights scale of security risks…

8 years ago

What Pokemon Go Means For IT Departments

ANALYSIS: Pokemon Go presents security, privacy and productivity challenges for IT departments

8 years ago

Amazon Web Services Launches Two Video Game Development Platforms

AWS Lumberyard and Amazon GameLift target professional developers and include VR headset and Twitch integration

9 years ago

New £4m Fund Will Support UK Game Developers

Startup developers to be given grants and support as government seeks the next 'Tomb Raider'

9 years ago

Minecraft Passwords And User Names ‘Leaked’ Online

Minecraft players may have more than just creepers to worry about

10 years ago

Games Maker Blizzard Suffers From European DDoS Attack

DDoS attack in Europe inadvertently hits games maker

11 years ago

Wurm MMORPG Offers €10k Bounty For DDoS Attacker Info

Reward offered as Wurm struggles to come back online

11 years ago

NSA And GCHQ Targets World Of Warcraft And Xbox Live – Snowden

British and US agents search video games for intelligence, according to documents leaked by Edward Snowden

11 years ago

Valve Joins Linux Foundation Ahead Of SteamOS Launch

Software developer is one of three new organisations to join Linux Foundation

11 years ago