Games Stories for 2012

In Japan, PlayStation 2 Ends a 12-Year Run 146
How To Make PC Gaming Better 337
Ouya Dev Consoles Ship, SDK Released 169
Child Gets Nintendo 3DS Full of Porn For Christmas 370
'Connected' TVs Mostly Used Just Like the Unconnected Kind 217
Steam Hit By 'No Connection' Error Worldwide 126
Minecraft Documentary Premiers On Pirate Bay As Well As Xbox Live 75
Game On War In Syria Explores Ongoing Conflict 62
GarageGames Starts IndieGoGo Campaign To Port Torque 3D To Linux 71
Steam For Linux Is Now an Open Beta 353
School Shooting Prompts Legislation To Study Violent Video Games 1168
Game Review: Street Fighter X Mega Man 79
Carmack: Next-Gen Console Games Will Still Aim For 30fps 230
Whose Bug Is This Anyway? 241
Game Review: Planetside 2 (video) 157
Learning Rocket Science With Video Games 64
Frame Latency Spikes Plague Radeon Graphics Cards 158
Blizzard Has a Version of Diablo 3 Running On Consoles 147
Own Every SNES Game Ever Made For $24,999 199
Professor Cliff Lampe Talks About Gamification in Academia (Video) 123
Playstation Controller Runs Syrian Rebel Tank 232
Valve's 'Steam Box' Console Is Real, Says Gabe Newell 298
For League of Legends Creator Riot Games, Big Data Is Serious Business 33
Sequel To Planescape: Torment Planned 90
Nintendo Puts a Bedtime On Wii U Content In Europe 190
GameSpy's New Owners Begin Disabling Multiplayer Without Warning 247
Valve Begins Listing Linux Requirements For Certain Games On Steam 332
Hit Game Makes £52 In First Week On Windows RT 308
Company Turns Your Android Smartphone Into a Game Console 126
City of Heroes Reaches Sunset, NCsoft Paying the Price 290
But Can It Run Crysis 3? 182
Valve Officially Launches TV-Friendly Steam Big Picture Mode 140
Cheap Indie Games Make Wii U a Better Value 109
Interview With Icculus on GNU/Linux Gaming 74
Nintendo Power's Final Cover 79
Why KDE Plasma Makes Sense For Linux Gaming 152
One Cool Day Job: Building Algorithms For Elevators 203
How Does a Single Line of BASIC Make an Intricate Maze? 438
Elite Creator David Braben: Games Like Elite 'Too Risky' For Publishers 109
Ouya Consoles Will Start Shipping On December 28th 121
Hackers Discover Wii U's Processor Design and Clock Speed 173
Facebook and Zynga Move Apart 64
New Humble Bundle Is Windows Only, DRM Games 553
Notch Expands On 0x10c, Microsoft and Quantum Computing 94
Kickstarter Games: Where They Are Now 97
What's It Like To Pilot a Drone? a Bit Like Call of Duty 170
GOG: How an Indie Game Store Took On the Pirates and Won 397
The Wii Mini Is Real, Arrives December 7 — In Canada 139
DOOM 3 BFG Edition On Github, Timed For Oculus Rift 83
Minecraft Reality App Arrives For iOS, Brings Your Creations Into the Real World 25
Gameplay: the Missing Ingredient In Most Games 308
Minecraft Ported To the Raspberry Pi 57
What Nobody Tells You About Being a Game Dev 181
THQ Clarifies Claims of "Horrible, Slow" Wii U CPU 281
Ask Slashdot: Best Console For the Kids This Holiday? 267
Microsoft Reportedly Working On Xbox TV Device 104
Tolkien Estate Sues Over Lord of the Rings Slot Machines 211
Ask Slashdot: What Video Games Keep You From Using Linux? 951
Nintendo Wii U Teardown Reveals Simple Design 276
Just In Time for the Holidays, Nintendo Wii U Gets Its US Release 174
Valve's Big Picture Could Be a Linux Game Console 272
Star Citizen Takes the Crowdfunding Crown, Raising More Than $4M 123
Valve's Steam License Causes Linux Packaging Concerns 163
Kinected Browser Lets You Flick Through Websites 46
Apple Orders Memory Game Developers To Stop Using 'Memory' In Names 409
Review: World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria (video) 204
Gabe Newell Confirms Source 2 Engine 88
PSP Emulator For Android Released 89
Critical Vulnerabilities In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, CryEngine 3 77
Blizzard Sued Over Battle.net Authentication 217
Navy Seals Disciplined For Revealing Secrets As Consultants On Video Game 204
Why Would a Mouse Need To Connect To the Internet? 249
'World of Warcraft' Candidate For Maine State Senate Wins Election 220
MIT Slows Down Speed of Light In New Game 113
Nvidia Doubles Linux Driver Performance, Slips Steam Release Date 363
David Braben Kickstarts an Elite Reboot 173
Will the Star Citizen Project Fund Linux and Mac Ports For CryENGINE 3? 119
"Badass" Bug Infects and Kills Borderlands 2 Characters 189
Pumpkin Carving For the Digital Age: Pumpktris 40
Valve: Linux Better Than Windows 8 for Gaming 768
Microsoft's SmartGlass For Android Reviewed 107
Wired Proclaims the Death of the Game Console 368
Microsoft Reverses 'Mature' Game Ban On Windows 8 87
Nintendo's Wii U Will Be Sold At a Loss 188
A Proposal To Fix the Full-Screen X11 Window Mess 358
72% of Xbox 360 Gamers Approve of "More Military Drone Strikes" 446
AMD Tightens Bonds With Game Developers 91
Team Fortress 2 Beta Patch Adds Files Referring To Linux Support 58
PS3 Encryption Keys Leaked 284
Ask Slashdot: Securing a Windows Laptop, For the Windows Newbie? 503
Good Old Games Adds Mac OS X Support 124
Nintendo Investigating Underage Workers At Foxconn 124
Sony Files Patent For Temperature Feedback Move Controller 81
Ask Slashdot: Best Linux Game For Young Kids? 338
Microsoft's Hand-Gesture Sensor Bracelet 86
Learning HTML Through a Board Game 34
Entire Cities In World of Warcraft Dead, Hack Suspected 305
World of Warcraft Character Becomes Campaign Issue 381
Notch Won't Certify Minecraft For Windows 8 303
EA Makes Minor Tweaks To FIFA 12 For the Wii, Releases It As FIFA 13 105
Valve Blog Announces Dates For Steam Linux External Beta 183
Game Review: Torchlight 2 221
AMD Trinity APUs Stack Up Well To Intel's Core 3 223
Sean 'Vile Rat' Smith Fundraiser Campaign Reaches $100,000 44
Ask Slashdot: Gaming With Only One Hand? 221
Torque3D Engine Goes Open-Source 68
Game Review: Borderlands 2 117
Sony Announces 'Superslim' PS3 165
BioWare Founders Announce Retirement 113
Two Teams Win the BotPrize 56
How Indie Devs Made an 1,800-Player Action Game Mod In Their Spare Time 87
Are Commercial Games Finally Going To Make It To Linux? 242
Can Nintendo Court the Casuals Again? 132
Zynga Sues EA For 'Anti-competitive' Practices 116
Patent Troll Sues X-Plane 214
Black Mesa Released 130
Nintendo WiiU Price and Release Date Announced 282
Microsoft Patent Details Whole-Room Projection Game Environment 118
EVE Online CSM and Diplomat Killed in Libyan Consulate Attacks 680
Playing At the World: a Huge New History of Gaming 18
Magic: the Gathering Is Turing Complete 135
Arma III Developers Arrested In Greece For 'Spying' 162
Activision Blizzard Secretly Watermarking World of Warcraft Users 272
Torque 3D To Be Released On Github Under the MIT License 54
Valve Reveals Gaming Headset, Teases Big Picture 151
How the Pirate Bay Can Be an Asset To Game Developers 107
The Struggles of Developing StarCraft 135
PSVita Hacked, Native Homebrew Loader Coming Soon 50
EA Exec Won't Green Light Any Single Player-Only Games 274
Gamers May Get a Charge Out of the Gauss Rifle 98
Ubisoft Ditches Always-Online DRM Requirement From PC Games 218
Battlestar Galactica Community Game Diaspora Has Arrived 121
Valve Job Posting Confirms Hardware Plans 219
Fans Bring Back Half Life Game Series: Black Mesa Mod Launches 9/14 133
PAX Prime: An Extra Day In 2013, and Plans For Australia 45
NCSoft Closes "City of Heroes" Publisher Paragon Studios 109
ArenaNet Suspends Digital Sales of Guild Wars 2 233
Torchlight 2 Release Date: 20 September 61
Valve Finds Open Source Drivers To Be Great 159
Bethesda: We Can't Make Dawnguard Work On the PS3 371
Iranian Players Blocked From World of Warcraft Due To Trade Sanctions 475
Are You Gaming For the Right Reasons? 220
Welcome to the University of Michigan's Computer and Video Game Archive (Video) 55
Ask Slashdot: Explaining Role-Playing Games To the Uninitiated? 197
Only English Final Fantasy 2 NES Cartridge On Sale for $50K 109
CPUs Do Affect Gaming Performance, After All 220
Mario Bros. Clone Released For Atari 2600 90
The Rebirth of PC Gaming? Bring On the Modders! 249
Ubisoft Claims PC Piracy Rate of 93-95% 464
Sony Closes WipEout Developer Studio Liverpool 102
Nintendo Power To Shut Down 78
Review: New Super Mario Bros. 2 Illustrates Nintendo's Greatest Problem 146
Nintendo Release 3DS XL and New Mario 2 In the USA Today 93
Some Players Want Day-1 DLC, Says BioWare 357
Electronic Arts Up For Sale? 196
Nintendo Ranks Last In Conflict Minerals Report 134
Trouble At OnLive 142
Humble Bundle For Android 3 Released 48
Australian Watchdog Frets Over BitCoin, MMOs' Money Laundering Potential 134
Machine Learning Allows Actors To Create Games That Understand Body Language 30
Kinect 2 Sensor Output Image Leaks 60
PlayStation Boss Defends Vita, Slams Social Gaming 147
Blizzard Says Battle.Net Has Been Hacked 340
With $8.6M In Kickstarter Funds, Ouya Opens Console Pre-Orders 218
Store Offers Kinect Body Scanner To Help You Find Jeans That Fit 59
Ask Slashdot: Understanding the SNES? 157
A New Glider Found For Conway's Game of Life 50
Dark Reign 2 Goes Open Source 41
Free Software PS2 Emulator PCSX2 Hits 1.0 202
The Extremes of Internet Gaming In South Korea 152
What Happens To Your Used Games? 276
Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Jump Back Into Programming? 247
The Chaos Within Sudoku - a Richter Scale of Difficulty 74
Shadowrun Comes To Linux, MMO Planned 51
Ask Slashdot: Should Valve Start Their Own Steam Linux Distro? 316
John Carmack: Kudos To Valve, But Linux Is Still Not a Viable Gaming Market 635
48 Games Entered Into the Liberated Pixel Cup 49
EA Sues Zynga For Copying Sims Game 197
CowboyNeal Reviews Orcs Must Die! 2 62
Is It Time For an OpenGL Gaming Revolution? 496
Valve Shares Performance Numbers On Port of Left4Dead 274
How Much Detail Is Too Much For Games? 201
Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Headset Blows Past Kickstarter Goal 122
Valve Removes Right For Class Action Claims From EULA 270
Star Wars: The Old Republic Adding Free-To-Play Option In November 135
ScummVM 1.5.0 'Picnic Basket' Released 65
Ask Slashdot: Are The Days of Homebrew Gaming Over? 181
Legend of Zelda NES Nintendo Prototype On Sale For $150K 114
Ubisoft Uplay DRM Found To Include a Rootkit 473
How Will Steam on GNU/Linux Affect Software Freedom? 580
The Fall of 38 Studios 172
GameStop Wants To Sell Secondhand Digital Download Video Games 123
John Romero's Doomy View On Android and Ouya 375
Predicting Color Blindness, ADD, or Learning Disorders From Game Data 65
Slashdot's Rob Rozeboom Interviews D&D Designer Mike Mearls - Part 2 (video) 43
OnLive Coming To Ouya Android Console 52
Champions Declared In AI Poker Tournament 54
Why Valve Wants To Port Games To Linux: Because Windows 8 Is a Catastrophe 880
World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria Launches On September 25 247
Neuroscience May Cure Videogames Industry's Obsession With Guns 254
Developer Drops Game Price To $0 Citing Android Piracy 433
Patent Troll Claims Minecraft Infringement 304
Kids Still Playing Pokemon Like It's 1999 93
Valve & Intel Collaborating On Open-Source Drivers 66
Microsoft Taking Heat For Five-Figure Xbox 360 'Patch Fee' 323
The Decline of Fiction In Video Games 197
CowboyNeal Reviews Alien Arena: Reloaded 33
Microsoft Files Patents for Virtual Game Controller 83
Jolla Confirms MeeGo App Store Is Coming 66
Slashdot's Rob Rozeboom Interviews D&D Designer Mike Mearls (video) 139
The Problem With Metacritic 131
Why We Should Remain Skeptical of the Ouya Android Console 184
Valve Software Launches Linux Blog, Confirms Work On Steam Client for Linux 236
EA Outs Battlefield 4, Plans To Charge $70 For New Games 323
New 'Reloaded Edition' of Alien Arena Open Source FPS Released 71
Valve Continues Recruiting Top Linux Talent 167
The Ugly, Profitable Details About Xbox Live Advertising 204
CowboyNeal On Dota 2, Modern Games, and Software Development 148
Ouya Android Console Blows Past Kickstarter Goal 270
A Fresh Look At Multi-Screen PC Gaming 146
Valve Will Let Gamers Pick Games To Appear On Steam 129
Startup Aims For $99, Android-Powered TV Game Console 194
$1.2 Million Ultimate Games Collection 149
Review: Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Is Game Music Nostalgia At Its Best 69
Activision Turning The Walking Dead Into a First-Person Shooter 102
Early Look at Steampunk Action-Adventure Game Dishonored 58
Ask Slashdot: How To Get Old Commercial Software To Be Open-Sourced? 234
SNESDev-RPi: a SNES Adapter For the Raspberry Pi 30
Valve Hands Over Its Own Movie-Making Tools To Gamers 68
Liberated Pixel Cup: Art Entries Closed; Code Competition Begins 34
World's Hardest Sudoku 179
Open Source Morrowind Version 0.16.0 Released 98
Linux Users Banned From Diablo III Servers 518
Sony To Acquire Cloud Gaming Company Gaikai for $380 Million 72
Quake 3 Source Code Review 107
The 'Everyone Gets the Source Code, Donations Get You Binaries' Software Model 341
Guild Wars 2 Release Date Announced 128
Atari Turns 40 Today 162
Robot Hand Beats You At Rock, Paper, Scissors 100% of the Time 225
Nintendo's Big-Screen 3DS XL Meets Lukewarm Reception 192
The Death of an HTML5 Game Breeds an Open Source Project 147
Valve Unveils Steam For Schools, Portal In the Classroom 83
US District Court: Game Elements In Tetris Clone Infringe Tetris Co.'s Copyright 138
A Faster Jigsaw Solving Algorithm 104
Unity 4 Adds Linux Support 150
Australian Gamers Finally Get an R-18+ Category 69
Leaked Document Hints At Augmented Reality Glasses For Future Xbox 86
Rockstar Creates 'Cheaters Pool' For Game Hackers 228
Study Shows Teen Gamers Like Tech, But Don't All Crave IT Jobs 227
Diablo 3 Banhammer Dropped Just Before RMAH Goes Live 540

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