Games Stories for 2022

World Chess Champ Magnus Carlsen Also Wins World Blitz and Rapid Chess Titles 23
'Switch Pro' Reportedly Cancelled As Nintendo Shifts Focus To Next-Gen Console 60
Archer Maclean, Commodore 64 Developer, Dies At 60 22
Video Gamers Sue Microsoft In US Court To Stop Activision Takeover 49
Ubisoft Has Started Transferring Games From Google Stadia To PC 2
Epic Games, Maker of 'Fortnite,' To Pay $520 Million To Resolve FTC Allegations 24
Lawsuits Suggest Some Video Game Cheating Could Be Illegal 80
Microsoft Files Patent for Displaying Personalized Ads in Games 52
Epic Is Cutting the Servers For 17 Older Online Games 85
Amazon To Publish Next Tomb Raider Game 19
India Doesn't Plan To Limit Play Time for Online Game Usage 3
Tesla Launches Steam In Its Cars With Thousands of Games 105
'Diablo IV' Developers Work Long Hours, Bracing For Impending Release 85
Xbox Boss Says Sony Wants To 'Grow By Making Xbox Smaller' 31
It's DOOM's 29th Anniversary. What's Your Favorite Story? 95
Class-Action Alleging Fortnite Is Addictive Will Go Ahead, Judge Rules 144
Atari Revives Unreleased Arcade Game That Was Too Damn Hard For 1982 Players 40
Microsoft Reaches 10-year Deal With Nintendo for Call of Duty 28
Dwarf Fortress' Graphical Upgrade Provides a New Way Into a Wildly Wonky Game 43
Amazon Luna Can Now Play Games You Own On PC, No Channel Subscriptions Required 18
Microsoft Offers Sony a 10-Year Deal On New CoD Games, Plans To Raise Game Prices Next Year 30
Trailers Released for 2023 First-Person Shooter 'Starship Troopers: Extermination' 57
20 Videogame QA Testers in Albany Win Union Vote at Activision Blizzard 42
'The New Wordle Editor Is Ruining Wordle' 96
Google Stadia Hardware Refunds Will Be Issued Within Two Weeks 11
Military Sim Developer Tired of Its Game Being Used To Fake War Footage 59
Netflix is Working on 'Brand-New AAA PC Game' 38
Microsoft Argues Nintendo Offers a 'Broader Range of Mature Content' than Xbox 30
Valve Introduces Proton Next 12
Chinese Children's Addiction To Gaming 'Resolved', Says Industry Body 16
Crypto and NFTs Aren't Welcome in Grand Theft Auto Online 15
There Will Be 3.2 Billion Gamers in 2022, But Revenue Set To Fall for First Time in 15 years 46
Ubisoft is Back To Releasing Games on Steam 24
Nintendo Goes After Fan-Made Custom Steam 'Icons' With DMCA Takedowns 41
Atari's 50th Anniversary Collection Includes 100 Games, Interviews, and Addictive New Titles 25
Ubisoft and Riot Games Are Working Together To Combat Toxic Chats 82
Microsoft's Xbox Streaming Console 'Keystone' Was Pushed Back Because of Its Price 28
Xbox Transparency Report Reveals Up To 4.78 Million Accounts Were Proactively Suspended In Just Six Months 10
Why Correspondence Chess Is Still Popular Among Elite Players 28
Microsoft's DirectStorage 1.1 Arrives To Boost PC Game Load Times With GPU Decompression 36
Now Wordle Has An Editor In Charge of Picking the Next Answer 25
'If You Die in the Game, You Die in Real Life.' 112
Microsoft Is Exploring Energy-Saving Graphics Modes For Xbox and Windows Games 33
Age of Empires is 25 Years Old and Fans Are Shaping the Franchise 15
70 New Text Adventures Written For 28th Annual 'Interactive Fiction Competition' 11
PlayStation VR2 Release Date and Price Revealed 38
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II Breaks Franchise Record 26
Netflix Adds 6th Gaming Studio With Acquisition of Spy Fox 9
Microsoft Promises Eternal Support for Call of Duty on PlayStation 23
Sega Confirms Pioneering Developer Rieko Kodama Passed Away 28
Physical 'Copies' of the New Call of Duty Are Just Empty Discs 53
Age of Empires 2, 4 Are Headed To Xbox Next Year 11
Apple Devices Now Support Nintendo's Classic Game Controllers 12
Kids Who Play Video Games Score Higher on Brain Function Tests 47
30 Million Gamers Were Logged Into Steam Today 51
How a Mathematician-Magician Revealed a Casino Loophole 102
Chess Grandmaster Hans Niemann Sues Champion Magnus Carlsen, Others For $100 Million Over Cheating Claim 108
'I Tried the $1,500 Quest Pro and Saw the Best of the Metaverse' 54
Microsoft is Building an Xbox Mobile Gaming Store To Take on Apple and Google 16
Netflix Confirms It's Looking To Launch a Cloud Gaming Service 51
How 'Homestar Runner' Re-Emerged After the End of Flash 28
Man Alleging Poker Cheating Demands Better Security in Livestreamed Games 102
New Apple Services and Apps Are Rolling Out On Windows 11 and Xbox 15
Lab-Grown Brain Cells Play Video Game Pong 44
Google Reveals 'First Laptops Built For Cloud Gaming' Just After Killing Stadia 46
Doom Runs At 60 FPS In Notepad 52
Upcoming Call of Duty Has Annoying Phone Number Verification Requirement 167
Windows 95 Went the Extra Mile To Ensure Compatibility of SimCity, Other Games 77
A Minecraft Player Set Out To Build the Known Universe, Block by Block 29
Alleged Poker-Cheating Scandal Gets Weirder: Employee Stole $15,000 In Chips 66
EU Wants To Know If Microsoft Will Block Rivals After Activision Deal 38
Magic: the Gathering Celebrates 30 Year Anniversary By Selling $1,000 Boosters 70
Blizzard Axes Controversial Overwatch 2 Phone Number Requirement 41
Chess Grandmaster 'Likely Cheated' In More Than 100 Matches, Report Finds 209
Cyberpunk 2077 Sequel Project Orion Confirmed By CD Projekt Red 48
The PS5 Has Reportedly Been Jailbroken 25
PlayStation Boss Jim Ryan 'Flew To Brussels' To Voice Concerns To EU Over Xbox's Activision Deal 22
Games Are Starting To Require a Phone Number To Play 62
Ubisoft Will Help Jilted Stadia Users Transfer Their Purchases To PC 8
Google is Shutting Down Stadia 117
Saudi Arabia To Invest $37 Billion in Gaming 41
Podcasters Are Buying Millions of Listeners Through Mobile-Game Ads 17
Cheat Devs Are Ready for Modern Warfare 2 58
Netflix Is Building Its Own Game Studio 78
Magnus Carlsen Releases Statement: 'I Believe Niemann Has Cheated More' 115
Magnus Carlsen Finally Speaks On Chess Cheating Scandal, Sows Even More Chaos 131
Magnus Carlsen Resigns After One Move In Chess Rematch With Hans Niemann 87
Grand Theft Auto VI Leak Is a Shock To Video Game Studio Rockstar 82
Is Professional Chess Becoming More Like Poker? 56
Sony: PSVR2 Is 'Truly Next-Generation,' So It Can't Play PSVR1 Games 53
EA Announces Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat System For PC Games 99
Nintendo's New Zelda Game, Tears of the Kingdom, Is Set to Debut May 12 31
Netflix Partners With Ubisoft To Bolster Fledgling Gaming Division 18
Chess.com Bans 19-Year-Old Accused of Cheating, But No Evidence He Cheated Against Magnus Carlsen 84
Forensic Analysts Accuse Billy Mitchell of Cheating for Donkey Kong Record 54
Chess Is in Chaos Over Suspicion That a Player Cheated Against Magnus Carlsen 86
Sony: Xbox's Call of Duty Offer Was 'Inadequate on Many Levels' 31
India Is Planning To Tax Winners In Online Gaming 30
Mike Fahey, 'The Soul of Kotaku', Dies At 49 29
Wine 7.16 Brings Fixes for Saint's Row, Metal Gear, and Star Citizen 28
The Ticking Time Bomb of Modern Free-To-Play Games 83
UK Challenges $69 Billion Microsoft/Activision Deal, Citing Potential Harm To Gamers 15
Portal 2 Ends 9 Years of Xbox 360 'Games With Gold' Freebies 16
Bluetooth Xbox Controllers Are Now Compatible With GameCube 8
Sony's New PlayStation Studios Mobile Team is Making Spinoff Games For Your Phone 14
'Magic: the Gathering' Announces New Sets Based on Lord of the Rings, Doctor Who 40
Sony Raises PlayStation 5 Prices Outside the US Citing Economic Challenges 26
Notorious DRM Company Takes Aim At Switch Piracy 27
Sony Says the PlayStation VR2 Is Coming In Early 2023 49
PlayStation Hit By $5.9 Billion Lawsuit For 'Ripping People Off' On Digital Games 65
Sega Genesis Mini 2's Full Game Lineup Revealed 12
Intel Drops DirectX 9 Support On Xe, Arc GPUs, Switches To DirectX 12 Emulation 45
Microsoft Finally Admits Xbox One Sales Were Less Than Half of the PS4 55
Google Adds Instant Cloud-Streaming Button To Web Searches For Games 12
Microsoft Claims Sony Pays Developers 'Blocking Rights' To Keep Games Off Xbox Game Pass 25
Twitch Founder Justin Kan: Web3 Games Don't Need To Lure Players With Profit 60
28 Years Later, Super Punch-Out!!'s 2-Player Mode Has Been Discovered 25
Live-Action Pac-Man Movie In the Works 66
99 Percent of Netflix Subscribers Haven't Tried Its Games Yet 103
Tencent Seeks Bigger Stake in 'Assassin's Creed' Maker Ubisoft 7
Microsoft Justifies Activision Blizzard's $69 Billion Acquisition By Telling Regulator Call of Duty Publisher Doesn't Release 'Unique' Games 91
'CSS Crimes' Turn Social Media Posts Into Games 22
Judge Orders Waterloo Business To Name Customers Who Doxxed, Threatened Bungie Employees 30
World of Warcraft Mobile Game Reportedly Cancelled by Blizzard After Finance Dispute 10
US Gamers Are Spending a Lot Less On Video Games 55
Logitech Will Launch a Handheld Cloud Gaming Device In 2022 27
Axie Infinity Has Left Filipino Gamers Despondent and in Debt 48
Analogue Releases Video Game From 1962 On the Pocket 24
Xbox 'Encouraged' Console Wars To Drive Competition, Former Exec Says 20
Gaming Time Has No Link With Levels of Wellbeing, Study Finds 24
Google Stadia May Shut Down, Report Says 69
PS5 Will Get Folders and Support for 1440p Displays This Year 15
Grand Theft Auto VI Will Have Female Main Character, New Map Focused on Fictionalized Miami 148
Microsoft is Speeding Up Xbox Boot Times 47
Creator of 1983 Rogue-Like Game 'Moria' Has Died at Age 64 27
'Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves' Releases First Trailer, and a Tavern at Comic-Con 39
Teens Are Rewriting What Is Possible In the World of Competitive Tetris 27
Chinese Gamers Are Using a Steam Wallpaper App To Get Porn Past the Censors 36
GeForce Now Rolling Out 120FPS Cloud Gaming To All Compatible Android Smartphones 15
Xbox Becomes First Game Console To Formally Support Discord Voice Chat 20
No NFTs in Minecraft, Mojang Says 23
UK Government Says Video Game Loot Boxes Will Not Be Regulated 55
Bungie Is Now Officially Part of Sony 21
A Super Fan Collected Every Super Nintendo Game Manual and Made Them Free 23
Elden Ring Gaming Giant Bandai Namco Says Hackers May Have Stolen Customer Data 7
The Video Game Prescribed By Doctors To Treat ADHD 29
GameStop Launches NFT Marketplace 49
Xbox Series X Can Run Windows 98, Along With Classic PC Games of The Era 23
Game Developer On 'Why NFTs Are a Nightmare' 89
PlayStation Store Will Remove Customers' Purchased Movies 164
Video Game Sales Set To Fall For First Time in Years as Industry Braces For Recession 45
Microsoft's xCloud Game Streaming Looks Worse On Linux Than Windows 35
Xbox 360 games Will No Longer Be Part of Xbox Games With Gold In October 9
Ubisoft To Shut Down Multiplayer For Older Games 62
'The Phone is Terrible For Cloud Gaming' 87
Popular Game Valorant Will Start Listening To Your Voice Chat Next Month 28
Lessons Learned from the Life of Videogame Executive Bernie Stolar 46
On NetHack's 35th Anniversary, It's Displayed at Museum of Modern Art 45
Goodbye Zachtronics, Developers of Very Cool Video Games 18
OpenAI Has Trained a Neural Network To Competently Play Minecraft 24
Valve's Steam Deck Makes a Brilliant Case Against Walled Gardens 57
The Argument That Video Games Spur Mass Shootings Is Losing Steam 170
PlayStation Takes On Xbox With New Subscription Service 20
'A Billion-Dollar Crypto Gaming Startup Promised Riches and Delivered Disaster' 67
Xbox Project Moorcroft Will Bring Early Game Demos To Xbox Game Pass 8
Facebook Gaming Brings Crayta's User-Generated Games To Its Cloud Platform 4
iOS 16 Supports Nintendo's Switch Pro and Joy-Con Controllers 15
Ex-Sony CEO Nobuyuki Idei Who Led Firm's Digital Push, Dies At 84 5
Nintendo Wanted Hacker's Prison Sentence To Turn Heads 66
Apple's New MetalFX Upscaling System Will Compete With AMD FSR, Nvidia DLSS 44
'Doom' Game Ported To Run As a Coreboot BIOS Payload 17
Sega Is Making Another Mini Mega Drive, Now With CD Games 26
18 European Countries' Consumer Groups Have Joined the Fight Against Loot Boxes 41
France Bans English Gaming Tech Jargon in Push To Preserve Language Purity 291
Algorithms in Videogames Criticized for Choosing Fairly-Matched Opponents 163
Are We on the Verge of an 8K Resolution Breakthrough in Gaming? 104
Bungie Will Help Sony Make 12 Live Service Games By 2025 16
Marble Madness II: The Canceled Sequel To Classic Arcade Game Recovered For MAME Emulator 49
Microsoft Continues To Iterate on an Xbox Cloud Streaming Device Codenamed 'Keystone' 29
Apple In Talks To Buy EA Gaming; Disney and Amazon Also Potential Suitors 78
Legendary Japanese Game Developer Returns After Two Decades 11
TikTok Plans Big Push Into Gaming, Conducting Tests in Vietnam 4
Sony Readies For 'Metaverse Revolution' With Cross-Platform Push 32
Playing Video Games Has An Unexpected Effect On Kids' IQ, Says New Study 106
Sony Reveals Game Lineup and Launch Dates for PlayStation Plus Relaunch 8
EA Plans Free Mobile 'Lord of the Rings' Game 35
Twitter Turns Its Privacy Policy Into a Videogame about a Dog 22
Valve Loses Bid To End Antitrust Case Over Steam Gaming Platform 42
Sony and Nintendo Videogame Machines To Be in Short Supply Again This Year 31
EA Sports To Rename FIFA Video Game Series After Failing To Reach Agreement 40
China Wants Its Youth To Stop Giving Livestreamers Money 81
40K Developers Criticised Over Twitch Drops 49
(Mostly) Open Source SteamOS Forked into Homegrown ISO For Other Machines 22
Major Mobile Tech Firm Buys Wordle! 14
Epic's Fortnite Now Free To Play on Microsoft's Xbox Cloud Gaming for Mobile, Desktop, Console 27
NYT Says Wordle Drove 'Tens of Millions' of New Users, Record Growth 30
Square Enix Sells All of Its Western Game Studios, Games To Embracer 11
VR Researchers Have Basically Figured Out How to Simulate the Feel of Kisses 37
Sony is Building a Game Preservation Team 9
Call of Duty Slumps Ahead of Potential Activision-Microsoft Deal 23
Wolfire Games Open Sources 'Overgrowth' After 14 Years of Development 15
Sony Plans To Sell Advertising in PlayStation Games 67
Leaked Game Boy Emulators For Switch Were Made By Nintendo, Experts Suggest 9
Sega Reboots Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio To Chase Fortnite Riches 18
Playdate, the Pocket-Sized Game Console With a Crank, Begins Shipping 28
What Chinese Scientists Learned Teaching Two Monkeys to Play Pac-Man 23
Activision Cooperating With Federal Insider Trading Probes 9
Microsoft Is Building An Ad Program That Will Let Brands Advertise In Xbox Games 19
Why Gamers Are Adopting Windows 11 More Slowly Than Windows 10 150
Tencent To block Chinese Gamers' Access To Foreign, Unapproved Games 2
'Club Penguin Rewritten' Allegedly Shut Down By Disney, Website Seized By London Police 62
Dungeons & Dragons Owner Hasbro Is Buying D&D Beyond 50
Some Videogames Suddenly 'Expiring' on Classic PS3, Vita Consoles 70
'Sonic the Hedgehog 2' Sets New Record: Biggest Opening Ever for a Videogame Movie 27
Activision Blizzard To Convert All US-based QA Workers To Full-time Positions 48
Ubisoft Says More of Its Games Will Be Getting NFTs, Despite the Initial Backlash 36
Epic's Unreal Engine 5 Has Officially Launched 60
Axie Infinity Was Losing Gamers Even Before Record Crypto Hack 7
E3 2022 Has Officially Been Canceled 22
Chess Broadcast To Include Players' Heart Rate Determined By AI 49
Russian Game Dev Tells Players To 'Raise the Pirate Flag' To Get Around Sanctions 76
Sony Launches New PlayStation Gaming Subscription Service 20
Warzone Dev Says Game Is Losing Players Over 'Insane' Download Sizes 92
Kids Are Learning History From Video Games Now 84
Man Creates Entire Game of Pong Inside a Single Commodore 64 Sprite 67
Sony Addresses Troubled Gran Turismo 7 Launch, Gives Angry Fans One Million Free Credits 11
Sony To Unveil PlayStation Subscription as Soon as Next Week 22
Owners Of 'Gran Turismo 7' Locked Out Of Single Player Game When Online DRM Servers Go Down 118
After 17 Years and 265 Scripts, Microsoft Finally Turns 'Halo' Into a $90M TV Show on Paramount+ 55
Xbox Cloud Gaming Now Supports Steam Deck Through Microsoft Edge 12
NYT Takes Down Third-Party Wordle Archive 33
GTA V is Back for a New Generation 28
Google Casually Announces Steam For Chrome OS Is Coming In Alpha For Select Chromebooks 19
Google Unveils Its B2B Cloud Gaming Platform Built With Stadia Tech 7
Microsoft Introduces Its DirectStorage API Which Promises To Reinvent Game Storage 43
The 11,000-Member Discord Channel For People Pretending to Be VR Police Officers 37
Ubisoft Won't Say Why It Reset Employee Passwords After 'Cyber Incident' 6
Jack Thompson Still Has a Grudge 72
YouTuber Leaves OLED Switch on for 3,600 Hours To Test Image Burn-in 54
Google Hints at Windows Games Running on Stadia 17
Doctor Apologizes For Ranting About 'Console Wars' From Operating Room 88
'God of War' TV Series Adaptation Eyed By Prime Video 12
A Closer Look at Tencent, the World's Biggest Game Company 18
Ukrainian Government Calls For Game Companies To Cut Off Russia During Invasion 128
Bungie Rejects Steam Deck's Linux, Threatens To Ban Destiny 2 Players There 61
Sid Meier Warns the Games Industry About Monetization 50
Amazon's Luna Cloud Gaming Service Officially Launches In the US 6
Viral 'Ghost of Kyiv' Video Is From Simulation Game 33
Valve Made a Bite-Sized New Portal Game For the Steam Deck 8
EA's CEO Tells Staff It's Been 'Impeded' by the FIFA Brand 24

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