Games Stories for 2024

Xbox Console Sales Are Tanking As Microsoft Brings Games To PS5 18
Garry's Mod Is Taking Down Decades of Nintendo-Related Add-Ons 31
Steam Closes Early Access Playtime Loophole 26
Veteran PC Game 'Sopwith' Celebrates 40th Anniversary 42
Pareto's Economic Theories Used To Find the Best Mario Kart 8 Racer 12
Gaming Giant Embracer Group Is Splitting Into Three Companies 13
A D&D Actual Play Show Is Going To Sell Out Madison Square Garden 44
Sony's PS5 Pro is Real and Developers Are Getting Ready For It 25
Discord is Nuking Nintendo Switch Emulator Devs and Their Entire Servers 56
Xbox Moving 'Full Speed Ahead' on Next Gen Console 41
Warner Bros. Issues DMCA's After 'Suicide Squad' Game Cracked to Allow Playing as Unreleased Characters 16
Apple Opens the App Store To Retro Game Emulators 34
Roblox Executive Says Children Making Money On the Platform Isn't Exploitation, It's a Gift 60
Developer Hacks Denuvo DRM After Six Months of Detective Work and 2,000 Hooks 37
PC, Console Growth To Lag Pre-pandemic Levels as Gamers Clock in Fewer Hours 74
Microsoft is Working on an Xbox AI Chatbot 11
Major Mobile NFT Shooter Game 'MadWorld' Uses Linux Foundation Subsidiary's Game Engine 29
Russia Is Making Its Own Gaming Consoles 161
Phil Spencer Wants Epic Games Store and Others On Xbox Consoles 49
Xbox Cloud Gaming Now Has Mouse and Keyboard Support In Select Games 30
Video Game Voice Actors May Strike Over AI 82
New Book Remembers LAN Parties and the 1990s 'Multiplayer Revolution' 74
''Tetris Reversed'? Alexey Pajitnov Shows Footage From Rediscovered Prototype for 'Tetris' Sequel 22
Switch Emulator Suyu Hit By GitLab DMCA, Project Lives on Through Self-hosting 21
Epic Games Store To Launch On iOS and Android This Year, Will Take 12% Cut of Sales In EU 33
NVIDIA Partners With Ubisoft To Further Develop Its AI-driven NPCs 19
Sony Reportedly Pauses PSVR 2 Production Due To Low Sales 23
Games Are Coming To LinkedIn 28
How Nintendo's Destruction of Yuzu Is Rocking the Emulator World 33
Discord Opens Up To Games and Apps Embedded In Its Chat App 7
OpenTTD (Unofficial Remake of 'Transport Tycoon Deluxe' Game) Turns 20 17
Warner Bros. is Now Erasing Games As It Plans To Delist Adult Swim-Published Titles 42
NYTimes Files Copyright Takedown Against Hundreds of Wordle Clones 39
EA Says Generative AI Could Make It 30% More Efficient 46
Warner Bros. Discusses 'Volatile' AAA Console Games, Will Lean Into Free-To-Play And Mobile 47
Nintendo Switch Emulator Yuzu To Shut Down, Pay $2.4 Million To Settle Lawsuit 62
Microsoft is Working With Nvidia, AMD and Intel To Improve Upscaling Support in PC Games 22
Nintendo Suing Makers of Open-Source Switch Emulator Yuzu 107
PlayStation Cutting 900 Jobs In Video Game Industry's Latest Round Of Big Cuts 29
Doom Is Now Playable On a Lawnmower 21
Microsoft's Gaming CEO Says Xbox Won't Go All-Digital Just Yet 78
Sony's PlayStation Portal Hacked To Run Emulated PSP Games 12
How One Developer Earned Over $300K From Games Made in 30 Minutes 70
Nintendo Switch 2 Will Now Launch in 2025, Reports Say 34
Apple Unbanned Epic So It Can Make an iOS Games Store In the EU 14
Phil Spencer Wants Sony and Nintendo Games on Xbox, But Says He Doesn't Expect It 19
Microsoft Teases Next-Gen Xbox With 'Largest Technical Leap', New 'Unique' Hardware 51
Sony's PS5 Enters 'Latter Stage of Its Life Cycle' 38
F-Zero Courses From a Dead Nintendo Satellite Service Restored Using VHS and AI 15
Xbox Boss Tells Employees Microsoft Has No Plans To Stop Making Consoles 97
Ubisoft CEO Defends Skull and Bones' $70 Price 49
Disney Invests $1.5 Billion In Fortnite Maker To Build Persistent Game Universe 52
Microsoft Weighs Launching Some Games, Including Indiana Jones, on the PS5 15
Fans Preserve and Emulate Sega's Extremely Rare '80s 'AI Computer' 15
Microsoft Says Palworld Is the Biggest Ever Third-Party Game Pass Launch 40
Apple Vision Pro To Launch With Over 600 Apps and Games 83
Embracer Lays Off 97 Eidos Employees, Cancels New 'Deus Ex' Game 30
Halo's Trailer for Season 2 Teases More Covenant 30
Nintendo Plans To Launch Next Switch This Year With LCD, Omdia Says 45
PlayStation Has Blocked Hardware Cheating Device Cronus Zen, Others May Follow 29
Microsoft Cuts 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox Jobs 72
Pokemon Company Says It Intends To Investigate Palworld 47
Netflix Says That Game Engagement Tripled in 2023 21
China Quietly Pulls Draft Gaming Rules From Website 34
Palworld Embroiled in AI and Pokemon 'Plagiarism' Controversy 101
Modder Recreates Game Boy Advance Games Using the Audio From Crash Sounds 15
Billy Mitchell and Twin Galaxies Settle Lawsuits On Donkey Kong World Records 64
Game Developer Survey: 50% Work at a Studio Already Using Generative AI Tools 31
Harmonix Is Ending Rock Band DLC Releases After 16 Years, 2,800 Songs 15
Atari Will Release a Mini Edition of Its 1979 Atari 400 (Which Had An 8-Bit MOS 6502 CPU) 64
Ubisoft Accidentally Used Text-to-Speech To Voice a Character in the New Prince of Persia Game 25
Valve Takes Action Against Team Fortress 2, Portal Fan Projects After Years of Leniency 32
Netflix Considers Ways To Make Money From Videogames in Possible Pivot 36
Portal 64, An N64 Demake of Valve's Classic, Now Has a Playable 'First Slice' 19
Microsoft's Xbox Series S Toaster Goes on Sale 50
Way Too Many Games Were Released On Steam In 2023 93
Tekken 8's 'Colorblind' Mode Is Causing Migraines, Vertigo, and Debate 19
Tetris Has Finally Been Beaten After 34 Years 67
Steam Has Stopped Supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 169