Games Stories for 2016

Ask Slashdot: Why Are Some Great Games Panned and Some Inferior Games Praised? 145
Postal, the Legendarily Violent Video Game by Running With Scissors, Is Now Open Source 66
Nintendo's Super Mario Run For Android is Coming Soon 44
Ask Slashdot: Is Computing As Cool and Fun As It Once Was? 449
North Korea's Android Tablet Takes a Screenshot Every Time You Open an App 85
Windows 10 Getting a Game Mode That Would Improve Game Performance - Report 164
FreeDOS 1.2 Is Finally Released 146
GamerGate Critic Brianna Wu To Run For Congress 511
Nintendo Plans To Release 2 or 3 Mobile Games a Year After Super Mario Run's Success 46
Steam Is Down 183
Steam Fined $3 Million For Refusing Refunds 160
Pokemon Go Arrives On the Apple Watch 35
Worldwide Gaming Market Hits $91 Billion In 2016, Says Report 76
Nintendo's Mobile Mario Game Sets Download Record But Pricing Proves Sticking Point 92
Crytek Closing Five Studios, Will Refocus On 'Premium IPs' and CryEngine 54
Nintendo Switch Uses Nvidia Tegra X1 SoC, Clock Speeds Outed 105
Bad Reviews For Super Mario Run Are Sending Nintendo's Stock Tumbling 221
3D Freeciv-Web (Beta) Released 68
Nintendo Sells Nearly 200,000 Units Of Its Mini Retro Console 78
Super Mario Run Is Now Available 70
Microsoft Xbox One and Windows 10 Getting Dolby Atmos Surround Sound 37
Xbox One Games Arrive On Oculus Rift With New Streaming App 16
Microsoft Will Soon Start Bundling Drivers With Windows Store Games 102
Analysts Tout 'State of The Developer' Survey By Awarding RPG Characters 47
Nintendo Legend Miyamoto: Mario Needs To Evolve To Survive 88
Microsoft and Qualcomm Collaborate To Bring Windows 10, x86 Emulation To Snapdragon Processors 85
Nintendo Offers Up To $20,000 To Hack the 3DS 45
Google, HTC, Oculus, Samsung, Sony Join Forces To Create Global VR Association 59
Sony Has Sold 50 Million PlayStation 4 Units 73
Doyodo RetroEngine Sigma Is a Linux-Powered Classic Video Game Emulation Console 91
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Makes Game For Third Annual Hour of Code 135
No Man's Sky's Steam Page Didn't Mislead Gamers, Rules UK Ad Watchdog 76
Facebook Is Bringing Games Like Pac-Man, Space Invaders To Messenger and Your News Feed 22
'No Man's Sky' Releases Huge New 'Foundation' Update 112
New 'Doom 3' Mod Successfully Ports It Into Virtual Reality 42
Virtual Reality is Pushing Gaming Into Another 'Golden Age': Xbox Co-founder 114
Microsoft Solitaire Collection From Windows 10 Now Available For Android and iOS 50
2016 Winners Announced For Interactive Fiction Competition 24
Spammers Compromised Popular Twitter Accounts Including Viacom And Microsoft Xbox 23
In 5 Years, Games Experience Will Move From Discrete To Indiscrete, Says EA CEO 182
Hacker Charged With Fraud After 'Stealing' In-game FIFA Currency 149
Robot Solves Rubik's Cube In Less Than a Second 54
Dungeons & Dragons Inducted Into Toy Hall of Fame 51
The Sega Genesis Is Officially Back In Production 117
Microsoft Promises To Defend World Chess Champion From Russian Hackers 131
Windows 10's Store Locks 'Call of Duty' Purchasers Into Windows-10-Only Battles 174
Blizzard Launches A Professional Sports League For 'Overwatch' 64
The NES Classic is a $60 Single Board Computer Running Linux 121
Google's DeepMind AI Plans To Take On StarCraft II 75
Facebook Officially Announces Gameroom, Its PC Steam Competitor 116
EA Blocks 'Origin' Access In Six Countries, Citing US Embargoes 121
Archive.org Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary 42
New Text Adventures Compete In 22nd 'Interactive Fiction Competition' 25
Super Mario 'Speed Runners' Are Setting New World Records 62
Mark Cerny, Chief PlayStation Architect, Explains the PS4 Pro 71
Nintendo Unveils 'Switch', Its New Gaming Console and Tablet Hybrid 269
Samsung Forced YouTube To Pull GTA 5 Mod Video Because It Showed Galaxy Note 7 As Bomb 219
Nintendo NX Will Be Officially Revealed Tomorrow 35
Amazon Showcases Twitch With a Massive Free Videogame 59
Shadow Warrior 2 Developers Say DRM Is a Waste of Time 99
You Can Now Claim Your Cash In the PS3 'Other PS3' Settlement 85
Pokemon Go Could Add 2.83 Million Years To Users' Lives, Says Study 156
How a Video Game About Sheep Exposes the FBI's Broken FOIA System 116
Sharp Unveils 27-inch 8K 120Hz IGZO Monitor With HDR 105
Zuckerberg Teases An 'Affordable' Standalone Oculus VR Headset 63
New AI Is Capable of Beating Humans At Doom 170
No Man's Sky Under Investigation For False Advertising 261
Street Fighter V Update Installed Hidden Rootkits on PCs 126
Google Play Starts Bringing Android Apps To Chromebooks 14
Blizzard Is Getting Rid of the Battle.net Name 31
Microsoft and Sony Are Debating Over Whose Console Really Offers 'True 4K' 147
Valve Bans Developer From Steam After It Sues Customers Over Bad Reviews 195
Microsoft Weaponizes Minecraft In the War Over Classrooms 55
Over 500K People Have Installed a Pokemon Go-Related App That Roots and Hijacks Android Devices 57
New York Fines Viacom, Mattel and Hasbro For Tracking Kids Online 49
Pokemon Go's Paying Population Drops By 79% -- Still Most Profitable Mobile App In The US 91
Video Games Are So Realistic That They Can Teach AI What the World Looks Like 87
Every PlayStation 4 Gets HDR This Week With System Update 4.00 41
A Very Detailed Dissection of a Frame From DOOM 113
Super Mario Is Coming To The iPhone 108
Sony Announces Two New Versions of PlayStation 4: One Slimmer, Other More Powerful 82
Niantic Responds To Senate Inquiry Into Pokemon Go Privacy 73
PlayStation Now Streaming Service Available On Windows PCs 54
Players Seek 'No Man's Sky' Refunds, Sony's Content Director Calls Them Thieves 467
ReactOS 0.4.2 Released: Supports Linux Filesystems, .NET Applications, and Doom 3 145
Belgians Are Hunting Books, Instead Of Pokemon 38
Second Confirmed Death In Japan Involving Pokemon Go 153
PSA: PlayStation Network Gets Two-Step Verification 42
You Can Now Play Solitaire and Tic-Tac-Toe in Google's Search Results 55
Driver Killed a Pedestrian in Japan While Playing Pokemon Go 175
The US Army Has Too Many Video Games 82
Sony Tries To Remove News Articles About PlayStation 4 Slim Leak From The Internet 85
PlayStation 3 Games Are Coming To PC 125
Pokemon Go Daily Active Users, Downloads, Engagement Are Dropping 194
Aluminum NES Maker Announces Smaller, Cheaper Analogue Nt Mini 82
Sony To Debut Two New PlayStation 4 Consoles Next Month, Says WSJ 86
100 Unofficial Mods Released for 'No Man's Sky' 72
Comcast Rolls Out $70-Per-Month Gigabit Internet Service In Chicago 93
Millions Of Steam Game Keys Stolen After Hacker Breaches Gaming Site 68
Facebook Teams Up With Unity To Create a Gaming Platform To Rival Steam 103
Nintendo Shuts Down 'Pokemon Uranium' Fan Game After 1.5 Million Downloads 140
Microsoft Says Upcoming Project Scorpio Might Be the Last Console Generation 264
NVIDIA Drops Pascal Desktop GPUs Into Laptops With Mobile GeForce GTX 10-Series 42
Twitch Acquires Curse, Its Sites, Tools For Gamers, and Databases 25
Former CEO of Angry Birds-Maker Rovio Hired To Revive Nokia's Phone Business 88
Hacked Hobbit Pinball Machine Joins IoT, Broadcasts Itself Over Twitch 45
'GoldenEye: Source' Updated: A Classic, Free Multiplayer Game 65
No Man's Sky Launches On Steam and GOG and It's Off To A Rocky Start 157
Microsoft Acquires Beam Game Streaming Service, Embracing Alternative To Amazon's Twitch 29
They Quite Literally Don't Make Games the Way They Used To 158
Internet Archive Posted 10,000 Browser-Playable Amiga Titles 83
Google: Chrome 53 Will 'De-Emphasize Flash In Favor of HTML5' Next Month 68
EFF Asks FTC To Demand 'Truth In Labeling' For DRM 122
Positive Link Between Video Games and Academic Performance, Study Suggests 100
NASA Celebrates Curiosity's Fourth Year On Mars With a Game 35
1,000+ US Spies Are Protecting Rio Olympics, Says Report 105
Pokemon Go DDoS Attacks Postponed As PoodleCorp Botnet Suffers Security Breach 97
Xbox One S is the Best Xbox You Might Not Want To Buy 114
Xbox One Summer Update Adds Cortana, Music and More 40
New York Governor Bars Sex Offenders From Playing Pokemon Go 246
Chased Off of YouTube, Leaked 'No Man's Sky' Footage Runs to Pornhub 134
British Newspaper Fooled By Online Harry Potter/Pokemon Go Hoax 36
Nintendo NX Is a Portable Console With Detachable Controllers, Says Report 158
Steam On Windows 10 Will Get 'Progressively Worse': Gears of War Developer 412
Nintendo Shares Plummet After Investors Realize It Doesn't Actually Make Pokemon Go 192
Microsoft Cuts Xbox One Price To $249 - Would You Buy or Recommend One? 140
Valve Threatens Counter Strike Gambling Sites 37
Sega Announces Two New Sonic Games That Seek To Recapture The Glory Days 45
Apple: Pokemon Go Sets Record For Most Downloads In Its First Week 35
Sony Is the Only Remaining Obstacle To PS4-Xbox Cross-Play 57
Apple To Make $3 Billion From Pokemon Go 79
Saudi Arabia Revives 15-Year-Old Ban On 'Zionism-Promoting' Pokemon 328
Pokemon Go Doubles Nintendo's Stock Price 108
A Google Maps Glitch Turned This Korean Fishing Town Into a 'Pokemon Go' Haven 82
Hacking Group 'OurMine' Claims Credit For Attack On Pokemon Go Servers 48
Microsoft's New Xbox One S Will Go On Sale On August 2 -- Will You Buy One? 108
Intel ChromeBooks Can Now Run Wine and Steam 45
Leak Shows PlayStation 4 Neo Is Expected To Have Twice The Graphics Horsepower 99
Google Decided To Nix Its Oculus Rift Competitor 50
In China, Fears That Pokemon Go May Aid Locating Military Bases 173
NVIDIA's Releases Its First VR Game, Along With An Interactive Screenshot Tool 'Ansel' 20
Valve Denounces Third-Party Gambling Sites, But Won't Block Them 32
Nintendo Is Launching a New, Tiny NES For $60 With 30 Games 195
Ask Slashdot: Why Don't Graphics Cards For VR Use Real-Time Motion Compensation? 159
Pokemon Go Becomes Biggest Mobile Game In US History 174
Streamers Get Best Of Both Worlds With Xbox Live Support For PC Twitch Streaming 12
Sega Saturn's DRM Cracked Almost 23 Years After Launch 96
Cops Warn Pokemon Go Players: Please Don't Trespass To Catch 'em All 141
Pokemon Go Was Never Able To Read Your Email 109
Warner Bros. Settles FTC Charge For Not Disclosing Payments To YouTubers For Positive Reviews 81
PSA: Pokemon Go Has Full Access To Your Google Account Data 104
PC Gaming Is Still Way Too Hard 729
Infected Pokemon GO APK Carries Dangerous Android Backdoor 110
Pokemon Game Adds $7.5 Billion To Nintendo Market Value In Two Days 168
Pokemon Go Leads to Reckless Driving, Injuries, and A Corpse 130
Nintendo Stock Price Up 9% After Pokemon Go Launch 46
Mesa 12.0 Released With OpenGL 4.3 Support, Intel Vulkan and More 24
Unreal Engine and Unity To Get NVIDIA's New VR Rendering Tech 17
Man Builds Giant Homemade Computer To Play Tetris 127
Microsoft Xbox Project Scorpio Puts Out 6 TFLOPs On Par With Current Gaming PCs 162
Blizzard Sues Overwatch 'Cheat' Maker For Copyright Infringement 250
Steam Warns Users Against Gambling Site After YouTube Stars Discovered As Owners 80
Google Searches For 'VR Porn' Increase 10,000% 80
Why Did The Stars Wars and Star Trek Worlds Turn Out So Differently? 359
Ask Slashdot: What's Your Preferred Media Streaming Device? 226
Microsoft Is Giving Students a Free Xbox One With Surface Pro 4 Purchases 52
RIP Xbox Fitness: Users Will Soon Lose Access To Workout Videos They Bought 115
Activision Abuses DMCA To Take Knock Indie Game Entirely Off Steam 147
Minecraft Movie To Compete With Avengers and Star Wars In 2019 91
New 'Civilization' Game Will Be Sold To Schools As An Educational Tool 198
A New 'Quake' Episode Appears 20 Years Later 36
'Linux vs Windows' Challenge: Phoronix Tests Popular Games 141
Oculus Ditches DRM Hurdle, Allows HTC Vive Games On Rift Again 37
Valve Faces Lawsuit Over Video Game Gambling 73
Sony Agrees To Pay Millions To Gamers To Settle PS3 Linux Debacle 232
Indie Dev TinyBuild Lost $450K To Fraudulent Sales Facilitated By G2A 104
Elon Musk's Open Source OpenAI: We're Working On a Robot For Your Household Chores 64
Twitch Brings CFAA and Trademark Claim Against Bot Operators 43
Hacker Taunts Blizzard After Knocking Gamers Offline 99
Hacker Who Stole Half-Life 2's Source Code Interviewed For New Book 192
Mattel Sells Out Of 'Game Developer Barbie' 224
Razer Announces Open Source VR HDK2 Headset, And $5 Million Developer Fund 15
Alienware Launches Laptop With QHD OLED Display After 20 Years of Business 82
AMD Announces Radeon RX 470, RX 460 Graphics Cards 48
Microsoft Announces Xbox One S, Project Scorpio Gaming Consoles 144
It Took 33 Years To Find the Easter Egg In This Apple II Game 97
Microsoft Mistakenly Sold Fallout 4 For Free On Xbox 260
Sony Confirms It's Making a 'High-End PlayStation 4' With 4K and Richer Graphics 142
Microsoft Makes Minecraft Education Edition Available To Schools 32
Microsoft Isn't Adding a TV DVR Feature To Xbox One Anymore 76
Fake Gaming Torrents Download Unwanted Apps Instead of Popular Games 92
PayPal Denies Twitch Troll $50,000 Worth In Refunds 194
Microsoft Could Turn Every PC Into an Xbox 255
Xbox One Update Adds Cortana 99
Wonder Boy Remake Finally On The Way 48
Olympic Athletes To Sport Visa's New Payment Ring In Rio 129
Minecraft Tops 100 Million Sales 112
Elon Musk: 'One In Billions' Chance We're Not Living In A Computer Simulation 951
Atari Is Going To Build IoT Devices 84
Real-World Pong Created by Amateur Builders 39
The NSA's Delightfully D&D-inspired Guide To the Internet 43
Wearable 'Backpack PCs' Let You Experience High-End VR On The Go 47
American Schools Teaching Kids To Code All Wrong 369
Smaller Xbox One Coming This Year, More Powerful Xbox One In 2017, Says Report 82
Pac-Man 256 Coming To PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC With Multiplayer 54
Rovio's Desperate Push For 'Angry Birds' Movie 145
Microsoft Finds Legal Path To Launch Minecraft In China 91
Nintendo May Start Selling 'Computer Software' 74
Google Announces New Virtual Reality Platform 'Daydream' 24
Live-Action Tetris Movie Secures $80 Million Funding, Plans To Be Part Of A Trilogy 122
One Million Dormant Xbox Live Gamertags Can Be Yours Starting Wednesday 22
History Buffs Discover Inaccuracies In Battlefield 1 Trailer 74
Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Doom Story? 351
Microsoft Kills Its Game-Building Platform Spark 84
Original 'Doom' Level Remade in the New 'Doom' 46
Disney Research Leverages RFID Tech For Low Cost Interactive Games With Physical Objects 18
Harvard Scientist: Rio Olympics Could Spark 'Full Blown Global Health Disaster' 147
Microsoft Unlocks Framerates For Smoother Gameplay On Windows 10 96
'Battlefield 1' Trailer Most Liked In YouTube History, 'Infinite Warfare' Trailer Most Disliked 131
NVIDIA Shows New Doom Demo On GeForce GTX 1080 142
New "Perfect Game" Donkey Kong Record May Be Unbeatable 77
Legendary Sound Designer Jory Prum Passes Away At 41 62
The World Video Game Hall of Fame 2016 Inductess 54
Steam Computer Gaming Network Now Accepting Bitcoin 54
Atari Co-Founder: Mobile Games Make Me Want To Throw My Phone 76
Nintendo's Mysterious 'NX' Gaming Platform To Be Launched In March 2017 88
HTC Announces $100 Million Fund For Virtual Reality Startups 43
Over 7 Million Accounts for Minecraft Community Hacked 40
Valve Inks Deal With Lionsgate Adding Over 100 Movie Titles To Steam Platform 117
AIs vs Humans - Next Battle: Starcraft 173
Oculus Rift Users Angered By Pre-Order Snafu 70
Amazon Won't Sell Non-Prime Members Certain Popular Movies and Video Games 180
Slashdot Asks: Is the Golden Era of Video-Game Console Sales Over? 314
Microsoft Stops Xbox 360 Production, Servers To Stay Online 75
Animated Simulation Lets You Watch the Titanic Sink In Real Time 129
GameStop Forms Publishing Program GameTrust To 'Revolutionize' the Process 40
Microsoft Sending Minecraft To Summer School 40
PlayStation Employee Designs Custom Controller For Gamer With Cerebral Palsy 62
Japan To Begin Testing Fingerprints As 'Currency' 106
Fallout 4 Wins Best Game At Bafta Awards 120
Tomorrow's PS4 Update To Add Game Streaming for PC and Mac, Privacy Features 64
There Are Some Super Shady Things In Oculus Rift's Terms of Service 186
Steam Hacker Says More Vulnerabilities Will Be Found 37
Microsoft Unlocks the Ability To Turn Xbox One Consoles Into 'Development Kits' 73
Valve Loses Australian Court Battle Over Steam 178
Researcher Uses Valve Security Bug To Upload Paint Drying Game On Steam 48
Sony's More Powerful PS4 To Be Announced Before PlayStation VR Launch 67
Oculus Rift Review: Virtual Reality is Almost Here 176
Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Easter Egg? 165
Atari Vault Hits Steam, Play 100 Classic Games On PC 90

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