Games Stories for 2014

Designing the Best Board Game 155
The Making of a 1980s Dungeons & Dragons Module 59
The New (Computer) Chess World Champion 107
Quake On an Oscilloscope 71
FBI Allegedly Investigating Lizard Squad Member Over Xbox Live, PSN Attacks 78
Sony PlayStation Network Back Up Now, Supposedly 75
Why Lizard Squad Took Down PSN and Xbox Live On Christmas Day 336
PlayStation Game-Streaming Service Comes To Samsung Smart TVs In 2015 43
Xbox Live and PlayStation Networks Downed By Apparent Attack 160
Should Video Games Be In the Olympics? 232
Human Eye's Oscillation Rate Determines Smooth Frame Rate 187
Minecraft Creator Notch's $70 Million Mansion Recreated In Minecraft 170
Ask Slashdot: Resources For Kids Who Want To Make Games? 121
To Fight Currency Mismatches, Steam Adding Region Locking to PC Games 160
Godot Engine Reaches 1.0, First Stable Release 54
Dad Makes His Kid Play Through All Video Game History In Chronological Order 222
AMD Offers a Performance Boost, Over 20 New Features With Catalyst Omega Drivers 73
NetHack: Still One of the Greatest Games Ever Written 186
Sony Hacks Continue: PlayStation Hit By Lizard Squad Attack 170
Ralph H. Baer, a Father of Video Gaming, Dies At 92 47
Spectrum Vega: A Blast From the Past 110
Australian Target Stores Ban GTA V For Depictions of Violence Against Women 310
Dragon Age: Inquisition Reviewed and Benchmarked 91
The PlayStation Turns 20 101
Valve Rolls Out Game Broadcasting Service For Steam 92
DOOM 3DO Source Released On Github 323
Ask Slashdot: Making a 'Wife Friendly' Gaming PC? 720
In UK Study, Girls Best Boys At Making Computer Games 312
Ubisoft Apologizes For Assassin's Creed 171
Sony To Offer Partial Refunds For PS Vita 60
Top Counter-Strike Players Embroiled In Hacking Scandal 224
The Man Who Made Tetris 37
The Nintendo DS Turns 10 61
Customers Creating Fake Amazon Pages To Get Cheap Electronics At Walmart 287
Three-Way Comparison Shows PCs Slaying Consoles In Dragon Age Inquisition 227
Player-Run MMORPG By Former Ultima Online Devs Finding Kickstarter Success 33
Elite: Dangerous Dumps Offline Single-Player 473
Sweden Considers Adding "Sexism" Ratings To Video Games 642
Sony To Take On Netflix With Playstation Vue 130
Ubisoft Points Finger At AMD For Assassin's Creed Unity Poor Performance 262
Assassin's Creed: Unity Launch Debacle Pulls Spotlight Onto Game Review Embargos 474
Nvidia Shield Tablet Gets Android Lollipop Update, Half Life 2 EP1 and GRID 58
Worrying Aspects of Linux Gaming 265
Long-term Study Finds No Link Between Video Game Violence and Real Violence 250
Blizzard Announces Overwatch, a First-Person Shooter 183
Major Performance Improvement Discovered For Intel's GPU Linux Driver 96
Bounties vs. Extreme Internet Harassment 716
Landfill Copies of Atari's 'E.T.' End Up On eBay 107
Internet Archive Launches Arcade of Classic Games In the Browser 94
Denuvo DRM Challenges Game Crackers 187
Getting 'Showdown' To 90 FPS In UE4 On Oculus Rift 30
Alienware's Triangular Area-51 Re-Design With Tri-SLI GeForce GTX 980, Tested 138
Quake Meets Minecraft in FPS Construction Kit Gunscape 50
Tetris Is Hard To Test 169
Google Search Finally Adds Information About Video Games 47
PCGamingWiki Looks Into Linux Gaming With 'Port Reports' 77
Judge Says EA Battlefield 4 Execs Engaged In "Puffery," Not Fraud 95
Doctor Who To Teach Kids To Code 164
New Music Discovered In Donkey Kong For Arcade 74
For Game Developers, It's About the Labor of Love 164
Mozilla Teams Up With Humble Bundle To Offer Eight Plugin-Free Games 67
How Women Became Gamers Through D&D 239
Ask Slashdot: VPN Setup To Improve Latency Over Multiple Connections? 174
Infinite Browser Universe Manyland Hits 8 Million Placed Blocks 67
Simple Hack Enables VR Mode For Oculus Rift In Alien: Isolation 57
Ubisoft Claims CPU Specs a Limiting Factor In Assassin's Creed Unity On Consoles 338
Reverse Engineering the Oculus Rift DK2's Positional Tracking Tech 26
Startup's Open Source Device Promises Gamers "Surround Sound For Your Eyes" 43
Vax, PDP/11, HP3000 and Others Live On In the Cloud 62
NVIDIA Launches Mobile Maxwell GeForce GTX 980M and GTX 970M Notebook Graphics 29
Fixing Steam's User Rating Charts 93
Microsoft's "RoomAlive" Transforms Any Room Into a Giant Xbox Game 66
Intel Drops Gamasutra Sponsorship Over Controversial Editorials 724
How Hackers Accidentally Sold a Pre-Release XBox One To the FBI 67
Tetris To Be Made Into a Live Action Film 137
Four Charged With Stealing Army Helicopter Training Software 46
Mystery Gamer Makes Millions Moving Markets In Japan 113
From the Maker of Arduboy: Tetris On a Bracelet 15
Infinite Crisis' Superhero Origins Story 50
Acer Launches First 4K Panel With NVIDIA G-Sync Technology On Board 64
John Carmack's Oculus Connect Keynote Probably Had Samsung Cringing 88
Artificial General Intelligence That Plays Video Games: How Did DeepMind Do It? 93
Euclideon Teases Photorealistic Voxel-Based Game Engine 134
Blizzard Has Canceled Titan, Its Next-gen MMO 155
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Premieres On Linux, 2 Years After Windows 93
New "Crescent Bay" VR Headset Revealed and Demo'd At Oculus Connect 65
The Minecraft Parent 174
Commander Keen: Keen Dreams Source Code Released 72
The Growing Illusion of Single Player Gaming 292
Canon Printer Hacked To Run Doom Video Game 92
Microsoft To Buy Minecraft Maker Mojang For $2.5 Billion 330
Malware Distributed Through Twitch Chat Is Hijacking Steam Accounts 53
Early Reviews of Destiny: Unfulfilled Potential 93
Kickstarter's Problem: You Have To Make the Game Before You Ask For Money 215
Report: Microsoft To Buy Minecraft Studio For $2bn+ 368
John Romero On Reinventing the Shooter 266
GSOC Project Works To Emulate Systemd For OpenBSD 314
DMCA Claim Over GPL Non-Compliance Shuts Off Minecraft Plug-Ins 354
Carmack On Mobile VR Development 60
Combating Recent, Ugly Incidents of Misogyny In Gamer Culture 1134
Japanese Firm Showcases "Touchable" 3-D Technology 41
Amazon's Plan To Storm the Cable Industry's Castle 85
Changing the Rules of a 15-Year-Old Game: Quake Live Update Causes Controversy 170
RAYA: Real-time Audio Engine Simulation In Quake 89
Dell's New Alienware Case Goes to Extremes To Prevent Overheating 149
This 'SimCity 4' Region With 107 Million People Took Eight Months of Planning 103
Australian Consumer Watchdog Takes Valve To Court 139
Ask Slashdot: What Are the Best Games To Have In Your Collection? 382
Anita Sarkeesian, Creator of "Tropes vs. Women," Driven From Home By Trolls 1262
Old Doesn't Have To Mean Ugly: Squeezing Better Graphics From Classic Consoles 167
Predictive Modeling To Increase Responsivity of Streamed Games 120
Is Dong Nguyen Trolling Gamers With "Swing Copters"? 113
Hackers Claim PlayStation Network Take-Down 97
Among Gamers, Adult Women Vastly Outnumber Teenage Boys 276
The Tech Fixes the PS3 Still Needs, Eight Years On 99
Virtual Machine Brings X86 Linux Apps To ARMv7 Devices 61
How Game Developers Turn Kickstarter Failure Into Success 30
Fifth Edition Dungeons and Dragons Player's Handbook Released 203
60,000 Oculus Rift DK2 Orders, 20,000+ Units Shipped, New Orders Ship In October 67
Switching Game Engines Halfway Through Development 127
Swedish Dad Takes Gamer Kids To Warzone 419
World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor Launches Nov. 13th 146
Auralux Release For Browsers Shows Emscripten Is Reaching Indie Devs 44
Xbox One Will Play Media from USB Devices, DLNA Servers 112
Microsoft Research Brings Kinect-Style Depth Perception to Ordinary Cameras 31
Enthusiast Opts For $2200 Laser Eye Surgery To Enhance Oculus Rift Experience 109
Add a TV Tuner To Your Xbox (In Europe) 81
The ESports Athletes Who Tried To Switch Games 146
AMD Prepares To Ship Gaming SSDs 110
Valve Discloses Source 2 Engine In Recent DOTA 2 Update 97
California Man Sues Sony Because Killzone: Shadowfall Isn't Really 1080p 286
PlayStation Now, Sony's 'Netflix For Games' -- Pros and Cons 75
Nintendo Posts Yet Another Loss, Despite Mario Kart 8 203
iFixit Takes Apart the Oculus Rift DK2, Finds Galaxy Note 3 Display Inside 57
Crytek USA Collapses, Sells Game IP To Other Developers 121
EA Tests Subscription Access To Game Catalog 63
$299 Android Gaming Tablet Reviewed 65
How Gygax Lost Control of TSR and D&D 183
Free Copy of the Sims 2 Contains SecuROM 234
The Oculus Rift DK2: In-Depth Review (and Comparison To DK1) 54
Day One With the Brand New Oculus Rift DK2: the Good, the Ugly and the Games 48
eSports Starting To Go Mainstream 116
ScummVM 1.7.0 Released 26
GOG.com Announces Linux Support 81
Raspberry Pi Gameboy 60
The Daily Harassment of Women In the Game Industry 962
Dungeons & Dragons' Influence and Legacy 127
Google To Stop Describing Games With In-App Purchases As 'Free' 139
CCP Games Explains Why Virtual Reality First Person Shooters Still Don't Work 154
Sony Forgets To Pay For Domain, Hilarity Ensues 277
Manuel Noriega Sues Activision Over Call of Duty 83
How To Fix The Shortage of K-5 Scholastic Chess Facilitators 128
Chinese Couple Sells Children To Support Online Game Addiction 131
What Happens When Gaming Auteurs Try To Go It Alone? 86
The Video Game That Maps the Galaxy 28
Gamestop's Ludicrous Idea: Require Preorders To Unlock Custom Game Content 86
Dwarf Fortress Gets Biggest Update In Years 138
Watch Dogs Graphics and Gameplay: PC Vs. Xbox One, With Surprising Results 210
Indie Game Developers Talk About Why They Struck Out On Their Own 49
Rob Pardo Says Farewell To Blizzard 93
Oculus Suspends Oculus Rift Dev Kit Sales In China 131
3D Printed PiGRRL - Raspberry Pi Gameboy 49
IeSF Wants International Game Tournaments Segregated By Sex [Updated] 221
Grandmother Buys Old Building In Japan And Finds 55 Classic Arcade Cabinets 133
Building the Infinite Digital Universe of No Man's Sky 100
The Rise and Fall of the Cheat Code 178
College Offers Athletic Scholarships To Gamers 102
The Simultaneous Rise and Decline of Battlefield 208
Ask Slashdot: Best Way to Learn C# For Game Programming? 254
Was Watch Dogs For PC Handicapped On Purpose? 215
Interviews: Ask "The King of Kong" Billy Mitchell About Classic Video Games 122
SteamBoy Machine Team Promises a Portable Console for Valve's Steam Games 75
OpenXcom 1.0 Released 50
Amaya Gaming Buys PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker For $4.9 Billion 52
545-Person Programming War Declares a Winner 57
NVIDIA Is Better For Closed-Source Linux GPU Drivers, AMD Wins For Open-Source 185
Game Characters Controlled By Player's Emotions 44
Civilization V Officially Available On Linux For SteamOS 93
Alienware Swaps SteamOS For Windows 173
$3000 GeForce GTX TITAN Z Tested, Less Performance Than $1500 R9 295X2 151
Grand Theft Auto V For Modern Platforms Confirmed 133
Sony Overtakes Rival Nintendo In Console Sales 127
Report: Watch Dogs Game May Have Influenced Highway Sign Hacking 154
id Software's Original 'Softdisk' Games Open Sourced 100
Tetris Turns 30 36
Microsoft Confirms Disconnecting Kinect Gives Devs 10% More GPU Horsepower 174
Sony Winding Down the PSP 85
Testing 65 Different GPUs On Linux With Open Source Drivers 134
AMD, NVIDIA, and Developers Weigh In On GameWorks Controversy 80
New Valve Prototype VR Headset Shows Up At VR Meetup In Boston 41
Apple's 2014 WWDC Keynote Will Be Streamed Live; Hopes For a Microconsole? 147
Valve's Steam Machines Delayed, Won't Be Coming In 2014 134
AMD and NVIDIA Trade Allegations, Denials Over Shady Tactics 69
Nintendo To Split Ad Revenue With Streaming Gamers 110
Watch Dogs Released, DRM Troubles 123
Google Glass and the Future of Wearable Gaming 39
Hands-On With Sony's VR Headset 46
Games That Make Players Act Like Psychopaths 212
Sony Bringing PlayStation To China 41
This Is Your Brain While Videogaming Stoned 168
Report: Samsung Building VR Headset For Its Phones & Tablets 49
It's Time For the Descent Games Return 251
Valve In-Home Game Streaming Supports Windows, OS X & Linux 106
Blizzard Sues Starcraft II Cheat Creators 252
Zenimax Sues Oculus Over VR Tech 97
World's First Dedicated Gaming Magazine Is Facing Closure 82
Wolfenstein: The New Order Launches 167
How Virtual Reality Became Reality 104
ANTVR - China's Answer To Oculus Rift Is Raising Funds 104
Report: YouTube Buying Twitch.tv For $1 Billion 142
The Technical Difficulty In Porting a PS3 Game To the PS4 152
Ouya's Unsung Strength: Multiplayer For Parties 54
Halo 5 Announced 8
Chernobyl, In Games and In Real Life 20
Game Industry Fights Rising Development Costs 111
In the New Age of Game Development, Gamers Have More Power Than Ever 101
Microsoft Finally Selling Xbox One Without Kinect 227
Standards Group Adds Adaptive-Sync To DisplayPort 82
The Truth About OpenGL Driver Quality 158
EA Ending Online Support For Dozens of Games 329
Nintendo Apologizes For Not Allowing Same-Sex Relationships In Life Sim Game 384
How Free-To-Play Is Constricting Mobile Games 115
The Next Unreal Tournament: Totally Free, Developed By Public 122
Wretched Ride: PS4 Driveclub Game Rental Tied To Paid Subscription 93
Crytek Open-Sources Their 'Renderdoc' 3D Debugger 20
What Was the Greatest Age For Indie Games? 92
EVE Online's Space Economy Currently Worth $18 Million 88
Microsoft Doesn't Have Plans For a Dedicated Handheld Gaming Device 84
Valve Sponsors Work To Greatly Speed-Up Linux OpenGL Game Load Times 202
Winning Algorithms For Rock, Paper, Scissors 65
Report: Comcast and EA To Stream Games To TVs 52
Washington Files First Consumer Protection Lawsuit Over Kickstarter Fraud 47
Zenimax Accuses John Carmack of Stealing VR Tech 148
High-School Star League Brings Gaming As Sport to Teenagers 87
The Million-Dollar Business of Video Game Cheating 102
Virtual Reality: Purpose Beyond Gaming 72
Mini Gaming PCs — Promising, But Not Ready 83
E.T. Found In New Mexico Landfill 179
Why Should Game Stories Make Sense? 169
Mobile Game Attempts To Diagnose Alzheimer's 21
The Witcher 3 and Projekt Red's DRM-Free Stand 115
'The Door Problem' of Game Design 305
BioWare Announces Dragon Age Inquisition For October 7th 79
Apple, Google Vying For Mobile Game Exclusivity 52
Steam's Most Popular Games 118
Your StarCraft II Potential Peaked At Age 24 103
Ubisoft Hands Out Nexus 7 Tablets At a Game's Press Event 43
Titanfall Dev Claims Xbox One Doesn't Need DX12 To Improve Performance 117
PC Gaming Alive and Dominant 245
Civilization: Beyond Earth Announced 89

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