Games Stories for 2015

Oculus To Ship "Lucky's Tale" Game With Rift 39
Rail Gun Controller Lets You Pack the Heat of Your Air Soft Gun In Any FPS Game 44
The Fan HD Remakes Yet To Be Banned 50
Four Factors That Will Push VR Forward in 2016 64
Steam: No "Unauthorized Actions" On Exposed Accounts 33
Steam Bug Shows You Other Users' Account Details 92
PhantomSquad Hackers Begin Their Xmas DDoS Attacks By Taking Down EA Servers 127
Super Mario Inspired SuperTux Issues Its First Official Release In 10 Years 116
Mobile Gaming Giant Calls For Longer Product Life Cycles 30
Games Involving Candy Stimulate Kids' Appetites 43
Wine 1.8 Released 119
Street Fighter V Announced For Linux and SteamOS 126
Phantom Squad Hacking Group Claims Credit For Three-Hour Xbox Live Outage 49
Unity Benchmarks Browser WebGL Performance 38
LizardSquad Copycats Planning DDoS Attacks On Xbox & PSN For Christmas 103
Developer Claims 'PS4 Officially Jailbroken' 133
NASA Looks To PlayStation VR To Train Space Robot Operators 13
The Real Star Raiders II 33
NetHack 3.6.0 Released After a 12-Year Wait 76
Verizon Creates Minecraft Mod To Let Players Video Chat On an In-Game Smartphone 36
Racing a Real Car While Wearing an Oculus VR Headset 74
Xbox Kinect Technology Helps Create Higher-Quality X-Rays 14
Italy Invests 150 Million Euros In Surveillance, With Emphasis On PS4 Chats 62
Sony Unlocks PlayStation 4's Previously Reserved Seventh CPU Core For Devs 143
Ask Slashdot: Buy Or Build a High End Gaming PC? 325
Another Giant xkcd Comics Experiment 48
AMD's 'Crimson' Driver Software Released 50
The Tamagochi Singularity Made Real: Infinite Tamagochi Living On the Internet 84
Ask Slashdot: Xbox One Or PlayStation 4? 375
Sony Quietly Adds PS2 Emulation To the PS4 151
Docker Turns To Minecraft For Server Ops 93
Star Wars Battlefront Released 126
Microsoft Brings Its Embrace-Extend-Extinguish Game To K-12 Schools? 168
Dungeons & Dragons Tabletop Comes To VR Through Partnership With AltspaceVR 40
Belgian Home Affairs Minister: Terrorists Communicate Via PlayStation 4 202
Freeciv Founded 20 Years Ago Today 37
SteamOS Gaming Performance Lags Well Behind Windows 184
Usernames Reveal the Age and Psychology of Game Players 262
How Rocket League Brought Psyonix Back From the Brink 33
Backwards Compatibility For Xbox One Launches 63
With Respect To Gaming, Android Still Lags Behind iOS 166
"Fallout 4" Release Raises Questions About Reviews of Buggy Games 367
How One Company Is Bringing Old Video Games Back From the Dead 106
Interactive Fiction Competition Enters Its Third Decade 30
Hands-On With the Nintendo PlayStation 51
Steam Has Brought 1,600 Games To Linux In the Past Three Years 110
Jack McCauley's Next Challenge: the Perfect Head-Tracker For VR 25
Sony PlayStation 4 Hits 500 Games Milestone 86
Dungeons & Dragons and the Ethics of Imaginary Violence 321
Reverse-Engineering GTA V 37
How Apple Is Preventing the Apple TV From Becoming a Console Rival 129
Activision Buys Candy Crush Developer For $5.9B 132
AMD To Retire Catalyst Control Center Drivers, Rolling Out New Crimson Platform 113
Hacking Jules Coaxes Android Wear To Run Nintendo 64 and PSP Emulators 37
Studio Behind 'Little Big Planet' Confirms Next Title Coming To PlayStation VR 12
Harnessing EVE Online For Science 49
Batman Demands 12GB RAM For Windows 10 309
Open-Source GPU Drivers Show Less Than Ideal Experience For SteamOS/Linux Gaming 109
MAME Emulating a Sonic the Hedgehog Popcorn Machine 33
SXSW Cancels Panels On Harassment Due To Harassment 618
eSports and Livestreaming Buoy PC Gaming 74
22-Way SteamOS Graphics Card Comparison: NVIDIA Wins Across the Board 98
Square Enix To Concentrate On Remaking Their Back Catalog 171
PSP Oculus Rift Emulator Puts Players Inside of Virtual Reality PSP Games 18
Another 'StarCraft' Cheating Scandal Rocks Korea 95
Nintendo's New System Likely a Console/Portable Hybrid 77
Valve's "Room Scale VR Survey" Finds a Lot of People Play In Their Bedrooms 137
"Are Games Art?" and the Intellectual Value of Design 153
Video Game Music Is Saving the Symphony Orchestra 111
The History of City-Building Games 67
How To Enable Cortana On the Xbox One Experience Preview 81
Open-Source Doom 3 Advances With EAX Audio, 64-bit ARM/x86 Support 37
eSports Now a Part of College Athletics 110
A Broke Fan Owes $5,400 For Pokemon-Themed Party Posters 212
UK Gamers Can Now Get Their Money Back For Publishers' Broken Promises 74
NVIDIA Launches GeForce NOW Game Streaming Service 55
Retro Roundup: Old Computers Emulated Right In Your Browser 78
Kids Prefer To Play Games On Mobile Devices Over Consoles 250
Fable Legends DX12 Benchmark Stressing High End GPUs 51
Google DeepMind's AI Beats Humans At Even More Computer Games 96
Nintendo Joins Khronos Group 46
Pokemon Go: What Nintendo Needs To Learn From Ingress 61
Nintendo Nixes YouTube Videos of Super Mario Speedruns 151
Thanks To Valve, More Than 1,500 Games Are Now On Linux 281
What's In Your Hand? This Malware Knows 68
America's First Video Game Museum Is Trying To Level Up 51
Neural Network Chess Computer Abandons Brute Force For "Human" Approach 95
GameStart Uses Minecraft to Teach Kids Programming (Video 2) 18
Nintendo Names Tatsumi Kimishima As New President 46
Can We Trust Apple To Make a Good Games Console? 174
TSR's Lost 1980s Dungeons and Dragons Movie Script, Reviewed 167
The Install Size of Every PS4 and Xbox One Game 106
The Story of Oculus Rift 80
Xbox One Launch Woes Were Preventable, Next Console Likely Digital Download Only 230
Apple TV To Be Revamped 132
An Algorithm To Randomly Generate Game Dungeons 77
FTC: Machinima Took Secret Cash To Shill Xbox One 156
Metal Gear Solid V PC Disc Contains Steam Installer, Nothing Else 217
Unearthed E.T. Atari Game Cartridges Score $108K At Auction 62
Cliff Bleszinski's Boss Key Productions Unveils LawBreakers Game Trailer 36
John Conway: All Play and No Work For a Genius 55
A Look At the World's First Virtual Reality Theme Park 16
How Poly Bridge's GIF Generator Turned an Indie Game Into a Reddit Sensation 40
Gamers Are Fans of Games, Not Genres 119
Twenty Years Later, Nintendo's Virtual Boy Is Still an Oddity 43
The Crowdfunded Board Game Renaissance 57
AMD Still Struggling With Linux Gaming 100
Revisiting How Much RAM Is Enough Today For Desktop Computing 350
The Tech Problems Inside Nintendo's Amiibo Toys 70
Splitscreen Gaming Is a Culture, Not a Mode 147
DirectX 12 Performance Tested In Ashes of the Singularity 96
SteamOS Has Dropped Support For Suspend 378
UK Industry Group Boss: Study Arts So Games Are Not Designed By 'Spotty Nerds' 207
Nintendo Fires Employee For Speaking About Job On a Podcast 152
Interviews: Game Designer Steve Jackson Answers Your Questions 38
World of Warcraft's Next Expansion: Legion 129
Id Software Founds a New Office In Germany 50
Using Math To Tune a Video Game's Economy 96
Microsoft Makes Push To Get Back Into E-Sports 111
Modding Community Putting HD Textures Into Resident Evil 4 57
In Windows 10, Ad-Free Solitaire Will Cost You $10 -- Every Year 296
Windows 10 App For Xbox One Could Render Steam Machines Useless 170
Sprked Tries To Solve Valve's Paid Mods Scandal 41
Razer Acquires Ouya's Storefront and Technical Team 91
Nintendo TVii Service Will Go Dark August 11th 34
Chinese Consumers Can Now Buy Formerly Banned Consoles, Nationwide 39
Battle For Wesnoth Seeks New Developers 58
Pro Gamers To Be Tested For Doping 155
The French Scrabble Champ Does Not Speak French 113
Interviews: Brianna Wu Answers Your Questions 557
Game About Killing Poachers Vies For Top Prize In Microsoft Student Tech Contest 176
AMD Catalyst Linux Driver Performs Wildly Different Based On Program's Name 114
Windows 10 Will Have Screen Recording Tool 203
Commodore PET Smartphone Comes Loaded With C64 and Amiga Emulators 62
Interviews: Ask Brianna Wu a Question 727
Satoru Iwata, Head of Nintendo, Has Died At 55 56
Air-Cooled AMD Radeon R9 Fury Arrives For $100 Less With Fury X-Like Performance 77
Someone Will Die Playing a Game In Virtual Reality 144
Clang Plays Tetris -- Tetris As a C++ Template Metaprogram 68
Square Enix Pulls, Apologizes For Mac Version of Final Fantasy XIV 94
A Look At the Rare Hybrid Console Built By Sony and Nintendo 37
The Plan To Bring Analytics To eSports 72
Google's Niantic Labs Sorry Over Death Camps In Smartphone Game 135
Retro City Rampage Getting a DOS Version 52
Microsoft To Launch Minecraft Education Portal For Teachers 56
18 Years On, Ultima Online Is Still Going 75
Nvidia Details 'Gameworks VR', Aims To Boost Virtual Reality Render Performance 25
Interviews: Ask Steve Jackson About Designing Games 111
Pass the Doritos, Scientists Develop Computer Game Targeted At Healthy Choices 81
AMD's Project Quantum Gaming PC Contains Intel CPU 138
GA Tech Researchers Train Computer To Create New "Mario Brothers" Levels 27
Reverse-Engineering a Frame of "Supreme Commander" 40
Warner Bros. Halts Sales of AAA Batman PC Game Over Technical Problems 223
Sony Releasing New 1TB PlayStation 4 In July 98
CRYENGINE Finally Lands On Linux 57
(Your Job) Is a Video Game 36
In 6 Months, Australia Bans More Than 240 Games 136
E3 2015: A Lot of Nostalgia For Old Games 102
Video Games Can Improve Terror Attack Preparedness, Even If You Don't Play Them 76
The Rebirth of Arcade Racers -- On Kickstarter 79
Microsoft Announces Customizable Xbox Elite Wireless Controller 99
Microsoft Announces Xbox One Backward Compatibility 193
Bethesda Unveils New Doom Game, Announces Dishonored 2 113
Sony and Microsoft's Failed Releases Since E3 2014 26
What Source 2 Means For Valve's ESports 46
Logitech Introduces G29, G920 Racing Wheels For PS3, PS4, Xbox One and PC 67
Google Announces YouTube Gaming 50
An AI Learned Magic: the Gathering, Now Creates Thousands of New Cards 104
Oculus Announces Partnership With Microsoft 105
Stress Is Driving Developers From the Video Game Industry 336
Fallout 4 Will Be Skipping Xbox 360 and PS3 204
First Games Inducted Into the World Video Game Hall of Fame 277
The Real Scars of Korean Gaming 126
Amazon Hiring Devs For Its First PC Game 46
Open Source Haxe/OpenFL Platform Will Support Home Game Consoles 20
Fallout 4 Announced 229
Valve Introduces Steam Refunds In Advance of Summer Sale 126
LEGO Launches a Minecraft Competitor On Steam 108
1-Pixel Pac-Man 41
Emulator Now Runs x86 Apps On All Raspberry Pi Models 82
DARPA Wants You To Verify Software Flaws By Playing Games 31
Large Amount of Star Citizen Art Assets Leaked 107
How Cities: Skylines Beat SimCity At Its Own Game 86
Video Games: Gateway To a Programming Career? 170
Take Two Sues BBC Over Drama About GTA Development 81
Grand Theft Auto V Keeps Raking In Money 95
Blizzard Bans 100,000 Cheaters In Massive "World of Warcraft" Ban Spree 204
MAME Changing License To Fully Libre One 56
How MMO Design Has Improved Bar Trivia 22
A Look At GTA V PC Performance and Image Quality At 4K 72
Oculus Rift Hardware Requirements Revealed, Linux and OS X Development Halted 227
(Hack) and Slash: Doing the LORD's Work 63
The Decline of Pixel Art 175
Open Source C++ ClanLib SDK Refreshed For 2015 47
Psychologist: Porn and Video Game Addiction Are Leading To 'Masculinity Crisis' 950
Poker Pros Win Against AI, But Experts Peg Match As Statistical Draw 65
What Might Have Happened To Windows Media Center 198
Counter-Strike Finally Gets the League It Deserves 113
Oculus Rift Launching In Q1 2016 84
GOG Announces Open Beta For New Game Distribution Platform 104
Twitter Stops Users From Playing DOS Games Inside Tweets 54
Singapore's Prime Minister Shares His C++ Sudoku Solver Code 230
Should Developers Still Pay For Game Engines? 125
Square Enix Witch Chapter Real-Time CG DX12 Demo Impresses At Microsoft BUILD 87
Game:ref's Hardware Solution To Cheating In eSports 65
World-First Remote Air Traffic Control System Lands In Sweden 36
Crowdfunded Android Console Ouya Reportedly Seeking Buyout 123
Half-Life 2 Writer on VR Games: We're At Pong Level, Only Scratching the Surface 125
The Battle of 100 Freeciv AIs 38
Kerbal Space Program 1.0 Released After 4 Years of Development 99
Valve Pulls the Plug On Paid Mods For Skyrim 239
Linux 4.1 Bringing Many Changes, But No KDBUS 232
In New AI Benchmark, Computer Takes On Four Top Professional Poker Players 89
Oculus Rift: 2015 Launch Unlikely, But Not Impossible 74
How and Why the U-Pick Game Marathon Raises Money With Non-Stop Gaming (Video) 34
Surgeon Swears Human Head Transplant Isn't a 'Metal Gear Solid' Publicity Stunt 118
The Logistics of an eSports Tournament 48
New PCIe SSDs Load Games, Apps As Fast As Old SATA Drives 162
Computer Beats Humans At Arimaa 58
Whoah, Small Spender! Steam Sets Limits For Users Who Spend Less Than $5 229
Star Wars Battlefront Game Trailer Is So Realistic It Looks Like Movie Footage 150
Exploit For Crashing Minecraft Servers Made Public 118
2K, Australia's Last AAA Studio, Closes Its Doors 170
Jack Thompson Will Be Featured In BBC Film 'Grand Theft Auto' 118
How Mission Creep Killed a Gaming Studio 131
A Data-Driven Exploration of the Evolution of Chess 109
ESA Rebukes EFF's Request To Exempt Abandoned Games From Some DMCA Rules 153
Ask Slashdot: How Serious Is Hacking In Mobile Games? 86
Watching a "Swatting" Slowly Unfold 246
Kinect For Windows Is Dead; Long Live Kinect For Windows Via USB 45
BioWare Announces Open-Source Orbit Project 61
Valve Bootstrapped Source 2 Engine On an Open-Source Vulkan Driver 60
Building an NES Emulator 140
Sony Buys, Shuts Down OnLive 249
Mario 64 Remake Receives a DMCA Complaint From Nintendo 100
Microsoft Considered Giving Away Original Xbox 85
SuperMario 64 Coming To a Browser Near You! 97
Measuring How Much "Standby Mode" Electricity For Game Consoles Will Cost You 198
What Makes the Perfect Gaming Mouse? 199
Gen Con Threatens To Leave Indianapolis Over Religious Freedom Bill 886
Gaming On Linux With Newest AMD Catalyst Driver Remains Slow 178
Online "Swatting" Becomes a Hazard For Gamers Who Play Live On the Internet 569
Magic Leap's AR Demo Video 40
Hideo Kojima To Depart Konami; Metal Gear Franchise Changing Hands 42
Why Is the Grand Theft Auto CEO Also Chairman of the ESRB? 128
"Descent" Goes For a Crowdfunding Reboot (and a Linux Version) 149
First AMD FreeSync Capable Gaming Displays and Drivers Launched, Tested 63
Nintendo To Announce Virtual Boy 2 68
Gabe Newell Understands Half-Life Fans, Not Promising Any Sequels 215
Project an Interactive Game on Your Floor or Wall (Video) 57

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