Games Stories for 2017

Call of Duty Gaming Community Points To 'Swatting' In Wichita Police Shooting 681
Kodi Media Player Arrives On the Xbox One 57
That Game on Your Phone May Be Tracking What You're Watching on TV 98
The WHO May Recognize Excessive Video Gaming As Mental Health Disorder 125
Nintendo Delaying 64GB Game Cards For Switch Until 2019, Says Report 54
DMCA Exemption Sought to Save 'Abandoned' Online Games 59
36,744 People Are Watching Overwatch's Jeff Kaplan Sit Motionless With A Yule Log 78
Apple Says Apps Must Now Disclose Odds For Loot Boxes 88
NVIDIA Titan V Benchmarks Show Volta GPU Compute, Mining and Gaming Strength 51
Nintendo Switch Sales Hit 10 Million Units, Could Outdo the Wii 80
Google's DeepMind AI Becomes a Superhuman Chess Player In a Few Hours 93
Gamer Streams Pay-Per-View UFC Fight By Pretending To Play It 75
Free Game Company Sues 14-Year-Old Over 'Cheats' Video -- Claiming DMCA Violation 239
Destiny 2 Misrepresented XP Gains To Its Players Until the Developers Got Caught 112
Pokemon Go Led To Increase In Traffic Deaths and Accidents, Says Study 80
Legislators Take Aim At Star Wars Battlefront II, EA Over 'Gambling In Games' 72
Belgium Denounces Loot Boxes as Gambling; Hawaiian Legislator Calls Them 'Predatory' 203
Microsoft Confirms Surface Book 2 Can't Stay Charged During Gaming Sessions 138
League of Legends Rank Predicts IQ, Study Finds 85
Russia Posts Video Game Screenshot As 'Irrefutable Proof' of US Helping IS 132
Nintendo Is Making An Animated Super Mario Bros. Movie, Says Report 71
EA's 'Star Wars' PR Disaster Finally Pushed Gamers Into Open Revolt Against Loot Boxes 307
'Starcraft II' Goes Free-to-Play on Tuesday 67
Text Adventure Competition Reports A 36% Spike In Entries 21
Nintendo Reportedly Plans To Double Switch Production In 2018 42
EA Buys Out a Game Studio After Shutting Another One Down 3 Weeks Ago 57
Humans Are Still Better Than AI at StarCraft 142
Xbox One X is the Perfect Representation of the Tech Industry's Existential Crisis 190
Razer Unveils Gaming Smartphone With 120Hz UltraMotion Display, 8GB RAM and No Headphone Jack 168
Game Studio CCP Scales Back Virtual Reality Development 43
GameStop Is Launching An Unlimited Used Game Rental Subscription, Says Report 38
Thousands of Videogame-Playing Soldiers Could Shape the Future of War 216
EA Shuts Down Fan-Run Servers For Older Battlefield Games 132
The Geometry of Islamic Art Becomes a Treasure of a Game 213
Microsoft Has Stopped Manufacturing The Kinect 61
Why Xbox One Backward Compatibility Took So Long 62
Denuvo's DRM Now Being Cracked Within Hours of Release 113
Activision Patents Pay-To-Win Matchmaker 133
DeepMind's Go-Playing AI Doesn't Need Human Help To Beat Us Anymore 133
EA Shuts Down Visceral Games, Shifting Development On Its Star Wars Game 75
Microsoft's Fall Update With Redesigned Xbox Dashboard Is Now Available To All 38
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Blocks 322,000 Cheaters 184
Russia Reportedly Used Pokemon Go In an Effort To Inflame Racial Tensions 211
Third 'Nintendo World Championship' Ends With Three Unreleased Switch Game Levels 14
Intel's Just Launched 8th Gen 'Coffee Lake' Processors Bring the Heat To AMD's Ryzen 137
'Tetris' Recreated In Conway's 'Game of Life' 87
This Guy Is Digitizing the VHS History of Video Games 87
PC Gaming Is Back in Focus at Tokyo Game Show 156
Popular Steam Extension 'Inventory Helper' Spies On Users, Says Report 66
Navy Plans To Use Xbox 360 Controllers For New Periscope Systems Aboard Its Submarines 121
PewDiePie Is Inexcusable But DMCA Takedowns Are Not the Way To Fight Him 506
Jury Finds Nintendo Wii Infringes Dallas Inventor's Patent, Awards $10 Million 113
Solve a 'Simple' Chess Puzzle, Win $1 Million 125
Microsoft's Open Invitation To Valve, Nintendo and Others To Join Xbox One and PC Crossplay 175
Nintendo Faces Supply Issues Ahead of Holiday Season 100
A Game You Control With Your Mind 56
Ex-Valve Writer Reveals What Might Have Been Half-Life 2: Episode 3's Story 46
The Xbox One Is Now an Ex-Box 68
Ask Slashdot: What Modern PC Games Would You Recommend For An Old School Gamer? 313
The Asterisk on Madden's Annual Release Legacy 23
Sony Blocks Yet Another Game From Cross-Console Play With Xbox One 151
Microsoft Outlines the Upgrade Procedures For Xbox One X 48
'Wing Commander' Music Composer Runs Kickstarter Campaign 39
PlayStation 4 Update 5.0 Officially Revealed 33
Discord Bans Servers That Promote Nazi Ideology 456
Can 'No Man's Sky' Redeem Itself With Its Third Free Update? 107
Elon Musk + AI + Microsoft = Awesome Dota 2 Player 106
Blizzard Starts Drive To Recruit More Women and Ethnic Minorities 310
Blizzard and DeepMind Turn StarCraft II Into An AI Research Lab 52
Disney Sued For Allegedly Spying On Children Through 42 Gaming Apps 40
Playing Action Video Games May Be Bad For Your Brain, Study Finds 116
Ask Slashdot: Are Interactive Computing Devices Addictive? 98
'World of Warcraft' Game Currency Now Worth More Than Venezuelan Money 189
One Man's Two-Year Quest Not to Finish Final Fantasy VII 123
Sony Using Copyright Requests To Remove Leaked PS4 SDK From the Web 156
Atari Is Back In the Hardware Business, Unveils Ataribox 110
The Oculus Rift Still Isn't Selling, In a Worrying Sign For VR 413
Young Men Are Working Less. Some Economists Think It's Because They're Home Playing Video Games. 283
Sony Suspends Thousands Of PlayStation Network Accounts in UK, Allegedly Because Of Issue With PayPal 35
Indie Game Developer Shares Free Keys on The Pirate Bay 130
Super Nintendo Classic Coming in September 127
Gaming Group Seeks Volunteers To Create Accessibility Guidelines For Tabletop Games 75
Original Colossal Cave Adventure Now Playable On Alexa 36
Atari CEO Confirms the Company Is Working On a New Game Console 91
GTA V Flooded With Negative Reviews On Steam After OpenIV Modding Tool Shuts Down 127
Konami Reportedly Blacklisting Ex-Employees Across Japanese Video Game Industry 120
Robots Are Coming For Our Ms. Pac-Man High Scores 74
Chess.com Has Stopped Working On 32bit iPads After the Site Hit 2^31 Game Sessions 271
Microsoft Wins Xbox Class-Action Fight at US Supreme Court 26
Microsoft's AI Is the First to Reach a Perfect Ms. Pac-Man Score 59
Microsoft Unveils The Smallest Xbox Ever -- The Xbox One X 135
That Time Adam West, TV's 'Batman', Also Advocated For Videogames 38
For the First Time, a Video Game Trailer Is Eligible To Be Nominated For an Academy Award 71
Intel Fires Warning Shot At Qualcomm and Microsoft Over Windows 10 ARM Emulation 197
New Threat To Traditional Sports Leagues: Millennials Prefer Watching eSports 189
'Rime' Developer Keeps Promise, Removes Denuvo DRM After Game Gets Cracked 133
Take-Two Acquires Kerbal Space Program 85
Sony Ships Its Last Ever PlayStation 3 In Japan 64
ESR Announces The Open Sourcing Of The World's First Text Adventure 118
Google AI AlphaGo Wins Again, Leaves Humans In the Dust 136
Microsoft To Launch Its Netflix-Style Game Pass On June 1; Live Gold Subscribers Get Early Access 36
China Censored Google's AlphaGo Match Against World's Best Go Player 93
Google's AlphaGo AI Defeats the World's Best Human Go Player 186
Resident Evil Getting Rebooted Into a Six-Film Franchise 202
Microsoft Says a Chinese 'Gaming Service' Company Is Hacking Xbox Accounts 31
Microsoft Job Posting Hints At VR MMO 18
Star Trek Bridge Crew Gets IBM Watson-Powered Voice Commands 61
Windows 10 On ARM Will Support x86 Apps From Outside the Store 115
How The 1997 'NESticle' Emulator Redefined Retro Gaming 83
The World Video Game Hall of Fame 2017 Inductees 73
Colleges Are Starting Varsity Programs For Video Games 68
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Sets Record As Fastest-Selling Game In the Franchise 49
Nintendo Announces 2DS XL 52
Early Nintendo Programmer Worked Without a Keyboard 111
Xbox Chief: We Need To Create a Netflix of Video Games 142
Gamers in Hawaii Can't Compete... Because of Latency 269
Grand Theft Auto V Is Being Used To Help Teach Self-Driving Cars 57
Nintendo To Launch SNES Mini This Year, Reports Eurogamer 94
StarCraft Is Now Free, Nearly 20 Years After Its Release 239
Geek Builds His Own NES Classic With A Raspberry Pi 132
Zelda: Breath of the Wild Is Now the Fastest-Selling Nintendo Launch Title of All Time 47
Nintendo Discontinues the NES Classic Edition 104
Microsoft To Offer Digital Refunds in Xbox and Windows Stores 15
AI Wins $290,000 in Chinese Poker Competition 81
Canada Hid the Konami Code In Its Commemorative $10 Bill Launch 78
Microsoft's Minecraft Set To Launch Its Own Currency 67
Celebrating '21 Things We Miss About Old Computers' 467
Die-Hard Sysops Are Resurrecting BBS's From The 1980s 245
Ransomware Asks For High Score Instead of Money 36
Microsoft Formally Bans Emulators On Xbox, Windows 10 Download Shops 116
Xbox Project Scorpio's Full Specs Revealed 135
Two Studies Suggesting a Link Between Violent Video Games, Real-Life Behavior Have Been Retracted 174
Nintendo Switch Consoles Are Reportedly Warping When Docked 110
Ask Slashdot: Can Linux Run a GPU-Computing Application Written For Windows? 117
Google Maps Adds 'Ms. Pac-Man' Feature 31
AMD Ryzen Game Patch Optimizations Show Significant Gains On Zen Architecture 121
Your Save Data Is Not Safe On the Nintendo Switch 161
Hobbyist Turns Nintendo 64 Console Into Nintendo Switch Dock 20
Xbox One's Faster, Simpler Interface is Now Available To Everyone 15
Playing Tetris Can Reduce Onset of PTSD After Trauma, Study Finds 71
One in Five Mobile Phones Shipped Abroad Are Phoney 60
GameStop To Close At Least 150 Stores Due To Poor Q4 Sales 119
Four Years Later, Xbox Exec Admits How Microsoft Screwed Up Disc Resale Plan 115
New Release Of StarCraft In 4K Ultra High Definition Announced 161
Venezuelan Developers Are Using Bitcoin, Rare Pepe Trading Cards To Fight Against a Dismal Economy 93
Nintendo Is Repairing Left Joy-Cons With ... a Piece of Foam? 90
Ask Slashdot: Best Virtual Reality Headsets? 141
The Last Days of Club Penguin 75
Dungeons and Dragons Goes Digital 76
Nintendo Switch Ships With Unpatched 6-Month-Old WebKit Vulnerabilities 89
Microsoft's Project Scorpio Will Pack Internal PSU, 4K Game DVR Capture 44
PlayStation Now Will Bring PS4 Games to your PC 84
NVIDIA Lifts Veil On GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Performance Reviews, Which Show Faster Speeds Than Titan X 51
Project Scorpio Next-Generation Xbox Gaming Console Debuts In Microsoft Store 65
PlayStation 4.5 Update Brings HDD Support, PS4 Pro 'Boost Mode' 40
Nintendo Switch Owners Complain About Dead Pixels, Nintendo Says They're 'Normal' 241
What the Death of CRT Display Means For Classic Arcade Machines 184
Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If All Software Ran On All Platforms? 383
Strange New Social Media Trend: Licking Nintendo Switch Cartridges 117
Canadian DMCA In Action: Court Awards Massive Damages In Modchip Case 65
Razer Wants To Build the Best Linux Laptop, And It Needs Your Help 220
GameStop Stock Price Tanks After Microsoft Announces New Digital-Gaming Service 90
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Review By Ars Technica 59
Microsoft Announces Xbox Game Pass, Netflix-Style Gaming For the Xbox One 33
Twitch Will Begin Selling Games You're Watching Later This Year 25
Machine-Learning AI Now Beats Humans At Super Smash Bros. Melee 78
$10K Package Of Super Nintendo Games Finally Found By Post Office 155
Valve Releases SteamVR For Linux 61
Valve's Gabe Newell Says Only 30 SteamVR Apps Have Made $250,000+ 151
'Counter-Strike' Gets Invaded By An Unblockable Chat-Bot 105
Lost Package Derails Project To Preserve Super Nintendo Games 172
Thousands Of Disabled People Are Living In 'Virtual Utopias' In Second Life 55
MAME Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary 47
How Atari's Nolan Bushnell Pioneered the Tech Incubator In the 1980s 25
Microsoft's 'Forza' Video Game Francise Tops $1 Billion in Sales 35
Angry Birds Is the Most-Banned Mobile App By Businesses 47
Valve Is Shutting Down Steam's Greenlight Community Voting System 99
E3 Will 'Officially' Open To The Public this Year 32
World of Warcraft Gold Can Now Be Used To Buy Other Blizzard Games 69
Nintendo's Engineers Have Embraced Unreal Engine 40
Overwatch Director Speaks Out Against Console Mouse/keyboard Adapters 262
Pong's Inventor Unveils Three New VR Arcade Games - Including Pong 27
Nintendo Halts Wii U Production In Anticipation of Switch Launch 59
Sony PlayStation 4 Is Finally Adding Support For External Hard Drive 45
Nvidia Stops Promotional Game Resales By Tying Codes To Hardware 120
Valve and Game Publishers Face EU Probe For Geo-Blocking; ASUS Faces Probe For Online Price-Fixing 74
2.5 Million Xbox and PlayStation Gamers' Details Have Been Leaked From Piracy Forums 36
Tokyo 2020 Olympic Medals To Be Made From Recycled Phones 56
2K Games Wins the Right To Store and Share Your Biometric Facial Data 60
AI Decisively Defeats Four Pro Poker Players In 'Brains Vs AI' Tournament 191
US Judge Rejects Suit Over Face Scanning for Video Game 69
'Father of Pac-Man,' Masaya Nakamura, Dies At Age 91 39
10% Of 'Resident Evil 7' Players Are Wearing VR Headsets 77
'Second Life' Creators Develop A VR Social World Named 'Sansar' 85
An AI Is Finally Trouncing The World's Best Poker Players 164
Report: PS4 Is Selling Twice As Well As Xbox One 136
Don't Call Switch a Tablet, Also It's Not Here To Oust the 3DS, Says Nintendo 116
How A Professional Poker Player Conned a Casino Out of $9.6 Million 406
Facebook No Longer Clearly Labels Edited Posts 53
Microsoft's New Windows 10 Game Mode Will Maximize Gaming Performance 129
Nintendo Switch Will Launch On March 3rd For $299, Won't Feature Region-Locking Software 167
Monopoly May Replace Iconic Pieces With Emoji Faces and Hashtags 123
Hackers Unlock NES Classic, Upload New Games Via USB Cable 86
Fake Malware-Filled Super Mario Run Apps Take Advantage of Android Absence 34
Minecraft Has Now Sold Over 25 Million Copies on PC and Mac 90
'Forza Horizon 3' Update Accidentally Published Unencrypted Build of the Game 70
Google's AlphaGo AI Secretively Won More Than 50 Straight Games Against World's Top Go Players 139
Valve Reveals Steam's 2016 Top Earners -- Including 'No Man's Sky' 99