Games Stories for 2018

Epic Games, the Creator of Fortnite, Banked a $3 Billion Profit in 2018: Report 132
Fortnite Was 2018's Most Important Social Network 79
NVIDIA 'GeForce NOW Recommended Routers' Program Helps Gamers Choose Networking Gear 126
Videogame PUBG Bans 30,000 Cheaters, Discovers Professional Players Cheated 118
Rare Amiga Bought on eBay For $2,500 56
Fortnite Teen Hackers 'Earning Thousands of Dollars a Week' 42
Microsoft's Next-Gen Xbox Consoles Are Codenamed 'Anaconda' and 'Lockhart' 61
Nintendo Warns It Won't Make More Retro NES and SNES Consoles 90
Discord Store To Offer Developers 90 Percent of Game Revenues 47
Doom Turns 25: The FPS That Wowed Players, Gummed Up Servers, and Enraged Admins 214
China To Force Changes To 20 Popular Games, Ban 9 Including Fortnite and PUBG 183
Video Games Won't Be Part of the Paris Olympics 220
Massive Collaborative Text Adventure 'Cragne Manor' Released 33
DeepMind Produces a General-Purpose Game-Playing System, Capable of Mastering Games Like Chess and Go Without Human Help 124
Nvidia Uses AI To Render Virtual Worlds In Real Time 44
Steam is Finally Coming To China But Chinese Gamers Don't Want It 138
After 12 Draws and a Day of Tiebreakers, Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana To Win World Chess Championship 89
The FTC Says It Will Investigate Loot Boxes 153
Uber has Cracked Two Classic '80s Video Games by Giving an AI Algorithm a New Type of Memory 100
In the Age of the Internet, Why Has Interest in Chess Remained So Robust, and Even Risen Sharply? 153
Square Enix Pulls Three Games From Belgium After Loot Box Ban 102
Fortnite Hits 8.3 Million (Or 0.1% of Human Population) Concurrent Players 91
PlayStation 4 Outsold Xbox One and Switch in October 71
Half-Life Celebrates 20th Anniversary With Fan-Made 'Black Mesa: Xen' Trailer 82
Blockchain Gaming Is Coming to the PS4 48
Cheaper, Disc-Free Xbox One Coming Next Year, Report Says 75
PlayStation Begins Collecting Amusement Tax From Chicago Users 165
Couple Who Ran ROM Site To Pay Nintendo $12 Million 160
Hitman 2's Denuvo DRM Cracked Days Before the Game's Release 111
Inside the Messy, Dark Side of Nintendo Switch Piracy 77
A Look at How One of the Largest Record Companies in the World Once Owned Rockstar Games and Sold it For a Pittance 49
Tencent Has Access To China's National Citizen Database 40
Xbox One To Gain Mouse and Keyboard Support Next Week 52
World Chess Champion Faces American Challenger, Grueling First Game, and Woody Harrelson 62
Strategy Guide Company Prima Games Is Shutting Down 50
A Bug in Steam, Which Was Recently Patched, Could Have Given Users Access To Activation Key of Any Game 19
As PUBG For PS4 Looms, Xbox Unofficially Responds: Have the Game For Free 52
Microsoft Has Built Its New Campus In Minecraft To Introduce Employees 23
Tencent Will Soon Require Chinese Users To Present IDs To Play Its Video Games 56
Tetris May Help Sooth Your Worried Mind, Study Says 40
Mario Segale, Namesake For Nintendo's Mascot, Dies At 84 18
Kids' Apps Are Flooded With Ads 123
How To Make More Cash From One Game Than 10 James Bond Films 79
You Can Play Over 2,600 Windows Games on Linux Via Steam Play 106
Copyright Law Just Got Better for Video Game History 46
Microsoft Research Publishes Prototypes For Phones and Tablets Gaming Controllers 14
Kansas 'Swat' Perpetrator Will Now Plead Guilty To Dozens More Swat Incidents 196
IBM Researchers Teach Pac-Man To Do No Harm 135
China Halts Special Approval Process for New Games 45
'We Expected VR To Be Two To Three Times as Big', Says CCP Games CEO 234
16-Year-Old Dethrones Tetris World Champion With Difficult Hyper-Tap Technique 70
Slashdot Asks: Should 'Crunch' Overtime Be Optional? 289
Popular Mechanics Defends Elon Musk -- While He Tweets About Fortnite 139
Steam VR Introduces 'Motion Smoothing' So Low-End PCs Can Run Games More Smoothly 33
Australian Federal Court Grants Publisher of GTA V Game Right To Search Homes of Five People Accused of Making Cheat Software 131
Professional Videogamers Are Working Out 58
Chrome 70 Won't Ship With a Patch For Autoplay-Blocking Web Audio API Which Broke Web Apps and Games Earlier This Year 44
RIP Greg Stafford, a Fundamental Personage of the RPG Industry 39
Internet Archive Launches a Commodore 64 Emulator 77
'Why I Bid $700 For a Stolen PSN Account' 102
Sony Says PlayStation 4 Successor is Coming, But Doesn't Call it PS5 Yet 68
Microsoft Announces Project Xcloud For Streaming Games To PCs, Consoles, and Mobile Devices 80
Microsoft Open Sources Parts of Minecraft's Java Code 79
Two Events Celebrate Text Adventures, Roguelike Games 19
'Limit Theory' Game Cancelled Six Years After Its Kickstarter Raised $187K 141
China's Tencent Employs Facial Recognition To Detect Minors in Top-Grossing Mobile Game 29
Nintendo Plans New Version of Switch Next Year 98
Nintendo President: Our Future Is As an 'Entertainment' Company 60
Google Gets Into Game Streaming With Project Stream and Assassin's Creed Odyssey in Chrome 37
Carmack Compares Oculus Quest Hardware Power To Last-Gen Game Consoles 73
PlayStation 4 Changes Crossplay Policy, Begins Fortnite Testing 44
Facebook Announces $399 Oculus Quest Standalone VR Headset 68
Xbox Announces Mouse and Keyboard Support 66
Myst, One of the Most Influential Games Ever, Turns 25 134
Swiss Soccer Fans Protest Esports by Throwing Tennis Balls and Game Controllers On the Field 227
Over 1,100 New Arcade Games Added To the Internet Archive 46
PlayStation Now Is Making Its Games Downloadable 32
Telltale Games Hit With Major Layoffs As Part of a 'Majority Studio Closure' 95
China Blocks Twitch 72
Sony Announces PlayStation Classic, a $100 Mini PS1 130
Game Streaming's Latency Problems Will Be Over in a Few Years, CEO Says 100
Nintendo Switch Online, a Paid Subscription Service Required For Console Owners To Access Internet-Enable Features Like Multiplayer Mode, To Launch This Evening 86
Video Game Loot Boxes Under Scrutiny By 16 Gambling Regulators 100
Addiction To Fortnite Cited In Over 200 Divorce Petitions 134
Some Linux Gamers Using Wine/DXVK To Play Blizzard's Overwatch Banned 81
Nintendo Switch Cloud Save Data Disappears If You Cancel Subscription 71
Tencent Shuts Poker Platform Amid Widening Gaming Crackdown 14
Nintendo's Promised Cloud Saves On Switch Won't Work For Every Game 34
Valve Explains How It Decides Who's a 'Straight Up Troll' Publishing Video Games On Steam 77
'Eve Online' Studio Acquired By Korean MMO Maker 60
Sony Ends Its Repair Service For the PlayStation 2 More Than 18 Years After the Console Went On Sale 69
After 24 Years Doom 2's Last Secret Has Finally Been Discovered 62
China Plans To Restrict New Games Coming Into the Country and Limit the Time Kids Spend Online 33
Nintendo Shuts Down Tool Used To Build Pokemon Fan Games 78
How 'Grand Theft Auto' Is Changing the Way the World Experiences Music 120
Microsoft Announces Xbox All Access 53
Mass Shooting Reported at Madden Video Game Tournament in Florida 1293
Videogame Developers Are Making It Harder To Stop Playing 167
Student Arrested For Posting Zombie-Killing AR Game Clip Filmed at His High School 352
Epic's First Fortnite Installer Allowed Hackers To Covertly Download and Install Anything on Users' Android Phones, Google Researchers Say 39
GOG Launches FCKDRM To Promote DRM-Free Art and Media 150
Steam Gets Built-in Tools To Let You Run Windows Games on Linux -- Now Available in Beta 206
People Keep Trying To Scam Their Way Into Free Video Games 104
Nvidia Unveils Powerful New RTX 2070 and 2080 Graphics Cards 195
IGN Pulls Ex-Editor's Posts After Dozens More Plagiarism Accusations Surface 88
OpenAI Is Beating Humans At 'Dota 2' Because It's Basically Cheating 99
US Judge Blocks Programs Letting 'Grand Theft Auto' Players 'Cheat' 112
Flight-Simulator Enthusiasts Confident of Real-World Skills 179
Nintendo's Switch Has Been Hiding a Buried 'VR Mode' For Over a Year 38
Did Apple Secretly Crush An App Store Competitor In Japan? 89
Valve Seems To Be Working On Tools To Get Windows Games Running On Linux 196
Google Play Shows Warning To Anyone Searching For Fortnite APKs 83
Bethesda Blocks Resale of a Secondhand Game 203
Nintendo's Offensive, Tragic, and Totally Legal Erasure of ROM Sites 334
Lawsuit Threat Shuts Down ROM Downloads On Major Emulation Site 'EmuParadise' 79
NEC Unveils Facial Recognition System For 2020 Tokyo Olympics 25
OpenAI's Bots Defeated Former Pro E-Sports Players At Dota 2 49
Citing 'Economic Efficiency,' Epic Says Fortnite's Upcoming Android App Won't Hit Google Play Store 131
The NES Classic Outsold the PS4, Xbox One, and Switch In June 128
Tesla Is Adding Atari Games To the In-Car Display 156
Steam Game Pulled From Store After Allegations of Cryptocurrency Mining 26
New Zealand Government Spends $150K To Create Video Game To Teach People How To Run a Business 94
Microsoft's Next-Gen Xbox Will Focus On 'XCloud' Game Streaming 127
Nintendo To ROM Sites: Forget Cease-and-Desist, Now We're Suing 296
LambdaMOO, MUDs, and 'When the Internet Was Young' 114
Hello Games Received Death Threats Over 'No Man's Sky' 196
Amazon Responds After Third-Party Sellers Put Bootleg Games on Its Store 91
Saudi Arabia Bans 47 Games In Response To Two Child Suicides 98
How Minecraft Is Helping Kids Fall In Love With Books 35
Major League Baseball Is Going Crypto 51
Game Company Fires Two Employees Who Complained About 'Mansplaining' on Twitter 1056
Valve Shuts Down New Way of Estimating Game Sales On Steam 41
DeepMind's AI Agents Exceed 'Human-Level' Gameplay In Quake III 137
Google Is Planning a Game Platform That Could Take On Xbox and PlayStation 149
Microsoft Teases First-Ever 'Stream-To-Win' Option Built Into Xbox 26
Fortnite is Generating More Revenue Than Any Other Free Game Ever 162
Mouse and Keyboard Support Could Be Coming To the Xbox One This Year 43
WHO Gaming Disorder Listing a 'Moral Panic', Say Experts 159
The Rise of the Video-Game Gambler 76
Valve's Knuckles EV2 Controller Will Let You Squeeze Things In VR 33
Bethesda Sues Warner Bros, Calls Its Westworld Game 'Blatant Rip-Off' of Fallout Shelter 109
Atari Accuses Journalists of Making Stuff Up So They Produce Recordings of the Interview 84
Nintendo and Microsoft Team Up To Promote Cross-Play, While Sony Remains Silent 75
Nvidia Appears To Have A GPU Inventory Problem 83
WHO Classifies 'Gaming Disorder' as Mental Health Condition 201
New Commercial Amiga 500 Game Released 123
Gaming Companies Remove Analytics App After Massive User Outcry 232
Fake Earthquake Detected In Mexico City After Player's Goal In World Cup Match 213
Sony's PlayStation 5 Will Launch In 2020 Powered By An AMD Navi GPU, Says Report 95
Two Teenaged Gamers Plead 'Not Guilty' For Fatal Kansas Swatting Death 149
'Waluigi Was Robbed and Humiliated by Nintendo' 88
Sony Is Blocking Fortnite Cross-Play Between PS4, Nintendo Switch Players 90
Microsoft's Next-Gen Xbox Will Arrive in 2020: Report 69
Microsoft is Working on its Own Game Streaming, Netflix-Like Service 74
Microsoft Acquires Four Gaming Studios, Including Ninja Theory, As It Looks To Bolster First-Party Catalog 44
EA, Touting 'Profound Impact' of Streaming and Subscription, Announces Origin Access Premier 73
Ubisoft CEO: Cloud Gaming Will Replace Consoles After the Next Generation 144
Valve Will Stop Removing Controversial Games on Steam Unless They Are 'Illegal or Straight up Trolling' 368
70 Long-Lost Japanese Video Games Discovered In a 67GB Folder of ROMs On a Private Forum 158
Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant Are Coming To Xbox One 29
'Descent' Creators Reunite For a New Game Called 'Overload' 138
Atari Launches Linux Gaming Box Starting at $199 75
DeepMind Used YouTube Videos To Train Game-Beating Atari Bot 61
Hacker Gets Super NES Games Running On Unmodified NES 43
Game Livestreaming Explodes, But Women Are Less Likely To Be Paid Than Men 268
Intellivision Lives: Tommy Tallarico Will Relaunch 1980s Console 115
Star Citizen Video Game Launches $27,000 Players' Pack 193
PUBG and Epic Games, Makers of Two of the World's Most Popular Video Games, Set To Battle in Court 174
Atari Co-Founder Ted Dabney Dies at Age 81 43
Valve Slammed Over 'Horrendous' Steam School-Shooting Game 351
Apple Blocks Steam's Plan To Extend Its Video Games To iPhones 202
Gamers Involved In Fatal Wichita 'Swatting' Indicted On Federal Charges 432
Next PlayStation Is Three Years Off, Sony Says 90
With Steam Link App, Your Smartphone Can Be An Imperfect Gaming Monitor 47
Microsoft Announces Xbox Adaptive Controller For Players With Disabilities 19
Sony Ends Production Of Physical Vita Games 35
In Blocking Autoplay Videos, Chrome Is Breaking Many Web-Based Games 77
EA Still Believes in Loot Boxes, Will 'Push Forward' With Their Use 145
Nintendo Switch Online Service Will Launch With 20 NES Games, Cloud Saves, More 51
If Fortnite Were a Website, It Would Rival Reddit and Amazon 112
Nvidia Shuts Down Its GeForce Partner Program, Citing Misinformation 82
Free To Play, Expensive To Love: 'Fortnite' Changes Video Game Business 191
Final Fantasy 7, Tomb Raider Headline Inductees To World Video Game Hall of Fame 43
Facebook's Open-Source Go Bot Can Now Beat Professional Players 44
Google Is Building a Secret Social-Gaming Startup Called Arcade 41
Mobile Gaming Cements Its Dominance, Takes Majority of Worldwide Sales 94
Nintendo Faces Switch Patent Infringement Investigation In the US 63
Facebook's Phone-Free, Wireless 'Oculus Go' VR Headset Is Released Today 34
FTC Gives Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo 30 Days To Get Rid of Illegal Warranty-Void-if-Removed Stickers 133
Belgium Declares Video Game Loot Boxes Gambling and Therefore Illegal 176
Xbox One April Update Rolling Out With Low-Latency Mode, FreeSync, and 1440p Support; 120Hz Support Coming In May Update 48
The 'Unpatchable' Exploit That Makes Every Current Nintendo Switch Hackable 96
Dutch Study Finds Some Video Game Loot Boxes Broke the Law 90
PUBG Ransomware Decrypts Your Files If You Play PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds 51
Jailed Kansas 'Swat' Perpetrator Sneaks Online, Threatens More 'Swats' 285
Guinness Strips Billy 'King of Kong' Mitchell's World Records 58
Intel Reportedly Designing Arctic Sound Discrete GPU For Gaming, Pro Graphics 68
Steam Spy Announces It's Shutting Down, Blames Valve's New Privacy Settings 97
Sony PlayStation 5 Unlikely To Arrive Until 2020: Gizmodo 46
Original 'System Shock' Code Open Sourced, More Updates Promised 39
McAfee Finds That Gamers Are Strong Candidates for Cybersecurity Jobs 62
Valve Removes Steam Machines From Its Home Page 164
Microsoft To Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services 317
Ask Slashdot: How Did Real-Time Ray Tracing Become Possible With Today's Technology? 145
EA Created An AI That Taught Itself To Play Battlefield 59
NVIDIA RTX Technology To Usher In Real-Time Ray Tracing Holy Grail of Gaming Graphics 159
New Study Which Made 90 Adults Play 'GTA' or 'The Sims 3' For At least 30 Mins Every Day For 2 Months Finds 'No Significant Changes' in Their Behavior 193
How Hardware Artisans Are Keeping Classic Video Gaming Alive 75
Daily Dose of Violent Video Games Causes 'No Significant Changes' In Behavior, Study Finds 192
Google Opens Maps To Bring the Real World Into Games 49
Google and Ubisoft Are Teaming Up To Improve Online Multi-Player Video Games 52
Kansas 'Swat' Perpetrator Is Now Also Wanted in Florida 87
Google Maps Apps Add 'Mario Kart' Feature 35
Why Humans Learn Faster Than AI 98
Oculus Rift Is Now the Most Popular VR Headset On Steam 60
Ubisoft is Using AI To Catch Bugs in Games Before Devs Make Them 126
Videogame Lobbyists Join Scientists To Fight 'Gaming Disorder' Classification 72
AI Cheats at Old Atari Games By Finding Unknown Bugs in the Code 45
Sega Cancels Yakuza 6 Song of Life Free Demo After Gamers Unlocked Full Game 43
ESRB Introducing 'In-Game Purchases' Label in Response To Loot Box Controversy 97
President Trump: 'We Have To Do Something' About Violent Video Games, Movies 866
Game Industry Pushes Back Against Efforts To Restore Gameplay Servers 246
Researchers Develop Online Game That Teaches Players How To Spread Misinformation 148
Enthusiasts have Turned the Nintendo Switch into a Functional Linux Tablet 96
Valve Bans Developer After Employees Leave Fake User Reviews 91
German Authorities Are Considering a Ban On Loot Boxes 106
Hackers Manage To Run Linux On a Nintendo Switch 119
Mayfair Games Shuts Down After 36 Years of Board Games 58
Blizzard Issues DMCA Notice to a Fan-Run 'WoW' Legacy Server 308
'King of Kong' Billy Mitchell Stripped Of Donkey Kong Record For Emulator Cheating 58
Sony's PlayStation 4 Has Nearly Outsold the PlayStation 3 50
GTA Online Is Full Of Abandoned Modes 62
Nintendo Switch Outsells Wii U In 10 Months 107
GDC Rescinds Award For Atari Founder Nolan Bushnell After Criticisms of Sexually Inappropriate Behavior 498
Longest-standing Video Game Record Declared 'Impossible,' Thrown Out After 35 Years 234
Two More Gamers May Be Charged in Fatal Kansas 'SWAT' Shooting 170
The Legislative Fight Over Loot Boxes Expands To Washington State 127
New Study Finds No Link Between Violent Video Games and Behavior 200
To Combat Shortage, Nvidia Asks Retailers To Limit Graphics Card Orders 212
Nintendo's Newest Switch Accessories Are DIY Cardboard Toys 75
Wine 3.0 Released 153
Microsoft Puts Minecraft Boss In Charge of Xbox Games 50
The World's Top-Selling Video Game Has a Cheating Problem 191
Hackers Seem Close To Publicly Unlocking the Nintendo Switch 91
Japanese Console Market Grows For the First Time In 11 Years 34
Xbox One Adds New Achievement, Do Not Disturb Features In Previous Update 38
Nvidia's GeForce Now Windows App Transforms Your Cheap Laptop Into a Gaming PC 100
Kinect Is Really Dead Now, Basically 110