Games Stories for 2020

Ten-Year Long Study Confirms No Link Between Playing Violent Video Games as Early as Ten Years Old and Aggressive Behavior Later in Life 95
Linux Kernel Ported to the Nintendo 64 33
Cyberpunk Maker CD Projekt Sued by Investor Over Botched Launch 69
Microsoft Flight Simulator In VR: a Turbulent Start For Wide-Open Skies 19
Sony Publishes An Official Linux Driver For PS5 DualSense Controllers 12
Nintendo Conducted Invasive Surveillance Operation Against Homebrew Hacker 23
Nearly Half a Billion Users Played Among Us In November 37
Nintendo Leak Reveals Extreme Measures Taken To Track Hackers 54
Its Official: America's Space Force is Better than Its Other Military Branches at 'Call of Duty' 69
Winner Announced In the World's First 'Quantum Chess' Tournament 25
Facing Overwhelming Demand, Non-Profit 'RPG Research' Looks for Help 32
'Super Nintendo World' Amusement Park Previewed By Mario's 68-Year-Old Creator 13
Microsoft Offers Cyberpunk 2077 Refunds For All Digital Sales, But It's Not Pulling the Game 31
Taiwanese Horror Game Pulled From Sale Again After Backlash in China 64
Cyberpunk Game Maker Faces Hostile Staff After Failed Launch 120
Sony Is Pulling Cyberpunk 2077 From the PlayStation Store and Offering Full Refunds 168
Can't Get a PlayStation 5? Meet the Grinch Bots Snapping Up the Holidays' Hottest Gift. 148
UK Politicians Call For 'Making the Resale of Goods Purchased Using An Automated Bot an Illegal Activity' 126
Google Stadia Arrives on iOS 31
GameStop Employees Surprised By New Shipment of PS5, Xbox Series X Consoles 28
EA Set To Pay $1.2 Billion For Codemasters and Its Stable of Racing Games 28
'Cyberpunk 2077' Players Are Fixing Parts of the Game Before CD Projekt 79
Creator of DirectX Dies at Age 55 94
Do Games Made Under Crunch Conditions Deserve 'Best Direction' Awards? 146
Inside the Obsessive World of Miniature Arcade Machine Makers 25
'Cyberpunk 2077' Finally Shows What DLSS Is Good For 69
Microsoft's Latest Windows 10 Test Builds Includes Promised x64 Arm Emulation 30
Xbox Cloud Gaming Coming To iOS and PC in Spring 2021 20
Cyberpunk 2077 Includes Visual Effects Designed To Trigger Epileptic Seizure 171
Cyberpunk 2077 Has Involved Months of Crunch, Despite Past Promises 112
Why Players Blame Skill-Based Matchmaking For Losing In Call of Duty 210
Is Sony Developing a Dual-GPU PS5 Pro? 60
Americans of All Ages Are Spending More on Video Games 37
Uri Geller Finally Apologizes for Suing Pokemon 20 Years Ago 85
New Videogame Bug Turns Spider-Man Into a Trash Can 52
Afghan Youth Find Escape in a Video Game 26
Nintendo Sues More Hack Sellers, 'a Worsening International Problem' 41
Microsoft Hints at Turning Xbox Into an App For Your TV 24
Who Will Be the First Guest Host of Jeopardy, Alex? 70
Xbox Series X Controller Support Coming To Apple Devices 5
GTA Online Is Getting A Big New Heist You Can Play Solo If You Want 4
Google Stadia Is Coming To iOS Officially As a Web App 15
GeForce NOW Games Available on iOS Devices Through Safari, Fortnite Coming Soon 20
Sony, Microsoft Consoles Struggle With Thin Launch-Day Stock 47
Xbox Series X/S Was the Biggest Xbox Launch Ever 31
Twitch Says It's In Talks To License Music, Tells Users To Delete Videos With Unauthorized Tracks 76
Sony Gives Your PS4 a Second Life: Slinging a PS5 To Another Room of Your House 27
Kojima's Infamous 'P.T.' Is Not Playable On PlayStation 5 16
Sony Confirms the PS5 Won't Support SSD Storage Expansion at Launch 49
Fortnite To Return To iPhones via Nvidia Cloud Gaming Service 34
PS5 Faceplate Seller Cancels All Orders Following 'Legal Action from Sony' 46
PlayStation CEO Says VR Won't Be a 'Meaningful' Part of Gaming For Years 112
Sony's PlayStation 5 Is Beating Xbox in the Online Black Market 52
Deleting Your Facebook Account Forfeits Oculus VR Games You Already Paid For 111
CD Projekt Delays Cyberpunk 2077 Game Release for Another Three Weeks 21
Twitch Suddenly Mass-Deletes Thousands of Videos, Citing Music Copyright Claims 75
A Massive Spam Attack Is Ruining Public 'Among Us' Games 60
Garmin Introduces Esports Fitness Smartwatch For Streamers 24
Xbox Chief Phil Spencer Hints at an xCloud Streaming Stick 11
Minecraft Will Require a Microsoft Account To Play In 2021 70
AOC's Debut Twitch Stream Is One of the Biggest Ever 120
'Hands-On With Amazon's Luna Game Streaming Service' 47
Chess's Cheating Crisis: 'Paranoia Has Become the Culture' 101
Gamers Are Replacing Bing Maps Objects in Microsoft Flight Simulator With Rips From Google Earth 31
Xbox's Phil Spencer Hints At Exclusivity Potential For Bethesda Games 37
Microsoft Will Share Digital Revenues With GameStop On Every Xbox It Sells 29
UK Ad Authority Bans Misleading Homescapes and Gardenscapes Ads 68
Xbox Game Streaming Will Land on iOS in 2021 Using Web Workaround 38
Fortnite Remains Banned From Apple's App Store After Judge Refuses Epic's Request 124
Are the Best Star Wars Stories Now in Games Like 'Star Wars: Squadrons'? 56
After Six Years of Development, Amazon Kills Its Game 'Crucible' Within Five Months 45
PS5 Teardown Video Confirms Faster Wi-Fi and USB Ports Than Xbox Series X 56
A Literal Child and His Mom Sue Nintendo Over 'Joy-Con Drift' 104
Xbox's Phil Spencer Isn't Sure 8K Will Ever Be Standard in Video Games 123
Two Leaders of Videogame Piracy Group Arrested 45
Nintendo's New Mario Kart Makes Your Living Room the Race Track 27
A Week With the Xbox Series X: Load Times, Game Performance, and More 25
Microsoft's New Xbox App Will Let You Stream Xbox One Games To Your iPhone 16
Luna is Amazon's New Cloud Gaming Service 24
Blizzard Co-Founder Mike Morhaime Launches New Gaming Endeavor Dreamhaven 19
'Amnesia: The Dark Descent' and 'A Machine For Pigs' Are Now Open Source 11
Major Activision Hack Reportedly Compromises Over 500,000 Call of Duty Players 17
Microsoft's Xbox Expands, Buying ZeniMax Media and Fallout Maker Bethesda For $7.5 Billion 99
Thieves' Guild: a BBS Game With the Best 1990s Pixel Graphics You've Never Seen 55
Fortnite: Save the World For Mac Is Shutting Down Because of Epic's Battle With Apple 78
Sony Makes It Official: PlayStation 5 Won't Natively Support PS1, PS2, PS3 91
Nintendo 3DS Discontinued After Almost a Decade 20
PlayStation 5 Launches Nov 12 For $500; Discless Digital Edition Priced at $400 56
Addicted To Losing: How Casino-Like Apps Have Drained People of Millions 197
How to Play Chrome's Hidden 'Dinosaur Game' and Firefox's 'Unicorn Pong' 28
Console Options Without Disc Drives Could Be GameStop's Final Death Knell 79
Xbox All Access Seems Like One of the Best Deals In Gaming 141
Xbox Series X Launches Nov. 10 for $499 68
'PUBG Mobile' Will Escape India Ban By Cutting Out Tencent 30
Microsoft Confirms Compact, $299 Xbox Series S Next-Gen Game Console 57
EA Pulls Ads from 'UFC 4' Replays After Widespread Complaints 37
Nintendo is Releasing a 35th Anniversary Super Mario Bros. Game and Watch 23
Joe Biden's Team Brings Digital Campaign Signs To 'Animal Crossing' 133
Nvidia's RTX 3090 Demo Emphasizes the Absurdity of 8K Gaming 142
Sony Ponders Potential PS To PC Ports 41
Pandemic Sends Videogame Museum Into Two-Year Shutdown 25
Incredible Ratchet & Clank Gameplay Demo Reveals PS5's SSD Difference 60
Microsoft Flight Simulator Players Are Flying Into Hurricane Laura 53
Nintendo Plans Upgraded Switch Console and Major Games for 2021 49
Nintendo Copyright Infringement Threats Shut Down Switch Payload Injector 40
'GamerGate' Proponent Kills Ex-Girlfriend, Commits Suicide 308
Burger King Brags About Exploiting Twitch To Advertise To Kids For Cheap 29
Epic To Host a Tournament With Anti-Apple Prizes 157
Flight Simulator 2020 Is Finally Out, But Many Can't Install It 83
You Can Now Play an Ultra-Rare Quake Arcade Cabinet at Home 17
Apple Threatens To Terminate Epic Games' Developer Accounts on August 28 267
Amazon is Good at So Many Things. Why is it Bad at Games? 116
Epic's Battle For 'Open Platforms' Ignores Consoles' Massive Closed Market 181
Xbox Series X Launching In November, But Halo Infinite Is Delayed Until 2021 35
Amazon Ties Video Games Deeper Into Prime Subscription Program 12
Microsoft Accuses Apple of Treating Gaming Apps Differently 20
Apple Confirms Cloud Gaming Services Like xCloud and Stadia Violate App Store Guidelines 68
Microsoft Isn't Renaming Xbox Live and Has 'No Plans' To Discontinue Xbox Live Gold 20
Riot Games Addresses Burnout and Crunch By Giving Employees a Week Off 59
Gamers Will Be Able To Stream Microsoft's Xbox Games Pass Titles Starting Sept. 15 16
Blizzard Workers Share Salaries In Revolt Over Wage Disparities 210
PS4 Gamepads Won't Work For PS5 Games, Sony Says 42
Chinese Games Will Force Players To Use Their Real Names 60
Should the US Military Be Recruiting On Twitch? 160
Huge Apparent Leak Unearths Nintendo's Prototype History 21
Slashdot Asks: What Movies, TV Shows, and Games Have You Enjoyed of Late? 134
Microsoft's Livestreaming Service Mixer Shuts Down Today 11
Ubisoft Family Accused of Mishandling Sexual Misconduct Claims 59
Metacritic Changes Its User Review Policy To Combat Score Bombing 68
Is Microsoft Planning To Phase Out Xbox Live Gold? 46
Twitch Tells US Army To Stop Sharing Fake Prize Giveaways That Sent Users To Recruitment Page 35
Microsoft Discontinues Xbox One X and Xbox One S Digital Edition Ahead of Series X Launch 23
Ubisoft Is Giving Everyone 'Watch Dogs 2' After a Giveaway Glitch 24
Microsoft Flight Simulator Landing on Windows 10 Next Month 63
Amazon Delays Next Video Game Half a Year After Latest One Flops 8
Microsoft's Next Xbox Series X Game Showcase Coming July 23 21
Microsoft Is Interested In Acquiring Warner Bros. Gaming Unit 27
PlayStation's Secret Weapon: A Nearly All-Automated Factory 56
Next-gen Games May Cost $70. It's Overdue, But Also Worrisome. 170
Political Protests Are Now Happening in Videogames 184
How Crowdfunding Transformed Tabletop Board Games 24
Ubisoft CEO Lays Out a Plan To Change the Company's Toxic Culture 79
Next-Gen Console Games Will Be $10 More Expensive 89
'Fallout' TV Series From 'Westworld' Creators In the Works At Amazon 27
Microsoft Will Ban Forza Players Who Add the Confederate Flag To Their Digital Cars 152
Kongregate No Longer Accepting New Games, Shutting Down Forums and Chat 17
After Lackluster Launch, Amazon Pulls 'Crucible' Back Into Closed Beta Weeks After Game's Release 27
Microsoft's Second Next-Gen Xbox Reportedly Set For August Reveal 36
New Hack Runs Homebrew Code From DVD-R On Unmodified PlayStation 2 18
Leaked Microsoft Document Hints at Second Next-Gen Xbox 21
Wizards of the Coast Is Addressing Racist Stereotypes In Dungeons & Dragons 385
Oculus Discontinues Its Low-End Go Headset To Focus On Oculus Quest 30
Dozens of Women in Gaming Speak Out About Sexism and Harassment 262
Microsoft Is Shutting Down Mixer and Partnering With Facebook Gaming 29
Nintendo Chills Mobile Ambitions After Animal Crossing Success 15
As Videogames Respond To Protesters, Fortnite Removes Police Cars 209
Apple Rejects Facebook's Gaming App, For At Least the Fifth Time 47
Guinness Reinstates Billy Mitchell's Donkey Kong, Pac-Man Records 88
Can AI Design Games? How Nick Walton Created 'AI Dungeon' 25
Twitch Streamers Receive a Flood of Music Copyright Claims For Old Clips 45
Racist Magic: The Gathering Cards Banned, Removed From Database By Publisher 324
PlayStation 5 Console Revealed 81
Spider-Man, Ratchet and Clank, Gran Turismo and More Are Coming To PS5 20
Nintendo Now Says 300,000 Accounts Breached by Hackers 12
The Future of Xbox Isn't Just a Console 24
EA Releases Source Code and 4K Remasters For Two 'Command and Conquer' Games 41
When the NBA Returns It May Use 'NBA 2K' For Crowd Noise 70
Razer is Enabling Gamers To Donate Masks To Frontline Workers by Gaming 11
GTA Online, Red Dead Online Will Temporarily Go Offline In Honor of George Floyd 246
Sega Announces Mysterious "Fog Gaming" Program, Will Use Arcade Machines Somehow 46
Game Publisher Cancels Contract With Developer, Then Tries To Poach Its Entire Team 80
Google's 'Overpromising' Led To Stadia 'Disappointment,' Says RDR2 Publisher 44
Sony Postpones PS5 Event 'To Allow More Important Voices To Be Heard' 103
Sony Is Planning a PS5 Conference For As Early As Next Week 14
Gamemakers Inject AI To Develop More Lifelike Characters 39
Insignia Project Aims To Resurrect Xbox Live For the Original Xbox 19
Audi Drops Driver For Secretly Using a Ringer To Compete In Virtual Race 75
Grand Theft Auto VI in 2023? Take-Two SEC Filing Hints at Release Date 28
Nvidia's AI Recreates 'Pac-Man' For 40th Anniversary 32
Microsoft Solitaire Turns 30 Years Old Today and Still Has 35 Million Monthly Players 35
Hackers Infect Multiple Game Developers With Advanced Malware 6
Nintendo Files Lawsuits In Crackdown Against Switch Hackers 61
Rainbow Six 'Copy' Lands Apple and Google In Copyright Court 44
Minecraft Play Spikes, Tops 126M Builders a Month Amid COVID-19 31
'King of Donkey Kong' Billy Mitchell Continues Defamation Suit Over Cheating Accusations 93
'Doom Eternal' Is Using Denuvo's New Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat Driver 68
Disney Forces Explicit Club Penguin Clones Offline 23
Video Games Set a Record for Quarterly Sales 13
The Epic Games Store Goes Down As Everyone Tries To Get GTA V For Free 41
SpaceX Releases Crew Dragon Simulator To Show What It's Like To Dock With the ISS 44
Epic Online Services Launches, Giving Other Games Access To Fortnite-style Cross-play and More 15
Unreal Engine 5 Demo Shows the Stunning Future of Video Game Graphics 122
Age of Empires 2, a 21-Year-Old Game, is Having an Incredible Year 32
How Animal Crossing's Fake Industries Let Players Afford Real Rent Amid COVID-19 24
Will Your TV Handle Xbox Series X Games That Tun at 120 FPS? 75
Twitch Is Developing Talk Shows and Dating Programs for Gamers 23
Beyond Emulation: the Massive Effort To Reverse-Engineer N64 Source Code 61
MicroProse, Legendary Creators of Civilization, XCOM, and Falcon 4.0 Is Back 115
Microsoft to Pitch New Xbox Game Console With Monthly Showcases 4
QEMU Version 5.0.0 Released 21
Microsoft's Big Xbox Game Pass Bet is Starting To Pay Off 19
No Nintendo Direct Planned for June Due To Work-From-Home Hurdles 10
Developer Attempts 'Doom' Clone for the Amiga 500 49
Nearly 160,000 Nintendo Accounts Compromised In Massive Hack 12
Valve Says It's Safe To Play CS:GO and TF2 After Source Code Leaked Online 27
Team Fortress 2 Source Code Leak Raises Security Fears 12
'Minecraft' Partners With United Nations For COVID-19 PSA Campaign 60
Nvidia's GeForce Now Will Lose Access To Titles From Xbox Game Studios and Warner Bros. 22
Nintendo Switch Sales Doubled Year-over-Year in March 22
Nintendo Accounts Are Getting Hacked and Used To Buy Fortnite Currency 23
Facebook's New Gaming App Launches on Android, With iOS Version Coming Soon 5
Are We on the Cusp of a Metaverse, the Next Version of the Internet? 69
16-Year-Old Beat World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen to Win 'Banter Blitz Cup' 45
Resellers Using Checkout Bots Are Driving the Nintendo Switch Shortage 77
New GTA in Development, Rockstar Reportedly Making Changes To Fix Crunch Culture 32
Minecraft Ray Tracing Launches April 16, and It Is Breathtaking 92
Sony Plans Limited PlayStation 5 Output in First Year 20
ESRB Introduces a New Label To Indicate That a Game Has Loot Boxes 67
John Conway, Game of Life Author, Dies At 82 of COVID-19 52
Nintendo Game Pulled From Chinese Platforms After Hong Kong Protest 41
Nintendo's Animal Crossing Becomes New Hong Kong Protest Ground 11
Google Stadia Now Free To Anyone With a Gmail Address 68
PS5's Controller, the DualSense, Revealed 53
Xbox Co-creator Rob Wyatt Sues Atari For Failing To Pay Him for Design of VCS Console 9
UK Government Encourages Social Distancing With In-Game Health Messages 20
Slashdot Asks: Do You Own a Gaming Console? What Titles Have You Been Playing Lately? 110
'Call of Duty' Wins First Amendment Victory Over Use of Humvees 94
Campus Is Closed, So College Students Are Rebuilding Their Schools In Minecraft 31
Valve Will Delay Some Steam Auto-Updates To Preserve Bandwidth 32
Nintendo is Making 3D Mario Remasters For His 35th Anniversary 27
Ambitious Project Seeks to Re-Create Every Structure on Earth in Minecraft 60
Epic Games is Now a Third-Party Multi-Plat Publisher, Secures Three Big Studios 29
A Hacker Stole and Leaked the Xbox Series X Graphics Source Code 33
Apple's App Store Rules Limit Rival Gaming Services While Arcade Runs Free 40
Akamai To Slow Video Game Downloads To Minimize Internet Congestion 41
Pro Drivers Are Competing With Gamers After F1 and NASCAR Canceled Races 58
As We Remain at Home Due To Coronavirus, We're All in Desperate Need of Distraction -- a New Movie or Video Game Would Help 117
Videogames Are Setting New Records For Simultaneous Users 19
Today Only, Two 'Tomb Raider' Games are Free on Steam 40
Bethesda Apparently Broke Its Own Denuvo Protection For Doom Eternal 105
How Lost Classic Doom 64 Was Revived for Modern Platforms 26
DirectX 12 Ultimate is an Attempt To 'Future-Proof' Graphics Hardware 56
Steam's New Indie Festival Lets You Try 40 Upcoming Games For Free 43
The PlayStation 5 vs. the Xbox Series X: Which Is More Powerful? 111
The PS5 Will Include PS4 Backwards Compatibility at Launch, But That's It 59
Sonic The Hedgehog Surpasses Detective Pikachu To Become Highest-Grossing Video Game Movie 45
Microsoft Unveils Full Xbox Series X Specs 77
Housebound Italian Kids Strain Network With Fortnite Marathon 40
E3 2020 Has Been Canceled 40
Epic Games' Tim Sweeney Rips Google and Apple In Defense of Nvidia's GeForce Now 71

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