Tag: gaming industry

The Linux community now has a succession plan for when Linus Torvalds checks out, after an apparently uplifting discussion about ‘our eventual march toward death’

The Linux community now…

The Linux Foundation now has a succession plan for the day when Linux creator and main man Linus Torvalds…
Steam Week in Review: Great, haystack slop is a thing now

Steam Week in Review:…

Clones have been a fixture in the games industry forever. For every Mario Bros there’s a Giana Sisters, for…
After turning over a new, crypto-free leaf, Atari would like to stress that the meme currency ‘RealPongCoin’ does not have its ‘consent or approval’

After turning over a…

On January 23, Atari put out a press release disavowing “RealPongCoin” or “$PONG,” a new crypto meme coin whose…
William Pugh, co-designer of The Stanley Parable, has over 1,600 hours in Dota 2: ‘It’s not a game made of love

William Pugh, co-designer of…

Disk Cleanup (Image credit: Future) Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend feature delving into the PCs of PC…
Tim Sweeney says Epic is spending billions fighting Apple and Google because it can, jokes that ‘we might run into serious financial problems after a couple more decades’

Tim Sweeney says Epic…

Epic Games has for several years now been engaged in a legal war with Apple and Google, centered around…
Palworld studio’s first move as a publisher is to save a struggling indie dev: ‘This is the energy I want to see driving games in 2025’

Palworld studio’s first move…

Pocketpair, the developers behind Palworld, has announced its first project as a publisher—a new horror game alongside Surgent Studios.…
Latest Xbox layoffs reportedly devastated Age of Empires developer and canceled its next game

Latest Xbox layoffs reportedly…

The latest stage of Xbox’s delicately named “reset” arrived last Tuesday—but its impact on World’s Edge Studio, the developer…
North Korea’s crypto thieving went into overdrive in 2025, with one firm estimating it’s responsible for roughly 60% of the $3

North Korea’s crypto thieving…

North Korea has long been accused of being a major state sponsor of cybercrime, and new research from the…
$900 million lawsuit accusing Steam of overcharging gamers in the UK and ‘abusing a dominant market position’ will proceed after Valve loses appeal against it

$900 million lawsuit accusing…

Valve is facing a new legal headache as a tribunal in the UK has ruled that a lawsuit filed…
Sony gets people scratching their heads after region-locking purchases of Horizon Forbidden West, 10 entire months after its initial release

Sony gets people scratching…

Despite it being a move that’s ‘almost tank your only real live-service success of the year’ unpopular, Sony has…