Tag: gaming industry

Japanese patent officials reject one of Nintendo’s Pokémon patent applications for being too similar to ARK, Monster Hunter, and—embarrasingly—Pokémon Go

Japanese patent officials reject…

The trio of patents asserted by Nintendo as the basis for its ongoing lawsuit against Palworld developer Pocketpair represent…
International Olympics Committee cancels 12-year deal with Saudi Arabia after just one year, says it ‘will develop a new approach to the Olympic Esports Games’

International Olympics Committee cancels…

The International Olympic Committee has cancelled a 12-year deal with Saudi Arabia that would have seen the first-ever Olympic…
Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says game prices ‘have resisted matching inflation’ because publishers have been pocketing the ‘cost savings’ from digital distribution

Fallout co-creator Tim Cain…

Wind blows, birds fly, and Tim Cain YouTubes. The Interplay, Troika, and Obsidian developer (and OG Fallout co-creator) is…
Anime-based therapy is being trialed in Japan

Anime-based therapy is being…

Have you ever been sitting there, watching an anime, and gone: Man, I wish I could get drawn into…
Arc Raiders’ use of AI highlights the tension and confusion over where machine learning ends and generative AI begins

Arc Raiders’ use of…

Like Embark Studios’ 2023 shooter The Finals, its new game Arc Raiders, out today, comes bearing an “AI generated…
Only 3% of Stop Killing Games’ EU initiative signees have failed verification so far—which is a great sign it’ll progress to the European Commission

Only 3% of Stop…

Stop Killing Games‘ EU initiative had a second wind earlier this year, going from a bit of doom and…
Microsoft might be silent, but Halo’s co-creator and Halo 2’s design lead have called the US government’s ‘Destroy the Flood’ analogy comparing immigrants to parasites ‘absolutely abhorrent’

Microsoft might be silent,…

Earlier this week, the official White House account jumped on a tongue-in-cheek post by GameStop to crib some credit…
Twitch heard you wanted more vtubers so it signed a deal with the most popular vtuber agency in the world

Twitch heard you wanted…

Twitch already has plenty of vtubers streaming on it daily, some of whom are incredibly successful. But it doesn’t…
‘Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism’: DayZ creator Dean Hall says the ‘gambling mechanics’ of Valve’s monetization strategy ‘have absolutely no place’ in videogames

‘Valve does not get…

Last week, Valve issued an update to Counter-Strike 2 that, by some estimates, caused the collective secondhand market value…
EA employees are reportedly frustrated by a mandate to use AI, mocking the policy in Slack and suspecting it’s being used as justification for layoffs

EA employees are reportedly…

The generative AI wave has tech companies foaming at the mouth to get in while the getting’s good, and…