Oregon Trail 'action comedy' film in the works from Apple
Hopefully watching it'll be less painful than dying of dysentery
Offbeat02 Nov 2024 | 46
Game
Pokémon GO was an intelligence tool, claims Belarus military official
Augmented reality meets warped reality
Personal Tech12 Sep 2024 | 36
Google trains a GenAI model to simulate Doom's game engine in real-ish time
The proof of concept shows promise despite big limitations
AI + ML28 Aug 2024 | 27
Tetris Company celebrates classic game's 40th birthday
You're not a 1985 truther, are you?
Bootnotes06 Jun 2024 | 28
Bored students can now enjoy Sonic 2 on TI-84 Plus CE calculators, thanks to port
Retro interview Blast (processing) from the past
Bootnotes26 May 2024 | 24
Husqvarna ports Doom to a robot lawnmower – not, thankfully, its chainsaws
Seminal game runs on everything, so why not pay €2,199 to run it on a tiny screen?
Personal Tech28 Feb 2024 | 28
NARROWER TOPICS
Boss fight between Donkey Kong champ and leaderboard org ends with settlement
Retro Tech Week Video game record keepers Twin Galaxies finish messy four-year fight with Billy Mitchell
Personal Tech17 Jan 2024 | 21
If you're gonna use AI-made stuff in your game, you better tell us, says Steam
And pinky swear there's no copyright-infringing material
AI + ML10 Jan 2024 | 5
$6.2B in profit wasn't enough: Nvidia hikes GeForce Now prices for Canada and Europe
Cites 'increased operational costs' but whatever they are US gamers aren't impacted
Off-Prem17 Oct 2023 | 10
Unity talks of price cap and fees for only largest games developers
That sound? It's the screeching noise of a massive U-turn as games engine biz admits mistakes
Software19 Sep 2023 | 16
Guild behind actors' strike fears video game workers also at risk from AI
Authorizes strike for voice and motion capture talent at major game studios
AI + ML05 Sep 2023 | 35
Oh, WoW: Chinese gamers to be cut off from Blizzard games next week
Contractual mess has players wondering if preserving progress in Warcraft, Overwatch, and StarCraft will be possible
Personal Tech18 Jan 2023 | 7
Minecraft's 'first luxury goods collection' features real-world $3,000 Burberry coat
Surely only a blockhead would pay these prices?
Personal Tech02 Nov 2022 | 22
Grand Theft Auto 6 maker confirms source code, vids stolen in cyber-heist
So is that three or four stars?
Cyber-crime19 Sep 2022 | 20
Microsoft to blockheads: NFTs and blockchains aren't welcome in Minecraft
Cites flakiness of NFT community and speculative activity as inimical to the game's goals
Personal Tech21 Jul 2022 | 21
The PainStation runs Windows XP because of course it does
Retro fun and games in Berlin's ComputerSpieleMuseum
Personal Tech14 Jun 2022 | 32
Beijing approves first new video games in nine months
14,000 small developers reported to have gone out of business during approval hiatus
Personal Tech12 Apr 2022 | 15
New York Times outlays seven-figure sum for 1,900 lines of JavaScript – yes, we mean Wordle
Developer overwhelmed by game's runaway success, doesn't oppose future paywall
Software01 Feb 2022 | 86
Tesla disables in-car gaming feature that allowed play while MuskMobiles were in motion
Hey Elon, it's no secret that distracted driving is a major cause of US car fatalities
Personal Tech24 Dec 2021 | 111
The inside story of ransomware repeatedly masquerading as a popular JS library for Roblox gamers
Ongoing typosquatting attacks target kids as Discord drags its feet
Security16 Nov 2021 | 12
New World: Grindy? Check. Repetitive? Check. Fun? We hate to say it... but check
The RPG Goddamn it, Jeff Bezos' lot can make a passable MMORPG after all
Columnists30 Oct 2021 | 31
If you're not sold on the benefits of 5G, Ericsson suggests you keep an eye on gaming, home broadband
NA CEO predicts takeoff in 18 months max
Networks24 Sep 2021 | 18
Children of China, your state-sanctioned hour of gaming begins … now!
Beijing limits kids to three hours a week, suggests they use it to play Chess, Go or coding
Personal Tech31 Aug 2021 | 75
Real world not giving you enough anxiety? Try being hunted down by the perfect organism in Alien: Isolation
The RPG 2014 stealth-em-up hasn't aged a day
Personal Tech28 Aug 2021 | 21
Epic lawsuit's latest claims: Google slipped tons of cash to game devs, Android makers to cement Play store dominance
Read the allegations web giant tried to keep secret from the public
Personal Tech20 Aug 2021 | 47
China warns game devs not to mess with history
Less-than-literal versions of the past criticised, because somebody needs to think of the children
Personal Tech16 Aug 2021 | 68
Amazon Game Studios to its own devs: All your codebase doesn't belong to us
Analysis E-goliath's subsidiary drops 'draconian' contract terms that absorbed personal work, demanded license rights
Applications13 Aug 2021 | 18
Chinese state media describes gaming as 'spiritual opium' that stunts education and destroys families
Tencent shares dive and company restricts hours of play
Legal04 Aug 2021 | 81
Activision Blizzard accused by California watchdog of fostering 'frat boy' culture, fatally toxic atmosphere
Games giant pushes back on claims of poor pay, harassment, and more in discrimination lawsuit
Personal Tech23 Jul 2021 | 21
Tencent uses facial recognition to enforce China’s curfew on gaming kids
Accounts held in grown-ups’ names targeted if they stay up late
AI + ML08 Jul 2021 | 16
Wish you could play tabletop Dungeons & Dragons but have no friends? Solasta: Crown of the Magister offers a solution
The RPG Plus: A tale of tech woe and E3 best bits
Bootnotes26 Jun 2021 | 31
EA Games looted by intruders: Publisher says 'no player data accessed' after reported theft of FIFA 21, Frostbite source
'Surprise stealing mechanics' made short work of network perimeter security
Security11 Jun 2021 | 18
Photographer seeks $12m in copyright damages over claims Capcom ripped off her snaps in Resident Evil 4 art
From pictures of shattered glass to patterns on doors and much more
Offbeat08 Jun 2021 | 50
Days Gone PC: Melting pot of open-world influences makes for one of the more immersive zombie slayers out there
The RPG Decent port of a PlayStation 4 'exclusive', but it's far from original
Bootnotes29 May 2021 | 20
Octopath Traveler: Love letter to JRPG golden age has great combat but retro graphics highlight the genre's tedium
The RPG You sure have to press 'A' a lot
Bootnotes01 May 2021 | 7
Lenovo's latest gaming monster: Eight cores, 3.2GHz, giant heat sink, two fans. Oh, and it has a phone bolted on
Mammoth as a mobe, but serious as a game device
Personal Tech09 Apr 2021 | 28
Rogue elements: Hades and Loop Hero manage to draw on the same legacy while having very little in common
The RPG Let's go round again, maybe we'll turn back the hands of time
Bootnotes27 Mar 2021 | 13
Valheim: How the heck has more 'indie shovelware with PS2 graphics' sold 4 million copies in a matter of weeks?
The RPG Now, this might shock you, but it's something we like to call 'fun' (if you have friends)
OSes26 Feb 2021 | 60
Looking for the perfect Valentine's gift? How about a week of retro gaming BBC Microlympics?
Chuckie Egg and Elite? Oh you shouldn't have!
Offbeat12 Feb 2021 | 53
IKEA China and ASUS team on gaming products, resist urge to call them FRÄG
Chairs, desks, cup-holders, and a weird wearable cushion will reach the west in late 2021
Personal Tech01 Feb 2021 | 14
Subnautica and Below Zero: Nurture your inner MacGyver and Kevin Costner on an ocean-planet holiday
The RPG Yes, survival games can tell great stories too
Offbeat29 Jan 2021 | 9
What's that you got there, AMD? More Ryzen chips? Yeah, OK, we could do with some of those
CES Assuming we can get our hands on these 7nm Zen 3 parts. Plus: Epyc and Nvidia teases
Personal Tech13 Jan 2021 | 27
Why make games for Linux if they don't sell? Because the nerds are just grateful to get something that works
Feature And when nerds are your audience, everything is easier
OSes26 Dec 2020 | 92
Cyberpunk 2077: There's a great game within screaming to get out, but sadly it was released 57 years too early
The RPG Over-promised, under-delivered, and plays like an alpha – try again later
Bootnotes25 Dec 2020 | 77
Assassin's Creed Valhalla is a monastery-burning romp that would be way better if it was not an Assassin's Creed game
The RPG Can we start a petition to abandon the whole 'lol jk ur in a simulation' arc too?
Personal Tech27 Nov 2020 | 33
We've made it: Microsoft deems El Reg relevant enough to have a play with the nerfed version of its upcoming Xbox
Review Not sure if we should be honoured or offended, but the Series S is a huge step up from its predecessor
Personal Tech05 Nov 2020 | 39
Luke Skywalker used to bullseye womp rats in his T-16 on Tatooine. But Star Wars: Squadrons misses the mark
The RPG Sadly, the space opera franchise's first proper starfighter game in yonks just isn't that good
Bootnotes30 Oct 2020 | 39
AMD claims high-end Big Navi Radeon GPUs leave Nvidia's ray-tracing cards in the dust
If you don't want to wait for new stock or splash out on the RTX 30 series, consider AMD's RX 6000s
Personal Tech29 Oct 2020 | 25
Atari threatens to hit fourth VCS shipping deadline, provides pictures of boxes as proof of product delivery
Meanwhile the console’s chief architect is still chasing payment
Personal Tech30 Sep 2020 | 26
Can The Register run Crysis Remastered? Yes, but we don't see why you would want to
The RPG It's the 'gaming funk' edition, also starring Wasteland 3, Crusader Kings 3, and Among Us
Bootnotes25 Sep 2020 | 25
Now Nvidia's monster GeForce RTX 3090 cards snaffled up by bots, scalpers – if only there had been a warning
If at first you don't succeed, fail again
Personal Tech24 Sep 2020 | 50
I AM ERROR: Tired of chewing up your RAM? Razer tells gamers where to stick its special gum for the RGB crowd
The taste of failure ...
Bootnotes10 Sep 2020 | 25
Forget Fortnite and FIFA: India wants to develop games based on local legends
‘Computer games are a new trend, however most have foreign themes’ says PM as he calls for change
Software31 Aug 2020 | 34
Death Stranding: Essential worker simulator unites its players amid a lockdown far worse than the real-life one
The RPG Trudging through PC port of 2019 console title in 2020 is weird
Bootnotes28 Aug 2020 | 24
Global heatmap of cheater density says Brazil is the worst at video games, but there's no data on China
Script kiddies run rampant in Minecraft
Bootnotes27 Aug 2020 | 3
China requires gamers to reveal real names and map them to frag-tastic IDs
Gotta catch 'em all
Software04 Aug 2020 | 36
The Last of Us Part II: Never mind the Metacritic nonsense, Naughty Dog's ultra-violent odyssey is a must-play*
The RPG *If you have a PlayStation 4
Bootnotes31 Jul 2020 | 31
Elite name on Brit scene sponsors retro video games preservation project at the Centre for Computing History
Couldn't come at a better time as Cambridge museum remains closed
Bootnotes31 Jul 2020 | 48
No, boss, I'm not playing Minecraft. Minecraft is where I run VMs on the desktop now
Game mod pipes VirtualBox into virtual blockputers
Virtualization27 Jul 2020 | 34
CEO of motherboard maker MSI dies after plunging from headquarters' seventh-floor
Foul play not suspected
Personal Tech09 Jul 2020 | 54
Lockdown team building: Actualise the potentiality of your workforce... through the power of video games
The RPG Human: Fall Flat, Left 4 Dead 2, Embr, Sea of Thieves – goodness, we've been having a blast
Bootnotes26 Jun 2020 | 20
Sony reveals PlayStation 5 will offer heretical no-optical-disk option. And yes, it has an AMD CPU-GPU combo
There's a standard edition with a Blu-ray and an SSD-only digital edition. Price remains secret
Personal Tech12 Jun 2020 | 59
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