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Oregon Trail 'action comedy' film in the works from Apple

Hopefully watching it'll be less painful than dying of dysentery

Offbeat02 Nov 2024 | 42

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

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 | 9

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 | 14

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 | 64

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

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Game on! Penguin levels up as Linux finally cracks 3% on Steam

Mad man builds chatbot in Minecraft with redstone, Python, and patience

Decades-old bug in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas finally shows itself

Mapping legend Ordnance Survey releases blocky Britain in Minecraft – again

They've only gone and made Doom run in a PDF file

NARROWER TOPICS

Oregon Trail 'action comedy' film in the works from Apple

Pokémon GO was an intelligence tool, claims Belarus military official

Google trains a GenAI model to simulate Doom's game engine in real-ish time

Tetris Company celebrates classic game's 40th birthday

Bored students can now enjoy Sonic 2 on TI-84 Plus CE calculators, thanks to port

Husqvarna ports Doom to a robot lawnmower – not, thankfully, its chainsaws

Boss fight between Donkey Kong champ and leaderboard org ends with settlement

If you're gonna use AI-made stuff in your game, you better tell us, says Steam

$6.2B in profit wasn't enough: Nvidia hikes GeForce Now prices for Canada and Europe

Unity talks of price cap and fees for only largest games developers

Guild behind actors' strike fears video game workers also at risk from AI

Oh, WoW: Chinese gamers to be cut off from Blizzard games next week

Minecraft's 'first luxury goods collection' features real-world $3,000 Burberry coat

Grand Theft Auto 6 maker confirms source code, vids stolen in cyber-heist

Microsoft to blockheads: NFTs and blockchains aren't welcome in Minecraft

The PainStation runs Windows XP because of course it does

Beijing approves first new video games in nine months

New York Times outlays seven-figure sum for 1,900 lines of JavaScript – yes, we mean Wordle

Tesla disables in-car gaming feature that allowed play while MuskMobiles were in motion

The inside story of ransomware repeatedly masquerading as a popular JS library for Roblox gamers

New World: Grindy? Check. Repetitive? Check. Fun? We hate to say it... but check

If you're not sold on the benefits of 5G, Ericsson suggests you keep an eye on gaming, home broadband

Children of China, your state-sanctioned hour of gaming begins … now!

Real world not giving you enough anxiety? Try being hunted down by the perfect organism in Alien: Isolation

Epic lawsuit's latest claims: Google slipped tons of cash to game devs, Android makers to cement Play store dominance

China warns game devs not to mess with history

Amazon Game Studios to its own devs: All your codebase doesn't belong to us

Chinese state media describes gaming as 'spiritual opium' that stunts education and destroys families

Activision Blizzard accused by California watchdog of fostering 'frat boy' culture, fatally toxic atmosphere

Tencent uses facial recognition to enforce China’s curfew on gaming kids

Wish you could play tabletop Dungeons & Dragons but have no friends? Solasta: Crown of the Magister offers a solution

EA Games looted by intruders: Publisher says 'no player data accessed' after reported theft of FIFA 21, Frostbite source

Photographer seeks $12m in copyright damages over claims Capcom ripped off her snaps in Resident Evil 4 art

Days Gone PC: Melting pot of open-world influences makes for one of the more immersive zombie slayers out there

Octopath Traveler: Love letter to JRPG golden age has great combat but retro graphics highlight the genre's tedium

Lenovo's latest gaming monster: Eight cores, 3.2GHz, giant heat sink, two fans. Oh, and it has a phone bolted on

Rogue elements: Hades and Loop Hero manage to draw on the same legacy while having very little in common

Valheim: How the heck has more 'indie shovelware with PS2 graphics' sold 4 million copies in a matter of weeks?

Looking for the perfect Valentine's gift? How about a week of retro gaming BBC Microlympics?

IKEA China and ASUS team on gaming products, resist urge to call them FRÄG

Subnautica and Below Zero: Nurture your inner MacGyver and Kevin Costner on an ocean-planet holiday

What's that you got there, AMD? More Ryzen chips? Yeah, OK, we could do with some of those

Why make games for Linux if they don't sell? Because the nerds are just grateful to get something that works

Cyberpunk 2077: There's a great game within screaming to get out, but sadly it was released 57 years too early

Assassin's Creed Valhalla is a monastery-burning romp that would be way better if it was not an Assassin's Creed game

We've made it: Microsoft deems El Reg relevant enough to have a play with the nerfed version of its upcoming Xbox

Luke Skywalker used to bullseye womp rats in his T-16 on Tatooine. But Star Wars: Squadrons misses the mark

AMD claims high-end Big Navi Radeon GPUs leave Nvidia's ray-tracing cards in the dust

Atari threatens to hit fourth VCS shipping deadline, provides pictures of boxes as proof of product delivery

Can The Register run Crysis Remastered? Yes, but we don't see why you would want to

Now Nvidia's monster GeForce RTX 3090 cards snaffled up by bots, scalpers – if only there had been a warning

I AM ERROR: Tired of chewing up your RAM? Razer tells gamers where to stick its special gum for the RGB crowd

Forget Fortnite and FIFA: India wants to develop games based on local legends

Death Stranding: Essential worker simulator unites its players amid a lockdown far worse than the real-life one

Global heatmap of cheater density says Brazil is the worst at video games, but there's no data on China

China requires gamers to reveal real names and map them to frag-tastic IDs

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