Cyberattack gifts esports pros with cheats, forcing Apex Legends to postpone tournament Updated Virtual gunslingers forcibly became cheaters via mystery means Cyber-crime18 Mar 2024 | 2
Electronic Arts frags hundreds of workers 'to grow fandom' Dating app Bumble also finds breaking up is easy to do for a third of its crew Personal Tech29 Feb 2024 | 11
Hackers mod a Sony PlayStation Portal to run PSP games Modders claim GTA: Liberty City Stories and Tekken 6 are running 'very smoothly' Personal Tech20 Feb 2024 | 10
North Korea running malware-laden gambling websites as-a-service $5k a month for the site. $3k for tech support. Infection with malware and funding a despot? Priceless Cyber-crime15 Feb 2024 | 3
Add bacteria to the list of things that can run Doom Frame rate would be even worse than the original, though. MUCH worse Bootnotes31 Jan 2024 | 28
40 years since Elite became the most fun you could have with 22 kilobytes Retro Tech Week The Reg talks to co-creator Ian Bell and coder Mark Moxon about what's under the cobra's hood Personal Tech18 Jan 2024 | 95
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
Unity to slash 25% of workforce under former Red Hat CEO Whitehurst Move comes months after software licensing scandal Software09 Jan 2024 | 18
Nvidia gives RTX 40 series a Super refresh as AI PC hype takes off CES Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's GPUs with slightly better specs Personal Tech09 Jan 2024 | 3
The Register's 2023 in gaming had one final boss: Baldur's Gate 3 The RPG But we also have a bit to say about Dark Souls, Starfield, Foxhole, and more Bootnotes05 Jan 2024 | 30
Valve celebrates New Year by blowing off Steam support for Windows 7 and 8 Updates for the 1% of holdouts halt OSes02 Jan 2024 | 20
Nvidia slowed RTX 4090 GPU by 11 percent, to make it 100 percent legal for export to China For now Personal Tech28 Dec 2023 | 34
Doom turns 30, so its creators celebrate seminal first-person shooter’s contribution to IT careers And the joy of slaughtering demons as John Romero himself delivers a frag-tastic new level Software11 Dec 2023 | 73
Amazon's game-streamer Twitch to quit South Korea, citing savage network costs The idea that Big Content should pay network operators is in trouble Personal Tech08 Dec 2023 | 32
China gamifies censorship and surveillance with national internet law quiz I'm not a regular government, I'm a cool government Legal05 Dec 2023 | 9
Game over for ByteDance's big video game studio dream? TikTok parent reportedly gives hundreds the tintack Personal Tech27 Nov 2023 | 1
Teens take a million metaverse Ryanair flights in Roblox They do this in their free time Bootnotes24 Oct 2023 | 41
Intel's 14th-gen Raptor Lake Refresh turns turbos up to 6GHz, gives i7 an E-core bump TSMC-equipped Meteor Lake mobile parts not coming until December Systems16 Oct 2023 | 4
Unity CEO 'retires' in the wake of fee fiasco Ex-Red Hat CEO James M Whitehurst takes the big chair in the interim Software10 Oct 2023 | 46
Game on: FTC tries again to block Microsoft Activision merger Redmond says the deal is still on Off-Prem27 Sep 2023 | 1
Devs learn rival Godot engine in a week to poke fun at Unity The result? Install Fee Tycoon Offbeat27 Sep 2023 | 14
Unity apologizes, tweaks runtime install fees after gaming world outrage Is this the engine maker's final continue? Software22 Sep 2023 | 16
CMA says new Microsoft-Activision deal addresses concerns Meet gaming's power couple, with Ubisoft the third wheel. Now competition watchdog must ensure Windows biz keeps promises Software22 Sep 2023 | 2
Having read the room, Unity goes back to drawing board on runtime fee policy But the damage has already been done Software18 Sep 2023 | 36
Unity closes offices, cancels town hall after threat in wake of runtime fee restructure Backlash has spilled offline and into potential violence Software15 Sep 2023 | 99
Atari pulls nostalgia power move and buys homebrew community forum AtariAge is older than the current Atari incarnation – retro enough for you? Offbeat08 Sep 2023 | 11
Pokémon Go was a 'success disaster' and Niantic is still chasing another hit The past seven years have seen improved mapping, AR and AI, and the developer's gotta catch 'em all ahead of Monster Hunter launch Software01 Sep 2023 | 21
Microsoft wants Activision so badly, it's handing streaming rights over to ... Ubisoft? All to appease the UK's competition watchdog, the last hurdle to the deal Software22 Aug 2023 | 37
I know what you did next summer: Microsoft to kill off Xbox 360 Store Don't worry, your downloaded games are safe ... for now? Personal Tech17 Aug 2023 | 27
Asus blames 'thermal stress' for fried SD card readers in Ally handhelds So much for that 'zero-gravity' cooling Personal Tech13 Jul 2023 | 13
India slaps massive 28 percent tax on online games of skill Fantasy sports bets put on the same footing as online casinos or a punt on the gee-gees Legal13 Jul 2023 | 7
Judge shoots down FTC attempt to stall Microsoft-Activision merger Final update UK may be final stumbling point to Redmond's gaming ambitions Personal Tech11 Jul 2023 | 20
Sega COO backs away from blockchain Sonic the Hedgehog unsure NFTs are golden rings worth collecting Software11 Jul 2023 | 17
Almost all classic US video games 'critically endangered' Let us borrow titles digitally from libraries like we can books and movies, say 'puter historians Personal Tech11 Jul 2023 | 28
Microsoft's Activision fight with FTC turned up a Blizzard of docs: Here's your summary Windows PCs in the cloud, spending Sony out of business, mobile woes, and more – and the files to read Personal Tech28 Jun 2023 | 31
AMD undercuts Nvidia's 4060 launch with a $269 GPU Maybe the years of accelerators being hard to find and harder to pay for are behind us? Personal Tech25 May 2023 | 17
Parent discovers the cost of ignoring Roblox: £2,500 and heart palpitations 10-year-old hacks family iPad and goes on in-game bling shopping spree Offbeat22 May 2023 | 71
Meta wheels out Deloitte to plug the metaverse. Is anyone actually convinced? Comment All these analysts know is that their gut says... maybe Personal Tech10 May 2023 | 37
UK watchdog blocks Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition That's not very Unicorn Kingdom of you Personal Tech26 Apr 2023 | 69
Croquet for Unity: Live, network-transparent 3D gaming... but it's so much more Updated This is that rare announcement that's far more significant than it sounds Software23 Mar 2023 | 15
EU 'poised' to OK Microsoft's Activision biz gobble Crunch licensing talks with rivals may ease antitrust fears Personal Tech06 Mar 2023 | 10
Fujitsu, Mitsubishi, pals proclaim 'Japan Metaverse Economic Zone' Updating the nation through the power of games. And ads. Lots of ads Software28 Feb 2023 | 9
Microsoft’s Mr Smith goes to Europe in quest to win Activision deal Analysis Trust us, we're no monopolists Personal Tech26 Feb 2023 | 6
Windows November update trips up some Intel graphics drivers If you're having trouble with your games, this may be why OSes09 Feb 2023 | 4
Microsoft-Activision deal will hurt UK gamers, says watchdog Competition and Markets Authority isn't buying promises of equal access to Call of Duty Personal Tech08 Feb 2023 | 3
GPU slowdown earns Discord weird bug of the week A fix is coming eventually, Nvidia says Systems02 Feb 2023 | 4
Meanwhile, in Japan, pet fish run up credit card bill on Nintendo Switch Gaming critters wreak havoc after Pokémon attempt crashes Offbeat30 Jan 2023 | 22
Doom QA testers form Microsoft's first labor union in the US And the largest such group in the gaming industry, says Communications Workers of America Offbeat04 Jan 2023 | 7
India's fix for its online gaming indust... Oh. Self-regulation House always wins Software04 Jan 2023 | 3
Nvidia revives canceled RTX 4080 as 'new' 12GB RTX 4070 TI Hopefully it comes with a 'new' competitive price, too Personal Tech30 Dec 2022 | 25
Why would a keyboard pack a GPU and run Unreal Engine? To show animations beneath the clear keys, natch At $349 it's a cheap computer and a not-very-expensive keyboard Systems21 Dec 2022 | 82
Microsoft patent eyes ads in streaming online games Picture your avatar wearing a logo-emblazoned shirt driving past a billboard touting a product Personal Tech20 Dec 2022 | 64
Microsoft launches full-court press to save $69B Activision deal Updated Blocking us would be a big mistake. Huuuuge Software08 Dec 2022 | 8
Creator of spec for melting RTX 4090 cables urges Nvidia, others to 'ensure user safety' Testing is your responsibility, not ours, says PCI-SIG Systems02 Dec 2022 | 22
China declares victory over teenage video game addiction Suddenly discovers that game-adjacent tech has its uses – and it's a huge export industry Personal Tech24 Nov 2022 | 27
Nvidia faces lawsuit for melting RTX 4090 cables as AMD has a laugh Law firm wants class-action status, says issue poses 'serious electrical and fire hazard' Systems18 Nov 2022 | 59
Nvidia's datacenter growth can't save it from gaming GPU woes CEO says new RTX 4090 cards off to a 'great start' despite melting cable issues Systems17 Nov 2022 | 16
Boffins grow human brain cells to play Pong Now let’s see what happens when we get it drunk, say researchers Science14 Oct 2022 | 30
Google kills off Stadia We gave the cloud gaming service two years to live. It managed three Personal Tech29 Sep 2022 | 63
Indian authorities probe Singapore gaming payments outfit Coda Claims kids unwittingly click up huge bills in games, only for their cash to fly offshore Legal29 Sep 2022 | 2
Autumn's GTC shows who Nvidia really cares about GTC Hint: It’s not necessarily gamers Systems22 Sep 2022 | 7