Google's Project Genie could put even more game developers out of work
A Labs prototype turns prompts into short, explorable 3D worlds
AI + ML29 Jan 2026 | 22
Gaming
UK gambling regulator accuses Meta of lying about its struggle to spot illegal ads
Labels Zuck’s ad library ‘a window into criminality’ and the Social Network as ‘happy to turn a blind eye’
Legal20 Jan 2026 | 43
Speccy clone storms back for Christmas without a shred of Sinclair code
Rubber-key revival leans on Linux, emulation, and third-party ROMs
Personal Tech01 Dec 2025 | 71
Crocs get the Xbox treatment with sole-crushing price of $80
Time to test just how far fandom and taste will stretch
Offbeat26 Nov 2025 | 21
You are likely to be eaten by the MIT license: Microsoft frees Zork source
Redmond dusts off Infocom's classic text adventures and puts the originals into public hands
Applications21 Nov 2025 | 50
Game over: Europol storms gaming platforms in extremist content sweep
Law enforcement agency’s referral blitz hit gaming platforms hard, surfacing thousands of extremist URLs
Cyber-crime17 Nov 2025 | 13
NARROWER TOPICS
Retro nerd hacks LEGO's Game Boy into the real deal
Modder crams working hardware into plastic shell and fires up Tetris
Offbeat03 Oct 2025 | 9
Toys can tell us a lot about how tech will change our lives
Column LEGO Mindstorms, PlayStation 2 and Furby all resonate today in their own way
Personal Tech18 Sep 2025 | 15
30 years later, Doom returns to SNES with Raspberry Pi RP2350 muscle
Limited Run Games swaps in silicon to emulate Super FX chip and hit 20 fps
Personal Tech29 Aug 2025 | 2
Study finds radical nutjobs targeting gamers via Discord, Twitch, Steam
Updated 'Hyper-masculine' first-person shooter fandoms are prime targets
Offbeat04 Aug 2025 | 27
Microsoft cuts the Windows 11 bloat for Xbox handhelds
If gamers can have a slimline version of the OS, why not IT admins?
OSes09 Jun 2025 | 40
Assassin's Creed maker faces GDPR complaint for forcing single-player gamers online
Collecting data from solo players is a Far Cry from being necessary, says noyb
Security24 Apr 2025 | 38
AMD looks to undercut Nvidia, win gamers' hearts with RX 9070 series
The question is whether we can find them in stock and at MSRP
Systems28 Feb 2025 | 51
Alibaba exec trashes his own staff and customers, quickly apologizes
'I am carefree, I like to joke,' says guy who fines workers if they glance at phones during meetings
Offbeat10 Dec 2024 | 18
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 struggles to take off
If only the company in the title knew how to scale servers in the cloud
Personal Tech20 Nov 2024 | 42
Alleged Snowflake attacker gets busted by Canadians – politely, we assume
Infosec in brief Also: Crypto hacks will continue; CoD hacker gets thousands banned, and more
Security11 Nov 2024 |
Intel sued over Raptor Lake voltage instability
Failure to warn customers about chip flaw leads to fraud claim
Systems06 Nov 2024 | 15
Bandai Namco reportedly tries to bore staff into quitting, skirting Japan’s labor laws
Welcome to the oidashi beya, aka expulsion rooms
Offbeat16 Oct 2024 | 60
Valve powers up Arch Linux – because who needs Windows when you have a Steam Deck?
Distro behind the handheld console announces corporate sponsorship
OSes03 Oct 2024 | 47
Unity scraps hated runtime fees, hits devs with subscription hikes instead
Insert coin to continue
Applications12 Sep 2024 | 9
If every PC is going to be an AI PC, they better be as good at all the things trad PCs can do
Comment Microsoft's Copilot+ machines suck at one of computing's oldest use cases
Channel05 Sep 2024 | 151
Gamers who find Ryzen 9000s disappointingly slow are testing it wrong, says AMD
Those using Windows 11, version 24H2, should see better speed
Systems23 Aug 2024 | 37
Console yourself – research finds gaming may actually boost mental health
Digital athletes enjoy positive effects in Japan study, but too much screentime sees diminishing returns
Offbeat20 Aug 2024 | 14
Video game actors strike because they fear an attack of the AI clones
You wouldn't download a performer
AI + ML26 Jul 2024 | 45
Philippines wipes out its legit online gambling industry to take down scammers
President apologizes in advance for job losses
Public Sector24 Jul 2024 | 5
Indonesia blocks 2.5 million pieces of gambling content, minister says it's not enough
Wagering boomed – and so did the quantity of money heading offshore
Public Sector23 Jul 2024 | 3
Tech upgrade broke the casino – took slots offline for days
A fresh mess for the Australian outfit that previously managed to pay winnings more than once
Software18 Jul 2024 | 17
Nintendo sues alleged Switch pirate pair for serious coin
And if court finds for gaming giant? It's-a me! Bankruptcy!
Legal02 Jul 2024 | 20
Tetris Company celebrates classic game's 40th birthday
You're not a 1985 truther, are you?
Bootnotes06 Jun 2024 | 28
From meatballs to metaverse – IKEA's flatpack fantasy lands on Roblox
Swedish furniture giant has 10 paid in-game jobs to fill
Bootnotes05 Jun 2024 | 9
Windows 11 and Linux gain ground among Steam gamers
Windows 10 still king of the hill for now
OSes04 Jun 2024 | 14
Twitch ditches Safety Advisory Council, relaunches with vetted 'ambassadors'
Who needs experts when you have an army of hand-picked super users telling you what you want to hear?
Personal Tech31 May 2024 | 13
Razer made to pay $1.2M over 'N95' face mask that wasn't
Customers to get their light-up cyberpunk respirators refunded
Offbeat30 Apr 2024 | 22
Japanese and Singaporean devs battle over gamified crowdsourced telco maintenance app
You read that right – it's a bit like Pokémon Go, but for telephone poles
Software24 Apr 2024 | 3
Wing Commander III changed how the copy hotkey works in Windows 95
No, boss, I'm not just playing a game. I'm testing compatibility. Honest
Offbeat19 Apr 2024 | 84
Software glitch saw Aussie casino give away millions in cash
Nobody cared enough to check why audits were out of whack
Software18 Apr 2024 | 20
ChatGPT-3.5, Claude 3 kick pixelated butt in Street Fighter III tournament for LLMs
But don't expect them to compete with human pros anytime soon
AI + ML11 Apr 2024 |
Sega grabs tech layoff baton and dumps couple hundred Euro staff
Gaming industry clings to 'Survive 2024'
Personal Tech30 Mar 2024 | 25
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 | 6
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 | 96
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 | 21
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 | 37
Biting the hand that feeds IT
