Video games, online games, and more

The New Yorker, 2017: “For the stars of the streaming service Twitch, success means working around the clock. (2017)

Getting hard data on game costs is difficult. When I did my talk “Moore’s Wall” in 2005, I did some basic research using mostly publicly available ... (2018)

"As an industry, we don't really follow the law and we all do it." As much as video games are an interactive medium, in recent years an entire s... (2018)

Hot on the heels of the Netherlands declaring loot boxes are gambling and therefore illegal, Belgium has had its say... (2018)

Vox Published on Jul 21, 2016 "Freemium" games can end up gaming gamers. (2018)

Bobby Kotick is the CEO of Activision Blizzard (a merger he engineered); it's one of only two video gaming companies in the Fortune 500, and the la... (2019)

How cloud streaming could boost the profits of videogame makers like Electronic Arts. (2018)

Microsoft is finally planning to open up Xbox Live to all game developers. The push will allow games to use Xbox Live across PC, Xbox, iOS, Android... (2019)

We used to think that as video games matured, as a medium, they would become more like Hollywood, becoming more focused on character development, p... (2019)

An undergraduate history course incorporating strategy games is just the beginning: computer simulations are allowing people to study the past in w... (2019)

Virtual currencies from such games as RuneScape are prized in a country whose real money is worthless. (2018)

The Verge Published on Mar 6, 2019 AI in video games is very different than the AI in self-driving cars, smart home devices, and natural language... (2019)

The next big social network, ecommerce empire, movie franchise, and super app? Games will lead the way. (2019)