Nintendo has said it will no longer sell games in Russia through its online store as the Japanese giant winds down operations in the increasingly isolated country. The changes, which were announced and came into effect on Wednesday, follow Nintendo's suspension of product shipments to Russia in March 2022 after the invasion of Ukraine.

The video game goliath shut down its randomized "gacha pipe" micro-transaction system in October 2022, but the company is still facing flack.

On Friday, the developers behind open source GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin received a DMCA takedown notice from Nintendo blocking Dolphin's impending release on Steam. The development team launched a Steam page on March 28 and announced it on the Dolphin blog, writing: "We're pleased to finally tell the world of our experiment. This has been the product of many months of work, and we look forward to getting it into users' hands soon!"

Meta is waging its latest round of layoffs on Wednesday, estimated to impact about 6,000 people. These cuts are part of the company’s so-called “Year of Efficiency,” in which Meta is being massively restructured to save money and flatten the organization structure.

Nearly two years after its disastrous release, Cyberpunk 2077 has been admitted into the New York Museum of Failures, a harsh sentence, but not one that’s undeserved. Even if you weren’t interested in CD Projekt Red’s monumental release, you’d have seen it advertised and talked about online prior to its release. Even more so when it eventually did come out, along with an avalanche of bugs and performance issues that deeply angered fans who’d waited years for the dystopian FPS role-playing game.

Researchers have found a stark gender imbalance after carrying out the largest-ever study of video game dialogue, published today.

In 2023, we should expect better from Nintendo

It's a second week at No.1 for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, despite a 73% drop in sales week-on-week. It sounds like a hefty drop, but it's not too unusual for a game that receives a lot of hype and delivers a huge week one of sales. The game became the biggest boxed release of the year when it launched last week.

At least two organizations in America’s most prominent league for professional video game players are selling their teams, underscoring the industry’s uncertain future.

Jim Ryan was asked about PS5 exclusives during an interview with Famitsu.

Eiji Aonuma designed marionettes before overseeing Zelda, the wildly popular video game series. Its latest title, “Tears of the Kingdom,” has sold 10 million copies.

Doyle Brunson, dubbed 'The Godfather of Poker,' has died at the age of 89, according to a family statement shared by his agent Brian Balsbaugh on Twitter.

The Witcher 3 has now sold 50m copies, cementing the title's position as one of the best-selling games of all time. Developer CD Projekt Red announced this latest milestone during its recent earnings call. Here, CDPR exec Adam Kicinski also revealed the Witcher trilogy combined has now sold in excess of 75m copies.

Microsoft's Sarah Bond discussed new business models the company is looking at beyond Xbox Game Pass.

On the list of life's many stressors—money, health, social injustice, wanting to buy eggs at the grocery store but being unsure if there are still some in the fridge—the free space in my SSD ranks surprisingly high. A new massive game install hits like a jab to the gut. Every week is another dozen gigabytes closer to having to make some deep cuts.

Is it bad when a new game feels like a rehash of one of the best games of all time? Six years ago, Nintendo launched its new Switch console alongside The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. That entry in the decades-old action-adventure series gave players a sublime sandbox of mystery, puzzles and combat that set a new standard of open-world games.

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to remember the metaverse, which was quietly laid to rest a few weeks ago by its grieving adoptive parent, one Mark Zuckerberg. Those of you with long memories will remember how, in October 2021, Zuck (as he is known to his friends) excitedly announced the arrival of his new adoptee, to which he had playfully assigned the nickname “The Future”.

It looks like the Xbox Series S is facing serious memory allocation issues in Borderlands 3, at least according to Reddit user u/jokekiller94 — who posted a screenshot of the game crashing on their Series S console with an "out of memory" error on the screen.

Skyline is a popular Nintendo Switch emulator for Android, but the team is halting work on the project due to a takedown notice.

In April, AARP held its first Games Summit at its headquarters in Washington D.C., and for many people outside the video game industry, the event might seem like a head-scratcher. An organization focused on advocating for people in the 50-plus demographic talking about video games, a medium typically thought to be for younger people?