It started in a small flat in west London, with three friends selling board games and a fanzine via mail order; now Games Workshop is worth more than Marks & Spencer and Asos and is more profitable than Google. This week the Nottingham-based company, which produces the Warhammer fantasy role-playing brand, announced all of its workers would get a £5,000 bonus after sales and profits surged during the pandemic.

By the time we get our hands on consoles, games, and even apps, there have already been multiple revisions during the design stages. Often, we'll see these concepts shared by the developers in various ways later down the line, but in this particular case, it's via a leak.

A community modder has repaired and released an early prototype of Nintendo’s SNES classic Super Mario Kart. The iconic racing game was released in Japan on August 27, 1992, but this prototype build was compiled on November 7, 1991, more than nine months earlier.

There's trouble in the World of Warcraft. Not from a rampaging dragon or a demon army attacking the land of Azeroth, but from some unhappy players who, after 17 years, have had enough. On YouTube, Reddit and Twitter, there are stories about people leaving the game. Some cite long delays for new content in a game that charges a monthly fee; others are annoyed at a lack of communication.

Even more good news for MSFS after its stellar console launch this week.

PlayStation 5 is Sony's fastest-selling games console after surpassing 10 million sales worldwide. The new console reached the figure on July 18th, just under a month faster than the PlayStation 4 managed.

Building your own gaming PC is a labor of love. It’s not something that needs to be “easier,” exactly. But from the moment I set a screwdriver to Intel’s new NUC 11 Extreme, aka “Beast Canyon,” I couldn’t help marveling at how brilliant a eight-liter gaming machine can be.

Shares of gaming graphics and crypto-mining semiconductor manufacturer Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) shed more than 3% in early trading this morning before retracing and recapturing some of those losses. As of 10:50 a.m. EDT, Nvidia stock is now down only 1.5% -- but it's still down.

Samsung's huge Odyssey G9 gaming monitor just got a big upgrade this year. The 2021 Odyssey Neo G9 relies on QLED technology to achieve 2,000 nits brightness.

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Sports gaming doesn’t get much press, but it’s a surging market with increased competition.

A renowned developer who used the pseudonym Near/Byuu last month posted a Twitter thread excoriating the online forum Kiwi Farms for intense bullying and implied they were going to kill themselves. The thread was shared more than a thousand times and lit up the gaming scene after reports that Near later died by suicide.

Jim Ryan says the approach is still "in its infancy"

AI programs that analyze language have difficulty gauging context. Words such as “black,” “white,” and “attack" can have different meanings.

Mortal Kombat 11 has sold more than 12 million units worldwide, publisher Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and developer NetherRealm Studios announced. Total sales for the Mortal Kombat franchise have also crossed 73 million console units to date. Additionally, Mortal Kombat Mobile, which is available for iOS and Android, has surpassed 138 million downloads.

Last week, a Bloomberg report revealed that Netflix hired Mike Verdu, a former EA and Oculus executive, to lead a new games department. We speculated that Netflix may focus on the “addictive” mobile games market, a hypothesis that Netflix has now confirmed in a letter to its shareholders.

You’ll get games for free as part of your Netflix sub.

Yes, it did not stop ALL the scalpers, but it was a lot easier to reserve a Steam Deck preorder compared to the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.

Did someone say Power Glove? Plenty of super-clever, super-talented researchers across the globe have been pretty busy trying to save the world recently, but hey, even scientists need to work on something fun every once and a while.

According to an EVGA discussion with JayzTwoCents, EVGA's customer support is in full swing, replacing all of its customer's RTX 3090s that have died from Amazon's New World game. Customers that RMAed their RTX 3090 yesterday reportedly already have new 3090's being shipped to their doorstep.