Microsoft is trying to capitalize on PC Game Pass growth.

Google is shutting down its video game streaming service, Stadia, on January 18th, 2023, the company announced today. All purchases will be refunded and the technology will still be used for YouTube and other parts of its business, but the consumer-facing app and storefront will be shuttered for good less than five years after it launched, joining the graveyard of other projects Google has abandoned.

Super Mario Bros stars Chris Pratt and Charlie Day play moustachioed plumbers Mario and Luigi, who find themselves transported from Brooklyn into Mushroom Kingdom where they must save Princess Peach and stop King Koopa from taking over the world.

Last week, Meta showed yet another cringeworthy product of its $10.2 billion investment in the metaverse: a demonic VR porcelain doll of Mark Zuckerberg that looked worse than a Second Life avatar from 2003. Hastily released in response to yet another round of universal mockery from all over the internet, it was still only marginally more expressive, and slightly more alive, than a Ken doll.

The original Half-Life has been remade as top-down, twin-stick shooter roguelike, which has been approved for Steam by Valve and has its first version out now.

Meta is betting big on virtual reality as an anchor technology for its metaverse, but VR isn't catching on yet within the mainstream.

Did you even know, before you opened this post, that today, Apple is launching another massive new product?

Reports indicate that PlayStation users are buying less games, and Sony's data suggests that higher costs are a reason why unit sales have dropped.

YouTuber Paulo Gomes recently published a video showing how he modified a customer's RTX 3070, which used to be one of Nvidia's best graphics cards, with 16GB of GDDR6 memory. The modification resulted in serious performance improvements in the highly memory-intensive Resident Evil 4, where the 16GB mod was performing 9x better than the 8GB version in the 1% lows.

HTC will reveal a virtual reality and augmented reality headset at CES.

Nintendo game director and creator of Super Mario Bros. Shigeru Miyamoto would kindly request you stop calling him the Spielberg of video games

Key partners have development kits ahead of a planned launch…

Palmer Luckey claims to have invented a VR headset that kills the wearer in real life, if they die in a virtual reality game. Ha ha. Cool...

The lawsuit represents the FTC’s most significant effort to rein in consolidation in the tech industry since prominent tech critic Lina Khan became the commission’s chair.

Microsoft has responded to the CMA’s preliminary findings, claiming that Sony’s stance on the Activision Blizzard King deal is a self-serving attempt to protect its market dominance.

For the most part, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s recent new-gen patch is everything fans could’ve wanted. The detail I don’t remember anyone asking for though was the inclusion of realistic vaginas but that’s seemingly what we’ve got because we live in a truly cursed world.

The Xbox price hike follows warnings prices wouldn’t hold forever.

A fight over "what direction the internet should go in"

I used to stop outside the record shop on the way to school or out in town on the weekends and flick through the cassette tapes that were lined up in those tall carousels they use to sell postcards in the street. The cassettes I was interested in didn’t have music on them, but Spectrum computer games. I looked through every one to see one piece of information before I got too excited.

The robbery was quick, quiet, and clean, and netted more than 2.2 trillion ISK—that's $22,300 in real money.