18 h. ago Nintendo promises stronger results with Switch 2 console going on sale in June

Japanese video-game maker Nintendo has reported a 43% decline in profit for the fiscal year through March, but promised a turnaround as its Switch console upgrade goes on sale in June

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36 h. ago When video games journalism eats itself, we all lose out | Keith Stuart

As industry giants trade beloved brands like commodities and AI offers easy content, independent games outlets are rising up. Here’s why they’re sorely neededLast week was a bad one for video games journalism. Two key contributors to the veteran site Giant Bomb, Jeff Grubb and Mike Minotti, have announced their departure after a recent podcast was taken down. The 888th episode of the Giant Bombcast reportedly featured a section lampooning new brand guidelines issued to staff and is no longer available online. Later this week, it was announced that major US site Polygon was being sold to Valnet, owner of the ScreenRant and GameRant brands, resulting in a swathe of job losses. This follows ReedPop’s sale, in 2024, of four high-profile UK-based sites – Eurogamer, GamesIndustry.biz, Rock Paper Shotgun and VG247 – to IGN Entertainment, owned by Ziff Davis, which also resulted in redundancies.It’s sad how these long-standing sites, each with vast audiences and sturdy reputations, have bee...

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58 h. ago New GTA 6 trailer arrives after Rockstar pushes release to May 2026

Rockstar Games delayed the next instalment to 2026 last week, but has just dropped a new trailer

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58 h. ago Top baby names inspired by video game characters leading searches and beating traditional names

Parents are turning to video games to find the perfect names for their little ones, with experts noting a number of intriguing patterns when it comes to both boys and girls

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62 h. ago Drop Duchy review – a sprawling challenge disguised as a block

Arcade Crew/Sleepy Mill Studio; PCBuild a card deck of landscape features; organise your territory on a Tetris-like playfield; battle enemies and bosses to progress. It might sound complicated, but this is an ingenious experiment in game design by combinationThe indie video game scene is currently dominated by two unassailable genre titans: the rogue-like and the deck-builder. The first is a type of action adventure in which players explore procedurally generated landscapes, where they battle enemies, level up and then die – whereupon they start all over again from scratch. The latter is about building decks of collectible cards (think Pokémon or Magic: The Gathering, but digital) and fighting with them. Titles that combine both in interesting ways – such as Balatro and Slay the Spire – can become huge crossover hits. But the market is getting saturated and so developers are having to find new genres to mix into this potent game design cocktail.Hence Drop Duchy, a game that attempts...

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66 h. ago Champions League on Prime Video: which game is on Prime Video and is it Arsenal vs PSG? How to watch

Amazon will be showing one Champions League semi-final on Prime Video this week ⚽

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4 d. ago George Lucas' sick deleted Star Wars scene as fans 'refuse to believe it's real'

Ever since it burst onto screens in 1977 George Lucas' Star Wars iconic franchise has spawned multiple movies, TV series, graphic novels and video games. But not all scenes made the final cut

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5 d. ago Mark Williams' massive net worth, surgery fears and wife's public outrage

Mark Williams' wife was publicly incensed World Snooker following a video game omission.

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5 d. ago Tenerife tourists use sneaky trick to reserve sunbeds before they're even laid out

The competition for prime sunbed spots in popular beach destinations has been ramping up in recent years. One TikTok video shows how Tenerife tourists are now trying to game the system.

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6 d. ago GTA 6 release date delayed in official Rockstar Games announcement – here’s everything to know

The delay was announced on Rockstar’s official social media

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6 d. ago Grand Theft Auto 6 is DELAYED... here's when fans can expect the game after its release date is pushed back

The maker of Grand Theft Auto has sparked outrage among its fan base after announcing the video game will be delayed again.

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6 d. ago Grand Theft Auto VI release date delayed after months of speculation

The sequel to one of the best-selling video games in history was due to be released in 2025

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6 d. ago Space Invaders on your wrist: the glory years of Casio video game watches

Their tech may have been primitive, but for 80s schoolchildren of a certain kind they had a glamour to equal any modern iPhone Over the last couple of weeks I have been tidying our attic, and while the general aim has been to prevent its contents from collapsing through the ceiling, I have a side-mission. My most valued possession when I was twelve was a Casio GD-8 Car Race watch – a digital timepiece that included a built-in racing game on its tiny monochrome LCD display. Two big buttons on the front let you steer left and right to avoid incoming vehicles and your aim was to stay alive as long as possible. I lost count of the number of times it was confiscated by teachers at my school. I used to lend it to the hardest boys in the year, thereby guaranteeing me protection against bullies. As a socially inept nerd, this was invaluable to my survival. I’m pretty sure I still have the watch somewhere, and my determination to find it has been augmented by a recent discovery: these things...

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7 d. ago Microsoft raises Xbox prices globally amid tariff uncertainty

Sony also raised PlayStation 5 price and Nintendo delayed Switch 2 pre-orders as Trump tariffs throw electronics manufacturing into chaosMicrosoft announced on Thursday that it will increase Xbox console prices worldwide, citing “market conditions” just days after Sony made a similar move with its PlayStation 5.The tech giant also plans to raise prices for some new games developed by its video game subsidiaries. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago How Elon Musk had sleepovers at the White House, raided ice cream from the fridge and compared himself to Buddha

Elon Musk reflected on his 100 days in government service, which included playing video games in his West Wing office, sleeping in the Lincoln Bedroom, raiding the White House freezer for Haagen-Dazs.

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8 d. ago The Last of Us: Biggest differences between cult video game and hit HBO TV show

The Last of Us has just started rolling out season two, and it's supposed to follow the original PlayStation video game - but HBO bosses have made some major changes in the plot we've seen so far

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8 d. ago Experts list the harms and benefits of gaming to help ‘cut through the noise’

Researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute have outlined 13 ways in which playing video games might influence a person’s mental health.

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8 d. ago Playing with words: why novelists are becoming video game writers – and vice

While the novel remains a high-status cultural form, video game writing is still seen as a throwaway art – despite some of the biggest names in fiction being involvedI’ve been working in games for a little more than 15 years, and the main thing I’d say about it at this point is that it’s a pretty annoying job to explain at parties. People often say something like, “Oh, I don’t really play games,” which is surely an odd thing to tell a game designer moments after you’ve been introduced; I don’t really eat croissants, but that’s not the first thing I bring up if I meet a patissier.So one of the joys of publishing my first novel last year was the option to sidestep all of that, and say: “Oh, I’m a writer.” I wrote a novel; I’m working on another one; job done, the conversation can move on. Nobody says, “Oh, I don’t really read books,” even though that’s at least as likely to be true. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Battersea rescue dogs stage 'cutest pitch invasion ever' in front of thousands of fans

The pet pitch invaders are waiting to find new homes after they unleashed themselves onto the screens of football fans tuned in to an online video game stream

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9 d. ago Meghan Markle blasted as 'cringy' after comparing Prince Harry marriage to popular video game

The Duchess of Sussex , 43, made the comparison as she spoke to her friend, IT Cosmetics CEO Jamie Kern Lima, in her first ever podcast interview released on Monday.

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