Slashdot Items Tagged "gamesbiz"

Date / Time Story
Saturday March 26, 2016 @09:20AM Sony Is Bringing PlayStation Games To iOS and Android Devices
Tuesday March 22, 2016 @07:37PM PlayStation VR Pre-Orders Sell Out In Minutes At Amazon
Friday March 18, 2016 @11:27PM Cinema-Quality Unity Engine 'Adam' Demo Claims To Run Real-Time On GeForce GTX 980
Monday March 14, 2016 @09:46PM Xbox Live Now Supports Cross-Platform Multiplayer With PS4
Sunday March 13, 2016 @04:20PM Valve Is Bringing Steam's Game Library Into VR With Desktop Theater Mode
Monday March 07, 2016 @10:21PM Fan-Made 'Metal Gear Solid' Remake Cancelled; Gamers Blame Konami
Monday March 07, 2016 @04:08PM Valve Announces New Portal Content For Virtual Reality
Monday March 07, 2016 @01:22PM Sweeping Changes At Microsoft Studios Kill Lionhead Studios and Fable
Friday March 04, 2016 @02:29PM Microsoft Losing Ground On Windows Store and UWP For Gaming
Tuesday March 01, 2016 @11:36PM Microsoft To Unify PC and Xbox One Platforms
Tuesday March 01, 2016 @01:39AM As of Tonight, 1900 Steam Games For Linux
Monday February 29, 2016 @12:14PM HoloLens For Developers Available For Pre-Order
Monday February 29, 2016 @09:13AM 107 Games Revealed Ahead of HTC Vive Preorder Launch
Tuesday February 23, 2016 @02:00AM The Story Behind the Worst Computer Game In History
Monday February 15, 2016 @09:51AM Microsoft Plans To Make Windows 10, Xbox One Game "Crossbuys" A Habit
Tuesday February 09, 2016 @01:27PM Amazon Launches Free Game Engine Lumberyard
Sunday January 10, 2016 @12:51PM Sony Attempts To Trademark "Let's Play"
Sunday January 10, 2016 @10:29AM Report: Activision Buys E-Sports League's Assets
Thursday January 07, 2016 @11:27AM Oculus To Ship "Lucky's Tale" Game With Rift
Tuesday December 29, 2015 @09:27AM The Fan HD Remakes Yet To Be Banned
Saturday December 26, 2015 @02:22PM Steam: No "Unauthorized Actions" On Exposed Accounts
Monday December 21, 2015 @03:25PM Mobile Gaming Giant Calls For Longer Product Life Cycles
Friday December 18, 2015 @10:13PM Street Fighter V Announced For Linux and SteamOS
Thursday November 12, 2015 @03:46PM How Rocket League Brought Psyonix Back From the Brink
Thursday November 12, 2015 @11:55AM With Respect To Gaming, Android Still Lags Behind iOS
Thursday November 12, 2015 @10:09AM How One Company Is Bringing Old Video Games Back From the Dead
Wednesday November 04, 2015 @12:02PM How Apple Is Preventing the Apple TV From Becoming a Console Rival
Saturday October 31, 2015 @11:59AM Studio Behind 'Little Big Planet' Confirms Next Title Coming To PlayStation VR
Tuesday October 27, 2015 @08:43AM eSports and Livestreaming Buoy PC Gaming
Thursday October 22, 2015 @01:12PM Square Enix To Concentrate On Remaking Their Back Catalog
Monday September 21, 2015 @09:21AM Pokemon Go: What Nintendo Needs To Learn From Ingress
Thursday August 27, 2015 @08:22AM How Poly Bridge's GIF Generator Turned an Indie Game Into a Reddit Sensation
Friday August 21, 2015 @06:00PM Gamers Are Fans of Games, Not Genres
Thursday August 13, 2015 @04:46PM Nintendo Fires Employee For Speaking About Job On a Podcast
Thursday August 13, 2015 @12:59PM Interviews: Game Designer Steve Jackson Answers Your Questions
Wednesday August 05, 2015 @06:58PM Id Software Founds a New Office In Germany
Friday July 03, 2015 @05:51PM Square Enix Pulls, Apologizes For Mac Version of Final Fantasy XIV
Tuesday June 30, 2015 @08:13AM Interviews: Ask Steve Jackson About Designing Games
Sunday June 21, 2015 @08:28AM In 6 Months, Australia Bans More Than 240 Games
Thursday June 18, 2015 @08:50AM The Rebirth of Arcade Racers -- On Kickstarter
Saturday June 13, 2015 @10:31AM Sony and Microsoft's Failed Releases Since E3 2014
Friday June 12, 2015 @07:09PM What Source 2 Means For Valve's ESports
Tuesday May 26, 2015 @08:07AM Large Amount of Star Citizen Art Assets Leaked
Thursday May 21, 2015 @12:25PM Take Two Sues BBC Over Drama About GTA Development
Tuesday May 19, 2015 @11:40AM Blizzard Bans 100,000 Cheaters In Massive "World of Warcraft" Ban Spree
Friday May 15, 2015 @07:57PM How MMO Design Has Improved Bar Trivia
Tuesday April 28, 2015 @08:42AM Valve Pulls the Plug On Paid Mods For Skyrim
Tuesday April 21, 2015 @10:43AM The Logistics of an eSports Tournament
Sunday April 19, 2015 @02:37PM Whoah, Small Spender! Steam Sets Limits For Users Who Spend Less Than $5
Friday April 17, 2015 @05:17PM Jack Thompson Will Be Featured In BBC Film 'Grand Theft Auto'
Thursday April 16, 2015 @12:47PM 2K, Australia's Last AAA Studio, Closes Its Doors
Friday April 10, 2015 @07:23AM ESA Rebukes EFF's Request To Exempt Abandoned Games From Some DMCA Rules
Friday April 03, 2015 @09:25PM Valve Bootstrapped Source 2 Engine On an Open-Source Vulkan Driver
Thursday March 19, 2015 @04:36PM "Descent" Goes For a Crowdfunding Reboot (and a Linux Version)
Thursday March 19, 2015 @10:06AM Gabe Newell Understands Half-Life Fans, Not Promising Any Sequels
Tuesday March 17, 2015 @10:15PM Nintendo Finally Working On Games for Smartphones
Friday March 06, 2015 @09:02PM NVIDIA Announces SHIELD Game Console
Tuesday March 03, 2015 @11:55AM What Would Minecraft 2 Look Like Under Microsoft?
Tuesday February 24, 2015 @10:08AM Valve To Reveal Virtual Reality Dev Kit Next Week At GDC
Tuesday February 24, 2015 @09:42AM Is Sega the Next Atari?
Thursday January 22, 2015 @11:28AM The Untold Story of the Invention of the Game Cartridge
Tuesday December 30, 2014 @02:59AM The Making of a 1980s Dungeons & Dragons Module
Monday December 29, 2014 @01:53PM FBI Allegedly Investigating Lizard Squad Member Over Xbox Live, PSN Attacks
Sunday December 28, 2014 @01:17PM Sony PlayStation Network Back Up Now, Supposedly
Friday December 19, 2014 @12:36AM To Fight Currency Mismatches, Steam Adding Region Locking to PC Games
Friday December 05, 2014 @07:41PM The PlayStation Turns 20
Tuesday November 18, 2014 @09:30AM Sweden Considers Adding "Sexism" Ratings To Video Games
Friday November 14, 2014 @02:46PM Sony To Take On Netflix With Playstation Vue
Thursday November 13, 2014 @05:50PM Assassin's Creed: Unity Launch Debacle Pulls Spotlight Onto Game Review Embargos
Thursday November 13, 2014 @02:16PM Nvidia Shield Tablet Gets Android Lollipop Update, Half Life 2 EP1 and GRID
Tuesday November 11, 2014 @10:38AM Worrying Aspects of Linux Gaming
Friday October 24, 2014 @09:05PM Google Search Finally Adds Information About Video Games
Friday October 24, 2014 @01:48PM PCGamingWiki Looks Into Linux Gaming With 'Port Reports'
Thursday October 23, 2014 @10:43PM Judge Says EA Battlefield 4 Execs Engaged In "Puffery," Not Fraud
Thursday October 16, 2014 @07:37AM Mozilla Teams Up With Humble Bundle To Offer Eight Plugin-Free Games
Thursday October 02, 2014 @11:58AM Intel Drops Gamasutra Sponsorship Over Controversial Editorials
Friday September 12, 2014 @11:05AM Kickstarter's Problem: You Have To Make the Game Before You Ask For Money
Saturday September 06, 2014 @09:23AM DMCA Claim Over GPL Non-Compliance Shuts Off Minecraft Plug-Ins
Sunday August 24, 2014 @12:31AM Among Gamers, Adult Women Vastly Outnumber Teenage Boys
Friday August 15, 2014 @07:57PM 60,000 Oculus Rift DK2 Orders, 20,000+ Units Shipped, New Orders Ship In October
Wednesday August 13, 2014 @01:28PM Xbox One Will Play Media from USB Devices, DLNA Servers
Saturday August 09, 2014 @09:28AM Add a TV Tuner To Your Xbox (In Europe)
Thursday July 31, 2014 @10:33PM Crytek USA Collapses, Sells Game IP To Other Developers
Friday July 25, 2014 @11:09PM The Daily Harassment of Women In the Game Industry
Tuesday July 08, 2014 @12:13PM Indie Game Developers Talk About Why They Struck Out On Their Own
Tuesday July 08, 2014 @07:55AM Rob Pardo Says Farewell To Blizzard
Saturday May 31, 2014 @10:03PM Apple's 2014 WWDC Keynote Will Be Streamed Live; Hopes For a Microconsole?
Thursday May 29, 2014 @10:15AM Nintendo To Split Ad Revenue With Streaming Gamers
Thursday May 29, 2014 @08:05AM Valve's Steam Machines Delayed, Won't Be Coming In 2014
Tuesday May 27, 2014 @10:04AM Sony Bringing PlayStation To China
Tuesday May 13, 2014 @08:04AM Nintendo Apologizes For Not Allowing Same-Sex Relationships In Life Sim Game
Thursday May 08, 2014 @02:49PM Wretched Ride: PS4 Driveclub Game Rental Tied To Paid Subscription
Tuesday May 06, 2014 @08:10AM Oculus: ZeniMax Claims Over Rift Tech Are "False"
Thursday April 03, 2014 @01:09PM Amazon's Fire TV: Is It Worth Game Developers' Time?
Thursday March 27, 2014 @02:15PM Latest Humble Bundle Supports Open Source GameDev Tools
Saturday March 22, 2014 @10:33PM Final Fantasy XIV Failed Due To Overly Detailed Flowerpots
Tuesday March 04, 2014 @09:51AM Merlin's Magic: The Inside Story of the First Mobile Game
Friday February 28, 2014 @11:05PM Study: Half of In-App Purchases Come From Only 0.15% of Players
Tuesday February 25, 2014 @12:04PM South Park Game Censored On Consoles Outside North America
Thursday February 20, 2014 @10:56AM Sony's Favorite Gadget Is Kinect
Thursday February 13, 2014 @01:14PM 'CandySwipe' Crushed: When Game Development Turns Nasty
Sunday February 09, 2014 @11:22PM German Court Forbids Resale of Valve Games
Saturday February 08, 2014 @10:01PM EA's Dungeon Keeper Ratings Below a 5 Go To Email Black Hole
Thursday February 06, 2014 @11:26AM Amazon's Double-Helix Acquisition Hints At Gaming Console
Wednesday January 29, 2014 @08:40PM Is Amazon Making a Sub-$300 Console To Play Mobile Games?
Sunday January 26, 2014 @11:19PM Microsoft Relaxing Xbox One Kinect Requirements, Giving GPU Power a Boost?
Saturday January 11, 2014 @08:28AM Dell Joins Steam Machine Initiative With Alienware System
Friday November 22, 2013 @07:48PM John Carmack Leaves id Software
Tuesday November 12, 2013 @10:01AM Why Project Flare Might Just End the Console War
Tuesday November 12, 2013 @09:09AM Humble Bundle Launches Online Store For Games
Sunday November 03, 2013 @10:24AM River City Ransom: How an NES Classic Returned 20 Years On
Thursday October 24, 2013 @09:59AM Surgeon Simulator: Inside the World's Hardest Game
Thursday September 26, 2013 @09:59AM Gaming Legends Discuss Using Kickstarter For Their Next Projects
Thursday September 19, 2013 @08:15AM GTA V Makes $800 Million In 24 Hours
Friday September 13, 2013 @07:37PM Sci-Fi Author Timothy Zahn Is Creating a Video Game
Wednesday September 11, 2013 @06:48PM Valve Announces Family Sharing On Steam, Can Include Friends
Thursday September 05, 2013 @10:12AM GameFly Scores In Longstanding DVD Mailing Complaint
Tuesday August 20, 2013 @08:47AM Urban Terror Code Stolen
Tuesday July 09, 2013 @10:22AM Deus Ex Creator On How a Video-Game Academy Could Fix the Industry
Thursday July 04, 2013 @08:43AM Zynga Puts Random Stranger In Customer Support Role
Thursday June 27, 2013 @03:31PM Kick-started Remake of Leisure Suit Larry Now On Sale
Thursday June 27, 2013 @09:27AM Firsthand Impressions of Now-Delayed NVIDIA SHIELD
Wednesday June 26, 2013 @08:09AM Ouya Android Game Console Launches, Quickly Sells Out
Thursday June 20, 2013 @04:52PM Sony, Microsoft Squabble Over Console Features, But the Real Opponent Is Apple
Tuesday June 18, 2013 @08:12AM MS To Indie Devs: You Have a To Have a Publisher
Thursday June 06, 2013 @11:22AM Amazon Debuts Multi-Platform Indie Games Store
Friday May 17, 2013 @06:08PM Nintendo Hijacks Ad Revenue From Fan-Created YouTube Playthroughs
Monday May 06, 2013 @08:12AM Google Sets Its Sights On Gaming, Hires Noah Falstein As Chief Game Designer
Thursday April 11, 2013 @08:33AM Microsoft Game Director Adam Orth Resigns Following Xbox Comments
Sunday April 07, 2013 @07:21PM LucasArts Employees Hold Wake & Eulogy; Vader Still Roams
Tuesday April 02, 2013 @10:49AM Valve Starts Publishing Packages For Its Own Linux Distribution
Tuesday March 19, 2013 @08:24AM Electronics Arts CEO Ousted In Wake of SimCity Launch Disaster
Thursday March 14, 2013 @10:15AM Hacker Skips SimCity Full-Time Network Requirement
Friday March 01, 2013 @05:43PM Cliff Bleszinski: Vote With Your Dollars
Friday February 01, 2013 @10:06PM Gabe Newell: Steam Box's Biggest Threat Isn't Consoles, It's Apple
Tuesday January 29, 2013 @02:01PM Feedback On Simcity Gets User Banned From EA Forums
Thursday January 24, 2013 @11:49AM Sony Fined In UK For PlayStation Network Hack
Friday January 11, 2013 @08:10PM Game Receives First R18+ "Adults Only" Classification In Australia
Tuesday January 01, 2013 @03:00PM Why Do You Want To Kill My Pet? Zynga Shuts Down PetVille, 10 Others
Friday December 28, 2012 @07:34PM Ouya Dev Consoles Ship, SDK Released
Tuesday December 25, 2012 @01:18PM Steam Hit By 'No Connection' Error Worldwide
Thursday December 20, 2012 @05:24PM GarageGames Starts IndieGoGo Campaign To Port Torque 3D To Linux
Thursday November 29, 2012 @02:49PM Notch Expands On 0x10c, Microsoft and Quantum Computing
Thursday November 29, 2012 @11:16AM Kickstarter Games: Where They Are Now
Saturday November 17, 2012 @09:03PM Valve's Big Picture Could Be a Linux Game Console
Saturday November 17, 2012 @02:10PM Star Citizen Takes the Crowdfunding Crown, Raising More Than $4M
Friday September 28, 2012 @06:03PM EA Makes Minor Tweaks To FIFA 12 For the Wii, Releases It As FIFA 13
Monday September 17, 2012 @02:33PM How Indie Devs Made an 1,800-Player Action Game Mod In Their Spare Time
Sunday September 09, 2012 @07:48PM Valve Reveals Gaming Headset, Teases Big Picture
Sunday September 09, 2012 @09:06AM The Struggles of Developing StarCraft
Friday August 31, 2012 @10:23PM NCSoft Closes "City of Heroes" Publisher Paragon Studios
Friday August 31, 2012 @09:32PM Bethesda: We Can't Make Dawnguard Work On the PS3
Tuesday August 21, 2012 @08:21AM Some Players Want Day-1 DLC, Says BioWare
Tuesday August 07, 2012 @08:33AM The Extremes of Internet Gaming In South Korea
Thursday July 26, 2012 @08:49AM Why Valve Wants To Port Games To Linux: Because Windows 8 Is a Catastrophe
Thursday June 21, 2012 @01:01PM Valve Unveils Steam For Schools, Portal In the Classroom
Sunday June 10, 2012 @11:57AM Neal Stephenson Reinventing Computer Swordfighting, Via Kickstarter
Sunday June 10, 2012 @09:37AM Taxes Lead Angry Birds Maker Rovio To Consider Move To Ireland
Tuesday June 05, 2012 @01:01PM Steam For Linux Will Launch In 2012
Thursday April 19, 2012 @07:12AM Federal Court Allows Class-Action Suit Against Apple Over In-App Purchases
Tuesday April 10, 2012 @08:49AM Sony Slashes 10,000 Jobs
Sunday April 08, 2012 @01:48PM Will Kickstarter Launch a Gaming Renaissance?
Thursday March 22, 2012 @08:48AM Humble Bundle For Android 2 Goes Live
Saturday March 10, 2012 @06:26PM Battleheart Developer Drops Android As 'Unsustainable'
Friday March 02, 2012 @07:25PM Video Games: Goods Or Services?
Saturday February 25, 2012 @02:30PM Ask Slashdot: Freedom From DRM, In the Social Gaming Arena?
Thursday February 09, 2012 @02:45PM Double Fine Raises $700,000 In 24 Hours With Crowdfunding
Friday February 03, 2012 @10:45AM Ubisoft Games Won't Work Next Week
Monday January 30, 2012 @01:42PM Ian Bogost Replies: Deep Thoughts On Gaming
Monday January 30, 2012 @01:28PM Anger With Game Content Lock Spurs Reaction From Studio Head Curt Shilling
Friday January 27, 2012 @08:16PM Iwata Confirms Nintendo Network, New Wii U Controller Functions
Thursday January 26, 2012 @02:29PM Xbox 720 Might Reject Used Games
Thursday January 26, 2012 @09:08AM Zynga Accused of Cloning Hit Indie iPhone Game Tiny Tower
Wednesday January 25, 2012 @01:24AM Australia Likely To Get 18+ Game Rating
Thursday December 15, 2011 @09:29AM New Humble Indie Bundle Goes Live
Thursday December 01, 2011 @09:01AM Mobile Industry Rolls Out Game Rating System
Friday November 25, 2011 @07:13PM Ubisoft Blames Piracy For Non-Release of PC Game
Friday November 18, 2011 @08:28PM Desura Game Distribution Service Releases On Linux
Friday November 18, 2011 @07:03PM US Gives Raytheon $10.5M For 'Serious Games'
Friday November 11, 2011 @07:08PM Star Trek Online Going Free-To-Play In January
Friday November 04, 2011 @05:13PM Australia Approves Final R18+ Gaming Guidelines
Wednesday November 02, 2011 @04:03PM Angry Birds Downloads Pass Half-Billion Mark
Thursday October 20, 2011 @08:07AM Final Fantasy XIV Subscriptions Returning, PS3 Version In 2012
Friday October 14, 2011 @08:48PM Valve Boss Expects Apple To Challenge Game Consoles
Tuesday October 11, 2011 @09:26AM Latest Humble Bundle Hits $1 Million
Thursday October 06, 2011 @08:40AM Sony Bringing PSN Pass To All First-Party Games
Tuesday October 04, 2011 @01:05PM PSN Pass for All future PS3 Multiplayer Games
Sunday October 02, 2011 @02:45PM Top 1% of iOS Game Developers Make a Third of All Revenue
Thursday September 29, 2011 @10:12AM Gears of War franchise tips $1bn in lifetime sales
Thursday September 29, 2011 @09:05AM Social Media Bubble Pops Before It Fully Inflates
Saturday September 24, 2011 @05:37PM Steam Translation Community Slaving Away
Friday September 23, 2011 @09:14PM EA's New User Agreement Bans Lawsuits
Sunday September 11, 2011 @01:40PM Coming Soon to EA's Origin Store: Third-Party Titles
Sunday September 11, 2011 @10:30AM How Game Makers Like EA Mine for Tax Breaks
Saturday September 03, 2011 @04:16PM Sony Attacks Microsoft's Publishing Policies
Sunday August 28, 2011 @03:03PM Google Is Grooming Chrome As a Game Platform
Friday August 26, 2011 @07:33PM GameStop Offers $50 Certificate For Coupon Fiasco
Thursday August 11, 2011 @12:56PM How Apple Is Beating Nintendo At Its Own Game
Monday August 08, 2011 @03:58PM Game Publisher Following Pirates To Find a Market
Thursday July 28, 2011 @01:27PM Nintendo slashes profit forecast and 3DS price