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  • These Mobile Games are For the Birds

    How do you design an app for a parrot? Consider games that are “made to be...

  • What Meltdown? Crypto Comes Roaring Back in the Philippines.

    Two years after the cryptocurrency market crashed, internet cafes for playing crypto-earning video games are opening...

  • Workers at Microsoft-Owned Activision Vote to Unionize

    The group will become the largest union at a video game company in the United States,...

  • Akira Toriyama, Creator of ‘Dragon Ball,’ Dies at 68

    His popular manga inspired numerous television, film and video game adaptations, reaching fans far beyond Japan’s...

  • Apple Reverses Course and Allows Epic Games to Start Competing App Store

    After an inquiry by European regulators, Epic Games said Apple would allow it to access the...

  • Big American Tech Profits From Chinese Ad Spending Spree

    Temu, Shein, and streaming and gaming apps looking to break into the U.S. market are spending...

  • Apple Cancels Epic Games’ Developer Account in Europe

    The move tests the European Union’s new tech competition law, which was designed to allow competing...

  • Can a Tech Giant Be Woke?

    Microsoft, once again a juggernaut thanks to artificial intelligence, wants to be seen as an ethical...

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    The Apple Vision Pro Is a Marvel. But Who Will Buy It?

    Parents, movie buffs and office workers might all succumb to the novelty of Apple’s new ‘spatial...

  • Microsoft Cuts 1,900 Jobs in Its Video Game Division

    The reductions come three months after the tech giant completed its $69 billion acquisition of Activision...

  • Making VR Headsets Cool Won’t Be Easy, Even for Apple

    Starting with Google Glass, all have been plagued with the same issues, even as Apple plunges...

  • Deal Ends Dispute Over Records of Onetime King of Donkey Kong

    Billy Mitchell’s records will be listed in a “historical database” but not the leaderboard, ending a...

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    Boy, 13, Is Believed to Be the First to ‘Beat’ Tetris

    Willis Gibson, a competitive Tetris player prodigy from Oklahoma, advanced so far in the original Nintendo...

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    Mychal Threets Wants Everyone to Experience ‘Library Joy’

    The 33-year-old librarian from California has become popular on TikTok and Instagram with his upbeat take...