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Legendary game designer John Carmack has responded to the ongoing legal battle with ZeniMax with a lawsuit of his own.

A study published in Frontiers in Psychology has once again provided evidence that playing violent video games does not decrease personal empathy.

A study by the International Potato Center points to the possibility of growing potatoes in some of the most extreme environments on our planet — and beyond.

The Xbox One port of Funcom’s fantasy survival simulation Conan Exiles will not feature a “penis slider” in the character creation tools.

Microsoft announced a new subscription program that will give access to a significant portion of its back catalog, and Wall Street apparently took it as a bad omen for brick-and-mortar retailer GameStop.

The darkly comedic stalking sim Yandere Simulator just picked up a publisher in tinyBuild.

Boston Dynamics’ “Handle” robot looks like an impressive piece of tech, able to leap four feet in the air and confidently navigate varying terrain.

Mega-popular streaming service Twitch.tv is cutting out the middleman and allowing viewers to directly purchase the game they’re watching.

PlayStation VR, despite being one of the latest to market out of current virtual reality offerings, has enjoyed sales performance that has managed to startle even Sony itself.

The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences honored achievements in the video game industry Thursday, and Blizzard’s class-based multiplayer phenom Overwatch took home the night’s foremost award from among a strong list of contenders that included indie gem INSIDE, Nathan Drake’s final adventure in Uncharted 4, and the latest entry in the Battlefield franchise.

Nintendo isn’t particularly happy about seeing unlicensed recreations of its characters speeding around on public roads and has decided to sue a go-kart company for infringing upon its intellectual property.

ZeniMax has asked a judge to ban Oculus from using their code in virtual reality headsets.

Pluto — along with more than 100 other objects in our solar system — may be considered a planet after all if a new suggested definition is accepted.

Alan Stone, the industry legend that brought Nintendo to the United States, has died of cancer at 71.

A disheartening announcement was buried in the dregs of an official Nintendo PR e-mail that Virtual Console games will not be available on the Nintendo Switch at launch.

With less than 28GB of usable memory, the Nintendo Switch is already proving inadequate for installing some games.

According to Valve, only 30 out of more than 1,000 virtual reality (VR) titles on the Steam marketplace have earned more than $250,000.

A popular World of Tanks streamer has died during a 24-hour charity marathon session.

Fjord Group Director Bronwyn van der Merwe spoke to ZDNet about what she sees as the future of artificial intelligence: machines getting in touch with their feelings.

Microsoft will reportedly bypass the 2017 launch of HoloLens 2 in order to accelerate progress toward 2019’s Version 3.

In 2018, the NBA will take a cue from the Netherlands in welcoming the first eSports members to its official franchises.

Gaming publisher Ubisoft revealed that sales were down 6% for the 3rd fiscal quarter compared to the previous year while Watch Dogs 2’s launch wasn’t what they had hoped for.

Activision shed some light on their financial performance for 2016 with the expected highs and lows surrounding their biggest games.

The Electronics Entertainment Expo (E3), the largest trade show for the gaming industry, will open its doors to 15,000 of its most devoted consumers in 2017.

Oculus Rift “pop-ups” demonstrating the VR headset are shutting down in the hundreds after a lack of public interest has left some of them empty for days at a time.

Google Brain’s neural networks are now capable of “hallucinating” images from heavily distorted pictures.

Resident Evil 7 is a triumphant return for a troubled franchise, with only a few nagging missteps keeping it from greatness. https://youtu.be/ZBh1_u7BgiU The quietly bland protagonist of Resident Evil VII fades from existence within the first minutes of the game due

It seems DICE is done with their inaugural entry in the Star Wars Battlefront series, and is now putting all of its focus on the 2017 sequel.

2K Games won a long-running case about its right to store and distribute the biometric data it collects from face scans in its games.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is asking Games Workshop to eliminate fur from the design of Warhammer 40k figures.

“LEGO Life” is a social network for aspiring architects 13-years old and younger, sporting built-in safety measures and full-time moderation.

Nintendo says that a significant number of those who have downloaded Super Mario Run have decided to purchase the full game.

Hipsters beware: the new face of coffee shops doesn’t have a face at all. “Gordon” is the first in a new line of robotic automated baristas at Cafe X in San Francisco, capable of taking and delivering two orders a minute, every minute, all day long.

Resident Evil 7, one of the first triple-A titles to support VR, is a major success for the platform.

The Salk Institute has successfully implanted a human-pig hybrid into a sow and observed its successful development over the course of a month.

In preparation for the scheduled 2018 launch of their Starliner spacecraft, Boeing has unveiled an innovative redesign of the traditional astronaut’s space suit.