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Minecraft: Education Edition has officially released a 1.0 edition. It introduces valuable tools for students and educators alike — both in and out of the game.

The PC gaming hardware industry reached a $30 billion TAM (Total Available Market) for the first time in 2016.

In a YouTube video posted on January 19, CloudGate Studio demonstrated an experiment in full-body virtual reality tracking with the HTC Vive.

A 2012 report on the effect of violent video games on players has been retracted by the publisher.

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare was the top-selling console title of 2016, despite lackluster critical reception, a dramatic loss in the PC user base, and a deep drop in physical retail copies sold in the first month of release.

Ahead of the inauguration of Donald Trump as the forty-fifth President Of The Unites States, China has escalated their censorship of news organizations.

Valve President Gabe Newell took to Reddit for an AMA this week, giving us another brief peek into the world of the hugely successful developer-turned-storefront.

MIT is using a peculiar twist on the age-old ethics “Trolley Problem” in order to understand the decisions people believe self-driving vehicles should make.

The latest wrinkle in the case between ZeniMax Media and Oculus over VR technology finds the plaintiff claiming destruction of evidence.

Official details about the Nintendo Switch have been officially revealed, but perhaps the system should have stayed behind the curtain.

The company Moon Express has just swept through a $20 million round of financing in a quest to dominate the lunar economy.

Some of the tech world’s elites have come together to fund research that hopes to protect humanity from the rise of artificial intelligence.

Unsurprisingly, Valve’s own titles still reign on their digital platform Steam, but notably none of the top five most-played games of 2016 by average player count were released last year.

The European Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs has voted favorably on a draft report which proposes giving legal personage to robots.

The Pentagon has announced successful testing of a swarm of “micro-drones.”

Microsoft has officially confirmed the cancellation of Platinum Games’ dragon action-RPG Scalebound after four years of development.

The script for the official Uncharted movie is now complete, but it’s still a long way from the big screen.

Valve Corporation reached a new milestone in the first weekend of 2017, with 14 million concurrent players on their Steam client.

Two years after the launch of space-sim Elite: Dangerous, a player has had a close encounter with mysterious alien lifeforms.

“Clueless Gamer,” one of Conan O’Brien’s most popular late-night segments, has been picked up by TBS as a series all its own.

Mass Effect: Andromeda will launch on March 21, 2017, and a steady stream of info about the latest entry in one of the biggest role-playing franchises has begun to come out as it approaches release.

In the last year, Amazon has dramatically increased employment of robots, going from 30,000 robots in 2015 to 45,000 in 2016.

Blizzard will be pushing out a “20th Anniversary” patch to Diablo III this week that will add the original Diablo campaign to the game, and it’s already getting a lot of attention.

As facial recognition shifts from movie magic to mundane reality, one man is taking a unique approach to the preservation of personal privacy with clothes to confuse such technology.

In Japan, the future is now. A Japanese insurance company has begun to trade some of their “white collar” employees for an IBM artificial intelligence.

The original developers of Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 are suing their former publisher for substantial royalties.

A team of scientists out of UC Riverside has developed a material that can mend itself, inspired by the self-healing power of iconic Marvel hero Wolverine.

Despite the transformative nature of the technology, the debut of virtual reality products in 2016 was notably hesitant.

There have been more than 50 government shutdowns of the Internet in 2016, costing the respective countries hundreds of millions of dollars and choking citizen freedoms during crucial moments.

Carrie Fisher is being remembered by players on her character’s ill-fated home planet by players in the Star Wars MMORPG The Old Republic.

Microsoft has applied for a patent on technology that would allow potential augmented reality devices to keep track of real-world objects in their vicinity.

Amazon has been granted a patent for airship warehouses as it prepares to move its delivery business into the future.

Amazon has refused to hand over recordings made by one of its devices to Arkansas police for a murder investigation.

After the tragic passing of Carrie Fisher, Disney must decide how to handle her absence from the franchise that immortalized her.

The future of the mining industry isn’t below ground — it’s asteroids in the reaches of space.

PC gaming behemoth Valve has been fined $3 million AUD (2.2 million USD) by the Australian federal court for lack of an appropriate refund policy for its digital gaming storefront Steam between 2011 and 2014.