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Rockstar Games has banned player-created “missions” in its Grand Theft Auto Online game that recreated the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. The company also reportedly added “Charlie Kirk” to a filter used for flagging prohibited content.

Vince Zampella, the creator of the Call of Duty franchise, has died as a result of a Ferrari car crash near Los Angeles, according to multiple reports. He was 55.

Video game hardware sales in the United States experienced a significant decline in November, reaching the lowest point for the month since 2005. Apparently, Sony’s PlayStation, Microsoft’s Xbox, and Nintendo’s Switch are not on Santa’s list this year.

An Oklahoma County mother has filed a lawsuit against popular online gaming platform Roblox, accusing the company of enabling a breeding ground for sexual predators and failing to protect her 12-year-old son from exploitation.

Popular online gaming platform Roblox, currently battling a grooming scandal, has taken swift action to remove more than 100 custom game modes based on the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The custom game modes, known as “experiences” in Roblox, were designed by users to glorify Kirk’s assassination to the children who flock to the platform every day.

Online gaming platform Roblox announced this week that it is expanding its age estimation technology to all users and partnering with the International Age Rating Coalition to provide standardized age and content ratings for games and apps on its platform. The moves come in response to a deepening scandal involving grooming by predators on the platform which is massively popular with children.

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill (R) has filed a lawsuit against massively popular online gaming platform Roblox, accusing the company of failing to implement adequate safety measures to shield its young users from sexual predators.

Sources have revealed that many of the 200 staff being cut at mobile gaming giant King, the developer of Candy Crush, will be replaced by the very AI tools they built and trained.

Transgender activists are ripping Nintendo for casting a biological female instead of a trans actor as the lead in ‘The Legend of Zelda.’

Nintendo is facing criticism over the high price tag of its upcoming Switch 2 console, which is set to launch at $450 in the U.S. Despite leftists eager to blame Donald Trump’s tariffs for the console’s high price, Nintendo of America’s top boss has now said that tariffs had nothing to do with the hotly-anticipated gaming machine’s price.

President Donald Trump is doing a lot of winning, but the House of Representatives is focused on playing games.

Elon Musk has come under fire from gamers after he streamed himself playing Path of Exile 2, a game he is ranked as one of the best in the world at, with many believing that he showed a clear lack of knowledge of the game and likely paid someone to level his character for him.

Struggling video game retailer and notorious meme stock GameStop has revealed its intention to close a significant number of stores across the United States after shutting down 300 locations in the previous year. One analyst noted, “GameStop has virtually no chance

Video platform Rumble has announced a major expansion into the gaming arena by signing a contract with legendary streamer “Dr. Disrespect.” The entertainer has recently become vocal about his conservative values, including the promise to “Make Gaming Great Again” in honor of Donald Trump’s iconic MAGA slogan.

Democrat vice presidential nominee Tim Walz teamed up with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on the streaming platform Twitch to playing video games in a desperate attempt to reach young male voters the Harris campaign is struggling to gain support from.

Parkland parents Manuel and Patricia Oliver have introduced a video game that urges players to push for five gun controls they claim will stop school shootings. 

Italian authorities have dealt a significant blow to crooks trafficking in fake retro video games, confiscating counterfeit vintage consoles and games with an estimated value of nearly $55.5 million (€50 million).

Popular video game voice actress Jennifer Hale, famous for her work on “Metal Gear Solid” and “Mass Effect,” has warned her fellow actors that AI could be their doom.

Actors and performers in the SAG/AFTRA union have been calling for AI protections in the video game industry.

Turkey has blocked access to the children’s online video game “Roblox” because it can allegedly lead to the abuse of children.

SAG-AFTRA, the actors’ guild representing voice and motion-capture performers in the video game industry, has announced a strike against major gaming companies that began on Friday.

Nintendo of America has highlighted the importance of “culturalization” and DEI awareness in a job listing for a localization production specialist  position based in Redmond, Washington.

Behaviour Interactive, the developers behind the popular online survival horror game Dead By Daylight, have found themselves facing controversy after the recent addition of a new character sparked allegations of transphobia from the character’s transgender voice actor. 

Claiming it is targeting the growing threat of violent extremism, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have established mechanisms to share information and coordinate with gaming companies and social media platforms, according to a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report.

An employee of the woke video game narrative consultant firm Sweet Baby Inc. recently attempted to silence a critic on the Steam gaming platform for the crime of listing the games that Sweet Baby Inc. consulted on. The resulting backlash has included a viral spread of anti-woke messaging and Sweet Baby employees and their leftist journalist friends privating their X/Twitter accounts.

The government of El Salvador announced this week that it will serve as one of several venues for the 2024 Gamergy international video game e-sports event in October.

GLAAD has released the first-ever report on LGBT inclusion in video games, which claims that 17 percent of active gamers are LGBT. The organization is now calling on the gaming industry to increase games with gay characters and hire more LGBT workers “in positions of authority,” among other things.

Microsoft acquired gaming giant Activision Blizzard for almost $69 billion in October, and isn’t wasting any time in finding ways to cut costs.  The company has announced the layoff of 1,900 workers from Activision Blizzard and its own Xbox division, accounting for eight percent of its employees in gaming.

The company behind Roblox, a video game massively popular with children and young teens, is facing a class-action lawsuit initiated by concerned parents over allegations of sexual content and grooming on its gaming platform, raising serious concerns about the safety of its young user base.

A man from Bear, Delaware, is accused of kidnapping an 11-year-old girl from Wayne, New Jersey, on September 10 after the two met playing online video games.

Microsoft has acquired gaming giant Activision-Blizzard, concluding a process of intense scrutiny from competition regulators around the world, in a $69 billion purchase that is the largest in the video game industry’s history.

The Wire star Idris Elba says actors playing roles in video games like Phantom Liberty is a “sign of the times.” The actor, who appears in an expansion for the popular video game Cyberpunk 2077, believes more big name actors will appear in high-end games as Hollywood’s woes deepen.

Popular online competitive game League of Legends launched a competitive program for women and gamers from “marginalized genders,” which resulted in the program being dominated by biological men, with only one biological female being highlighted in the “Game Changers” promotional video.

South Korea will allow male video game players who win a gold medal at this year’s Asian Games, which began on Monday, to avoid mandatory military service, outraging fans of boy band superstars BTS who argue that the feat of becoming the country’s most successful music act in history is more deserving.

As its strike against the studios approaches its third month, the union representing Hollywood actors is now rattling its saber at another industry — video game makers. SAG-AFTRA leaders announced Friday that they will seek authorization for a strike against major

Elon Musk faced a chorus of boos and chants demanding the restoration of Twitter during his appearance at a video gaming tournament over the weekend.