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In a recent article, MarketWatch questions whether video games could actually be Google and Apple’s weakness in antitrust cases. One venture capitalist commented, “These closed gardens feel like extortion. You need to pay to survive. It harkens to Microsoft and the Department of Justice investigation, and AT&T before that. With Apple and Google, it comes down to what is the ‘right’ take for the platforms? Thirty percent? 10%?”

Bomb detection units in Iraq uncovered a plot by the Islamic State to detonate bombs against Yazidi people hidden in video game controllers, a film highlighted by the UK Telegraph on Monday found.

Amazon-owned live-streaming site Twitch has reportedly appointed a transgender “deer-girl” with links to the ADL to its “Safety Advisory Council.” The streamer, known as “FerociouslySteph” on the site, argues that voice chat in video games is a tool of oppression and that “a lot of you gamers are actually white supremacists.”

The Chinese Communist Party bans and censors video games to keep Chinese players from discussing forbidden topics with foreigners.

Gaming peripheral company Razer will reportedly shift manufacturing lines from producing its own products to manufacturing surgical masks as the Chinese coronavirus pandemic sweeps the globe. The company plans to donate up to 1 million masks around the world.

The United Nations (U.N.) launched a push Thursday to engage mobile video game players around the world and ask their input and advice to guide its ongoing “climate change” policies.

A British teenager’s life was saved by a 21-year-old woman living 5,000 miles away from him in Texas on January 2. 

Veteran software developer Mark Kern, who served as a Team Lead for Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft, published a long, sad thread to Twitter on Tuesday, calling out the company’s decisions — and their Chinese investor, Tencent.

The CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment announced a new partnership with the United Nations environment committee called the Playing for the Planet alliance. Sony vows its upcoming Playstation 5 gaming platform will focus on lower power consumption to save the Earth.

Joey Saladino, the YouTube star and Staten Island Congressional candidate, sat down for an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, discussing the GOP, “loser” professional politicians, and President Trump’s success in deal-making.

ESPN has postponed the broadcast of a first-person shooter video game tournament out of respect to victims in last week’s mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton.

University of Texas’ psychology professor Dr. Art Markman rebutted the resurgent claim about video games’ relationship to violence following the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton.

Too many people around the world “just don’t like us,” and “violent video games” have played a role in global anti-American violence, Marianne Williamson, the breakout star of Tuesday’s CNN Democrat Party debate, posits on her website.

A study published on Monday revealed that social media usage — more so than any other type of digital screen time — is linked to teen depression. The research team investigated the connection between depression in adolescents and their exposure to various types of screen time over a four-year time period. According to the researchers, video games makes teens “more happy.”

Two professors published a research paper this summer that argues that the FIFA soccer video game series promotes racism.

South Korean organizations launched a committee Wednesday to oppose moves by the World Health Organization (WHO) to classify addiction to video games as a health disorder.

He was drawing the interest of multiple college programs and his future looked promising, but a dispute over the result of a video game tragically robbed a Florida high school football player of what could have been.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said Wednesday that he will introduce legislation banning common game-industry practices that “prey on user addiction.”

A senior lawmaker in Iraq backed a motion Monday to ban some video games across the country, claiming they “threaten the social and moral peace” of the war-torn Middle Eastern country.

References to Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson have been removed from the game after he expressed his belief that transgender women are not women this month.

A horror-themed videogame called Devotion from Taiwanese studio Red Candle Games was forced off the immensely popular Steam online marketplace this week because angry Chinese users bombed it with negative reviews for allegedly insulting Chinese President Xi Jinping.

A Florida man allegedly used popular video game Fortnite to lure at least 20 teenagers to his house for “sexual activities.”

The “Young People & Gambling 2018” study has revealed some disturbing trends among young gamblers.

University of Idaho professor Robin Johnson argues that male gamers promote “technomasculinity” in a recent academic journal article.

Shirrako, a popular YouTube content creator, was banned from the platform on Wednesday for publishing a series of videos showing him killing a suffragette character in the game Red Dead Redemption 2. Google’s video platform claimed the videos “promoted violence” despite taking no action against the many other videos from the popular and violent game.

China’s largest video game company, Tencent Holdings Ltd., announced Monday that all new players must go through a mandatory registration process that will send their information to the Chinese government.

A video game streaming star on the Twitch platform reportedly fell victim to a drive-by shooting on Tuesday for the second time in a week while he was livestreaming Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. According to Guy Beahm, better known as “Dr. DisRespect,” a window of his house was shot out during the broadcast.

23-year-old Anthony J. Clark of Oregon says he thought he was playing Grand Theft Auto while he was allegedly committing the game’s namesake crime.

Tributes poured in for popular video game commentator John “TotalBiscuit” Bain, following the announcement of his death on Thursday.

A professor at Seattle University argues in a new book that video games promote “toxic meritocracy” or the expectation that the most skilled, hardest working player should win.

“No significant changes” were found in adults who spent two months playing popular violent video game Grand Theft Auto V daily, according to a report.

The Guardian claimed video games create racism and promote right-wing ideology in an article published Monday, citing the “expulsion of aliens” in sci-fi games and “border control” in Plants vs Zombies.

CNN has claimed that a Russian anti-Hillary Clinton video game called Hilltendo influenced the 2016 presidential election, prompting mockery of the news outlet online.

President Trump reportedly showed a compilation of graphic scenes from modern video games to entertainment industry executives during a meeting about the effects of violent media on teenagers.

One-third of young voters supported President Trump during the 2016 presidential election, and Trump’s recent attempts to blame video games for violence could lose them.

President Trump is set to meet with leading figures in the video gaming industry Thursday, following the Parkland school shooting in February, despite the fact that his claim video games influence violence has been factually disproven.