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Listing on Australian government’s classification board website describes Bluey video game as a treasure hunt-style gameFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastI…
Software giant acquiesced after US trade commission expressed concern that Activision Blizzard acquisition would hurt gamersMicrosoft has signed a binding agreement to ensure that the Call of Duty video game franchise remains available on Sony’s PlaySt…
A new article in Game Rant points out that the 2013 game Grand Theft Auto V was “the most successful piece of fictional media ever made, amassing almost 8 billion dollars.” So with a sequel planned, it was a big deal when 50 minutes of authentic pre-re…
The Federal Trade Commission’s request to pause the deal was rejected, clearing the few remaining hurdles for it to go throughA US appeals court on Friday rejected the Federal Trade Commission’s request to pause Microsoft’s $69bn (£53bn) purchase of Ca…
Experts say UK not doing enough to tackle gambling-style features in games on smartphones and consoles How video games use tricks from gambling to attract big spendersComment: I was not prepared for what we came across when treating gaming disordersMor…
The Video Game History Foundation: The Video Game History Foundation, in partnership with the Software Preservation Network, has conducted the first ever study on the commercial availability of classic video games, and the results are bleak. 87% of cla…
Long-time Slashdot reader Andreas(R) has an announcement:
Freeciv 3D in the browser is now ready to be played by everyone on FCIV.NET! This is a version of the classic strategy game Freeciv.
The game is open source with an AGPL license, and has been…
President Emmanuel Macron is partially blaming video games for the spread of violence in France following the shooting death of a teenager during a police traffic stop in a Paris suburb last week. NPR reports: “It sometimes feels like some of them are …
An anonymous reader shares a report: Most of the changes on the Sega Retro wiki every day are tiny things, like single-line tweaks to game details or image swaps. Early Monday morning, the site got something else: A 47MB, 272-page PDF full of confident…
Amusing parody of password rules.
BoingBoing:
For example, at a certain level, your password must include today’s Wordle answer. And then there’s rule #27: “At least 50% of your password must be in the Wingdings font.”
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