Survival games have been around for a while, and for good reason. Games that challenge you to stay alive by gathering resources, battling enemies, and slowly building up your defenses offer a gameplay ...

The New Scientist Book Club moved from the dystopian near-future imagined by Grace Chan in Every Version of You in November to the utopian far-future imagined by Iain M. Banks in The Player of Games ...

Tutorials might well be the bane of the video game industry's existence. Teaching a player how to do something is surprisingly difficult to do. Even if a developer crafts an educational and ...

Movement is something we might take for granted in games. Characters are expected to move in certain ways, and controls are often similar across games (an A button to jump, clicking in a left stick to ...

Netflix is acquiring Estonian startup Ready Player Me, a company creating "cross-game avatar tech" that allows players to bring their digital personas with them to different games, the company's CEO ...

Netflix will soon let customers make their own customized gaming avatars — which will travel across the streamer’s collection of titles — through the acquisition of Ready Player Me, an avatar-creation ...

The video game industry tends to be volatile, with entire genres going in and out of vogue. We’ve seen fighting games, RPGs, platformers, FMV games, and real-time strategy all declared as dead as the ...

The Skins Game makes its return next week. Before the action gets underway, let's take a look at each player's 2025 season, including results and key stats for skins. On Black Friday, The Skins Game ...

Mojang has dropped some huge news for Minecraft Java players - especially those that love to mod. While the modding scene is already thriving in Minecraft, it's not as accessible as you'd expect for ...

Publisher NetEase Games and developer 24 Entertainment Lin’an, a new development studio and subsidiary of Thunder Fire Studio, have announced Blood Message, a cinematic, single-player, linear ...

With JDK 25, Java reaches another Long-Term Support (LTS) milestone — and for enterprises, that makes this release unavoidable. Oracle’s licensing terms for JDK 21 will soon expire, creating a ticking ...