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Netflix to add mobile video games as subscriber growth slows

Lisa Richwine and Akanksha Rana
Posted at Jul 21 08:20 AM

Netflix Inc said it would make a deeper dive into video games as the movie and TV streaming service projected weak subscriber growth amid growing competition and the lifting of pandemic restrictions that had kept people at home. Read more »

Netflix signals gaming plans with video exec hiring

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 16 05:54 AM

Netflix has played with games before — the interactive "Bandersnatch" and also free mobile game spinning off its hit "Stranger Things" shows. Read more »

Death Stranding: Director's Cut to be launched on PlayStation 5 in September

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 13 06:40 PM

Sony recently announced that Death Stranding is getting a director's cut for the PlayStation 5.  Read more »

'Super Mario' cartridge sold for video game record $1.5 million

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Jul 12 06:56 AM

The sale, the first ever of a game cartridge to surpass $1 million, came just two days after a sealed copy of "The Legend of Zelda" -- made for the old Nintendo NES console -- sold for a then-record of $870,000.   Read more »

Nintendo unveils new Switch game console

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 07 10:33 AM

Nintendo on Tuesday announced its updated Switch hand-held game console would be available in October, after a pandemic year in which gaming activity surged. Read more »

Wild Rift: PH teams secure SEA Icon Series: Summer Super Cup playoffs slots

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 22 03:48 PM

Both Team Secret and Amihan Esports have qualified for the quarter finals of the tournament, with a prize pool of around US$150,000 at stake.  Read more »

Microsoft bolsters video game line-up as Xbox turns 20

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 14 08:36 AM

The Xbox maker showed off 30 new games coming to its console, which in November will celebrate two decades on the market.   Read more »

NBA 2K21 free at Epic Games Store until May 27

Kennedy Caacbay, ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 23 06:29 AM

Get your NBA 2K21 copy for FREE until May 27 at the Epic Games Store. Read more »

Nier Replicant ver.1.22474487139 is out now: Here's what to expect

Angela Coloma, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 27 01:57 PM

NieR Replicant fans are in for a treat as Square Enix, in collaboration with Toylogic, released an upgraded version on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and the PC through Steam to mark the hit Japanese role-playing game series' 10th anniversary.  Read more »

Major E3 video-game show in June to go virtual and free

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 07 03:06 AM

Electronic Entertainment Expo shop talk and game revelations will be solely online in a show that will take place from June 12 through June 15.   Read more »

Are video games 'essential culture'? French lockdown stirs debate

Yassine Khiri and Corentin Dautreppe, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 24 06:04 AM

PARIS - Confusion over France's new partial lockdown has accidentally reignited an old debate: are video games works of art or just another computer product? Read more »

China's Tencent faces concessions to win green light for giant gaming merger

Pei Li, Kane Wu and Yingzhi Yang, Reuters
Posted at Mar 23 02:29 PM

Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings Ltd is having to offer concessions in a plan to merge the country's top two videogame live-streaming sites in order to resolve antitrust concerns, two people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.   Read more »

Local retailers announce 'third wave' of PlayStation 5 pre-orders

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 18 01:54 PM

Here's your chance to get your hands on the sought-after PlayStation 5 console.  Read more »

Call center agent, nahuli sa pagnanakaw umano ng video games

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 29 06:07 AM

Isang 36-anyos na lalaki ang timbog matapos umano magnakaaw ng mga video game sa isang mall sa Angeles City nitong Huwebes. Read more »

Pinoy-developed Vietnam War game expands to include new maps, units

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 28 03:46 PM

The expansion also enhanced details in the game, which was initially done as a lockdown project after being shelved for some 18 years.  Read more »

Epic battle over GameStop as 'nerds' take on Wall Street

Daniel Hoffman, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 28 12:36 PM

An epic battle is unfolding on Wall Street, with a cast of characters clashing over the fate of GameStop, a struggling chain of video game retail stores. Read more »

China’s video games industry racked up US$10.4B in sales in Q3 as boom continues post-pandemic

Josh Ye, South China Morning Post
Posted at Nov 17 02:24 PM

China now has more gamers than the entire populations of the US, Japan, Germany, France and the UK combined. Mobile games accounted for nearly three quarters of the sector’s total revenue, raking in 50.8 billion yuan. Read more »

Diversity, streaming reshape video games for a new generation

Qasim Nauman, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 06 06:23 PM

There are 2.7 billion gamers worldwide, Newzoo estimates, and nearly half are women. Read more »

The gamer in Megan Young, and the 5 video games she's been hooked on since the lockdown

ANCX Staff
Posted at Nov 02 12:19 PM

If you think this former Miss World just got into gaming because of her husband Mikael, uhm, no. Megan and video games, they have history.  Read more »

This website allows you to play the classic video games you grew up with

ANDRE DINGLASAN JR.
Updated as of Oct 01 06:45 PM

And they’re all for free.  Read more »