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Nintendo, The Pokemon Company sue Palworld-maker Pocketpair

Japanese patent-infringement lawsuit follows "investigation" announced in January. Nintendo and The Pokemon Company announced they have filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Pocketpair, the makers of the heavily Pokémon-inspired Palworld. The Tokyo District Court...

Satisfactory is officially released, officially a scary wonderful time sink

Even people with 1,000 hours in the game are still learning about it. The company...

Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 is serious heavy-metal shooting and slashing

Strong first impressions of a game filled with enemy hordes and dark metal lore. If...

Sony is shutting down Concord, refunding players after just two weeks

Team-based shooter eight years in the making had just 25,000 estimated sales. <img src="https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/concord-800x450.jpg" alt="This...

New AI model can hallucinate a game of 1993’s Doom in real time

Dobos: "Why write rules for software by hand when AI can just think every...

Microsoft Copilot will watch you play Minecraft, tell you what you’re doing wrong

Microsoft demo is like chatting with GameFAQs when you don't have a friend to hang with. Longtime gamers (and/or Game Grumps fans) likely know that even...

Songs of Conquest is the Heroes of Might & Magic rebirth we all deserve

Every choice in this game has a cost. Choosing to play it seems like a good bet. There are games for which I have great...

Apple’s time travel comedy Time Bandits starts streaming in July

It’s an adaptation of a 1981 film directed by Terry Gilliam. You won’t need to travel too far into the future to see Apple TV...

How to port any N64 game to the PC in record time

"Static recompilation" is "the difference between weeks of work and years of work." In recent years, we've reported on multiple efforts to reverse-engineer Nintendo 64 games into fully...

Grand Theft Auto VI is launching in fall 2025

In Take-Two’s earnings report, the company narrowed down the game’s 2025 release window and announced GTA V sales have hit 200 million. In Take-Two’s Q4 2024...

Warner Bros. gives Adult Swim games back to their creators rather than kill them

It's still unclear why WBD wouldn't have done this in the first place. Warner Bros. Discovery has spent at least two months threatening more than...

Game dev says contract barring “subjective negative reviews” was a mistake

Early streamers agreed not to "belittle the gameplay" or "make disparaging... comments." The developers of team-based shooter Marvel Rivals have apologized for a contract clause that made...

Cryptmaster is a dark, ridiculous RPG test of your typing and guessing skills

Ask a necromancer to lick a shield. Type out "HIT," "YELL," "ZAP." It's funny. There are people who relish the feeling of finally nailing down...

40 years later, Kontrabant 2 for ZX Spectrum is rebroadcast on FM in Slovenia

Celebrating radio waves, magnetic tape heads, and smuggled 8-bit computers. Software is almost impossibly easy to download, distribute, and access compared to 40 years ago....

Hands-on with the new John Wick pinball

Stern Pinball brings the legendary assassin to the world of mechanical gaming. If you don’t follow the ins and outs of pinball, you might be...

Pokémon Go players are altering public map data to catch rare Pokémon

OpenStreetMap contributors have been dealing with Pokémon Go players for years. Ah, Pokémon Go. The hottest mobile game of 2016 remains a potent force to this day, pulling in hundreds of...

Sony backs down, won’t enforce PSN accounts for Helldivers 2 PC players on Steam

What will Sony do next for an audience that likes its games but not its network? Sony's plan for its surprise hit co-op squad shooter—now...

Sixty Four is a beautiful system design toy that reveals something rather dark

Please do not load up this game if you have real tasks to accomplish, I beg you. There haven't been many times in my life...

Apple backtracks, reinstates Epic Games’ iOS developer account in Europe

After EU began investigation, Apple repaves path for Fortnite on European iOS. Apple has agreed to reinstate Epic Game's Swedish iOS developer account just days after Epic...
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