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  • Sunday, 3 May, 2026
    Gaming
    Everyone loves Nintendo — except investors

    Higher memory chip costs fuel fears of price rise for Switch 2 and cast shadow over console’s success

    Princess Peach and Mario stand side by side, looking upward with surprised expressions in a scene from The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.
  • Thursday, 19 March, 2026
    Gaming
    Tired of sports betting? Take a punt on babies

    A new generation of gambling games can change the way we think about the structures governing our world

    A green alien-like baby sits in front of a graph with an upward-turning arrow.
  • Wednesday, 18 March, 2026
    Gaming
    Lex. Nintendo wins by not playing the power game

    The company’s exclusive titles have kept gamers loyal without chasing technological superiority

    Premium content
    A screen grab of Pokémon Pokopia taken from Nintendo of America’s YouTube channel
  • Wednesday, 4 March, 2026
    US-China relations
    Trump administration debates allowing Tencent to keep its gaming investments

    Chinese company’s investments in ‘Fortnite’ creator Epic Games and other creators have faced long-running US security review

    An illustration showing the Fortnite logo and several game characters displayed on multiple tablet screens, with some reflections visible.
  • Monday, 2 March, 2026
    Gaming
    Sony battles £2bn lawsuit claiming UK PlayStation users are overcharged for games

    Download purchasers over past decade could be eligible for compensation if class action succeeds

    A Sony PlayStation 4 controller on a display stand with a blurred PlayStation logo on a screen in the background.
  • Friday, 27 February, 2026
    Gaming
    Alphaville. New York vs Valve: the loot box ‘gambling’ showdown

    Steamroller or pipe dream?

  • Thursday, 19 February, 2026
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    Saudi-owned Scopely strikes $1bn deal for Turkish game developer

    Los Angeles-based group is challenging China’s Tencent for leadership of the $100bn mobile games market

    Left screenshot: A game board with colored blocks and animal-shaped game pieces displaying numbers, with a hand selecting a yellow piece.
									
									Center screenshot: The Pixel Flow game logo above two cartoon animal characters, one yellow and one purple, with a "Play Now" button.
									
									Right screenshot: A game board with a pixel art cactus in a sombrero, animal-shaped pieces at the bottom, and a hand selecting a white piece.
  • Friday, 13 February, 2026
    Savvy Games Group
    Saudi Arabian games group nears $6bn deal for ByteDance’s Moonton

    Savvy Games given war chest of tens of billions of dollars by Public Investment Fund

    Several animated characters from Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, including a blonde female hero with a large weapon, appear in an action pose.
  • Thursday, 12 February, 2026
    Technology sector
    Lex. Google’s AI worlds won’t vanquish the video game

    It takes more than an app to come up with an innovative gameplay loop

    Premium content
    Hands holding a white Xbox controller, with burgundy painted nails, at a gaming fair.
  • Tuesday, 10 February, 2026
    European companies
    AI will boost games not break them, says ‘Clash of Clans’ maker

    Supercell chief Ilkka Paananen shrugs off AI fears after Google world model rattles gaming stocks

    A group of Clash of Clans characters, including barbarians and other troops, march from the sea toward land with a Viking-style ship in the background. The Clash of Clans logo appears in the upper right corner.
  • Tuesday, 3 February, 2026
    Non-Fiction
    Super Nintendo — the Japanese gaming company that became a global giant

    Keza MacDonald is enthusiastic about the creator of ‘Super Mario’, but omits some of the friction on which games thrive

    An actor in a Mario costume, wearing a big red hat with an ‘M’ logo,  in front of theme park staff and visitors
  • Tuesday, 30 December, 2025
    Gaming
    Will the new Steam Machine transform the gaming landscape?

    Scheduled for release next year, Valve Corporation’s flexible device aims to bridge the great divide between PCs and consoles

    A black, cube-shaped electronic device with USB ports and a power button on the front panel.
  • Thursday, 25 December, 2025
    Technology sector
    AI ‘world models’ promise to reshape $190bn video games industry

    Google DeepMind and Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs target gaming with AI-generated 3D environments

  • Wednesday, 17 December, 2025
    Research and development
    UK to shift more research funding into AI and video games

    Ten sectors, including the creative industries and life sciences, will share £12bn over four years

    An illustration showing various Warhammer 40,000 factions in battle, including Space Marines, Imperial Guard, Adepta Sororitas, and Eldar, amid a chaotic sci-fi battlefield.
  • Thursday, 20 November, 2025
    Gaming
    Inside the Sims rebellion

    Players are trying to mount a protest against the Saudi-led deal to acquire the game’s parent company Electronic Arts

    Martha Muir
    Illustration of a character in swim trunks stands in a swimming pool in The Sims game, with no ladder present for exit.
  • Tuesday, 18 November, 2025
    Gaming
    Lex. Nintendo borrows from Apple’s product playbook

    Instead of leaping into a completely new format, the Japanese group chose incremental innovation with its Switch 2 console

    Premium content
    A sales assistant places a Nintendo Switch 2 console into a bag for a customer at a Nintendo store counter in San Francisco, US
  • Tuesday, 11 November, 2025
    Japanese business & finance
    Sony launches cheaper Japan-only PlayStation 5 console

    Region-locked version at 25% discount in move to boost domestic sales

    A white PlayStation 5 controller is centred in front of a red circle on a white background
  • Monday, 10 November, 2025
    Gaming
    Crushed by capitalism? There’s a video game for that

    ‘The Outer Worlds 2’ is set in a galaxy ruled by greedy corporations — but can a game made by a Microsoft-owned studio critique the system effectively?

    A character in dark, layered armor crouches on a metal surface while holding a knife, with snowy industrial buildings and combat in the background.
  • Tuesday, 4 November, 2025
    Gaming
    Why Football Manager just keeps winning

    Over 33 years, the series has won over frustrated fans, the football industry, even Americans — but it took three Lionesses to get women’s teams into the game

  • Tuesday, 21 October, 2025
    European companies
    Playtech hired intelligence firm Black Cube to investigate rival Evolution

    Evolution escalates dispute, saying rival spent £1.8mn to hire Israeli agency founded by Mossad veterans

    A person using a smartphone in front of a roulette wheel, suggesting online gambling or betting via a mobile device.
  • Wednesday, 15 October, 2025
    Gaming
    Gaming ninjas are strategic, silent — and everywhere

    This year there has been a glut of action-adventures set in feudal Japan, such as the new ‘Ghost of Yōtei; what’s the appeal?

  • Tuesday, 30 September, 2025
    Due Diligence
    Jared Kushner’s art of the deal

    Plus, First Brands files for bankruptcy and Vis Raghavan’s Citigroup revamp

    Premium content
    Jared Kushner in front of the Electronic Arts logo, with stills from EA Sports FC 26 and The Sims games displayed beside him.
  • Monday, 29 September, 2025
    US companies
    Video games maker Electronic Arts strikes $55bn deal to go private

    Saudi-backed transaction orchestrated by Jared Kushner and Silver Lake is biggest-ever leveraged buyout

    Three animated Real Madrid players celebrate a goal on the pitch in ‘EA Sport FC 25’, wearing white jerseys under stadium lights
  • Friday, 26 September, 2025
    Electronic Arts Inc
    Video game maker Electronic Arts nears $50bn deal to go private

    Company behind ‘Madden NFL’ title in talks with investors including Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners

    Attendees stand in front of a large Electronic Arts (EA) logo at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3).
  • Tuesday, 9 September, 2025
    Gaming
    After six years of silence and hype, is Silksong worth the wait?

    The follow-up to 2017’s popular ‘Hollow Knight’ has broken many gaming industry rules, including marketing and pricing

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