Valve is getting back into game production after several years of concentrating on running Steam. But there’s no word on completing any trilogies. The first will be Artifact, a virtual card game themed around the Defense of the Ancients world. While promoting the game, Valve president Gabe Newell said “Artifact is the first of several […]

An AI bot appears to have destroyed Q*bert high scores by discovering and exploiting a bug. It’s the result of the unconventional method it took to learning the game. Researchers at Germany’s University of Freiburg were using isometric platform game Q*bert to try out different ways for the system to learn and master the game. […]

Boxed video games will soon carry a content warning if they allow in-game purchases such as loot boxes. The warning will be along the same lines as those for violence and sexual content. The move may be an attempt to head off legislator concerns about whether loot boxes are a form of gambling and thus […]

A museum wants the right to revive abandoned online games. It’s called for a special exemption to copyright laws. The idea comes from Oakland, California’s Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment (MADE), which has proposed an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. That’s the law that says its illegal to manufacture or develop something […]