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heise | Weg von Windows 11: Gaming unter Linux mit Bazzite im Selbstversuch
Weg von Windows, auch beim Zocken! Bazzite möchte das Spielen unter Linux so bequem wie möglich machen – auch für blutige Laien. Wir haben es ausprobiert.

»Hollow Knight - Silksong – Ohne Marketing zum Millionenhit: Was die Gaming-Branche von "Silksong" lernt.
Sechs Jahre Entwicklungszeit, null Marketing-Budget – und trotzdem das meisterwartete Spiel des Jahres«
Sehr spannend und mal sehen wie es ansonsten vom Ansatz von Marketing und der Umsetzung von Software angewendet werden kann.
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Ohne Marketing zum Millionenhit: Was die Gaming-Branche von "Silksong" lernt
Sechs Jahre Entwicklungszeit, null Marketing-Budget – und trotzdem das meisterwartete Spiel des Jahres

Dentsu: the video game industry attracts less than 5% of global ad spend despite 3.4B gamers worldwide; 60 game-based productions were in development in 2024 (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/gaming/news/video-g…

Video Game Industry Draws Less Than 5% of Ad, Marketing Spend
According to a new report from Dentsu Gaming, less than 5% of global media investment goes toward the the video game industry.

Distinct Possibility, a gaming studio launched by EverQuest co-creator to build a web3 shooter on Etherlink, a Layer 2 network built on Tezos, raised $30.5M (RT Watson/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/360973/bitkra…

Yeah, I'm gonna be busy for a little bit... #gaming #hollowknight #silksong

Evaluating Quality of Gaming Narratives Co-created with AI
Arturo Valdivia, Paolo Burelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04239 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04239…

Evaluating Quality of Gaming Narratives Co-created with AI
This paper proposes a structured methodology to evaluate AI-generated game narratives, leveraging the Delphi study structure with a panel of narrative design experts. Our approach synthesizes story quality dimensions from literature and expert insights, mapping them into the Kano model framework to understand their impact on player satisfaction. The results can inform game developers on prioritizing quality aspects when co-creating game narratives with generative AI.

First Madden NFL 26 title update adds European stadiums https://www.espn.com/gaming/story/_/id/46146353/madden-nfl-26-first-title-update-patch-european-stadiums

May the Force be with me... and my stream! Firing up my Linux PC to stream Star Wars: The Old Republic tonight. Hope to see you in chat! #StarWarsTheOldRepublic #Streaming #Gaming

Running an entire PS1 emulator in a DS cartridge #PS1

Running An Entire PS1 Emulator In A DS Cartridge
Gaming on a Nintendo DS can bring back great memories of long car trips from the past. But looking back, we remember wishing to play more than the DS could ever hope to handle. [fami] looks into th…

Sources detail EA's issues developing the next Battlefield, which now has a $400M budget; some staff were skeptical of the EA leadership's 100M player target (Samuel Axon/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/07

What’s wrong with AAA games? The development of the next Battlefield has answers.
EA insiders describe stress and setbacks in a project that’s too big to fail.

#XenobladeChronicles3 REVIEW:
Characters: A
Story: B-
Boss design C
Game play: A
#videogames #gaming

"Fraudsters are flooding Discord and other social media platforms with ads for hundreds of polished online gaming and wagering websites that lure people with free credits and eventually abscond with any cryptocurrency funds deposited by players. Here’s a closer look at the social engineering tactics and remarkable traits of this sprawling network of more than 1,200 scam sites."
Scammers Unleash Flood of Slick Online Gaming Sites

Ah yes it appears that the new Shinobi game is, as we say in our technical jargon, the shit.
#gaming #videogames

This stings.
Galway-based game studio Romero Games has been shut down with the loss of over 100 jobs.
https://www.thejournal.ie/100-staff-laid-off-galway-romero-games-6753674-Jul2025/

Over 100 staff laid off as Galway-based Romero Games shuts down after funding cut
The sudden announcement was made after funding was pulled from a major developer, understood to be Microsoft.

Is It Really You? Exploring Biometric Verification Scenarios in Photorealistic Talking-Head Avatar Videos
Laura Pedrouzo-Rodriguez, Pedro Delgado-DeRobles, Luis F. Gomez, Ruben Tolosana, Ruben Vera-Rodriguez, Aythami Morales, Julian Fierrez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00748

Is It Really You? Exploring Biometric Verification Scenarios in Photorealistic Talking-Head Avatar Videos
Photorealistic talking-head avatars are becoming increasingly common in virtual meetings, gaming, and social platforms. These avatars allow for more immersive communication, but they also introduce serious security risks. One emerging threat is impersonation: an attacker can steal a user's avatar-preserving their appearance and voice-making it nearly impossible to detect its fraudulent usage by sight or sound alone. In this paper, we explore the challenge of biometric verification in such avata…

The birth of pro-gaming was a fun moment; its continued existence is a problem.
This shit wouldn't exist if cheating would get you at most bragging rights, instead of millions in sponsorships and ads revenue.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2…

Battlefield 6 dev apologizes for requiring Secure Boot to power anti-cheat tools
Amid player complaints, EA says 330,000 cheaters were stopped in beta’s first two days.

Book review: Everything To Play For
#Gaming

Shared Control for Game Accessibility: Understanding Current Human Cooperation Practices to Inform the Design of Partial Automation Solutions
Dragan Ahmetovic, Matteo Manzoni, Filippo Corti, Sergio Mascetti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02132

Shared Control for Game Accessibility: Understanding Current Human Cooperation Practices to Inform the Design of Partial Automation Solutions
Shared control is a form of video gaming accessibility support that allows players with disabilities to delegate inaccessible controls to another person. Through interviews involving 14 individuals with lived experience of accessible gaming in shared control, we explore the ways in which shared control technologies are adopted in practice, the accessibility challenges they address, and how the support currently provided in shared control can be automated to remove the need for a human assistant…

Gaming: Fast jedes PC-Spiel wird als Download gekauft
7 von 10 Videospielen werden digital gekauft, berichtet der Branchenverband game. Vor allem auf dem PC ist die Digital-Dominanz erdrückend.
https://www.

A profile of Netflix VP Brandon Riegg, who oversees unscripted series, sports, documentary series, and gaming, as the streamer pushes into live shows and sports (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/business/media/netflix…

The ‘Troublemaker’ Behind Netflix’s Biggest Gamble
Brandon Riegg pushed the streaming service to invest in live shows and sports, transforming Netflix into something more like a traditional TV network.

BioBlue: Notable runaway-optimiser-like LLM failure modes on biologically and economically aligned AI safety benchmarks for LLMs with simplified observation format
Roland Pihlakas, Sruthi Kuriakose
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02655

BioBlue: Notable runaway-optimiser-like LLM failure modes on biologically and economically aligned AI safety benchmarks for LLMs with simplified observation format
Relatively many past AI safety discussions have centered around the dangers of unbounded utility maximisation by RL agents, illustrated by scenarios like the "paperclip maximiser" or by specification gaming in general. Unbounded maximisation is problematic for many reasons. We wanted to verify whether these RL runaway optimisation problems are still relevant with LLMs as well. Turns out, strangely, this is indeed clearly the case. The problem is not that the LLMs just lose context or become inc…

Microsoft layoffs of even long-time industry vets signal video game industry brain drain #gaming

Microsoft Layoffs Signal Video Game Industry Brain Drain - Aftermath
Multiple industry veterans have left Xbox in the wake of layoffs

Nach dem Hardwareupgrade und einem übrigen Gehäuse mit Netzteil vom Schwiegerpapa hab ich endlich genug Teile für den Aufbau einer Retro-Gaming Statio für #Batocera #Linux
#Gaming

Quantum-based QoE Optimization in Advanced Cellular Networks: Integration and Cloud Gaming Use Case
Fatma Chaouech, Javier Villegas, Ant\'onio Pereira, Carlos Baena, Sergio Fortes, Raquel Barco, Dominic Gribben, Mohammad Dib, Alba Villarino, Aser Cortines, Rom\'an Or\'us
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01008

Quantum-based QoE Optimization in Advanced Cellular Networks: Integration and Cloud Gaming Use Case
This work explores the integration of Quantum Machine Learning (QML) and Quantum-Inspired (QI) techniques for optimizing end-to-end (E2E) network services in telecommunication systems, particularly focusing on 5G networks and beyond. The application of QML and QI algorithms is investigated, comparing their performance with classical Machine Learning (ML) approaches. The present study employs a hybrid framework combining quantum and classical computing leveraging the strengths of QML and QI, wit…

A profile of Netflix VP Brandon Riegg, who oversees unscripted series, sports, documentary series, and gaming, as the streamer pushes into live shows and sports (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/business/media/netflix…

The ‘Troublemaker’ Behind Netflix’s Biggest Gamble
Brandon Riegg pushed the streaming service to invest in live shows and sports, transforming Netflix into something more like a traditional TV network.

Got the modded PS1 (SCPH-5501) connected to the PVM via a gwscart switch using RGB (CSYNC). The switch doesn't seem to have any issues with the signal coming in from the PS1, and the Retro Gaming Cables cable (EuroSCART -> RGB Sync Audio) is absolute quality. If it weren't for Silksong at the moment, I'd be jumping into some retro games.
#retrogaming

Für die Schnittmenge Alteisenfreaks mit Comic-Lesern: Es gibt da eine neue Graphic Novel über u. a. die Historie der Computerspiele. Das könnte für den einen oder anderen von euch interessant sein. Ich habe das Buch selbst noch nicht gelesen, mit Computerspielen habe ich's nicht so besonders. Wahrscheinlich kommt das Buch bei mir aber dennoch ins Alteisenregal:

Steam Summer Sale, what are you all grabbing?
Suggestions for games, especially indie ones, are very welcome.
#IndieGames #VideoGames #Gaming

The more I'm exposed to AAA games, the more I'm encouraged to check out Indie games and revisit offline titles that I already own.
In AAA, there's barely anything new that excites me that hasn't already been done tbh. It's all iterative.
#Gaming #VideoGames

#potd Playing "Dominant Species" on the new gaming table at Mi&Sa http://domm.plix.at/potd/2025-08-30.html

5G -Gaming: Telekom verspricht latenzfreies Spielen auf dem iPhone
Mit Infrastrukturanpassungen sollen sich iOS-Geräte besser für Cloud-Spieledienste eignen. 5G Gaming mit Netzwerk-Slicing macht es möglich, so die Telekom.

Nvidia reports record Q2 gaming revenue of $4.29B, up 49% YoY, exceeding estimates of $3.74B (Max Knoblauch/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/business/in-case-you-were-worried-nvidia-hasnt-forgotten-about-gaming/

In case you were worried, Nvidia hasn’t forgotten about gaming
According to Nvidia’s second-quarter earnings, the chip giant’s gaming revenue grew 49% from last year.

Super Mario 3D Land: golden flags
Unfortunately, my Switch 2 gaming time has been a bit limited because of two things: school holidays necessitating multiple dad-taxi rides for children around the area; and Edward borrowing my console to play Donkey Kong Bananza at every moment. I tried playing Bananza in handheld mode and, while it was still good, I much preferred it on the big TV screen.

Ok, so in endless sky I wanna track if I'm making a profit or just making a mess 😆
Credits then: 189k
now: 114k
Credit score then: 411
now:
Mortgage then: 447k
now: 300k
I like the new trading system in Endless Sky
and "piracy" against pirates.(which makes them mad)
#gaming

#Enshittification of #gaming. 😥
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOQbEBcQ0bo

I was just browsing for all-AMD gaming laptops (which are surprisingly rare) and this came up.
Oh boy, check out my all-AMD laptop with an AMD GeForce RTX 4060 GPU!
Is this the beginning of the AI apocalypse?
#Gaming #Hardware

#CFP: Blood and Bile: Perspectives from the humanities, art and gaming culture on Blasphemous
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CFP Blood and Bile: Perspectives from the humanities, art and gaming culture on Blasphemous

#CFP: Blood and Bile: Perspectives from the humanities, art and gaming culture on Blasphemous
CFP Blood and Bile: Perspectives from the humanities, art and gaming culture on Blasphemous

Тъжното е, че и аз не бих посмял да го взема на сляпо, но тук поне знаете, че обявата е моя:
Десктоп компютър i5 13400F GTX 1650 DDGR6 DDR4 3200 CL-16 • OLX.bg
https://www.olx.bg/d/ad/desktop-kompyutar-i5-13400f-gtx-1650…

OLX.bg - безплатни обяви
650 лв.: Частите на компютъра: CPU: Intel Core i5 13400F CPU COOLER: DeepCool AK400 (R-AK400-BKNNMN-G-1) GPU: ZOTAC GAMING GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6 MB: Gigabyte H610M H DDR4 (rev. 1.1/1.3) RAM: 2x16GB DDR4 320...

Several Hotels and Resorts in the Philippines Commit to Making Their Menus 30% Plant-Based https://vegconomist.com/gastronomy-food-service/food-service/hotels-resorts-the-philippines-commit-making-menus-30-plant-based/…

Several Hotels and Resorts in the Philippines Commit to Making Their Menus 30% Plant-Based - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
According to Inside Asian Gaming, Winford Resort & Casino Manila is the first gaming complex in the Philippines to commit to making 30% of its menu plant-based.

There's a single North Korean steam gamer, LMAO!
#NorthKorea #Gaming #GamingOnLinux #RedStarOS

Casino gaming company Bragg says hackers accessed ‘internal computer environment’ https://therecord.media/casino-gaming-company-cyber-incident-bragg

Microsoft is expanding Xbox Cloud Gaming to Game Pass Core and Standard subscribers, dropping the Game Pass Ultimate requirement, and tests more PC game access (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/766762/microsoft-xbox-cloud-g…

Microsoft expands Xbox Cloud Gaming to Game Pass Core and Standard subscribers
Microsoft is expanding Xbox Cloud Gaming access to more Game Pass tiers. Game Pass Core and Standard subscribers are getting cloud access and PC games.

#idw Book Launch: Handbuch #Gaming & #Rechtsextremismus https://…

Book Launch: Handbuch Gaming & Rechtsextremismus

Optimizing Edge Gaming Slices through an Enhanced User Plane Function and Analytics in Beyond-5G Networks
Bruno Marques da Silva, Larissa Ferreira Rodrigues Moreira, Fl\'avio de Oliveira Silva, Rodrigo Moreira
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17843

Optimizing Edge Gaming Slices through an Enhanced User Plane Function and Analytics in Beyond-5G Networks
The latest generation of games and pervasive communication technologies poses challenges in service management and Service-Level Agreement compliance for mobile users. State-of-the-art edge-gaming techniques enhance throughput, reduce latency, and leverage cloud computing. However, further development of core functions such as the User Plane Function (UPF) is needed for non-intrusive user latency measurement. This paper proposes a closed-loop architecture integrating the Network Data Analytics …

"Ode an die Schreibtisch-Nerds": Kommentar von Wlada Froschgeiser @…:
https://taz.de/!6105217/
"In der

How a former Congressman is gaming the system (Judd Legum/Popular Information)
https://popular.info/p/how-a-former-congressman-is-gaming
http://www.memeorandum.com/250715/p37#a250715p37

Turkey-based Good Job Games, which develops Match-3 games like the popular Match Villains, raised a $60M Series A, after raising a $23M seed six months ago (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/07/31/good-job-games-secures-60m-seri…

Good Job Games secures $60M Series A to build the future of Match-3 gaming
Turkish mobile games dev company Good Job Games has raised a $60 million Series A round, co-led by Menlo Ventures and Anthos Capital, with additional participation by Bessemer Venture Partners.  The round brings the total investment amount to date to $83 million, after a seed round of $23 million just six months ago. Good Job Games aims to build a generational entertainment brand through timeless, socially-driven games. An example is its popular Match Villains, a game designed to be endless…

Dungeon Full Dive: Deutscher Pen-&-Paper-Baukasten wird bald kostenlos
Das Düsseldorfer Entwicklerstudio TxK Gaming muss schließen und macht den unvollendeten TTRPG-Baukasten Dungeon Full Dive kostenlos verfügbar.

G/O Media sells gaming news site Kotaku to Keleops, the European company that acquired Gizmodo in 2024, leaving G/O Media with just one property, The Root (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/02/kotaku-sale-keleops-go-media

G/O Media sells Kotaku to Gizmodo owner Keleops
The Root is now the only media brand left at G/O Media.

Samsung's bold move: Standalone smart glasses set to launch next year https://www.androidcentral.com/gaming/virtual-reality/samsung-rumored-standalone-smart-glasses-next-year-compete-meta-google I *love* st…

Samsung's bold move: Standalone smart glasses set to launch next year
This is reportedly to help Samsung solidify itself as a known smart glasses-maker, but it's still looking to collaborate with Google.

Cognition in Superposition: Quantum Models in AI, Finance, Defence, Gaming and Collective Behaviour
Ivan S. Maksymov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20098 https://

Cognition in Superposition: Quantum Models in AI, Finance, Defence, Gaming and Collective Behaviour
At first glance, quantum mechanics and behavioural science seem worlds apart -- one rooted in equations and particles, the other in thoughts and choices. Yet, emerging research reveals a profound and unexpected bridge between them. This chapter explores that bridge through quantum models of cognition and decision-making, showing how principles from quantum mechanics can help understand, and even predict, the complexities of human perception, behaviour and societal dynamics. We introduce a compu…

Firing up SWTOR on my Linux rig for tonight's stream! My character's Force powers are strong, but my ability to avoid standing in fire is... a work in progress. Wish me luck (and minimal rezzing)! #MMORPG #Gaming 🐧 🧙‍♂️

El Pais is doing an amazing work in showing how citation metrics is a call for abuse (gaming to be more precise).
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-12-05/dozens-of-the-worlds-most-cited-sci…

Dozens of the world’s most cited scientists stop falsely claiming to work in Saudi Arabia
This newspaper unveiled that Saudi universities were paying up to €70,000 a year to prestigious researchers to artificially pump up Arab institutions in international academic rankings

I have just discovered that some random games website has a PeerTube-based video section. I am officially on tom3 dot com, everyone! https://tom3.com/c/furbland_channelAAU

Ich zögere immer noch einen Gaming Rechner für Videobearbeitung mit #DaVinci (Studio V20) für Linux aufzusetzen.
Habt ihr Erfahrung damit? Besser doch Win11?
Und wenn wir schon dabei sind: AMD Ryzen oder Intel Prozessor? GeForce oder Radeon?
Habe mich bei Puget schon eingelesen...

DaVinci Resolve Studio: AMD Ryzen 9000 Series vs Intel Core 14th Gen
AMD's new Ryzen 9000 processors are here, but how do they compare to the previous generation Ryzen 7000 or Intel's Core 14th Gen processors in DaVinci Resolve Studio?

Starting today, I’ll share short logs of my gaming sessions to track fun moments and progress. I’ll use #sharanlog for all posts. Yesterday, I bought the Greece DLC for Euro Truck Simulator 2 during a great Steam Sale. Instead of Greece, I drove from Dresden to Valencia, entering Spain for the first time. I also started listening to Catch-22 by Joseph Heller while driving.

Microsoft says it is testing a new aggregated gaming library in the Xbox PC app for Windows 11 with Xbox Insiders, integrating "leading PC storefronts" (Jez Corden/Windows Central)
https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/pc-g

Starting this week, the Xbox PC app will integrate 'leading PC gaming stores' for Xbox Insiders — with no mention of Steam
Although the blog post doesn't say which PC stores are going to be integrated, at the very least, you'll be able to access Battle.net games directly from the Xbox PC app from next week.

heise | Spiel-Verderber: Warum Gaming auf dem Mac so ein Problem ist
Apple hat leistungsstarke Hardware, Millionen Kunden und einen etablierten App Store. Dennoch bleibt der Konzern im Gamingmarkt ein Außenseiter. Warum?

#CFP: Blood and Bile: Perspectives from the humanities, art and gaming culture on Blasphemous
https://ift.tt/TOKBUjo
CFP Blood and Bile: Perspectives from the humanities, art and gaming culture on Blasphemous

#CFP: Blood and Bile: Perspectives from the humanities, art and gaming culture on Blasphemous
CFP Blood and Bile: Perspectives from the humanities, art and gaming culture on Blasphemous

Spotify and Netflix launch a minigolf game within Spotify's app to promote Happy Gilmore 2, marking Spotify's first partnership for an in-app gaming experience (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/24/spot

Spotify takes a swing at gaming with a mini golf game ahead of ‘Happy Gilmore 2’ release | TechCrunch
Netflix and Spotify teamed up to launch a golf-inspired game as a way to promote “Happy Gilmore 2,” which premieres on Netflix this Friday.

Microsoft Q4: Windows OEM and Devices revenue up 3% YoY, gaming revenue up 10%, Xbox hardware revenue down 22%, and Xbox content and services revenue up 13% (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/716191/microsoft-q4-20…

Microsoft reports strong cloud earnings, with Windows and Xbox up too
Microsoft’s Q4 fiscal 2025 earnings are strong for cloud. Azure is up year-over-year, and Xbox and Windows are both up, too.

Self-correcting Reward Shaping via Language Models for Reinforcement Learning Agents in Games
Ant\'onio Afonso, Iolanda Leite, Alessandro Sestini, Florian Fuchs, Konrad Tollmar, Linus Gissl\'en
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23626

Self-correcting Reward Shaping via Language Models for Reinforcement Learning Agents in Games
Reinforcement Learning (RL) in games has gained significant momentum in recent years, enabling the creation of different agent behaviors that can transform a player's gaming experience. However, deploying RL agents in production environments presents two key challenges: (1) designing an effective reward function typically requires an RL expert, and (2) when a game's content or mechanics are modified, previously tuned reward weights may no longer be optimal. Towards the latter challenge, we prop…

"I Would Not Be This Version of Myself Today": Elaborating on the Effects of Eudaimonic Gaming Experiences
Nisha Devasia, Georgia Kenderova, Michele Newman, Julie Kientz, Jin Ha Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18084

"I Would Not Be This Version of Myself Today": Elaborating on the Effects of Eudaimonic Gaming Experiences
While much of the research in digital games has emphasized hedonic experiences, such as flow, enjoyment, and positive affect, recent years have seen increased interest in eudaimonic gaming experiences, typically mixed-affect and associated with personal meaningfulness and growth. The formation of such experiences in games is theorized to have four constituent elements: motivation, game use, experience, and effects. However, while the first three elements have been relatively well explored in th…

Niedersachsen: LKA-Chef will junge Menschen auf Gaming-Plattform ansprechen
Thorsten Massinger ist neuer Präsident des niedersächsischen Landeskriminalamtes. Bei der Prävention setzt der 47-Jährige verstärkt auf das Internet.

Brütal Legend is available for free for the next 666 minutes (from midnight UTC 1), it will be available until 11:06am UTC 1 (UK/Ireland)
#gaming

After spending the entire Saturday gaming, IRL be like:
Beck - Cellphone's Dead (Official Music Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGCwUoKWcxs

Madden NFL 26 review overview: Slow but steady improvement https://www.espn.com/gaming/story/_/id/45986814/ea-sports-madden-nfl-26-review-roundup

This year is the 45th anniversary of Pac-Man. Here's a great piece on how it changed gaming and the world https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250730-how-pac-man-changed-gaming-and-the-world

'It's a reminder of childhood': How Pac-Man changed gaming - and the world
Celebrating his 45th birthday this year, the yellow eating machine revolutionised video games – and has even been used in science. What has made him and his adventures so addictive?

What are some of your favorite YouTube channels that are not related to gaming, particularly those that are smaller or less well known? I am looking to expand my knowledge and diversify my FreeTube feed.
#Fediverse #YouTube

heise | JavaScript: Einen Discord-Bot für die eigene Gaming-Community programmieren
Ein Discord-Bot begrüßt User, zeigt Daten an oder schmeißt Spammer raus. Wir zeigen, wie Sie mit dem Framework discord.js einen simplen Bot programmieren.

Gamma Data: China's female-oriented gaming market surged 124% YoY to $1B in 2024, driven by mobile game Love and Deepspace, which earned $400M, per Sensor Tower (Wataru Suzuki/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Media-Entertain…

Women power China's $1bn romance gaming market
Fewer taboos for female gamers lead to hits like Love and Deepspace

Beyond Competitive Gaming: How Casual Players Evaluate and Respond to Teammate Performance
Kaushall Senthil Nathan, Jieun Lee, Derrick M. Wang, Geneva M. Smith, Eugene Kukshinov, Daniel Harley, Lennart E. Nacke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19230

Beyond Competitive Gaming: How Casual Players Evaluate and Respond to Teammate Performance
Teammate performance evaluation fundamentally shapes intervention design in video games. However, our current understanding stems primarily from competitive E-Sports contexts where individual performance directly impacts outcomes. This research addresses whether performance evaluation mechanisms and behavioural responses identified in competitive games generalize to casual cooperative games. We investigated how casual players evaluate teammate competence and respond behaviourally in a controlle…

India's lower house of parliament passes a sweeping online gaming bill to impose a blanket ban on real-money games nationwide, threatening a $23B industry (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/20/india-bans-real-money-…

India bans real-money gaming, threatening a $23 billion industry | TechCrunch
India is set to ban real-money gaming nationwide under a proposed law that has just passed the lower house of parliament.

#CFP: Blood and Bile: Perspectives from the humanities, art and gaming culture on Blasphemous
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CFP Blood and Bile: Perspectives from the humanities, art and gaming culture on Blasphemous

#CFP: Blood and Bile: Perspectives from the humanities, art and gaming culture on Blasphemous
CFP Blood and Bile: Perspectives from the humanities, art and gaming culture on Blasphemous

Underdog and Crypto.com launch a sports prediction market to let US users in 16 states bet on the NFL, the NBA, and other leagues via Underdog's app (Contessa Brewer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/02/cryptocom-and-underdog-partne…

Crypto.com and Underdog partner to offer sports prediction markets
Underdog will partner with Crypto.com to offer sports prediction markets in 16 states, the first tie-up involving an online sports gaming operator.

Warner Bros. Games restructures its operations into teams based on its four key franchises: Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Mortal Kombat, and the DC Universe (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/gaming/news/w…

Warner Bros. Games Restructures: 'Game of Thrones,' Harry Potter, 'Mortal Kombat'
Warner Bros. Games has set a new leadership team and restructured around Harry Potter, "Game of Thrones," "Mortal Kombat" and the DC Universe IPs.

Major real-money gaming platforms in India halted cash games after President Murmu signed the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025, into law (The Hindu)
https://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/real-money-gaming-fir…

Framework unveils a second-generation Framework Laptop 16 with a swappable Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, an industry first, shipping in November 2025 for $2,199 (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/laptops/765528/fr

Framework is now selling the first gaming laptop that lets you easily upgrade its GPU — with Nvidia’s blessing
Eighteen months after shipping the Framework Laptop 16, the company’s created a newer, faster discrete Nvidia graphics GPU you can easily swap in.

Microsoft and Meta unveil the $399 Meta Quest 3S Xbox Edition, offering few updates to the $299 Meta Quest 3S, available in "extremely limited" quantities (Jez Corden/Windows Central)
https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/meta-q…

After a year of waiting, Microsoft's Meta Quest 3S "Xbox Edition" is here — our hands-on review of this (very) limited edition partnership
Last year, Microsoft revealed it was working on an Xbox edition Quest VR headset with Meta of Facebook fame. Why it took over a year to materialize is anyone's guess, but was it worth the wait?

Circana: Nintendo Switch 2 is the fastest-selling video game device in US history, with 1.6M units sold in June, topping the PS4's 1.1M units in November 2013 (IGN)
https://www.ign.com/articles/the-nintendo-switch-2-is-the-fastest-s…

The Nintendo Switch 2 Is the Fastest-Selling Gaming Hardware in U.S. History - IGN
The Nintendo Switch 2 debuted in June to become the fastest-selling hardware ever in the U.S., shooting spending on games to new monthly records, according to the monthly report from Circana.

SAG-AFTRA ends the 300 day video game actors strike after reaching a tentative deal for a new Interactive Media Agreement with the major video game companies (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/gaming/news/video-game-actors-strike-ends-…

Video Game Actors Strike Ends
The video game actors strike has ended.

Fundamental Research Labs, which is working on AI applications in different fields, including a general-purpose consumer assistant, raised a $30M Series A (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/01/fund

Fundamental Research Labs nabs $30M to build AI agents across verticals | TechCrunch
Fundamental Research Labs is releasing multiple AI products related to gaming and productivity.

Supercell makes Brawl Stars available on WeChat and says Clash Royale is "currently being developed" for a September launch on the WeChat mini-game platform (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3315…

Tencent-owned Supercell to launch titles like Clash Royale as WeChat mini games
The video game Brawl Stars is already available within WeChat, while Clash Royale will exclusively launch on the messaging app in September.

SAG-AFTRA reaches a tentative deal with Activision, EA, Epic, Take-Two, and other game companies on the Interactive Media Contract, after months of strikes (Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/gaming/news/sag-video-game-companie…

SAG-AFTRA and Video Game Companies Reach Tentative New Deal
SAG-AFTRA and the video game companies have reached a tentative deal, putting and end to the strike in sight.

Roblox reports Q2 revenue up 21% YoY to ~$1B, Bookings up 51% YoY to ~$1.4B, above $1.24B est., and DAUs up 41% YoY to 111.8M, above 106M est.; RBLX jumps 15% (Chris Eudaily/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/31/roblox-rblx-stock-earnings.html

Roblox stock soars 16% after revenue beat, strong user growth
User and engagement numbers were also strong for gaming platform Roblox, with daily active users up 41% year-over-year, and hours engaged up 58%.

Q&A with Harsh Jain, CEO of Dream11 parent Dream Sports, on India's real-money gaming law, which he says erased 95% of the group's revenue and all its profits (Moneycontrol)
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Source: Indian fantasy sports startup Mobile Premier League plans to lay off ~60% of its local workforce, after the government banned online real-money games (Aditya Kalra/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indias-mpl…

Indie open gaming marketplace Itch.io abruptly deindexes NSFW content from its browse and search pages after payment processors raised concerns, following Steam (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/712890/itch-removes-adult-nsfw…

Itch.io follows Steam in removing adult games
The indie-focused gaming marketplace Itch.io has abruptly deindexed adult content from its browse and search pages, bowing to demands from payment providers.

Nvidia announces a new feature called "Install-to-Play" for GeForce Now, letting users install select games without waiting for Nvidia to formally curate them (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/760219/nvidia-geforce-now-rtx-5080-c…

Nvidia’s GeForce Now is upgrading to RTX 5080 GPUs and opening a floodgate of new games
This September, Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud gaming service is adding Blackwell GPUs, renting out what’s effectively an RTX 5080 in the cloud.

Microsoft and AMD announce a "strategic, multi-year partnership" to design custom silicon for a number of devices, including next-generation Xbox consoles (Jez Corden/Windows Central)
https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox

Microsoft and AMD have officially entered a new multi-year partnership for first-party Xbox hardware
Xbox President Sarah Bond shared an update on Xbox consoles today, confirming their ongoing partnership with AMD for first-party hardware, while committing to supporting your existing console library on next-gen systems.

SAG-AFTRA reaches a tentative deal with Activision, EA, Epic, Take-Two, and other game companies on the Interactive Media Contract, after months of strikes (Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/gaming/news/sag-video-game-companie…

SAG-AFTRA and Video Game Companies Reach Tentative New Deal
SAG-AFTRA and the video game companies have reached a tentative deal, putting and end to the strike in sight.

Xbox Ally X hands-on: AMD Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme APU, 24GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD, 1080p games run at 60 FPS with no issues, a slimmed down Windows OS, and more (IGN)
https://www.ign.com/articles/hands-on-with-the-xbox-ally-x-…

Hands-On With the Xbox Ally X, the New Gaming Handheld from Asus and Microsoft - IGN
The Xbox handhelds are coming Holiday 2025 and they're impressive, but many questions still remain.

An interview with CEO David Baszucki on Roblox's origin story, what's next for the gaming platform whose shares have risen about 200% in the past year, and more (Tim Fernholz/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/he-didnt-set…

He didn’t set out to create a kids’ company. Roblox’s “Builderman” wound up with one anyway.
Founder and CEO David Baszucki tells us the origin story and what’s next for a company that has nearly tripled in stock price and caught a lot of controversy over the past year.

AOL is discontinuing its dial-up internet service on September 30; it was launched in 1991 and reportedly had subscribers "in the low thousands" in 2021 (Stevie Bonifield/PC Gamer)
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/ao

AOL discontinues its dial-up internet, and we're just surprised they even offered it in 2025
Dial-up's days are numbered, after 34 years of service.

Google Pixel 10 review: justifies its price better than the Pixel 9 with upgrades like a triple camera system and Qi2 support, but it's not a gaming powerhouse (Derrek Lee/Android Central)
https://www.androidcentral.com/phones/google-pixel-10-review

The Google Pixel 10 is the upgrade I was hoping for
Google put more magic into the Pixel 10, and it's really starting to feel like AI is finding its moment.

Sony says its PlayStation Plus three-tier overhaul has "surpassed our expectations" and that the $160/year Premium tier has grown 18% in the past 12 months (Stephen Totilo/Game File)
https://www.gamefile.news/p/playstation-plus-1…

Sony is all-in on PlayStation Plus, says its most expensive tier is thriving
Sony kicks off PS Plus' 15th anniversary by chatting with Game File about the past, present and future of its gaming subscription service: Talking price, catalogue tweaks and where the PS3 games are.

Take-Two reports Q1 net bookings up 17% YoY to $1.42B, net revenue up 12% YoY to $1.5B, vs. $1.32B est., and raises its FY 2026 net bookings projection (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/gaming/news/take-two-gta-6-pricing-debate-june…

Take-Two Boss on 'GTA 6' Pricing Debate, Latest Earnings
With the "Grand Theft Auto 6" release date no longer in question, exactly how much is this game going to cost?

Sony's gaming execs, designers, and studio founders describe how it wants its first-party studios to contribute more to revenue growth and take measured risks (David Keohane/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d5859ffc-c4d7-4480-98a6-c1cff07af299

Tencent reports Q2 revenue up 15% YoY to ~$25.7B, vs. ~$24.8B est., gaming revenue up 17% YoY to ~$5.6B, global revenue up 35% YoY to ~$2.6B, a $7.7B net profit (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-tencent-…

Sources: Microsoft is planning a round of Xbox layoffs next week, with managers expecting substantial cuts, the fourth big layoff at Xbox in the past 18 months (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)