<p>The Games app will also include social features, including a &#8220;Play Together&#8221; tab that lets you see what your friends are playing, compare scores, and invite them to play with you. </p>

<p>Steve Collins, the CTO of the game engine developer Unity, is stepping down.</p>

<p>Unionized quality assurance testers at video game holding company ZeniMax announced Friday that they have reached a tentative contract agreement with Microsoft, which acquired ZeniMax in 2021.</p>

<p>GameStop&#8217;s recent interest in bitcoin isn&#8217;t as random as it may seem.</p>

<p>Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it has started rolling out the beta version of its Copilot for Gaming experience. </p>

<p>With Apple&#8217;s flagship Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) event a few weeks away, the company is signaling that it&#8217;s paying attention to the opportunity of mobile gaming. Apple already has a subscription-based Arcade product for iOS, which gives users access to various mobile games, including cult-classic indie games like Stardew Valley. But per a Digital Trends [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Popular battle royale game Fortnite has finally returned to the U.S. App Store amid game maker Epic Games&#8217; lengthy legal skirmish with Apple. As of Tuesday, Fortnite is also available on the Epic Games Store and AltStore in the EU. It&#8217;ll show up in App Store searches soon, Epic said in a post on X. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A federal judge is asking Apple to approve Fortnite&#8217;s submission on the U.S. App Store or return to court to explain the legal basis as to why it has not done so. In a new filing, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers confirms the court has received Epic Games&#8217; latest motion, where it demands that [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Epic Games is escalating its efforts to pressure Apple to allow its game Fortnite into the App Store, with a new court filing asking Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers to require that Apple “accept any compliant version of Fortnite onto the U.S. storefront of the App Store.” Epic and Apple have been engaged in a years-long [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Epic Games claims that Apple is blocking its Fortnite app from the U.S. and EU App Stores. After winning a decisive victory for app developers in a legal battle with Apple, forcing the tech giant to allow external payments in its U.S. App Store without charging commission, Epic Games attempted to resubmit Fortnite to the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The mobile controller company Backbone unveiled its Backbone Pro controller this week, which brings iOS and Android gaming experiences to the next level. A successor to the Backbone One controller, the Pro features full-size joysticks, re-mappable buttons, and Bluetooth compatibility, making for a more premium gaming setup. Unlike its predecessor, the Backbone Pro doesn’t need [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Games drove the creation of GPU processors back in the 1990s, so it’s only fitting that artificial intelligence — the technology that GPUs are used to power nowadays — is making its way into nearly every aspect of video game design. In keeping with that trend, on Wednesday a startup called Sett — which is [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google’s most expensive AI model seems to have crossed a major milestone: Beating a 29-year-old video game. Last night, Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted triumphantly on X, “What a finish! Gemini 2.5 Pro just completed Pokémon Blue!” To be clear, the Gemini Plays Pokemon livestream was created by (in his own words) “a 30 year [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Riot’s “anti-cheat artisan” Phillip Koskinas explains how he and his team go after cheaters and cheat developers to protect the integrity of games, such as Valorant and League of Legends. </p>

<p>Epic Games is taking a victory lap. After notching a big win against Apple in a years-long legal dispute, Epic announced that its Epic Games Store will allow developers to open webshops, which can offer players out-of-app purchases to circumvent fees from Apple and Google. Epic has been in a long legal battle with Apple [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Microsoft announced price increases on Thursday for its Xbox consoles, controllers, and some games. The affected consoles, which include Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S models, will increase in price between $80 and $100 each, depending on the console. These consoles were first released almost five years ago, with the basic Xbox Series S [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Epic Games&#8217; mega-popular Fortnite is promising a return to the U.S. iOS App Store next week after a surprising ruling in a years-long legal battle with Apple. The dispute between Epic and Apple began in 2020, when Apple removed Epic Games from the iOS App Store. Because Apple takes 30% of all in-app purchases, Epic [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Epic Games has notched a win in an ongoing legal dispute with Apple, as a result of which Fortnite could return to the U.S. iOS App Store as early as next week. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said in a ruling on Wednesday that Apple was in &#8220;willful violation&#8221; of a 2021 injunction that prohibited the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Chess.com reaches a new membership milestone as it nears its 20th birthday. Chess.com, the online chess platform that was founded in 2005 and launched in 2007, has surpassed 200 million members. Of those 200 million members, 1.5 million are paying users. More than 20 million games of chess are played every day on the platform. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Amid rumors that the company is eyeing an IPO, Discord appointed former Activision Blizzard Vice Chairman Humam Sakhnini as CEO. Discord co-founder Jason Citron will leave his CEO role after 13 years at the company. Discord straddles the gaming and social media spaces &#8212; despite its initial emergence as a platform for online multiplayer gamers [&hellip;]</p>