GameSpot

Star Wars Battlefront 2 Steam Player Count Just Keeps Climbing, Breaks New Record

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Star Wars Battlefront 2 continues to reach new heights on Steam, as ...
IGN

PlayStation Reportedly Tells Developers That It Is Returning to Console Exclusives for Single-Player Games

PlayStation seems to be waving the white flag on its PC strategy, at least when it comes to single-player games. That means you shouldn't expect Ghost of Yotei, Saros, Intergalactic: The Heretic ...
Phys.org

Archaeologists have discovered 12,000‑year‑old dice. Here's what they reveal about the history of play

Humans have always been playful. But for much of our history, play has left little trace. Unlike tools or bones, games rarely preserve and the fleeting pleasures they produce are even harder to ...
The Conversation

Archaeologists have discovered 12,000‑year‑old dice – here’s what they reveal about the history of play

The recently discovered 12,000-year-old dice made from wood and bone by Native American hunter gatherers. Robert Madden Humans have always been playful. But for much of our history, play has left ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Are These the Earliest Known Dice in the World? Native Americans May Have Used Them to Play Games of Chance More Than 12,000 Years Ago

Cultures around the world have been playing games of chance for millennia. Previously, historians had discovered examples of dice dating back some 5,500 years. But new research may push back that ...
TechSpot

Developer rebuilds Doom using CSS and HTML, turning divs into a full 3D game engine

In a nutshell: Modern CSS has been pushed into some unusual places over the past few years, but few experiments stretch it as far as a fully playable version of Doom rendered entirely with HTML ...
Science Daily

Ancient bone dice reveal 12,000-year history of gambling in America

More than 12,000 years ago, Native American hunter-gatherers were already making and using dice—thousands of years before similar tools appeared elsewhere. These bone “binary lots” acted like ...
Phys.org

Native Americans were making dice, gambling, exploring probability millennia before their Old World counterparts

A new study in American Antiquity presents evidence that the earliest known dice in human history were made and used by Native American hunter-gatherers on the western Great Plains more than 12,000 ...
Android Authority

An emulator inside your emulator? Dolphin just got Game Boy Player support.

The Dolphin emulator now has Game Boy Player support. The team is using the existing mGBA emulator within Dolphin to let you play Game Boy Advance titles. You’re better off using other GBA emulators, ...
Ars Technica

After a rocky six years, Sony cancels future single-player PC game releases

Sony no longer plans to bring current and future single-player games to personal computers, according to Bloomberg. The report specifically names last year’s Ghost of Yotei and the soon-to-be-released ...
The New York Times

How an Anxious Game Player Learned to Compete

My journey to becoming a worthy opponent in Crossplay, The Times’s first two-player game. By Deb Amlen I don’t really care who wins or loses a game. I just want to have fun and hang out with my ...