Facebook has announced you can now play games from within Messenger. The app includes a selection of social "instant games" that will augment conversations with fun and competition. Games can be played with friends you're already connected to.
Microsoft has announced it has bought interactive game streaming startup Beam in a bid to bolster its Xbox arsenal, although financial terms were not disclosed.
A Twitch gaming celebrity allegedly verbally and physically assaulted his girlfriend during a livestream. The video quickly went viral in just a few hours after being posted on YouTube.
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Online gaming has dramatically grown over the years. One report found that there are more than 200 million online gamers in the world, while the average PC or Mac user in the United States spends close to six hours playing online games.
According to Chinese media a man known as "Mr. Feng" hired "virtual" assassins to kill off his son's avatar in online video games. He believed his son's gaming habit was to blame for his poor grades in school and failure to land a job.
EverQuest, the "original" massively multiplayer online role playing game, is going free to play in March.
Known to fans as EQ, the game was the first of the big 3D graphical multiplayer games to launch back in 1999.
As one of the popular IPO tech topics of the year, Facebook game maker Zynga, began trading on Friday. The stock fell 5 percent on the day of its debut, which was not the explosive start many expected to see from this profitable company.
A 22 year-old woman from Jacksonville, Florida has pleaded guilty to killing her baby son over a game of Farmville. She was charged with second-degree murder after allegedly shaking the baby to death when he disrupted her gaming experience.
By abandoning his newborn baby starved to death, a South Korean father was sentenced to jail Friday. The 42-year old taxi driver was sentenced to 2 years in prison. His wife was spared because she is pregnant.
The development is now up and running, after a thick headed stasis field had held it up for years. The game sounds very creative, too, not just another “anything with the name” approach. Maybe somebody who knows something about it has got involved.
You can kill monsters and date, too. Sounds good to me. Nothing like gouging your way through the innards of a ghastly beast to meet a nice girl. I used to do that a lot while commuting, and in the office, and while shopping, and while digging tunnels.
