Despite regulatory challenges, Microsoft president and vice chairman Brad Smith announced in a tweet that the company has signed a 10-year legal agreement to bring Call of Duty to Nintendo gamers.
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A group of 10 gamers have filed a lawsuit against Microsoft seeking to block its purchase of Activision Blizzard. Three of the plaintiffs have admitted to being PlayStation-exclusive gamers.
After NUC 11 Extreme (Beast Canyon) Intel has now introduced NUC 12 Enthusiast or Serpent Canyon, with the 12th Gen Intel Core processors. It is also the first to include Arc A-series graphics.
Halo Infinite developer 343 Industries is rolling out some major updates to the game and will roll back fixes that addressed skill jumps. The developers are basically reintroducing glitches.
Opera GX has just been updated to include a tonne of new themes, GX Cleaner to get rid of junk files, and Easy Files which allows users to easily attach and upload files on the computer or clipboard.
A new study by the Bureau of Economic Research has suggested that young men choose to work fewer hours mainly because of video games, amongst other reasons including companies hiring fewer men.
Some leaked internal Microsoft documents have revealed some rather interesting details about Xbox One owners in the US, such as the fact that 58% gamers are male, whereas 42% are female.
Microsoft's latest operating system is finally being used by more than half of all Steam gamers, 17 months after its official launch. All other iterations of the company's OS have seen a decline.
Samsung has announced that it plans to introduce new Quantum Dot monitors at CES 2017 next week, aimed primarily at gamers. The company promises excellent visuals with the curved monitors.
The latest statistics release by Valve reveal that 95.50% of all Steam gamers are using Windows on their machines, and 44.96% of these users are utilizing the 64-bit version of Windows 10.
Following the continued issues in the re-release of Batman: Arkham Knight for PC, Warner Bros. is offering refunds for buyers before the end of 2015, regardless of the time they have spent playing it.
Microsoft has updated its "Software and Services" License Agreement to state that it can update its software to stop you from playing "counterfeit games" and using unauthorized peripheral hardware.
Ironclad Games and Stardock Entertainment are excited to launch the latest update for the award-winning Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity. Trinity is a bundle with the original Sins game along with the two...
Microsoft and Epic Games have finally set in stone the release date for what could turn out to be the year’s biggest seller, Gears of War 3. The Xbox 360 exclusive will be released on...
Neowin.net presents NeowinCast: Gamers, a new series of Podcasts relating to all things gaming and a few not, hosted by David Corris and Joshua Seed. Coming in at an hour this first episode of the...
The Entertainment Consumers Association (ECA) recently made some changes to their website, removing their registered members' "cancel" link in their profiles. Most of the members of ECA joined to get the Amazon.com discounts that...
Girls do game. Data released by Nintendo of America at an industry event asserts the company's flagship system has attracted a significant majority of female gamers. President Reggie Fils-Aime said the Wii is the preferred...
A survey of British gamers has found that a quarter prefer to purchase and download their games online, often through their console's store, rather than purchase a physical copy from a retail store. According to...
According to a New Scientist study, you'll be hit with a surge of testosterone if you win at your favourite game, but only if the opponents you defeat are strangers. If you happen to beat...
When Logitech released the G9 mouse, a big fuss kicked up in regards to the design and appearance of the mouse, with a lot of people disliking the square, hard shape of it. Now, Logitech...
Stardock announced today the Gamer's Bill of Rights: a statement of principles that it hopes will encourage the PC game industry to adopt standards that are more supportive of PC gamers. The document contains 10...
XBOX live gamers will be entitled to a free download of Undertow from the XBOX Live Arcade in response to the recent excessive XBOX Live downtime. The game will be available to both silver...
The Scottish government plans to pay for inserting advertisements discouraging drinking and driving into video games. The 10,000 pound ($20,000) trial project will see the ads appear on virtual billboards within several games for Microsoft...
It's kind of like SETI@home, but with PS3s instead of PCs and molecules instead of aliens. In the latest volunteer scientist program, called PS3GRID, anyone who owns a Sony PlayStation3 can donate their system´s downtime...
Nvidia Corporation not only plans to refresh its lineup of performance graphics accelerators this year, but also intends to introduce its 3-way SLI multi-GPU technology, which is apparently Nvidia's new "ultimate gaming platform". Initially Nvidia...
RealNetworks has entered into an agreement to acquire Game Trust, a casual-gaming company based in New York, with plans to add Game Trust's community and commerce capabilities to the technology platform currently on offer to...
A high number of middle-school youth may be playing violent video games, but that's not a worrisome trend, according to a study just released by Massachusetts General Hospital's Center for Mental Health and Media. The...
Is Microsoft Trying to Kill PC Gaming? When Microsoft started talking up Vista's gaming functionality, PC gamers got all hot and bothered. There it was, laid out in front of us, the holy land...
A mobile version of Intel's Core 2 Extreme chip will hit the market during the third quarter in high-end gaming notebooks. Combined with Nvidia's SLI technology, which uses two graphics chips instead of one, notebooks...
In a sign of the increasing importance of online gaming in today's video game market, The NPD Group's annual study on the online gaming landscape in the U.S. reveals that out of all gamers, 62...
Don't shoot the messenger folks, just a terrific story I thought some of you might enjoy. It's official – women who play video games have sex more often! Gametart, the UK's largest online games rental...
Calling itself the Entertainment Consumer Association (ECA), the new non-profit advocacy group is forging itself a place in gaming history. Based in Connecticut, the ECA's mission is to give a political voice to gamers in...
Perhaps Nintendo is actually on to something with its Brain Training games. According to a new study from casual games developer PopCap Games, a large percentage of casual players are actually over the age of...
In response to an addiction to computer games by Chinese gamers, that has caused some deaths in the past, China's government brought in a system to prevent gamers from playing for more than three hours...
The GeForce 7900 GT is one of NVIDIA's latest entries in the high-end gaming market. Utilizing the revamped G71 architecture, this chip shares similar specifications to the almighty GeForce 7800 GTX, while being manufactured in...
The staff here at Neowin are getting ready to relaunch our 'NeowinCAST' channel of Poweruser.tv podcasts over the next 2 weeks. Legal entanglements over our previous name, staff availability, and the dreaded College exam season...
Gamers in Ohio make life size Mario "Item Boxes", placed them around their town and now may be charged. Games have been in the news for the wrong reasons many times before, but who...
"48 pipelines is simply bonkers." The graphics system uses the R500 GPU from ATI. Whilst all sorts of information has been flying round, here's what we know. R500 is an Xbox-only chip....
Online study states the obvious: online gamers prefer to play online via their PCs, even if there's a networked console nearby. Research mavens The NPD Group, those folks who tally weekly and...
Recent Macrovision survey sees more than 50 percent of PC gamers admitting to software piracy. Copy protection experts Macrovision have recently conducted a software piracy survey across a number of popular gaming...
