If you like to play video games, you’re in good company. About 2 in 3 Americans — roughly 205.1 million people — identify as gamers today, according to the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), ...

2025 felt like a year where legal stories dominated industry headlines nearly as much as the games themselves. Patent litigation over game mechanics, (unusually) public disputes over contested ...

Dr Tommy Thompson is the founder and director of AI and Games, and was formerly an AI researcher and university lecturer in game development. Tommy co-founded Game AI Events CIC in 2024: a non-profit ...

In brief: Layoffs have hammered the tech industry over the past several years, and video game companies are no exception. A new report ahead of the 2026 Game Developers Conference indicates that over ...