A new book by Jordan Himelfarb follows the game’s rising young players, including the reigning world champion Gukesh ...

Shira is eager to hear from college students and their families about how you’re feeling about the job market. Drop her a line at [email protected]. A lot of students took the advice to learn ...

No, this isn’t science fiction. Real-life researchers taught a dish of roughly 200,000 living human brain cells to play the classic 1990s computer game “Doom.” Experts at Cortical Labs, an Australian ...

Microsoft may soon allow PC players to enjoy original Xbox and Xbox 360 games thanks to an official emulator for Windows. While the talk of the town is the upcoming Project Helix, a new report ...

In an unexpected move, Google announced it will be bringing some of its mobile catalog to PC. There's now a PC section in the Play Store Games tab, which will serve as "your dedicated home for ...

Google has announced several updates to Google Play, including paid games, game trials and what the company describes as "buy once, play anywhere pricing." "We're actively expanding our library to ...

Something to look forward to: Mobile gaming may be a massive and lucrative market, but most PC players have an active dislike of playing titles on handsets. Despite this, Google is hoping to appeal to ...

Google on Wednesday announced a slew of new gaming-focused updates to Google Play at GDC 2026. The tech giant revealed that Google Play is expanding its catalog to include anticipated paid and PC ...

Google has been tinkering with porting its Play Games platform to Windows for several years, but it started getting serious about it last year. Now, with the 2026 Game Developer Conference underway, ...

Last summer, we here at Ars made the argument that the company’s next Xbox console should give up the walled garden approach and just run Windows already. Now, newly named Microsoft Executive Vice ...

TL;DR: Microsoft's next-generation Xbox, codenamed Project Helix, will support both Xbox and PC games, emphasizing high performance and seamless gaming across devices. Xbox's new CEO, Asha Sharma, ...

Microsoft today announced the codename of its next Xbox gaming console: Project Helix. Details are very light, but the company says Project Helix will “play your Xbox and PC games.” Naturally that’s ...