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As the coronavirus sweeps through the nation’s correctional facilities, New York City has provided inmates at Rikers with a way to occupy their time. Officials told the New York Daily News on Friday that thousands of inmates were given off-brand handheld gaming devices similar to a Nintendo Game Boy. In March, the city used taxpayers’ dollars […]

Sure, Animal Crossing might offer a wholesome, anthropomorphic escape from the coronavirus quarantine, but if you’re looking for content that speaks more directly to the phenomenon at hand, a Canadian developer has made just the video game for you. A Fold Apart, by Toronto-based Lightning Rod Games, is a puzzle game about a long-distance relationship. […]

Lamar Jackson can now add “Madden cover star” to his growing list of accolades.  On Tuesday, the Ravens quarterback revealed that he’ll be the face of th upcoming Madden 21 video game.  “It’s always been a dream of mine since I was a kid,” Jackson said in an official statement. “So, for me to be on the […]

According to Yahoo Sports’ Chris Haynes, the NBA has plans to launch a players-only NBA 2K tournament that will (in theory) be made up of the best gamers from each team in the league. You already know the reason but, in the sake of providing context should this article be clicked on in the future, […]

One thing disaster movies fail to note about pandemics is that, if you happen to be a lucky person who dodges the rapidly spreading illness, they’re still very boring. And so you could do a lot worse than to be stocked up on video games in a time period where your social options are extremely […]

Thursday, HBO and game developer Naughty Dog announced a TV adaptation of the PS3/PS4 classic The Last of Us. With Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin and TLOU co-creator Neil Druckmann both involved as producers and writers, it’s safe to say the series is in good hands. But as soon as the news was revealed, fans immediately began wondering who would play […]

As a general rule of thumb, Grand Theft Auto should never be responsible for any real-life decisions. Nothing about GTA suggests that something you do in the game should be experienced in your everyday life.  With that being said, this past weekend Lancashire Road Police in England pulled over an 11-year-old boy once they realized that the kid behind the wheel looked way too young to be driving an […]

We are now solidly into 2020. Awards season is over. And we’re starting to see some of the big, feature video game titles that will be up for Game of the Year consideration at the end of this calendar year. Doom, Half-Life and Animal Crossing have new entries in their respective franchises. Atari throws its […]

The National Transportation Safety Board has determined in its investigation that the man behind the wheel of a Tesla that crashed in California two years ago was playing a video game on his phone at the time of the accident, according to NBC Bay Area.  Walter Huang was commuting to his engineering job at Apple on March […]

Mario and friends are set to make Florida one of their new homes.  Comcast executives announced on Tuesday that Universal Orlando will open a fourth park based on Nintendo characters in 2023. According to USA Today, Universal’s Super Nintendo World theme park will debut this summer at its location in Osaka, Japan. It will then transition to […]