Gamers in Chinese mainland are increasingly upset over their lack of access to Pokémon Go, the latest Nintendo smash-hit game sending countless smartphone addicts worldwide outdoor to hunt down fictional creatures.
The Force Awakens video game is a huge amount of fun, replete with in-jokes that point out plot holes and obvious retreads – but why is it the only tie-in to the most recent Star Wars movie?
Ex-US marine challenges Islamic State to Pokémon battle through a Facebook post
Depending on whom you ask, Pokemon Go is either a revolutionary smartphone experience or potentially lethal fad. Either way, the app has soared to the top of download charts, is poised to pass Twitter in daily usage and has added US$7 billion in market value to Nintendo Co.
Game developers around the world have watched in astonishment since the weekend as Pokemon Go, a mobile version of the beloved 1990s game from Nintendo Co, became an instant hit - rocketing to the most downloaded app on both Apple and Android phones.
Shares of Japan's Nintendo Co soared more than 20 percent after Friday's surge, adding $7.5 billion to its market value in just two days, on hopes that strong sales of its new Pokemon GO videogame for smartphones will boost earnings.
Despite the 2-0 semifinal defeat against France, Germany were the team setting trends in world football at Euro 2016.
Hirers say the game reveals more about candidates than just long pages of resumes.
In sharp contrast to North America, where the film Warcraft got a bad rap, and Europe, where it was branded a box office failure, the film turned out to be a blockbuster in China.
Mindless episodes like that which unfolded at the end of the FA Cup match between Jiangsu Suning and Wuhan Hongxing continue to ensure Chinese football isn’t taken seriously beyond its own borders
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the world's worst, brought death, misery and radioactive contamination. Thirty years later, it has become the unlikely inspiration for Russian weekend gaming enthusiasts.
Locked in a cramped, dim cell, Brett Soznik, along with Annette Brown and several other team members, was trying to bypass the green laser grid that separated them from an iron gate, a potential exit.
Nearly 20 years ago, after a chess-playing computer called Deep Blue beat the world grandmaster Garry Kasparov, I wrote an article about why humans would long remain the champions in the game of Go.
On March 15, 2016, supercomputer AlphaGo beat South Korean Go grandmaster Lee Sedol, in a fifth and final matchup.
Google's Go-playing computer program AlphaGo on Tuesday ended a historic match of the ancient Chinese board game with Go grandmaster Lee Sedol of South Korea by taking a 4-1 lead with its fourth victory in the final match of the best-of-five series.
With trillions of possible moves, Go has been described as one of the "most complex games ever devised by man." The contest of strategy and intuition has bedeviled artificial intelligence (AI) experts for decades.
South Korean grandmaster beaten in the first game of a tournament against artificial intelligence project AlphaGo