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"The team has also helped establish new gaming creators while building communities around their content. Facebook Gaming shares these goals, and today we’re honored to welcome Unit 2 Games to the team."

The UN-facilitated initiative, Playing for the Planet Alliance, has launched the second-annual Green Game Jam, which brings the games industry together to educate their players on how to take action on the climate crisis.

Industry veteran takes charge of rapidly-growing charity

It's the right decision but conveyed in the wrong way

Keywords looks to make console games accessible to the world's biggest brands

“Athena Worlds' 3D technology blew my mind," said Atari founder Nolan Bushnell.

The Swedish mobile game company Fragbite Group (previously known as FunRock) has announced that it has acquired European publisher Playdigious. 

"Decisions to retire games are never made easy, but we are now shifting gears to focus on the future of Need for Speed"

The site owner elected to defend himself in court, and stated that the site hadn't broken any laws and he hadn't uploaded any ROMs himself. However, this claim failed to persuade the court, as he had admitted to uploading ROMs in a prior deposition.