Another run on shares of the brick-and-mortar retailer, as well as rising yields among Treasury bonds, spooked investors Thursday, causing a fire sale as markets dropped precipitously.
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Members of Congress probed for market manipulation during January’s GameStop frenzy in a contentious committee hearing Thursday.
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Iran’s millions-strong legion of gamers revel in online worlds, but they have to fight daily real-life obstacles imposed by U.S. sanctions in their quest to level up and keep playing.
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Epic Games said Wednesday it filed an antitrust complaint against Apple with European Union regulators, opening a new front in its war with the tech giant over app store payments.
Read moreA federal court in California dismissed, with leave to amend, a putative class action alleging that video game “loot boxes” are illegal “slot machines or devices” under California’s gambling laws, and Google violates consumer protection laws by including video games with loot boxes in its Google Play store.
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The feeding frenzy over GameStop stock, which fueled a market meltdown on Wednesday, has securities regulators investigating and lawmakers from both parties calling for action.
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A little-known Australian mining company saw its share price soar as much as 50% on Thursday, after investors appeared to mistake it for the similarly named cult U.S. stock GameStop.
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Robinhood and other online trading platforms are moving to restrict trading in GameStop and other stocks that have soared recently due to rabid buying by smaller investors.
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A pair of professional investment firms that placed big bets that money-losing video game retailer GameStop’s stock will crash have largely abandoned their positions.
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The EU fined the operator of Steam, the world’s largest video game distribution platform, and five publishers 7.8 million euros ($9.45 million) for blocking gamers from shopping around Europe for cheaper subscriptions.
Read moreA federal court in California dismissed NantWorks’ suit alleging Niantic’s augmented-reality gaming apps “Pokémon Go” and “Harry Potter: Wizards Unite” infringed on its patents.
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Police in Shanghai say they have detained a suspect in the death by possible poisoning of the billionaire founder of a Chinese video game company that makes films based on the popular science fiction novel “The Three-Body Problem.”
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Shareholders of Poland-based CD Projekt, creators of the video game Cyberpunk 2077, sued the company over the disastrous, unplayable — and ultimately recalled — release, which they say fell far short of the company’s nearly yearlong hype.
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Time spent playing video games can be good for mental health, according to a new study by researchers at Oxford University.
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A federal judge late Tuesday dismissed two counterclaims by Apple against Fortnite maker Epic Games, in the popular online game maker’s antitrust lawsuit challenging Apple’s practice of taking a 30% cut on all in-app purchases.
Read moreAn airplane racer accuses video game makers Ubisoft and Ivory Tower of letting users fly the plaintiff’s one-of-a-kind P-51 Mustang in their game “The Crew,” and even gave the plane the same name as the plaintiff’s — “Strega.”
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Calling its decision to breach an allegedly anticompetitive contract with Apple a “self-inflicted wound,” a federal judge on Friday refused to reinstate Epic Games’ popular Fortnite game on the app store for millions of Apple device users.
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Streaming high-definition videos and games can result in significant greenhouse gas emissions, depending on the technology used, according to a German government-backed study released Thursday.
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A federal judge resuscitated a class action alleging Fortnite developer Epic Games lures kids into making impulsive in-app buys that they later regret but cannot retract.
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Epic Games cannot force Apple to reinstate its popular Fortnite game on the Apple app store because it chose to breach a contract instead of maintaining the status quo while its antitrust suit against the tech giant moves forward, a federal judge said Monday.
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