Local News San Mateo County libraries now offering video games By Ana Mata, Daily Journal staff Updated Sep 30, 2024 In the latest effort to expand its catalog, the San Mateo County Libraries are now offering video games and consoles for checkout, giving resi…
Arts & Entertainment Ms Pac-Man clears path to World Video Game Hall of Fame Updated Apr 13, 2025 ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — More than 40 years after blazing a trail for female video game characters, Ms. Pac-Man was inducted Thursday into the W…
Business Microsoft buys game maker Activision Blizzard for about $70B By MATT O'BRIEN Associated Press Jan 18, 2022 Microsoft is paying nearly $70 billion for Activision Blizzard, the maker of Candy Crush and Call of Duty, to boost its competitiveness in mob…
Business Video games coming to Netflix? Latest hiring offers a clue Video games coming to Netflix? Latest hiring offers a clue Jul 15, 2021 SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — Netflix has hired veteran video game executive Mike Verdu, signaling the video streaming service is poised to expand …
Other Voices Shedding stereotypes in ‘Oregon Trail’ video game The Omaha World-Herald Jun 21, 2021 In far western Nebraska, Signal Butte rises 120 feet above the North Platte River valley. Generations of archaeologists are familiar with the …
Arts & Entertainment Is it finally game on for video game adaptations? By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer Apr 21, 2021 NEW YORK (AP) — Is there a more woebegone movie genre than the video game adaptation? This is the pantheon of "Max Payne," "Wing Commander" an…
Local Weekend was full of sports By Nathan Mollat, Daily Journal Staff Updated Jul 12, 2023 If you want to get technical about, it’s a misnomer to say there are “no sports to watch.” A more apt description would be, “No live sports to…
Local News South City to esports company: ‘Game on’ By Austin Walsh Daily Journal staff Updated Oct 23, 2019 Let the games begin in downtown South San Francisco, said officials who blessed a proposal to convert the former Bronstein Music site into the…
Local News Esports company seeks South San Francisco launch By Austin Walsh Daily Journal staff Oct 3, 2019 “Game on” is what a local businessman hopes to hear from South San Francisco planning officials after weighing his proposal to establish a vid…
