News
Vision to venture
3+ hour, 17+ min ago (331+ words) Few people have had a better front-row seat to the unofficial history of Malaysia's entrepreneurial scene than Philip Satish Rao, a partner at Ernst & Young Consulting Sdn Bhd and the programme director of the local EY Entrepreneur Of The Year…...
Epic Games' 'Fortnite' returns to App Stores worldwide
4+ day, 16+ hour ago (332+ words) (May 19): Epic Games said on Tuesday its popular shooter title Fortnite has returned to global App Stores, as the videogame maker signaled confidence in a favourable outcome from an ongoing lawsuit against Apple. "Once Apple is forced to show its…...
Nintendo shares tumble after lacklustre Switch 2 games outlook
1+ week, 6+ day ago (328+ words) (May 11): Nintendo Co's shares plunged the most in three months after the company forecast hardware and software sales declines and warned that the soaring cost of memory chips was hitting margins. The Kyoto-based games maker on Friday released a surprisingly…...
Google Deep Mind takes stake in 'EVE Online' video game studio to test AI
2+ week, 2+ day ago (251+ words) PARIS (May 7): Google's artificial intelligence (AI) lab Deep Mind has taken a stake in the studio behind the "EVE Online" video game to train its AI tools, the companies announced on Wednesday. Launched in 2003, EVE Online'is a space-based massively-multiplayer role-playing…...
Sony to hike Play Station 5 prices again as memory chip costs surge
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (243+ words) (March 27): Sony Group is raising global prices of its Play Station 5 consoles, including a US$100 (RM401) increase in the US, marking its second hike in less than a year as the Japanese firm grapples with rising costs of key components such…...
Nintendo shares rally 10% as new Pok'mon game lifts sentiment
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (164+ words) (March 11): Nintendo Co shares soared as much as 10% in their steepest climb since April as the surprise success of its new Pok'mon game helped offset worries around the rising cost of memory chips. The rally comes as physical copies of…...
Ideas: Press start: Southeast Asia's video games leap
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (821+ words) This article first appeared in Digital Edge, The Edge Malaysia Weekly on March 9, 2026 - March 15, 2026 It started, as these things often do in Kuala Lumpur, with rain that felt both theatrical and mildly inconvenient. This was a long overdue catch-up with…...