The United States tax agency has confirmed that currencies collected within video games are not subject to the same tax obligations as cryptocurrency assets. The IRS previously suggested to players of Fortnite and other popular games that thei...

The 2018 end-of-year report by Nielsen-owned gaming research company SuperData has revealed that so-called freemium games – games that are free to play but typically enable microtransactions for users to purchase upgrades and gizmos – are domin...

Lee Sedol, the world’s top player of 4,500-year-old Chinese board game Go, is working on a blockchain version of his beloved game in association with The Blockchain Inc. Sedol, was the fifth-youngest South Korean to become a professional Go pl...

GMO Internet, a leading Japanese Internet services provider that offers online services including cryptocurrency trading, has developed “CryptoChips by GMO” to enable distribution of cryptocurrency as remuneration within games, according to an ...

Merging the virtual and real world is a development that is becoming common in the gaming ecosystem. Most of these new games involve the integration of game visuals and audio content with a player’s environment in real time. This phenomenon is ...