Over 
500 years after its debut, chess is finally getting a follow-up.
This time, though, it’s skipping your local games stores and going directly to the Ouya.
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19-year-old job seeker spends 2,000 hours building Skyrim mod
It’s 
hard to get a job in the video game industry, but when you kick in the doors like Alexander J. Velicky, it might be just as hard for the industry to turn you down.
Velicky, a 19-year old gamer who wants to make the leap to game making, spent a full year creating a wildly ambitious mod in an attempt to turn woo renowned developer Bethesda Softworks. And it’s definitely turning heads.
Despite The Last of Us, overall game sales down in June
Joel, 
Ellie and those terrifying Clickers did their best to boost video game sales in June, but it was just another doomed mission for the duo.
Software sales last month were down 10 percent to $296.1 million, according to The NPD Group. The decline was moderate compared to recent months, though, a bit of optimism in an otherwise gloomy report.
Meet the Scanadu Scout, the real-life ‘Star Trek’ tricorder
No 
Bones about it — the Star Trek tricorder has been beamed down.
An integral part of the U.S.S. Enterprise’s sick bay, the handheld medical scanner used on the original show by Dr. Leonard McCoy has been transformed into a real-world tool for today’s doctors and nurses, both in hospitals and in homes.
Student gets year in jail for hacking school election
Politicians 
may occasionally get away with cheating in one form or fashion, but they’d better not try it at the California State University San Marcos. It just might earn them jail time.
Matt Weaver, a junior at the school, ran for president last year. And to ensure his victory, he rigged the campus election by stealing passwords from roughly 750 students to cast votes for himself. Earlier this week, that stunt earned him a year in prison.
Sony considered PS4 controller that could detect sweat
Forget 
about reading facial expressions – the Next Big Thing in console gaming is…sweat?
Almost, according to Mark Cerny, lead system architect for Sony’s next-generation console. Cerny says one of the early designs of the DualShock 4 controller measured ‘skin conductivty’ — or, in more colloquial terms, sweat — to detect a player’s emotions.
Nintendo’s legendary Famicom turns 30
Thirty 
years ago, Nintendo’s rise to the top of the video game console world began.
Sure, Atari may have started the home video game revolution, but it was Nintendo’s Famicom that took it to the next level, laying the groundwork for the industry as we know it today. That system, which was released two years later in America under the more familiar “Nintendo Entertainment System,” made home gaming cool again.
Meet Troy Baker, gaming’s leading man
You 
may not know Troy Baker’s face, but if you’ve played the year’s biggest video games, you certainly know his voice.
Baker has been an up and coming video game voice actor for a few years now, but in 2013, he has exploded in a way no one could have imagined, voicing the main character in two critically-acclaimed hits. That’s a bit like an actor scoring major roles in multiple Oscar-nominated films in the same year.
New Deus Ex game won’t work on jailbroken devices
Planning 
on playing Deus Ex: The Fall on your iPhone or iPad? Make sure your iDevice isn’t jailbroken.
Players of the recently released action game who happen to have jailbroken phones and tablets are finding quite a surprise: their guns have been disabled. Considering how often you need to shoot things in the game, that can be somewhat debilitating.
Julie Larson-Green named new Xbox boss
Steve 
Ballmer’s massive overhaul of Microsoft’s executive office and business practices has cleared up the mystery of who will take over the Xbox division after the shocking departure of Don Mattrick.
The reorganization, announced Thursday, will put two long-time veterans of the company in charge of its console division, with different areas of focus.
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