LIMA (Reuters) – For two weeks the warmth emitting from the Pan Am Games took the bite out of the winter chill in the Peruvian capital but as they drew to a close on Sunday, some cold, hard questions about the future of the multi-sport showcase hung heavy in t... More »
LIMA (Reuters) – Peru rode a wave of support from a raucous home crowd to win three Pan Am Games surfing gold medals on Sunday, carrying Daniella Rosas and Luca Mesinas all the way to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. After getting the Games off to a dream start last S... More »
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s press and publication regulator has issued new rules on applications for publishing online games in China, signaling a possible acceleration in the handing out of formal approvals. China stopped granting licenses to monetize online... More »
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – GOLDOC chairman Peter Beattie has apologized for a “stuff-up” at the closing ceremony of the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games after athletes were marginalized from the television broadcast and a string of officials hogged the spotlight with ... More »
GOLD COAST, Australia (Reuters) – The Commonwealth Games should be taken for what they are and expectations that every event is going to deliver top notch competition are unrealistic, athletics great Daley Thompson has told Reuters. Considered by some an anach... More »
GOLD COAST, Australia (Reuters) – Indian team officials will appeal a decision to throw athletes Rakesh Babu and Irfan Kolothum Thodi out of the Commonwealth Games after they were found to have breached the Games’ anti-doping ‘no-needles’ policy. Triple jumper... More »
GOLD COAST, Australia (Reuters) – A few minutes’ walk from the Commonwealth Games basketball venue, a deflated Armando Cozzolino surveys empty tables and idle waitstaff at La Roma restaurant, waiting for a promised business dividend that has stubbornly refused... More »
GOLD COAST, Australia (Reuters) – England sprinter Zharnel Hughes said he had no choice but to accept the decision that robbed him of 200 meters gold at the Commonwealth Games, adding that making contact with rival Jereem Richards had been an accident. Hughes ... More »
GOLD COAST, Australia (Reuters) – Double Olympic rowing champion Hamish Bond has reinforced his successful transition to cycling by claiming a bronze medal in the individual time trial at the Commonwealth Games on Tuesday. Bond, who started roughly midway thro... More »
GOLD COAST, Australia (Reuters) – Facts on the Commonwealth Games to be held in Australia’s Gold Coast: WHEN April 4-15, 2018 WHERE The majority of the events will be held in three clusters on the Gold Coast, with the opening and closing ceremonies and athleti... More »
GOLD COAST, Australia (Reuters) – The Commonwealth Games has become a multi-sports party that struggles to pull high-profile guests but enthusiastic host Australia has promised a beach-side bash on the Gold Coast to reaffirm the event’s place in the global lan... More »
GOLD COAST, Australia (Reuters) – Athletes to watch at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games: NICOL DAVID (Squash, Malaysia) The eight-times world champion is facing unknown territory entering a competition where she is not a favorite for the title having had a sl... More »
GOLD COAST, Australia (Reuters) – An undisclosed competing nation has been summoned to explain the presence of discarded needles in the Commonwealth Games Athletes’ Village in contravention of a ban, organizers said on Monday. The needles, which are banned wit... More »
Finnish game studio Next Games said on Friday it will launch a new augmented reality smartphone game in the coming months based on AMC Networks' hit TV show "Walking Dead". More »
Malaysia apologized on Sunday for the upside-down printing of Indonesia's flag in the souvenir guidebook for the Southeast Asia Games, which officials said is being withdrawn and reprinted. More »
Commuters in Taiwan on Tuesday pretended to hit a ball with a bat, swim and run on a Taipei subway train as part of a campaign to promote the capital's Summer Universiade games this month. More »
A child plays the game ”Honour of Kings” by Tencent at home in Dezhou, Shandong province, China July 2, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer Chinese gaming giant Tencent Holdings Ltd will launch its mega-hit smartphone game “Honour of Kings” in the EU and United States this... More »
A child plays the game ”Honour of Kings” by Tencent at home in Dezhou, Shandong province, China July 2, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer Tencent Holdings Ltd has shrugged off concerns that a move to limit play time for some users of its top-grossing “Honour of Kings” ga... More »
Short Track – Asian Winter Games – Women’s 1000 m – Makomanai, Sapporo, Japan 22/02/17 – South Korea’s Shim Suk-hee (L) and South Korea’s Choi Min-jeong (R) in action during final. Picture taken on February 22, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon South Korea invested... More »
Asian Winter Games – Opening ceremony – Sapporo Dome – Sapporo, Japan – 19/02/17 – John Coates (R) takes part in the opening ceremony. REUTERS/Issei Kato Australia hopes to bring a full delegation of athletes to the 2022 Asian Summer Games in China and is seek... More »
An employee walks out an office of Rovio, the company which created the video game Angry Birds, in Shanghai June 20, 2012. REUTERS/Aly Song Finnish mobile games and animation company Rovio Entertainment said on Monday it was stepping up its hunt for new hit ga... More »
Boys play a mini soccer game during an event for traditional games at a school in Jakarta, Indonesia, October 1, 2016. Picture taken October 1, 2016. REUTERS/Iqro Rinaldi An increasing number of Indonesians are taking a stand against digital games like Pokemon... More »
PARIS Vivendi raised its stakes in French video games makers Ubisoft and Gameloft and indicated that it may buy additional shares later and seek board seats. Vivendi sold off its video games business Activision Blizzard in 2013 in the opening salvo of an asset... More »
TORONTO U.S. rhythmic gymnast Laura Zeng increased her gold medal haul to five, women’s baseball made a landmark debut and hosts Canada had their least productive day at the Pan American Games on Monday. The 15-year-old Zeng, her focus fixed firmly on the 2016... More »
TORONTO Canada swept the Pan American Games gold medals in both the men’s and women’s rugby sevens and mountain bike events on Sunday, to fight off a challenge from the mighty Americans at the top of the medal table. The hosts have enjoyed a stunning start to ... More »
TORONTO Canada’s Jennifer Abel and Mexico’s Ivan Garcia won gold medals in their diving events at the Pan American Games on Sunday to earn automatic qualifying spots for the 2016 Rio Olympics. Abel, who won a bronze medal at the 2012 London Olympics, led the w... More »
TORONTO When Courtney Donovan arrived for her Pan American Games roller figure skating short program and saw people in the stands an hour before the competition she was sure they were lost. It was an understandable reaction for an athlete who has spent her ent... More »
