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Two players were killed when a shooter opened fire at a Florida tournament. Police say the shooter took his own life. The CEO of game-maker Electronic Arts says he has canceled three upcoming events.

Madden NFL 19 plays a version of the song "Big Bank" that goes quiet for a moment as if censored. But the missing phrase isn't an obscenity: It's the name of the player who began a protest movement.

Together, he and Nolan Bushnell made games with makeshift materials that eschewed the bulky computers of the era. Their company created Pong — and their tumultuous partnership changed gaming forever.

Our occasional series on storytelling in video games returns with a look at the survival simulator The Long Dark, which uses sound and silence to build a world not long into some terrible disaster.

Billy Mitchell, a star of the documentary King of Kong, is fighting a ruling that stripped his records in the arcade classic. "Witnesses, documents, everything will be made available to you," he says.

Billy Mitchell, one of the two bitter rivals in 2007's King of Kong, just had his high scores stripped by video game record keepers — including a historic (and disputed) score featured in the film.

After the Parkland high school shooting, the president said video games are "really shaping young people's thoughts." Then he invited makers of those games to the White House to meet with critics.

Many of these experts are also parents, and their work informs their approach to making rules with their kids about phones, TV and other media.