The Nintendo Wii U will be region-locked, the House of Mario says, making it impossible to play rare imported games here in the UK. Just like its predecessor the Wii, and its handheld relative the 3DS ...

I've been playing video games since roughly around the time I developed the cognitive function to do so. Region-locking restricts playable characters in games like Darkstalkers and Cyberbots to ...

Anthony Taormina is an original member of the Game Rant team, having been part of the publication for 15 years. He coordinates content for all facets of the site and manages its social media, PR, and ...

Looks like the practice of region locking is alive and well at Microsoft, as games for its newly announced console have been confirmed to only run on machines from the same territory. It’s worth ...

Valve found itself in the crosshairs of European regulators today. The European Commission sent a notice to the owner and operator of the Steam game-distribution platform as well as five other game ...

When Samsung released their Galaxy Note 3 a few weeks ago, it packed a nasty surprise to future owners in the way of a region lock preventing owners from using a SIM card from a different geographic ...

Nintendo’s next console seems likely to reverse the company’s recent policy of mandatory region locking, which limits software to run only on hardware sold in the same geographic area. In a recent Q&A ...

Apple isn't the only one making changes to how it deals with the Russian ruble. Valve is taking measures to protect PC game publishers on its Steam platform too, as spotted by NeoGAF's ever-vigilant ...

In a statement sent to ease the minds of concerned customers, Samsung also says it's imposed the region lock on the S4 and Note 2. Luke Westaway is a senior editor at CNET and writer/ presenter of ...

PUBG players on PC can now enjoy region-locked, custom-server matchmaking via FACEIT . Following a successful beta in August, everyone can get a taste of what it feels like to play a tournament-level ...

The Xbox One announcement gave us some technical specs for Microsoft's next console, but it did leave some unanswered questions. They've been dripping in ever since, and today we have another bit of ...