Netflix might be planning to expand into the $150 billion video game industry, according to a media report. The popular streaming company is'excited to do more with interactive entertainment' beyond its popular offerings'from series to documentaries, film, local language originals and reality TV', a spokesperson told DailyMail.com. 'Members also enjoy engaging more directly with stories they love - through interactive shows like Bandersnatch and You v. Wild, or games based on Stranger Things, La Casa de Papel and To All the Boys. So we're excited to do more with interactive entertainment.' The Information, which first broke the news, reports that the Los Gatos, California-based company has approached veteran executives in the industry to lead its efforts.

The symposium entitled Acquiring (and Using) Linguistic (and World) Knowledge for Information Access gathered 20 some researchers and practitioners from corporations, research institutes, and academic institutions from far corners of the world. The subtitle was "Theory for systems; application for theories," and the aim was to find common ground between those who work on defining The American Association for Artificial Intelligence, in cooperation with Stanford University's Department of Computer Science, presented the 2002 Spring Symposium Series, held Monday through Wednesday, 25 to 27 March 2002, at Stanford University. The nine symposia were entitled (1) Acquiring (and Using) Linguistic (and World) Knowledge for Information Access; (2) Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Entertainment; (3) Collaborative Learning Agents; (4) Information Refinement and Revision for Decision Making: Modeling for Diagnostics, Prognostics, and Prediction; (5) Intelligent Distributed and Embedded Systems; (6) Logic-Based Program Synthesis: State of the Art and Future Trends; (7) Mining Answers from Texts and Knowledge Bases; (8) Safe Learning Agents; and (9) Sketch Understanding. The presentations ranged from new theories for computational modeling of brain information processing and applications of various types of multivariate statistical models to text categorization to name identification across documents and ontologybased search systems. The discussion centered on representational issues.

It's a new year, which means new video games to stoke our excitement. This year, we also get two more home consoles, Nintendo's Switch and Microsoft's Project Scorpio, a souped-up version of the Xbox One supporting native 4K resolutions and virtual reality. While we wait for fresh hardware, let's look ahead to the software players will likely pine for in 2017. Details: This side-scrolling action game is inspired by classic cartoons of the 1930s, even adopting similar animation techniques. Lead characters Cuphead and Mugman make a deal with the devil, and must perform his bidding through a variety of levels played either solo or cooperatively with friends.

Nintendo's famed video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto has spent his career developing some of the world's most iconic and cherished video games, from the Super Mario franchise to Zelda and Donkey Kong. As video game consoles have changed over the years, so have the ways in which people play them: the Wii heralded motion controls, the Wii U introduced a dual-screen experience to Nintendo fans for the first time, and the 3DS handheld system brought Mario and others to life in 3D. This year, Nintendo began to venture into a widely lucrative yet untapped territory for the company: mobile gaming. December 15th marks the launch of Super Mario Run for the iPhone and iPad, which will be the first time the iconic plumber will be making his way to mobile devices. TIME spoke with Mario creator Miyamoto about the challenges that come with bringing Mario to a new platform and more. The following transcript that has been edited for length and clarity.

Tonight marks the 3rd annual Game Awards hosted by Geoff Keighley, the premiere event for honoring the best, or at least most acclaimed, video games of the year. The Game Awards were previously known as the Video Game Awards, which have been around since 2009. The Game Awards have taken on a distinctly different tone than before, however, under the stewardship of host Geoff Keighley. Here's everything you need to know about the 2016 Game Awards, including where to watch, when the awards are airing, and what to expect from the show, as well as a list of nominees in ten different categories. This year's award ceremony begins tonight, December 1st, beginning at 8:30 pm ET.

The Witcher 3 doesn't really belong in a 2016 video game award ceremony. I'm excited to watch the 2016 Game Awards this evening. We're in for a few big game reveals and some gameplay footage for highly anticipated titles launching next year. That's all well and good, but I have a quibble with two of the nominees for Best RPG in this year's awards. Notice that here we have both The Witcher 3 and World of Warcaft occupying two of the five slots.

The Game Awards 2016 take place on Thursday, Dec. 1 at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. The show will be streamed live -- and you can watch here. Game titles nominated for the Game of the Year award include Doom, Inside, Overwatch, Titanfall 2 and Uncharted 4: A Thief's End . The award will be giving to the game that "delivers the best experience across all creative and technical fields." Uncharted 4 has the most nominations, with eight, including Game of the Year, Best Game Direction, Best Art Direction, Best Narrative and three nominations for Best Performance for voice actors Nolan North, Troy Baker and Emily Rose.

The 22nd annual Electronic Entertainment Expo, or "E3" – the world's largest video gaming convention held each June in Los Angeles – once again served as a glimpse into the future of the multibillion dollar interactive entertainment industry. An estimated 50,000 industry-only attendees from more than 100 countries swarmed the Los Angeles Convention Center and surrounding areas to play games not yet commercially available. Another 20,000 fans showed up. While some of the buzz at the show surrounded new hardware, such as Microsoft's surprise announcement of a new console available in 18 months (codenamed "Project Scorpio"), it was the many hundreds of upcoming games that dominated the discussion. Yours truly spent three thumb-numbing days playing tomorrow's titles, and the following are some highlights from my vantage point. Feel free to share the games you're most excited about in the Comments section.