Almost one year to the day after Inside originally launched, Playdead co-founder Dino Patti has revealed his next venture. After a less-than-amicable departure from Playdead, Patti has helped start a new studio which is in the process...   read

Today's announcement of the SNES Classic came attached with the obvious joke of "But no one will be able to get one." It's low-hanging fruit admittedly, but it's also deserved. Even Nintendo acknowledged that the NES Classic's production re...   read

The internet, full of opinion-havers and never-be-wrongs, had a lot of steadfast thoughts about E3 2017. They ranged from "It was very good" to "It was very bad," with some "It was okay" and "It was not great" peppered in the middle. Nuance...   read

With an extremely appropriate final setback, Gigantic has a release date. The free-to-play hero shooter with a troubled development history will launch on July 20 on PC and Xbox One. Earlier this month, developer Motiga said that Gigan...   read

What a whirlwind two weeks it has been. First, we all descended upon Los Angeles to bring you the industry's best video game coverage (Editor's note: May not actually be the industry's best video game coverage) and then we had some pretty i...   read

When Ubisoft announced Beyond Good and Evil 2 at its E3 press conference, people were understandably excited. They were also understandably tempered in their expectations that this would launch anytime soon. No release window was atta...   read

The drought is over! After a grueling one-year absence from the cover of EA's hockey video game, a young Canadian man is once again the athlete on the front of NHL. (Not to be confused with a Canadien man.) At tonight's NHL Awards, Edmonto...   read

Ubisoft's new pirate game, Skull & Bones, is a recycled idea. No one has delusions that it's wholly original, because its source material is so obvious. Ubisoft is borrowing from itself here, but not in a way that feels uninspired. Rath...   read

Over the course of all the E3 appointments I've attended in my six years covering the show, I don't think I've ever heard someone place equal emphasis on their game and why it's better than the competition. Project CARS 2 creative dire...   read

Last September, I hit rock bottom as a games writer. Against my better judgment, I let Ubisoft strap a fart machine to my face for a demo of South Park: The Fractured but Whole. Bad call. Terrible. Just awful, really. Deals are not my art f...   read

There's a new patch for Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor and no one seems to know what it does. Update 1.10 released today and it's mostly substantial in size -- reports indicate about 6GB on PS4, 2.27GB on Xbox One, but only 8.1MB on PC...   read

If there's one defining thing about E3 2017, I don't think it's the obvious answer: That this is the year the convention opened its doors to the public. That was notable, but it didn't really change the show. It was more packed, yes, but th...   read

Super Mario Odyssey is weird. It took all of 30 seconds before we switched out of Mario's traditional garb and into a pinstripe suit and fedora. Many times, we threw Mario's hat at a Bullet Bill and then turned into that Bullet Bill. W...   read

A year in hiding seems to have done wonders for Assassin's Creed. Ubisoft stepping away from its flagship franchise was unexpected, but that time away has Assassin's Creed: Origins feeling like a game that's familiar but still different eno...   read

Crackdown 2 launched in the summer of 2010 and it was largely the same game that its predecessor was in 2007. The setting was the same, the gameplay was the same -- it mostly just added zombies in a weak attempt at variation. It rang h...   read

It wasn't until 20 minutes into my half-hour Life is Strange: Before the Storm presentation that we were told this game doesn't have the rewind mechanic that was a staple of the original. Honestly, it wasn't even on my mind. It always felt ...   read

Forza Motorsport has hit that sports game level of iteration. Things like Madden and FIFA were excellent many many years ago; now it's all about inching ever-closer to perfection. The seventh installment of Forza Motorsport i...   read

Nintendo had more new games than you'd expect, eh? Kirby, Yoshi, Metroid -- most of Nintendo's big names seem like they'll have a Switch title not long after the console releases. Didn't really expect that much fire out of a 30-minute video...   read

Here it is, the finale. Now we just have to, you know, actually do E3. But Nintendo's Spotlight signals the end of all the preliminary festivities. In mere hours, we'll be running from appointment to appointment across the slightly-more-pa...   read

A month before E3, I booked a semi-mystery appointment for Project Scorpio on the day after it'd be revealed to the world. I didn't know the structure of the meeting (interview, hands-on, presentation, etc.), just that Scorpio, now Xbox One...   read

PlayStation's E3 press conference was all about the games. Not a huge departure for Sony, but always good to see. That Spider-Man video was particularly encouraging, I think. Anyway, a bunch of it went up on Amazon. Do what you will.   read

Until Dawn developer Supermassive Games has a new game called The Inpatient, and that's the studio's main E3 news. But, it's not its only E3 news. There's another game. Also revealed at PlayStation's E3 press conference is somethi...   read