Electronic Arts has announced that their Chief Design Officer, Patrick Söderlund, is to leave the publisher later this year to pursue ventures elsewhere.As the former CEO of DICE, Söderlund oversaw the development of numerous Batt...

Developer Juggler Games has announced that their evocative new title My Memory of Us will see the light of day in October, having also successfully secured award-winning actor Patrick Stewart to provide the game's narration.The sombre-looki...

Well folks, it took us the best part of of three decades, but we finally stood up to those fat cats in the U.S. senate. Boy, I'll bet former Nintendo chair Howard Lincoln is fuming right now, because, some 26 years after he stated it would ...

Jackbox Games, purveyors of party-style multiplayer titles, has teamed up with popular charity retailer Humble Store to release a new bundle of games, perfect for whiling away the evening with chums, while watching that one passive-aggressi...

Most of our contests revolve around bigger titles -- or at least, ones by development teams with at least a couple titles under their belts who know their way around the industry, even if only a little. But for this one, it's going to be a ...

I really miss the days of the side-scrolling run-and-gun shooter. It's such a fun and cathartic genre, and I'm shocked that not every game allows you to run around like a lunatic blasting fools left and right. Let's give out a nice, chaotic...

We can expect Arkane Studios to continue making immersive games that prioritize "deep world building and environmental storytelling," but Dishonored? The series is on hiatus. Speaking to VG247 at QuakeCon, lead designer Ricardo Bare said th...

Three years after the Xbox One Elite controller debuted, it seems as though Microsoft will be ready to release a revamped version. There have been reports in the past that Microsoft is working on a new Elite controller, but recent informati...

If you watched all the way through Star Trek: Discovery you know that it ended on a cliffhanger that surprised, angered, and excited Trek fans. The show also heavily involved Spock's family, but no Spock. I'm going to talk about that e...

James Cameron's nine-year-old film and franchise-to-be Avatar received a nice shot of adrenaline last year when Disney opened a Pandora-themed section to its Animal Kingdom in Orlando. It's an innovative take on adapting a movie t...

One of my favorite things about collector's editions of games is typically the packaging. I don't really care about all the useless crap I'm never going to use, but I love displaying awesome game art on steelbook cases. I even remember pre-...

Before rebooting the entire series with 2013's Tomb Raider, developer Crystal Dynamics decided to take the series in a more modern direction with 2006's Tomb Raider: Legend. Basically setting the groundwork for Naughty Dog's popular Unchart...

If you haven't heard of HackyZack, you should probably change that. While not a masterpiece of the platforming genre, the game is a couple of hours of hacky sack kicking goodness mixed with a colorful art style and some catchy tunes. It is ...

Kickin' a ghoul in the head is a riotous good time, but wouldn't it be more fun with some buddies? And that roving pack of raiders, maybe they'd be a little less fearsome with some trusted pals by your side? Fallout 76 is Bethesda's f...

In an interview with GamesIndustry.biz at E3 this year, Lukasz Kukawski (GOG.com's head of global communication) gave the company's stance on what it feels streaming services are to gamers. "We don't see it as a thing that will take over ga...

I've already filed Spirit of the North in my mind as "that chill fox game." The upcoming third-person adventure has players exploring Iceland-inspired scenery as a red fox. You'll solve light environmental puzzles, and that's basically it. ...

China's government is notoriously picky with what products go on sale in the country. This has led to numerous instances where incredibly popular games had to be massively censored to even see release, but I don't think I've heard of a case...

A neat treat is coming this week for fight fans, as Hamster continue their odyssey to bring all of th Neo Geo classics to the Switch. Thursday will see the great Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers arrive on the Nintendo platform.Original...

Despite troubles at Codemasters, the OnRush team is still trucking with updates for the game, which includes the addition of ranked play and a "Summer Slam" event. The former will drop on August 13, and the latter hits August 27, which...

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 players will get their first real look at the game's battle royale mode Blackout on September 10. The beta is set to debut on PlayStation 4, with other platforms to follow, and you'll have access to solos, duos, an...

The Uncharted movie project has gone through many iterations, each seeming as unlikely as the last. But the current director attached to the film, family movie director and Stranger Things executive producer Shawn Levy, seems quite confiden...

World of Warcraft might not have the same cultural cache it once had in an era filled with multi-million player free-to-play MMOs, but at this point it's most definitely an institution. The fact is, Blizzard has maintained the project for n...

While I still have a few secret levels to master in Overcooked 2, my time has pretty much come to an end. I was planning on revisiting the co-op cooking action title again sooner than later since it's the type of game that feels fresh when...

Snipers in video games. Love 'em or hate 'em there's no denying that that long-distance role is amazingly popular. This can be a good thing, guiding your team to glory from afar with a series of staccato, perfectly-placed headshots, or, lik...

The hits keep coming from Sega CCO Toshihiro Nagoshi, who opened up to Edge Magazine about several major moments in Sega history. In this instance he shares some inside info on the Yakuza series: it was actually pitched to Microsoft and Nin...