Here's the TL;DR on this one upfront because the one-sentence summary is so ridiculous that it deserves to be front and center: Ubisoft hired Dragon Age's creative director to make a new fantasy game, and then canceled it because an executi...

Contrary to popular belief, Valve was working on the three-numbered games in those franchises that everyone loves. It wasn't laziness, disinterest, or prioritizing Steam that kept Valve from finishing those games. Instead, it was a problem ...

Oculus is ditching its first standalone headset, the VR unit that launched in 2018 to address complaints that the flagship Rift was too expensive, had too many cables, and required a PC that was also expensive. The Oculus Go -- a headset th...

KeokeN Interactive's interstellar adventure Deliver Us the Moon, which launched on PS4 and Xbox One just over a month ago, is unfortunately no longer coming to Nintendo Switch. Publisher Wired Productions made the announcement this weekend ...

This strange "non-E3" season is now fully underway, with heavy hitters such as PlayStation and the PC Gaming Show already resting up after a weekend of exciting news. There are still plenty of publishers waiting to bear all, however, and pe...

This October was to see European trade show Gamescom branch out into a new territory with the launch of Gamescom Asia. Unfortunately, organisers have been forced to postpone the inaugural event as a result of the ongoing COVID-19/coronaviru...

Konami has officially announced the cancellation of its track-and-field compendium Hyper Sports R. Initially revealed back in the summer of 2018, and was even demonstrated at that year's E3, Hyper Sports R was intended to be a throwback to ...

It's been long known that Valve contracted Arkane Studios in the mid-'00s to make a new Half-Life game. However, little was actually known about that project except that it was set in Ravenholm and that Valve canceled production befor...

After acknowledging that BlizzCon 2020 was very much up in the air, Blizzard has called off the event. According to BlizzCon executive producer Saralyn Smith, the company is currently exploring options for an online replacement event that c...

Ravenholm. We don't go there. But, foolishly, we were going to go back there. In hindsight, this feels like an extreme case of getting ahead of yourself. Back in 2006, Arkane Studios (before it became a Zenimax subsidiary) was contract...

Indie game publisher Devolver Digital has announced that it will still be broadcasting its annual summer press conference this year, despite various cancellations across the board from staple events such as E3, gamescom, and Paris Games Wee...

Paris Games Week has become the latest in a long line of industry events forced to abandon its plans due to the ongoing COVID-19/coronavirus pandemic. PGW 2020 was originally scheduled to take place between October 23-27, where it would hav...

Yet another of the year's biggest video game conventions has been canceled, this time Asia's most high-profile showcase. Organizers have just sent an email confirming that Tokyo Game Show won't take place in 2020. The announcement reads "Du...

This is definitely The Weird Story of the Day -- but don't underestimate 2020's ability to swoop in and get way weirder at the drop of a dime. People have been begging Ubisoft for a new Prince of Persia for almost a decade. As it turn...

Development studio The Outsiders has announced that its grim-looking monster RPG Darkborn is no longer in development. The game has been put on hold after four years of development in favour of a new project.Originally referred to as Archen...

World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has confirmed that it will not be releasing a video game in 2020, marking the first year in decades that the company will forego a digital replication of its squared circle action. The announcement was of...

Earlier this year, it was reported that there had been a large exodus of staff from developer OtherSide, including writers, designers and programmers who were all working on the sci-fi horror sequel System Shock 3. Since then, OtherSide has...

[Update: Yesterday's order from the German government did, indeed, spell the cancellation of gamescom in 2020. Convention organizers released the following statement confirming that the on-site show won't take place, but that it still ...

The organizers of the Indie Megabooth have made the call to "sunset" their game-showcasing operation "for the duration of the pandemic" due to the "cancellation of many in-person events and the high level of uncertainty." It's the right dec...

The ongoing crisis of the COVID-19 outbreak is going to get a lot worse in the United States before it gets better. That is if listen to doctors, epidemiologists, nurses, experts, and anyone who isn't some nut job on the internet. That mean...

What has felt like an inevitability has finally happened. The Game Developers Conference has been postponed, as the convention's organizers try to avoid a full-on cancellation. GDC sent along the following statement:

Is it a party if no one shows and you're left to pick at the charcuterie and drink the champagne by yourself? At some point, you just turn off the front lights and toss on Netflix, right? The Game Developers Conference is still taking place...

The Game Developers Conference is going to be missing a lot of the biggest game developers. In a little more than two weeks, GDC will kick off in San Francisco without attendance from PlayStation, Oculus, Facebook, Electronic Arts, PUBG Cor...

Electronic Arts hasn't been shy or merciful when it comes to shutting down Star Wars games. Last month, we got word the Star Wars game that was codenamed Orca (and was an evolution of Visceral's project codenamed Ragtag) was ...

Try as it may, it seems as though EVE Online developer CCP cannot get a first-person shooter to stick. In 2016, it canceled PS3-exclusive Dust 514 after an underwhelming run. Later, it canned Project Legion before it lef...