Riot Games has a lot on their plate. More Champions are coming to League as we speak, and a ton of games are in the pipeline. As in, a mobile version of their Auto-Battler, a fighting game, a card game, an action-oriented version ...

Riot Games will collectively pay out at least $10 million USD to every woman employee who has worked for the League of Legends developer for the last five years. The payout, reported to be one of the largest in Californian history for such ...

Uncharted writer and co-creator Amy Hennig is collaborating with Skydance Media (the production team behind movies such as Annihilation, as well as the Mission: Impossible and Terminator franchises) to found a new video game development stu...

Developer Ghost Games has been celebrating the launch of its road-ripper Need for Speed: Heat, after the latest entry in the long line of racing games saw the franchise's biggest launch this generation."NFS Heat set a new record during the ...

Another ex-Rare developer has joined forces with Playtonic Games, the team behind Yooka-Laylee and its Impossible Lair follow-up. This time, it's none other than character artist Ed Bryan – the self-described "father" of Mumbo Jumbo a...

[Update: The duo shared their ideas on an IGN Japan livestream, and the concept seems wild. Devolver Digital will publish the title, which is aiming for a million-dollar budget with inspirations from Twin Peaks and Siren. Keiichir...

IO Interactive isn't just figuring out the future of Hitman – it's also working on a "new universe." The developer previously spoke about Hitman 3 and its plans for a new video game property in a Noclip documentary from July. Now...

Even just considering the Souls series, it's tough to pick a favorite From Software game. They all have their own merits, and I think you could make a case for any of them – maybe even Dark Souls II! Some days, you might be in a nosta...

When dealing with a cyberpunk future where the limits of what our bodies can do are endless, it's hard to apply rules and norms from our time. Knowing this, it only feels fitting that in Cyberpunk 2077 the concept of hard genders for the ch...

Watching developers play other people's games is always interesting. Most of the good ones end up looking at the other dev's work both for what it is while also thinking about how it was made, making for more layered, insightful commentary...

Fledgling Xbox studio The Initiative continues to bolster its ranks with some of the video game industry's top AAA talent, having added four more developers from major league studios.As noted by their respective LinkedIn profiles, Apex Lege...

If there's one title from 2019 that came out of nowhere, kicked down the front door, and immediately captured the attention of the video game community, it's WayForward's upcoming brawler River City Girls. With a reveal trailer dropped like...

We'll never stop missing Satoru Iwata – not for a moment. It's hard to believe the former president of Nintendo has been gone for four whole years now. He left such a positive mark not just at his own company, but on the video game in...

Yesterday saw the release of a short documentary by production company Noclip, looking at the rollercoaster ride developer IO Interactive has been on during the production of the now-legendary Hitman series. It seems that, despite the ups a...

While new Xbox studio The Initiative is yet to develop its first video game, it has succeeded in putting together a team of heavyweight players from the AAA development scene.The most recent acquisitions to the new studio, which was first a...

It's fair to state that last year's revisit to the God of War series was an all-out success. With its vision of a matured, tired Kratos, and the incredible quest he undertakes with his son Atreus, Sony Santa Monica not only reinvented the f...

At a recent event in Taipei, held to celebrate the Chinese launch of Yakuza 5, Team Yakuza producer Daisuke Sato mused on the possibilities of giving the "Kiwami" remake treatment to the Japan-only Yakuza Kenzan titles.Speaking with Bahamut...

If there's one juxtaposition that really stands out in Asobo Studios' excellent adventure A Plague Tale: Innocence, it's how siblings Amicia and Hugo can find themselves standing on a beautiful dawn riverbank one minute, then be knee-deep i...

One of the more intriguing titles that has popped up in recent weeks is charismatic-looking melee fighter Bleeding Edge. Developed by Ninja Theory, best known for their sombre adventure Hellblade, Bleeding Edge looks to do a full 180 on tha...

The main press conferences of E3 may be done and dusted, but there's still all sorts of cool tidbits and tales coming out of ongoing events such as E3 Coliseum and Nintendo Treehouse. Take, for example, this story of a Simpsons video game t...

11 Bit Studios is no stranger to somber storytelling. In 2014, the studio released This War of Mine, a harrowing survival game inspired by the events of the Bosnian War. Rather than go a shade lighter for its follow-up, the developer double...

Although it's been a solid five years since its original reveal, with things going very quiet in the interim, it appears that Dead Island 2, the sequel to head-lopping adventure Dead Island, is still in development, with new details to come...

PlayStation has released a whopping 20-minute gameplay video for the upcoming kart racer Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled - essentially a remake of the popular 1999 PS1 title Crash Team Racing - which will be leaving the starting grid in abou...

Since the advent of the 3D accelerator in the fifth generation of gaming, developers have been pushing for more and more realistic engines to smudge the line between reality and gaming as much as possible. Recently, we've stagnated with nea...

It's not every day we see a brand new handheld video game console, much less one as funky-looking and curiosity-stoking as Playdate. Just look at this thing! It's such a cutie. And it has a functional crank that folds out from its side. And...