THQ Nordic's family just got a little bit bigger, as the Darksiders and BioMutant developer has picked up BugBear Entertainment and Coffee Stain Studios. The announcement was made on the official THQ Nordic website.Helsinki-based Bugbear En...

Jade Raymond is no longer with Electronic Arts. The former Assassin's Creed producer left Ubisoft in 2014 and joined up with EA in 2015 to form Motive Studios, which is best known for its contributions to Star Wars Battlefront II and an act...

The sudden and unexpected near-shuttering of Telltale Games rocked the video game industry two weeks ago. Telltale laid off approximately 250 employees, which was about 90 percent of its workforce. A skeleton crew of 25-or-so people were ke...

There were so many ways that it could go wrong. First of all, would it even find its audience? On the surface, The American Dream looks like just another first-person shooter. Would that be enough to kill it right there? Would the people wi...

Mouse and keyboard support on consoles can be a tricky thing to sort out, particularly when it comes to competitive games like shooters. Do you let keyboard and mouse users take on gamepad players? Do you split them up? Do you even have a b...

[Update: In a statement, Telltale described today's news as "a majority studio closure" and confirmed that 25 employees will stay on "to fulfill the company's obligations to its board and partners." More news about the studio's portfolio of...

Using the best parts of the digital distribution era of gaming, visual novels have been coming into a new renaissance of sorts. With the lowered cost of distribution, Eastern developers are seeing fewer obstacles in the way of publishing th...

One debate that has raged over the last 21 years is whether or not picking Oddjob in GoldenEye 007 was considered cheating. The guy is shorter than every other character in the game, so he clearly as an advantage due to the game's poor lock...

Before joining up with the gang at Campo Santo to help make Firewatch, artist Olly Moss made a name for himself with astounding movie posters, adorable video game character doodles, and the cover art for Resistance 3. (Also, Garfields.) We'...

Last week, a wild but little-known story about Aliens: Colonial Marines resurfaced and gained more traction. In short: a modder discovered a typo in the game's .ini file that had big repercussions for the way Xenomorphs act. The typo -- "Te...

History has not been kind to Aliens: Colonial Marines, and today's story doesn't exactly improve its shoddy reputation. As spotted on ResetEra, a modder attempting to overhaul Colonial Marines found an issue in the game's .ini file causing ...

From the outside looking in, Epic isn't hurting for money. Fortnite has been the biggest game in the world for a while now, routinely raking in hundreds of millions of dollars in monthly revenue. While gaming fads come and go (Fortnite...

I'm all set for Blazing Chrome, the tight new run-and-gun from JoyMasher. I don't need to see any more footage to know it's my kinda game. But do I want to see more? Absolutely. Today's video offers a glimpse of the second level which invol...

From Software showed off two new games at E3 this year. One of them was Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, a grappling-hook samurai action-adventure title I'm absurdly jealous Brett ended up seeing because his schedule worked out that way. The othe...

Announced in The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. Interactive and Tencent will work alongside a new division within J.J. Abrams' production company, Bad Robot, to produce video games.Bad Robot Games will partner with the industry giants to ...

Just Cause and Max Max developer Avalanche Studios is being acquired by Nordisk Film, with the media company moving from minority shareholder to full owner. Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz, Avalanche CEO Pim Holfve called it "the right offer,...

You might've heard the story about Mario wearing overalls and just generally looking the way he does in part because of the limited power of hardware at the time of his creation, but did you know that Agent 47 of Hitman fame also got his ic...

Where should Outlast go from here? The run-like-hell-and-hide horror series has become a relatively known entity at this point, with more than 15 million sales to date. Outlast 2 felt like the next logical step as a bigger-budget follow-up,...

With the fast-paced multiplayer shooter LawBreakers failing to catch on in any significant way and developer Boss Key Productions quickly shifting gears to the battle royale craze with its fun but very rough Radical Heights, the studio's fu...

The latest release from Gameumentary is the second in a three-part series covering the story of Vigil Games. Our Darksiders documentary was released in March, and our latest release covers the story of Airship Syndicate and the development ...

A lot of indie games seem to fly under the radar due to either a lack of marketing budget or being relatively early in development. Eastfound is one such game, but one of the developers behind it shot us an e-mail. Elias Viglione, founder o...

I'm a few days removed from Reboot Develop 2018 and despite a long trip back home ripe for reflection and a more-or-less normalized sleep schedule, I'm still processing the event. Set along the Adriatic Sea in the otherworldly beautiful Dub...

In a talk about game design philosophy at Reboot Develop 2018, SimTower, Seaman, and Odama creator Yoot Saito revealed that he once worked on an unusual Nintendo DS game codenamed Mario Motors. Saito told some heartwarming stories about his...

One of the things I'm most interested in hearing about is how creators, well, create -- how they generate ideas and then go about bringing them to life. Everyone seems to have their own personal method. In the case of Double Fine's Tim Scha...

Steam Spy has been a tremendously helpful tool over the years, offering estimates on how individual games are selling and how many people are actively playing them, among other insights. That changes this week in light of a Steam client upd...