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...

Whenever a major storm makes headlines, I'm bound to run across entirely too much footage of stomach-turning airplane landings, and I just can't with that, you know? Storm Ciara is no exception. The UK has been battling harsh winds, and ove...

2017 was rough, but don't count Stardust, Resogun, and Nex Machina developer Housemarque out yet. While the studio is no longer making the iconic arcade-style games that defined its first 25 years – they just aren't selling enough to ...

In a long-overdue change, Valve is improving the way soundtracks are handled through Steam. Under the previous structure, soundtracks on Steam were classified internally as DLC, a decision that initially made some sense but has proven to be...

Sony hasn't unveiled the PlayStation 5 yet, but over the weekend, a new round of leaked photos showed the PS5 devkit – a funky-looking machine that won't resemble the final consumer-grade product – and the (presumed) DualShock 5...

It feels like a small miracle that Saber Interactive was able to port The Witcher 3 to Switch. CD Projekt's best game thus far is huge, beautifully detailed, and full of fast combat. There were some technical hiccups on PS4 and Xbox On...

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...