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...

Video games in the Alien universe are always a tricky-yet-intriguing proposition. There's a checkered track record. Sometimes they end up like Alien: Isolation; sometimes they end up like Aliens: Colonial Marines. 3D Realms almost got ...

Platinum is keeping busy as of late. Yesterday's news of a Wonderful 101 remaster is just the tip of the iceberg. The Osaka-based studio is also working on Bayonetta 3, Babylon's Fall, and whatever else is included in the four-par...

Battleborn, already dead for all intents and purposes, will be officially dead in a year's time. Gearbox's doomed hero-shooting MOBA will be taken offline in January 2021. 2K Games has revealed its plans to pull the plug on Battleborn's ser...

In my imagination, Deep Down was an incredible dungeon-crawling RPG from Capcom. It came out on PlayStation 4 as originally intended, we all played it, we all loved it, the public discourse shifted a few months later to suddenly deem it "ov...

NBA Live fans can't catch a break. During an earnings report today, EA revealed that NBA Live 20 has been canceled following a delay back in July. Now, the series is jumping ahead to next-gen consoles. "New consoles are always an opportunit...

Sony is dropping its live television streaming service PlayStation Vue on January 30, 2020, citing a "highly competitive Pay TV industry" and ongoing concerns over "expensive content and network deals." Over the past four years, PlayStation...

Here's the problem with time: there's never enough of it! We only have so many hours in the day, and no matter how motivated you felt last night right before falling asleep, when you wake up the next morning and start chipping away at your ...

This Wednesday, there were plans for a joyous celebration in the Big Apple. Fans would meet some of the people who voice the characters they love, maybe they'd throw back some cleverly-themed mocktails. Overwatch is launching on Switch...

This one stings a bit, even for people with only a passing interest in Minecraft. Two years after Mojang promised the Super Duper Graphics Pack, the developer has decided to move on, citing feasibility concerns. The eye-catching visual upgr...

There's an uncomfortable irony whenever a battle royale game is canceled. Within a genre that prioritizes survival above everything else, games themselves aren't immune to dying off. It's a dog-eat-dog world in every manner of speaking. Ala...

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...

Fun footage from an old Japanese television show has come to light, giving us a fleeting look at the planned, but ultimately cancelled, EarthBound 64 (or Mother 3) that was in development for the Nintendo 64 back in the mid-'90s.Unearthed b...

Come June 25, the final nail will be driven into Ouya's coffin. It's a coffin already riddled with nails, this last one more symbolic than fate-sealing. Ouya has been dead for some time now, but there's one final chapter to write. This epil...

Delisted videos. Missing social media accounts. A landing page that redirects to the publisher's main website. If these sound like signs that a game is easing itself out of existence, you'd be right. Two years ago, we learned about an all-n...

There has been a near-unanimous refrain following Microsoft's cancelation of Platinum's Scalebound back in 2017: How could Xbox, a platform that's light on first-party exclusives, shut down the most promising game in its pipeline? More...

Anytime there's buzz about a new game from Remedy Entertainment, everyone hopes for the exact same thing: A full-fledged, big budget Alan Wake sequel. Remedy dabbled in Alan Wake side stories with the fever dream-like Alan Wa...

Japanese developer Kadakowa Games has regrettably announced that RPG Maker MV has been cancelled on Xbox One. The humble PC release, which allows players to create their own fantasy adventures, is currently in the process of making the tran...

[Update: Overkill's The Walking Dead has been pulled from Steam and is no longer available to new buyers. In a February 27 statement, Starbreeze said it's currently "in discussions" with the game's license holder, Skybound Entertainment. "S...

[Art by Jorge M Velez] Not a lot is known about the now-scrapped game that was once called Metroid Prime 4. Some rumors say it was being worked on by multiple teams across the globe, with Nintendo directing them towards a unified vision as ...

While we're still trying to crack the egg of online video content creation, here's what's been happening in video games: Bethesda denies that Fallout 76 is going free-to-play! The Uncharted movie that won't ever happen has a new director!...

Rest in peace, Pioneer; we hardly knew ye. Ubisoft has canceled an open-universe sci-fi exploration game called Pioneer. Former Ubisoft director Alex Hutchinson (who's now at Typhoon Studios) confirmed on Twitter that the project is dead. ...