America is at a breaking point. All last week, tensions rose across the nation as Black Lives Matter supporters took to the streets to protest the killing of Minneapolis resident George Floyd. You've seen the footage laid bare on social med...

[Update: A day later, the PlayStation 5 event is official (and also one day later than expected). Sony has confirmed its PS5: The Future of Gaming broadcast for 1:00 p.m. Pacific on June 4, 2020. Here we go!] Sony is reportedly aiming to ho...

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...

[Update: You can watch the stream right now at the link below!] We haven't reached critical mass with the summer-long not-E3-but-close-enough live streams, but I can feel it – we'll be there soon. At some point, likely in June, I'll h...

As arenas remained closed and in-person esports events continue to take a hit, more and more organizations, including EVO, are making the move to online tournaments. This past week Ubisoft announced a new initiative for online Rainbow Six: ...

A couple of weeks into Summer Game Fest and the dates are already stacking up. Today, the gaming festival added two more live-streamed events to its schedule: one on June 22, and one on July 20 – both Mondays! Nothing replaces the E3 ...

Like every other video game expo this year, Gamescom had to either adapt to the pandemic or bail. That meant shifting from a physical gathering with way too many people in Cologne to a worldwide, all-digital event with "world premieres, new...

[Image Courtesy @Sora_Sakurai] Evo is the only esports event I look forward to every year. Where else can I see a guy in a full-body fox costume wipe the floor with opponents in Dragon Ball FighterZ? Sadly, with COVID-19 destroying eve...

Square Enix had a surprisingly packed lineup of upcoming games to show off at E3 2019, but things won't be the same this year. They can't be the same this year. E3 2020 was called off, but there's also the ramifications of remote work to co...

TennoCon, the annual convention of all things Warframe, isn't just a chance for fans to find out everything coming to the massively popular looter shooter. It's also a chance for them to support charities in need. Last year, attendees helpe...

[Update: The first streaming events have started appearing on the Summer Game Fest schedule. Microsoft's Xbox Series X gameplay showcase episode of Inside Xbox is up first on May 7 at 8:00 a.m. Pacific, and then there's going to be a "surpr...

It's been a gradual process, but this year's GDC event has finally committed to going "all-digital." The organizers of the San Francisco-based Game Developers Conference went from scrapping the annual March event as we know it and giving ou...

E3 2020, which was scheduled to take place on June 9-11, is canceled, but a few organizations are going forward with their own digital events anyway. Although specific dates and times are still being held close to the chest for publishers, ...

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...

It's been a while! Microsoft is prepping another episode of its Inside Xbox news show, and the date is set: the stream will start at 2:00 p.m. Pacific on April 7, 2020, via YouTube, Twitch, and Mixer. If you're inclined to wonder if we'll ...

We won't get to read another "Everything that happened at Bethesda's E3 press conference" recap. (Would it have been merely "okay," like 2019? Or "mostly Fallout-based," like 2018? We'll never know!) Speaking on Twitter, Bethesda's Pete Hin...

GDC may have been pushed out of sight, but the 2020 Independent Games Festival awards still took place last night as originally scheduled, albeit without a physical stage and audience. Instead, the IGF winners were publicly revealed in a pr...

Last year, The Game Awards organizer Geoff Keighley helped put together a stay-at-home video game demo showcase on Steam called The Game Festival. "Extending the benefits of a physical event to the global gaming community" was a neat idea, ...

Another day, another gaming event changing things up due to the threat of COVID-19, more widely known as the coronavirus. This time, it's TennoCon, the annual convention about all things Warframe. I was able to go last year and it was a gre...

London's EGX: Rezzed event has become the latest game industry convention to re-schedule its dates in the wake of the ongoing COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak. Originally scheduled to take place March 26-28, the gaming development and indie ...

It feels like E3 is coming apart at the seams. The annual industry expo isn't as relevant as it was once, and with each new headline, I get more and more of a sense that E3 2020 will be the end of an era. The latest: Geoff Keighley, the org...

It feels like Pokémon Sword and Shield's Gigantamaxing will end up being little more than a short-lived footnote in the series' history once Game Freak devises some other eye-catching mechanic in a future game, but for now, it's here...

Following yesterday's news that Sony Interactive Entertainment will not be attending E3 for the second year running - a year in which the company is launching a brand new console, no less - the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has r...

It's hard to believe Monster Hunter World: Iceborne has been out since September because the first big seasonal event is now finally running. While new hunters in both low and high rank can enjoy the Winter Star Festival, veteran master ran...

It's the most wonderful time of the year. It's that magical night where we all gather 'round the glow of our monitors and settle in for the video game industry's most high-profile awards show. Here are all the nominees. In lieu of the glitz...