Over the course of this last console generation, smaller, more focused linear games have basically fallen out of fashion in favor of massive open-worlds. Even Nintendo got in on the action with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, creat...

Publishing giant THQ Nordic has announced multiple new acquisitions within the industry, adding smaller studios and investment partners to their expanding video game industry empire.The first such acquisition is studio Milestone S.r.l. (for...

PUBG is branching out with a new "original narrative experience" set in the same universe, and while that game concept might not immediately speak to you, the people involved should raise an eyebrow. PUBG Corporation has tapped Glen Schofie...

We all know how ridiculously popular Fortnite is. Making Epic Games hundreds of millions of dollars a year, the massive success of the battle royale game has spurred the creation of numerous pretenders to the throne. The battle royale craze...

To promote the release of Judgment next month, Sega and Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio have teamed up with Escape Room LA to create a limited-time Judgment escape room. Running from June 30 until July 13, "The Detective" room will feature elements fr...

Josh Hawley, the junior senator from Missouri and currently the youngest member serving in the Senate, has made a name for himself from going after the tech giants of Silicon Valley. He has butted heads with Facebook. He wants to make it mo...

At the start of May, employees at League of Legends developer Riot Games held a protest at the studio to oppose (among other factors) Forced Arbitration of staff, a contract clause that - succinctly - makes it nigh-on impossible for interna...

Yesterday, over 150 employees walked out of Riot Games' offices in Los Angeles to hold a "down tools"-style protest over the League of Legends publishers handling of recent discrimination lawsuits. The protest was also directed at the compa...

Four new titles have been inducted to the World Video Game Hall of Fame for 2019, which is hosted at the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, NY. The four new entries are Mortal Kombat, Super Mario Kart, Colossal Cave Adventure and,...

In a recent interview with VG 24/7, Chris Avellone (co-founder and ex-creative director of Obsidian) pretty bluntly stated that "I wouldn’t work with senior management" when speaking about Obsidian. Ever since leaving the company in 2...

Epic Games is not only making waves in the realm of digital distribution but is now hiring on big name talent. According to a recent Tweet from Geoff Keighley, Jason West (co-founder of both Infinity Ward and Respawn Entertainment) has been...

If you love learning random tidbits about Nintendo's inner workings, you'll want to see the company's new Japanese recruitment page. The site has a few notable data points folks would want to know about as prospective employees, and for the...

VentureBeat recently sat down with Amy Henning (former Naughty Dog writer/director and designer of Blood Omen) to discuss a variety of topics ranging from her theories on creating narratives to her experience having a Star Wars project canc...

Some of the developers behind Sega's Sonic Mania have founded their own studio called Evening Star. In the works for a few months now, the founding members of the team include Christian Whitehead (director of Sonic Mania), Dave Padilla (pro...

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has gone on record to say that the company is not really interested in developing its own digital marketplace. In a recent interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Zelnick was questioned about his feelings on Epic Game...

In a turn of events that has become increasingly common, another game company has announced that it plans to directly compete with Steam by starting its own storefront. Epic Games, developer of the wildly popular Fortnite and Unreal Tournam...

After last year's debacle with Battlefront II and loot boxes, multiple governments from different countries have taken to investigating whether or not microtransactions constitute gambling in games. Just last week, the United Kingdom had de...

In the past few years, a new trend has started cropping up with pre-order culture. Not only will gamers get "exclusive" items from specific retailers or bonus digital goodies, but people willing to plunk down on pre-orders will receive earl...

With the ubiquity of the internet, one would be mistaken for assuming that printed strategy guides were no longer a thing. Somehow, someway, Prima Games has stayed in business despite the growth of free, readily available online guides. It ...

I figured for sure this would be a shorter console generation overall. Some might argue that the ninth generation of hardware has begun already, with the Switch releasing earlier last year. However, with the new trend of half-step consoles ...

[Update: Kotaku has received this quote recently, attributable to Dan Houser: "There seems to be some confusion arising from my interview with Harold Goldberg. The point I was trying to make in the article was related to how the narrative a...

Speaking with The Financial Times, Sony Corporation CEO Kenichiro Yoshida has all but confirmed what we were all taking for granted: that a new PlayStation console to succeed to PS4 is in development for future release.In fact, Yoshida went...

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...

[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...

If you thought 2K Games would have learned anything after having microtransactions ripped out of the Belgian and Dutch versions of NBA 2K, then you would be sadly mistaken. In an interview with Trusted Reviews, Rob Jones (Senior Producer fo...