Indie studio Giant Spacekat has announced that it will no longer attend next month’s gaming convention PAX East in Boston due to threats of violence. Giant Spacekat studio head Brianna Wu, who has faced death threats before and appeared on national television to discuss online harassment, announced the news this week on the developer’s website. […]
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Battlefield 4: DICE Needs Your Help To Make The Game’s Next Map
February 20th, 2015
Mark Late last year, Battlefield developer DICE teased plans to offer even more Battlefield 4 DLC, but at the time, didn’t say much about the form this content would take. Now, the studio has shed more light on the matter, announcing this week a first-of-its-kind campaign that will give Battlefield fans a chance to build Battlefield […]
Destiny Patch Removes Ability to Solo Weekly Heroic Strikes
February 20th, 2015
Mark Bungie has detailed additional changes in its upcoming Destiny 1.1.1 patch, which has a large impact on the game’s Weekly Heroic Strikes. Prior to the patch, Weekly Heroic Strikes could be entered by players regardless of whether they were in a group or playing solo. After patch 1.1.1 is implemented in the game, Weekly Heroic […]
Quick Look: Hand of Fate
February 20th, 2015
Mark Watch extended gameplay footage from Hand of Fate featuring the Giant Bomb crew.
GS News – New Rock Band Game; PS4 To Be As Successful As PS2 and Wii?
February 20th, 2015
Mark Sony are in for a bright future with the PS4 while they ditch their other divisions, and a new Rock Band game could be on the way.
Free Month of Xbox Live Gold for Halo: Master Chief Collection Players
February 20th, 2015
Mark Microsoft has begun rolling out a free month subscription to Xbox Live Gold for users who own Halo: The Master Chief Collection. The rollout is in response to matchmaking issues faced by players when the game was first released in November last year. The issues continued in subsequent patches, which Xbox boss Phil Spencer called […]
Grow Home Review
February 19th, 2015
Mark Grow Home took me by surprise–not least because it was announced only a few weeks ago. Grow Home, that announcement said, started as an internal experiment, and stars a charming little robot named BUD, who has to wobble and climb his way up a giant beanstalk and across a series of floating islands. With only […]
Ex-Battlefield Devs Open New Studio, Reveal PC RPG
February 19th, 2015
Mark This mysterious artwork is displayed on The Outsiders website Former Battlefield developers David Goldfarb and Ben Cousins have announced The Outsiders, a new Stockholm-based independent studio. The company’s first project is an untitled role-playing game that is aiming to launch for PC and possibly other systems later. David Goldfarb Cousins, formerly an independent games consultant, […]
Top 5 Skyrim Mods of the Week – Surfing the Skies of Skyrim
February 19th, 2015
Mark Skyrim Mods Live tickets are a go! Plus, Kevin VanNord takes to the skies on a Dwemer flying engine, while rocking some brand new full face helmets, and blasting HD cheese into the face of a Jarl. Classy.
Warcraft Movie Director: CGI Does Not Suck
February 19th, 2015
Mark Following his recent announcement that the upcoming Warcraft movie will have a lot of CGI, director Duncan Jones has now spoken out to generally defend CGI as a movie-making tool. “I hear this ‘CGI in film sucks,’ mantra again & again,” Jones said on Twitter. “It doesn’t. It’s a tool like any other. It can […]

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