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Quick Look: Super Stardust Ultra

Watch extended gameplay footage from Super Stardust Ultra featuring the Giant Bomb crew.

Quick Look: Grow Home

Watch extended gameplay footage from Grow Home featuring the Giant Bomb crew.

Games Must Embrace Risks To Move Forward, Borderlands Exec Says

The video games of tomorrow could be mind-blowing experiences, the likes of which we can’t even conceive right now. But the industry won’t get there unless creators are willing to take risks and embrace new challenges. That’s according to Borderlands creator Gearbox Software president Randy Pitchford, who shared his vision for the future of games […]

The EU Community & eSports Team is Hiring!

Do you think you have what it takes to work for Blizzard Entertainment? We’re looking for passionate and engaging people to join our Community and eSports teams at our European office in Versailles, France. We need talented, highly organized English-speaking individuals with great knowledge of our games. Successful candidates will receive a competitive salary, a […]

7 Million People Played Battlefield Hardline Beta

First it was 5 million. Then 6 million. Now, Visceral Games says the recently concluded Battlefield Hardline open beta attracted 7 million players during its February 3-9 run. It probably didn’t hurt that Visceral extended the Hardine beta for one extra day. Writing on the Battlefield blog, Visceral thanked fans who participated in the beta, […]

Another Resistance Game Going Offline

Sony will discontinue online support for 2009 PSP game Resistance Retribution in May, the company announced on Twitter. All online services for the game, including its eight-player multiplayer mode, will no longer work as of May 15, 2015. “Thanks for playing!” Sony wrote. Retribution won’t be the first Resistance game to lose its online support. […]

Rare’s N64 Team Working on Banjo-Kazooie "Spiritual Successor"

A group of decorated Rare developers, who were instrumental in creating some of the studio’s most iconic games during the ’90s, have formed a new indie studio with grand plans to create a spiritual successor to Banjo-Kazooie. The new studio, called Playtonic, was formed by Gavin Price and Chris Sutherland, two highly experienced Rare developers […]

Looking for a SimCity Alternative? Cities: Skylines Launching Next Month

Swedish publisher Paradox Interactive has announced that its SimCity-style game, called Cities: Skylines, will be released on March 10 across PC, Mac, and Linux. The game was developed by Finnish outfit Colossal Order (Cities in Motion) and will sell for $30 at release. Paradox has also announced that players can now pre-purchase the game’s $30 […]

Destiny’s Talented Artists Showcase Thier Beautiful In-Game Models

A group of artists at Bungie have flaunted their creative flair with a series of galleries of various weapon models and characters in Destiny. David Stammel, a hard surface artist at Bungie, has published nearly thirty high fidelity renders of in-game Destiny items, from exotic sniper rifles to shotguns, Vex weapons, and Fallen arms. A […]

The Escapists Review

I must have counted those 12 paces a dozen times, but once more I rattle them off in my head: one, two, three, four, five, six…. From the hole I dug in my cell, covered from sight the majority of the time by my storage desk, to under the prison wall and, at last–one, two, […]