Activision CEO Bobby Kotick was nearly fired last year during Activision’s multibillion dollar share buyback from parent company Vivendi, according to court filings. In October 2013, Activision acquired approximately 429 million company shares from Vivendi for about $5.83 billion, and a separate investment group led by Kotick and Activision chairman Brian Kelly purchased 172 million […]

I’m sitting at a cramped little table at the Las Vegas Resort & Casino surrounded by Bandai Namco’s Katsuhiro Harada, Daisuke Murano, and Michael Murray. We’re smack-dab in the middle of the casino floor discussing fighting game development. Across from us, several rows of slot machines come alive with bright lights and electronic jingles for […]

To play Divinity: Original Sin is to fall in love with role-playing games all over again. It’s tempting to label the game as an immediate classic simply because it recalls the days of Baldur’s Gate and Planescape: Torment, a time that many role-players still look back on with much fondness. It’s true that Original Sin […]

Great writing, creative dungeons, and fun combat will make you fall in love with RPG’s all over again.

The live action show component of the Xbox One-exclusive game Quantum Break is still on track despite Microsoft’s recent announcement that it’s shutting down Xbox Entertainment Studios, the division responsible for original Xbox programming. Developer Remedy, which previously created Max Payne and Alan Wake, told Polygon in a statement that both the game and show […]

Earlier this week, SteamDB published an open letter to Valve from various members of Steam’s developer community concerned with some of the company’s security practices. Their primary concern is that unlike other big companies like Facebook and Google, which offer hundreds and even thousands of dollars in rewards to security researchers who discover exploits, Valve […]

Horror game The Evil Within has moved its release date once again, but if you’re eager to play it the change is in your favor this time. Previously set to launch on October 21, its new release date is October 14, according to the game’s official Twitter account. The Evil Within was originally scheduled to […]

Earlier this week, we learned that Yogventures, a game from the popular YouTube channel Yogscast, has been canceled after raising $567,000 on Kickstarter. Yogscast co-founder Lewis Brindley said that the project was ultimately “too ambitious and difficult” for the six-man developer it partnered with, Winterkewl Games. On Friday, Winterkewl lead developer Kris Vale explained to […]

Watch extended gameplay footage from The Nightmare Cooperative featuring the Giant Bomb crew.

The Destiny beta will start a limited time event today that adds two new maps to the game, developer Bungie has announced in its most recent weekly update. If you’ve played the Destiny alpha and are currently playing the beta, you’ve probably noticed that it’s missing the Rusted Lands map for the game’s competitive multiplayer […]