Tropico 5’s irreverent wit and smooth difficulty curve make governing your own banana republic an easy and enjoyable experience.

According to French website Le Figaro. Super Smash Bros. for Wii U is going to take advantage of the system’s NFC system. It’s not clear from the quote whether this will involve some kind of tie-in with the recently announced NFP figurine system or some new functionality. The forum Neogaf dug up the article originally, […]

It may have seemed a little touch-and-go, but with less than 24 hours left to go, the Harmonix-developed music game Amplitude has met it’s $775,000 funding goal. If you were on the fence, you can still contribute to the game’s Kickstarter. So who are the bands that will be contributing music to the game? In […]

The Star Wars movies are an excellent source of inspiration for game developers, and indeed, there have been dozens of games across the spectrum of genres since the original, Episode IV: A New Hope, hit the silver screen in 1977. Thanks to games such as 1990’s Wing Commander, the popularity of space combat sims spiked […]

Bethesda say their next big announcement is still a ways off, The Metro series is getting an overhaul for PS4/Xbox One/PC, and new Zelda game screenshots!

Everything is just one big joke on the island of Tropico. Your research team is incompetent, your diplomat is a snob, and your radio DJ is absolutely shameless. But that’s OK, because both Tropico 5 and its digital inhabitants don’t take anything too seriously. This management sim wraps its irreverent wit around some easily approachable […]

It’s only been a nine days since Microsoft announced a price cut for the Xbox One, but retailer GameStop is already benefiting from the announcement. During a post-earnings financial call today, GameStop president Tony Bartel said the company is seeing “stronger demand” for the Xbox One since last week. “I definitely think we’re already seeing […]

Speaking today at a corporate strategy meeting, Sony president Kaz Hirai said that the PlayStation 4 is “already contributing a profit on a hardware unit basis.” Reported by Japanese site AV Watch (via NeoGaf), a Sony representative provided GameSpot a translation for one of Hirai’s most interesting statements from the meeting. “From a profitability perspective,” […]

Microsoft and Sony’s current-gen systems are getting a few more exciting games this year with confirmed release date windows for both Evolve and Minecraft.