The next character for fighting game Killer Instinct‘s upcoming third season has been revealed. DSOGaming and Reddit report that, during a Killer Instinct Twitch livestream, Microsoft Studios creative director Adam Isgreen confirmed that the rumored Tusk will indeed come to Killer Instinct Season 3. He joins Kim Wu–both will be available at launch, also featuring […]

After The Black Glove failed to materialize, two of the developers behind that project are teasing something new. Robb Waters and Joe Fielder of Boston-based Day For Night Games have shared the first teaser for their next project, a horror comic that has a pretty eerie vibe going on according to this teaser. Take a […]

Major League Gaming has sold “substantially all” of its assets to Activision Blizzard for the price of $46 million, effectively bringing about an end to the esports company as it was once known. That’s according to a report from esportsobserver.com, which says MLG called a special meeting on December 21 where the company’s board of […]

A 911 dispatcher in Florida has been reprimanded and demoted after an investigation found that the man was observed playing a handheld video game while on duty back in October. Local news site WPBF reports that Palm Beach County, Florida communications training officer Charles Morris received a written reprimand this week for the incident on […]

George Lucas is rolling back and apologizing for his comments about Disney and its ownership of the Star Wars series after he compared the company to “white slavers” in a recently published national interview. In a statement to Variety, Lucas said he’s “thrilled” to see Disney take Star Wars in “exciting directions” across categories. “I […]

You might not have known it, but the late Nintendo president Satoru Iwata played a major role in bringing the now-popular Pokemon video game series to America. The Pokemon Company president Tsunekazu Ishihara shared a great story on the subject in a new interview with 4Gamer, as translated by Siliconera. Ishihara said when the team […]

Stardock’s PC 4X turned-based strategy game Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords, originally released back in 2006, is still getting updates. With the help of some community members, the developer recently pushed out a new update for the game, 2.20, which makes a series of changes to gameplay systems, graphics, and AI. Stardock CEO Brad Wardell […]

Oculus VR today announced that the unique controller for Oculus Rift won’t launch alongside the headset in Q1 as was previously the plan. In a blog post, the Facebook-owned company said it needed more time. “On the path to perfecting Touch, we’ve decided that we need more time before release, and we’ll now be shipping […]

Featuring all the big games and news stories we experienced in 2015, Danny O’Dwyer takes you on a journey back through one of the greatest years in the history of video games.

With the year coming to a close, we thought we would take a look back at the previous 12 months, and take a look at what made gaming so big in 2015.