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. […]

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 […]

Buffalo, New York mayor Byron Brown has announced a city-wide “Serious Game Design Competition,” calling on creators to build a game about Buffalo that teaches life skills, highlights the importance of diversity, and is fun to play. The winning game will embody the the goals listed below. Teach life skills and employable skills that lead […]

Research firm Strategy Analytics has released the results of its latest study, predicting that the PlayStation 4 will outsell the rival Xbox One by a healthy 40 percent by the year 2019. The “Connected Home Devices” report, released Wednesday, predicts that the PS4 will reach around 80 million units sold by 2019, compared to 57 […]

Tim Schafer, the founder of Double Fine Productions and the first games executive to shed light on the power of crowdfunding, has issued a statement in support of Peter Molyneux. Molyneux is the latest addition to a long list of developers who have made promises on Kickstarter that have not materialized. Last Tuesday he explained […]

The person who “won” the online auction for what might be the rarest PlayStation 4 on the planet has backed out after submitting a top bid of $129,000. The system in question was a 20th Anniversary PS4 console, but not just any unit; it was the first of only 12,300 ever produced, making it the […]

Much of the discussion surrounding PlayStation 4 exclusive The Order: 1886 has been about its debatable duration, but how does the game actually play? Ahead of its release on Friday February 20 across the US and Europe, reviewers have now weighed in on Ready At Dawn’s debut PS4 project. See below for a roundup of […]

If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to fight Middle-earth’s greatest evil, the Dark Lord Sauron, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor‘s final piece of downloadable content will pique your interest. The Bright Lord, slated to drop soon, expands on the story of Celebrimbor, the wraith haunting Talion that gives him his mind-bending powers. In […]

Capcom has kept quiet about its PlayStation 4 free-to-play game Deep Down for a long time now, leading some to believe the project has been canceled. That’s not true, producer Yoshinori Ono says in a interview, while also acknowledging that the game has undergone major changes. “It looks like Deep Down will take just a […]

The Order: 1886 is a torturer and a tease. It promises you a circuitous story populated with near-immortal knights, it promises you exciting encounters with snarling werewolves, it promises you clever weaponry the likes of which you rarely see in video games. It dangles these hopes in front of you and then yanks them away, […]