Popular American reviews publication Consumer Reports has published a list of the “5 Most Violent Video Games of 2014,” labeling them games that “should never come anywhere near your kids.” It appears, as you might expect, that Consumer Reports only looked at mainstream games. With that caveat out of the way, the five “most grievous […]

Holidays are about family and friends. Get your co-op and competitive fix with these five group friendly games.

The first of three expansion packs for Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami’s The Evil Within will be released in early 2015, publisher Bethesda has announced in a blog post. It’s called “The Assignment,” and it focuses on The Evil Within protagonist Sebastian Castellanos’ partner, Juli Kidman. In fact, you get to play as Kidman (voiced […]

Sony on Thursday released a new PlayStation 4 video that suggests online friend notifications, a much-requested system feature, might be coming to the console soon. At the 10-second mark in the video below you can see a friend notification appear in the top right corner of the screen during a Destiny mission. We weren’t the […]

The SWAT playlist for Halo: The Master Chief Collection‘s matchmaking mode has returned. No need to download and install an update to hop in, however, as 343 Industries has re-introduced the playlist via a server-side update. Just fire up the Xbox One title and you’ll see SWAT as the game’s featured playlist. Currently, SWAT is […]

The first major expansion pack for city simulation game Tropico 5 has been announced, and you won’t need to wait long to play it. The expansion is called Waterborne, and it arrives for PC on December 17. As its name suggests, the Waterborne expansion for Tropico 5 features a range of water-based mechanics, a first […]

Sony’s long-in-development adventure game The Last Guardian was nowhere to be seen last weekend during PlayStation Experience, and that might be due to a recent development for the title. Director Fumito Ueda spoke about The Last Guardian in this week’s issue of Dengeki PlayStation (translated by Kotaku), saying the game is now moving forward under […]

WWE and Warner Bros. Interactive today announced WWE Immortals, a free-to-play mobile game developed by Mortal Kombat studio NetherRealm in association with Phosphor Game Studios. Due to launch worldwide in 2015, WWE Immortals is coming to iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch and Android devices. Unfortunately, WWE and Warner Bros. aren’t sharing many details about the game. […]

Microsoft, the new owner and operator of the Minecraft franchise (that’s still somewhat weird to write), today released the Windows Phone version of the popular sandbox game. It’s available now to download from the Windows Store for $7, the same price as the iOS and Android Pocket Editions. The Windows Phone version of Minecraft comes […]

It’s becoming somewhat commonplace to see remasters and reissues of games from years past. After all, our industry has a rich well of excellent games to draw from, and it’s often a fun exercise to experience the great games of the past (even the recent past) with a modern, updated spin on them. Some reissued […]