Game development can “destroy” a person’s social life, according to Super Smash Bros. series director Masahiro Sakurai. In his latest Weekly Famitsu column, Sakurai spells out the personal toll game development can have on a person, at least for a game like Super Smash Bros. “Making things like this takes its toll,” Sakurai wrote, as […]

Activision today released a live-action trailer for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, which captures the essence of the game in impressive fashion. The short spot, set to “Salute Your Solution” by The Raconteurs, mixes live-action and CGI in a similar way to Destiny’s trailer from September. It shows off the many futuristic (but not science-fiction!) […]

Seb and Cam dress Zombie VanNord in a Scream mask to hunt the headless horseman! On their spooky adventures they encounter screaming skeletons and living mannequins, and follow the trail of undeath!

Sony has already laid out their free offering for monthly paying members of their subscription service, and now Xbox has revealed their November free download plans as well. From a post on the Major Nelson blog: Xbox One users will get Volgarr the Viking, an indie game that “is a journey back to the days […]

Suit up and unleash the raw power of the advanced soldier in the live action trailer for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.

The hook for this year’s Skylanders entry seems prosaic at first; a speaker on the series’ newly designed portal can broadcast the disembodied voices of baddies you defeat in-game, with the portal acting as a prison for your vanquished foes. The intended effect is the reverse of what the series has done so well in […]

As part of Ubisoft’s latest earnings report today, the French Assassin’s Creed publisher released a chart that shows a breakdown of sales for Ubisoft games by platform. You might have guessed it, but this chart proves it: the PlayStation 4 is the king of current-generation consoles, for Ubisoft at least. The chart speaks for itself. […]

Ubisoft’s open-world action game Watch Dogs has now shipped more than 9 million copies (up from 8 million in July) since its release in May for Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PC. The Wii U version of Watch Dogs will be released on November 18. Two-thirds of total Watch Dogs sales […]

Three weeks out from PlayStation 4 racing game Driveclub‘s release on October 7, the game is still facing widespread server woes, with the free PlayStation Plus version nowhere to be seen. Developer Evolution Studios has frequently updated fans with status updates, but now PlayStation president of World Wide Studios, Shuhei Yoshida, has stepped in to […]

Assassin’s Creed Unity sees Paris go all wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey in the latest trailer.