If you missed the extended Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain gameplay demo from a special presentation at Gamescom last week, you’re in luck, as Konami has now published the full, 22-minute video. The video shows Snake sneaking into an enemy base (complete with smarter, more adaptive enemies), and reveals that the world will […]

Civilization series developer Firaxis Games has announced that it will hold its first-ever “Firaxicon”–an official gathering to celebrate all things Firaxis Games–on September 27 and September 28. The event will take place at the Embassy Suites Baltimore, and you can buy tickets–said to be “strictly limited”–today for $40. Firaxicon attendees will get to meet and […]

Post by EA – Electronic Arts. Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson has taken the Ice Bucket Challenge, getting ice water dumped on his head in a campaign to raise money and awareness for ALS. But that’s not all. The CEO also personally donated $1,000 to the ALS Association and announced that EA will match every […]

The new Crackdown game for Xbox One announced during Microsoft’s E3 briefing in June likely won’t be seen again until 2015, according to Xbox boss Phil Spencer. “Probably no Crackdown news for the rest of 2014,” he said on Twitter. “Team is making progress but they need time before we show anything again.” That’s frustrating […]

Jeremy spends some quality time with the new Oculus Rift Dev Kit 2 and Elite: Dangerous to see how far virtual reality has come and assess where it still needs work.

Frustratingly blurry concept art for the new Gears of War game The new Gears of War game currently in development at Microsoft’s Black Tusk Studios in Vancouver is shaping up well, according to Xbox executive Aaron Greenberg. He visited the studio recently, and reports on Twitter that he left feeling “very impressed” with what he […]

Bug-testing is a critical part of game development, and for Super Smash Bros. for 3DS and Wii U, it sounds like an incredibly complicated and challenging endeavor. Game director Masahiro Sakurai writes in his latest Famitsu column (translated by Kotaku) that there are an “astronomical” number of sequences that Nintendo must test for bugs, which […]

Facebook has extended its “bug bounty” program to include the Oculus Rift, the virtual reality headset technology the social networking giant paid $2 billion to acquire in March. As part of the program, Oculus Rift headset owners can report bugs to Facebook for a chance to be financially compensated. The minimum reward is $500, and […]

Need to catch up on World of Warcraft expansions before the release of Warlords of Draenor this November? You’re in luck, as Blizzard Entertainment is now selling the game’s fourth and most recent expansion–2012’s Mists of Pandaria–through Battle.net for $10. That price is good for a digital copy of the expansion. If you want a […]

Disney Interactive may have canceled Star Wars: Attack Squadrons before it even left beta, but the company has bigger and bolder plans for Star Wars: Commander, a new free-to-play combat strategy game released today on the App Store for iOS devices. An Android version is coming in a couple of weeks. The first thing you’ll […]