The popularity of watching eSports continues to soar worldwide, with 2.4 billion hours of eSports video viewed during 2013, according to a newly released IHS Technology report. According to the report (via Gamasutra), that figure is up from 1.3 billion hours in 2012 and is only expected to continue growing: By 2018, that number will […]

The previously announced video game based on TNT’s Falling Skies TV show will launch across Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii U, and PC this fall, publisher Little Orbit announced today. The tactical strategy RPG is set in the universe of the TV show, just like the Defiance video game (based on the SyFy TV show), […]

After BioShock creator Irrational Games effectively shut down in February, many wondered what the dozens of laid off staffers would do next. Some transferred to new positions at established studios like the nearby Turbine Inc. or Blizzard Entertainment, but not everyone moved to a well-known company. Others, like BioShock Infinite writer Joe Fielder, went out […]

Lisa Foiles has three first-person games to tempt your trigger fingers once you’re done blasting Nazis in Wolfenstein: The New Order.

After launching late last week, Mario Kart 8 has become the Wii U’s fastest-selling game ever with more than 1.2 million units already sold worldwide, Nintendo announced today. This number is according to the company’s internal sales data and accounts for sales in the Americas, Europe, and Japan. Nintendo made no mention of how the […]

A group of amateur developers going by the name Outer Heaven is currently working on a remake of the original Metal Gear from 1988, and it recently received Konami’s blessing. A lot of the time publishers who own the rights to old games send cease-and-desist letters when they hear about something like this (Square Enix […]

What if Valve made a fighting game featuring a cast of characters from Left 4 Dead, Half-Life, Team Fortress 2, and Portal? It’s probably never going to happen (unless they all start appearing as playable Heroes in Dota 2), but one talented animator created a video that imagines what the opening movie for that game […]

GameFly Digital, the video game rental service’s PC game download site, is currently holding its Summer Sale, offering deep discounts on many popular games. Some highlights you might be interested in include The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, which is being offered for $5, down from its normal price of $20. You can also apply the […]

The game is being offered as part of Xbox’s Games With Gold promotion, which is now celebrating its one-year anniversary by adding an extra free Xbox 360 game to its usual allotment of two. The two other free games for June are Charlie Murder, a beat-em-up released last August, and Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade […]

E3 is a little over a week away, and to help you get in the mood, we’re giving away some great Razer gaming gear. All you have to do to win is draw, photoshop, photograph, or somehow create the box art of the game you most want to see at E3. This can be an […]