Archive for the ‘PC’ Category

Following Daylight, Zombie Studios Director Departs for eSports Company MLG

eSports company MLG announced that it has hired former Zombie Studios’ Creative Studio Head Jared Gerritzen as its new Vice President of Publisher & Developer Relations. The news comes a little more than a month following the release of Zombie Studios’ Daylight, a first-person survival horror game that was received poorly by critics, including GameSpot’s […]

Wildstar, Murdered Soul Suspect, COD DLC – New Releases

The week before E3 gives us Wildstar, Murdered: Soul Suspect, Call of Duty: Ghosts Invasion DLC, Ultra Street Fighter IV, Tomodachi Life, 1001 Spikes and War Thunder.

Watch Dogs Goes to Bollywood

Bollywood has a history of imitating popular video game releases in its movies and promotional materials for those movies. Ek Tha Tiger, for example, bears more than a passing resemblance to Naughty Dog’s Uncharted series, and Velayutham is pretty much just Assassin’s Creed with awesome dancing. As IndianVideoGamer notes (via Kotaku), those movies came out […]

Dota 2 Championships Prize Pool Hits $8 Million

The prize pool for the Dota 2 world championships The International is now greater than $8 million thanks to sales of its digital program. The Compendium, as it’s called, was introduced last year as a digital interactive program for the competition, where you can keep track of the different teams and make predictions. Each Compendium […]

Top 10 Most Memorable E3 Moments

Danny digs through almost two decades of expo footage to uncover the best and worst moments from the history of E3.

PS4-Exclusive Racer Driverclub Dev Explains How It Created Its Amazing Audio

The PlayStation 4 exclusive racing game Driveclub looks impressive in screenshots and videos, but developer Evolution Studios claims that it also features some of the best audio in the industry. “We did initially look and see if we could buy samples in, and approached manufacturers,” Audio Manager Alan McDermott said in an interview with the […]

Bulletstorm Reappears on Steam Without Explanation

Epic Games’ 2011 first-person shooter Bulletstorm is available to purchase from Steam again after vanishing from Valve’s PC marketplace without warning back in March. You can buy Bulletstorm for $20, but as the Online Disclaimer on its Steam page explains, you’ll need a Games For Windows Live client and account in order to install it […]

Former PlayStation Boss Jack Tretton to Cover E3 for Spike TV

Former Sony Computer Entertainment of America President and CEO Jack Tretton will return to E3 this year, but he won’t be speaking for Sony. Instead, Tretton will join Spike TV’s All Access coverage as a special correspondent. Tretton, who has hosted Sony’s E3 press conference a number of times including last year, will provide commentary […]

EA, NCAA Players Reach $40 Million Settlement

Attorneys representing student athletes who claim Electronic Arts illegally used their likenesses in the company’s popular NCAA Football, Basketball, and March Madness video games will receive nearly $1,000 per appearance in a game from EA. The settlement will amount to a total of around $40 million. EA and the attorneys representing the student-athletes reached the […]

The History of Star Wars Video Games Part 1: 1982-1998

George Lucas’ Star Wars is a well of inspiration for video games, and in the nearly 40-year history of the franchise, there have been more than 100 games released across consoles, handhelds, PCs, and mobile devices. Some are considered classics in their respective genres, and some are perhaps best forgotten. Following the series’ humble beginnings […]