The Xbox One May system update will let you opt-in to a speech data collection, which should help Microsoft improve Kinect’s speech recognition and voice commands. As Xbox One owners know, Kinect allows you turn on the device, go to a particular app, and perform other actions simply by speaking to it, but it doesn’t […]

A couple of tweets from Epic Games executives tell us that the company will soon reveal more about the future of the Unreal Tournament series, and that it will use Epic’s new Unreal Engine 4. Vice President, Product Development Paul Meegan first said that to find out more about the future of Unreal Tournament and […]

Three years before it would become known as Blizzard Entertainment, the company now famous for creating the Warcraft, Diablo, and StarCraft series was making games as Silicon & Synapse. Three of the games from Blizzard’s early years–The Lost Vikings, Rock N’ Roll Racing, and Blackthorne–can now be yours for free. As discovered by BlizzPro, Battle.net […]

Sony has an overarching goal for its upcoming zombie-themed postapocalyptic PC MMO H1Z1–and that’s to scare you–Sony Online Entertainment president John Smedley says. “If you watch Walking Dead, you will be right at home in terms of the kind of zombies we have and the atmosphere we’re trying to create,” Smedley told GameSpot in a […]

Grand Theft Auto Online players will have the opportunity to fill up their virtual wallets and move up through the ranks faster than usual for the next two days, thanks to a special event Rockstar is hosting. Beginning today and running through tomorrow night, May 3, every job and activity completed will net players double […]

Unreal Engine 4, Katee Sackhoff aka Starbuck and more confirmed for Eve Valkyrie. Check out Cam’s preview for the latest update on this highly anticipated space-sim fighter.

The shutdown of GameSpy’s servers will affect a wide range of games on both PC and consoles, as we’ve learned over the past month. Halo: Combat Evolved on PC will be among them, but thanks to online service GameRanger, it won’t mean the end for the shooter’s online multiplayer component. Support for the first Halo […]

Sorry, co-op fans. The campaign for Ratchet & Clank developer Insomniac Games’ upcoming Xbox One exclusive, Sunset Overdrive, will be a single-player-only affair, the developer has confirmed. “There is a single-player campaign for one-player only,” reads a recent tweet from the official Sunset Overdrive Twitter account (spotted by TotalXbox). Sunset Overdrive will also have a […]

The PlayStation Vita version of Borderlands 2 retains much of what players know and love about its console and PC versions, but one thing that won’t be the same is the online multiplayer experience, due to a two-player limit for online cooperative play. The limitation was revealed in a PlayStation Blog post covering hands-on impressions […]

Bungie has hired former MLG pro Bonnie “Xena” Burton to work on the studio’s upcoming multiplayer-centric shooter, Destiny. Burton announced the news through Twitter, but there’s no word yet on what her title is at Bungie or what role she’ll play in forging Destiny. Burton was MLG’s first female professional, joining the league at 12 […]