Star Citizen, the upcoming PC space sim from Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts, continues to soar. The game has now pulled in an astonishing $41 million in lifetime funding. That’s up from $40 million less than a month ago. A total of 417,219 people have backed Star Citizen so far. According to Roberts, this proves […]

If you’ve tried to unload your used game collection at retailers like GameStop or Wal-Mart, you know that those retailers will pay almost nothing, if anything, for certain games. But the same is not true for new company Decluttr, which will buy any CD, DVD, or video game from anyone. Fast Company profiled Decluttr recently […]

One of Luigi’s moves for the upcoming Wii U and 3DS Super Smash Bros. game will have the younger brother using his “Poltergust” vacuum to trap enemies. That’s according to a new image from the game shared by game director Masahiro Sakurai as today’s “Pic of the Day.” Sakurai writes, “Luigi might be thinking, ‘Who […]

Is Transformers Universe’s robot-on-robot action a tactical challenge, or will you just be spamming the attack button the whole time?

1,000 developers are now licensed globally to self-publish on PlayStation platforms, Sony has announced. 200 of those developers were licensed in North America since the PlayStation 4 was first unveiled in February 2013. Self-publishing allows small developers to sell their games on the PlayStation store alongside games from the biggest companies. Writing on its official […]

A number of Dark Souls II screenshots with higher visual quality were removed from the game’s Steam Store page. For example, the image above, which still appears on the game’s Amazon page, also appears in an Wayback Machine March 28 snapshot of the Dark Souls II Steam page. But at the moment, the Steam page […]

Microsoft says that the Xbox One version of Minecraft is getting closer to release. Microsoft Games Studios chief Phil Spencer told IGN that 4J Studios, the developer behind the console versions of Minecraft, controls the release date of Minecraft for Xbox One, but that after talking to them he could say that “we’re getting really […]

Watch Dogs’ latest “Welcome to Chicago” trailer is composed footage captured with a PlayStation 4 development kit, creative director Jonathan Morin has confirmed. Morin’s statement follows recent claims that the visual performance of the game was scaled back since its initial unveiling at E3 2012, which ran on a high-end PC. Morin said that it […]

Square Enix believes that a subscription model is a better long term solution than free-to-play for supporting a massively multiplayer online games like Final Fantasy XIV Online: A Realm Reborn. “A lot of games look at the first two months of subscription numbers, think that’s not going to be a feasible business, and switch over […]

From left: Oculus Rift creator Palmer Luckey, Michael Abrash, and John Carmack Oculus VR has hired yet another Valve virtual reality veteran. Just two weeks after announcing it had hired Atman Binstock, the company has now brought on longtime Valve VR developer Michael Abrash as the company’s new “Chief Scientist.” His arrival at Oculus VR […]