Blizzard Entertainment, creator of popular franchises like World of Warcraft, Diablo, and StarCraft, is beefing up its microtransaction efforts. The Irvine, California developer has posted a pair of new jobs on its “Strategic Initiatives” team calling for a director and manager for the company’s new “Microtransaction Strategy” unit. The language featured in the job listings […]

Tom Mc Shea starts his epic role playing Viking saga in this episode of Now Playing – The Banner Saga.

Dementium: The Ward was a flawed first-person frightener for the Nintendo DS whose shortcomings were generally overshadowed by the fact that it offered a full-fledged survival horror experience on a portable platform. Retaining its predecessor’s most appealing elements, while fixing most of its problems, 2010’s Dementium II cemented the series as a cult favorite among […]

Sony Online Entertainment’s latest EverQuest Next Landmark development diary video shows off some of the more advanced building tools players can use to create structures and augment their world. In the video, Lead Building and UI Designer Jake Sones and Associate Producer Eric Smith demonstrate changes they’ve made over the past few months to the […]

Justin Haywald lays down the truth about Sony’s VR headset and how it stacks up against the Oculus Rift.

Your time is over. Whatever quest you were on, young video game hero, is now finished. All your hearts, coins, and other worldly possessions–save for a simple broadsword–have abandoned you. Continue?9876543210 begins where most games end: your demise. Now you are faced with deletion, and then nothingness. But being the adventurous spirit that you are, […]

Polish developer The Farm 51 (Painkiller: Hell & Damnation) today announced a new shooter called Get Even for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. The game aims to blur the line between single- and multiplayer and offer “photo-realistic” visuals. Get Even’s story focuses on the memories of its main heroes. These memories will have a […]

Take your first look at Wargame Red Dragon.

Square Enix Montreal’s next-generation Hitman game has been canceled, according to the LinkedIn profile of a senior game designer at the studio. This project was originally announced as part of the outfit’s inception in November 2012, though no details about it ever came to light. Videogamer, which spotted the LinkedIn page, also found that another […]

Responding to a fan on Twitter, last week Klei Entertainment said that it’s looking to see if a PlayStation version of its game, Don’t Starve, would be possible on PlayStation Vita. “We’re focusing on getting PS4 out first,” Klei said, “but we think it [PlayStation Vita version of Don’t Starve] would be neat too! We’re […]