San Francisco-based social game studio Zynga on Wednesday announced an extensive cost-reduction plan that the company says should help it save around $100 million in the short-term. As part of the process, the company revealed plans to lay off about 18 percent of its current global workforce. A total of 364 people are losing their […]

During an Activision Blizzard earnings call this afternoon, the mammoth publisher offered a new tease about the “major content release” coming to the Destiny franchise this fall. The publisher said the project–whatever it turns out to be–will be the “biggest content addition to date” for Destiny. The content, Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg said, is […]

Chris and Rob take on Nazis with B.J. Blazkowicz’s pipe in this Wolfenstein prequel.

While Destiny has maintained a fervent fanbase since its launch last year, one constant criticism has been the lack of a focused story. With today’s reveal of the Prison of Elders and other House of of Wolves details, we talked with Bungie developers in both a roundtable and one-on-one interviews about how the new content […]

Some of the best games for each console come out just as the systems are on their deathbed, cursed to be overlooked as people abandon the old to embrace new systems. Such was the case with Devil Survivor 2, a wonderful Nintendo DS strategic role-playing game that released in early 2012, just in time for […]

Earlier today, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt developer CD Projekt RED said that a deal on Green Man Gaming that’s selling codes of the game for $40 (down from $60) is coming from an “unknown source.” It said that as such, none of the revenue from Green Man Gaming’s current Witcher 3 promotion will go […]

Blizzard Entertainment’s PC MMO World of Warcraft lost nearly three million subscribers in three months, publisher Activision Blizzard announced on Wednesday as part of its latest earnings report. For the quarter ended March 31, World of Warcraft had 7.1 million subscribers, down 2.9 million from the 10 million subscribers it had at the end of […]

Destiny is getting a new weapon type, sidearms, developer Bungie announced during today’s Prison of the Elders livestream. Siderarms will act as secondary weapons that add elemental damage and a very high rate of fire. As you can see in the image above, the Vestian Dynasty sidearm, for example, also has high stability and reload […]

Mary Kish and Rob Handlery have been playing around with Grand Theft Auto 5 mods all week. They join Danny and Chris to talk about the past, present and future of GTA mods.

The new Attack on Titan game coming to 3DS won’t go by that name in Europe, where copyright issues have forced Atlus to change the action game’s title. Atlus has confirmed that its new game based on the popular manga series, Attack on Titan: Humanity in Chains, will be out in North America on May […]