Google and toy maker Mattel are collaborating on a new version of the classic View-Master toy, using Google’s smartphone-based VR solution, Cardboard.

Take Two CEO says you can’t get in without “a couple hundred high quality engineers and artists, loads of capital and lots of money”.

The prize pool for the Halo Championship Series, the official eSports league dedicated exclusively to the popular sci-fi shooter franchise, has doubled the prize pool for its Season 1 finals from $50,000 to $100,000, developer 343 Industries has announced. The new prize values: First place: $50,000 Second place: $20,000 Third place: $10,000 Fourth place: &8,000 […]

A Doom modder who goes by the name Linguica has created a mod that adds Instagram filters and a selfie stick to the classic first person shooter. InstadDoom, as it’s called, adds 37 filters you’ll recognize from the photo and video sharing social network, including Mayfair, Rise, Inkwell, and many more, which will adjust the […]

Dota 2 is the first game on Steam to hit 1 million concurrent users, according to Steam’s own game and player statistics page. To be exact, it hit a peak of 1,075,464 concurrent players, probably thanks to the game’s New Bloom festival event. By comparison, the second most popular game on Steam that day, Counter-Strike: […]

French actress Marion Cotillard has signed on to the upcoming Assassin’s Creed movie. According to Deadline, Ubisoft and production company The New Regency have yet to reveal her role in the movie. Cotillard and her co-star Michael Fassbender acted together in an upcoming adaptation of Macbeth, which the director of the Assassin’s Creed movie, Justin […]

This week we get Dead or Alive 5: Last Round, The Order: 1886, Kirby and the Rainbow Curse, and Total War: Attila.

Join us every Sunday as we revisit the best hardware and technology stories from the past seven days. This week, we reviewed the New Nintendo 3DS XL, Nvidia, and Samsung made headlines, and it was revealed that the PC version of Assassin’s Creed: Rogue will ship with support for eye tracking. New Nintendo 3DS XL […]

Nintendo TVii, which attempts to collect several different video streaming services and your existing television channels into one convenient Wii U channel, will not launch in the Europe, Nintendo has announced. “Due to the extremely complex nature of localising multiple television services across a diverse range of countries with varied licensing systems, regrettably we have […]

Take-Two Interactive, which wholly owns Grand Theft Auto studio Rockstar Games, says that the games business is still growing, but that it’s also becoming more expensive and risky. “It’s an expensive business, and the risk profile reflects that,” Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick told Bloomberg TV. Zelnick also said that the hit ratio for a well-run […]