Seb and Lucy go about stealing everything they can see, from forges to cows. Kevin gets dressed up in Lord Elrond’s armour, builds his own outpost, and kicks back in the ultimate cheaters home, Levelers Tower.

Now that The Flame in the Flood has reached its $150,000 Kickstarter funding goal, developer The Molasses Flood has announced some of the game’s stretch goals, one of which is a PlayStation 4 version of the survival game. If funding reaches $300,000, the studio will bring the game to PS4, delivering this version sometime after […]

Prior to landing on the idea for Far Cry 4, Ubisoft designers considered a more “traditional” sequel to 2012’s Far Cry 3, something that would have amounted to what producer Dan Hay calls Far Cry 3.5. This game would have expanded on Far Cry 3’s story and locations, but Ubisoft needed less than a week […]

Microsoft today announced Halo: Spartan Strike, a spiritual successor to 2013’s Halo: Spartan Assault. Like the original, Spartan Strike is a top-down, twin-stick shooter. The $6 game launches December 14 for Windows platforms (desktop, Surface, and Windows Phone) and one purchase gets you access to the game across all Windows systems. The game is also […]

In the lead-up to the holiday season, Microsoft today announced two new Assassin’s Creed-themed Xbox One bundles. Through a partnership with Ubisoft, Microsoft will offer a $399 Xbox One bundle that includes a system and a copies of Assassin’s Creed Unity and Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. A second bundle will sell for $499 and […]

Ahead of the game’s worldwide release on October 24, 2K Games today unveiled the intro cinematic for Civilization: Beyond Earth, which is called “The Chosen.” As its name suggests, the trailer sets up the story for Beyond Earth, which involves people traveling … beyond earth. It’s an impressively produced, if not somewhat depressing, video. But […]

From the enterprising modder who brought you the Xbox One “Xbook” comes a similar creation focused around Sony’s PlayStation 4. Self-taught engineer Ed Zarick this week posted a video of what he calls the “PlayBook 4,” which is essentially a PlayStation 4 laptop. The PlayBook 4 (via Eurogamer) features the PS4’s guts inside a 3D-printed […]

Free-to-play Xbox One fighting game Killer Instinct‘s second season is now available, delivering new features, customizations, and content for single-player and multiplayer. The second season will also look better than the first, as developer Iron Galaxy increased the resolution from 720p to 900p, according to Twitter comments from the studio’s community manager. As was the […]

During multiplayer matches in 2015’s Rainbow Six Siege, you will have one life. If you die, you won’t get to play again until the next round. Now, developer Ubisoft Montreal has explained through an in-depth blog post why it decided on this approach for the game. “When designing the game, we found that above all […]

Blizzard Entertainment’s PC MMO World of Warcraft ended September with 7.4 million subscribers, a significant improvement over the 6.8 million it tallied at the end of June. That’s an improvement of 600,000 subscribers, and it bodes well for the franchise overall, according to Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia. In a note to investors today, Bhatia […]