If you’ve never played an Assassin’s Creed game, developer Ubisoft promises that this fall’s Assassin’s Creed Unity is the best place to jump in. Unity is meant to be a new starting point for the franchise, taking a different approach to the modern-day story and beginning a “new cycle of Assassin’s Creed games.” In a […]

Watch extended gameplay footage from Astebreed featuring the Giant Bomb crew.

TJ Combo was an impossible assignment. In just three short months, Killer Instinct’s newest combatant needed to become a playable fighter fit for public consumption at the 2014 Electronic Entertainment Expo. Traditionally, a task of this magnitude would take roughly four months to complete, but doing it in three is still feasible for an experienced […]

This fall’s much-anticipated open-world game Far Cry 4 will offer players about the same size world to explore as 2012’s Far Cry 3, despite being available on more powerful consoles this time around like the Xbox One and PlayStation 4. According to game director Alex Hutchinson, Ubisoft elected to focus on building a world that […]

This October’s open-world game Assassin’s Creed Unity takes “full advantage” of the power of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, so much so that the Paris-set game is considered to be somewhat of a “new beginning” for the series. That’s according to Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot who told the Ubisoft Blog that people are going […]

Yet another Electronic Arts executive has now responded to the controversy surrounding the company’s recently released mobile game, Dungeon Keeper, a reboot of sorts of the classic strategy game from Peter Molyneux. The game launched in February and was immediately criticized for its in-app purchases, with EA CEO Andrew Wilson recently admitting that the company […]

Sega today announced that the preorder bonuses for upcoming sci-fi game Alien: Isolation, the first of which are a pair of mission packs that reunite the cast of Ridley’s Scott’s beloved 1979 movie, Alien. The content features the voices and likenesses of the movie’s actors, including Sigourney Weaver (Ellen RIpley), Tom Skerritt (Dallas), Veronica Cartwright […]

Do we know too much about games before they’re released? Danny investigates the idea that over-marketing and the internet is killing the wonder in games. Also, he waves a flag.

The Witcher developer CD Projekt Red and Assassin’s Creed studio Ubisoft aren’t the only companies that think DRM is a waste of time for PC games. Speaking with GameSpot, Magicka and Hearts of Iron developer Paradox Interactive CEO Fredrik Wester outlined why he thinks DRM can be such a headache and provided some steps that […]

The countdown clock is still running on Cliff Bleszinski’s upcoming reveal, but it looks like the name of his studio may have leaked early: Boss Key Productions. Veteran game designer Cliff Bleszinski announced earlier this week that he would be coming out of retirement and that he wanted to “redefine his legacy.” But details on […]