Occasionally I worry that our collective memory of home video games sees the release of the Nintendo Entertainment System as the true beginning. Talk to people about games like Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, and Metroid, and they still light up with excitement, appreciating the tremendous importance of these games in the grand […]

Perfect Dark is a domino piece whose very existence changed the fate of the entire industry. All right, that’s a slight exaggeration, but if there had been just one detour to Joanna Dark’s debut, a ripple effect could have had long-term ramifications on our favorite way to spend our leisure time. So let’s examine what […]

Apple has removed a popular game about growing marijuana from the iTunes App Store. The game, Weed Firm, is just one of many on the iTunes App Store that feature marijuana in some way, and you can still download a number of apps that can help you locate where to legally buy marijuana in states […]

Electronic Arts is currently testing a version of Peggle that has a lot in common with Candy Crush Saga and other free-to-play mobile games. Like King’s immensely profitable Candy Crush Saga, this new version of Peggle features a world map and common free-to-play monetization methods. If you lose all your lives, for example, you could […]

Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts’ Star Citizen has just reached yet another funding milestone. The game’s widely successful crowdfunding campaign has now raised a staggering $44 million, up from $43 million in late April. In a letter to the community, Roberts said that his team is hard at work on Arena Commander, a small, multiplayer-focused […]

The Retron 5 console from Hyperkin lets you play old Nintendo and Sega games in new and exciting ways, but it needs additional work in order to reach its full potential.

A taste for the classics is on the rise, inspiring people to seek out old games and consoles, but not everyone wants to wade through flea markets or enter into a bidding war on eBay for a 20-year-old Super Nintendo. This is where a hardware company like Hyperkin comes into play. Its line of Retron […]

Not content with simply banning cheaters, Blizzard has filed a lawsuit against those responsible for creating and selling a popular line of cheats for StarCraft II. The lawsuit was filed on April 19 in a United States District Court in California. According to a copy of the suit obtained by TorrentFreak, Blizzard claims these hacks […]

Halo 5 info lands, an HD pack of Halo 1 – 4 could be in the works, the Xbox One gets external storage, and how has Far Cry 4 caused controversy?!

Image courtesy of Gamasutra A decade after releasing Phantom Dust for the original Xbox, Microsoft has filed for a new trademark on the game’s title in Europe, possibly signaling the company’s intention to reboot the series as previously rumored. The trademark (as first reported by Gaming Everything) was filed for just yesterday by Microsoft and […]