The magic of Skylanders–at least for its young target audience–has always been in how it mixes the physical and the virtual. For a kid, it’s exciting to have physical, quality figurines to play with in the real world, before taking virtual avatars of those same characters on adventures within a game. It’s a recipe that […]

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Sony Online Entertainment’s All Access membership plan, which grants access to many of the company’s MMOs for one price, has once again been delayed, this time until “on or about” April 29. “We’ve moved the All Access date to April 29th,” states a tweet sent out by SOE president John Smedley. “This is the most […]

Credit: Games Marketing Summit Speaking on a panel at the 2014 Games Marketing Summit in San Francisco, market research company EEDAR revealed that, according to their research, the number of gamers in China surpasses the total number of citizens in the United States. The panel was focused on marketing trends in the gaming industry and […]

Rockstar may be planning to introduce a new way of getting around in Grand Theft Auto V, if newly discovered references in the game’s code are any indication. Posting on the Se7enSins forums, user Chr0m3 x MoDz revealed the existence of strings of text in the game’s code that mention a jetpack, something which is […]

CI Games executive producer says it is easier to confirm 1080p for PlayStation 4 by the time the game releases in fall.

Just a week before paying $2 billion to buy Oculus VR–maker of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset–Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg tried out Sony’s own virtual reality headset, Project Morpheus, it has been revealed. PlayStation marketing executive Guy Longworth said today during a Games Marketing Summit 2014 session that he remembers Zuckerberg asking, “Can I […]

Microsoft’s Xbox One will launch in Japan on September 4th, will it fare better than the Xbox 360 did in that region?

FOX and developer TinyCo have launched a new video series for Family Guy: The Quest For Stuff featuring Family Guy voice actor Adam West campaigning to be the mayor of just about any town in the United States. Adam West, of course, plays Quahog mayor Adam West on the Family Guy TV show. It’s a […]

Xbox and PC game Titanfall was originally prototyped running on a Ratchet & Clank engine, it was revealed in journalist Geoff Keighley’s newly released The Final Hours of Titanfall feature. In the extensive and fascinating feature, it’s revealed that Insomniac Games founder Ted Price called Respawn Entertainment cofounder Vince Zampella in July 2010 to tell […]