When Sony announced a round of layoffs at God of War developer Sony Santa Monica on Tuesday, it was reported that one project had been canceled as well. Now, that’s been seemingly confirmed, as former lead level designer Jonathan Hawkins explained in a series of tweets that a mystery new IP is no longer in […]

Titanfall, the upcoming multiplayer shooter from Respawn Entertainment, has gone gold–meaning development is finished and it’s headed to mass production. “We’re gold!!!!!!,” Respawn Entertainment wrote on Twitter last night. Accompanying the enthusiastic tweet was an image of the Xbox One version packaged and ready to go. Titanfall launches March 11 for Xbox One and PC, […]

Nintendo announced overnight that as of May 20, the company will end online functionality for a host of Wii, DS, and DSi games–including high-profile titles like Mario Kart Wii and Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Of course, you can still play the games in their offline mode, but you won’t–come May 20–be able to play online […]

Yesterday, The Last of Us Creative Director Neil Druckmann and Game Director Bruce Straley held a Reddit Ask Me Anything where they said developer Naughty Dog has yet to reach a decision, but there’s a possibility we’ll see a sequel to The Last of Us. “Right now I’d say it’s 50/50,” Druckmann said. Earlier this […]

Final Fantasy is broken. With Lightning Returns,it has become clear that Square Enix is suffering from a crisis of imagination, caught between a desire to give players what we want while still searching for the creative energy to deliver something we’ve never seen before. I believe, however, that with Toriyama’s trilogy past us, Final Fantasy […]

Respawn Entertainment’s Titanfall beta last week started with a limited number of players who were lucky enough to get in. On Saturday night, Feb. 15, Respawn opened the beta to all players on Xbox One and later all PC players as well. By the time the Titanfall beta ended on Feb. 19, around 2 million […]

Oculus VR, the company developing the Oculus Rift virtual reality goggles, has filed a trademark for “RiftCon,” a convention focused on virtual reality gaming. The United States Patent and Trademark Office website shows that the application was filed on Feb. 14. The page also describes the goods and services RiftCon will provide: “Organizing exhibitions for […]

UPDATE: 2/17/14 11:30AM PST Three days after it started, the Twitch Plays Pokemon stream is only getting stronger. Against seeminly impossible odds, the stream now has four badges under their belt, and over 70,000 people are currently watching. Even if just a relatively conservative 10% of those people are actively taking part in the chat, […]

I’ve read developer Jason Rohrer’s account of the events that inspired his game, The Castle Doctrine, many times, in many places, leading up to its release. His family lived in a bad neighborhood. A dog attacked his wife during a family bike ride. He bought a club to beat away any other dogs that might […]

In lieu of Valentine’s Day plans, Jess digs through the sexy, disarming and charming, and tells you five video game characters she’d totally date. Yeah, it’s weird.