Robert Shimshock

Microsoft and Duke University have developed Kahawai, a new utility that can cut bandwidth used while playing games online by approximately 83%.

Sierra Entertainment is plotting a new iteration for its graphic adventure series King’s Quest, which has not had a new game since 1998.

The sci-fi massively multiplayer online role-playing game WildStar, developed by Carbine Studios, will go free-to-play starting this fall.

On Wednesday, May 27, video game streaming service Twitch published an update to its Rules of Conduct which declares “if a game’s US version is rated Adults Only by the ESRB, you should not broadcast that game on Twitch.”

Ubisoft has decided to forgo multiplayer in the upcoming Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate, which will be released on October 23 for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 with a PC release to follow later in the year.

Ultra Street Fighter IV, developed by Capcom, was released for PlayStation 4 on Tuesday, May 26, and some famous gamers from its community have found issues with its technical elements.

A now-removed product page for the addition of the Halo 3: ODST campaign to Halo: The Master Chief Collection was found in the Xbox Games Store on Wednesday.

Developers of BioShock, BioShock Infinite, and Dead Space have teamed up to form The Deep End Games, a studio that is trying to fund a new game called Perception.

Activision will release the Supremacy expansion for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare on Tuesday, June 2, for Xbox One and Xbox 360. The DLC adds four new multiplayer maps and a new chapter of the Exo Zombies co-op mode.

PC, Mac, and Linux users who play Tropico 5, the construction and management simulator developed by Haemimont Games, can purchase the game’s Espionage expansion on Thursday, May 28.

WarHorse Studios has hired Sebastien Pacetti as its new Chief Commercial Officer (CCO). Pacetti was previously associate director of GameForge, Ubisoft Massive business development director, and head of video games and digital software for Amazon.

Heroes of the Storm, developed by Blizzard Entertainment, is a multiplayer online battle arena game that is set to be released June 2, 2015, but questions have been raised as to why the developer is censoring one of the characters in the game.

Denis Dyack, former president of development studio Silicon Knights, director of the critically-acclaimed Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem, and 2011 inductee to the Canadian Gaming Hall of Fame, endorsed #GamerGate’s desire for ethics in video game journalism and fight against video game censorship in a recent interview.

Carmageddon: Reincarnation, developed by Stainless Games, was released on Thursday, May 21. Reincarnation is the fourth iteration in a series that has been banned internationally. It can be purchased on Steam for $29.99.

Japanese video game developer and publisher Konami is switching its market trajectory from console to mobile games.

Blade and Soul, Korean developer NCSoft’s free-to-play kung fu-themed massively multiplayer online (MMO) game, will be coming westward this winter.

Electronic Arts subsidiary Digital Illusions CE (DICE) will release an update for Battlefield 4 on Tuesday, May 26. The update will include five new firearms, a “full weapons balance pass,” the multiplayer mode Gun Master, and PC operating fixes.

Game developers are gearing up for the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) occurring Tuesday, June 16 – Thursday, June 18. Only game creators and press are invited, but PlayStation and Xbox plan to allow gamers to experience the event via movie theater screening and Xbox Daily: LIVE @ E3, respectively.

Video game developer Rockstar Games has sued the BBC for trademark violation concerning the BBC’s new drama, Game Changer.

Phil Spencer, the head of Microsoft’s Xbox division, has announced that the Windows 10 beta will be arriving on Xbox One “post-summer.”

PC gamers using Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) video cards have reported performance issues with CD Projekt Red’s new role-playing game, The Witcher 3, stemming from graphics features created by technology giant and competitor Nvidia, spurring a conflict between AMD and Nvidia.

Polish developer CD Projekt Red has released The Witcher 3 to critical acclaim, but the game’s creators have released a patch to address criticism over visuals in the final version of the game not being up to par with those showcased in a 2013 Spike Video Game Awards trailer.

Video game publisher Take-Two Interactive announced recently it has sold 52 million physical units of Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto V.

The Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, created by Facebook subsidiary Oculus VR, will be capable of showcasing pornography and other X-rated material.