Tag: video games

The U.S. Navy will save money and training time by giving young naval officers aboard submarines video game controllers to operate periscopes.

World of Warcraft players can purchase Shadow the Fox in order to contribute to disaster relief funds, both national and international.

After four years of litigation, on Thursday, a Dallas court ruled in favor of iLife Technologies to the tune of $10 million against Nintendo.

Ohio State University has revoked the Ph.D. of a co-author to a retracted study that claimed first-person shooter video games made people better shooters in the real world.

Volition’s Agents of Mayhem couches tired gameplay in bland world design and populates it with a cast of grating one-dimensional caricatures.

I came away from this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo excited about a precious few upcoming titles. Foremost among them was Middle-earth: Shadow of War. I described the elegance with which the developers introduced complexity to 2014’s Shadow of Mordor’s alchemy of procedural generation and visceral combat. I said that I would be “shocked if it doesn’t immediately become one of the year’s highlights” upon its release, and I meant it.

Half-Life’s final entry may end up being a blog post by one of its creators, written as a letter to those who have longed for a conclusion to the franchise which has lain dormant for nearly a decade.

Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice impresses with sight and sound, but there isn’t any meat on the game’s bones.

Activision Blizzard announced new details regarding their official Overwatch League, aiming to place talented gamers alongside other professional athletes in status and salary alike.

A new paper published in the scientific journal Brain Imaging and Behaviour tests the claim that violent games result in a lack of empathy, and finds it to not be correct.

Breitbart Tech’s Nate Church joined Curt Schilling for their weekly gaming segment on Whatever It Takes, Schilling’s Breitbart News Radio program, to discuss the overload of great video games in 2017 and the future of virtual reality.

At this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, I had the chance to sit down with Entertainment Software Association (ESA) President and CEO Michael Gallagher to discuss gamers, the future of E3, and how political issues like immigration reform and NAFTA impact the video game industry.

Breitbart Tech’s Nate Church appeared on Whatever It Takes with Curt Schilling Wednesday to discuss this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) and the cultural influence of video games.

China’s government-owned newspaper The People’s Daily has targeted the country’s most successful video game company for special scrutiny.

MachineGames’ Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, the follow-up to the first-person shooter master class that was The New Order, looks like everything we loved about its predecessor cranked to 11.

Sony showed off exclusive open-world zombie survival adventure Days Gone at E3, though the content was still too isolated to cast any real judgement.

Ubisoft has traded radio towers for big green pipes in an XCOM-like in Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, starring Nintendo’s iconic characters and the publishers own madcap mascots.

Nine games after 2008’s World at War, the Call of Duty franchise finally returns to the Second World War with Call of Duty: WWII.

Developer OneBitBeyond’s upcoming micro-RPG The Swords of Ditto was one of the most pleasant surprises of this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo.

Developer Undead Labs’ return to their smash hit zombie apocalypse simulator with State of Decay 2 looks just like the first, and that’s a very good thing.

Middle-earth: Shadow of War, the sequel to developer Monolith’s 2014 innovative open-world trip through Mordor, is stepping up its game in preparation for all-out war.

The developers behind the acclaimed Ratchet and Clank series are trying their hand at crafting the definitive Spider-Man game with Marvel’s Spider-Man for the Playstation 4.

Developer Creative Assembly returns to the Warhammer universe after their first, wildly successful outing with Total War: Warhammer II.

After taking a year to reorient a franchise on the verge of exhaustion, Ubisoft dons the iconic hood once more with Assassin’s Creed Origins.

In Far Cry 5, Ubisoft brings their blockbuster open-world guerrilla warfare franchise onto American soil.

Breitbart Tech attended E3 this year to preview the latest video games, interview developers, and witness the biggest announcements from the industry.

The title of South Park: The Fractured but Whole essentially sets the comedic tone for the upcoming turn-based RPG which sets its sights on the superhero genre.

LawBreakers is the next big sci-fi release from Unreal and Gears of War developer Cliff Bleszinski, but does it live up to the hype?

Volition stakes its Seoul on the success of this super-heroic successor to the world of Saints Row, but Agents of Mayhem doesn’t leave a great first impression.

Sony showed up to E3 with all of the expected fanfare and a meaty serving of footage from a rich library of upcoming exclusives.