Video game publisher Bethesda Softworks had its E3 showcase on Sunday, June 14. The studio premiered role-playing game Fallout 4, first-person shooter DOOM, stealth title Dishonored 2, and strategy card game The Elder Scrolls: Legends.
Google announced Friday it will debut a video live streaming service in Summer 2015 dedicated to broadcasting video games to compete with streaming service Twitch.tv.
New first-person shooter Battleborn, developed by Gearbox Software, the creators of the Borderlands and Brothers in Arms series, will be at E3. Battleborn will be released on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One this winter.
The Witcher 3, the massive open-world RPG from developer CD Projekt Red, has sold four million copies in the two weeks since it was released.
A banner for Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection appeared early on the PlayStation Store last week, hinting at an anthonlogy including the first three titles of developer Naughty Dog’s action-adventure game for the Playstation 4. A tweet from Naughty Dog’s creative director and writer Neil Druckmann set an October 9, 2015 release date for the bundle.
Steam has premiered its own controller and link device, allowing gamers to play any titles in their Steam library on their television.
The Coalition studio head Rod Fergusson announced that the new Gears of War is coming to E3; gamers should watch Xbox Daily: LIVE @ E3 at 4:00PM PT on Monday, June 15 for a first glimpse of the studio’s new effort.
This week saw the release of the gritty, ultra-violent, balls-to-the-wall awesome twin stick shooter Hatred, a game best described as being to gaming what Reefer Madness would be to drugs, if it had been an intentional satire made by the drug lobby.
At the time of this writing, the Kickstarter campaign for Starfighter Inc., a spiritual successor to celebrated space-combat simulators Star Wars: X-Wing and TIE Fighter, is a little over $60,000 short of it’s $250,000 funding goal with only a day left in the crowdfunding drive.
After the events of the past nine months, you’d think identity warriors would have learned that their divisiveness is not welcome in the world of gaming.
PC gaming digital distribution service Steam changed its refund policy this week to grant gamers two weeks to return items, for any reason, as long as they have not been played for more than two hours, but game developers disagreed on whether this would help or hurt the industry.
Online first-person shooter PlanetSide 2 comes to PlayStation 4 on Tuesday, June 23. It is free-to-play and does not require a PlayStation Plus membership.
PC Gamer magazine will host the first annual PC Gaming Show at E3 this year. It will feature Microsoft, Blizzard, Square Enix, and a host of other PC game developers.
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced that multiplayer online battle arena game Infinite Crisis will close on August 14, less than six months after it launched on March 26, 2015.
Rocksteady Studios posted new trailers for Batman: Arkham Knight, which will be released Tuesday, June 23. The trailers feature Harley Quinn and Red Hood, who are extra playable characters in the upcoming game.
Bethesda Softworks released the trailer for the newest installment in its post-apocalyptic role-playing game series, Fallout 4.
Polygon writer Colin Campbell published a preview of game developer Harmonix’s new game Rock Band 4 that did not offer much detail about the game, but instead communicated a general distaste for the genre that the game represented.
Valve has updated the refund policy for PC gaming service Steam. Gamers can return items bought less than two weeks ago as long as they have not played them for longer than two hours.
The makers of Hatred should be exceedingly grateful for the negative press it received before its release, because the game would have received little attention on its own merits.
Contrary to reporting from many in the gaming press, developer Techland has not canceled its dark fantasy co-op hack-and-slash game Hellraid.
Technology giant Nvidia has released its GeForce GTX 980 Ti graphics card, offering PC gamers top of the line graphics processing power at a much lower cost than Nvidia’s current top video card.
Firaxis Games will be releasing turn-based strategy game XCOM 2, the sequel to 2012’s XCOM: Enemy Uknown, for PC in November.
The Steam Summer Sale for PC games will occur from Thursday, June 11 to Saturday, June 20, with an encore of the best deals being made available again for two until Monday, June 22.
Microsoft head Phil Spencer denied the rumor that the studio would be buying Konami’s survival horror game Silent Hills, which was abandoned in late April.
CD Projekt Red released its new action role-playing game, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, on May 19. The game garnered universal critical acclaim, receiving Metacritic scores of 92, 92, and 93/100 for its PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One releases, respectively. However, The Witcher 3 has become the latest installment in a dialogue concerning gender representation in video games.
