Google recently added compatibility for 1080p/720p video streaming at 60 frames per second (FPS) to YouTube. Users can stream content at 60 FPS in Elgato Game Capture HD, XSplit Broadcaster, and XSplit Gamecaster, establishing YouTube as a viable alternative to Twitch for streaming video games.
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.
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.
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.
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.
On Wednesday, The Guardian published an article concerning possible harmful mental health effects of video games.
“You can have the nicest computer in the world, and the best books in the world, but if you’re lazy, and sittin’ around just playing video games all day, not really interested in it, well you’re probably not going to be a great student,” President Obama tells school children.
Valve, the company behind phenomenally successful video game distribution platform Steam, has found itself in a pickle after announcing new payment options for its “modding” community that were not fully understood by its customers.
It’s often said that feminist game critic Anita Sarkeesian is just a left-wing version of infamous anti-video game activist Jack Thompson. She, too, is using moral panic to encourage censorship of the medium. But how similar are they really?
Reviews from professional video game journalists play a minuscule role in consumer purchasing decisions, according to the Entertainment Software Association’s Essential Facts 2015 report, released this week.
From Software’s spiritual successor to the Dark Souls series may seem unfamiliar at first to longtime fans, but the changes in Bloodborne’s combat and pacing make for a more exiting but no less punishing experience.
Kanye West said on Friday he is developing a video game inspired by the single “Only One,” which is about his late mother.
The “GamerGate” video game controversy is complicated to trace in its particulars, but it was one of 2014’s most interesting under-the-radar media bias stories. Strip away the various personal conflicts and scandals, and you’ve got a classic story about the corruption of criticism… a perhaps inevitable process that finally overcame humanity’s newest art form last year.
