Tag: video games

As Breitbart reported last week, survival horror game Dying Light is getting a new expansion, The Following, which will include at least 10+ hours of gameplay.

At Gamescom last week, Blizzard demonstrated Starcraft II: Legacy of the Void and suggested that a new Warcraft real-time strategy (RTS) game could be developed after Starcraft.

Larian Studios has announced Divinity: Original Sin 2, a sequel to their critically acclaimed 2014 role-playing game which will start crowdfunding on Kickstarter on Wednesday, August 26.

Reagent Games is focused on creating total destruction in Crackdown 3, using Microsoft cloud computing to enable the game to have completely destructible environments, provided gamers have a fully cooperative Internet connection.

As Breitbart reported last month, the Call of Duty: Black Ops III multiplayer beta will run from August 19 – 23 on the PlayStation 4 and August 26 – 30 on the Xbox One and PC. Developer Treyarch has released new details on maps, modes, specialists, and a Weapon Paintshop that will be available to players.

343 Industries’ Halo 5: Guardians is the first Halo first-person shooter game to receive a “T” for Teen rating instead of an “M” for Mature rating.

Rockstar Games has banned some Grand Theft Auto V gamers using mods for both the single-player and multiplayer elements of the game. The modders created a modded version of the game’s multiplayer called FiveM, which was separate from Rockstar’s online service, but were banned anyway.

Activision Blizzard, the parent company behind franchises like Call of Duty and Warcraft, released its financial results for the second quarter of 2015. The publisher increased its net revenue from $930 million to $1,044 million from the first quarter of the year to the one ending June 30, 2015.

Results from the International Game Developers Association (IGDA)’s 2015 Developer Satisfaction Survey have been released concerning attitudes towards equality and diversity within the gaming industry.

Bungie’s first-person shooter Destiny will receive an expansion titled The Taken King on September 15 for Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 3. The expansion makes significant changes, raising the level cap, changing the loot system, focusing on new gear while leaving old items behind, and recasting the voice of Ghost.

Microsoft kicked off Gamescom 2015 on Tuesday, August 4 in Cologne, Germany, debuting new games like Quantum Break, Dark Souls III, and Rise of the Tomb Raider and highlighting the Xbox One’s new compatibility with Windows 10.

Konami has moved its PC release date for stealth game Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain from Tuesday, September 15, to Tuesday, September 1 to coincide with the game’s release on Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 3. But while console gamers get online multiplayer on October 6, PC players will have to wait until January 2016.

Techland’s survival horror game Dying Light is receiving an expansion titled The Following. This DLC will feature a new story segment with vehicles and a map that is as large as all of the other Dying Light maps combined.

Gamers who purchase Gears of War: Ultimate Edition will receive the entire Gears of War franchise through Xbox One backwards compatibility.

Windows 10 for PC debuted on Wednesday, July 29. The platform supports Xbox Live, enabling games to stream from Xbox One to PC, but Xbox Head Phil Spencer recently suggested that the opposite will be possible as well.

Yager, the German developer that was dropped from working on Dead Island 2, has filed for insolvency for the team that was working on the game.

Concerned parents, in June I informed you of why we must ban Mario Kart. But today, I really must address developer Namco’s far more perverse “classic”: Pac-Man.

Gaming company Razer has acquired the software of the Android microconsole maker Ouya.

Pete Hines, marketing executive of Bethesda Softworks, has said that role-playing game Fallout 4 is “basically done.” The studio is working on fixing bugs before the game’s Tuesday, November 10 release date.

Activision will debut Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’s last expansion, Reckoning, on Tuesday, August 4, on the Xbox One and Xbox 360. The DLC features new multiplayer maps, the Exo Grapple playlist, a new energy weapon, and finishes off the Exo Zombies story.

Last week, several Steam users had their accounts hacked via a glitch. While Valve initially labeled the glitch as only a “bug,” it recognized that there was a larger problem on Saturday, July 25, and fixed it immediately.

Video game convention QuakeCon was held in Dallas, Texas, from Thursday, July 23 to Sunday, July 26. Previews of role-playing game Fallout 4 and first-person shooter Doom were featured alongside other festivities.

Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops III beta will run from Wednesday, August 19 to Sunday, August 23 for the PlayStation 4 and Wednesday, August 26 to Sunday, August 30 for Xbox One and PC.

John Smedley, president and CEO of Daybreak Game Company (formerly known as Sony Online Entertainment), is resigning after a year of being targeted by hacker group Lizard Squad.