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.
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.
