The new Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, futuristic-looking as it is, will not have teleportation grenades. So it was reported in a VentureBeat profile of CoD:AW studio Sledgehammer Games. Too unrealistic. » 7/29/14 4:00pm Yesterday 4:00pm

New pre-rendered Assassin's Creed Unity trailer shows our hero, the assassin Arno, rescuing a woman who seems to be wearing a Templar cross (the same lady we initially thought was an assassin. Whoops!). The game's designers hinted at the end of this making-of video that Unity will address the schism between… » 7/29/14 12:19pm Yesterday 12:19pm

We've seen games that let you run from one end of a huge, real city to another. But Ubisoft's The Crew promises an altogether more impressive spectacle: one smooth drive from Miami Beach to the beaches of Los Angeles. Take a look. » 7/25/14 1:29pm Friday 1:29pm

Back in the day Insomniac was top tier PlayStation. The Ratchet & Clank series ruled (unless you preferred Jak & Daxter, in which case: arguments) and it had nailed a perfect mix of run and gun controls and 'what the hell did I just shoot' weapons. Why any of it was happening didn't matter, only that felt great doing… » 7/24/14 6:30pm Thursday 6:30pm

The next game in the Disney Infinity series hits store shelves a little while after school starts, just in time for teachers to start confiscating figures from kids who won't stop talking about the game in class. » 7/24/14 9:01am Thursday 9:01am

Surprise! Microsoft says the Destiny beta has opened a day early for Xbox One and Xbox 360. It's also back online for PS4 and PS3. Time to hop on your speeder bikes and get them XPs. » 7/22/14 6:42pm 7/22/14 6:42pm

Here's Halo's newest character. Played by actor Mike Colter, Agent Locke will be showing up in the live-action Halo: Nightfall series being produced by Ridley Scott. The character will then appear in next year's Halo 5: Guardians. Variety has more details. » 7/22/14 10:38am 7/22/14 10:38am

We can't tell who she is, and it's unlikely that she's playable. But it nevertheless looks like Assassin's Creed: Unity, like earlier games in the series, will have female assassins. No comment from Ubisoft. » 7/21/14 8:40pm 7/21/14 8:40pm

Um, I don't think anybody is saying that. » 7/21/14 7:45pm 7/21/14 7:45pm

Reminder: the Destiny beta's going bye-bye for a bit, for scheduled maintenance. The preview test of Bungie's sci-fi shooter will be down starting today and returns on 7/23, the first day Xbox 360 and Xbox One owners will have access to the beta. » 7/21/14 11:35am 7/21/14 11:35am

We didn't see the new Doom that was shown exclusively to Quakecon attendees in Dallas this week. You probably didn't either. But all the people in a video shot by the folks at the unofficial Quakecon Forums did. » 7/18/14 2:50pm 7/18/14 2:50pm

You'll finally be able to buy games and add-ons for your Xbox when you're away from the console. Mobile purchasing via SmartGlass or Xbox.com is one of the features coming to the Xbox ecosystem in a future update, which will roll out next week in early-access form to select XB1 owners. » 7/18/14 1:49pm 7/18/14 1:49pm

Creating romances in a BioWare game isn't just a matter of writing and art. It's also a matter of math. That's one of several insights in a really good 48-minute talk delivered by the writers of Dragon Age Inquisition at last week's GaymerX2 convention. The topic was romance (read: who your character can eventually… » 7/18/14 10:40am 7/18/14 10:40am

One thing I noticed playing Alien Isolation was its unpredictability. Multiple replays showed the alien and other characters never did the same thing twice, which is entirely the point, explains creative lead Alistair Hope. » 7/18/14 9:00am 7/18/14 9:00am

Ubisoft has created an official Assassin's Creed obstacle course minus any bales of hay or annoying guards. You can run through it at San Diego Comic-Con next week (location info here). Cool or not? What do you think? » 7/17/14 7:30pm 7/17/14 7:30pm

Less than three months after Microsoft had a big splashy debut for their Xbox Entertainment Studios division, the company is shutting down the unit tasked with making original TV shows for their game console. » 7/17/14 2:38pm 7/17/14 2:38pm

There are no rooftop guards in Assassin's Creed Unity? Cool. That's going to make this next game feel very different. This official tidbit (that we missed...a month ago) is part of a handy round-up of ACU facts that you can read over at the Assassin's Creed subreddit. » 7/16/14 6:55pm 7/16/14 6:55pm

What do two overlapping rectangles and three parallel lines mean to you? They're the labels on a pair of buttons on the Xbox One controller, but eight months since that console's launch, you'd be forgiven if you failed to predict what pressing them actually does. » 7/15/14 4:00pm 7/15/14 4:00pm