If you buy the argument that there are people who make real video games and there are people who make things that merely pose as video games—and if you are convinced that these fake “games” threaten to undermine real video games—then a game called Outernauts should have filled you with hope. Outernauts is a science-fiction…
Matt Tieger is the game director on the next Transformers game. That’s probably a fun job, but let’s not assume anything. How about you ask him yourself? Tieger, whose team at High Moon Studios is releasing Transformers: Fall of Cybertron this month, is joining us right here to answer your best questions, starting at 1pm…
We’ve got ourselves a new trailer for October’s Doom 3: BFG Edition. This one highlights the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 game’s new eight-level “Lost Mission.” But what about Doom 4? Id is still working on it—they even moved their mobile designers onto the project, begging off any more mobile gaming for the time being—but…
This year’s QuakeCon Bundle Steam sale is crazy. It’ll save you over $200 and get you the following games for just $100… Brink Brink: Agents of Change Brink: Doom/Psycho Combo Pack Brink: Fallout/SpecOps Combo Pack Call of Cthulllu: Dark Corners of the Earth Commander Keen Doom 3 Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil Doom II Fallout…
Call of Duty Elite now has 12 million users, according to Activision boss Eric Hirshberg. Paid users: 2.3 million.
Diablo III has sold more than 10 million copies including more than a million sold through World of Warcraft annual pass, Blizzard said today.
Apogee Software’s mid-’90s cult-classic first-person shooter Rise of the Triad is coming back, with the help of the Danish studio that remade Duke Nukem 3D. The new Rise of the Triad will be developed by Interceptor Entertainment and Apogee and will be out as PC download through Steam later this year. The official bullet points…
Gaymercon, a convention for everyone but with a focus on creating a safe space for gay gamers and tech fans to congregate, will be happening on August 3 and 4th of 2013, somewhere in San Francisco. The con is happening no matter what, but—wait for it—the organizers would love for you to donate to their…
LittleBigPlanet will be available on the PlayStation Vita on September 25. So says the official PlayStation blog
Long-time Call of Duty game developer Mohammad Alavi designed Call of Duty IV‘s famous ghillie suit level and Modern Warfare 2‘s notorious interactive massacre of civilians, the level called “No Russian.” In a stellar piece about interactive atrocity, game designer Matthew Burns gets Alavi to explain the intent behind that level, a level in which…
The Rubik’s Cube-sized $99 Ouya game console is supposed to come out in March 2013. We thought you’d only be able to get it in silver, but, no, there’s a darker option. Today, the Ouya folks have revealed a special edition version of the console. You’ll have to donate $140 to their Kickstarter to get…
A guy with the terrific name Palmer Luckey wants to finally make a great virtual reality gaming head-mounted display. Some guys behind some terrific games think you should help fund it. This is the Oculus Rift, a VR headset that we heard about in June at E3 when Doom co-creator and master programmer John Carmack…
There is no release date for Grand Theft Auto V. There are no confirmed platforms for the game. All we have is one trailer and two screenshots, but some of the people who follow the business of the publisher of Grand Theft Auto, Take Two Interactive, are convinced the game will be out before the…
John Schappert, #2 at Zynga, who hyped Zynga, but sold its stock, no longer oversees games there, Bloomberg reports
The 3DS download Pokedex 3D Pro will be sold in America on November 8. So Nintendo’s releasing something in November!
Kotaku columnist and actress Lisa Foiles recently told readers about A Fistful of Rupees, a Zelda-themed spaghetti western. This is the official trailer, but for background, check out Lisa’s behind-the-scenes report The three-part Fistful of Rupees will premiere on the GameStation’s YouTube channel starting August 7. FISTFUL OF RUPEES TRAILER – Zelda / Western Mash-Up…
The executives at Take Two Interactive, publisher of such video game franchises as Grand Theft Auto, BioShock and Civilization take questions from investors every three months. The major bosses of all publicly-traded companies do this. Usually they don’t take prank phone calls. Today, they did. (Image inspired by the clean-thinking chaps at Game Developer/Gamasutra.)
Nobody at Sony is recommending that you recreate iconic tracks from Nintendo’s Mario Kart in the upcoming PlayStation 3 game LittleBigPlanet Karting. But what do you think is going to happen when you let gamers into a beta of a kart-racing game that has a very malleable track editor? You get Mario Kart tracks in…
The people who run mega-giant-huge gaming company EA have said they want to put out few games. Probably to be like their rivals at Activision. Make a few huge console and PC games and maybe they’ll be golden. But they also believe in something else you may have heard about: that mobile games, Facebook games…
In April, we fielded a rather confusing rumor that involved game developer Sergei Girgorovich supposedly telling a Russian news outlet that he had sold the rights to his development team’s acclaimed post-nuclear-apocalypse-horror-first-person-shooter series, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., to Bethesda, the people who brought us the acclaimed post-apocalyptic first-person role-playing game Fallout 3. But a Bethesda rep no-commented and…
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