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Disney Cancels Disney Infinity

Disney is putting an end to their Disney Infinity toy-game line and discontinuing their “self-published console games business,” the company said today. After June, Infinity will stop getting new updates. Disney is also shutting down Avalanche Software, the Utah-based studio responsible for Infinity. As a result, around 300 people will lose their jobs. “This was…

World Of Warcraft Designer Gets Real About Complaint That Blizzard Doesn’t Listen

World of Warcraft is not just massively multiplayer; it’s massively multi-faceted. There are all sorts of different kinds of PVP and PVE, not to mention pet battles, alts, role-play, dungeons, and more. These aspects cater to different people, but when Blizzard changes anything, it seems like everyone’s upset. Responding to a forum thread about expensive…

Uncharted 4 Has A Trophy For Recreating The Faulty E3 Demo

Last year during E3, hundreds of thousands watched as Nathan Drake walked into a Madagascar market and then… froze in place thanks to a controller error. Now, you can do it yourself. There are a few funny trophies in Uncharted 4, which is out for PS4 today, but my favorite is “Stage Fright,” which requires…

The People Making Cyberpunk 2077 Would Like To Correct A Misconception About Game Development

A couple weeks ago, a rare dribble of info about Witcher creator CD Projekt’s next game, Cyberpunk 2077, hit the web. Multiple outlets reported that CDP is not working on the game in earnest, that they have to complete a major dev tool overhaul first. Problem: that’s not how game development works. As CDP has…

Uncharted 4’s Climbing, Reviewed

Climbing is difficult. At least it can be. Depending on what you’re climbing. Climbing is also technical. Perhaps that’s a more useful word. A word that better describes the delicate set of skills required to gracefully scale a rock face, be it a boulder, cliff or full blown mountain. Then there’s climbing in video games.…

Bethesda Isn’t Sending Out Early Review Copies Of Doom

Don’t expect to see any early reviews for the new Doom. Publisher Bethesda has decided to hold back on copies, telling critics that the game won’t be available until it launches this Friday. This news might come as alarming—perhaps a bad sign for a game that’s long been in development hell—but there’s no need to…

Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director’s Cut, Frogger 2, Final Fight: Double Impact, Faery: Legends of Avalon, and Puzzlegeddon are now backwards compatible on Xbox One, the company announced today. That new trailer for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided sure got me in the mood for sneaking around…

Windows 10 Getting Much Needed Gaming Improvements Today

Microsoft claims it wants to take PC gaming seriously with Windows 10, but the limitations of Windows 10-based games has undercut their message. They’re trying to address some of that today, with unlocked frame rates and support for AMD’s Freesync and NVIDIA’s G-SYNC. “A big thank you to those who have given us feedback,”the company…

North Carolina Game Companies Condemn State’s Ridiculous Bathroom Bill

Three game studios in North Carolina have come out against North Carolina’s controversial “bathroom bill,” a law seen by many as infringing on the rights of transgender individuals. The law, formally titled House Bill 2, bans individuals from entering a gendered bathroom different from what’s listed on their birth certificate, supposedly due to the need…

Co-Op Is Quietly The Best Thing In StarCraft II

If you’re intimidated by competitive StarCraft II and bored by the story, allow me to suggest another option: Co-Op, which is far more entertaining than it has any right to be. And when Blizzard puts out the next patch for their real-time strategy game, it’ll likely be even better. Co-Op (formerly called Allied Commanders) lets…

Three Hours With The Witcher 3‘s Final Expansion, Blood And Wine

If you ask me, The Witcher 3 is the finest RPG of our time. I don’t want to bid it farewell, but CD Projekt’s got quite an expansion lined up to help ease the grieving process. The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine is set to release on May 31, and I got to play it…

Final Fantasy X Pops Up On Steam

Final Fantasy X, a video game about ghosts playing soccer, showed up on Steam this week alongside its peppy sequel, FFX-2. Seems like they’ll be coming to PC soon. The Steam listing says this HD remaster—previously released on PS3, PS4, and Vita—will be out for PC on May 12, but Steam’s gotten dates of Final…

WW2 Submarine Game Is Basically An Underwater Fallout Shelter

UBOOT is a Second World War game set on a German submarine. Thing is, you’re not controlling the boat. You’re controlling the men who control the boat. Inspired by games like Fallout Shelter, UBOOT is a game where “You look after their physical and mental health, because if the sailors are hungry, tired and their…

Mod Turns Doom Into An Ancient Alien World

A group of Doom enthusiasts created a super impressive megawad, a pack of 32 maps, called Ancient Aliens, where players have to discover the truth about the origins of human civilization. And indeed, if you check the screenshots, the colorful areas filled with crystals and huge monoliths look like landscapes from The Dig, and not…

Here’s a World of Warcraft Horde wedding ceremony, in the heart of the enemy faction’s capital city, in Stormwind Cathedral. That’s how you defeat an entire server of Alliance players. Must have been a tough battle to capture the entire place! And it’s good to see some World of Warcraft servers, such as the RP/PVP…

These Are Your Pokémon Sun and Moon Starters

Is this what you’ve been waiting for? Well, here you go. Your Pokémon Sun and Moon Starters, Rowlet, Litten and Popplio. But, who is who? This is Rowlet. This Grass Quill Pokémon can attack without making a sound and twist its neck around 180 degrees to see behind itself. Here is Litten, a Fire Cat…

HBO Accused Of Trying To Censor Game Of Thrones Spoilers

HBO has been going after Game of Thrones pirates for years now, but this week things took a turn for the weird when the creator of a popular series of YouTube videos—claiming to air spoilers for the show before it airs—was hit with copyright takedown notices. Frikidoctor, who (via TorrentFreak) claims to have inside sources…

Jeffrey Lin, lead designer of social systems on League of Legends, has left Riot Games, the developer announced today Lin had focused on trying to improve the infamous levels of vitriol tossed in competitive games. “I have always said that passionate gamers, even angry ones, are gamers that care about the game—just like us,” he…

Remembering Naughty Dog‘s First Game

These days, people think of Naughty Dog as the company behind the Uncharted series, but it didn’t start that way. The company’s first game was a swords ‘n sorcery RPG called Keef The Thief, published by Electronic Arts. Naughty Dog has changed directions quite a few times throughout its history. It used to be known…

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius, a wonderfully titled RPG for iOS and Android, will come to North America in the near future, publisher Square Enix announced today. The game launched in Japan last October.