We go hands on with Overkill Software's co-op shooter, 'Payday 2.' While gunplay is a big part of the game, it's equally important to work together as a team in trying to pull of the perfect heist.

'Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag' director Ashraf Ismail describes the game's new take on a present-day setting and runs through some of the next-gen differences, including a narrative-driven approach to the always connected new hardware.

High Moon Studios brings the funny in Deadpool, with Daniel Way's script and Nolan North's voice lending much of the charm to this otherwise rote and uninspired action game. Perfect as a summer diversion.

Gearbox Software delivers its best DLC offering for 'Borderlands 2' yet, with Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep offering so much new content that it very nearly qualifies as a separate game.

Telltale Games delivers another example of stellar interactive storytelling in 'The Walking Dead: 400 Days,' a downloadable content spin-off that bridges the events between seasons one and two with five new characters' stories.

'Hotline Miami' comes to PlayStation 3 and PS Vita in almost exactly the same form that it did last year on PC. This is great news for fans of excellent games, thanks to Dennaton Games' near-perfect execution on their action/puzzle concept.

Avalanche Studios co-founder and chief creative officer Christofer Sundberg walks us through the studio's high-level aims for 'Mad Max' while lead level designer Andreas Gschwari zeroes in on some of the details.

'Ryse: Son of Rome' brings brutal, sharp-looking melee action to the Xbox One, with a heavy emphasis placed on the game's cinematic presentation and reward-friendly play.

We take a peek at Turn 10 Studios' upcoming Xbox One launch title, 'Forza Motorsport 5.' The game reads your behaviors and creates an online avatar that races in your absence. Resistance is futile; if you want to play, you'll have to be assimilated.

Dennaton Games' Jonatan Söderström and Dennis Wedin return later this year with Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number. The sequel to the late-2012 action game couples the same great gameplay with a newly expanded universe.

Ubisoft Montreal's superhero hacker origin story in Watch Dogs falls flat, but the game's abundance of content and sharp design combine to create a legitimately memorable experience.

Turn 10 Studios delivers a flagship launch title for the Xbox One in Forza Motorsport 5, combining gorgeous visuals, forward-thinking technology, and the series-trademark focus on cars and car culture.

Massive zombie hordes and iterative feature improvements offer fun times in this Xbox One launch title, but Dead Rising 3 suffers from an uneven story and an increasingly pressing need to reinvent itself.

WB Montreal plays it safe with Batman: Arkham Origins, delivering a sequel that is true to the feel of its Rocksteady Studios-developed predecessors, but with some new stuff added in on top.

Every Nintendo fan's favorite plant-like alien strategy game returns in 'Pikmin 3,' a gorgeous update that improves on playability as much as it does on presentation.

Ubisoft Montreal brings it home in style with the action-packed third and final entry in its episodic alt-history DLC for Assassin's Creed 3, The Tyranny of King Washington.

In 'Fuse,' Insomniac Games delivers an uneven experience that leans heavily on tactically varied combat while overlooking the importance of building in the hooks necessary to invest players in a newly created fictional universe.

Techland gives the Call of Juarez series a much-needed shot of quality in Call of Juarez: Gunslinger, a download-only first-person shooter with an original approach to story and beautifully stylized graphics.

We go hands on with the "XCOM shooter," which was recently be revealed to be called 'The Bureau: XCOM: Declassified.' And even though the game is presented in a different way, the XCOM feeling remains intact.

Gearbox Software's latest downloadable character for Borderlands 2, the psycho Krieg, is fun to play with his new gameplay wrinkles micromanagement focus.

In Ubisoft's upcoming next-gen (and current gen) game 'Watch Dogs,' the "smart city" of Chicago is a veritable sea of information waiting to be unlocked and accessed. And you have the key.

Call of Duty: Ghosts will be released on November 5, 2013, with current-gen and next-gen releases planned on multiple platforms.

CCP Games closes out EVE FanFest 2013, and kicks off its second decade with news of a Dark Horse Comics partnership and a planned TV series.

The second day of EVE FanFest 2013 concludes with a forward-looking EVE Online-focused keynote and a surprise Oculus Rift reveal.

Image used with permission by copyright holder All of the recent teases were legit: 2K Games will release The Bureau: XCOM Declassified on August 20, 2013 for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC platforms. It’s the game that we’ve all been affectionately referring to as “the XCOM shooter” since it was first announced back in 2010. It’s […]

We run through some tips and tricks for surviving the four newly added multiplayer maps and Zombies content in the new 'Uprising' DLC for 'Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.'

Trion Worlds' Defiance is running smoothly now after a rocky launch week, and we've got some tips to help you pass quickly through your early hours in the post-apocalypse Bay Area.

TimeGate Studios offers Digital Trends a first look at Minimum, a free-to-play third-person competitive shooter with a beautifully minimal aesthetic coming to Steam on April 16

We spoke with Insomniac Games CEO and founder Ted Price for a final look at the upcoming four-player co-op game Fuse before it launches on May 28, 2013.

We take a first look at the return of the master thief Garrett and the steampunk Middle Ages noir of the City, in Eidos Montreal and Square Enix's in-development reinvention of 'Thief.'

We take a hands-on look at the Limbo-like aesthetics and play of Monochroma, an in-development puzzle-platforming game from the small team of Turkish developers at Nowhere Studios.

We take a close look at Gears of War: Judgment's campaign and multiplayer modes, with an eye toward giving newcomer players an edge.

We sit down to chat about the new Lara Croft, retroactive writing, Discworld, and gaming's dire need for more people to step up and champion strong narratives with Tomb Raider writer Rhianna Pratchett.

Maxis re-envisions it classic series for an online world in the newly re-tooled SimCity, which uses an always-online requirement to create the feeling that your creation lives within a larger world.