Destiny awaits! Bungie.net updates to incorporate other platforms to the Halo creator’s network

Halo creator Bungie has updated its web network to incorporate services other than Microsoft for the first time. Facebook, Google, and PlayStation Network accounts can now be used to access the site. What does it mean for Destiny?

News         September 23, 2014

Bungie’s Destiny “not included” in 2013 according to Activision Blizzard brass

Many details about Bungie's long-awaited follow up to the Halo series came out in 2012, but it appears that Destiny will miss its proposed 2013 release date.

News         September 23, 2014

Destiny Meets The Beatles: Bungie working with Paul McCartney on new Activision shooter

Halo studio Bungie has called in some very specialized talent to work on its new MMO shooter series "Destiny." Paul McCartney is on board.

News         September 23, 2014

Telltale Games: The Walking Dead Season 2 will use your Season 1 save file

One month after Telltale Games released the last episode of its video game of The Walking Dead, the company is starting to share details about the second season of the game. The good news: Your choices from Season 1 will still matter.

News         September 2, 2014

Oddworld Inhabitants is reborn for the PS4! But maybe not Microsoft’s new Xbox…

The PlayStation 4 is a big part of Oddworld Inhabitant's future but the once Xbox-exclusive studio has no idea what Microsoft's new console might be.

News         July 31, 2014

‘Murdered: Soul Suspect’ preview: Square sends off PS3 and 360 with a stylish mystery

Airtight Games and Square-Enix have been plugging away on horror noir 'Murdered: Soul Suspect' for years now, and the 2014 game is looking promising indeed.

Reviews         June 10, 2014

The group that hosts E3 is heading back to school with the E3 College Game Competition

E3 2013 will debut myriad next-gen console games but it will also mark the debut of a few next-gen game designers thanks to the ESA College Game Competition.

News         May 29, 2014

Nintendo cancels its E3 press conference

Highs like the first Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess trailer and terrifying lows of Wii Music demos are over, as Nintendo is skipping its E3 press conference.

News         May 29, 2014

Microsoft keeps the Xbox 360 with new games and a redesigned console

Microsoft made sure its audience remembered the old Xbox 360 at E3 2013, trotting out new games like a consolized World of Tanks and a redesigned console.

News         May 29, 2014

Electronic Arts unveils its PlayStation 4 and Xbox One army with 11 games

Electronic Arts was focused on one thing at E3 2013: Next-gen consoles. The company didn't mention any of its mobile, social, or free-to-play PC titles, opting only for Xbox One and PS4.

News         May 29, 2014

‘The Walking Dead: 400 Days’ coming to PS Vita this summer

Still chomping at the bit for more of Telltale Games riveting The Walking Dead adventure series? Season 2 is on the way but you can play a sidestory on PS Vita this summer.

News         May 29, 2014

Sony’s boxy new PS4 will play used games, cost $100 less than Xbox One

After withholding details from its early PlayStation 4 teaser, Sony released full details at E3 2013 – including a bombshell price that undercuts Microsoft's Xbox One by $100.

Guides         May 29, 2014

Square-Enix thrills old-school fans with ‘Final Fantasy XV’ and ‘Kingdom Hearts III’ on PS4

Square-Enix brought two long-awaited, long-delayed sequels to Sony's PlayStation 4 at E3 2013. Final Fantasy XV is joined by Kingdom Hearts III on Sony's new console.

News         May 29, 2014

Hands-on with ‘The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds’: A familiar world reinvented

The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds is a direct sequel to the legendary Super Nintendo game A Link to the Past, but despite a similar look it's very different.

Reviews         May 29, 2014

‘Pac-man and the Ghostly Adventures’ preview: Wakka wakka wakka

Pac-man returned to form in Pac-man Championship, but now Namco's getting experimental again with the 3D platformer 'Pac-man and the Ghostly Adventures.'

Reviews         May 29, 2014

‘Super Mario 3D World’ preview: Princess Peach rejoins the party

Super Mario 3D World seeks to save the Nintendo Wii U in the same way that Super Mario 3D Land rescued the Nintendo 3DS.

Reviews         May 29, 2014

‘DayZ’ preview: The great hope of zombie games shambles to life as a standalone

DayZ, the new zombie survival simulator based on the popular ArmA 2 mod from 2012, came to E3 2013 in a rough early build, but even now the game shows promise.

Reviews         May 29, 2014

‘Sonic Lost World’ preview: Sega’s blue mascot is the unlikely savior of Nintendo’s E3

Sonic's been appearing on Nintendo consoles for over a decade now but Sonic Lost World may be the first time Sega's old mascot is looking better than Nintendo's own titles.

Reviews         May 29, 2014

So ‘Diablo III’ apparently drove our writer insane

The PlayStation 3 version of Diablo 3 proves to be brilliantly immediate, feeling like it was meant for the speed and maneuverability of a controller all along.

Reviews         May 29, 2014

E3 2012: Electronic Arts brings new engine and story-centric career mode to Madden NFL 2013

With a slow-growing, disgruntled fan base, EA's Madden NFL has never needed a shake up more. The publisher talked change at E3 2012, but can it deliver?

News         May 29, 2014

Jetsetter E3 edition: The PlayStation 4 may not hit Japan in 2013

This week in Jetsetter, Sony's Shuhei Yoshida says that the PlayStation 4's 2013 world tour may not make it all the way around the globe, with the new console skipping Japan.

News         May 29, 2014

E3 2012: Injustice: Gods Among Us brings NetherRealm’s rock solid style but not its humor to the DC Universe

NetherRealm follows up Mortal Kombat 9 with Injustice: Gods Among Us at E3 2012. The game looks good, but its lacking the satirical flair that made the last NetherRealm fighter so memorable.

News         May 29, 2014

‘Ground Zeroes’ and ‘The Phantom Pain’ are one and the same; Kojima debuts ‘Metal Gear Solid V’

Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain are the same Kojima Productions game, the newly announced Metal Gear Solid V that debuted at GDC 2013.

News         March 31, 2014

Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes may not release due to “risky” themes

Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid series is no stranger to controversy but Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes may be so risque that it won't see release.

News         March 31, 2014

Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes could herald a new way of making games

Hideo Kojima thinks that television-style pilots could change the economics of game development. What does that mean for Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes?

News         March 31, 2014

‘Dark Souls II’ preview: You will die in several new, and very pretty ways

Director Yui Tanemura guided Digital Trends through a short demo of Dark Souls II and discussed how he wants players to enjoy dying again and again.

Reviews         March 19, 2014

Human Head: Pester Bethesda if you want to play Prey 2

Bethesda finally published a hit outside The Elder Scrolls series this year when it released Dishonored. Now people are wondering what happened to its other promising original, Prey 2. Developer Human Head says to ask the publisher for news.

News         March 7, 2014

South Park: The Stick of Truth rights go up for auction in THQ’s fire sale

THQ is selling off its remaining assets on Tuesday, including the publishing rights to South Park: The Stick of Truth. South Park's creators are none too happy about it and are looking to block the sale.

News         March 4, 2014

The 10 best import games coming in 2014

The year 2014 has gotten off to a slow start in the world of video games, but there's plenty of greatness on the horizon, including a number of killer games not likely to hit the US this year.

Guides         February 23, 2014

Jetsetter: Microsoft refuses to give up on Japan, even after Japan gave up on it

This week in Jetsetter, we look back on Microsoft's history in the Japanese console market. The company's only sold around 3 million consoles in the country over 12 years, but it just keeps trying.

News         January 19, 2014

The Unity engine continues it march towards world domination, this time via the next-gen consoles

The Unity Engine is becoming the development platform of choice for many indie studios, as the tech spreads to new platforms like Sony's PS Vita and PlayStation 4.

News         January 16, 2014

Jetsetter: Have we learned nothing from Final Fantasy’s terrible numbering?

This week in Jetsetter, we look at Inazuma Eleven and the double-edged sword of when a traditionally import-only series finally makes the jump to the US.

News         January 13, 2014

Jetsetter: Another British racing dev fades as Burnout Paradise studio loses founders

This week in Jetsetter, we mourn the erosion of one of Britain's greatest racing game developers. Criterion Games, the developer of Burnout Paradise, isn't dead but it's close.

News         January 5, 2014

Jetsetter: Resident Evil is dead, long live Resident Evil

This week in Jetsetter, we look at how one of Japan's most storied developers can keep one of its longest-running series thriving long into the future.

News         December 27, 2013