Double Fine's second Kickstarter campaign closes at $1.2 million, nearly double its funding goal. 'Massive Chalice' is said to blend 'XCOM,' 'Fire Emblem,' 'FF Tactics,' and 'Game of Thrones' in a generation-spanning strategy game.
| News | June 28, 2013 |
The $99 Android console hits store shelves today across North America and the U.K. But some of the units owed to those who funded the device on Kickstarter have not yet arrived, prompting an apology from Ouya CEO Julie Uhrman.
| Guides | June 27, 2013 |
SugarDVD bills itself as similar to Netflix, but for porn. For a fee of $7.95 per month, subscribers are now able to access to thousands adult videos directly on their Ouya console.
| News | June 27, 2013 |
Microsoft second-gen Kinect that ships with Xbox One won't be compatible with Windows PCs. Software developers will need a separate Kinect for Windows device, and early SDK access applications for that are now open.
| News | June 27, 2013 |
Nvidia pushes the release of its Shield gaming device back from June 27, 2013 into an unspecified July date, citing a "mechanical issue" discovered during quality testing as the cause.
| News | June 27, 2013 |
The last Crackdown game was 'Crackdown 2' in 2010, but a symbol from the game appeared briefly during the Xbox One announcement. Nothing appeared at E3, but Microsoft's Phil Spencer now confirms that the franchise is not dead.
| News | June 26, 2013 |
Microsoft confirms that the Xbox One ships with no headset, and that console users will instead be able to make use of the new Kinect camera's powerful microphone and noise filtering capabilities.
| News | June 26, 2013 |
Australia's Classification Board refuses to assign a rating to 'Saints Row IV,' effectively banning the game's release in the country. This marks the first ban in Australia since the introduction of the R18+ rating.
| News | June 25, 2013 |
Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima is interested in finding a developer to remake 1998's 'Metal Gear Solid' using Kojima Productions' Fox Engine, the same middleware powering the upcoming 'Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain'.
| News | June 25, 2013 |
Sony attempts to trump Microsoft once more after revealing that it has 30 PlayStation 4 exclusives in development. Twenty of those will arrive in the console's first year, and 12 of those are brand new IPs.
| News | June 24, 2013 |
Original Madden creator Robin Antonick won a small, but significant victory in his case against EA, which he claims owes him royalties on all Madden games released between now and 1986.
| News | June 24, 2013 |
'Beyond: Two Souls' star Ellen Page seems miffed that the character Ellie in Naughty Dog's 'The Last of Us' apparently resembles her. She addressed that resemblance in a recent Reddit AMA.
| News | June 24, 2013 |
EA Sports confirms that NBA Live 14 is exclusive to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One console. The game's executive producer outlines some new features that he hopes will help compete with the NBA 2K series.
| News | June 21, 2013 |
The "Games with Gold" program that Microsoft revealed during E3 starts with Fable 3, available for free until the end of the month to Gold subscribers. After that a new game will be free for a limited time on the 1st and 16th of every month.
| News | June 21, 2013 |
Electronic Arts re-confirms that the company has no plans to revive its Online Pass system in light of Microsoft's license transfer policy changes from earlier this week.
| News | June 20, 2013 |
Key executives from Ubisoft and Electronic Arts cite the low sales numbers for the Wii U as the main reason for their flagging third-party support of Nintendo's latest gaming console.
| News | June 19, 2013 |
Sony released a video showing off the PS4's interface that also shows a user telling the console to download the multiplayer portion of 'Killzone: Shadow Fall' before the single player version. It's unclear if all games have this option. The video also shows off some messaging and sharing capabilities.
| News | June 19, 2013 |
The state of Rhode Island sets a plan in motion that will see the $89 million loan debt left behind by the now-defunct 38 Studios paid back over a period of years.
| News | June 19, 2013 |
GameStop says demand is high for Microsoft's new Xbox One console and that brick-and-mortar stores nationwide are sold out on pre-orders, though PlayStation 4 pre-orders continue to be available.
| Guides | June 19, 2013 |
Several lines of code discovered in Valve Corporation's latest beta update for the Steam client suggests that a game-sharing feature may soon be implemented for users of the service.
| Guides | June 19, 2013 |
The third downloadable content expansion for 'Black Ops 2' is out on July 2 with four new multiplayer maps and one new Zombies level. As usual, the Vengeance DLC launches first on Xbox 360, with other platforms to follow.
| News | June 18, 2013 |
For the first time in over two years, the Xbox 360 is not the best-selling console, according to NPD's May 2013 sales charts. Instead, the Nintendo 3DS takes the top spot, something that few would have predicted just one year ago.
| News | June 18, 2013 |
Square Enix-owned IO Interactive is hit with "significant changes," including layoffs and game cancellations. The studio's new and sole focus is on the Hitman series, with a "triple-A Hitman project" current in development.
| News | June 18, 2013 |
EA Games Label head Patrick Söderlund revealed at E3 that Dead Space as a franchise is not dead. That said, 'Dead Space 4' is not currently in development, as Visceral is working on a passion project.
| News | June 17, 2013 |
Ubisoft''Tom Clancy's The Division' is scheduled for release next year on next-gen consoles, but not everyone is happy with the company's choice of platforms. A petition to get the game released on PC as well is gaining steam.
| News | June 17, 2013 |
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot tells Kotaku that there are three 'Assassin's Creed' games in development right now. The company hopes to continue to avoid franchise fatigue by giving its studios the time and freedom to innovate within the series.
| News | June 17, 2013 |
The studio behind the last two 'Medal of Honor' games, including the failed 'Medal of Honor: Warfighter,' is dissolved, EA confirmed at E3.
| News | June 14, 2013 |
Amazon aims to help independent game developers get exposure while providing consumers a hub on which to find new games with the new Indie Games Store category of its digital download marketplace.
| News | June 7, 2013 |
'Recover the Diaoyu Islands' is a browser game published by one of China's most prolific nationalist newspapers, the Global Times. In it, players board a People's Liberation Army ship and dodge attacks from Japanese opponents while launching bombs to defeat them.
| Guides | June 7, 2013 |
'24' star Kiefer Sutherland provides voice acting and facial motion capture for the next 'Metal Gear Solid' title. Series creator Hideo Kojima says he wanted a more subtle performance to match the game's 'darker' tones of race and revenge.
| Reviews | June 7, 2013 |
A New Zealand man chooses jail over Xbox when he calls police and threatens to break his house arrest 10 months in if they don't cart him off to prison. The police happily complied.
| News | June 6, 2013 |
Blizzard's console version of Diablo 3 will appear on Xbox 360 as well as PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4. The console version of the game was previously announced only for the PlayStation consoles.
| News | June 6, 2013 |
Sony has been touting the PlayStation 4's ability to play games as they download. Now the feature will sneak into at least one PS3 game, 'The Last of Us,' before the release of the PS4.
| Guides | June 5, 2013 |
Sony company did not announce pricing details for the PS4, but did reveal that unlike with the PS3, it does not plan to take a big hit on hardware sales at the console's launch. The manufacturer also posted a profit this year after a record loss the year before.
| News | June 5, 2013 |