Mafia III infuses the open-world, third-person action of GTA with a charged setting and a strategic metagame that aim to make it a cinematic adventure.
| News | June 24, 2016 |
We were impressed by God of War. Barlog and his team have taken an thoughtful approach to the series' reinvention, and have made something fresh and modern.
| Reviews | June 16, 2016 |
Against the backdrop of a violent shooting tragedy in Orlando, E3's annual parade of violent games takes on new meaning.
| News | June 16, 2016 |
South Park and Ubisoft are teaming up again for a follow-up to 2014's 'Stick of Truth," this time skewering superheroes with 'The Fractured but Whole.'
| News | June 14, 2016 |
A Gamestop promotional poster for Injustice 2, an anticipated sequel to NetherRealm Studio's DC superheroes/supervillains fighting game, has been leaked.
| News | June 10, 2016 |
Blizzard has taken a no-nonsense stance on cheating in its new team shooter Overwatch, banning over 1500 Chinese players in the week since launch.
| News | June 7, 2016 |
Join Digital Trends' Will Fulton playing Blizzard's newly-released hero shooter, Overwatch, on Twitch at 1pm EST.
| News | June 7, 2016 |
Horizon Zero Dawn, Guerrilla Games' post-post-apocalyptic, third-person action RPG, has been delayed from its original 2016 release to February 2017.
| News | June 6, 2016 |
A team of computer science researchers has shown that levels in Super Mario Bros. can be as tough to solve as some of the most complex math problems.
| News | June 2, 2016 |
After an awkward breakup with Konami, Metal Gear Solid auteur Hideo Kojima is done with big studios, and wants to keep his new team around 100 people.
| News | May 23, 2016 |
Stellaris is Paradox Interactive's grand strategy take on galactic 4X. Join DT's Will Fulton on Twitch at 1 p.m. EST as we try and conquer the galaxy.
| News | May 12, 2016 |
Civilization VI will deepen the game's already sophisticated gameplay mechanics with cities that spread over multiple tiles, research that ties to other activities in the game, more consistent AI players, and much more.
| News | May 11, 2016 |
A leaked promotional image for the next Battlefield game suggests that the series is bucking the genre's futurist trends by going back to WWI.
| News | May 6, 2016 |
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered will only be sold as part of special edition bundles of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare when it launches in November.
| News | May 3, 2016 |
Call of Duty blasts off into space with Infinite Warfare, coming this November from series originator Infinity Ward, alongside a remastered Modern Warfare.
| News | May 3, 2016 |
Codenames, the number-one party game on BoardGameGeek from Vlaada Chvátil, is coming to mobile platforms, developed by publisher Czech Games Edition.
| News | May 2, 2016 |
Stardew Valley has a major new content update in the works, in addition to the promise of co-op multiplayer, and ports for Mac, Linux, and consoles.
| News | May 2, 2016 |
Long War Studios is creating five more official mods for XCOM 2, the first of which is available today.
| News | April 29, 2016 |
A body was found in a conference room of Apple's Cupertino HQ. No identification has yet been given, but early reports suggest a suicide.
| Apple | April 29, 2016 |
Pocket Racing uses custom, actuated toy cars to seamlessly blend real-world play with a digital racing game for Android and iOs tablets.
| News | April 18, 2016 |
CBS and Interlude have signed on BioShock creator Ken Levine to write and direct an interactive take on the classic anthology series, The Twilight Zone.
| News | April 18, 2016 |
Nintendo has revealed the first fruits of its partnership with mobile developer DeNA: a social communication app called Miitomo, scheduled for March 2016.
| Gaming | April 8, 2016 |
Journalists at the Toronto Star have created a browser-based newsgame in order to teach people about the tax evasion practices exposed by the Panama Papers.
| News | April 6, 2016 |
Dutch start-up Manus wants you to reach out and touch the virtual, and the experience is certainly unique. But can its gloves nudge users towards suspending disbelief?
| Reviews | April 4, 2016 |
A preview of the long-promised Xbox Developer Mode is available today, allowing anyone to turn a retail Xbox One console into a developer kit.
| News | March 30, 2016 |
Fallout 4's long-promised Survival Mode substantially amps up the challenge and immersion, and is available now in beta to anyone playing through Steam.
| News | March 29, 2016 |
We went hands-on with Below, the long-anticipated roguelike from Sword & Sworcery developer Capy Games, to plumb its punishing depths.
| Reviews | March 24, 2016 |
Whispers of the Old Gods, the upcoming third expansion for Hearthstone, will add 134 new cards full of Lovecraftian flavor in late April/early May.
| News | March 11, 2016 |
A team at Google has cracked one of the longest-standing challenges in AI and defeated a professional player of the ancient Chinese board game Go.
| News | March 11, 2016 |
XCOM 2's first DLC, Anarchy's Children, arrives on March 17, adding a whole host of new soldier customization options for your scrappy, ragtag guerrillas.
| News | March 9, 2016 |
Microsoft has shut down two of its European Studios, Lionhead and Press Play, ceasing development on Fable Legends and Project Knoxville along with them.
| News | March 7, 2016 |
Leading computer hardware manufacturer Lenovo has partnered with indie studio Dark Rift and over 10,000 gamers to make a crowdsourced indie game.
| Features | February 18, 2016 |
Bethesda has finally released details on the first three major DLC expansions for Fallout 4, promising personal robots, new settlement options, and more.
| News | February 16, 2016 |
Some clever gamers have found an alternate ending to Far Cry 4 that can be completed in under fifteen minutes without touching a single weapon.
| News | February 16, 2016 |