A group of American parents is seeking to sue several video game companies, alleging their children have been harmed by video game addiction. As reported by Bloomberg, one mother claims that her 14-year-old son has played such a quantity of video games over the last nine years that it has...
Arkane Austin, makers of 2023’s Redfall, and Tango Gameworks, developers of The Evil Within and 2022’s Ghostwire: Tokyo, are shut down. The two studios, subsidiaries of Microsoft-owned Bethesda Softworks, were shuttered on Tuesday along with two others according to an email sent by Matt Booty, the head of Xbox Game...
Arrowhead Game Studios, the maker of Helldivers 2, is responding creatively to the recent controversy roiling the game's fans which has resulted in large numbers of negative reviews left by users on the game's Steam page. It all stems from Sony Interactive Entertainment's decision — since aborted — to require...
A studio founded by the creator of State of Decay has closed, with its founder blaming leaks to the gaming press as the reason for its shuttering. Jeff Strain, who started Possibility Space in 2021, told all staff last week that the studio was shutting down immediately. That is per...
Sony on Monday published its regular look back at the most-downloaded video games to PlayStation for March, and it's a good snapshot of what shaped video gaming's conversation on the whole, not just for that console's audience, over the preceding month. There are breakout hits alongside long-tail mainstays, with sports...
Video game company Gameloft has announced plans to release a Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. Bringing together survival, life simulation and action RPG into one game for both PC and consoles, the unnamed Dungeons & Dragons project is the result of a new license between Gameloft and Wizards of the...
Rockstar Games, the developers behind the incredibly popular Grand Theft Auto franchise, have told staff that they are expected to be in the office five days per week starting in April, reports Bloomberg. A subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive, Rockstar announced in November 2023 that Grand Theft Auto 6 was on...
Electronic Arts, the video game titan better know as EA, is exploring new frontiers with a recently published patent that hints at the development of innovative game creation and marketplace software, according to a recent Game Rant report. This move could mark a significant shift in EA's approach to game...
As gamers we all want a cool-looking gaming space we can call our own, but what does that look like? A nice gaming chair? An adjustable gaming desk like one from Flexispot? Copious amounts of LEDs and lighting solutions like the ones from Nanoleaf? But how do we stand out...
The road to virtual reality just broadened this week: Samsung's Milk VR service, its virtual reality pipeline for VR videos and games, launched Gear Indie, a new channel for filmmakers to reach Gear VR headset users.The South Korean tech company is passionate about making virtual reality a consumer hit—obviously, with...
Anybody can build a game for the Ouya. A $99 console with an Android-based platform, Ouya takes the cheapness and ease of mobile gaming and brings it to the television.Just over a year ago, following an extremely successful Kickstarter that raised more than $9 million in funds, the first Ouya...
Mark this moment: Watching people play video games has become a big business, with Amazon, Google, Disney, and others vying for a piece of the action.Call it livestream gaming: Top players record themselves playing popular titles and delivering commentary—or compete against each other in big, live, arena-style events. By turning video...
Microsoft wants gamers build their own worlds—playable game worlds, in fact. Microsoft’s Project Spark, in open beta now for Windows 8 and the Xbox One, splices together a Minecraft-like sandbox with actual developer tools, enabling budding game makers to actually build a playable game from scratch with no technical know-how...
Irrational Games, the 17-year-old development arm behind the successful games Bioshock and Bioshock Infinite, will be reshaped into a new team within Take Two Interactive, according to Ken Levine, the company’s creative director and co-founder:While I’m deeply proud of what we’ve accomplished together, my passion has turned to making a...
Amazon might be working on a game console, after all. The online-retail giant on Thursday confirmed its purchase of Double Helix Games, the PC and console video-game maker behind Silent Hill Homecoming and the reboot of Killer Instinct for Xbox One, for an undisclosed amount of money. The deal “was for...
King.com’s Candy Crush Saga was the top free game—and top grossing game—in Apple’s App Store in 2013, so it makes sense for the company to protect its investment. Too bad it's descended to the legal equivalent of bullying.King filed a claim to the word “candy” as it pertains to video games...
Porting Your Game To Tizen YoYo Games have previously announced that they support Tizen in their GameMaker Studio Application. They are also offering you $60,000 in cash prizes. Today in an effort to help you get started in porting your Gamess to Tizen they have released an article, which will...
YoYo Games is offering $60,000 in cash prizes for your Tizen games! Here we have cash incentive by YoYo Games to Port your Applications to the Tizen Platform. Yes, you heard it right, more Cash incentives from a new competition called the Tizen Game Drive! For the duration of the...
After last week's Electronic Entertainment Expo, the console war drums are now beginning to beat in a frenzy. Microsoft and Sony have unveiled details of their next-generation video-game consoles, the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4.Which one should you buy? We have a radical proposal: neither.Gamers can save themselves both...
YoYo Games announces that GameMaker: Studio will support publishing to the Tizen Store and other Tizen-based platforms in time for launch later this year. With GameMaker: Studio for Tizen, developers will be able to export their newly-created and pre-existing games as a Tizen Store-ready application from a single code base...
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