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December 7, 2018

Epic Launches Digital Games Store with 88 Percent Revenue Going to Developers

Epic Games, developer of titles like Fortnite, the first Gears of War trilogy, and Unreal Tournament, has announced the creation of a new digital PC store that hopes to compete with Steam by offering an unprecedented 88% revenue split for …

December 7, 2018

The Game Awards 2018: All the Announcements and Trailers

This week’s Game Awards 2018 not only celebrated the best games released this year but was chalk full of news and exciting announcements.…

December 7, 2018

Fortnite Getting Creative Mode

Fortnite has a new free creative mode that lets players make, share, and play in their own islands.  Epic announced that creative mode will launch on December 13.…

December 7, 2018

What Reviewers Are Saying About the New Videogame Battlefield 5

One consistent theme for reviewers of Battlefield 5 was that the game was not quite ready for prime time.…

December 18, 2018

Epic Will Let Other Game Developers Use Fortnite’s Cross-platform Tools for Free 

Epic Games announced this week it’s opening up the underlying software infrastructure and tools used to run its cross-platform hit Fortnite to other game developers for free.…

December 18, 2018

Overwatch’s Winter Wonderland Event is Now Live 

It’s that time of year again — Blizzard Entertainment has activated its annual Winter Wonderland event in Overwatch thru Jan 2, 2019.…

December 18, 2018

South Korea Criminalizes ‘boosting’ with New Law 

Boosting — basically one person playing on another’s account to rank them up — is going to be a criminal offense in South Korea with some stiff punishments awaiting the booster.  

December 18, 2018

The Game Awards 2018 

With over 26 million people streaming The Game Awards, the awards also has become an event with reveals.…

December 21, 2018

Fortnite Keeps Stealing Dances – and No One knows if It’s Illegal

Epic Games’ Fortnite is the biggest game on the planet right now, but one of its biggest sources of revenue — the ubiquitous dance “emotes”…

December 21, 2018

Ezio Auditore And Others Join For Honor

Ubisoft has revealed that it is in fact Ezio Auditore, famed assassin from the Assassin’s Creed 2 trilogy, is one of many Assassins Creed characters coming to For Honor for an Animus crossover event…

December 21, 2018

Halo Infinite Early Access Details Emerge in Developer Livestream

Fans will get the chance to play the game before its official release and even help influence the development process. 

December 21, 2018

Valve’s Artifact Gets Surprise First Patch, with More to Come

Artifact, Valve’s Dota-based card game, has finally received its first balance patch.…

December 28, 2018

PS4 PlayStation Plus Games for January 2019 Announced

PS4 owners can pick up Steep, an extreme sports game from Ubisoft that lets you ski, snowboard, and glide in a wing suit to go from a mountain’s snowy peaks to its powdery base.…

December 28, 2018

The UK Chart Christmas No.1 is Red Dead Redemption 2  

The final update of the UK’s high-street retailer charts is now live and, as predicted, Rockstar’s epic western adventure Red Dead Redemption 2 is this year’s Christmas number one.…

December 28, 2018

The Walking Dead: The Final Season Will Be Exclusive to the Epic Games Store, But Only for New Buyers

Following the abrupt closure of Telltale Games and the subsequent resurrection of its Walking Dead series by Skybound Games, the third episode of The Walking Dead: The Final Season is now scheduled to release on January 15, 2019.…

December 28, 2018

Sims Creator Will Wright Teaches Game Design Via MasterClass

Famed game developer Will Wright is teaching a massive class on games…

January 4, 2019

Marvel License for Their First Game  

Second Dinner is a team that’s made up of ex-Blizzard employees, all of whom worked on Hearthstone — including Hearthstone’s former director Ben Brode.…

January 4, 2019

Bunch Looks to Score with Video Chat for Mobile Games

Bunch is a group video chat app that makes it easy for people to socialize while playing games on their smartphones.…

January 4, 2019

South Korean Mobile Gaming Giant Nexon is Going Up for Sale

South Korean mobile game publisher Nexon has suddenly announced that it is preparing to put itself on the market.…

January 4, 2019

Japan Bans Graymarket Key Reselling

Japan is cracking down on unauthorized key reselling. This new legislature significantly impacts companies like the Hong Kong-based G2A who acts as the middleman for people looking to sell spare game keys.…