Iron Maiden: Legacy of the Beast turns iconic metal band’s mascot into a mobile gaming star
Few bands could probably inspire a mobile role-playing game, but Iron Maiden has always been special. Since forming in 1975, the heavy metal group...
How Bruce Shelley brought a board gamer’s view into designing Civilization
Before he worked on Civilization with legendary game designer Sid Meier, Bruce Shelley was a board game designer at companies such as Avalon Hill....
Mobile virtual reality on track to hit $861M in revenues this year
You’re going to need a big ol’ pile of cash if you want to get into high-end virtual reality on the PC, but that...
Bandai Namco brings permadeath dungeon crawler Necropolis to consoles
andai Namco Entertainment America has teamed up with Jordan Weisman’s Harebrained Schemes to bring Necropolis, a permadeath dungeon-action game, to home gaming consoles. Longtime game creator Weisman,...
Virtual reality hype runs amok at MWC 2016, as mobile industry crowds onto bandwagon
BARCELONA, Spain — In the search for new ways to grow, the mobile industry is placing a large stack of chips on virtual reality,...
Finland’s PlayRaven launches Robocide ‘micro real-time strategy’ mobile game
PlayRaven announced today that it has released its Robocide free-to-play mobile game today as part of an effort to expand the genres of the PC...
Naughty Dog and Sony issue a new Uncharted 4 trailer without Ubisoft’s imagery
Sony and Naughty Dog dealt with a major goof with their otherwise brilliant Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End story trailer released today. Ubisoft’s Azaïzia Aymar noticed...
After spending $32M, World of Tanks developer Wargaming is still figuring out esports
AMSTERDAM — If you spend millions of dollars on something, you would hope that you know exactly what that something is. But that was not the...
Fire Emblem: Fates’ sales cement Nintendo’s strategy series as a retail hit in the West
It took a few decades, but Fire Emblem is no longer one of Nintendo’s third-stringers. Fire Emblem: Fates, the latest entry in Nintendo’s tactical fantasy...
Uncharted 4’s newest trailer underscores the importance of story [update]
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End’s newest story trailer is all about a dramatic choice that adventurer Nathan Drake faces in the what could be...