7 years as king of the hill — Call of Duty is again the top-selling game of the year
Call of Duty is continuing its unprecedented run at the top of the gaming charts. For the seventh year in a row, Activision’s shooter...
2015 NPD: The 10 best-selling games of the year
2015 is over, and it’s time to count the money the gaming industry made. New video games sold at U.S. retailers made $13.1 billion for...
December 2015 NPD: Call of Duty, Star Wars, Fallout end the year strong
December was strong for some of the year’s biggest releases. New video games sold at U.S. retailers made $3.22 billion last month, according to...
Super Mario Maker surpasses 1M copies sold in the U.S.
Nintendo’s little plumber still makes big bucks. The publisher confirmed to GamesBeat that Super Mario Maker has surpassed 1 million copies sold in the...
PlayStation 4 outsold Xbox One in December
Sony Computer Entertainment ended 2015 with a strong sales performance — and another chance to tout its PlayStation 4’s success over Microsoft’s Xbox One. The...
Warhammer 40K makes Talisman: The Horus Heresy a true digital board game
Talisman is evolving, and it’s up to one small studio in Great Britain to oversee its metamorphosis. Nomad Games unveiled its next game last...
Elite: Dangerous sells 1.4 million copies on Xbox One and PC
It looks like gamers are anxious to get to space. Frontier Developments said today that Elite: Dangerous, a space sim that re-creates the Milky Way galaxy to a 1-to-1 scale, has sold 1.4 million copies. It’s available for Xbox One and PC.
Twitch is playing one of those claw machine games — and it’s so frustrating
Those claw machines are impossible. You can line them up perfectly on the exact stuffed teddy bear that you want, but the mechanism never...
HoloLens video schools developers on what they’ll ‘need to know’
Hardware is going through the first phase of a shift from desktops and smartphones to, maybe, virtual and augmented reality. And Microsoft wants to...
Ex-Call of Duty developer acquires Denial esports team
Every one wants to get in the esports game. Robert Bowling, formerly a lead on the Call of Duty franchise at Infinity Ward, has backed the esports team Denial, which won $400,000 in first-place prize money at the 2015 Call of Duty World Champions.