Overwatch’s Symmetra is getting a second ultimate to make her more viable
Symmetra players no longer have to settle for throwing up a teleporter when it will do little to help your team. Publisher Blizzard Entertainment...
December 2016 Xbox Live Games With Gold: Burnout Paradise, Sleeping Dogs, and more
It’s an outstanding month for the Games With Gold service on Xbox Live as Microsoft is giving players a chance to play one of the...
Gaming veteran Chris Taylor leaves Wargaming to start independent studio (update)
Chris Taylor, one of PC gaming’s well-known game designers, has left World of Tanks publisher Wargaming to strike out on his own. The move...
Path of Exile’s December 2 update will send its players into the Breach
Path of Exile’s next update will tear the fabric of reality — but not the leather of your wallet. Grinding Gear Games will launch...
Overwatch’s 1-on-1 Arcade mode makes Blizzard’s team shooter feel like Street Fighter
Blizzard launched a major update for Overwatch last week, and it has made what was already one of the best games of the year...
Watch Dogs 2 sales lagging, Ubisoft acknowledges
Many fans claimed that the original Watch Dogs unfairly sold itself with misleading trailers, and that may be costing Watch Dogs 2. After Eurogamer...
Halo studio chief leaves 343 Industries for indie game development
343 Industries studio head of FPS development Joshua Holmes has stepped down from his position as director of the Halo developer, the company announced today. Holmes is leaving behind the blockbuster publishing industry to make games on his own as an independent developer.
Phantogeist is a first-person shooter that makes AR a social experience
The first-person shooter Phantogeist has debuted as a social augmented reality game on Google Tango. In this game from Chicago-based Trixi Studios, a friendly alien helps...
NBA 2K shoots for VR on November 22
Come on and slam, and welcome to the VR jam. 2K has announced NBA 2KVR Experience, a basketball virtual reality game for PlayStation VR, HTC Vive, and Samsung Gear VR. This first sports VR game from the publisher will come out on November 22 for $15.
The brothers who started Vicarious Visions have created a new game studio
Game industry veterans Guha and Karthik Bala have formed a new independent game studio called Velan Studios in New York. The Bala brothers are best...