The Witcher 3’s Gwent card game launches closed beta test
You no longer have to traverse wyvern-invested lands to find a game of Gwent. The PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC can now bring...
Shooter veterans form VR game studio Drifter Entertainment
Three veterans of first-person shooter games have formed Drifter Entertainment, a Seattle-based virtual reality game studio. The founders include Ray Davis, Kenneth Scott, and Brian Murphy....
Why Watch Dogs 2 creators chose to focus on San Francisco’s hacktivism
When Dominic Guay started working on Watch Dogs more than eight years ago, his mandate was to create a new brand for Ubisoft. The...
Amazon opens a new game engine team location in Austin
When one company sunsets in the game business, another one rises. That’s my interpretation of Amazon’s decision to open a new location for its...
World of Warcraft: Legion’s biggest patch yet is now live
The biggest massively multiplayer online game in the market is getting a ton of new content today. World of Warcraft’s 7.1 patch is now...
Ghost Invasion is a HoloLens game that turns you into a ghostbuster
The HoloLens is still a few years off from becoming a consumer product, but some developers are testing out the device’s gaming capabilities right now....
Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs 2 game director tells us how to take on the surveillance state
Watch Dogs 2 is an open world game about hacktivists taking on the smart city of San Francisco. Its anti-hero is Marcus Holloway, a...
Pokémon Go’s first in-game event celebrates Halloween
Developer Niantic has revealed the first holiday event for Pokémon Go, its hit mobile game. Pokémon Go is one of the biggest hits in...
Robinson: The Journey tests VR gaming’s $60 price barrier
We’ve been looking forward to Robinson: The Journey for a long time. The game, which is all about close encounters with dinosaurs, is positioned to...
Microsoft on Xbox One Scorpio: ‘the only console’ that can do ‘true 4K’ and ‘hi-fidelity VR’
Don’t let anyone tell you the console wars aren’t alive and well. For the most part, the two leading game consoles in 2016 (the...