It’s an open, open, open, open world as Assassin’s Creed and Middle-earth dominate
Middle-earth: Shadow of War stood tallest in a month of big games, according to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group. Assassin’s Creed: Origins was just...
October 2017 NPD: Middle-earth: Shadow of War emerges with the One Ring (of top sales)
Middle-earth and ancient Egypt were popular destinations last month as Monolith Productions’ Middle-earth: Shadow of War and Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed: Origins reached No. 1 and 2 respectively on...
NCSoft will shut servers for MXM MOBA in January, just months after June launch
NCSoft created MXM (Master X Master) as a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game to take on Riot Games’ League of Legends. And it...
While gamers ask for loot-box regulation, Trump’s FCC plans to deregulate net neutrality
According to the discourse surrounding the core gaming scene right now, loot boxes and similar business models are the greatest threat to interactive entertainment....
Vivendi says it won’t make hostile takeover bid for Ubisoft in near-term
Media conglomerate Vivendi spent perhaps $683 million acquiring about a quarter of the stock of French video game publisher Ubisoft over the past year...
Overwatch’s new healer Moira is live
Overwatch's 26th character, Moira, is now live. Overwatch has over 35 million players on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. The team-based shooter adds new heroes and maps at a steady rate for free to keep its players engaged.
Dead by Daylight slashes its way to more than 3 million in sales
Publisher Starbreeze and developer Behaviour Digital announced today that they’ve sold more than 3 million copies of their multiplayer horror game, Dead by Daylight. Dead...
Gunfire Games: Coming home to Darksiders after a whole lot of pain and grief
Presented by Intel At the end of 2012, publisher THQ declared bankruptcy, beginning the painful process of liquidating its assets. These included Vigil Games,...
CloudGate’s Virtual Self turns Vive Trackers into full-body motion capture devices
When game developer CloudGate Studio got its hands on HTC Vive Tracker peripherals earlier this year, it led to players kicking dinosaurs in virtual reality. It...
I played way too much Skyrim this week because it’s on the Switch
The Nintendo Switch has had a strong first year with incredible new releases like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Super Mario...