Celebrate the Fourth of July with video game fireworks
It’s Independence Day in the United States, and we are celebrating the only way we know how: eating and drinking too much while an...
RetroBeat: Day of the Tentacle is my favorite patriotic game
Day of the Tentacle is a wacky PC point-and-click adventure game from 1993. It’s about a trio of teenagers who have to save the...
Skyrim director Todd Howard: Why triple-A games are better when you don’t play it safe
Todd Howard is racking up the awards, the latest being the Industry Legend honor at the Gamelab event in Barcelona. And it’s with good reason,...
Ubisoft is finished with ‘finite experiences’
Your experience with Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege never has to end, and Ubisoft is looking to bring that ongoing, long-lasting relationship to all...
Google’s DeepMind taught AI teamwork by playing Quake III Arena
Google's DeepMind today shared the results of training multiple AI systems to play Capture the Flag on Quake III Arena, a multiplayer first-person shooter game. The AI played nearly 450,000 games to gain its dominance over human players and establish its understanding of how to work with other machines and humans.
Rocket League celebrates its past with 3rd-anniversary event
Rocket League is approaching its third anniversary, and developer Psyonix is planning a celebration of the vehicular soccer game that debuted summer 2015. The...
Semblance squishes onto PC and Switch on July 24
Nyamakop’s jiggly platformer Semblance has been bouncing around the festival circuit, picking up the Excellence in Game Design Award at BitSummit in Japan and...
Shenmue I & II launch on August 21 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC
Sega announced today that the Shenmue I & II remasters will be available on August 21 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Both games...
PlayStation VR gets two Chinese horror games: 18 Floors and The Walker
Winking Entertainment today announced the PlayStation Store releases of 18 Floors and The Walker for PlayStation VR, each with its own creepy take on Chinese folklore horror.
Funko is serving up Mega Man and Cuphead cereals
Funko, the company behind all of those miniature character figures via its Pop brand, is making cereals (Funko’s) based on Mega Man and Cuphead....