Mad Catz designed the R.A.T. 1 gaming mouse to break apart (CES video)
Gaming accessories maker Mad Catz hopes you’ll take apart their new mouse. We stopped by to chat with the company’s global public relations lead, Alex...
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 gets a public beta on January 14
If you’re a plant-hating zombie, or vice versa, mark your calendar. Developer PopCap Vancouver announced today that its upcoming team-based shooter, Plants vs. Zombies:...
Twitch has to beat Punch Club before the fighting sim releases on Steam
Twitch users have played (and beaten) a lot of video games together — like Pokémon Red and Dark Souls — and now they’re playing a game before...
Palmer Luckey apologizes for Oculus Rift pricing: ‘I handled the messaging poorly’
Today was a historic day for Facebook-owned Oculus VR as the virtual reality company began accepting preorders for its inaugural headset. Within hours, the...
Analyst: Oculus Rift ‘should sell 1M units this year’ at $599 price point
You can finally buy an Oculus Rift, and a lot of people are doing exactly that. That has analysts weighing in on how the...
Psychonauts 2 met its $3.3 million crowdfunding goal today, 11 years after the first game
Double Fine Productions’ cult psychological game Psychonauts will have a sequel. The company posted the follow-up game on Fig with a funding goal of...
Star Trek: Timelines is a mobile game fans should actually care about
GamesBeat: I was going to ask how you decide what characters to bring in, but that seems like pretty much all the main characters...
Xbox Live, Outlook, Bing down as Microsoft services experience outage (update)
Updated at 1 p.m. PST: After a hiccup, it looks like Xbox Live, Bing, and the rest are coming back online. Microsoft has told...
Oculus founder: ‘We are not making money on’ $599 Rift; it is ‘obscenely cheap’
We found out today that it’s going to take $599 to get the top-tier virtual reality equipment in addition to the cost of a...
Square Enix closes cloud gaming-based Shinra Technologies division
It looks like Square Enix is jumping off the cloud gaming train. The publisher has closed Shinra Technologies, a division working on cloud-based technologies...