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...
Minecraft’s holiday update adds gliding to the console versions
Minecraft players on console are about to get some gravity-defying freedom. Microsoft announced details for the holiday update for the console versions of the...
Mafia III postmortem: How Hangar 13 made the critical decisions in the epic game’s design
Mafia III is a great example of the glory and the pain of game development. The ambitious title took years to make, with the...
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is 25 years old
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past came out in Japan on November 21, 1991. That makes the Super Nintendo classic 25...
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...
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.
Nintendo’s Wii turns 10: Remembering the waggle
All these years later, and the Wii is still making headlines unintentionally funny. On November 19, 2006, Nintendo released its Wii console. The system...
NES Classic Edition proves how important the television set really is
The NES Classic Edition is nearly impossible to find. Overwhelming demand from a generation of people who want to go back the video games...
Gaming’s $4.4 billion video-content business is why Warner Bros. wants Machinima
Traditional media companies see a huge amount of potential in gaming-related content, and that has translated into another acquisition. Warner Bros., a hollywood and...