Minecraft Story Mode asks its young audience to care about narrative
Do young gamers want stories? Telltale Games is about to find out. The first episode of Minecraft Story Mode is out next week, but fully...
Sony cuts price of PlayStation 4 to $350
Sony has cut the price of the PlayStation 4 video game console to $350. The $50 price cut was anticipated as Microsoft is also...
Hands-on with Microsoft’s Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book
Microsoft today unveiled the Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book, the company’s flagship Windows 10 computers. As their names imply, the former is an...
Minecraft gets Mario 64-like flying powerup
Yesterday, a Minecraft developer teased that the PC version was getting a secret feature inspired by Super Mario 64. Today, Minecraft lead developer Jens Bergensten revealed that flying is coming to Minecraft — and it’s going to work a lot like the wing cap did in Nintendo’s 3D-platforming classic.
Minecraft developer teases ‘secret feature’ that’s ‘like Mario 64’
Minecraft is never finished, and one of its developers is looking at a Nintendo classic for inspiration. Minecraft: Pocket Edition developer Tommaso Checchi at Mojang...
Star Wars vs. Fallout: Here’s how PlayStation and Xbox are battling with bundles this holiday
Microsoft just finished its week of announcing a new Xbox One bundle each day, and it looks like it has a strong arsenal to...
Microsoft buys Havok from Intel, promises to keep licensing physics tech
Microsoft now owns one of gaming’s most popular middleware tools. The Xbox company announced this morning that it has acquired Havok, the technology company best...
Microsoft’s holiday ace card is a Fallout 4 Xbox One bundle
Microsoft’s Xbox One outsold the PlayStation 4 last November and December, and the company is trying to put itself in a position to repeat...
Xbox Live down intermittently for many gamers (updated)
Updated at 5:15 p.m. Pacific: Microsoft says it has everything up and running once again You may run into some trouble playing games on an...
Minecraft: Story Mode trailer sets narrative-heavy tone for the block-building phenomenon
Minecraft has grown into one of the biggest and best-selling games of all time by empowering players to make their own stories. In about two...