Facebook launches Women in Gaming initiative
For the past two years, Facebook has worked to build a community of women within the gaming industry, and now it is formally launching...
Defiance is getting a reboot from Trion Worlds without the SyFy TV show
Defiance was one of the most ambitious online games conceived by a startup. Trion Worlds launched the game to mixed reviews in 2013, and...
ESRB’s loot box warning label is about placating politicians
The Entertainment Software Ratings Board revealed a new form of self-regulation for video games today. In the “near future,” the ESRB will assign a...
Steam is down again for Valve’s routine Tuesday maintenance
It’s Tuesday evening in the United States, so engineers working at a secret facility in Redmond, Washington are applying strips of duct tape to...
Watch Fortnite: Battle Royale running in 4K and 60 FPS on Xbox One X
Epic continues to roll out updates for its last-player-standing shooter Fortnite: Battle Royale, and the latest patch has it running at 60 frames per...
Chrono Trigger time-warps from SNES to Steam today
Surprise, role-playing game fans on PC! Square Enix released Chrono Trigger on Steam today. Chrono Trigger first came out for the Super Nintendo in...
Hearthstone’s Molten Giant is receiving the rare un-nerf
Blizzard Entertainment announced a raft of changes coming to its hit digital card game Hearthstone when the Year of the Raven launches later in...
Hearthstone’s Year of the Raven will change cards and quest rewards, test in-game tournaments
Blizzard Entertainment revealed changes coming to its hit digital card game Hearthstone with the launch of the next annual Standard cycle, the Year of...
Hearthstone is getting in-game tournaments … just don’t call it ‘tournament mode’
Going on nigh four years, Hearthstone players have asked for a tournament mode. We’ve read about it on Reddit. We’ve listened to community podcasts...
Gaming laptops will have smaller power supplies with EPC’s gallium nitride chips
Gamers may not care about the finer points of gallium nitride (GaN) chips as evangelized by power pioneer Alex Lidow, CEO of Efficient Power Conversion (EPC)....