Ana’s got a gun. Overwatch’s world looks undone (impressions)
Justice rains from above, but healing hails from the barrel of a gun. The team-based shooter for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One has revealed...
Hearthstone entices players to recruit friends with card packs and a new hero skin
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft wants you to get your friends to join card-playing fun. A new patch for Blizzard’s digital card game behemoth gives...
Every skin revealed for Overwatch’s new character, Ana
Overwatch’s newest addition is looking good in her alternate costumes. Blizzard revealed the first new character for its team-based shooter. While we don’t know...
Overwatch gets its first new hero: Ana the healing sniper
“And I wonder, still I wonder, who’ll stop the pain” — looks like in Overwatch, it’s going to be Ana (to, ahem, borrow a...
Epic Games gives out $75,000 in Unreal Dev Grants to European indies
Epic games is awarding more small studios that use its game-creation tools. The company has given out $75,000 to five European indie developers as part...
Russian games market reached nearly $1 billion in 2015
Russia’s online and mobile games market amounted to 51.9 billion rubles in 2015, or $830 million at the average exchange rate, up 2 percent from the...
How Plantronics engineered an audio headset for PlayStation VR
Unlike the Oculus Rift, PlayStation VR doesn’t have built-in headphones, but that doesn’t mean you’ll have to settle for something ill-suited for virtual reality....
How Paradox Development Studio makes its hit strategy games
Paradox Development Studio has been around in different forms since 1995, but it started operating as the studio we know today around the early...
How Scalebound’s action master Hideki Kamiya views partnership with Microsoft
Platinum Games is known for over-the-top action, but Scalebound is taking that top, adding a few dozen miles, and clearing it in a single leap....
Why Amplitude chose Sega’s strategy-studio stable
Sega’s acquisition of strategy game house Amplitude Studios on Tuesday set up the publisher’s European arm as a strategy-gaming powerhouse. The move is interesting...