Activision is making a huge bet on Destiny, and according to one analyst it’s likely to pay off to the tune of 10 to 15 million copies sold, or an estimated $600 to $900 million. In comparison, Nintendo’s Mario Kart Wii–one of the best-selling games in history–has sold-through more than 35.5 million copies life-to-date, and […]

Nintendo’s legendary designer Shigeru Miyamoto thinks that the company’s games don’t fit neatly into any of the existing game genres popular in the market today. “Nintendo isn’t one simple element of an overall gaming industry,” Miyamoto told the Los Angeles Times in an interview at E3 2014. “I really think there needs to be a […]

With the upcoming horror game Mikami feels that things have grown bleak for fans of the genre, and has gone so far as to say that there are “no real survival horror games” currently available. Now at the head of Tango Gameworks, he is confident the studio’s debut game, The Evil Within, addresses this. “I […]

President of Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar North Leslie Benzies will buy Edinburgh’s St. Stephen’s Church to save it for the community, the Edinburgh Evening News reports. A spokesperson for Benzies said that the church, which is believed to cost well over £500,000, is “an entirely philanthropic purchase” to preserve St. Stephen’s and keep it […]

Rust developer and Facepunch Studios founder Garry Newman said that prior to Rust, he was working on an online, Hitman-type game set in an open world similar to Grand Theft Auto. The codebase for the prototype, called Cash4kills, eventually became Rust, the survival game which became immensely successful while still in Early Access. But Cash4kills […]

Last week, developer Stoic Games announced that its tactical role-playing game The Banner Saga will release on iPad, Android, and Windows tablets this summer, and console players might get a chance to play the game eventually as well. Speaking with Digital Spy, programmer John Watson said that Stoic has been working on the iOS and […]

Stephen “Stepto” Toulouse, the former Director of Policy and Enforcement for Microsoft’s Xbox Live service, is rejoining the company as the Director of Community Engagement at Black Tusk Studios, the Microsoft-owned studio currently working on the next Gears of War project. Jokingly known as the the “Head Banhammer,” as Director of Policy and Enforcement Toulouse […]

Valve has revoked an unknown number of Steam keys for the recently released Sniper Elite III after developer and publisher Rebellion said they were stolen from one of its retail distributors. We still don’t know how many buyers were affected, but at the time of writing the Steam discussion thread where Rebellion made the announcement […]

Back in May, Activision Chief Executive Officer Bobby Kotick revealed that the publisher will invest $500 million in Bungie’s upcoming shooter, Destiny. Since then, that figure has been associated with the development and marketing budget of the game, but Bungie recently said it isn’t accurate. Responding to a question from a fan, Bungie’s Eric Osborne […]