The official Xbox, PlayStation, and eSports League (ESL) Twitch channels were compromised this week at Gamescom, with a third-party posting unauthorized and offensive messages to the profiles. Polygon reports that someone altered the titles for archived streams on the Xbox, PlayStation, and ESL Twitch channels with all kinds of terrible messages, including jokes about Microsoft’s […]
Microsoft’s Xbox Entertainment Studios, the division responsible for original Xbox programming, may not be completely gone as the company originally announced. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the studio is allegedly “shopping for a new home,” and has initiated discussions with Warner Bros. about the possibility of being based at its studio as a “stand-alone entity.” […]
Even when there aren’t a ton of new game releases, sales charts are still fun. The July NPD top 10 games sales list below may not have many surprises, but it’s always exciting to see where your favorite games fall in the rankings. Overall the industry is up 16% over last year at $514.3 million. […]
Monthly video game sales data from the NPD will be announced later today, but Sony sent out some early highlights ahead of the report. And first on that list: PlayStation 4 was the number one “next generation game console” in sales for the seventh consecutive month in the US. Note that, while at GameSpot we […]
Ahead of the NPD sales data coming later today, Nintendo revealed some of the milestones for their top-performing games last month in the US. Mario Kart 8 leads the fray with 1 million copies sold. Nintendo notes in a press release that it’s “the second Wii U game to cross that milestone, along with New […]
Just because Dontnod Entertainment’s only two games, 2013’s “We have women in the dev team–not that many because it’s still the video game industry and there are not that many women–but we have women working on the game,” Koch said. “And our writer, which is an American writer we’ve worked with before, he’s consulting with […]
BioWare Austin’s recently unveiled 4v1 PC RPG Shadow Realms could see a console release, according to the studio’s general manager Jeff Hickman. Speaking to GameSpot at Gamescom, Hickman was surprised by some early reports indicating the game was a PC exclusive, saying, “I saw some reports coming out yesterday saying [Shadow Realms] was exclusive to […]
The PlayStation 4 is getting more free-to-play games. This week, Sony announced on the PlayStation Blog three new free-to-play titles for the console: Snow, Guns Up!, and Hustle Kings. Snow is an open-world skiing and snowboarding game from Poppermost Productions, a small studio of ten people in Sweden. The game’s goal is to capture the […]
One of the more surprising announcements to come out of Sony’s Every character in the game can be killed, with the story adapting around the remaining characters. There’s no right or wrong way to do things. While you’ll be asked to make some tough choices–abandoning your partner to investigate a distant noise, or deciding to […]
The new SCE Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida offered up some additional details on how Share Play will work in an interview with Famitsu (as translated by Kotaku). Comparing it to Sony’s new PlayStation Now streaming service, he said, “How it works is, for example, say, a friend has a game that I don’t. I […]
