Best Buy has rolled out a special deal on the Xbox One where, if you buy a $399 system, you will automatically receive a $50 Xbox gift card for free. The deal is only valid for the $399, no-Kinect version. There is no indication as to how long the deal will last, so you may […]

Nintendo has filed three new trademark applications that give us a hint at what form the company’s mysterious “Quality of Life” initiative may take. On July 25, Nintendo filed three different trademark applications with the United States Patent & Trademark Office for something called “QOL.” One of the QOL trademarks is for “providing games via […]

Last week, we had the opportunity to play the Destiny beta test and check out some of the content that will be available in the game. Story missions, a Strike mission, and competitive multiplayer were all playable. But what we didn’t get a glimpse of is what the game has in store for high-level players […]

Following the announcement that Deep Silver has purchased the Homefront IP from Crytek and will establish a new studio to continue work on Homefront: The Revolution, Crytek has explained what’s happening on its end. Most notably, as suspected, the Crytek UK employees who had been working on The Revolution will move to the newly founded […]

When Microsoft started the ID@Xbox program with the launch of the Xbox One, the company aimed to make it as easy and cheap as possible for independent developers to put their games on the system. But according to one developer, the costs associated with porting a game to the Xbox One are still very high. […]

MMORPG Neverwinter is coming consoles, beginning with Xbox One, publisher Perfect World Entertainment announced today. The free-to-play game developed by Cryptic Studios and based in the Dungeons & Dragons Universe will launch first in China this September, before it comes to North America and Europe in the first half of 2015. Interestingly, Perfect World said […]

Long before anyone began worrying about its frame rate or who would The note cards consist of both locations players were to visit throughout the game and major events. It’s interesting to see which ideas did and didn’t end up making it into the final game–Joel is still dying early in winter and later visits […]

Kenneth McCulloch The former Silicon Knights director and founder of Precursor Games, arrested in June 2013 on child pornography charges, has been sentenced. According to a report from Welland Tribune (via Polygon), Kenneth McCulloch, 43, appeared in Ontario court Tuesday and pleaded guilty to making child pornorgaphy available. He was sentenced to time served–12 months. […]

When the Girls Make Games camp began in mid June, none of the girls knew that they might end up on Kickstarter. None of them had any idea that they’d have the chance to be covered online and that their project might be released to the public. All they knew was that they wanted to […]