2012 was a catastrophically bad year for Square Enix: despite the release of a few critically acclaimed games like Tomb Raider and Sleeping Dogs, the company posted an “extraordinary loss” of about $134 million dollars. Following the resignation of Square’s former CEO Yoichi Wada, the company …
Defiance, the SyFy Channel TV show that ties into Trion Worlds’ MMO of the same name, has been renewed for a second season. Filming for 13 new episodes of the show will begin in Toronto this August.
I know it doesn’t sound like a lot, in fact it probably sounds a bit silly to say that a game has “only” 8 million subscribers, but for World of Warcraft and its creator Blizzard, it’s really bad news. It was only a year ago that …
Somebody has been trying to take down EA’s Battlefield 3 servers, and so far it seems like they’re doing a pretty good job of it: following a server crash on Tuesday night, the game’s servers across all platforms have suffered numerous outages, which EA says is …
Shadow of the Eternals, the upcoming crowd-funded “spiritual successor” to Eternal Darkness, features assets recycled from a cancelled Silicon Knights project, which some fans have theorized might have been the oft-rumored Eternal Darkness 2.
Along with the game’s “always on” DRM, Diablo 3’s in-game auction house, which lets players buy items with real money in addition to in-game gold, has always been one of the game’s more controversial features. The auction house was taken offline today following the discovery of …
Patrice Desilets, the creative director and designer behind Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed series and the Prince of Persia Sands of Time trilogy, was fired from Ubisoft today. While Ubisoft originally announced that Desilets and the company parted ways amicably, Desilets paints a different story, saying he was …
Xseed Games, the American publisher responsible for the localization and domestic release of niche Japanese games like The Last Story and the Ys series, announced today that they’re changing their name to Marvelous USA.
In honor of May the 4th, the official “Star Wars Day,” all games set in a galaxy far, far away are 66% off on Steam this weekend.
TimeGate Studios, the development house behind Section 8 and parts of Aliens: Colonial Marines, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Texas today.
It’s no secret that Aliens: Colonial Marines didn’t live up to expectations: when it was released last February, critics lambasted the game for its poor graphics, brain-dead enemies, and overall boring gameplay. Bad games get released all the time, but it’s rare that a game is …