In the past, Capcom has re-released titles that gamers have to buy again for content updates, but the company recently announced a “service-based approach” for Street Fighter V content released after the initial launch of the game.
Hungarian developer Neocore Games announced its “persistent sandbox action-RPG” game Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr, which it will be working on with Warhammer 40,000 developer Games Workshop. The game will be coming to Mac, PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One in 2016.
After being pulled along with many other Marvel titles, action game Deadpool has been put back on sale on Steam. This re-release comes in the midst of a buildup of publicity and excitement for the Deadpool movie, which casts Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson/Deadpool and is set to debut on February 12, 2016.
World of Warcraft has announced a new player vs. player (PvP) mode that will allow gamers to battle as a member of the opposing Horde or Alliance factions in Ashran or Battlegrounds.
While Sony and Microsoft debuted their PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles in China within the past year, only 9 million out of China’s 515 million gamers use a console. Due to content censorship, prices, and pirating, Sony and Microsoft are expected to sell less than 550,000 consoles, combined, this year, with online PC and mobile games expected to haul in $16.8 and 4 billion, respectively.
Speaking at the Develop conference in Brighton, England, British Culture Minister Ed Vaizey stressed that video games are a vital part of British culture.
Deep Silver, the publisher of survival horror game Dead Island, has dropped German developer Yager from working on Dead Island 2 after working on the project for three years. The decision perhaps reflects why the game has been delayed from the original spring 2015 release date until 2016.
Randy Pitchford, CEO of game developer Gearbox Software, spoke at the Develop conference in Brighton, England. He addressed gamers that criticized first-person shooter Aliens: Colonial Marines and Gearbox’s search for a development partner for a new Duke Nukem title.
Accusations involving drug abuse by professional video game players that have been circling in the eSports community have been raised again due to an admission by one professional in a recent interview.
The world of Azeroth, as depicted in Blizzard Entertainment’s popular World of Warcraft franchise, is being made into a movie, Warcraft, which will debut in June of 2016. Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), the company responsible for the special effects, has released a video giving viewers a 360-degree view of Azeroth while flying on a griffin.
In response to the passing away of Satoru Iwata, gamers, game developers, and media worldwide made tributes to the Nintendo President’s legacy. These tributes came in the form of videos, artwork, and letters of grief and fondness.
Satoru Iwata, the President of Nintendo, died on Saturday, July 11, 2015, from a bile duct growth, a form of cancer. He was 55-years old.
Naoki Satomi, CEO and President of Sega, commented that the company’s recent games have “betrayed” the trust of gamers. He hopes to improve the quality of Sega’s video games to rebuild Sega’s brand.
Thatgamecompany’s 2012 Playstation 3 adventure game Journey will be released for the PlayStation 4 on July 21, 2015. The game features cross buy, meaning that gamers who have already bought it for the PlayStation 3 will get a free download for the PlayStation 4 version.
New Dragon Age: Inquisition downloadable content will not be coming to the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 consoles. However, players’ saved games can be transferred from these consoles to the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 if they wish to upgrade to the newer console versions.
Cliff Bleszinski, former design director for video game developer Epic Games and founder of Boss Key Productions, posted a vine in which he pinched the pop-out breasts of a mouse pad depicting an animé girl.
To the disappointment of many gamers, the graphics on Ubisoft’s action-adventure game Watch Dogs, released in 2014, were not up to par with those showcased in its demo at the 2012 E3 event, leading Ubisoft to change their policy for demonstrating game’s before their release.
Rocksteady Studios’ final installment in their critically-acclaimed Batman series, Batman: Arkham Knight, introduces players to a new dynamic duo of not bat and bird, but bat and car. Since the Batman: Arkham games are of high caliber, this review will compare them not merely to other titles in the market, but specifically to the other two Rocksteady games in the Arkham series to highlight the value added, or lost, by Knight.
After noting a decreased interest in slot machine gambling among young people, Las Vegas casinos plan to implement skill-based gambling with video games.
Call of Duty Black Ops 3: Zombies is coming to Comic-Con International from Thursday, July 9 to Saturday, July 11. The new Zombies mode will be featured and an “Escape Room Challenge” will present gamers with a real-life zombie-themed game.
Gamers who are fans of Nintendo’s Metroid series were displeased with Metroid Prime: Federation Force, a 3DS game whose E3 trailer has about 7,000 likes and 70,000 dislikes on YouTube at the time of writing.
On June 14, 2015, Bethesda Softworks released Fallout Shelter, a simulation game about managing the populace of an underground fallout shelter in which female characters can become pregnant. But the reactions that the pregnant characters have to in-game events were criticized by feminist cultural critic Anita Sarkeesian:
In the last four months, Australia outlawed over four times as many PC games as it did from 1994 to 2014. Around 220 computer games were denied classification since March 2014, rendering them illegal to sell or display, compared with only about 50 banned games from 1994 to 2014.
Xbox will be at the gamescom show in Cologne, Germany on August 4 at 10AM EDT for a briefing and will show off games Scalebound, Quantum Break, and Crackdown, which were absent from E3 in June.
Developer Mojang has ended development of its computer card game Scrolls. Mojang stated that it will certainly keep the servers open until July 1, 2016, with future profits from the game going towards an extension of the game’s life.
Two voice actors from critically-acclaimed survival-horror game The Last of Us recently made contradictory statements concerning the existence of a sequel.
Fellow parents, you have at some time seen our precious children seduced and corrupted by video games. But one heinous market product, in particular, has been rated “E” for Everyone by the ESRB and was ranked one of the top video games for children in 2014. This devilry is none other than Mario Kart, a reckless driving simulator that conflates fun with danger and encourages pollution, violence with explosives, and unconditional drug abuse.
Steam updated its policy on fraudulent trades to note that users who are scammed will not have their items returned. The service will ban scammers and lock accounts that have been hijacked but believes that “all trade scams can be avoided.”
Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Mario and The Legend of Zelda, spoke out regarding the market failure of Nintendo’s Wii U console, blaming the proliferation of tablets for the console’s failure.
Warner Bros. has stopped selling the PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight on Steam due to customer complaints over the broken state of the game.
Apple has pulled all games from its App Store which contain the Confederate flag. When explaining to developers why their content was banned, Apple stated it was “because it includes images of the confederate flag used in offensive and mean-spirited ways.”
Nintendo’s new tactical role-playing game Fire Emblem Fates, which will be released on Thursday, June 25, 2015 in Japan and 2016 in North America and Europe, is the first Nintendo game to officially allow players to have same-sex marriages with in-game characters.
Rocksteady Games’ Batman: Arkham Knight released Tuesday, June 23, 2015 to a Metacritic score of 91/100 on the PlayStation 4. However, the PC release of the game has been marred by performance issues.
Independent video game developer Tale of Tales is getting out of the gaming business after its latest game failed commercially.
Nintendo’s third-person shooter game Splatoon has been “datamined” to reveal upcoming content. There are two new maps, 33 new weapons, and three new modes.
At E3, Microsoft announced backwards compatibility for a limited but growing number of Xbox 360 games on the Xbox One. Some of these titles, namely Mass Effect, N++, and Perfect Dark Zero have since been tested on Xbox One for visuals and functionality by Eurogamer. General observations included a 1080p graphics quality that resembles the games when played on an Xbox 360 and no screen-tearing but at the expense of lower frame-rates.
Valve’s recently released its Reborn beta for multiplayer online battle arena game Dota 2, which boasts Valve’s new Source 2 game engine, enhancing the game’s performance and graphics
At its E3 press conference, Microsoft announced that backwards compatibility is coming to the Xbox One. The feature is currently in beta mode with 21 titles available for gamers.
Game developer Eidos Montréal finds itself the target of faux outrage for incorporating an analogy of social oppression into its new game Deus Ex: Mankind Divided via the term “mechanical apartheid.” The victims of this system make up 10% of the population and are people who have had robotic implants.
While Kudo Tsunoda, development head of Xbox, revealed that the company is “working closely with Valve” to offer Windows 10 as the optimal gaming platform for the Vive Developer Edition of Valve’s SteamVR virtual reality headset, which is to be released in spring 2015, Valve was not at E3’s first-ever PC Gaming Show on Tuesday, June 16.
