Square Enix held its E3 press conference on Tuesday, June 16, leading off with a demonstration and announcement of a December 1, 2015 release date for open world action-adventure game Just Cause 3.
Nintendo held its E3 press conference on Tuesday, June 16, unveiling several new games in their long-running franchises.
Ubisoft held its E3 press conference on Monday, June 15, consisting mostly of sequels for their established franchises but with one new IP announcement.
Electronic Arts (EA) held its E3 press conference on Monday, June 15, showcasing mostly sequels to the company’s many established franchises.
Sony held its E3 conference on Monday, June 15, unveiling crowd-favorite titles both new and old.
Microsoft held its E3 conference on Monday, June 15, revealing a multitude of new first- and third-party games and new technology and support for the Xbox One console.
In May, Breitbart reported that adult content would not be blocked from the Oculus Rift Virtual Reality headset, but Oculus has recently announced that pornography will not be allowed on its device.
Video game publisher Bethesda Softworks had its E3 showcase on Sunday, June 14. The studio premiered role-playing game Fallout 4, first-person shooter DOOM, stealth title Dishonored 2, and strategy card game The Elder Scrolls: Legends.
New first-person shooter Battleborn, developed by Gearbox Software, the creators of the Borderlands and Brothers in Arms series, will be at E3. Battleborn will be released on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One this winter.
A banner for Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection appeared early on the PlayStation Store last week, hinting at an anthonlogy including the first three titles of developer Naughty Dog’s action-adventure game for the Playstation 4. A tweet from Naughty Dog’s creative director and writer Neil Druckmann set an October 9, 2015 release date for the bundle.
Steam has premiered its own controller and link device, allowing gamers to play any titles in their Steam library on their television.
The Coalition studio head Rod Fergusson announced that the new Gears of War is coming to E3; gamers should watch Xbox Daily: LIVE @ E3 at 4:00PM PT on Monday, June 15 for a first glimpse of the studio’s new effort.
PC gaming digital distribution service Steam changed its refund policy this week to grant gamers two weeks to return items, for any reason, as long as they have not been played for more than two hours, but game developers disagreed on whether this would help or hurt the industry.
Online first-person shooter PlanetSide 2 comes to PlayStation 4 on Tuesday, June 23. It is free-to-play and does not require a PlayStation Plus membership.
PC Gamer magazine will host the first annual PC Gaming Show at E3 this year. It will feature Microsoft, Blizzard, Square Enix, and a host of other PC game developers.
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced that multiplayer online battle arena game Infinite Crisis will close on August 14, less than six months after it launched on March 26, 2015.
Rocksteady Studios posted new trailers for Batman: Arkham Knight, which will be released Tuesday, June 23. The trailers feature Harley Quinn and Red Hood, who are extra playable characters in the upcoming game.
Bethesda Softworks released the trailer for the newest installment in its post-apocalyptic role-playing game series, Fallout 4.
Polygon writer Colin Campbell published a preview of game developer Harmonix’s new game Rock Band 4 that did not offer much detail about the game, but instead communicated a general distaste for the genre that the game represented.
Valve has updated the refund policy for PC gaming service Steam. Gamers can return items bought less than two weeks ago as long as they have not played them for longer than two hours.
Video game rental service GameFly is launching an on-demand gaming streaming service, launching exclusively on Amazon Fire TV.
Contrary to reporting from many in the gaming press, developer Techland has not canceled its dark fantasy co-op hack-and-slash game Hellraid.
Technology giant Nvidia has released its GeForce GTX 980 Ti graphics card, offering PC gamers top of the line graphics processing power at a much lower cost than Nvidia’s current top video card.
Microsoft’s Windows 10 will be released on Wednesday, July 29. The package features digital assistant Cortana, browser Microsoft Edge, Office 2016, and Xbox Live on other Windows devices.
Firaxis Games will be releasing turn-based strategy game XCOM 2, the sequel to 2012’s XCOM: Enemy Uknown, for PC in November.
The Steam Summer Sale for PC games will occur from Thursday, June 11 to Saturday, June 20, with an encore of the best deals being made available again for two until Monday, June 22.
Microsoft head Phil Spencer denied the rumor that the studio would be buying Konami’s survival horror game Silent Hills, which was abandoned in late April.
CD Projekt Red released its new action role-playing game, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, on May 19. The game garnered universal critical acclaim, receiving Metacritic scores of 92, 92, and 93/100 for its PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One releases, respectively. However, The Witcher 3 has become the latest installment in a dialogue concerning gender representation in video games.
Google recently added compatibility for 1080p/720p video streaming at 60 frames per second (FPS) to YouTube. Users can stream content at 60 FPS in Elgato Game Capture HD, XSplit Broadcaster, and XSplit Gamecaster, establishing YouTube as a viable alternative to Twitch for streaming video games.
Microsoft and Duke University have developed Kahawai, a new utility that can cut bandwidth used while playing games online by approximately 83%.
Sierra Entertainment is plotting a new iteration for its graphic adventure series King’s Quest, which has not had a new game since 1998.
The sci-fi massively multiplayer online role-playing game WildStar, developed by Carbine Studios, will go free-to-play starting this fall.
On Wednesday, May 27, video game streaming service Twitch published an update to its Rules of Conduct which declares “if a game’s US version is rated Adults Only by the ESRB, you should not broadcast that game on Twitch.”
Ubisoft has decided to forgo multiplayer in the upcoming Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate, which will be released on October 23 for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 with a PC release to follow later in the year.
Ultra Street Fighter IV, developed by Capcom, was released for PlayStation 4 on Tuesday, May 26, and some famous gamers from its community have found issues with its technical elements.
A now-removed product page for the addition of the Halo 3: ODST campaign to Halo: The Master Chief Collection was found in the Xbox Games Store on Wednesday.
Developers of BioShock, BioShock Infinite, and Dead Space have teamed up to form The Deep End Games, a studio that is trying to fund a new game called Perception.
Activision will release the Supremacy expansion for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare on Tuesday, June 2, for Xbox One and Xbox 360. The DLC adds four new multiplayer maps and a new chapter of the Exo Zombies co-op mode.
PC, Mac, and Linux users who play Tropico 5, the construction and management simulator developed by Haemimont Games, can purchase the game’s Espionage expansion on Thursday, May 28.
WarHorse Studios has hired Sebastien Pacetti as its new Chief Commercial Officer (CCO). Pacetti was previously associate director of GameForge, Ubisoft Massive business development director, and head of video games and digital software for Amazon.
