Star Wars Battlefront II publisher Electronic Arts has responded to the ongoing controversy behind the game’s aggressive monetization by disabling the purchase of in-game currency — for now.
The outcry over Star Wars Battlefront II’s monetization has reached a fever pitch despite token efforts from Electronic Arts, and now investors are growing concerned.
The follow-up to developer MachineGames’ masterful 2014 Wolfenstein franchise reboot is as beautiful and brutal as the first but feels noticeably thinner.
The Russian defense ministry claimed on Tuesday it had “irrefutable evidence” of the United States helping the Islamic State in Syria using footage revealed to be from a mobile phone game.
Despite attempts to salve the community’s rage against Star Wars Battlefront II’s aggressive monetization strategy, the forthcoming game’s progression system is still abusively exploitive.
Electronic Arts was hammered for their rebuttal to gamers’ complaints about the ludicrous advancement requirements and microtransactions in the upcoming Star Wars multiplayer shooter.
Carving up Orcs in Middle-earth: Shadow of War is as much fun as it was in 2014, but every decision made surrounding that central conceit seems to have been drawn up by a marketing department, rather than the creative minds that once hypnotized us with the innovative Nemesis System.
Activision has patented a “system and method for driving microtransactions in multiplayer video games” but denied it is being used in any game.
In what may very well be an industry first, Epic Games is suing alleged cheaters for the unauthorized alteration of their game Fortnite’s code.
Both American and European electronic entertainment rating boards are hesitant to classify video game loot box microtransactions as gambling.
OpenCritic, the review aggregator that made waves with its unweighted and inclusive approach, is looking into informing consumers if a game contains microtransaction loot boxes.
Developer Reikon Games’ Ruiner is a gruesome tour through a vivid cyberpunk dystopia, dripping with neon-soaked style, that will satisfy fans of old-school isometric shooters.
In a move to reduce the momentum of a snowballing series of PR blunders, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has reversed course on their decision to monetize the memorial “Forthog” DLC.
Entertainment Software Association President and CEO Michael D. Gallagher on Monday released a statement in support of the Trump administration’s new STEM initiative.
Toys ‘R’ Us filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy comes after the toy retailer lost relevance proportionate to their video game market share.
For a brief moment, cooperative shooter Fortnite allowed Xbox and PlayStation owners the chance to play together, a first for console cross-platform play.
The U.S. Navy will save money and training time by giving young naval officers aboard submarines video game controllers to operate periscopes.
World of Warcraft players can purchase Shadow the Fox in order to contribute to disaster relief funds, both national and international.
After four years of litigation, on Thursday, a Dallas court ruled in favor of iLife Technologies to the tune of $10 million against Nintendo.
Ohio State University has revoked the Ph.D. of a co-author to a retracted study that claimed first-person shooter video games made people better shooters in the real world.
Volition’s Agents of Mayhem couches tired gameplay in bland world design and populates it with a cast of grating one-dimensional caricatures.
I came away from this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo excited about a precious few upcoming titles. Foremost among them was Middle-earth: Shadow of War. I described the elegance with which the developers introduced complexity to 2014’s Shadow of Mordor’s alchemy of procedural generation and visceral combat. I said that I would be “shocked if it doesn’t immediately become one of the year’s highlights” upon its release, and I meant it.
Half-Life’s final entry may end up being a blog post by one of its creators, written as a letter to those who have longed for a conclusion to the franchise which has lain dormant for nearly a decade.
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice impresses with sight and sound, but there isn’t any meat on the game’s bones.
Activision Blizzard announced new details regarding their official Overwatch League, aiming to place talented gamers alongside other professional athletes in status and salary alike.
A new paper published in the scientific journal Brain Imaging and Behaviour tests the claim that violent games result in a lack of empathy, and finds it to not be correct.
Breitbart Tech’s Nate Church joined Curt Schilling for their weekly gaming segment on Whatever It Takes, Schilling’s Breitbart News Radio program, to discuss the overload of great video games in 2017 and the future of virtual reality.
At this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, I had the chance to sit down with Entertainment Software Association (ESA) President and CEO Michael Gallagher to discuss gamers, the future of E3, and how political issues like immigration reform and NAFTA impact the video game industry.
Breitbart Tech’s Nate Church appeared on Whatever It Takes with Curt Schilling Wednesday to discuss this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) and the cultural influence of video games.
China’s government-owned newspaper The People’s Daily has targeted the country’s most successful video game company for special scrutiny.
MachineGames’ Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, the follow-up to the first-person shooter master class that was The New Order, looks like everything we loved about its predecessor cranked to 11.
Sony showed off exclusive open-world zombie survival adventure Days Gone at E3, though the content was still too isolated to cast any real judgement.
Ubisoft has traded radio towers for big green pipes in an XCOM-like in Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, starring Nintendo’s iconic characters and the publishers own madcap mascots.
Nine games after 2008’s World at War, the Call of Duty franchise finally returns to the Second World War with Call of Duty: WWII.
Developer OneBitBeyond’s upcoming micro-RPG The Swords of Ditto was one of the most pleasant surprises of this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo.
Developer Undead Labs’ return to their smash hit zombie apocalypse simulator with State of Decay 2 looks just like the first, and that’s a very good thing.
Middle-earth: Shadow of War, the sequel to developer Monolith’s 2014 innovative open-world trip through Mordor, is stepping up its game in preparation for all-out war.
The developers behind the acclaimed Ratchet and Clank series are trying their hand at crafting the definitive Spider-Man game with Marvel’s Spider-Man for the Playstation 4.
Developer Creative Assembly returns to the Warhammer universe after their first, wildly successful outing with Total War: Warhammer II.
After taking a year to reorient a franchise on the verge of exhaustion, Ubisoft dons the iconic hood once more with Assassin’s Creed Origins.
