Gaming publisher Ubisoft revealed that sales were down 6% for the 3rd fiscal quarter compared to the previous year while Watch Dogs 2’s launch wasn’t what they had hoped for.
Activision shed some light on their financial performance for 2016 with the expected highs and lows surrounding their biggest games.
The Electronics Entertainment Expo (E3), the largest trade show for the gaming industry, will open its doors to 15,000 of its most devoted consumers in 2017.
Experience the battlefield in 360° with this interactive trailer for Ubisoft’s upcoming Vikings vs. Knights vs. Samurai brawler, For Honor.
The crew of the UNSC Spirit of Fire face off against the forces of a rogue Covenant warlord in real-time strategy title Halo Wars 2, coming to Xbox One and PC February 21.
Resident Evil 7 is a triumphant return for a troubled franchise, with only a few nagging missteps keeping it from greatness. https://youtu.be/ZBh1_u7BgiU The quietly bland protagonist of Resident Evil VII fades from existence within the first minutes of the game due
It seems DICE is done with their inaugural entry in the Star Wars Battlefront series, and is now putting all of its focus on the 2017 sequel.
The next free content update for Titanfall 2 introduces Live Fire, a competitive mix of elimination and capture the flag, along with two new mode-specific maps, a new execution, and changes to the game’s 1v1 Coliseum map.
2K Games won a long-running case about its right to store and distribute the biometric data it collects from face scans in its games.
The Elder Scrolls Online takes players to the Dark Elf province of Morrowind and introduces a new class, PvP mode, and more in the latest expansion for the MMORPG.
Nintendo says that a significant number of those who have downloaded Super Mario Run have decided to purchase the full game.
Fight to liberate Italy as a WWII Allied sniper in singleplayer, co-op, and multiplayer in Sniper Elite 4, coming to Xbox One, Playstation 4, and PC on February 14.
Survive, build, and dominate in the brutal of world of Conan the Barbarian in Funcom’s sanbox survival game Conan Exiles.
Three all-new multiplayer maps plus a remake of Modern Warfare 2 fan-favorite “Afghan” are coming to Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare along with a new chapter in the Zombies co-op campaign in the Sabotage DLC, coming to Playstation 4 on January 31.
Resident Evil 7, one of the first triple-A titles to support VR, is a major success for the platform.
Lead your allies against an overwhelming foe in an unexplored new galaxy in sci-fi RPG Mass Effect: Andromeda, coming to Xbox One, Playstation 4, and PC on March 21.
Marvel and Square Enix have announced a multi-game partnership, starting with The Avengers Project.
Minecraft: Education Edition has officially released a 1.0 edition. It introduces valuable tools for students and educators alike — both in and out of the game.
The premier Dutch soccer league is launching an eSports division that will recognize players as official members of their respective soccer teams.
Prey looks to channel classic sci-fi horror shooter System Shock 2 as players use a variety of futuristic weapons and mysterious powers to fight an alien infestation on a research space station.
Kevin Smith joins the Zombies campaign in “Rave in the Redwoods,” a 90s slasher-inspired chapter coming to Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare in its first DLC pack, Sabotage, on January 31 for Playstation 4.
The PC gaming hardware industry reached a $30 billion TAM (Total Available Market) for the first time in 2016.
Journey to the end of the world and encounter new enemies, bosses, and gear in the final chapter of Dark Souls III.
In a YouTube video posted on January 19, CloudGate Studio demonstrated an experiment in full-body virtual reality tracking with the HTC Vive.
A 2012 report on the effect of violent video games on players has been retracted by the publisher.
A few more details have dribbled out about the launch of the Nintendo Switch, notably that it won’t support Netflix, Hulu, or any similar video streaming services when it launches.
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare was the top-selling console title of 2016, despite lackluster critical reception, a dramatic loss in the PC user base, and a deep drop in physical retail copies sold in the first month of release.
Valve President Gabe Newell took to Reddit for an AMA this week, giving us another brief peek into the world of the hugely successful developer-turned-storefront.
Official details about the Nintendo Switch have been officially revealed, but perhaps the system should have stayed behind the curtain.
Check out the latest gameplay from the upcoming The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild shown during the Nintendo Switch presentation.
Unsurprisingly, Valve’s own titles still reign on their digital platform Steam, but notably none of the top five most-played games of 2016 by average player count were released last year.
Tribes of human survivors face off in a post-apocalyptic future dominated by bestial machines in Horizon Zero Dawn, coming to Playstation 4 on February 28.
The closed beta for Ubisoft’s upcoming medieval action game For Honor begins January 26.
Microsoft has officially confirmed the cancellation of Platinum Games’ dragon action-RPG Scalebound after four years of development.
The script for the official Uncharted movie is now complete, but it’s still a long way from the big screen.
Valve Corporation reached a new milestone in the first weekend of 2017, with 14 million concurrent players on their Steam client.
Two years after the launch of space-sim Elite: Dangerous, a player has had a close encounter with mysterious alien lifeforms.
“Clueless Gamer,” one of Conan O’Brien’s most popular late-night segments, has been picked up by TBS as a series all its own.
Mass Effect: Andromeda will launch on March 21, 2017, and a steady stream of info about the latest entry in one of the biggest role-playing franchises has begun to come out as it approaches release.
Blizzard will be pushing out a “20th Anniversary” patch to Diablo III this week that will add the original Diablo campaign to the game, and it’s already getting a lot of attention.
