Last month, Toybox Inc. and Aksys Games released their restaurant-management/adventure game Little Dragons Café on PS4 and Nintendo Switch. Overall, the game is quite the wholesome experience, and publisher Aksys Games seems to be expanding that kindness into the real world by donating to charity Extra Life. Specifically, Aksys Games will be $10,000 of Little Dragons Café’s
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From the game’s initial conception as Slasher Vol. 1: Summer Camp, development of Friday the 13th: The Game has been spearheaded for the last four years by IllFonic. That being said, they will no longer be working on the game starting today. Publisher Gun Media has announced that IllFonic “has completed all contracted work,” so they will
It isn’t a Destiny release without people stumbling into parts of the game that Bungie thought they had locked off. Following the successful launch of Destiny 2: Forsaken, it looks like the community is prodding every last corner of maps trying to find where hidden areas may lead. And it led the community to Callum’s Grave. Like all
Without a doubt, this last week has been one of the most impactful in recent memory when it comes to studio closings. Between Capcom Vancouver and Telltale Games shuttering their studios, many projects and the people working on them are up in limbo with their futures uncertain. Thankfully, gaming publishers and developers don’t exist in
Ever since the Nintendo Switch jettisoned onto store shelves last March, the same question has come up time and time again for recent game releases: is it coming to the Switch? Admittedly, I was part of the choir singing this tune when I picked up my Switch last year. I wanted to play every game
Ever since the argument over loot boxes and microtransactions came to a head last year in several games, many official organizations have begun to analyze the practice to see if it can be considered gambling. Belgium is investigating EA, PEGI is adding a label to signify in-game purchases on physical games, and now fifteen European Gambling
Just before E3 this year, Intellivision Entertainment announced that they were reviving the brand with a new family-friendly Intellivision console in the near future. More details were teased in July, but we were told that the console would not be fully unveiled until October 1. With less than a month to go until that date,
Back in 2014, NCSoft owned developer Carbine Studios released their first game, an MMORPG called WildStar. While the game was a minor success, but it did go free-to-play fairly quickly. Over four year’s after WildStar’s initial launch, NCSoft has made the decision to shutter Carbine Studios, which also means WildStar will be closing soon. Kotaku
CCP Games, a developer best known for EVE Online, has gone through several changes over the past year. In addition to winding down VR development, they sold off their Newcastle Studio to Sumo Digital and outright shut down their branch in Atlanta. Today, we learned of the biggest change yet, which should hopefully keep things
Yesterday, Netflix announced that Mission Impossible: Fallout star Henry Cavill would be portraying Geralt of Rivia in the streaming service’s upcoming series based on The Witcher, a popular book series and video game franchise. While many seemed happy with the casting, there is no denying that Geralt’s iconic voice is that of Doug Cockle. While
In April 2017, Far Cry 4 Creative Director Alex Hutchison left Ubisoft and partnered with Technical Director Yassine Riahi and Executive Producer Reid Schnieder of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment to form a new indie developer called Typhoon Studios. While not much has been heard about Typhoon Studios’ first game since the developer’s inception, that title
Henry Cavill, an actor best known for portraying Superman in Man of Steel, Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, and Justice League, has been cast as Geralt of Rivia in Netflix’s upcoming series based on book series and video game franchise The Witcher. The actor actually expressed interest in playing the role to IGN last
In-game purchases have been at the center of gaming-related controversy over the past year. From NBA 2K18 and Middle Earth: Shadow of War to Star Wars Battlefront II, everyone and their mom have basically complained about their implementation recently in one way or another. While only time will tell if developers change their in-game monetization
As the summer draws to an end it becomes time for the world’s greatest pokémon trainers to gather for the biggest competition of the year. The Pokémon World Championships took place over the weekend in Nashville, Tennessee. The cowboy-themed event saw a wealth of new trainers claim their positions as the planet’s greatest players in
In a small pocket of this great big thing we call the Internet, Donkey Kong Country fans collectively reached out to the father of Super Smash Bros., Masahiro Sakurai, to thank him for the inclusion of King K. Rool in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. You can check out the very heartfelt message down below: キングクルール お礼の手紙 – The following is
Following the end of the 2018 Pokémon World Championships, the folks over on the official Pokémon Twitter announced where the next competition will be held. Which means it’s time to stop slacking and get training if you want to be the very best like no one ever was. Get ready to pack your bags, Trainers! Pikachu's
I often find myself scrolling through media outlets–like Twitter, for instance–shaking my head and breathing long sighs of disappointment when I come across posts that seemingly point the finger at video games for the world’s mental health problems. The vast majority of research on the effects of “gaming” has been on its negative impact: namely,
Ahead of their appearance at Gamescom, Runescape developer Jagex has made several notable announcements. In addition to bringing on some talented new staff and establishing a third-party publishing arm called Jagex Partners, the developer also revealed that their popular MMO RuneScape has surpassed $1 billion in revenue since its launch in January of 2001. Clearly,
Bethesda and Sparkypants Studios announced that their collectible-card game The Elder Scrolls: Legends would be coming to PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch later this year at E3. During QuakeCon 2018, Eurogamer probed Bethesda’s Senior Vice President of Marketing and Communication Pete Hines about cross-play for the title. He called it an “absolutely critical” feature for the
Crystal Dynamics has grown to be one of Square Enix’s premier development studios in recent years, and have just expanded even further. In addition to their long-running Redwood Shores studio, a new satellite studio in Bellevue, Washington called Crystal Northwest has been established. This studio is officially operational as of today and is led by Chad
Forget the Toy-Con keyboard— one YouTuber found a way to create music with the Nintendo Switch without the use of any cardboard accessories. Armed with only a Teenage Engineering OP-1 synthesizer and a Nintendo Switch console, YouTuber Reagan Burke managed to create an entire song with noises from the Nintendo Switch’s operating system. Sampling the sounds
We are just a few weeks away from PAX West, which takes place in Seattle from August 31 to September 3, and several developers are gearing up for it. tinyBuild Games recently confirmed that they would be holding a press conference there, and now it seems like popular indie game publisher Devolver Digital has some
Harmonix Music Systems has risen to prominence over the past decade through series like Guitar Hero, Rock Band, and Amplitude, and are now hinting at what’s on the horizon. Today, the studio announced that they have partnered with NCSoft, a South Korean publisher known for games like Guild Wars 2 and Blade & Soul, to
Crackdown 3 was first announced for Xbox One by Microsoft all the way back in 2014, but the multiple delays and relative silence surrounding the project recently have worried many. That being said, Sumo Digital’s Managing Director Paul Porter tried to quell concerns in a recent interview with GamesIndustry.biz, and actually stated the silence around
British developer Playground Games has made some surprising moves in the last few months. At E3, they unveiled Forza Horizon 4, revealed that they had been acquired by Microsoft, and teased that they were working on a new non-racing game. Today, GamesIndustry.biz revealed that Playground Games has hired several new staff members from studios like BioWare,
Equality has been a huge topic in recent years with many companies in the industry coming under fire due to the fact that some employees get paid more than others. This undoubtedly has caused an enormous ruckus between workers, driving wedges between people and bringing down the moral within the working environment. Developer Motion Twin
Nintendo of America is taking legal action against two popular websites, LoveROM.com and LoveRETRO.co, that specialize in the online distribution of video game ROMs and emulations. Specifically, the sites in question allow visitors to download or emulate thousands of video games. Nintendo’s titles provide a large bulk of the sites’ inventory and are among the
It’s not uncommon within the industry for game developers and publishers to lay off some staff after a large project is completed, and this unfortunately seems to be the case with Trion Worlds and Defiance 2050. Gamasutra discovered, and then subsequently received confirmation from Trion Worlds that fifteen developers have been laid off. Defiance 2050
Indie publisher tinyBuild Games has increased it’s online conference presence significantly this year, as they have already held two #HelloSwitch events and even a small E3 press conference to unveil Secret Neighbor. The company recently took to Twitter to reveal that they are holding yet another press conference this year at PAX West. The press
Growing European publisher Kalypso Media, known for titles like the upcoming Tropico 6, has revealed a new major acquisition. The publisher has acquired the rights to all of the game franchises created by former developer Pyro Studios, namely the popular real-time-strategy Commandos series. The Commandos series has been dormant since 2006, when spin-off Commandos: Strike