A recent survey revealed some troubling, but perhaps unsurprising news. According to Bank of America, 47% of American consumers admitted that they wouldn’t last a single day without their smartphone. Furthermore, it turns out that most of the surveyed people consider their devices to be just as important as their car (91 percent) or deodorant (91 percent) and more important ...

Age of Empires Online has been officially taken offline. The MMO real-time strategy game, which was a collaboration between Robot Entertainment (formerly Ensemble) and Gas Powered Games, was taken offline today at 4 PM Pacific Time. The announcement comes via their company blog, and ends a run which began with the game’s launch in August 2011. The final statistics stand ...

An updated version of 2003’s Crimsonland is coming to the PlayStation 4 on July 15th, Finnish developer 10tons has revealed in a PlayStation Blog post. The classic top-down twin-stick shooter started as a student project for the PC, but its success spawned a company that now has nearly three dozen games under its belt. Now the guts, gore, and immaculately-paced ...

The latest developer diary for FIFA 15 features a trailer that shows off the graphical improvements to the next installment of the popular sports franchise. EA Canada boasts of updated character models and body rigging that produce “the most realistic players ever created in a FIFA title” and a group of improvements designed to make the pitch more realistic. A ...

DayZ has been in the early Alpha testing phase since December 2013 so it’s safe to say that development for the game is progressing rather slowly. Sure, Bohemia Interactive has released plenty of updates since launch and a bunch of interesting features have been already added, with more promised to arrive soon. So what’s taking so long? Gamespot recently caught up with ...

CD Projekt Red have announced Witcher: Battle Arena, a multiplayer online battle arena game, set in the same universe as the company’s The Witcher series. The game is being developed externally by Fuero Games, and will be made for iOS, Android, Windows Phone and Windows tablets. The game is completely free to play, and the company says you can play ...

Behaviour Interactive announced the launch of the Founder’s Program for their upcoming MMORPG Warhammer 40K: Eternal Crusade. The company also revealed the prices for the pre-order packs, which range from $40 up to $450. Behaviour explains on their official website what this Program is all about: “Buying any Founder’s Pack is the same as Pre-Ordering the final game. Only with ...

Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4 was recently voted the best game engine by developers in the Develop 100: The Tech List. The voting was done by over 45 technology know-hows, indie devs, and other industry experts. Unreal Engine 4 ranked number two overall on the gaming tech list, being surpassed only by a credit-card sized computer that goes by the ...

Bioware RPGs are well known for featuring characters of all sexual orientations and Dragon Age Inquisition is no different. A few days ago the company revealed Dorian, a Tevinter mage that was said to be the “first fully gay” male character of the series. While this new character seems like a great addition to the companion lineup, the company’s statement managed to raise ...

Dead Island publisher Deep Silver has announced a new installment in the zombie shooter franchise: Escape Dead Island. Developed by Swedish studio Fatshark, Escape Dead Island follows Cliff Carlo as he arrives on the zombie-infested island of Banoi from the first game, weeks after the events of Dead Island, as he and his friends try and find out exactly what ...