Good news for Minecraft fans; Mojang has announced that MineCon, the annual Minecraft convention, will return in 2015. The popular convention used to be held every year, but Mojang skipped last year. Even though Microsoft currently owns the rights to Minecraft, it’s expected that Mojang will still take part. The studio who created Minecraft says that MineCon is the place ...
Read More »Is 2015 the Year of the Streamer? Twitch’s 2014 Statistics Point to Yes
Twitch has released its annual report, and 2014 was a big year for them. First, they were acquired by Amazon for a massive $1 billion, which equated to $970 million in cash. And now Twitch revealed that they hit an impressive milestone of 100 million unique viewers per month. The statistics keep improving, since the site also hit a peak of 1 ...
Read More »Sony Online Entertainment to Become an Independent Company
Sony has sold Sony Online Entertainment, creators of EverQuest, PlanetSide 2, DC Universe Online and the recently released H1Z1 to an investment firm by the name of Columbus Nova. Sony Online Entertainment, now with the name of Daybreak Game Company, will now be able to release games onto the Xbox platforms, along with continuing to release games on the PC, mobile, and PlayStation platforms. ...
Read More »LEGO Announces LEGO Avengers and LEGO Jurassic Park Video Games
LEGO, in their seemingly endless quest to take over the world of entertainment as we know it, has confirmed that it will release two video games this year; one on Marvel’s hit movie and comic franchise “The Avengers”, and another set in the “Jurassic Park” universe. The video games are set to release near the timing of the new films ...
Read More »Just Cause 3 Gets New Screenshots, New Trailer
Avalanche Studios upcoming AAA title Just Cause 3 is promising to be a smash hit following their huge releases of Just Cause and Just Cause 2, both of which are open-world third person shooters. The gallery, which can be found here, shows off Square Enix’s new game engine, called Luminous (also referred to as “Luminous Studio”), that will not only make games ...
Read More »Dying Light Review: An Adrenaline-Packed Good Time
I first heard about Dying Light not through the video game community, but through my friend, a parkour enthusiast, which got me intrigued. After doing some research, I found a few gameplay videos of the demo and was curious to find a zombie survival game with the elements of free running mixed in. It was enough to attract my attention, ...
Read More »Metal Gear Rising 2 a possibility?
The world of gaming has shifted its focus on Asia the past few days with the Intel Extreme Masters Taipei events, but people have new grounds for speculation after the Taipei Game Show 2015 live stream. During the PlayStation 4 sizzle reel at the Sony booth that showcased trailers for The Witcher: Wild Hunt, NBA2k15, Little Big Planet, Metal Gear ...
Read More »New Concept Art for Star Wars: Battlefront 3 Released
EA and DICE have released new concept art detailing a scene from their upcoming sequel, Star Wars: Battlefront 3. The crystal clear, wallpaper-quality image can be found here. While the image depicts a forest scene, more than likely that of the planet Endor, “The scale of our maps and modes offer a great variety depending on the location,” Star Wars ...
Read More »Ermac, Mortal Kombat X’s newest character, revealed!
The Kombat Kast live stream has revealed, that the new playable character for the upcoming fighting game Mortal Combat X is Ermac! The character was teased yesterday ,with an audio only video taken from a fatality sequence. Ermac returns as a defensive style character, with hover, teleport and disappear abilities. Similar to past games, Ermac is able to manipulate soul energy, ...
Read More »Prison Architect – are you a merciful god?
In the era of big AAA games, a smaller title is rising steadily to prominence. Prison Architect is a prison construction and management simulation game by the British game developer Introversion Software. You may know Introversion as the creators of Darwinia, Uplink, and DEFCON. Introversion’s latest hasn’t even officially launched yet, but it has sold more than 1million copies since ...
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