Both Sony and Microsoft are gearing up for the holiday season with various marketing schemes and promotions aimed at swaying potential customers to their side. Just yesterday, Sony drew first blood by releasing a new commercial in which they claim that the PS4 is “the best place to play this holiday 2014.” One can’t expect anything less from a company trying ...

Recognizing that Steam Early Access is no longer what they intended to be, Valve have issued stricter guidelines and rules that all developers must follow. These rules have been set in place in order to make sure that games promoted and funded through the Early Access program are playable and offer value to gamers who pay for them. Moreover, developers must ...

If you’re an Xbox One owner and still haven’t tried out Sunset Overdrive for whatever reason, tomorrow will be your lucky day. Major Nelson just announced that the game will be completely free for all Xbox Live Gold members this Saturday, November 22nd. As you might imagine, there’s a reason why a recently launched triple A title will be available ...

Yesterday we learned that Hovik “Kqly” Tovmassian from Titan has been banned by Valve’s anti-cheat service which lead to him being suspended from the team. With only one week to go until Dreamhack Winter 2014 Titan was in a pretty rough spot as the team was one player short and their fate in the tournament remained uncertain. Sadly, earlier today it ...

Valve managed to upset a lot of Dota 2 players a few months back when they announced that there won’t be a Diretide event this year. Perhaps in an attempt to make it up to us, Valve created a new and very different event that’s unlike anything they’ve done before. The Nemesis Assassin event was first hinted at in the recently ...

Just a few days ago we reported that former Alternate member Simon “smn” Beck was banned for cheating in an official ESEA match. Today, yet another Counter-Strike: Global Offensive professional player suffered a similar fate, although the circumstances were a bit different. The player in question is none other than Hovik “Kqly” Tovmassian from team Titan, who was banned by Valve’s own Anti-Cheat ...

Against all odds, the glory days of World of Warcraft are returning as millions of players from around the world are flocking to check out the new Warlords of Draenor expansion pack. Back in July, the game was not doing so well with only about 6.8 million active subscribers, although as the expansion approached this number grew to 7.4 million ...

Publisher Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has announced Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor players will soon be able to outfit their protagonist with a brand-new skin – the Lithariel character skin (see above) – in addition to trying out a new challenge mode and epic rune. All of these will be available in the Power of Defiance bundle, which is coming to ...

Publisher Ubisoft has revealed a new trailer for its recently-released open-world first-person shooter set in the Himalayas, Far Cry 4. This latest video focuses on the game’s map editor, with which players can create whole new levels by adding all sorts of enemy-soldiers, animals, buildings, and terrain. Additionally, the trailer has also revealed gamers will be able to share their ...

Patch 4.20 – also known as one of the biggest League of Legends updates ever – is now live. This is the first patch of the 2015 preseason and it’s all about “strategic diversity” according to Riot. If you’re thinking this sounds a little vague it’s because it does, but fortunately the company goes on to explain what this actually ...