NEWS

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 ...

Telltale Games has released the official trailer for the second episode of their Game of Thrones series. Entitled “The Lost Lords”, the new instalment will follow the same characters we left off in the first episode. The new video on their official Youtube channel depicts characters we are familiar with from the game, show, and books. In the minute-and-a-half long ...

Hideo Kojima has denied Metal Gear Rising 2 rumours in a recent tweet. The rumours were caused by a sizzle reel showcasing the PS4 lineup that Sony released at the Taipei Game Show a few short days ago. The reel includes a brief glimpse of the number 2 (at the 1:38 mark in the video below). It seems to be very similar in ...

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. ...

If you were hoping to continue your adventure in The World Ends With You: Solo Remix, hopefully you didn’t update your phone. In a support email, Square Enix has confirmed that the title will no longer be supported on the new iOS 8. If you need the new iOS 8 update, your best option is bugging Apple for a refund. ...

Nintendo recently announced that they would be phasing out their Club Nintendo program through the coming year with the final shut-down happening on June 30. A new loyalty program is apparently in the works to compete with the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live, but details haven’t been released as of yet. However, Nintendo did promise one last batch of rewards ...

Released in Nov.  2014, Bioware’s Dragon Age: Inquisition was a hugely successful project for the company, going on to become their biggest launch ever. Given the scale of that success, you’d expect the game might influence the design and planning of other games the company’s working on, including the currently in-development Mass Effect 4. Not so, according to Bioware. Right ...

CD Projekt Red’s currently in-development open world magnum opus, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is going to be an absolutely immense game. Just how big are we talking? Gaming news site, Paradiger recently looked up the game’s download size on a Dutch PlayStation Network account, only to find that it requires a minimum download size of 50GB. It would appear that ...

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 ...

Yesterday at the Taipei Game Show, director of Final Fantasy XV Hajime Tabata announced a partnership with XPEC, a Taiwanese development firm. Tabata explained that the outside help was required for finishing the game, since the latest installment of the famous franchise was such a “large scale project.”  Alongside Tabata onstage, XPEC CEO Xu Jinlong and Chairman Aaron Hsu expressed their ...