Here's something downright cool to top off today's batch of news: Half-Life 2 now features Oculus Rift and Razer Hydra support through a user-created mod. Nathan Andrews, the guy responsible for the mod's creation, has been hard at work for the last several months trying to get head and... [more+]

"Redemption," the final entry in Assassin's Creed III's The Tyranny of King Washington is now available on Xbox 360, PS3, and PC. Wii U owners are going to have to wait, I'm afraid; it won't becoming to the console until May 16.  The Tyranny of King Washington... [more+]

The survival-horror genre hasn't been receiving a lot of love lately. That's why the impending release of Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs is so exciting. As a follow-up to The Dark Descent, one of the best games of its kind, it's got some big shoes to fill, but it seems up to the task. The... [more+]

In the wake of THQ’s back catalog auction, we are slowly-but-surely learning which franchises ended up with which companies. Yesterday, we learned Gearbox managed to grab the rights to the Homeworld franchise, and today, we learned Swedish publisher Nordic Games made off with nearly everything... [more+]

My, I doubt most of us were expecting this. Today, a new film adaptation of a popular video game franchise was announced. Interestingly, unlike most of the game adaptations in the works, this one will be animated. Oh, and did I mention that it’s a Ratchet & Clank movie? Yes, Insomniac revealed... [more+]

Well, well, it looks like Bethesda has another upcoming horror project besides Shinji Mikami’s The Evil Within. According to a listing found on the Australian Classification Board, the company is also at work on an unannounced title going by the name Endless Summer. The classification for the... [more+]

If you're a fan of the Metal Gear Solid franchise, I've got some good news for you: Konami has confirmed that the PlayStation 3 will be receiving an exclusive bundle known as Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection. The bundle will be released in celebration of the franchise's 25th anniversary,... [more+]

I've got some more information on the massive, upcoming Terraria update, courtesy of Jimmarn, the title's main spriter and designer. Jim signed on to the Terraria forums to bring us a few screenshots of one of the new biomes coming in the update (reportedly, Re-Logic is making a biome for... [more+]

Last week marked the final nail in THQ's coffin, as the dying publisher's last assets were auctioned off. Today, we know where at least one franchise ended up: Gearbox Software confirmed that it won the highest bid for the Homeworld franchise.  "Brian Martel, Gearbox Software's... [more+]

Plenty of new and recently-released games did rather well here in the States last month, but none did better than BioShock Infinite.  According to Cowen & Company analyst Doug Creutz, Irrational’s latest shooter sold 878,000 units during the month, which is impressive considering how... [more+]

Since the early days of Halo, Bungie has sought a close relationship with its fans, online and in-game, and that philosophy is a key factor behind their next project, Destiny. In the latest of the company’s “Mail Sack” Q&As, Bungie’s Community Manager DeeJ talked about how... [more+]

Following Nintendo’s announcement last week that Earthbound (known in Japan as Mother 2) would be getting re-released, fans offered to give the Big N their translation of the game’s yet-to-be-localized sequel Mother 3 for free, if that could assure a North American release for that game.  This... [more+]

One of the games industry's longest-standing patent trolls was this week finally shut down. At least, for a little while. As some of you may recall, Langdell and his development firm, Edge Games, have been rather aggressively pursuing what essentially amounts to copyright of the word "Edge"... [more+]

I'm sure most of you still remember the huge security breach suffered by the PlayStation Network back in 2011. You know, the one that caused what might well be the biggest PR crisis in Sony's history? The one that caused Sony to (rather idiotically) change their Terms of Use to disallow class-action... [more+]

So as it turns out, the prediction we tossed out yesterday was correct. All those teaser videos, all that build-up was leading to Bethesda's announcement of Shinji Mikami's new survival horror game, The Evil Within (formerly known as Project Zwei). Developed by Tango Gameworks, the title... [more+]

Some big news today from publishers Capcom and Tencent: Monster Hunter Online has been officially announced! Of course, we don't know a great deal about it quite yet, as the original press releases were in Chinese. Still, the fine folks over at NeoGAF have been kind enough to provide us with a... [more+]

Another day, another creepy Vine video from Bethesda. Thankfully, this is going to be the last one. According to a message Bethesda tweeted alongside the video, we'll be finding out exactly what this whole snafu has been about tomorrow, via IGN. One of my fellow writers, Akil, has an idea... [more+]