According to Polygon, mobile game developer, publisher, and service provider DeNA will be publishing 22Cans' next game, known as Godus.  Godus is billed by Molyneux as a god-style mobile game which serves as the spiritual successor to Molyneux's earlier title Populous. The immensely... [more+]

The NPD Group yesterday released its report for the month of April, and things look a touch grim at the moment. Partially due to a lack of compelling new software or IPs (and the fact that Easter was in March this year), game sales overall dropped by 25% compared to the numbers from last year, totalling... [more+]

Feel E3’s too mainstream? Looking for something with a more alternative flavor? Venus Patrol, the website "in search of beautiful things from the world of video games," has you covered, as it will be hosting a press conference of its own. Next month, during the last day of E3, Venus... [more+]

Today at Google I/O 2013, the tech giant formally announced its new Google Play games services. The redesigned games platform will include achievements, multiplayer match-making, cloud saves, and leaderboards. Google is also considering granting players the ability to transfer their games (and saves)... [more+]

All’s been a bit quiet on the Sonic the Hedgehog front lately. SEGA has kept relatively mum about the future of its spiky blue critter, only hinting at big things to come in  2013, while the only games that have come out since Sonic 4: Episode 2 are iOS Sonicfications of Doodle Jump... [more+]

Battlefield developer DICE is going west. Today, it was revealed that EA is opening a new DICE studio in Los Angeles. The plan, the Wall Street Journal reports, is to pull from the LA area’s “extreme talent pool” for the development of new Star Wars games, the publishing rights for... [more+]

Rovio, developer of the Angry Birds franchise, has announced that it is entering the business of publishing with a new label called Rovio Stars, which will release third-party titles from “talented and innovative developers.” Already, the label has two games in the pipeline: Nitrome’s... [more+]

The Nvidia Shield, the five-inch handheld Android console which debuted at CES 2013, has finally been priced. Nvidia will sell the device for $349 through Newegg, GameStop, Micro Center, Canada Computers, and its own website in North America. Pre-orders for the device will start on May 20, though no... [more+]

The Ouya has been delayed. According to Ouya (the company, not its machine), the Kickstarter-funded, open-source, Android-powered $99 console’s release has been pushed back three weeks and is now set to launch on June 25. See, it’s not as severe as it could have been. The delay also gives... [more+]

Looking forward to the Star Wars games that EA will be creating as part of the exclusive publishing deal it made with Disney? Don’t get too excited now, for we still have to wait a good while more before we see said deal yield fruit. EA addressed the question of when the new SW games will be... [more+]

Violent video games have come under a great deal of fire in the wake of the Newtown shooting; perhaps they serve as a fitting scapegoat for men and women trying to make sense of a senseless tragedy.  Whatever the reason, they've been subjected to a considerable degree of scrutiny ever since... [more+]

EA’s not the only company under legal fire this week. Christopher Orlando Torres and Charles Schmidt, creators of the super-popular Nyan Cat and Keyboard Cat memes, have sued Warner Bros. and 5th Cell over the Scribblenauts series, which has featured the memes in several of its games. In a... [more+]

After a less-than-stellar year, Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai put forth the proposition that he and his fellow executives give up their bonuses. The board has, according to Bloomberg, backed this proposal, with somewhere around 40 executives giving up their bonuses, equal to between 30-50% of their salaries.  Things... [more+]

Though some may argue its legitimacy, mobile gaming has caught on like wildfire. The mobile market is among the most profitable in the field (though, due to piracy, it's often one of the riskiest), and the proliferation of better hardware means mobile platforms are becoming more and more capable... [more+]

Since November of last year, millions of iOS and Android users have chipped and chipped away to see what lies at the core of the massive cube at the center of Peter Molyneux and 22cans’ Curiosity, seemingly without end. But soon the world will finally get to know what’s inside the... [more+]