Hey, remember Deathstroke, that DC Comics assassin who will be going toe-to-toe with the Dark Knight in Batman: Arkham Origins? Turns out he will be playable when the game comes out later this year. This was first suggested by the discovery yesterday of an Amazon offering, giving the character as DLC... [more+]

Quick, if someone has started making calendars for the year 2015, buy one and mark the Twenty-Second of May, for that is when “Assassin’s Creed: The Movie” is set to release. Meaning we are now only two years and two days away from watching Old World folk getting stabbed in the throat... [more+]

Et tu, Sony? As you are all no doubt aware, Microsoft plans to unveil the Xbox 720 / Xbox Next / Project Durango at a press event tomorrow evening. Sony's aware of it too: in response, they've released a teaser video of the PS4, informing everyone that they will be revealing the full console... [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+]

For the last week, a counter was slowly ticking upwards on the PlayStation Japan website, and then, once it had ticked all the way to "1,000,000 years", a trailer for a new game from Sony’s Japan Studio was unveiled. The trailer doesn’t say much about the game, currently... [more+]

In bringing Diablo III to the PlayStations 3 and 4, Blizzard is looking at ways to work around the greatest difference between PC version and console version: the control scheme. In a new developer’s diary, Production Director John Hight, Lead Designer Joshua Mosqueira, and Senior Designer... [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+]

Over the last few years, the Online Pass system that popped up in more and more games has earned a serious amount of flak for how it locked online features to a one-time code. EA was a notable offender in this regard, but now it looks like the publisher is finally doing away with its Online Pass program. VentureBeat... [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+]

After last week's news of today’s Gran Turismo 15th anniversary event left us expecting it, Sony Computer Entertainment has gone and surprised no one by announcing the next iteration of the Real Driving Simulator, Gran Turismo 6. Coming to the PlayStation 3 (not 4) this holiday season,... [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+]

1666, a game we still know next to nothing about, has been suspended indefinitely by Ubisoft after the departure of Patrice Desilets. The title, which was under development at THQ Montreal, came under Ubisoft's umbrella of titles when they recently acquired the developer. The game was originally... [more+]

Grand Theft Auto V, you cheeky. I wouldn’t be surprised if scores of your fans are now weeping despondently because of you. This morning, Take-Two Interactive, parent company of Rockstar and 2K Games, confirmed that the highly-anticipated new installment in the controversial saga of unrestrained... [more+]

If you happen to be waiting eagerly for The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, you should be happy to know that there are new details for you to gnaw on between now and the game’s release on August 20 (or August 23 depending on where you live). Sporting gameplay that has been likened to Gearbox’s... [more+]

Bungie has dropped new information about its first post-Halo shooter, Destiny, providing a slew of information on the playable classes in the game and the setting it takes place in. For starters, the update reveals more about the mysterious planetoid known simply as the Traveler. Centuries before... [more+]