Square Enix of America's president and CEO today tendered his resignation after almost three years at the company. Polygon reports that Fischer departed the company on good terms, and has since taken up a position as Amazon Japan's vice president of digital music and video. Fischer joined... [more+]

Sony’s Japan Studio recently teased a mystery title simply known as Panopticon. Today, more information was revealed, mainly that the game is actually named Freedom Wars and will be coming to the PlayStation Vita sometime in 2014. A modified version of the trailer from last week was also released... [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+]

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+]

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+]

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+]

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+]

Recall the days of 2006-07. The launch of the PlayStation 3 was a bit of a doozie (what with the startlingly high prices at the time), leading to quite the financial damage for Sony. But now it is 2013, and Sony does not expect the same thing to happen with the PlayStation 4. "Unlike PS3, we... [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+]

Sony today continued to follow Valve's lead with the introduction of a separate category on the Playstation Store for indie games. According to the publisher, its intent is to "house all of our latest indie titles in one convenient place." It'll work pretty much the same way as it... [more+]

For 25 years, EA’s Madden NFL series has given football lovers many an opportunity to enjoy the game in virtual form, but for the last few years, the designer behind 1988’s John Madden Football, Robin Antonick, has been taking legal action against the publisher. The reason for this, he... [more+]