UPDATE: It’s about time. Square Enix has finally announced the Director’s Cut, confirming the Wii U exclusivity and “a full slate of Wii U GamePad features” such as touch-screen hacking, map editing, and augmented sniping (just to name a few). In addition to refined game... [more+]

Supergiant Games, the developer behind 2011’s indie hit Bastion, has lifted the veil off its next project, Transistor, a sci-fi RPG that “invites players to wield an extraordinary weapon of unknown origin as they explore a stunning futuristic city.” According to the developer, the... [more+]

Last night, Electronic Arts confirmed that CEO John Riccitiello has relinquished his position. Effective immediately, Executive Chairman Larry Probst has taken over Riccitiello's duties, as the organization begins its search for a new CEO. Probst was CEO of EA from 1991 to 2007, during which... [more+]

When the trailer for the mysterious title known as The Phantom Pain premiered at last year’s VGA, the fires of speculation burned hot over the game as evidence began to suggest that game is really a clever ruse created by Konami and Hideo Kojima to pull people’s legs and hide the existence... [more+]

Today, Deep Silver and Volition announced that Saints Row IV is headed to all current-gen consoles and PC on August 20, 2013 in North America and on August 23, 2013 in Europe and other PAL territories. In Saints Row IV, the head of the Saints has somehow been elected President of the United... [more+]

Jeremy Soule is among the best composers in the video game industry, hands-down. He's made music for some of the best titles of our era (The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Guild Wars series, Prey series, Dungeon Seige I, LoA, and II, Neverwiner Nights, among many others); music which defined the games... [more+]

Developers of M-rated games fearing a lesser amount of advertising potential can rest easy. The Entertainment Software Ratings Board has revised its rules for the marketing of mature games. The most prominent of these revisions is the one that allows developers to make trailers for M-rated (and likely-to-be... [more+]

Eager Pikmin fans, you won’t have to wait until Pikmin 3 releases at a still-unspecified date in the first half of this year (come on, Nintendo, we’re getting impatient) to get your PikPik fix, for the Big N will release a series of animated shorts starring the little creatures before then. Shigeru... [more+]

The Entertainment Software Association is stepping things up in its move to encourage parents to better monitor what games they let their kids play, announcing a new nation-wide campaign with the purpose of educating them about the tools and choices available to them. The center of this campaign... [more+]

Boy, file this one away in the “O” file, right under “Oops”. On February 26, Danish news channel TV2 was reporting on the conflict currently taking place in Syria, when it made a most erroneous blunder. During the report, an image of the country’s capital, Damascus,... [more+]

After stepping down from his role as president of Epic Games to assume an advisory position last December, Mike Capps has announced that he is leaving the Realm of Unreal for good. "When we announced that I wanted to transition out of my leadership role at Epic, the plan was for a continued... [more+]

Today, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Entertainment released a new video highlighting “the brilliant but infamously ruthless arch nemesis of Superman,” Lex Luthor, in the upcoming fighting game Injustice: Gods Among Us. The video, narrated by Luthor himself, “hints... [more+]

All good things must one day end, and that includes legendary game developer Shigeru Miyamoto's tenure at Nintendo. Though he has no plans to retire in the immediate future, the man has reportedly been considering his mortality of late. Speaking to GameSpot, he revealed that his goal at the current... [more+]

Electronic Arts seems to love putting its proverbial foot in its mouth, and EA CFO Blake Jorgensen's comments to a group of investors last week was no exception to that trend. There, he informed investors that the publisher was planning to build microtransactions into all future games. Apparently,... [more+]

The Deus Ex teasing continues. After discovering Square Enix’s trademark for “Deus Ex: Human Defiance” last week, the Internet has revealed to us that the publisher has this week registered a domain for something by the name of “Deus Ex: The Fall.” In fact, as pointed... [more+]