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Finally, Tetris Has A Follow-Up: Squares To Spheres, How Groundbreaking!
Seems like it's been around since the beginning of time. At least in the gaming industry that is. The game we're talking about here is Tetris. Rumor has it, it's a New Game from Tetris Author Don't we all have a fond memory of picking up our...
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Spawning Not A Zerg Power? Oh My!
Cheap gamers celebrate! With spawning now enabled, StarCraft II is free to play as long as one member of a party has purchased either of Blizzard's expansion sets Heart of the Swarm or Wings of Liberty. You're saying I can mooch this off a...
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Zynga Cuts Staff
Social game powerhouse Zynga confirms that it has decided to lay off roughly 18% of its global workforce. Based in San Francisco, Zynga's staff reduction will be felt primarily in Los Angeles, New York, and Dallas, whose offices will be closed...
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The Last of Us Multiplayer Details Leaked
The gaming gods over at Naughty Dog studios say the The Last of Us will be the game that'll "change the f***ing industry," (referring to the video game industry, not porn, which would literally be "the f***ing industry"). Notoriously, the gaming...
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Metro: Last Light First Week US Retail Sales Beat Metro 2033 Lifetime Sales
German Publisher Deep Silver (Saints Row IV, Dead Island) are appropriately crowing about the success of Metro 2033 sequel Metro: Last Light. The latter title has managed to outsell its predecessor's total in US retail sales during just the first...
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Sony's The Last of Us Heads to Playstation 3 June 14th
The Last of Us, developer Naughty Dog's PS3 exclusive post-not-exactly-zombie-apocalypse survival game, is coming to the Sony console on June 14th. The third-person perspective survival adventure side-steps the all-too-common zombie shooter...
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Sony Playstation 4 wins IGN's People's Choice Award
In head-to-head online voting through IGN's Versus feature, Sony's recently-announced Playstation 4 console trounced Microsoft's own recently-announced next-gen console, the Xbox One across all the voting categories. Given that likely nobody...
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Wolfenstein: The New Order: Finally, a Shooter Where You Can Kill Nazis
Developer GameMachine (comprising many former Starbreeze-- Chronicles of Riddick-- personnel) is developing the latest Wolfenstein-branded title for publisher Bethesda. Out of the hands of the seemingly Nazi-obsessed id Software, GameMachine has...
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