Back in 2007 when game director Matt Firor started working on The Elder Scrolls Online, he didn’t just have to build a first class game in one of the costliest genres imaginable. He had to build a team, too, since ZeniMax Online didn’t yet exist as a studio.
Sony's conference at E3 2012 is a late one, kicking off at 2am UK time on Tuesday morning, but those of you willing to stay up late can watch the whole thing right here on Edge Online.
Microsoft may not be unveiling a successor to the Xbox 360, but its E3 2012 conference will make for essential viewing nonetheless - and you'll be able to watch the whole thing right here from 5.30pm on June 4.
One more Tiny World this week, which means we’re dealing with yet another product of Ludum Dare 23. This time, it’s all kicking off on Planet 161, a puzzle-platformer by the Brazilian artist and game designer Pedro Medeiros. It’s lovely.
E3 is, without doubt, the biggest event on the videogame calendar, and this year we'll be bringing you live streams of Nintendo's press conference, which kicks off at 5pm BST on Tuesday, June 5.
The long-running legal dispute between Activision and former Infinity Ward heads Vince Zampella and Jason West has been resolved - the day before the case was due in court.
"All parties have reached a settlement in the dispute, the terms of which are strictly confidential,” said West and Zampella's attorney, Robert Schwartz.
The long-running legal dispute between Activision and former Infinity Ward heads Vince Zampella and Jason West has been resolved - the day before the case was due in court.
"All parties have reached a settlement in the dispute, the terms of which are strictly confidential,” said West and Zampella's attorney, Robert Schwartz.
The undisputed star of Konami's pre-E3 broadcast was Platinum Games' Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, with a new trailer showing how the game has changed since development duties were passed to the Bayonetta studio earlier this year.
Few questions in the discussion of videogames are more slippery than, ‘What is a game?’ Many have attempted to nail down a definition that’s specific enough to be useful, while also being broad enough to be able accommodate the many forms that exist. but eventually, inevitably, every definition is met with a ‘game’ that tests its boundaries.
Until recently, there were a few attributes that seemed so fundamental to what a game is that they appeared unquestionable: choice, interaction, challenge, and an emphasis on systems. essentially, something to do.
The 2012 Electronic Entertainment Expo kicks off next week, running from June 5 to 7 at the Los Angeles Convention Centre. As always, we'll have extensive, in-depth coverage of the conference and all the big announcements, but in the meantime here's our guide to some of the highlights we're expecting from the biggest event on the videogame calendar. All times are BST.
Epic Games has been awarded $4.45 million (£2.9m) in damages after successfully winning the lawsuit brought against it by Silicon Knights.
Epic Games has been awarded $4.45 million (£2.9m) in damages after successfully winning the lawsuit brought against it by Silicon Knights.
You can tell by a certain look in each member of the development team’s eyes that the staff at Zemimax Online are already tired of explaining that there will be no dragons in The Elder Scrolls Online. There will, however, be monsters, and plenty of them, since combat lies at the heart of the game’s design.
Forget far-future super-soldiers, the armies of hell, or even the staggering horsepower of next year’s Ferrari: Gauge puts you in charge of nothing more spectacular than an expanding line, and the results are astonishingly entertaining.
The Elder Scrolls Online is our lead preview, and cover star, for issue 242 of Edge, due to land in UK newsagents on June 6.
We take a detailed look at how Zenimax Online Studios has handled the challenge of turning the continent of Tamriel, a land hitherto tuned to the needs of the lone adventurer, into a place for many heroes to explore.