Our June issue, which goes on sale May 9, features reviews and extensive Post Script articles for all the biggest games, including Dragon's Dogma, Fez and Tribes 2.
Video chat service Skype will be released for PS Vita tomorrow, Sony has announced.
The app, a free download from the PlayStation Store, supports the Vita's front and rear cameras, and can run the background - so players can receive calls while playing a game, and return to the action once the call is finished.
EA has released the first gameplay footage from Crysis 3, which was announced last week.
Set in 2047, Crysis 3 sees Prophet return to New York City to find that it has been encased in a Nanodome by the nefarious Cell Corporation. Dubbed the New York City Liberty Dome, the city has been turned into a rainforest of sorts, overrun with trees and swamps, with rivers running through it.
Creating a sense of vulnerability without frustration is no mean feat. No wonder, then, that the entire survival horror genre has found itself eclipsed by games which permit a more empowering response to threat - say, a roundhouse kick to head. It’s fallen to indie games like Jasper Byrne’s Lone Survivor to reinstate the level of confusion and fragility from which the mass market has shied.
Renaud Bédard, programmer of IGF-winning XBLA game Fez, says he will probably not work with Polytron Corporation again.
In an interview, Bédard tells us that Fez's five-year development, during which he worked largely alone, has taken its toll, and he now wants to work as part of a team instead.
Robert Bowling, former creative strategist at Call Of Duty developer Infinity Ward, has unveiled his new studio, Robotoki.
Bowling, who quit the Modern Warfare studio late last month, told Game Informer that Robotoki was to focus on "creating a universe first, experiences second, and game mechanics last.
As far as iOS is concerned, a good rule of thumb suggests that the more sophisticated a game’s visual presentation, the simpler the mechanics you’ll find lurking behind it. That was the case with Chair’s gloriously straightforward Punch-Out!! homage Infinity Blade, and it’s true of Uppercut Games' third-person shooter Epoch, too.
The handbook given to new members of staff at Valve has been leaked, revealing much about the studio's unique way of working.
With the 1982 launch of the ZX Spectrum, Sir Clive Sinclair became the happy father to the UK game industry. The birth, unsurprisingly, was a painful one.
More than 1,000 people have applied to work at Peter Molyneux's Guildford startup 22 Cans.
Speaking to Giant Bomb, Molyneux revealed that there had been a rush of interest in his new studio, which he set up with former Lionhead CTO Tim Rance after leaving Microsoft's employ early last month.
A new firmware update will be released for 3DS this Wednesday, Nintendo has announced.
The update will enable users to create folders on the 3D handheld's home menu to better organise their games and apps. Each folder can hold up to 60 icons.
The Witcher 2: Assassins Of Kings Enhanced Edition is the new UK all-formats number one.
The updated Xbox 360 version of CD Projekt Red's PC RPG, published by Namco Bandai, knocks FIFA Street into second spot. EA's five-a-side football game had topped the chart for four of the previous five weeks.
Nintendo has announced New Super Mario Bros 2, a side-scrolling platformer for 3DS due in Europe this August.
The game, which Nintendo says has been "created specifically as a pick-up-and-play experience that can be instantly enjoyed by players of all skill levels," was unveiled by company president Satoru Iwata at the end of Saturday's Nintendo Direct web stream.
Dota 2 will be free-to-play, Gabe Newell has confirmed, though the Valve co-founder says its implementation will be unlike that found in any other game.
UTV Ignition has confirmed that it will not be the publisher of Vanillaware action-RPG Dragon's Crown, and has passed the rights to Atlus.
Speaking in purely aesthetic terms, Botanicula feels like the cheery yin to Limbo’s monochromatic yang. Both games set their 2D action against an ethereal natural backdrop, but Amanita Design’s point-and-click adventure about a party of five plant-like creatures who set out to rescue the last surviving seed on their home tree switches on the lights.
David Hayter needs little introduction among hardened gamers: he’s the man behind the Metal Gear Solid protagonist’s iconic, perpetually laryngitic rasp. He’s also said to be one of the few voice actors from the series to have finished the games he stars in. Hayter is much more than just a voice, though: when he’s not dabbling with videogames, he’s an accomplished actor (Guyver: Dark Hero), screenwriter (X-Men), and producer (Lost In Oz).
“There is an abomination that plagues this world,” reads the legend that accompanies the third level of Snoitcelfer. There is indeed. It’s the soundtrack, which thuds along tunelessly in the background and would be far better suited to accompanying a Wesley Snipes car chase.
The real reason behind the delay to Prey 2 is that developer Human Head Studios stopped work on the game in November due to a contract dispute, reports claim.
An anonymous source told Shacknews that the Wisconsin-based studio was not happy with the terms of its original contract with ZeniMax, parent company of publisher Bethesda, and ceased development late last year to strengthen its position in negotiating a better deal.
Zach Gage's iOS word game SpellTower has shot up the iPad charts, rising from 297th to third over the course of this week, and its creator has cut the game's price by half in a bid to see it top the chart.
Microsoft's entertainment and devices division, which includes its Xbox business, lost $229 million (£143m) in the three months ending March 31 after sales of Xbox 360 fell by almost half.
Codemasters is to abandon shooter IPs like Operation Flashpoint and focus solely on racing games.
While the UK publisher will keep its name, future entries in the F1, Grid and Dirt racing franchises will be released under a new publishing label, Codemasters Racing. Its debut game will be Dirt Showdown, which today received a May 25 release date.
Yesterday's launch of Trials Evolution proved too much for Microsoft's servers as 100,000 players posted times on the game's leaderboards.
Players of RedLynx's long-awaited follow-up to Trials HD were met with long loading screens as the XBLA game attempted to bring up times for each track, and then repeated failure notices. Ghost replays were also absent. As a result, Microsoft has quickly had to increase available server space.
Starbreeze, developer of the Riddick games and EA's recent Syndicate reboot, is set to acquire Overkill Software, the Swedish studio behind Payday: The Heist.
Announced in a press release, the deal is subject to approval by Starbreeze's shareholders, and includes all of Overkill's technology and IP. That includes Payday, which has been downloaded over 400,000 times on PC and PS3 since its release last October; Overkill is already at work on expansions and a sequel.
Bethesda has moved to deny reports that Prey 2 has been cancelled, but admitted that Human Head Studios' sequel "does not currently meet our quality standards" and will not be released this year.