Ubisoft is being sued by a science-fiction author who claims the publisher has breached his copyright by using ideas from one of his novels in the Assassin's Creed series.
Game reviews used to serve one primary purpose. They were buyer's guides, providing the reader with a summary which informed them whether a game was worth handing over their cash for the proffered experience. A review typically concludes with a numerical assessment - but although it’s usually found at the end of the article, it’s often what players look to first.
Sony has announced God Of War: Ascension, which it says is "the most ambitious" game in the series so far, for PlayStation 3.
Currently in development at Sony Santa Monica under the watchful eye of God Of War 3 design director Todd Papy, Ascension is a prequel, telling Kratos' origin story. That and the below trailer aside, little else was revealed - Sony was caught on the hop a little after the game was leaked early by Amazon.
Warchest, the new free-to-play publishing company from the same stable as Brink developer Splash Damage, has announced Rad Soldiers, a turn-based multiplayer strategy game which will be released for iOS in June.
Organisers of the Develop Conference have revealed the latest additions to the lineup ahead of the event in Brighton this July.
Heading the list is the first ever tech talk from Mind Candy, developer of the hugely successful kid-friendly online game Moshi Monsters. The studio's tech lead of tools, Mark Baker, will tell delegates how to build scalable game servers and tools in the Scala programming language.
Splash Damage, the UK developer of multiplayer shooter Brink, has announced the formation of a new publishing company, Warchest, dedicated to free-to-play multiplayer games.
Troubled publisher THQ has pushed the release of Vigil Games’ Darksiders II from its intended June 29 release date to an August launch.
Community manager Mathew Everett said the delay would allow the dev team to polish the game and fix bugs.
Weekly Vita sales fell to an all-time low in Japan during a slow week for new software releases.
All hardware platforms were down from the previous week, but Vita will continue to make the headlines unless Sony can turn the handheld’s fortunes around. The system placed fourth in the hardware rankings, selling just 8,250 units, ahead of Wii’s 6,837.
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 Awesomenauts.
Troubled publisher THQ has raised its fourth-quarter financial forecasts, telling investors to expect higher revenue and smaller losses, in response to the company's share price hitting a 52-week low yesterday.
The company now expects fourth-quarter revenue to total between $160 million and $170 million, up from the $130-$150 million previously forecast. Loss per share is expected to be between 10¢ and ¢20, down from 35-50¢.
While Trials Evolution's 3D engine is certainly more robust, your rider's neck strength has taken a turn for the worse since HD, according to RedLynx creative director Antti Ilvessuo.
The upshot is that the ability to right near misses in HD, where you were able to flip your bike back on to its wheels after an unfortunate landing, or, more hilariously, shrug your way to the edge of a platform all the while precariously resting on your rider's helmet, is no longer in your armoury.
The PC release of Yakuza Studio's squad-based shooter Binary Domain will be released digitally on April 27, and at retail on May 18, publisher Sega has confirmed.
Its title and the fruit bowl on its App Store icon may suggest otherwise, but there’s no mistaking Five A Day for anything other than a Llamasoft production, from the C64 font on its title screen to the ambient soundtrack, punctuated by tolling bells and the occasional cough. Not forgetting, of course, the floating minotaurs in gaudy sweaters and the reverberating howls and cheerfully silly bons mots that celebrate a level’s completion.
Activision has announced 007 Legends, a Eurocom-developed celebration of the Bond franchise's 50th anniversary for Xbox 360 and PS3.
Due in the autumn, Legends boasts an all-new storyline with missions based on six Bond films. Sadly, only one was specified: Skyfall, 007's latest outing, which will be in cinemas in October.
Jordan Mechner has released the source code from his 1989 Apple II platformer Prince Of Persia after successfully extracting the data from three 3.5" floppy disks.
The development period for the Edge Create Challenge 2012 is now over, and has resulted in a remarkable 50 entries from teams and lone coders across the globe.
This year, the Edinburgh Interactive festival celebrates its 10th anniversary. Until 2006 it was known as the Edinburgh International Games Festival; the name change signalled a widening of the event's focus which, in hindsight, was most timely.
Apple has failed in a bid to dismiss a class action lawsuit which alleges the iPhone maker unfairly profiled from deceptive in-app purchases targeted at children.
The complaint centres around what a group of parents, led by attorney Garen Meguerian, deem to be apps masquerading as free-to-play products that have actually been developed "strategically to induce purchases of game currency".
Bethesda Softworks has launched the debut cinematic trailer for Arkane Studios’ visually arresting firstperson stealth action game Dishonored.
Announced last July, the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC game will be the first release from the Arx Fatalis developer since Bethesda parent company ZeniMax Media acquired the studio in 2010.
Former Sega West design boss Simon Woodroffe has been appointed as creative director at Microsoft-owned Kinect Sports developer Rare.
Woodroffe began his career in games over 20 years ago as a designer on point-and-click adventure Simon the Sorcerer. He went on to form Headfirst Productions, where he developed Call Of Cthulhu for Xbox and PC, before stints at Midway, Ubisoft and most recently Sega.
Tekken series producer Katsuhiro Harada has confirmed that his games will never offer paid-for character downloads, telling us fighting game characters are "like chess pieces" that are "essential [to] the game."
Speaking in the wake of the controversy surrounding Street Fighter X Tekken, which features a dozen DLC characters whose data is already present on the game disc, Harada stated that Namco would not follow a similar route with its own fighting game franchise.
The forthcoming PC version of Dark Souls may not use the controversial Games for Windows Live service for its online features after all, according to Namco Bandai publishing producer Daisuke Uchiyama.
The forthcoming PC version of Dark Souls may not use the controversial Games for Windows Live service for its online features after all, according to Namco Bandai publishing producer Daisuke Uchiyama.
Halo 4 will be released worldwide for Xbox 360 on November 6, Microsoft has confirmed.
Brian Fargo's bid to fund a sequel to revered top-down RPG Wasteland on Kickstarter has come to a close, raising a total of $2,933,197 from 61,289 backers.
A further $107,137 was pledged through Paypal, taking the project past the $3 million barrier, meaning Fargo's team will now produce mod tools for the game.