EA has added servers and offered free games to help appease disgruntled SimCity players.
The social and mobile game developer is no more.
With $7.7 million raised and more on the way, Chris Roberts is well on his way to building his ambitious Star Citizen game.
How does Battlefield and Dragon Age for Mac sound? Count on it, because DICE is working to port the Frostbite game engine to OS X.
Valve's Steam service and the Mac App Store must be trembling in fear right now.
From game violence to sex chat, game companies got into hot water in 2012.
The Walking Dead may be GamesBeat's Game of the Year for 2012, but here's the other titles our staff picked as contenders for the crown.
Editor's Pick It's no secret that first-person shooters -- in all their Hollywood-inspired clamor and spectacle -- don't simulate the realities of war very well. From basic rules of engagement, to gun safety (i.e., don't flag your buddies), and the dynamics of combat, FPSs are more akin to interactive action flicks than a proper recreation of armed conflict.
Get to level 50 without paying a single cent? Yes, please.
Bioware, the developer behind Star Wars: The Old Republic, has just posted a fairly thorough explanation of what it’s doing to prepare its Star Wars-themed massively multiplayer online …
In what appears to be an inevitable move, Electronic Arts has released a new version of its Madden Football game built specifically for mobile devices and social networks.
Two new games from the Mass Effect team are in the works at BioWare.
The doctors are retiring from the developer that brought us Mass Effect.
We have jobs news from the gaming industry that's not about layoffs. We're back, baby!
EA and Insomniac Games' upcoming multiplatform shooter puts alien technology in dangerous hands.
Zynga is diving into real-money gambling, but Electronic Arts hasn't decided what to do yet.
Hardcore gamers will like the high-end 3D graphics in Command & Conquer, a free-to-play online title coming in 2013
Editor's Pick This just may be a blinding flash of the obvious, but apparently we like ads that don't suck. And fit into our current context. And give us something we want.
Whoda thunk?
The NPD Group just released its sales numbers for new physical retail and electronic distribution video game sales for the month of July 2012.
Commander Shepard pulls off his best Big Daddy impression as he dives into mysterious waters in Mass Effect 3: Leviathan.
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