News

Curt Schilling’s Role-Playing Game Supposedly Needed To Sell 3 Million Copies To Not Fail

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning needed to sell three million copies just to break even, Rhode Island government Lincoln Chafee told reporters today during a press conference about the game studio run by Curt Schilling that has all but collapsed.


May 23, 2012
News

Major League Baseball 2K’s Cancellation Looms On Grim News From Game’s Creators

Take-Two Interactive, the parent company of 2K Sports, notably left Major League Baseball 2K out of its planned releases in its coming fiscal year in a call with investors today. Kotaku asked Take-Two Interactive if it could confirm the end of the series, and it released this statement.


May 22, 2012
Xbox

Microsoft Does The Right Thing, Offers Full Refunds To Select Minecraft Gamers

Minecraft on Xbox 360 is a lot of fun, and has sold incredibly well. One of the coolest things about the game is that players can enjoy crafting alongside their friends via local split-screen multiplayer.


May 21, 2012
News

Aliens: Colonial Marines Will Take Players On A F***ing Bug Hunt On February 12, 2013

You’ll finally get your chance to snuggle up to the deadly Xenomorphs of the Aliens film franchise when Aliens: Colonial Marines hits consoles and PCs early next year.


May 8, 2012
News

There Will Be A New Need For Speed Later This Year

Collect your winnings, people, on one of the safest bets in video games. There will be a new Need for Speed this Australian spring, a fact EA believes it already told us (they did?).


PC

Star Wars: The Old Republic Loses 400,000 Subscribers

Star Wars: The Old Republic has dropped from 1.7 million active subscribers to 1.3 million, publisher Electronic Arts said today in an earnings statement.


May 2, 2012
Xbox

Call Of Duty: Black Ops II Is Official

Call of Duty‘s UK webpage confirms the long-rumoured sequel to Call of Duty: Black Ops. The website has this info about the game: “Pushing the boundaries of what fans have come to expect from the record-setting entertainment franchise, Call of Duty®: Black Ops 2 propels players into a near future, 21st Century Cold War, where technology and weapons have converged to create a new generation of warfare. Pre-order today.”


May 1, 2012
Xbox

Skyrim Kinect Support And DLC Announcement Coming Tomorrow

Skyrim’s Kinect update will go live tomorrow, Bethesda said this afternoon on its blog. The publisher will also announce the first downloadable content pack for its popular role-playing game, although VP of Marketing Pete Hines warned that we’ll only hear a “tidbit” of information about the upcoming DLC.


April 26, 2012
PC

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Cancelled, Developers Say, But New Game Survivarium Lives

Just two weeks after promising signs of life from creative studio GSC Game World, it looks like post-nuclear horror FPS S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 is dead for good this time. But that doesn’t mean that fans of GSC’s creepy Eastern Bloc survival shooting won’t have anything to play.


News

Adam Sessler Out At G4

Long-running gaming personality Adam Sessler is no longer at G4, the TV host’s representative said today.