GTA V set to release in Spring 2013

Rockstar has announced that Grand Theft Auto V will be releasing worldwide for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in the spring of 2013. The game will take place in the fictional city of Los Santos, set in a present-day Southern… Read More »

Turbine suffers layoffs

Turbine Incorporated, located in Needham, Massachusetts, cut employees yesterday as a part of restructuring at its parent company, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Turbine is well known for its MMORPGs, Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons & Dragons Online. “As… Read More »

Bigpoint lays off employees and CEO departs

Bigpoint will no longer develop games in the US. The browser-based games studio told GamesIndustry International that 80 employees in its Hamburg office, along with more than 40 in its San Francisco office, will be laid off. CEO Heiko Hubertz… Read More »

CD Projekt RED announces Cyberpunk 2077

CD Projekt RED announced this past summer it was developing a RPG based on the pen-and-paper RPG Cyberpunk. With little known about the game aside from a future setting, today CDPR held an announcement event where they revealed the official… Read More »

Nintendo drops price of Wii

Nintendo is cutting the cost of the Wii to a suggested retail of $129.99 in the US before the holiday season. The new price drop will be available in the US by October 28. The Wii will be available as… Read More »

US retailers give Xbox 360 price drop before holiday season

The Nintendo Wii U’s launch will be in November, and many US retail stores have made a price cut on the Xbox 360 in order to sell larger quantities as the holidays approach. GameStop, Best Buy, Amazon, and Wal-Mart have… Read More »

Android bluetooth MOGA gamepad available for pre-order

The Android bluetooth gamepad MOGA add-on will be available for more than 7,000 stores in the US on October 21. If you are interested in the add-on, the MOGA can be preordered from Amazon, Toys “R” Us, Best Buy, Walmart,… Read More »

Remake of Painkiller coming to consoles and PC

An uncut remake of Painkiller is coming to PC on October 31. Publisher Nordic Games has announced that a less gory version of the remake will be available on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC on January 22, 2013…. Read More »

Cliff Bleszinski leaves Epic Games

Cliff Bleszinski, Epic Games’ design director, is leaving for the next part of his career. In the past 20 years Bleszinski has created many games, and shaped the Gears of War series from the very beginning. Epic’s founder and CEO,… Read More »

Teardown of PS3 Super Slim

Sony has confirmed the release of a new redesigned PlayStation 3, and the technology site iFixit has uploaded a teardown of the PlayStation 3 Super Slim. The teardown itself gives a great look into the console’s internal hardware, and what… Read More »