Grand Theft Auto Online in-game payments for cash: Rockstar confirms

As Microsoft gears up for a rockstar-like world tour of its latest flagship gaming product Xbox One, Rockstar North has dropped a bombshell that has its doggedly loyal fan base foaming at the mouth. In a blog post last week, the game development giant confirmed that its highly anticipated blockbuster Grand Theft Auto Online will […]

Xbox One goes on rockstar-like world tour in advance of November launch

With Xbox One set for release Nov. 22, Microsoft’s latest incarnation of the beloved gaming console is hitting the road for an intercontinental tour of 75 cities, letting gamers test drive the system up to six weeks in advance. The tour has three flavors: Area One, a traveling gaming party; Test Drive, which is a […]

Steam Controller revealed: the missing link for SteamOS

The third of three binding announcements has been made this week surrounding Valve’s big move toward living room gaming: SteamOS, Steam Machines, and now the Steam Controller. This machine is a next-generation solution to the relatively stagnant state of gaming controllers in the market today, working with two large trackpads, haptic feedback, and a touchscreen […]

PlayStation Network is down today for scheduled maintenance

Supposing you didn’t see the news yesterday, there’s word from Sony today that the PSN (PlayStation Network) will be down today starting at 9:15 AM PST until 3:15 PM PST. This is a standard amount of down-time and will affect the PlayStation Store, PlayStation Home community, or any of the account-management settings. This 6-hour period […]

Steam Machines: in 2014, Valve outmodes Xbox One and PS4

SteamOS is on the horizon – an operating system based in Linux made to run on a variety of devices called Steam Machines. The gaming company known as Valve suggests that their Steam Machines will become “a powerful new category of living-room hardware”, having been created by a wide variety of manufacturers and working with […]

Grand Theft Auto V lays claim to “fastest to $1 billion” sales crown

Suggesting that they’ve attained the honor of becoming the fastest entertainment property in history to achieve worldwide retail sales of $1 billion dollars, GTA V sets itself up against not only other video games, but feature films as well. Though it’s not the same industry save its ability to entertain, it is entertaining (perhaps ironically), […]

Steam living room gaming set for full 2014 launch

The Valve crew have made clear today – as if they’d not done so several times already – that they’ll be growing beyond the traditional deep-dark-basement model for gaming in the year 2014. Word today comes from a Steam space with “livingroom” literally embedded in its URL, with “The Steam Universe is Expanding in 2014″ […]

Hyperkin RetroN 5 multi-console release set for December 10th

So you’re in the mood for playing games from 9 different consoles from the past couple of decades, but you want to do it all on one device – you’re in luck. There’s a device with just that set of features aimed at appearing on the 10th of December, and it goes by the name […]

PlayStation 4 specs dropped by Sony at Tokyo Game Show keynote

We’re here at the Tokyo Game Show, where Sony just held its “Life with PlayStation 4″ keynote, dropping a bunch of details on its next-generation console’s specifications, as well as info on its some of the PS4′s exclusive games and the “gaming experience” as a whole. Joining in the keynote was head Shuhei Yoshida, as […]

Megaman descendant Mighty No 9 headed to PS3, Xbox, Wii U

In the annals of Kickstarter history, Mighty No. 9, the descendant of much-beloved Megaman, has achieved widespread success, hitting and quickly surpassing its first goal, as well as a few after it. Now it has hit another milestone, and the announcement has been made that the game will be coming to the Playstation 3, the […]