For the fourth month running, the PlayStation 4 was the top-selling video game system in the United States, followed by the Xbox One (which sold 115,000 units ), the NPD Group said today. As part of its US sales report for April, the NPD Group reported software sales for both next-gen consoles continue to be promising . "Life to date, sales of PS4 and Xbox One hardware have more than doubled the combined...
Assassin's Creed and Far Cry publisher Ubisoft is not ready to abandon the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 generation just yet. During a post-earnings financial call today, CEO Yves Guillemot said, "We have made it clear that as a company we expect to continue supporting those consoles for the foreseeable future." Also during the call, Guillemot teased that a version of upcoming stealth-action game Assassin's...
Nintendo has come up with a new way to ruin Mario Kart' s once-amazing Battle Mode. ...
Riot Games, makers of League of Legends , tried to combat harassment by analyzing behavioral profiles for tens of millions of users. ...
Fine, so we're suckers for long scrollable timelines. But this one is a doozy. ...
In the wake of Microsoft's recent price cut, GameSpot's editors Tom and Justin debate whether it's enough to beat the PS4....
Microsoft announced today it will ease up on what Xbox Live functionality requires an Xbox Live Gold subscription, but online gaming--as it has since the original Xbox--remains behind that barrier. Unfortunately, that continues to be true even of MMOs and free-to-play games, both of which will continue to require a Gold membership. Speaking with Joystiq , Xbox boss Phil Spencer said, "Right now we...
Rockstar Games' acclaimed open-world action game Grand Theft Auto V has now shipped (not sold) 33 million copies to date, up from 32.5 million three months ago. Rockstar Games parent company Take-Two Interactive disclosed the new figure today as part of its earnings report for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended March 31, 2014. It remains unclear how many copies of GTA V have actually been sold...
Rockstar Games, the subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive responsible for games like Grand Theft Auto V , Red Dead Redemption , and L.A. Noire , will release a game for "next-gen" consoles during the company's current fiscal year. That means this game, presumably for Xbox One and/or PlayStation 4, will be released sometime before March 31, 2015. Unfortunately, no other details about what this project...
How far is this going to go? This is the question I kept asking myself during In Harm's Way, the third episode of the second season of Telltale Games' adventure series The Walking Dead. While the entire franchise has asked increasingly stressful moral questions about what you have to be willing to do to survive in a world of zombies and madmen always looking out for number one, the latest chapter...
Ubisoft clarifies exactly how their game will look on next-gen systems, saying development time was spent improving the gameplay....
PC MMO Guild Wars 2 will launch in China on May 15 at 10:18 a.m. local time. That's the most specific (non-midnight) release date we've ever seen, but it's for a good reason. Developer ArenaNet notes that the number 8 is known in Chinese culture to be lucky. As for the 10 a.m. part, an ArenaNet representative told GameSpot that this specific timing comes down to late morning traditionally being a...
The latest patch for Diablo III , bringing the game up to version 2.0.5, introduces a wide range of changes to all classes, including making the Crusader--the class added in the Reaper of Souls expansion--both tougher and capable of doing more damage. Each of the six classes have been modified, some more extensively than others. The Crusader, which is intended to be the game's toughest class, has...
The 2014 Electronic Entertainment Expo is now just four weeks away. To help you prepare for what promises to be a busy and news-heavy event, we've compiled a roundup of dates and times for the main press conferences and other events happening during this year's show. What: E3 2014 Where: Los Angeles Convention Center. Los Angeles, California Dates: June 10-12 Press Conferences (Watch them all live...
HUGE Microsoft news including a cheaper, Kinect-less Xbox One bundle, Xbox One Games With Gold launching, and some Xbox Live Gold restrictions removed!...
Microsoft announced a $399 version of the Xbox One sans Kinect today--bringing it in line with the current sales frontrunner PlayStation 4. And even without an Xbox Live Gold membership, Xbox owners will finally be able to access entertainment apps like Netflix and Hulu. The comments for those stories, and our interview with Xbox boss Yusuf Mehdi , are a minefield of dissenting opinions, and the GameSpot...
GameSpot's early access reviews evaluate unfinished games that are nonetheless available for purchase by the public. While the games in question are not considered finished by their creators, you may still devote money, time, and bandwidth for the privilege of playing them before they are complete. The review below critiques a work in progress, and represents a snapshot of the game at the time of...
Microsoft announced a price drop for the Xbox One today, but that comes at the expense of the Kinect. Love it or hate it, there are some games and features you can only experience with the camera accessory. Here are the games that are completely unplayable without Kinect: Kinect Sports Rivals Just Dance 2014 Xbox Fitness Zumba Fitness World Party Fighter Within Upcoming games that will likely be unplayable:...
Kevin Vanord explains why Bound By Flame got a score of 4, then talks about the wardrobe choices for characters....
Chris and Mary get funky with it by chucking jars as hard as they can at children and berating naked men in cardboard boxes as they play ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron for the Sega Genesis....