Gaming

By Michelle Fitzsimmons Just when you wrote off a Destiny sequel as a unicorn we’ll never see, Activision and Bungie went ahead and announced the next chapter is coming. The news was packed in with several other announcements, but that’s the big one: A full Destiny sequel will release in 2017. In addition, a large…

By Parker Wilhelm Assassin’s Creed may be taking a year off, but that doesn’t mean Ubisoft is slouching around. The video game publisher is working on a new installment to Watch Dogs, according to its latest quarterly report. Not only is Ubisoft gearing up for a sequel to 2014’s open-world cybercrime game, but the report…

By Parker Wilhelm Assassin’s Creed may be taking a year off, but that doesn’t mean Ubisoft is slouching around. The video game publisher is working on a new installment to Watch Dogs, according to its latest quarterly report. Not only is Ubisoft gearing up for a sequel to 2014’s open-world cybercrime game, but the report…

By Michelle Fitzsimmons Assassin’s Creed is taking a year off. Ubisoft made the news official in a blog post, saying it’s decided not to release a new Assassin’s Creed game in 2016. The game maker is instead “stepping back and re-examining the Assassin’s Creed franchise,” and will use the sabbatical “to evolve the game mechanics…

By Michelle Fitzsimmons Assassin’s Creed is taking a year off. Ubisoft made the news official in a blog post, saying it’s decided not to release a new Assassin’s Creed game in 2016. The game maker is instead “stepping back and re-examining the Assassin’s Creed franchise,” and will use the sabbatical “to evolve the game mechanics…

By Darren Allan Fans of gaming-on-the-go who are mulling a laptop purchase in the near future will be interested to learn that HP is planning to bolster its notebooks by including FreeSync technology. FreeSync is AMD’s graphics tech that ensures a smoother gameplay experience by eliminating stuttering and tearing effects – the sort of added…

By Darren Allan Fans of gaming-on-the-go who are mulling a laptop purchase in the near future will be interested to learn that HP is planning to bolster its notebooks by including FreeSync technology. FreeSync is AMD’s graphics tech that ensures a smoother gameplay experience by eliminating stuttering and tearing effects – the sort of added…

By Nick Pino Valve and Unity are joining forces to make developing games for SteamVR easier, Gabe Newell announced today at Unity’s Vision VR/AR Summit in Hollywood, Calif. So far, the partnership includes extra tools inside the Unity development platform and a rendering plug-in that should improve performance for games created for SteamVR. Unity is…

By Nick Pino Valve and Unity are joining forces to make developing games for SteamVR easier, Gabe Newell announced today at Unity’s Vision VR/AR Summit in Hollywood, Calif. So far, the partnership includes extra tools inside the Unity development platform and a rendering plug-in that should improve performance for games created for SteamVR. Unity is…

By Joe Osborne Who reads end user license agreements (EULA)? Anyone? Well, you might start now, because Amazon just trolled all of us in the service terms for its new game development engine, Lumberyard. In Section 57.10 of the agreement, as delightfully pointed out by Daring Fireball’s John Gruber without context, it is said that…

By Joe Osborne Who reads end user license agreements (EULA)? Anyone? Well, you might start now, because Amazon just trolled all of us in the service terms for its new game development engine, Lumberyard. In Section 57.10 of the agreement, as delightfully pointed out by Daring Fireball’s John Gruber without context, it is said that…

By Daniel Griliopoulos Hitman preview Eventually, I start feeling sorry for Viktor Novikov. I think it was after the time I drowned him in the toilet and before the time I dropped a chandelier on him. This is his big day, after all. Not only is his chateau hosting the biggest fashion show Paris has…

By Daniel Griliopoulos Hitman preview Eventually, I start feeling sorry for Viktor Novikov. I think it was after the time I drowned him in the toilet and before the time I dropped a chandelier on him. This is his big day, after all. Not only is his chateau hosting the biggest fashion show Paris has…

By James O’Malley In an apparent bid to destroy the last vestiges of humanity’s good will towards the Sonic brand, Sega’s President and CEO Hajime Satomi has revealed that the company is working on a film featuring the firm’s mascot. The future “yet another disappointing video game adaptation” was revealed in an interview with The…

By Parker Wilhelm In a team-up that will make perfect sense to some and baffle the rest, Japanese virtual pop star Hatsune Miku is going on tour with Anamanaguchi, a band fronted by a hacked Nintendo Entertainment System. For those in the “baffled” category, Hatsune Miku is a digital persona created by Crypton Future Media…