US Appeal’s Court Strikes Down Net Neutrality Rules, Could Mean Bad News for Gamers
A federal appeals court struck down the Federal Communication’s Commission’s rules on net neutrality this past Tuesday. Companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon have been fighting this consumer friendly rule fo...
GameStop Suffers Losses Despite Strong Hardware Sales this Holiday
GameStop (GME), after enjoying a recent 96% stock increase, is suffering from a drop in value after lower than expected holiday sales. The company announced today that while software for the recently launched PS4 and Xbox One p...
Atlus Drops Two New Persona Q Character Trailers
The official Japanese Youtube channel for Atlus posted two new Persona Q trailers today, each detailing a different character: Yosuke Hanamura from Persona 4, and Kirijo Mitsuru from Persona 3. Unless you’re fluent in Ja...
Comcept Reveal Mighty No. 9 Boss Design in Kickstarter Update
In their most recent update, the small team at Comcept have revealed the final design for Mighty No. 4, a boss in the upcoming Megaman reboot, Mighty No. 9. In the post, the game’s director, Koji Imaeda, and the lead cha...
Two Tribes has Closed, “Reboot” in Near Future
Two Tribes, the studio behind the Toki Tori series, have announced that the studio has dropped almost all of its staff and is closing its doors. This announcement comes after the release of Toki Tori 2, which could have been th...
China Suspends Console Ban
Last Tuesday a measure was formally passed that will finally allow Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony to enter virgin territory. In 2000, the Chinese government expressed concern about violent games and their effect on the country&#...
Microsoft Owns Sony-Microsoft.com and Microsoft-Sony.com
In quite the admittedly perplexing move, Microsoft owns the domain names sony-microsoft.com and microsoft-sony.com. Now I know we all like to dream about a utopian future where Microsoft and Sony live out their lives holding ha...
ToeJam and Earl 3 Released for Dreamcast
The world of games is an interesting place, isn’t it? Some days you’ll wake up to new announcements, release dates, delays, mods, patches, etc. But, seldom would I ever expect to wake up to an 11 year old game relea...
Microsoft Charges 50 Cents for Child Account Verification to Comply with COPPA
One user named pumkinut on the ArsTechnica forums came across an interesting issue when trying to create Xbox accounts for his 3 young boys on their new Xbox One. After registering himself, he came across a surprising policy wh...
Allegorithmics’ Substance Engine Benchmarks Show Faster CPU Performance on PlayStation 4
Allegorithmic’s Substance Engine is a middleware engine that is easily applicable on a variety of platforms. Recently, as mentioned on NeoGaf, a recent benchmark study was done using the Substance Engine to test out how w...
Hello Games’ “No Man’s Sky” and Telltale Games’ “Game of Thrones” Announced
So, VGX. I think I speak for what seems like half of Reddit already when I say that Hello Games and Telltale games both stole the show from both Tom Clancy’s: The Division and Titanfall. Hello Games came in with their sur...
Video Game Awards on Steam
Anyone who is planning to watch Spike Video Game Awards will be able to view the program on almost any device this year. Â The upcoming Video Game Awards airs live on December 7 via cable, satellite, consoles, mobile devices an...
Fallout 4 Teaser Site Gets Cryptic
Do you remember that website that’s thought to be teasing an upcoming announcement of Fallout 4? Well, it just became a little more interesting! For those of you that may have missed it, thesurvivor2299.com is a website...
Star Wars: Battlefront for XBox One Available for Pre-Order + New Game Details
Much to my surprise, while hunting for some video game deals at the Microsoft Store website, I came across a pre-order listing for the much anticipated Star Wars: Battlefront on the Xbox One. Not that the title won’t be r...
Sega Trademarks Shenmue 3
It’s finally happening, or at the very least, a certain company (SEGA!) has trademarked “Shenmue 3”, just in case. The news was broken on Segabits.com first, and then expounded on neogaf . Shenmue, and its seq...
