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Zen Studios is developing a table inspired by Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead series for its pinball games. The table will launch across console, mobile and PC versions of Pinball FX 2 and Zen Pinball 2 this summer. The table will “bring the story and choice-driven gameplay” of the game’s...

*The following is a transcript of a recorded conversation from a U.S. military base.* Private Rogers: That “major” update to Battlefield 4‘s netcode that DICE VP Karl Magnus Troedsson mentioned last week is ready to launch, major! Major Clarence: Roger, Roger. Are we green, general? General Victor: You have clearance,...

There aren’t any monsters in Always Sometimes Monsters. No giant, scaly creatures with sharp claws and beady red eyes; no tentacled squid beasts; no fuzzy, purple and green dinosaurs. The game instead tackles figurative monsters in questions of morality, offering the player mundane choices in everyday situations: Do we buy...

Murdered: Soul Suspect is proof of the old adage, “you can’t keep a good cop down, even when you put roughly half a dozen slugs in his chest, because that dude will turn into a ghost that smokes ghost cigarettes.” We … may have embellished that a little bit. While...

That turkey is still out there. Oh, I know he’s still out there. Gobbling. Laughing at me in the dark as I struggle to build a fire and actually feed myself on Day 3. To hell with you, turkey! We’re coming back in there, giants or no giants, and we...

Ubisoft sold four million copies of Watch Dogs in the game’s first week at retail, the publisher announced today. The game is now Ubisoft’s “best-selling game ever in week one,” according to its internal sales estimates. Watch Dogs launched last Tuesday for PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360 and PC....

Valve made an appearance at last week’s Boston VR Bender event, showing off an updated version of its in-development VR technology to attending developers. Captured images show a new prototype of Valve’s polka-dotted VR headset, which likely features a new method of precise positional tracking, according to VR Focus. A...

  A new video of what’s claimed to be the Battlefield: Hardline beta has surfaced. Before EA steps in to block it, check out what appears to be the game’s empty world, featuring the familiar Battlefield interface and player’s inability to fly a helicopter. Seriously, the way you know this...

This year’s lineup of blockbuster games is on the wane, with Batman: Arkham Knight making a high-profile exit into 2015. The Arkham series, which has mainly been a product of Rocksteady Studios and the matching realization that Batman games don’t have to be robot-punching slogs through Gotham’s sewers, is set...

Crytek’s second unveiling in as many days is Hunt: Horrors of the Gilded Age, a four-player action game that combines the prosperous industrialization of the late 19th century with pistols, crossbows and a likely bestiary of beasties. Also noteworthy is the developer, Crytek USA, the studio largely formed by ex-employees...