Justin has been a gamer since the Intellivision days back in the early 80′s. He started writing about and covering the video game industry in 2008. In his spare time he is also a bit of a gun-nut and Star Wars nerd.
Speaking at GDC this past week, Crystal Dynamics' Darrell Gallagher revealed that Tomb Raider's total first week sales not only broke the franchise record, but they also made the critically acclaimed reboot the most successful launch of 2013.
Double Fine Productions officially pulled back the curtain on their Double Fine Adventure Kickstarter project last week at PAX East, revealing to non-backers that the old school point-and-click adventure game will be titled Broken Age. This week at GDC, the developer and "90,000 of their closet friends" publicly released the first teaser trailer for the crowdfunded project, giving the rest of the world its first look at the upcoming game.
Xbox360Achievements has posted a full Xbox 360 achievement list for Deep Silver's long-lost 1960s era biker game, Ride to Hell, which seems to suggest that the title is not anywhere near as lost as we once thought.
In appreciation for the years of patience that fans have shown since Thief was first announced as a current-gen release (titled Thi4f) back in 2009, Eidos Montreal has released an unbelievably exciting teaser trailer ahead of a the game's debut trailer next week.
Shortly after THQ's initial bankruptcy auction ended with an astonishing zero bids for the Darksiders brand, Crytek chief executive officer Cevat Yerli seized the opportunity and opened up Crytek USA Corp. in Vigil Games' (the developer behind the two game series) home city of Austin, Texas. Former Vigil lead David Adams was brought in to run the division as CEO, and the studio was quickly filled with multiple ex-Vigil employees.
Norway-based indie game developer Krillbrite Studio announced at GDC today that they are expecting to release their toddler-based horror title, Among the Sleep, during the fourth quarter of 2013 for both the PC and Mac. Additionally, the company is planning to launch a Kickstarter to fund the remaining development costs sometime next month.
Grasshopper Manufacture founder Goichi Suda (Suda 51) and GungHo president Kazuki Morishita have teased the development studio's next project -- which will follow the worldwide summer release of Killer is Dead -- in a new Famitsu interview this week. Suda 51 did not reveal the name of the new project, however, the concept artwork that he provided to the magazine has led to speculation that it could be No More Heroes 3.
Ubisoft executive Jade Raymond, best known for her role as producer of the original Assassin's Creed, has challenged the belief that a new generation of video game consoles are required for the industry to develop innovative software.
As expected, Electronic Arts officially confirmed Battlefield 4 last night by releasing a 17-minute-long gameplay trailer, which shows off the DICE's brand new Frostbite 3 engine.
Ubisoft's latest Watch Dogs trailer gives us a unique take on the game as it is presented from the perspective of a Chicago ctOS (The Central Operating System) Threat Monitoring Report. Basically, we get to watch Chicago's ctOS employees as they watch Aiden Pearce use his smartphone to hack into the network that controls the entire city.