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.
With the first details and screenshots for Killer is Dead still warm from Famitsu's printing press, Grasshopper Manufacture and Kadokawa Games released the title's debut trailer today -- giving us our first look at Suda 51's latest game in motion.
Citing an anonymous "senior games studio source" who is currently developing an undisclosed game for Sony, CVG is reporting that the rumored PlayStation 4 will not use the 16-year-old DualShock design for its controller.
SuperBot Entertainment announced today that the first downloadable content for PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale will be released on February 12th, adding Gravity Rush's Kat and Starhawk's Emmett Graves to the game's roster.
Citing an anonymous game developer "familiar with the situation", CVG is reporting that Microsoft has "briefed" several European studios on their next generation Kinect hardware and those teams are already working on games using new development kits.
On January 8th of this year Bethesda Softworks filed an application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office to trademark the name Fallout for use in "Entertainment services in the nature of an on-going television program set in a post-nuclear apocalyptic world". Naturally, this has lead to some (very reasonable) speculation that the company is at least looking into the idea of developing the beloved video game IP into a TV show.
Nintendo announced their first quarter 2013 lineup for both the Wii U and 3DS this morning, revealing a relatively lackluster release schedule for their new console that is highlighted by a handful of big titles, like Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate.
According to a new Famitsu report, Team Ninja has confirmed that Dead or Alive 5 Plus on the PlayStation Vita will not only allow players to fight against their PS3 counterparts, but it will also let owners share any downloadable costumes that are purchased from Sony's PlayStation Store between the two versions of the game.
Grasshopper Manufacture and Kadokawa Games have been relatively quite about Suda 51's latest game, Killer is Dead, since revealing the existence of the title shortly before Lollipop Chainsaw's launch last year. Thanks to the latest issue of Famitsu, that long silence has now been broken and the first screenshots and plot details for the upcoming action game have been released.
Hoping to ride a bit of the financial wave created by Activision's Skylanders franchise, Disney Interactive announced this week that they are developing Disney Infinity -- a new video game platform that will leverage the company's powerful brands into collectible toys that are used to play in the game's virtual worlds.
After the majority of the gaming community issued a collective "WTF?!?!" yesterday over Deep Silver's decision to include a statue of a mutilated female torso clothed in a bikini in the Europe/Australia exclusive Dead Island Riptide Zombie Bait Edition, the publisher backtracked a bit and has issued an apology via their Twitter account.