Besides the hostility Microsoft has had for indie developers over the years, one of the major obstacles standing in the ways of indie developers developing for the Xbox 360 was the fact that Microsoft would charge a fee to patch games. Such a fee may not be a big deal for a company like EA, but when...

If you’re looking to buy some games on the PlayStation Store today, you might want to think again. Sony has announced that the PlayStation Network will be down for maintenance later today from 12:30 PM ET to 7 PM ET. That’s a good 6 and a half hours of downtime there, folks, right in the middle...

To me, Kerbal Space Program is a brilliant game. For all its simplicity (build rockets, and try to fly them) there’s quite a bit of complexity and depth in the game, and it’s not even officially released yet. After all, do you want to risk blowing up some of your brave kerbalnauts on a giant...

With Microsoft’s announcement of their newest console, dubbed “Xbox One”, we’ve been hearing a lot of information about how exactly it will play games. We had heard rumors in months past that the system might prevent people from playing used copies of games, so it came to no shock...

Earlier in the week NVIDIA announced that they were releasing the NVIDIA Shield in June, their own entry into the handheld market dominated by the likes of Nintendo, and intended to give gamers a bit of a different choice. After all, the Shield isn’t just another old handheld console: it’s got...

EA and Maxis knows that SimCity’s reputation is most likely beyond repair at this point, but that’s not stopping them from trying to fix the game. After releasing the 2.0 update just a little over two weeks ago, Maxis has announced that they’re releasing the 3.0 patch this week. Again,...

Besides the apparently “BETRAYAL” that many fans felt when the XCOM shooter was first announced, 2K Games didn’t let that portion of the fanbase get them down. With that being said, however, they still have had plenty of trouble getting the game to release. Earlier this month, however, we...

The first big update for SimCity will be released later today, at 4 PM EST. Expect the game to be down for a few hours while EA updates the game. And this time, the outage is actually intentional! The update doesn’t really add anything, but rather it’s full of different bug fixes and other...