Some months ago, my favorite card game, Scrolls, was shut down- seemingly forever. I'd been playing the game since it had left beta, and I watched as the player numbers dwindled over the years. Scrolls is a video game that was with me through good times and bad, chronicled its last days since the announcement that it would be shutting down, and I was sorry to see it go- but I understood what went wrong. Not enough players, slow-paced, not a very profitable game to be running, Mojang getting acquired by Microsoft meant that their bosses wanted results- it made sense.

Sony is the odd one out for Minecraft and more.

The box is an avatar of inspiration, no charging required.

Alexa! Fus Ro DAH! Watch the trailer for Skyrim: Very Special Edition, featuring Keegan Michael Key.

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds soared in popularity last year, introducing the battle royale shooter genre to the masses. The popularity of PUBG led Epic Games to introduce its own battle royale mode in Fortnite, a shooter that now dominates Twitch streams and has become one of the most popular games on the planet. PUBG developer Bluehole previously revealed it had “growing concerns” about the similarities between the two games, and now Korean company PUBG, a subsidiary of Bluehole, has filed a lawsuit against Epic Games in Korea.

Anger over Electronic Arts approach to microtransactions — specifically loot boxes and concerns over pay-to-win tactics — was still on the minds of the company today at the publisher’s EA Play event.

Another year, another E3- this time around, Ubisoft opened their conference with yet another Just Dance game- which was soon followed up with a new trailer Beyond Good & Evil 2; this game is apparently a prequel to its predecessor, and is being described by Ubisoft as a spiritual successor. This game is set in System 3, a vast solar system that serves as a hub of interstellar colonization and commerce- the game's trailer showed of the city of Ganesha, which according to game lore, was founded by colonists from India.

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Those hoping for any major announcements at E3 in June may be disappointed, as Nintendo confirms it’s focusing on Smash Bros. It’s been a very quiet year so far for Nintendo, with no major video game releases scheduled for the entire first half of the year (although there is Nintendo Labo this week).

America, 1899. The end of the wild west era has begun as lawmen hunt down the last remaining outlaw gangs. Those who will not surrender or succumb are killed. After a robbery goes badly wrong in the western town of Blackwater, Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde gang are forced to flee. With federal agents and the best bounty hunters in the nation massing on their heels, the gang must rob, steal and fight their way across the rugged heartland of America in order to survive. As deepening internal divisions threaten to tear the gang apart, Arthur must make a choice between his own ideals and loyalty to the gang who raised him.

Nintendo has given some new details on its long-in-gestation online service for the Switch. The service, officially called Nintendo Switch Online, will go live this September costing $3.99 a month.

There are two major reasons I can think of to hack a game console. The first one is obvious: so you can play cracked copies of games. That’s why modern consoles are so difficult to hack, because millions of dollars are on the line. But some people just want to run any software they choose on the hardware they own. And for those people, Linux on the Switch is a huge achievement.

The gaming company's Commit Assistant AI tool has been trained to spot when programmers are about to make a mistake

For years now, gaming companies like Riot, Blizzard, and Twitch have been fighting online abuse and harassment in their own ways, to mixed results. Now they’re trying something different: Working together.

Warframe is a free to play loot shooter that has managed to garner a hugely dedicated fan base, and earn itself a lot of respect, thanks to excellent and fair free to play game mechanics, and hugely compelling game design. The title is available to play on Xbox One, PS4, and PC—but so far, it has not appeared on a Nintendo system. That could change eventually—speaking to The Express UK, Sheldon Carter, COO of Digital Extremes, noted that the studio loves the Switch, and is examining possibilities—but for now, they have nothing to announce.

Among those involved in David Pokora's so-called Xbox Underground, one would become an informant, one would become a fugitive, and one would end up dead.

As multiplayer games continue to rise in popularity, there's been speculation in recent years that single-player games are dying. God of War director Cory Barlog recently weighed in with his thoughts on the matter and discussed why he believes there's still very much a place for story-driven single-player experiences in gaming. "Single-player games are the phoenix at this point," Barlog said on the latest episode of IGN Expert Mode. "We go through the ebb and flow. Games change by the different creatives that get involved and say, 'I have this crazy idea.'"

Lavishing praise on Nintendo for its fresh and inspired design, a reviewer declared Thursday that a new game in which Mario sometimes dresses as a chef is “simply bursting with creative wonder.” “Every moment of this delightful adventure is overflowing with wildly innovative ideas that take the franchise in a bold new direction,” said video game critic Derek Tillman of the newly released platformer where Mario periodically dons a chef’s hat, jacket, and apron, and can wield a whisk as a weapon.

From the opening of the trailer for "Super Mario Odyssey" -- which saw the mustachioed plumber burst from a manhole in a city resembling New York -- it was clear that change was coming. The latest installment of the gaming industry's best-selling franchise, out Friday on Nintendo Switch, marks a sharp departure from recent outings. Seeing Nintendo's pudgy mascot walk among realistic-looking humans twice his size (but with smaller heads) will be jarring to some.

Nintendo have released their latest earnings report and it seems there is much reason to celebrate for The Big N, given some of the figures contained therein. Nintendo Switch hardware is listed as having shifted 2.9 million units, taking the total to 7.63 million since release, whereas Switch software saw sales of 13.98 million units, for a grand total so far of 27.48 million units. Not too shabby.

Nintendo is getting in the Black Friday spirit this year with deals on Legend of Zelda goodies, including a new 2DS and a Breath of the Wild bundle. For the biggest sales day of the year on Nov. 24, Nintendo is doing two big Black Friday deals: a Zelda-inspired 2DS packed with The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D at $79.99, and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Explorer's Edition for the Switch at $59.99.

Trusted Reviews managed to catch up with Hearthstone senior game designer Peter Whalen at this year’s BlizzCon 2017 event. One of the questions put to Whalen was whether there’s a chanc…

Back in October, GameStop announced that it would debut a used game rental service called PowerPass. Interested gamers could pay $60 for six months to have one title out at a time. At the end of those six months, subscribers would be able to choose a title to keep. But now, according to Kotaku, it looks like GameStop is suspending the program indefinitely.

Last week an interview with CD Projekt RED’s studio president Adam Kicinski appeared to suggest Cyberpunk 2077 could be going the multiplayer or games as a service route, although it appears something may have been lost in translation. Now the official Twitter account has stepped in confirmed Cyberpunk 2077 will be a single-player, story-driven RPG with no hidden catches.

The recent controversy surrounding EA and their insane monetization schemes in Battlefront 2 has drawn the battle lines once again with angry consumers and gamers on one side, while developers and gamers (but not THOSE kind of gamers) making impassioned pleas for understanding. Somehow, after years of feature creep (loaned heavily from exploitative pioneers like free-to-play mobile games and MMOs) the camel's back has broken now that you have to earn credits and craft cards just to play a Star Wars character in a dang ole' Star Wars game.

The Nintendo Switch has continued to absolutely shatter expectations since its launch earlier this year. With more third party support than ever before, and the constant updates keeping the portable console fresh, there is a lot to love about the latest platform from the Big N. According to one market analyst, if Nintendo were to release a Pokemon game for the Switch next year, that market value could go through the roof!

Since his debut back in 2001, Dante swiftly became a gaming icon, representing fun and challenging combat coated in a layer of stylish moves and crazy acrobatics that make you look like an absolute badass. We’re talking juggling enemies in the air with handgun bullets and even riding them around like skateboards. It’s that stylish potential that has drawn in and captivated fans worldwide; after all, who doesn’t like looking super cool?

After years of annoying gimmicks, the gaming legend offered the simple pleasures we desperately needed

Square Enix CEO Yosuke Matsuda has spoken about his desire for the company to make as many of their older titles available as digital releases on newer platforms, like Nintendo Switch. He recognises that there are younger generations that may have heard about their past games but have no means to play them on modern consoles, although adds that they must modernise them rather than relying on straight ports.

Nintendo can forget the Wii U’s colossal flop and celebrate 2017 as one of the best year ever, as the newborn Nintendo Switch’s sales soar over 10 million units. Nintendo Switch is selling as fast as Sony Playstation 4 and is about to reach its old brother Nintendo Wii U, which sold 13,56 million units in its four-year life span. The Japanese company predicts to sell over 16 million Switch by the end of March 2018 and Nintendo plans to produce 25-30 million Switch in the next fiscal year (April 2018 through March 2019).

The minds behind Nintendo's biggest 2017 games talk about their favorite moments.

We knew it was coming a few weeks ago but it’s still a surprise – the Nintendo Switch has officially outsold the Wii U in Japan in just over nine months on the market, according to the latest figures from Famitsu (and pieced together by Nintendo Everything). That means the 3.32 million units threshold has been passed on the region. Another interesting tidbit is that the Switch sold 115,255 units in the week of December 25th while the Wii U just sold 69 units in the same period.

Last March, the Nintendo Switch launched. Since then, it’s been lighting up sales charts everywhere. The launch of the Switch caused Nintendo’s business to change in two ways: it officially phased out the Wii U, but it also cast a bit of a shadow on the company’s previous breadwinner, the 3DS. After a rocky start, the 3DS has been able to perform very well over the past few years. Its success has been bolstered by several hardware revisions, creating a family of six different models. The latest one, the New 2DS XL, just launched last summer.

Unseen for decades, ROM is now preserved by the Video Game History Foundation.

Nintendo has big ambitions for 2018. In a recent interview with Japanese newspaper Mainichi ( which we saw via NintendoEverything ), Nintendo's president Tatsumi Kimishima said that the second year of its successful Switch will be "crucial," and that the console has "a long lifespan."