Crash might be spinning to other platforms.

February 13, 2018 is the day that Mojang will shut down the Scrolls servers for good. Scrolls, in case you've not heard of it, is CCG/board game hybrid that was developed and published by Mojang. It was at the center of a controversy when Bethesda was ready to sue Mojang for having the audacity to name their game Scrolls, claiming that it infringed upon the trademark for The Elder Scrolls. This was bad for Bethesda's PR as Mojang in those days was more of a Little Engine That Could sort of company, and Bethesda was seen as a Goliath tossing stones- ultimately they backed off.

The horror that roils beneath your happy hamlet. By Laura Hudson.

Back in 1973, Steve Miller Band’s “The Joker” was blaring from the PA in a California warehouse as two dozen women in flared jeans assembled Pong circuit boards. The smell of corned beef and marijuana wafted down the manufacturing line. Orders for Atari’s landmark table tennis video game were still pouring in on the crisp October day when Elaine Shirley first giddily entered the warehouse to join the all-woman crew of Pong cabinet-stuffers.

Hawaii is leading the way in addressing the problem of loot boxes thanks to Chris Lee and multiple bills have been proposed. The bills tackle the problem on multiple fronts. First of all, they propose prohibiting the sale of a game to anyone under the age of 21 where there are randomised loot boxes that require payment. All games with loot boxes would also have to be labeled to show they included microtransactions and the odds of the rewards would also have to be disclosed.

In May 2013, Disney licensed the rights to make Star Wars video games to Electronic Arts, and the company immediately assigned projects based on the franchise to some of its top studios. However, rumors are circulating that Disney is not happy with how Electronic Arts has handled the Star Wars license, and may license the brand out to some of the company’s competitors, particularly Activision and Ubisoft.

In a few short years, the graphics card company 3Dfx Interactive provided a polygon-laden shock to the PC world—then fell apart, fast. What happened?

What it’s like to work at a video game powerhouse.

Scrolls was a digital trading card and board game; players would collect cards that were creatures or structures or abilities, assemble these cards into decks and then do battle with other players on a board that was three tiles wide and five tiles long on either side. The game was built upon a simple premise, but was designed for complex and engrossing play. At its best, it was welcoming and accessible to beginners while remaining challenging for advanced players. ...Scrolls was my favorite game, and in memory of it, I’ve chronicled its last days.

Not even a full month after its release, Capcom confirmed that their latest big production Monster Hunter: World had passed 6 million copies worldwide between physical shipments and digital sales. That number confirmed ‘World’ as the fastest selling entry in the series and surprised even the top executives of the company, who had projected the game to have a much slower adoption by the public.

After suggesting Hollywood is to blame for shootings, Trump offered up a system that already exists as a way to curb violent films. He then proposed paying armed teachers a bonus.

During a panel today at DICE Summit 2018, Naughty Dog creative director Neil Druckmann discussed one of the inspirations for The Last of Us, Part II and shared some interesting information about the development of Uncharted 4. "There's a show on Netflix called The End of the F***ing World, which is so well written and acted and quirky, and has been totally inspiring for some of the stuff we're doing in The Last of Us 2—more on the dialog stuff." He also noted how the studio drew a lot of inspiration from Children of Men when making the first game, as they sought to tell an intimate story in-genre that isn't about some massive alien invasion.

An official adaptation of the award winning game "Papers, Please" by Lucas Pope.

Monster Hunter: World is getting a huge official guidebook that boasts 1,008 pages, full of all the info any Hunter could ask for, and it is releasing next month in Japan.

After two decades of Metal Gear games, Japanese publisher Konami’s first attempt at continuing the franchise without its iconic creator, Hideo Kojima, suffered a disappointing first week on Steam. Metal Gear Survive debuted with a peak of only 7,713 concurrent players over the weekend. A 92% drop in the franchise’s player base when compared to Metal Gear Solid V’s 90,952 players back in September 2015.

In correctional facilities across America, inmates cluster around tables in the common room to play games like Dungeons & Dragons. And they do it without dice.

AI research and video games are a match made in heaven. Researchers get a ready-made virtual environment with predefined goals they can control completely, and the AI agent gets to romp around without doing any damage. Sometimes, though, they do break things. Case in point is a paper published this week by a trio of machine learning researchers from the University of Freiburg in Germany. They were exploring a particular method of teaching AI agents to navigate video games (in this case, desktop ports of old Atari titles from the 1980s) when they discovered something odd. The software they were testing discovered a bug in the port of the retr

For a long time, I’ve felt like no piece of video game hardware could surpass the original Nintendo DS in my mind. It checked so many boxes for me. It was a device that had an absolutely incredible and eclectic library of games, from strange musical gems like Electroplankton and Elite Beat Agents, to some of the best iterations of iconic Nintendo series like Mario Kart, Pokémon, and Animal Crossing. Its dual screens and touch interface led to all new kinds of experiences, while at the same time its sleek design (starting with the DS Lite), made it the first piece of video game hardware I owned that didn’t feel like a cheap toy.

Sorry it's been so long since we posted a video, this took a bit longer than expected. Hopefully you'll understand why by the end of this video lol.

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

Sledgehammer Games has announced that Gun Game and Prop Hunt modes will now be available in Call of Duty: WWII permanently, or as they tweeted “for a really long time” because of popular demand. These two modes were introduced during the holiday events that have occurred in Call of Duty: WWII since launch, but have not been able yet outside the events. Now, the modes are available under the Featured tab for players to play.

Someone at Oculus screwed up pretty badly today: An expired certificate appears to have soft-bricked all of the company's Rift VR headsets.

Donald Trump is holding a meeting with the video game industry Thursday, but the official list of attendees is very light on people who make games. Only two publisher executives will be present, as will the head of the industry’s trade group. But also present in the room are two of the most vocal critics of the industry, including one who coined the term “murder simulators,” referring to action games.

Video games development simulator Game Dev Tycoon now has an ultra difficult "Pirate Mode" where your software gets pirated. Emulating the real world problem of piracy, this advanced option will see reduced sales on all of your games. "Bankruptcy is likely", you are told.

Developers can access a wealth of richly detailed Paragon characters and environment assets for use in Unreal Engine 4 projects, no strings attached.

With the release of God Of War less than a month away, fan anticipation couldn’t be higher. With new trailers and news coming every day, both Sony and Santa Monica Studios aren’t about to let that hype fade, today deciding to show off just how detailed and immersive of an experience the game is going to be.

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.

System Shock is still coming. In February, we reported that Nightdive Studios' remake of System Shock was on hiatus as the developers reassessed the project, deciding it had diverged too far from the original vision: a direct modernization of the 1994 game. At GDC on Thursday, I met with Nightdive CEO Stephen Kick and business development director Larry Kuperman, who spoke candidly about where the project went wrong and where it stands now.

Surviving Mars has a lot of interface annoyances and other small issues, but its blend of optimism and dread makes a compelling foundation for a city/colony builder.

Over the last year, Oculus’ public hardware ambitions have mostly centered around their upcoming standalone headsets (Oculus Go and Santa Cruz), with little to say about what’s next for the company’s PC VR headset, the Rift.

Today Microsoft announced that Rare’s newest game Sea of Thieves has passed two million players on Xbox One and PC. On top of this achievement, the shared-world adventure title is now the fastest-selling first party new IP of this generation. According to Microsoft’s own Aaron Greenberg, this specific achievement does not include copies distributed with Game Pass, which makes sense since those aren’t exactly “sales.”

Invitations to the mobile version of Fortnite, which includes the Battle Royale game mode, began trickling out just a few weeks ago. Now the free-to-play title is available to anyone with a compatible iOS device. Developer Epic Games made the announcement this morning on the game’s official Twitter feed. The game requires an internet connection and iOS 11. It is only compatible with the iPhone SE, 6S, 7, 8 and X, and with the iPad Mini 4, Air 2, 2017 and Pro models. An Android version is in the works.

Publisher Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and developer IO Interactive have announced a worldwide publishing and distribution deal for the Hitman franchise. As part of this deal, Warner Bros. will publish Hitman: Definitive Edition for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, which will launch in retail stores on May 18. Here is an overview of the game, via Warner Bros...

This has been shown in a new study conducted at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Charité University Medicine St. Hedwig-Krankenhaus. The positive effects of video gaming may also prove relevant in therapeutic interventions targeting psychiatric disorders.

Larian Studios is, for now, the Divinity: Original Sin studio. Its last two games, both Kickstarted and publisher-free, are the biggest successes the studio has ever seen. The Belgian developer didn’t go from obscurity to success, however, and it has been designing notable RPGs and strategy games, within and without the Divinity universe, for over two decades.