Tech giant Google is getting into gaming in a big way with a direct challenge to the giants of console and PC gaming. It’s called Stadia. By Stephen Totilo.

This Elizabeth Noir cosplay is the best we've ever seen, breathing life into the stunning BioShock Infinite character (and others).

Epic has responded to growing concern its launcher accesses users' Steam data without permission. The company responded to a post on the subreddit for Phoenix Point, itself the focus of a controversy after signing a deal to go exclusive with the Epic Games store for a year, in which a user revealed the Epic Games store client pokes around your computer when it shouldn't.

Police in India arrested ten college students after they were caught playing PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds on mobile. Gujarat, a western state in the country, banned the game last week over concerns that it’s too addicting and violent. The students were released on bail later today. The students were apparently “so engrossed” in the game that they didn’t look up and notice police approaching to arrest them, one cop told local media.

Rage 2 is a first-person shooter which takes place in a post-apocalyptic future. Following a catastrophic asteroid impact, Earth is in ruin and numerous individuals are put into underground hibernation. Unfortunately, events don't go according to plan and the surface is overrun by mutants and an oppressive organization known as "The Authority." It's up to you to liberate everyone and dismantle the oppressive regime once and for all. Recently, Hardcore Gamer sat down with id Software Studio...

The fighting game community just saw the release of Team Ninja’s Dead or Alive 6 and is now waiting for NetherRealm Studios’ Mortal Kombat 11. On the surface, they have very little in common beyond their genre, but they do share a relevant trait. Dead or Alive 6’s sensual imagery and Mortal Kombat 11’s ultraviolence and gore are both elements that can be considered highly offensive by some depending on culture, nationality, or personal taste.

Brendan Greene, aka PlayerUnknown, has moved on from PUBG to build a new division focused on research and game development. In a statement, Greene said he was moving from Seoul to Amsterdam to lead a new division of PUBG Corp. called PUBG Special Projects. While Greene remains a "consulting creative director" on PUBG, development of the battle royale phenomenon is now led by Taeseok Jang and the PUBG team.

Microsoft is now letting Xbox One owners stream their PC games to the console and use a controller to play them. A newly updated app, Wireless Display app, from Microsoft enables the support so you can play Steam games or other titles directly on an Xbox One. You can use a regular Xbox controller to control the remote PC, enabling game play or even the ability to use an Xbox for presentations.

In the century and a bit since its founding in 1889, Nintendo has made playing cards, designed toys, hired out taxis and briefly run love hotels, but it is the last 40 years or so that have made it a cultural icon. Having dabbled in the video games business throughout the 1970s, in the 1980s Nintendo released the Game & Watch and the Nintendo Entertainment System, and since then it has introduced hundreds of millions of people to the joy of video games – from 90s kids squinting at monochrome...

Dwarf Fortress is a fascinating concept, but if you’ve ever laid your eyes on the subterranean simulation, you’ll know it’s not been the easiest thing to actually look at. That’s set to change very soon, however, as the game’s developers have announced that the game is expanding on its current Patreon pricing model with an official Steam and Itch.io release, which will accompany a massive graphical overhaul.

"Beat the Maze! Win Prizes!" reads the sign on a building called The Maze. A number of Fallout 76 players have stumbled across this player-made building and met its creator and proprietor, Vault101manguy, who stands outside The Maze dressed in a bathrobe and top hat, gesturing toward the entrance. If the players step inside, he slams and locks the door behind them, then watches as they attempt to solve The Maze, a labyrinth with winding corridors, several false doors, and, oh yeah, a rampaging Deathclaw.

Fortnite is getting a new update today that’s making some significant changes to the gameplay for console owners. Epic today rolled out version 8.10 of the game, introducing some major changes to the matchmaking system. With today’s update, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 players are within the same matchmaking pools, meaning they will be playing together and against each other.

The dataminers are still digging away at Apex Legends, and it looks like one may have struck gold. Seemingly eight new characters have been uncovered, along with icons, concept art and names. The whole list was posted on Reddit, along with the previously leaked Octane and Wattson. Dataminer Shrugtal discovered the unannounced characters, though what their abilities might be remains a mystery.

The Division 2 might have the first successful looter launch since Borderlands 2 in 2012, in a genre that notoriously struggles up front.

The 355,000 players caught cheating on Apex Legends were all using the PC version of the game, the studio behind the game has said. Respawn Entertainment said it intended to be "secretive" about its plans to combat cheating, so as not to forewarn players trying to break the rules. Apex Legends has attracted 50 million players since its release last month.

The next success for the company behind Angry Birds could be twofold: convincing the U.S. public they should buy a 5G mobile phone from Sprint Corp., and developing the world's biggest video game streaming platform in the process.

I got my hands on the upcoming PS4 game Days Gone a few weeks ago, and if you want to hear more about it, you can listen to this week’s Kotaku Splitscreen. Or you can read this post.

If BioWare’s Anthem patch yesterday had arrived normally, we might not be having this conversation today. It’s a pretty solid patch, full of bug fixes, quality of life improvements and some decently steep power upgrades for Javelins. Buuuut that’s not all that happened. Before the patch went fully live, there were some sort of server-side changes that once again, made it rain Masterwork and Legendary loot in Anthem for a few hours.

By now, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild needs no formal introduction. Hailed by many as a masterpiece, the game won several awards, including the prestigious Game of the Year award at 2017 The Game Awards. It beat out PUBG, Horizon Zero Dawn, Persona 5, and even Super Mario Odyssey. Despite this acclaim, however, it may be surprising to hear that the game is still selling massively well in Japan. In a tweet linking to an article to 4Gamer.net, we can see that Breath of the Wild is still in the top 20 best-selling games in the Japanese market.

A photorealistic reimagining of Skulltula is absolutely terrifying in Nate Hallinan's art of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time's iconic enemy.