TL;DR: A new Lord of the Rings game reportedly backed by a $100 million investment is said to be developed by Crystal Dynamics, not Warhorse Studios. The game aims for a large open-world experience ...

EXCLUSIVE: Baobab Studios, the Emmy-winning animation studio led by Eric Darnell (Madagascar franchise) and Maureen Fan (FarmVille), has acquired exclusive film and television rights to popular Roblox ...

Fortnite developer Epic Games has announced it is laying off 1,000 staff, due to a "downturn in engagement" in its evergreen battle royale. In a message to staff shared publicly this morning, Epic ...

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Most video games use tutorials to gently teach you the basics. But some games take a very different approach. In this video we explore 20 video games that actually insult you for failing the tutorial.

The developer of games like 'Pokemon Go,' 'Monopoly Go' and 'Marvel Strike Force' does not intend to slow down. By Alex Weprin Senior Editor Scopely has quickly become one of the defining players in ...

Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's been hooked on tech since learning BASIC in the late '70s. When not cleaning up after his daughter and son, Steven can be found pedaling around ...

It has already been a depressingly busy year for layoffs at Ubisoft, and the French publisher’s Toronto studio is the latest workforce to be hit. Around 40 jobs have been cut at the studio, which is ...

As with all creative industries, generative artificial intelligence (AI) has been infiltrating video games. Now, generative AI is being used to produce game assets and speed up development. This is ...

Less than a month after the launch of its free-to-play 2v2 tag-team fighting game, 2XKO, Riot Games is scaling back its development team. Admitting the news was "difficult to share," producer Tom ...

"I think a lot of survival games are really boring," Geoff 'Zag' Keene, founder of Deep Field Games, developers of Half-Life adjacent co-op survival game Abiotic Factor, said in a recent interview.