There is a feeling among executives at Ubisoft that the Splinter Cell video games should be more popular. The stealth spy action series was for a time one of Ubisoft's premier franchises, but in recent years it has fallen behind the likes of Far Cry...

The teams at developer Digital Extremes and publisher Namco Bandai are releasing a launch trailer for their Star Trek: The Video Game, designed to distill the experience in order to draw in as many players as possible. The game will be focused on coo...

Nvidia has just released a brand new beta driver for its GeForce graphics cards, improving the performance in many already-launched games, like Tomb Raider or StarCraft 2, but also upcoming ones like Dead Island: Riptide, Neverwinter, or Star Trek. N...

Trawling the Google Play store from an Android phone can be a deflating experience. As shop fronts go, it's poorly designed, ineptly curated, and the vast majority of its game apps are late-arriving ports of iOS hits. Android might be one of the big...

Rockstar Games releases new video highlighting fictional Kifflom religion and Epsilon Program viral marketing campaign.   Rockstar Games is ramping up its Grand Theft Auto V teases. The developer posted a new video today for the game related to the ...

Inzen Studio, a small game startup in Singapore has just released an ambitious project called Game Show Warriors. The launch kicks off with the release of an iOS game called Amazing Studly Strikes, but the studio has quietly released the first two e...

Last week, 60-year-old banker Wang Shiqiang, who worked for state-owned China Jianyin Investment, jumped to his death from a building in Beijing's financial district, the South China Morning Post reports (via Shanghaiist ). Officials at the state-ow...

Quantic Dream co-CEO Guillaume de Fondaumiere says he sees no reason why games should be left out of games-as-art discussion.   Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls developer Quantic Dream has weighed in on the "are games art?" discussion. Speaking duri...

If you think of a sustainably managed forest as one immense field of renewable oil, that goes a long way toward explaining why a global oil corporation like Chevron would team with the forest products giant Weyerhaeuser, in a venture to develop a co...

LG's just shed some much needed light on its May 1st New York event . Turns out the "genius" the company will be celebrating stands for Atlas Genius -- as in the band -- and the star of this fete: the Optimus G Pro . We've already seen and very favo...