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When Street Fighter came out in 1987, there was no story to it. No more than your average sports game, really. There was a martial arts tournament, you could either play as the Japanese karate guy or the American karate guy, and the final boss was a tall dude with an eye patch. Even beating

When E3 2020 was canceled earlier this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, it seemed at first like fans would be doomed to spend a whole summer without any big gaming news. But live streaming has made it easier than ever before for publishers to broadcast the latest and greatest they have to offer directly

At the end of the day, E3 is all about the big reveals. Nobody really cares all that much about what DLC studios are releasing for their dwindling games as a service title or how big the after-party is going to be. These announcements come and go as fans wait for the big moments. Everyone

The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) will make history in 2020. This will be the first year since the very first E3 in 1995 that the annual video game trade show will not be held. E3 2020 was canceled in March, just four months before the show was set to take place, due to the coronavirus

E3 2020 may be canceled, but there are plenty of online gaming events that have taken its place, including IGN’s Summer of Gaming and Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest, which are jam-packed with hours of big reveals, gameplay footage, developer interviews, and much more. You can find a full schedule of events here. This is

Some Activision Blizzard shareholders are attempting to prevent company CEO Bobby Kotick from receiving a substantial payment which they believe is unjustified. “Despite repeated low approval votes from shareholders, Activision Blizzard maintains multiple, overlapping opportunities for its CEO to earn outsize equity awards, even when performance-related vesting thresholds have not been met,” reads a filing

As we noted last year, a round of EA games has returned to Steam as part of an expanded partnership between the two companies which will include eventual EA Access support. Right now, you can not only download games such as Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, Need for Speed Heat, and Dragon Age Inquisition from Steam, but

Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning, a remaster of Kingdoms of Amalur, has been confirmed after the game appeared on the Microsoft Store ahead of an official announcement. According to the listing and this tweet from the Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning team, Re-Recokoning remasters the original Kingdoms of Amalur with “stunning visuals and refined gameplay” that still

Yes, one of the greatest games of the previous console generation is getting a sequel. Fans hoped that Naughty Dog might find a way to return to the world of The Last of Us, but the nature of the original game’s ending left some to speculate whether the developers had said all there was to say

Recently uncovered footage seemingly showcases a canceled first-person Avengers game that was once in development at THQ. The story of this game’s development dates back to around 2010 or 2011 when THQ Studio Australia and Blue Tongue Entertainment were working on an Avengers game that may have released alongside (or close to) the first MCU

Hardspace: Shipbreaker, a new sci-fi puzzler from Canadian studio Blackbird Interactive, is the story of a worker, who, in order to escape a miserable existence on a resource-depleted Earth, applies to work at Lynx, a spaceship salvage mega-corporation. But the promise of a better life in space is a lie. In the opening moments of

Just days after the company announced that it planned to unveil the games coming to the PlayStation 5 in a special digital showcase, Sony has decided to postpone the event to a later date in support of the protests against police brutality happening in many cities across the US. “We have decided to postpone the

SNK’s go-to business practice these days is to release its extensive Neo Geo library on any system that will take it for a few bucks a title. Back in the day, having an arcade-perfect Fatal Fury game at your fingertips would cost you a couple of hundred dollars. Now you can get pretty much any

Outriders is a new sci-fi game from Bulletstorm developer People Can Fly. The game tells the story of a human ship that was launched in May of 2076 on a mission to colonize the planet Enoch, the last hope for the people of Earth. But when humanity arrives on this new, mysterious planet, the team soon discovers

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A report by Eurogamer reveals that Sony has initiated a new policy regarding the PS5 compatibility of PS4 games which may also impact the PS5 compatibility of games like The Last of Us Part 2 and Ghost of Tsushima. The basic terms of this agreement are really quite simple. Any PS4 games which are submitted

Sony has confirmed that it will host a PlayStation 5 live stream conference in June. There’s no word on what, exactly, we can expect from this event at this time. The PlayStation Twitter account only refers to it as a “look at the future of gaming.” Sony has also noted on the PlayStation blog that

Electronic Arts might be preparing to reveal its next Star Wars game in June, according to Bloomberg and former Kotaku games reporter Jason Schreier, who commented on a post published by EA Motive’s new Twitter handle. While at Kotaku, Schreier broke the story that game studio EA Motive was working on a “smaller, more unusual

The High Republic is the first major Star Wars publishing initiative since the end of the Sequel Trilogy. Set about 200 years before The Phantom Menace, The High Republic line of books and comics shows the Jedi in their heyday, led by new heroes and faced with new enemies and challenges. Made up of three

While E3 2020 may be canceled, there are still plenty of ways for you to get your fix of gaming news this summer. In fact, month-long events like IGN’s Summer of Gaming and Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest are promising tons of new game reveals and announcements from upcoming projects. Summer Game Fest will even

New Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier (formerly of Kotaku) claims that sources have informed him that Sony intends to host a PlayStation 5 virtual event next week. The report (which is based on information coming from “people with direct knowledge of the matter”) alleges that the current plan is for Sony to host a virtual event

From the moment Mortal Kombat hit arcades, it was seen as more than just a simple Street Fighter II clone. The controls were different, the atmosphere was different, and it had an extremely different look, thanks to the digitized actors that replaced the traditional pixel art of the era. That more realistic look went hand-in-hand

A report by Sports Business Daily suggests that the NFL will soon extend their deal with EA in order to ensure that the publisher retains the exclusive right to develop NFL simulation video games through 2025. The report indicates that the deal isn’t quite official (it will seemingly be voted on this week), but that

BlizzCon 2020 has officially been cancelled due to concerns over the spread of COVID-19. “Ultimately, after considering our options, we’ve come to the very difficult decision to not have BlizzCon this year,” says Saralyn Smith, Executive Producer of BlizzCon, via a recent blog post. “We’re feeling deeply disappointed about this decision, and imagine many of

Following recent reports of the game’s troubled development, it now seems that Otherside Entertainment has passed the rights to System Shock 3 (and potentially the System Shock series) to publisher Tencent. “Tencent will be taking the [System Shock] franchise forward,” says Otherside Entertainment via Twitter. “As a smaller Indie studio, it had been challenging for

Kerbal Space Program 2 has been delayed due to complications caused by the coronavirus. “We are making a big, expansive game loaded with new features, but doing so will take longer than we previously anticipated,” says the Kerbal Space Program 2 development team via Twitter. “With everything going on in the world today due to

A series of reports have revealed that the next Call of Duty game will be an entry in the Black Ops series focusing on the events of the Cold War. That means that the next Black Ops game could revisit some of the ideas of the first two Black Ops games by presenting an alternate

Mortal Kombat 11 is getting a huge expansion update in May, turning it into Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath. More story mode stuff, Friendships, Stage Fatalities, and new characters will be added. But the big news is the inclusion of guest fighter RoboCop, complete with voice work from actor Peter Weller. While seeing RoboCop arrest the

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare‘s Warzone battle royale mode may not have launched alongside the main game, but it’s quickly become the preferred option for millions of Call of Duty fans. Essentially a much-improved version of the Blackout mode from Black Ops 4, Warzone is rightfully recognized as one of the best battle royale experiences

A recent report suggests that the 2020 Call of Duty game will be a Black Ops sequel that takes place during the Cold War. The report in question originates from a Call of Duty leaker known as Okami. While Okami did not provide much information about the reported Black Ops game, he did tweet a