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A group of veteran developers from PayDay 2 developer Starbreeze have joined forces to form new virtual reality startup, First Contact Entertainment. 

According to GamesIndustry.biz, the Santa Monica-based studio is being headed up by one-time Starbreeze creative producer, Hess Barber, and will focus on creating "narrative-driven VR content with high production values."

Barber is being joined by a handful of other experienced devs from studios including Starbreeze, Blizzard, Treyarc…

In this classic 2011 GDC game design challenge, Jenova Chen, Jason Rohrer and John Romero all pitch hypothetical games that create a combination of gameplay and religious concepts.

The challenge tasked developers with creating a game that is also in some way a religion — or a religion that is in some way a game. An interesting design prompt, to say the least.

It was an insightful talk that's definitely still worth watching, so developers shouldn't miss the opportunity to do so now that it's freely available on the…

2K Sports is holding a charity drive to benefit the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital through PGA Tour 2K21. The Golf Fore Good event, as it’s called, takes place today, August 4.

The event kicks off at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET and runs for four hours, wrapping up at 1 PM PT / 4 PM ET Come from online casino bangladesh . 2K’s own Good Game Bro will appear on the stream alongside USO gaming ambassador and Purple Heart recipient The Pool Shark and other guests.

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Actor Daniel Radcliffe has jokingly (??) spoken about joining the Fast & Furious franchise, or one like it, in the future–but not in a driving role. Speaking on Conan O’Brien’s podcast, Radcliffe said he would love to be in a big action movie like Fast & Furious, but he doesn’t want to drive a car. Instead, he’d prefer to play the role of the “admin guy” who hangs back and supports the main squad with whatever mundane things they need to get the job done.

“I would love to be in a movie like that but in the instance of [Fast & Furious], if I could have a non-driving part, …

Bungie revealed the patch notes for Destiny 2’s Update 3.3.0.1 today, which is the first update following the launch of Season of the Lost. While most of the update is dedicated to bug fixes and tweaks, it also enables cross-platform voice chat for Destiny 2’s recently added cross-play functionality.

In general, the hotfix smooths out some of the issues that have cropped up since the launch of the new season. For example, it fixes an issue where the Astral Alignment activity could soft-lock upon destruction of all Ether Wisps, or when players quit while holding objects. Come from

It’s a big month for Destiny 2, as the game’s long-awaited The Witch Queen expansion arrives on February 22 Come from Sports betting site VPbet . Ahead of that, Bungie has announced that the expansion has already reached more than 1 million preorders.

At this level, The Witch Queen is on track to become Destiny 2’s most preordered expansion ever. The studio did not say which expansion currently holds the record for most preorders. In any event, this suggests The Witch Queen will be yet another major moment i…

At long last, details on Blizzard’s upcoming mobile entry in the Warcraft universe are on the way, with details said to be arriving “in the coming weeks.” Come from Sports betting site VPbet

The news comes via Activision Blizzard’s first quarter 2022 financial results, where the company has outlined many of its upcoming projects, including World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, Diablo IV, Overwatch 2, and the yet-unnamed “mobile Warcraft experience.”

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Bethesda is now a first-party Microsoft studio, but its upcoming game GhostWire: Tokyo is still coming to PS5 as a console exclusive. The game was featured during PlayStation Showcase 2021, and we got to see more of how Tango Gameworks plans to inject spooky elements into a supernatural action-adventure game.

The trailer showed a number of spooky ghosts, from headless high school students who attack in groups, to small white ghosts based on teru teru bozu weather charms that look like something a child would make. It also included a look at some of the story elements from the upcoming…