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Bandai Namco's Poké-centric fighting game is getting another playable fighter and a new support character.

Damon Lindelof admits the secrecy surrounding Benedict Cumberbatch's character was a bit dumb.

Something happened in the years between Episode VI and Episode VII. Some massive battle took place, that left an entire planet littered with junked Star Destroyers and a divided galaxy. And it's that very battle, that fa...

GTA V's modding scene has been a slow and evolving ecosystem. It's not like the modding scene for GTA IV where modders took some time to understand the new system and hit the ground running. Nevertheless, modders have fi...

In a scene dominated by the likes of Halo and Call of Duty, we're always glad to look back at a series that always tries to do something different. We decided not to include any of the series' expansions, as many of the ...

Multiplayer game developer DreamSail is looking for a new programmer with UE4 coding experience to join the team at DreamSail's New York headquarters and work on a multiplayer flight game. ...

At GDC 2015, psychologist and Player Research games user researcher Ben Lewis-Evans explored how games can be explicitly designed to reduce anti-social behavior by their players. ...

If you ask anyone in the industry about crunch, you're likely to hear opinions, strongly-held, based on that person's experience. Now, here's some hard data gleaned from the Game Outcomes Project. ...

This week, our partnership with game criticism site Critical Distance brings us picks on topics ranging from environmental storytelling in Fallout 4 to connecting games to the art disciplines of brutalism and opera. ...

Mobile game titan Supercell is working with Apple to sell special "(RED)" in-app purchases for its three popular games and donate the proceeds to The Global Fund To Fight AIDS. ...

"I wasn't prepared for numbers so low that we may actually hold the record for the lowest funding percentage (about 0.3%) for any game project in the history of Kickstarter." ...

Nintendo has gone ahead and launched its new Nintendo Account service in Japan this week, outlined back in October as a cross-platform console, PC and mobile service that would help expand Nintendo's audience. ...

There's only a handful of episodes so far, but the One Punch Man anime has some of the most jaw-droppingly fantastic fight sequences animated this year, even if they are more one-sided than the social media response to a...

"Voice interaction in games is curiously polarizing. Players routinely express frustration with its accuracy, its social awkwardness, its potential for griefing, and its inefficiency." ...

According to a recent posting on the Australian Classification Board website, a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game is currently in development. Hold off on groans for a moment, folks, as it looks like this particular ...

Heads up! Here's a quick note about our new Gamasutra VR and AR newsletter that's launching this month, featuring curated Gamasutra stories sent straight to your inbox. ...

"Lately, I notice that when people tell me that they want to work in video games, I feel a sense of panic on their behalf, like they're telling me that they're about to go and do something dangerous or negative." ...

Masasuke Yasumoto, a professor at the Kanagawa Institute of Technology, created a compelling AR archery experience that uses a real bow with a projector mounted to its front as a controller. ...

With GDC 2016 drawing closer, conference officials are pleased to announce details of two new talks on finding success in the game industry from longtime members Bob Bates and Paul Tozour. ...

Xbox Live's Black Friday sale is finally over but it's been replaced with a new set of discounts. While the current sale isn't quite as big as the Black Friday sales-mageddon, there are some quality games available for c...

The first free DLC pack for Star Wars: Battlefront is rolling out for those who pre-ordered the game and EA and DICE wanted to showcase just how enticing the new DLC is by showing a gameplay trailer of the Battle of Jakk...

South Park: The Stick of Truth was a horribly fantastic game. Even if it did involve a scene where Randy Marsh was horribly violated by an alien anal probe that used Simon Says technology. And it was a fairly decent-size...