Activision Publishing a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, announced today that Skylanders Giants is the #1 best-selling console and hand-held video game year-to-date overall in dollars, including toys and accessories, in the U.S. and Europe and remains the biggest kids' videogame launch in the last 12 months in the U.S. and Europe. In its first two weeks, Skylanders Giants sold more... more.

Valve, creators of best-selling games (such as Dota 2, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced a $250,000 community-funded prize pool for The 2013 DreamHack SteelSeries Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) Championship. The CS:GO crowd-funding initiative began several weeks ago with the release of The Arms ... more.

The wait is over: the first Rise of the Triad update is now live on Steam and GoG.com, including hundreds of fixes, tweaks, optimizations and features requested by the rabid fan community during the first month since release. Said Frederik Schreiber of Interceptor Entertainment: "We are extremely happy about the feedback we have gotten from you guys and we couldn't have done it without you... more.

Since the beginning, vehicles have played an essential role in the all-out-warfare experience that happens only in Battlefield. With Battlefield 4, the vehicle gameplay options and customization possibilities are greater than ever before. In the latest Road to Battlefield blog, DICE’s Senior Vehicles Designer Patrick “Posh” O’Shaugnessy provides an in-depth look at the development of t... more.

Deep Silver today announced that the ‘Developer Pack’ - the third piece of add-on content for Metro: Last Light - will be available worldwide on Steam and the Xbox Live online entertainment network from Microsoft on September 17th, and will hit the PlayStation Network on September 17th in North America and September 18th in Europe and the rest of the world. There are three main parts t... more.

Deep Silver today announced that the ‘Developer Pack’ - the third piece of add-on content for Metro: Last Light - will be available worldwide on Steam and the Xbox Live online entertainment network from Microsoft on September 17th, and will hit the PlayStation Network on September 17th in North America and September 18th in Europe and the rest of the world. There are three main parts to th... more.

PlayStation gamers hungry for a unique gameplay experience, get ready! Renown Swedish indie developer Coffee Stain Studios announced today that the critically acclaimed tower-defense and first-person shooter game, Sanctum 2, is now available in North America on PlayStation Network. The unique combination of intense shooting action and strategic tower-defense design delivers an intriguing ... more.

Deep Silver and 4A Games today released a dedicated Mac version of Metro: Last Light via Steam, with an App Store release set to follow shortly. A Linux version is also in development, scheduled for release later in the year. Metro: Last Light on Steam will support Steam Play, meaning that owners of any Steam version will automatically find the game added to their PC, Mac and Linux Steam librar... more.

Today, Kalypso USA is making available some new screens and info from Air Conflicts: Vietnam, our upcoming arcade air-combat game, which we’ll be releasing later this fall on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Windows PC. Vietnam. 1965. A long-simmering conflict escalates into a full-fledged war, and you are about to become a big part of it... Jump into the cockpit of some of the finest comba... more.

Today, Kalypso USA is making available some new screens and info from Air Conflicts: Vietnam, our upcoming arcade air-combat game, which we’ll be releasing later this fall on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Windows PC. Vietnam. 1965. A long-simmering conflict escalates into a full-fledged war, and you are about to become a big part of it... Jump into the cockpit of some of the finest combat air... more.