Fortnite has been downloaded to nearly half of all Nintendo Switch The Nintendo Switch’s online story has more than 1,300 titles available for purchase from more than 500 developers as of October, and Nintendo plans to increase the number of publishers going forward, Nintendo president...

I knew I was in trouble when I found the second door-knocker. Here in “Transference’s” apartment building – a glitch-warren of locked doors, clipped code, and rotting paint – duplicates always mean something, and it’s up to you to figure out what. Taking the brass fixture marked...

While esports might not seem all that connected to these broad historical strokes, professional gaming, as it turns out, is a useful vantage point for understanding how work has changed, why, and to whose benefit. On Monday, well-known “Dota 2” analyst and coach Anthony “Scantzor” Hodgson...

Rocksteady Studios, the developer behind the popular “Batman Arkham” series, is apologizing to fans for skipping this week’s E3 event in Los Angeles. “We know some of you were disappointed we were not at E3 this year,” Rocksteady co-founder and game director Sefton Hill tweeted on...

Season 4’s week-seven challenges are live in “Fortnite,” and that means new ways to earn Battle Stars and experience. By collecting more Battle Stars and upping their tier (up to a season maximum of 100), players can earn limited-time rewards like cosmetic outfits and XP boosts. Weekly...

David Braben is the rare example of a video gaming luminary who has managed to continue to contribute to the medium over the course of three decades. Creator of the seminal game “Elite” in 1984, he founded Frontier Developments in 1993 and has contributed to a wildly varied group of titles,...

Games based on the novels of visionary bigot HP Lovecraft are hardly novel at this point; after all, one need only look at the slurping orifices and writhing tendrils of the masterful ‘Bloodborne” to know that the spirit of the father of cosmic horror is well and truly thriving in the current...