Last month, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment was openly on a shopping spree. “We’re madly looking for development partners [and] we’re looking at acquisitions,” WBIE senior vice president Samantha Ryan eagerly told If Its Games. Her enthusiasm was well founded–and well funded, given that the emerging publisher had just landed $500 million in funding from a […]

More than two years after the notorious “Hot Coffee” mod revealed a sex minigame hidden in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Take-Two Interactive is still trying to put the incident behind it. The publisher is one step closer to that goal today, as it announced a preliminary settlement agreement that should resolve class-action lawsuits stemming […]

The first-person shooter genre has been nothing if not well represented this year. Today, release dates were confirmed for two more entries in the genre to hit retail shelves before the year runs its course.

Activision has announced Soldier of Fortune: Payback has gone gold and will arrive on the Xbox 360 and PC on November […]

Hellgate: London is a likeable action role-playing game that answers the question “What would happen if you took all the loot lust from Diablo and fit it into a first-person shooter?” OK, maybe you weren’t asking that question, but Hellgate is an interesting game. It will probably come into its own after a few more […]

Capcom today reported earnings for the six months ending on September 30, 2007, and the numbers painted a mixed picture. On one hand, revenues for the period increased 6.6 percent year-over-year to total ¥31.1 billion ($276.3 million), thanks to stronger than expected sales of Monster Hunter 2 and Resident Evil 4 Wii Edition.

On the other […]