News: Microsoft and Sony must embrace change or face failure with the Xbox 720 and PS4, says Valve boss Gabe Newell as he details his wish-list for the next gen, and asks why World of Warcraft has never come to consoles. “I think that you either embrace the new approaches or you go away.” Those are the [...]

Sony America CEO Jack Tretton says it would be ‘distracting’ for Sony to reveal the PS4 in 2012, saying the company would do better to focus on the PS Vita. Sony Computer Entertainment America CEO Jack Tretton hopes the company won’t decide to reveal its next console in 2012. An announcement of the PS4 would be ‘distracting’ from [...]

Bethesda have admitted that they knew about the Skyrim PS3 lag problem before release – but didn’t make moves to fix it because they thought only ‘a small percentage’ would be affected. Bethesda knew that Skyrim might be laggy on your PS3 – but they thought you’d be one of only ‘a small percentage’ affected by the problem. [...]

Notch downplays stories of potential Psychonauts 2 funding, asking the internet to stop ‘hyping’ it before anything is confirmed. It’s almost as if Notch and Tim Schafer are working at cross-purposes on this supposedly-maybe-possibly-happening Psychonauts 2 . The story so far: Notch very publicly offered to fund the development of a Psychonauts sequel, and Schafer, the brains behind the original, seemed [...]

Capcom have released new details about Resident Evil 6, including setting and character info, as well as some hints to the style of play. Resident Evil 6 will be set in the year 2013, Capcom have confirmed amid a glutton of new details about the upcoming survival horror game. It’ll take place in China, but a third playable [...]

Minecraft developer Markus ‘Notch’ Persson has allegedly offered $13 million to fund a potential Psychonauts 2. Last week, an interview followed by a Twitter conversation led to a surprise offer: Markus ‘Notch’ Persson , of Minecraft fame, approached Double Fine’ s Tim Schafer with the view to funding a sequel to cult classic Psychonauts. But it’s only now that the scale of this offer is [...]

With just a week to go before the launch of the PS Vita, a series of Vita Room events is set to hit London. London’s Oxford Street will play host to a series of Vita Rooms events next week, as Sony’s new handheld gets set to unleash itself on the UK. Members of the public will be [...]

Squeenix’s plan to lower the number of Final Fantasy XIV servers didn’t please fans – so the company has announced it will ‘reassess’ the situation before taking any further steps. Square Enix had planned to merge some Final Fantasy XIV servers, but the community didn’t respond so well. As such, they’ve agreed to hold off while they ‘reassess’ [...]

The Mass Effect 3 Xbox 360 demo is was available early to those happy to play around with a Facebook app. UPDATE: The keys are now all gone. Sadface! Itching to play the Mass Effect 3 demo and feel like waiting until tomorrow is just too much for you to handle? In that case, you might want to get on [...]

Double Fine’s new game, Adventure, is being crowd-funded via Kickstarter – and it’s hit its $400,000 target after just hours. Double Fine Productions recently employed adventure games legend Ron Gilbert , and he and Tim Schafer have been working away on something. That something is an adventure game, currently dubbed just  Adventure, and the company is crowd-funding its development via Kickstarter. [...]

Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City offers the series the chance to get out of “the same old pattern” it had become stuck in, says the game’s producer. Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City might not be going down enormously well with series diehards, replacing as it does the survival horror with high-octane co-op shooting, but it serves an [...]

Upcoming PSN title Journey, from the creators of Flower, is finally finished – and we can expect a release date to be announced soon! A lot of people have been waiting patiently for artsy PSN title Journey, after developers thatgamecompany rose to fame with their previous title, Flower. But Journey has been three years in the making, without any [...]

Minecraft, the indie smash hit from Mojang, will most likely get its world height increased – that’s according to new project lead Jens Bergensten. Ever gazed longingly into the sky of Minecraft and though, wistfully, ‘I wish the sky were ever-so-slightly higher’? If you have, then I bring good news: it looks like your dreams will come [...]

Indie dev Dan Marshall thinks player death in videogames is usually “a bit shit”, and that it’s quite an archaic way of adding threat and challenge to a game. But he’s not sure what we should be doing instead. What do you reckon? It’s a standard videogame trope: you fight, you lose, you die, you respawn [...]

Player death in games is “a bit shit” according to Size Five boss Dan Marshall, who cites the likes of Uncharted 3 among the main offenders – but praises titles such as Super Meat Boy for their treatment of the trope. It’s a generally accepted trope of videogames. You move around a world, you shoot some [...]

Making a complex indie game isn’t hard, says Gratuitous Space Battles developer Cliff ‘Cliffski’ Harris – it’s just that most game developers are lazy. Making games is an easy job. That’s according to Cliff ‘Cliffski’ Harris , developer of many huge indie games including Gratuitous Space Battles . It’s not like you’re going to war, he says. You’re sitting indoors [...]

A conference in London tomorrow will see independent developers gather to discuss topics such as videogame death, videogame addiction and where you can find the tea and biscuits. Bit of Alright looks set to be a celebration of all things videogames. Hosted at the Battersea Arts Centre in South London, it’s a day for independent developers to [...]