Mike Futter

Making a video game is a series of creative challenges. Some of those challenges, you've prepared for. You've…

The ESA is hoping to turn E3 into a Gamescom-like 'festival', and an additional 10,000 consumers may pack the…

The game industry is in a huge period of flux, but 2019 only set the stage for enormous paradigm shifts that …

The video game specialty retailer missed earnings and revenue, sending the stock price tumbling. GameStop's f…

GameStop has been trying to figure out how it fits into a post-physical media world since the start of the cu…

Added costs could cripple the tabletop industry and impair the next console hardware cycle. The Trump adminis…

It should have been a celebration. It's been more than four years since the last "Borderlands" game and more …

Playing video games used to be simple. You bought, borrowed, or rented a cartridge, gave it a good blow to "g…

The video game industry is facing a seemingly never-ending string of layoffs and studio closures: Telltale, A…

One year ago at GDC, Game Workers Unite packed a room with developers from across the industry hoping to take…

Valve is addressing review bombing and antiquated storefront presentation, but not how much money it's paying…

Splash Damage has eight number one hits. It's never laid off a single employee. And over the past eight years…

Google has to contend with entrenched consumer attitudes and its own failed policies. Google isn't playing ar…

The video game Kickstarter movement began as part of the indie revolution against the very concept of publish…

Vivendi waged a long campaign to execute a hostile takeover, but confidence in Ubisoft management won out.

What does it mean to "own" a game? In video gaming's infancy, it meant scribbling your name on the back of a …

EA rebuts YouTube creator Gggmanlives' allegation that he was 'blacklisted' for being 'too honest' in his Ant…

Each December, critics and analysts put on their glasses and give the preceding year a 20/20 hindsight wrap-u…

Kickstarter was still a brand new frontier in November 2012 when Chris Roberts' Star Citizen Cloud Imperium G…

There is a certain kind of complacency that sets in when you've been the king for as long as Valve has. Sure,…

The video game world has lost so many studios over the decades that you'd think that the industry would be de…

This year, it's time to say goodbye to Chutes and Ladders. Level up with these great board game selections.

A year of successful disruption has positioned Epic to turn the screws on Valve on behalf of developers. Stea…

One as yet unidentified person has reportedly been arrested in connection with the raid.