Legendary Heroes, developer Stardock Entertainment’s first expansion for strategy game Elemental: Fallen Enchantress, promises new monsters and champions, larger maps, new tactical battle maps, new quests, and gameplay additions. “One of our goals with Legendary Heroes is to tie together the destiny of your kingdom and those of your champions,” says Derek Paxton, lead designer of Legendary Heroes. Paxton ... Read More.

The NPD group is reporting that last year $14.8 billion was spent on video games. That includes new, rentals, and used games, as well as digital content. According to the report, $7.09 billion were spent on new physical video and PC game, $1.79 billion on used and rental games, and $5.92 billion on digital content which covers full game and add-on content downloads, subscriptions, mobile games and social netwo... Read More.

Zynga lost $209 million dollars during its first year as a publicly traded company, but it is doing better than Wall Street analysts predicted. Gamasutra is reporting that in 2012, Zynga lost money and 6 million people from its user base. That still leaves the company with over 50 million daily users, and the mobile and Facebook game developer's stock prices have gone up six percent. Zynga has been plagued wit... Read More.

THQ has officially notified the SEC that CEO Brian J. Farrell and president Jason Rubin have officially been terminated. What did this mean exactly? It means that THQ is that much closer to no longer existing. No one was holding out hope that THQ would be able to recuperate after its closure and the selling off of its owned properties, but it has not completely dissolved just yet. We spoke with the now former pr... Read More.

Zen Studios is teaming up with LucasArts to take pinball to a galaxy far, far away, and we've got the first screens and trailer. You can get the full scoop on Star Wars Pinball in issue 239 of Game Informer, which provides details on how Zen Studios struck the landmark deal and hands-on impressions of the first three tables: Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Boba Fett, and Star Wars: The Clone Wars. ... Read More.

The list of Xbox 360 achievements for BioShock Infinite have appeared online, but gander at your own risk, because I hear there are spoilers. Tin Soldier (10 points) - Completed the game on Easy difficulty or above. Saw the Elephant (25 points) - Completed the game on Normal difficulty or above. Stone Cold Pinkerton (50 points) - Completed the game on Hard difficulty or above. Auld Lang Syne (75 points) - Com... Read More.

We think that Brownie Brown is kind of a weird name for a game developer. Nintendo must think so too, because the developer of Super Mario 3D Land has just changed it's name to 1-Up Studio. A group of former Square employees founded Brownie Brown back in 2000 and quickly started churning out RPGs like Sword of Mana, Magical Starsign, and Heroes of Mana for for Nintendo's handhelds. According to the company, it c... Read More.

Learn whether or not your Ouya purchase will be worthwhile directly from those who know the system best: game developers. Ouya development kits started shipping to developers about a month ago, and now that these programmers have had a bit of time to play around with the system, what do they think? Good question. We're not the only one who's asked. Engadget posed this to a group of game developer, and here's ... Read More.

République reached its Kickstarter funding goal last May, but the team at Camouflaj has been relatively quiet since then. That changed today when the studio released a video showcasing some gameplay and discussing the strides the game has made. Camouflaj's Ryan Payton admits that some of the features they initially planned may not come to fruition in the final version; one of the major changes is the shift awa... Read More.

The latest update to Riot Games' hit game is now available, and signals a new season of competition in League of Legends. The Season 3 patch adds a brand new league system for ranked play, as well as various balance tweaks and bug fixes. You can see the whole list of changes at Riot Games' site. You can see the trailer for Season 3 right here: ... Read More.

Running won’t get you anywhere in life, but in the bulk of these games, running could save your life. From collecting bananas to racing ice cream trucks to dropping pots on an unknowing passerby’s head, this week’s mobile games will have you running and flinching in your sleep. Temple Run 2 Developer: Imangi Studios, LLC Price: Free Platforms: iOS, Android With the return of the almighty endless runn... Read More.

CD Projekt Red says REDengine 3 will provide the ability to truly create a nonlinear experience for role-playing games set in an open world and featuring player choices. “If we look at RPGs nowadays we find two approaches: one which emphasizes the story but limits the game world, and one that builds a vast open world but hampers and simplifies the story,” says Adam Badowski, head of CD Projekt Red in a press... Read More.

Microsoft and Turn 10 Studios announced that this month’s Jalopnik car pack will include six cars, and will be available for download February 5 for 400 points. Forza Horizon Season Pass owners have special access to new DLC car packs and receive the DLC at no extra cost along with the monthly bonus car. The February bonus car is the 2010 Devon GTX. The six cars offered in this month’s pack include the 1970 ... Read More.

Have you ever noticed that Gordon Freeman, silent protagonist of the the Half-Life series, and academy award winning actor Morgan Freeman have very similar names? And that neither has anything to do with the Grand Theft Auto series? The mod seen in the video below comes from YouTube user wapeddell, who has posted a number of strange GTA IV mods, including one that places Far Cry 3's Jason Brody and Vaas in th... Read More.

The face-scanning technology of 2011's L.A. Noire will always be a little surreal, and seeing it put to use in the context of a gag reel is even stranger. The video below comes from Depth Analysis, the company that created the face scanning technology used in L.A. Noire. The YouTube version of the video was provided by user lessdan, who was nice enough to mirror the video from Depth Analysis' website, which is... Read More.