Torchlight 2 developer Runic Games has shrugged off concerns that the announcement of a Diablo 3 release date could spell trouble for its game, which takes clear inspiration from Blizzard’s action RPG.

A statement on its official website over the weekend offered the Diablo 3 team congratulations on last week’s release date reveal, then added that it has faith fans will still want to check it out its sequel as well. Continue reading →

Capcom is hunting down hackers who have managed to illicitly unlock DLC characters for Street Fighter X Tekken stored on the game’s retail disc.

As reported last week, 12 additional fighters, intended for a DLC release at 1600 Microsoft Points/£20, were spied in the game’s code. Continue reading →

Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima has pledged to keep on making games until the day he dies.

As widely publicised by publisher Konami, it’s the Metal Gear series’ 25th anniversary this year. When asked by Eurogamer at a Smithsonian event in Washington DC yesterday Continue reading →

The delay in releasing new DLC for Battlefield 3 is due to the team needing to recharge its batteries following the grueling run-in to launching the main game, according to a member of the development team.

A Reddit post from DICE’s Alan Kertz Continue reading →

Portal 2 won Best Game at last night’s British Academy Video Game Awards. Valve’s comedy puzzle adventure was also the biggest winner of the night, taking home three gongs, the others being for Design and Story.

Portal 2′s chief rival and last year’s role-playing sensation, Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim Continue reading →