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30 Years of Awesome Over the past 30 years, Capcom has created some of the greatest games, franchises, and characters in video games, but they’ve also done so much more. Often times it’s the little things that stick with us – an insane line of dialogue, a brilliant control decision, …

Only a fool would argue E3 is irrelevant when we’ve just witnessed another absolute cracker of a convention. 2013’s E3 has brought us everything we expected and more. The memes (opens in new tab), the gaffes, the unforgettable moments… it’s reignited passions and set us up for at least another …

Square Enix Montreal will get cozy on tablets with Agent 47 as a result of changes within the publisher’s internal studios. Square Enix revealed several “strategic changes” to keep up with a changing market in a press release today. Patrick Naud, former assistant studio director of Square Enix Montreal, will …

The Walking Dead: 400 Days will lurch onto PS Vita this summer. The mid-season content appears to expand the first season of Telltale Game’s critically acclaimed series with a new, self-contained story, and Sony’s rising to the the occasion with a new bundle. The special PS Vita bundle will include …

Please welcome Steven Spielberg! Those four words above mean different things to different people. If youre at the Academy Awards or a film premiere, people immediately applaud to show their respect and gratitude for everything Steven Spielberg has done for cinema over the last 40 years. But if you hear …

UPDATE: Trion tells us the layoffs were not as bad as IGN’s sources indicated: “up to half of the company was not affected by the reduction,” and reports of some employees being escorted out of the studio and others not receiving severance are false. The original story follows below. The …

Resident Evil 6 managed to sell 4.9 million copies through the 2013 fiscal year, a far cry from Capcom’s original projection of 7 million. The action horror reunion tour sold well at launch but lost momentum more quickly than expected, the publisher said in its most recent financial statement. DmC: …

Hideo Kojima has scuttled the team responsible for the next Zone of the Enders game. Kojima delivered the news on his HideoBlog podcast (via Siliconera), saying he wants to re-evaluate the franchise and fan expectations before continuing. “Project Ender” was announced last May, but we’d heard little more about its …

The virtual foundation Video games have come a long way since their inception. In the beginning, they often took the form of text-based adventures and ambiguous displays of pixels meant to represent characters or objects. Now? We’ve got visuals so stunningly realistic that it’s sometimes hard to tell a virtual …

Square Enix has laid off multiple employees from its Los Angeles office, according to a statement made to Polygon. The publisher did not comment on the number of employees affected. “We can confirm that Square Enix’s Los Angeles office has eliminated a number of positions as part of the corporate …