Disney Shuts Down LucasArts Just 154 Days After Acquiring It

Pour one out for the Gold Guy tonight, my fellow gamers. A sage pillar of the industry has fallen. Just 154 days after acquiring LucasArts as part of their larger, $4B acquisition of Lucasfilm, Disney has dissolved the classic video game development company.

Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag trailer prematurely leaked

Ubisoft made a teaser for its “world premiere trailer” for the next game in the Assassin’s Creed series,Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. The world premiere was supposed to take place on Monday, but unfortunately for Ubisoft, the trailer was leaked prematurely. The trailer was leaked through GameRadar’s YouTube channel, and taken down soon afterwards, but to Ubisoft’s horror, many more copies of the videos took its place

Sony's PlayStation 4 is a thinly disguised PC Sony's PlayStation 4 is a thinly disguised PC

Sony may not have had an actual box to display. But it has revealed the innards of its next-gen PlayStation 4 games console. And it's pure PC. The CPU is an AMD design with eight x86-64, low-power Jaguar cores, while the graphics core is also from AMD and derived from its latest Radeon HD family and roughly equivalent to a 7850 graphics board. But does that matter? Possibly. Here's why.

5-year-old boy spends over $2500 in 10 minutes on in-app purchases

Covered by The Telegraph earlier today, 5-year-old Danny Kitchen of Warmley, England racked up a monster iTunes bill after spending £1,710.43 ($2,568.55) on premium add-ons for a free-to-play Apple iPad game called Zombies vs Ninja. Danny’s parents, Greg and Sharon Kitchen, discovered the spending spree the following day after receiving a series of emails from Apple detailing charges for all the in-game objects purchased by Danny.

iPhone more popular among game developers than PSP and Wii

As crazy as it may sound, more game developers are now coding for the iPhone and iPod touch more than they are for even the most common handheld gaming devices. Statistics now show that 19% of game developers are writing games for Apple devices. A number that's twice that of the PSP and Nitendo Wii and DS