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by John Keefer, shacknews.com, Jun 18, 2013 10:00AM PDT

After a couple of CG trailers and no gameplay, Eidos Montreal is finally showing fans what how Thief is going to play on the PS4. The developer... Read more

Surgeon Simulator 2013 is already perhaps the most realistic simulation of the yahoos and cowboys who pass for surgeons nowadays, I type with my thresher-savaged right arm reattached upside-down and back-to-front, and soon it'll undoubtedly be so. Developer Bossa Studios has announced it's adding supporting for the Oculus Rift VR headset and Razer's Hydra motion controller. Read more

by Steve Watts, shacknews.com, Jun 18, 2013 9:00AM PDT

Hands-on impressions of Final Fantasy 14 on PlayStation 3 from E3 2013. Read more

by Steve Watts, shacknews.com, Jun 18, 2013 8:35AM PDT

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is releasing on next-gen consoles, and CD Projekt Red is going to attempt to release free small DLC on consoles. Larger expansion packs would, obviously, cost money. Read more

The open-world zombie 'em up passed 500,000 sales within its first week, publisher Microsoft Studios has announced, declaring it "the fastest selling original game ever on Xbox Live Arcade." What now? Undead Labs is still working on patches, apparently doesn't have too much to do on the PC edition, and is making a sandbox mode. Beyond that, well, there's still its dream of a full-on zombie MMO, codenamed 'Class4'. Read more

by Alice O'Connor, shacknews.com, Jun 18, 2013 6:40AM PDT

Telltale has narrowed down the launch window for The Walking Dead's $5 DLC '400 Days' from summer to July. That's it. Yup. The DLC introduces five new characters, who each star in their own story as they live through the first 400 days of the zombie apocalypse. Read more

Harebrained Schemes is bringing its successfully crowdfunded cyberpunk fantasy world Shadowrun Returns to PC and tablets on July 25, a little later than planned. But the developer is releasing an editor with the game as promised. Read more

IndieCade's E3 booth was filled with dozens of great indie titles. Here are some favorites from the show. Read more

A golden year for racing games in on the horizon, so Shacknews conducts a comparison of all the racers out on the E3 floor. Read more

When we knew we were going to be getting a closer look at the new Thief during E3, we solicited some questions from the community on what you wanted to know about the new game. We got some time with Daniel Windfeld Schmidt, lead level designer on the game at Eidos Montreal, and he offered up some interesting answers. Read more