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by Andrew Yoon, shacknews.com, Feb 14, 2012 1:15PM PST

How much would Notch have to cough up to make Psychonauts 2 a reality? $13 million--a sum the Minecraft creator "can do." Read more

by Steve Watts, shacknews.com, Feb 13, 2012 11:45AM PST

The Lego Group has received the rights to make Star Wars video games and toys for another ten years, Lucasfilm announced today. Read more

It's not often you see such dramatic drops in sales. According to the latest data from the NPD, "new launch performance" dropped 99% in January 2012, versus 2011. Read more

A new adventure game from Tim Schafer, Ron Gilbert, and the rest of the Double Fine Productions gang is on its way, having hit its funding goal of $400,000 only eight hours after launching a crowd-funding plan. Read more

by Alice O'Connor, shacknews.com, Feb 8, 2012 10:30AM PST

The original Killzone is far from the finest entry in Guerrilla's FPS series, but if you're a fan, you may have been wondering what was going on with the planned PlayStation Network re-release. In which case, bad news: it's been delayed indefinitely. Read more

Markus "Notch" Persson has offered to help fund Psychonauts 2, following an interview in which creator Tim Schafer quipped that he only needs "a few million dollars" to get started. Read more

At the Taipei Game Show, Square Enix’s Shinji Hashimoto confirmed that Final Fantasy X for PS3 and Vita is a "remaster" versus a full "remake." Read more

by Steve Watts, shacknews.com, Jan 30, 2012 10:30AM PST

Madden NFL 12 predicts the New York Giants will squeak out a victory over the New England Patriots with a late-game field goal. Read more

by Shack Staff, shacknews.com, Jan 27, 2012 1:45PM PST

Shacknews readers share their own stories revolving around the original Max Payne, the latest game inducted into the "MobyGames Classic" series on Shacknews.com. Read more

by Shack Staff, shacknews.com, Jan 25, 2012 12:15PM PST

MobyGames.com Classic returns with Max Payne, the 2001 PC game by Remedy that first introduced the now widely-used slow motion 'Bullet Time' gameplay mechanic. Read more