Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games announced today that the studio is using Amazon’s Lumberyard game engine for Star Citizen and the single-player game Squadron 42. As reported by Polygon, Cloud Imperium began development using Crytek’s CryEngine. “We’ve been working with Amazon for more than a year, as we have been looking for a technology…

The first trailer for Alien: Covenant is here. This is the latest entry in the long-running sci-fi horror series, and it looks set to be a seriously intense, scary ride. Check it out below: The film is directed by Ridley Scott, who helmed the original 1979 Alien, as well as 2012’s semi-prequel Prometheus. It stars…

Expanding on the somewhat limited Christmas event that’s already underway, Pokemon Go will soon offer some additional reasons to play during the holidays. Starting on December 25, you’ll have a better shot at hatching a Togepi, Pichu, and “several other recently found Pokemon” from the Johto region. You’ll also receive a single-use Incubator every day…

[UPDATE] Here’s a roundup of all the Daily Deals. We’ll add the newest ones every day. To see all the Xbox Live Countdown Week 1 Xbox One and Xbox 360 deals, go to Major Nelson’s blog. The original story is below. Microsoft’s “biggest-ever” Xbox Live sale has begun. As announced previously, there will be more…

Microsoft has a holiday gift for Halo 5 players. Everyone who plays the game this holiday season will get the Spartan Claus and Candy Canes emblems; here’s what they look like: By “holiday season,” we assume this means at least Christmas-New Years. Those emblems look pretty rad, so hopefully everyone who wants them has time…

Final Fantasy XIV‘s next expansion, Stormblood, will launch on June 20, 2017, Square Enix has announced. The date was confirmed during the game’s Fan Fest event this weekend. As announced previously, Stormblood takes place in the location of Ala Mhigo and will have players face off against a bad guy by the name of Zenos.…

Update: Steam appears to be back online as of 11 AM PT. We’ll continue to monitor the situation in case any other issues arise. Original Story: Valve’s steam service is currently down, with the store, friends lists, and game servers unavailable. The downtime coincides with the start of the annual Winter sale, during which a…

Following last year’s successful Call of Duty: Black Ops III bundle, Sony will again bundle the PS4 with the latest Call of Duty game starting next week. Over on the PlayStation Blog, Sony today announced plans to launch a new $300 bundle with the 500 GB slim PS4 model with what sounds like the Call…

[UPDATE 2] More figures have come in. According to Deadline, Assassin’s Creed may come in at the low end of estimates. The site reports that it might make as much as $13.8 million for its first three days (Wednesday-Friday) and up to $20.7 million for its first four days. Over six days, it could bring…

Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games announced today that the studio is using Amazon’s Lumberyard game engine for Star Citizen and the single-player game Squadron 42. As reported by Polygon, Cloud Imperium began development using Crytek’s CryEngine. “We’ve been working with Amazon for more than a year, as we have been looking for a technology…