The battle over the $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft has shed light on the fact that major antitrust watchdogs are woefully unprepared to regulate the gaming industry. …
October 15, 2023 | 09:00 EDT
After releasing to mixed critical and fan reception in 2018, Sea of Thieves has blossomed into something far more endearing and worthwhile since launch. You can practically categorize the slow-yet-…
June 6, 2022 | 12:00 EDT
After three days of trailers, presentations, and over-enthusiastic crowds, it would be rather safe to say that E3 2019 was rather tame. EA’s conference was practically barren. Bethesda evidently…
June 20, 2019 | 01:00 EDT
Sea of Thieves turned one year old and Rare decided to celebrate by releasing a major update. The appropriately titled Anniversary Update is evidently intended to bring Sea of Thieves to a new…
May 14, 2019 | 02:00 EDT
It's that magical time of year again, the week where the biggest companies in the gaming industry start trotting out their best and brightest new projects for the world to look at. From Bethesda to…
June 27, 2018 | 12:30 EDT
In a vacuum, Sea of Thieves is an excellent game. It offers an experience unlike any other, giving people a chance to imagine themselves and their friends as pirates in an open world filled with…
March 27, 2018 | 02:00 EDT
I never like to call a genre dead or dying. The industry usually has its ebbs and flows, and genres fade in and out of popularity over time. They never go away, but it may take some time for them to…
January 2, 2018 | 09:00 EST
Compared to previous E3 events, E3 2017 was relatively tame; there were no overt jabs between Microsoft and Sony regarding their latest consoles (there were some more subtle ones though, i.e. Shawn…
June 16, 2017 | 01:00 EDT
With some of gaming's biggest developers, publishers, and everyone else in between gathering at E3 to show off their latest and greatest, it is inevitable that everyone there will be trying to one-up…
June 5, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
With the news that Square Enix is looking at what to do with Hitman, including possibly packaging it with studio Io-Interactive for sale, one wonders who should buy it. Options include venture…
June 2, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
With some three dozen books (consisting of novels and comic and reference books), a handful of live-action and animated short films, and almost a dozen main and spin-off games flying underneath the…
February 25, 2017 | 11:00 EST
When someone mentions the game Halo, they usually refer to the record breaking First Person Shooter that has earned its place in history, partly due to its multiplayer and surprisingly deep backstory…
February 20, 2017 | 09:00 EST
Epic Games’ very own Tim Sweeney posted a few tweets yesterday to his Twitter profile speaking out against the unannounced Windows Cloud OS Microsoft are developing, saying that the new flavor of…
February 8, 2017 | 11:00 EST
With many AAA games featuring some kind of microtransactions these days, it should come as little surprise that The Coalition's latest entry to the Gears of War series, Gears of War 4, has its fair…
October 18, 2016 | 01:00 EDT
With an incredibly successful release in four continents, Pokemon Go is undoubtedly going to be one of the most memorable games of 2016. A combination of it taking advantage of everyone's nostalgia…
July 30, 2016 | 11:00 EDT
From Halo to Battlefield to Overwatch to Call of Duty, most multiplayer games have some kind of stat tracking feature. It could be as simple as a kill counter, or perhaps even something that just…
July 28, 2016 | 11:00 EDT
The Xbox 360 turns 10 today; it's up into the big double digits, and up until a couple of years ago it was still the current generation. Over the 7 years it had as the lead Xbox console, it had…
November 22, 2015 | 01:00 EST
Following my time with the Surface Pro 4 and Surface Pen, I spent some time talking with a Microsoft representative about their upcoming Lumia phones. (Please bear in mind that food and drinks were…
October 7, 2015 | 09:30 EDT
I received an invitation to an event in New York City regarding Windows 10 Devices and I accepted it (free food and drinks were provided as well). I managed to get a fair bit of hands-on time with…
October 7, 2015 | 09:00 EDT
Later on this month the next significant upgrade to the Windows operating system will be released called Windows 10. Windows 10, over the past year since its announcement, has been showing off more…
July 8, 2015 | 11:00 EDT
For this year's E3, Microsoft is still running back from their disastrous console launch and subsequent reversals of policy. The Xbox One seems to perpetually be available at a discount with games…
June 12, 2015 | 12:30 EDT
And so, the year of 2014 has come to pass. Happy New Year to all you lovely readers! Did any of you make any New Year's resolutions? I did. " I shall never again pre-order a game. Ever." As far as I…
January 7, 2015 | 09:00 EST
Like I mentioned a few days ago when the resurrection of the Battletoads trademark surfaced, this series has surprisingly awesome music. Well, "surprisingly" only based on the fact that one typically…
November 16, 2014 | 11:00 EST
There has been great excitement as the Halo: Master Chief Collection nears its launch date, but there is one snag that the game's development director insists is a non-issue: that there will be a 20…
November 10, 2014 | 09:00 EST
As Steve Jobs famously put “People don’t know what they want until you show it to them.” In essence this is half of what E3 is all about (the other half being a plea for investors to start or…
June 12, 2014 | 10:02 EDT
In the preview to the E3 2014 Microsoft press conference (check out a recap of the press conference here), there was an emphasis that Microsoft was really going to need to do something to sell games…
June 9, 2014 | 06:38 EDT
We put out a lot of different articles talking about what you could see from E3 2014 and what we wanted to see from E3 this year, as well as any news that affects the event. Look here to links to all…
June 9, 2014 | 09:00 EDT
With E3 coming next week, we here at TechRaptor thought we would show you what we expect to see from the major publishers, starting with Microsoft. Their press conference begins June 9th at 9:30 PDT…
June 6, 2014 | 12:00 EDT
As the next-generation of consoles hit store shelves, many early adopters are flocking to snatch these units up at a record pace. Lost in the whirlwind that is the Xbox One and PS4, some kids around…
January 7, 2014 | 09:00 EST