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UPDATE: IGN confirms all 35 Crytek USA developers are former Vigil Games employees. The original story follows. Pie-in-the-sky dreams, like Platinum Games buying up the Darksiders license and hiring some of its lead developers from Vigil Games, are well and good. But they don’t mean a lot for the majority …

U.S. President Barack Obama today called for government research into the effects violent video games may have on children. Obama’s moves for tighter gun control regulations and renewed research were informed by Vice President Joe Biden’s task force, which spoke with several game industry executives last week. “Congress will fund …

Children playing violent video games has re-emerged as a national topic of scrutiny since the Newtown, Conn. shooting which left 28 dead. Now, the nearby town of Southington says it hopes to encourage conversation between parents and kids by offering an exchange program to collect and destroy the games on …

What did we learn from last week’s brawl between Ratchet & Clank and Billy and Jimmy Lee? Mostly that folks care so little about the two teams that they can’t even be bothered to click their mouse button twice. Clearly, we’re going to need to step up our fight-promoter prowess… …

Warhammer’s fantasy battles are in experienced hands, as Total War developers The Creative Assembly have signed a multi-game deal for the property with Games Workshop. The studio’s development slate now includes five games, Eurogamer reports, including Total War: Rome 2 and an Aliens licensed project. The deal only covers the …

Hunger games Back when video games were still considered kids’ toys and the phrase “triple-A” hadn’t entered the gaming lexicon, it was common for developers to make games based on contracted product licenses. No industry embraced this practice harder than junk food manufacturers, all of which were eager to convince …

Two ArmA 3 developers remain jailed in Greece, with bond and an appeal against their espionagechargesboth denied, Eurogamer reports from Czech news site Rozhlas. Ivan Buchta and Martin Pezlar have been imprisoned for 70 days, awaiting trial as the Greek legal system remains paralyzed by labor strikes. The pair were …

This week we go over some of the biggest reviews of the week (here’s the Assassin’s Creed III review to get you started) and talk about the gaming urban legends that creeped us out the most. Seriously, this is a spooky episode you guys. You’re done gonna get spooked. This …

Tørnquist isn’t leaving Funcom, however. He’ll retain his advisory role as The Secret World’s creative director while his new studio, Red Thread Games, ramps up production on Dreamfall Chapters. Tørnquist said Chapters will not be an online game but a “single-player PC/Mac adventure game through and through” on his Twitter …

Electronic Arts is putting a lot of its firepower into games as a service. In coming years it may even model its distribution after other online media services. Chief operating officer Peter Moore told Wired a subscription-based program could be just what the doctor ordered to consolidate the changing business …