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Defunct publisher THQ is suing Electronic Arts and Zuffa, the parent company of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), over the UFC video game license, which THQ formerly held and EA now possesses. In the complaint, which THQ filed on Oct. 4 in U.S. District Court in Delaware, THQ alleges that EA and Zuffa worked together

Young video game company Nordic Games now owns the majority of bankrupt publisher THQ’s most famous properties, including Darksiders, Red Faction and the MX series. Its plans for those franchises are still gelling, says Reinhard Pollice, Nordic Games’ business and product development director. But Nordic Games may soon have news to share about its recently

Shareholder meetings are usually pretty boring affairs, but in video games, you sometimes get players themselves showing up. They buy a piece of the company, and instead of complaining online like everyone else, they get to ask questions directly to the CEO’s face once a year. That’s what happened earlier this month, when one angry

There’s another new trailer! Look, I’m not going to pretend at professional distance here: I am extremely excited about next month’s new TV series, Alien: Earth. And each new trailer gives me more reason to be. But this isn’t because I think the Alien franchise is some surefire hit generator—goodness gracious it isn’t—but because it’s

If the cyberpunk genre was meant to warn us away from a capitalistic, dystopian future hellscape, what purpose does it serve when that hellscape is already here? Cyberpunk 2077 is arguably one of the most mainstream contemporary examples of the genre from which it takes its name, and I remember a lot of discussion and

Donkey Kong Bananza is a 3D action platformer where you can dig holes, build bridges, and experiment in other ways as you burrow through various whimsical worlds on your way toward the planet core. Nintendo was so happy with its deformation tech that it decided to spin it off into an entirely separate artist mode.

One of the best aspects of any cozy farming game, even one with JRPG combat and adventuring elements, isn’t the gradual progression of building up a settlement or farmland as you rake in the cash, but the friends you make along the way. Right? No, just me? Well, I enjoy marrying virtual characters in-game, but

(Image credit: Kiesel) Paul Masvidal knows why his range of influences is so diverse. “I’ve always felt a bit like a witness here on Earth, quietly observing,” he tells Guitar World. “The people that hooked me were those who blended strong melodic continuity with experimental, envelope-pushing ideas. They sounded free and I wanted to understand

(Image credit: Gandolfo Alberto) Some bassists play pop music, and others play progressive rock, but Nick Beggs – lest we forget, the founder member of 1980s pop band Kajagoogoo – is one of the few that plays them both. Uniquely, the session player extraordinaire also brought the low-end with Steve Hackett, the ex-Genesis guitarist, whose

(Image credit: Ed Perlstein/Redferns/Getty Images) Neil Young’s live rig is famously as ragged and one-of-a-kind as the man himself, and at its center sits Old Black, a modded-to-high-heaven 1953 Gibson Les Paul goldtop. The mods in question are a “chrome-on-brass” pickguard and back plates, a bridge-position Firebird pickup, and a toggle switch, installed between the