March 31, 2015 08:00 AM EDT - REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--It’s time to get to work in The Sims™ 4. Today, Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:EA) announced that The Sims 4 Get to Work* is now available on PC and Mac in North America. In this first expansion pack for The Sims 4, players can deepen their relationships with their Sims by actively controlling them in three new careers (Doctor, Detective and Scientist) as well as creating and customizing their own Sim retail business.

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Teams Up with ESL for the Who’s Next? Mortal Kombat X Worldwide Competitive Program

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and NetherRealm Studios have teamed up with ESL, the world’s largest esports company for the Who’s Next? Mortal Kombat X Worldwide Competitive Program, which includes the Fatal 8 Exhibition Tournament, ESL Mortal Kombat X Pro League Tournament and the Mortal Kombat Cup. The series of tournaments invites Mortal Kombat X players from North America and Europe to compete for bragging rights and the chance to secure winnings from a prize pool that starts at US$100,000.

Catch a new Nintendo Direct on April 1 at 3 p.m. PT to hear the latest about upcoming Wii U and Nintendo 3DS games. Keep watching after the Direct for a short Nintendo Treehouse presentation featuring one of our spring 2015 releases. Don’t let the date fool you: This Nintendo Direct is no joke! www.Nintendo.com/Nintendo-direct.

 

New Map available to play immediately

Defined by forges and workshops, gladiatorial training grounds and arenas, slave pens and birthing catacombs, welcome to The Crucible, the heart of the Turelim’s war machine.  

Microsoft introduces the new Surface 3, powered by the recently announced Intel® Atom™ x7 processor, the highest performing processor in the Intel Atom™ product family. The Intel Atom x7 processor doubles the graphics performance over the prior generation processor.  Surface 3 is the thinnest and lightest Surface yet and is optimized to run Windows and Office at an affordable price. The Surface 3 will be available for pre-order starting today on March 31.

Sleek Design, Fast Performance, Easy Set-up and Portability Makes My Passport an Ideal Gaming Accessory

IRVINE, Calif., March 31, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- WD®, a Western Digital (NASDAQ:WDC) company, and world leader in storage solutions, today introduced the My Passport® X portable hard drive for gamers. When connected to Xbox One™ or a PC, the sleek 2 TB My Passport X drive provides much-needed storage capacity for gamers to store up to 50 extra game titles[1], eliminating the need to delete previously purchased games from their Xbox One or PC hard drives and removing those "storage full" warning messages while allowing players to get back to their games. In addition to added storage, gamers can use My Passport X to take saved games to use on friends' systems[2] without having to download.

Patch 2.55 Paves the Way to New Heavensward Expansion

LOS ANGELES (Mar. 31, 2015) – Today, SQUARE ENIX® announced the release of Patch 2.55, titled “Before the Fall” Part Two, for FINAL FANTASY XIV®: A Realm Reborn ®. The update implements the finale of the A Realm Reborn story.

BANDAI NAMCO Games America Inc. today releases new gameplay videos, screenshots and artwork for ONE PIECE: PIRATE WARRIORS 3 showcasing various popular characters with their awesome abilities and powers. Defeat waves of enemies with Magellan’s poisonous hydra, Ivankov’s Hell Wink, Shanks’ one-armed combat, Tashigi’s masterful swordsmanship, Lucci’s leopard rampages or Moria’s giant shadow-severing scissors.

Sovereignty is going to enter Steam Early Access program

Epsom, UK - March 31, 2015 - After decades of deceptive harmony, Humans, Dwarves, Orks and all of the factions of Sovereignty are looking askance at their neighbors. The balance of power is blurred now, and even the strongest clans live under constant fear of seeing invaders rampaging across their frontiers. The moment has come to identify powerful allies and sharpen the blades because hard times are coming…

SHMUP Fans! Prepare For Dizzying Bullet-Storm Action, Free-Roaming Exploration, and Timeless Top-Down Shooting

Twain Harte, California – March 30, 2015 – Mark your calendars, SHMUP fans –Argentinian indie game developer OPQAM and Reverb Triple XP announced today that Project Root, a modern retake of the shoot ‘em up (SHMUP) action genre, will launch on the PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system, PlayStation®Vita handheld entertainment system, and the Xbox One, the all-in-one games and entertainment system from Microsoft, on April 28, 2015. Project Root features Platform Cross-Buy for Sony gamers, allowing them to purchase the game once and receive both PlayStation versions: PS4™ and PS®Vita.

Today, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment released the Mortal Kombat X Official Shaolin Trailer, which puts the spotlight on three characters:  Sharp-witted Kung Lao, series newcomer Kung Jin and Klassic Mortal Kombat Kombatant Liu Kang. The trailer provides further insight into Mortal Kombat X’s story, revealing that Raiden’s champions of Earthrealm from the past have risen from the dead, under the control of the sinister former Elder God, Shinnok.

When Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold hits stores this summer, we have a variety of goodies to go along with it! These items will of course be limited to pre-orders and first-run printings only, as supplies will be limited.

Year-on-year increase of over 300% with almost 150% increase since ESL One Cologne 2014

(Cologne, Germany) March 26, 2015 – With a peak concurrent viewership of 1,012,745, the US$250,000 ESL One Katowice major broke multiple industry records for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. The event, hosted at the 2015 Intel® Extreme Masters Expo, more than tripled numbers from the previous year with unprecedented viewership both online and offline. Organized by ESL, the world’s largest esports company, and supported by Intel, along with BenQ and HyperX, the event saw an increase of 150% in peak concurrent viewership since the record breaking ESL One Cologne major in August 2014.

SEGA and Steam have joined forces for an amazing weekend of special offers beginning today, Thursday, March 26, and running until Monday, March 30. Each day runs from 9am PST/5pm GMT/6pm CET for 24 hours. Throughout the duration of the promotion, a massively discounted SEGA Bundle will be available and will include 93 SEGA titles worth $990.01 with a 92% discount thus costing a paltry $79.99/£59.99/€69.99!

EXPERIENCE THE MYSTICAL SHADOWGATE ADVENTURE NOW IN NEW LANGUAGES – FRENCH, ITALIAN, GERMAN, AND SPANISH – ALONG WITH THE LINUX VERSION

Standard and Special Edition Shadowgate Now Available for 70% Off in the Humble Store

Micron and Intel Unveil New 3D NAND Flash Memory Technology Advancements Enable Three Times More Capacity than Other NAND Technologies