When I showed my aunt Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, she said: “It’s all Greek to me.”

Dublin-based video game content provider Keywords Studios has bought Hollywood, California-based production services company Blindlight for a maximum consideration of up to $10m (€8.5m).

Somewhere in America, a far-right leader has promised to lead his people to salvation, but the reality is far more sinister. No, we’re not talking about Donald Trump — this is Far Cry 5.

A measure of the growth possibilities offered by the video games industry in Ireland was underlined in last week’s major acquisition by Dublin headquartered Keyword Studios of US-based VMC Consulting for $66m (€57m).

People usually get worked up when discussing controversy, but in South Park they get animated. 

Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle is the video game crossover nobody asked for but has proven to be one of 2017’s biggest surprises.

Ubisoft has released a video outlining the new content coming to hack and slash swordfighter For Honor as part of the game’s Season 3 update, Grudge & Glory.

The first gameplay video for the hotly anticipated Beyond Good and Evil 2 was uploaded to the official Ubisoft US YouTube account yesterday highlighting the impressive sense of scale the game sets to achieve.

FOR Ireland, the biggest surprise of E3 2017 wasn’t a console, or even a game. For many of us, the real shock was that Player Unknown, one of the biggest names in PC gaming in recent months, was actually a man called Brendan Greene — and he was from Ballyshannon.

Developer Ubisoft used the Microsoft Xbox One X E3 2017 conference to announce the latest entry in the long running Assassin’s Creed series.

Ubisoft are set to reveal Assassins Creed Origins at E3. Set in the vast open world of ancient Egypt, Origins will be all about exploration

The setting of Far Cry 5, the fifth main entry in Ubisoft’s long running open world series, has been unveiled ahead of the game’s first proper reveal on May 26.

Assassin’s Creed: Origins, thought to be the next game in the immensely popular Assassin’s Creed series from Ubisoft, may be set in ancient Egypt.

LIKE a poorly designed Theme Park, or five thousand Sims corralled into a line, people waited outside GamerCon last weekend.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

Watch Dogs made for one heck of a tech demo for the upcoming release of the new consoles back in 2013. It presented a whole hackable world with serious destruction as cars and sparks flew everywhere.

Watch Dogs 2 is set to launch everywhere on the 15th of November... unless you're living in PC land.

Watch Dogs 2 is out very soon and it's looking like a very different animal to the first game.

We've been writing about Beyond Good & Evil quite a bit recently as some concept art has been appearing on the web suggesting a sequel might actually be arriving sometime in the next decade.

Ubisoft announced that its latest South Park video game endeavour, South Park: The Fractured But Whole, has been delayed until Q1 2017.

Fresh from major airings at E3 and Gamescom, Ubisoft's For Honor is shaping up to be one of the most interesting action games of 2017.

Ubisoft’s open world racer, The Crew, will be free to download later this month as part of its 30th anniversary celebration.

Ubisoft released a new For Honor trailer, which shows the three warring factions in action.

Gamescom 2016 is kicking off in Cologne in Germany on the 17th of August, and Ubisoft is going all out for the annual show.