Jack 
Bauer has a new gig.
Konami, in a pre-E3 press conference Thursday, surprised gamers with word that Kiefer Sutherland will be the new voice of long-running video game action star Solid Snake in the upcoming Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.
While 
plenty of us thought it would never come to pass, it appears the World of Warcraft movie is actually happening.
Shooting on the feature is set to begin next year, which would keep it on track for its planned summer 2015 release.
Good 
news, gamers! You’re getting a new Halo.
Bad news, gamers! It’s probably not the one you wanted.
Andrew 
Scott Reisse, the 33 year-old co-founder of the company that makes the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, was struck and killed in a Santa Ana crosswalk Thursday by a car that was attempting to avoid the police.
KABC reports that a car allegedly driven by 21-year old Victor Sanchez struck two other cars and ran through several red lights — including the crosswalk where Reisse was walking — in a high-speed chase. Sanchez and two other suspects in the car were taking into custody. Police say all are gang members on probation with outstanding warrants. Reisse died at the scene.
One 
of gaming’s greatest mysteries might soon be uncovered.
You’ve likely heard the tale before: Millions of unsold copies of the disastrous ET: The Extraterrestrial game for the Atari 2600 lie buried in a New Mexico landfill. Despite a slew of believers and evidence supporting the story, doubters remain. But in the next few months, we’ll have the answer once and for all.
The 
history of Star Wars games is filled with hits and misses. For every Battlefront, there’s a Masters of Teras Kasi.
But Bioware’s Knights of the Old Republic, released in 2003, has always stood head and shoulders above the rest — and now it’s coming to the mobile gaming world.
Monopoly 
is one of the most beloved board games of all time, so you’d think we’d all know how to play it correctly.
Turns out we don’t.
Peter 
Molyneux is more than a legendary video game developer. It turns out he’s also equal parts Willy Wonka and Ryan Seacrest.
Six months ago, Molyneux released an experimental game named Curiosity to the app store . The game was simply a giant virtual cube that millions of players could pick away at. Molyneux teased that the cube held a “life-changing” prize for the lucky person who reached the center. This weekend, that prize was revealed: God status in Molyneux’s next game, Godus. And the winner was an 18-year old from Edinburgh, Scotland.
Nintendo 
has seen its share of rough patches over the years, but the past 12 months have been a doozy.
After revolutionizing the video game industry with the Wii, the company’s follow-up console has consistently failed to connect with core gamers, casual gamers and, perhaps most worrying of all, game creators themselves.
The 
fate of used games on the Xbox One continues to get murkier.
While Microsoft has confirmed its new console will support used games, the methods behind that process have been somewhat confusing thanks to mixed messages from Microsoft executives. But a new report sheds some light on why there hasn’t been a clear answer yet.
Chris Morris: Journalist 