Among Rain World's best tricks is that it doesn't end with you. Fall afoul of the reptiles who coil and flop through its moulting, fungal catacombs and you'll be dragged to a crevice and swiftly guzzled. The restart prompt appears, but you're under no pressure to hit the button, … | Continue reading

It's been five months since Splatoon 2 launched on the Switch but, as is increasingly the case in Nintendo's approach to its online-focussed games, work hasn't slowed in the slightest. Last week saw the launch of Clam Blitz, an all-new and extremely frenetic ranked mode which bri … | Continue reading

Every season has its own distinct landscape look, feel and characteristics. This has permeated into game design incredibly pleasingly. It is easy to think of a video game setting bathed in the bright light of summer or covered by the golden palette of autumn. However, no season i … | Continue reading

Pokémon Go's vaguely Christmassy holiday event begins today, developer Niantic has announced, bringing with it all sorts of seasonally-appropriate offerings.The disappointingly unnamed event (let's go with Pokébauble 2017) runs from today, December 21st, at 1pm PST / 9pm GMT, and … | Continue reading

Fire Emblem Warrior's first bit of paid DLC, known as the Fates DLC Pack, is out now on Switch and 3DS, adding new characters, maps, weapons, costumes, and more. The accompanying update also brings a couple of new freebie features for everyone.As you can probably surmise by its n … | Continue reading

Civilization 6 was only released last year on desktop computers but has already - as of today - landed on iPad! Understandably you'll need a newish iPad in order to play - either an iPad Air 2, iPad 2017 or any iPad Pro.The first 60 turns of the game will be free but then you'll … | Continue reading

Apple, in what may be a trend-setting decision, now requires any App Store game with loot boxes to disclose the odds of receiving items from them."Apps offering 'loot boxes' or other mechanisms that provide randomised virtual items for purchase must disclose the odds of receiving … | Continue reading

A speedy nine months after arriving on Steam Early Access, this year's multiplayer smash hit - PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, or PUBG - has launched. Our PUBG review went up this morning in case you missed it. Full patch notes for the PUBG version 1.0 update, which introduces the … | Continue reading

Big news everyone! Splatoon 2 is getting a champagne gun tomorrow. It's called the Squeezer, and it looks like it works a bit like, well, champagne. Here's the tweet from the Japanese Splatoon 2 account:The Squeezer's sub-weapon is Splash Wall and its special weapon is Sting Ray. … | Continue reading

Let's start at the top: in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, 90 to 100 players parachute from a cargo plane on to one of two islands - either temperate Erangel, which has been in the game since its early access launch, or the desert Miramar, which is new. Once on the ground these pl … | Continue reading

THQ Nordic has unveiled a couple of minutes of new Darksiders 3 footage, the first to be shown since its announcement and gameplay reveal in May.Darksiders 3 follows a similar combat-heavy third-person action adventure template to its predecessors, but this time places a new prot … | Continue reading

On the face of it, a Rocket League port shouldn't prove too difficult for the Switch hardware, but it's fair to say that developer Panic Button faced a number of challenges in bringing this title to Nintendo's console hybrid. While not exactly the technological state of the art, … | Continue reading

Those of you with a newer iPhone will be able to make use of an enhanced augmented reality (AR+) feature coming to Pokémon Go "soon". You'll need an iPhone 6s or newer, and iOS 11.AR+ makes the game work better when catching creatures with the camera, basically. Not only will be … | Continue reading

It was Eurogamer's Christmas Party at the end of last week, and that means that there were Christmas crackers knocking about and we were all showered with magnificent Christmas cracker gifts. Miniature picture frames, miniature screwdriver sets, miniature pens and pencils: by the … | Continue reading

Retro-bit, a big name in retro clone hardware, has signed a deal with Sega to make accessories for the Mega Drive, Saturn and Dreamcast consoles. Wait - what? Those consoles have been dead and buried for years. Either there's a sudden demand for the original controllers, or...Or … | Continue reading

Places like this are too few and far between. Step into Console Connections in Shildon, County Durham, and it's like walking into an Aladdin's cave of games. Boxes reach up to the ceiling along every wall, and seemingly every console from the past four decades is represented in s … | Continue reading

Atlus has announced a remake of its wonderfully odd 2011 puzzle-game-meets-relationship-drama Catherine for PS4 and Vita.Atlus' remake, known as Catherine: Full Body, once again follows directionless 30-something systems engineer Vincent as he battles relationship woes by day, an … | Continue reading

Team 17 has announced that its knockabout prison break sim sequel The Escapists 2 is coming to Switch on January 11th."Risk it all to breakout from the toughest prisons in the world," says the publisher, "Explore the biggest prisons yet, with multiple floors, roofs, vents and und … | Continue reading

A 4.7GB patch has been put out for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds on Xbox One.The most notable difference will probably be to visuals and performance, after what's described as a "first pass" at them. These were areas Digital Foundry noticed PUBG struggling on Xbox One - and X.But … | Continue reading

Rejoice! Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is coming to consoles as well as PC, just as the first game did. And by consoles I mean PlayStation 4 and Xbox One - there's no mention of Switch I'm afraid."Although speculations have been correct all along, today we are happy to start talking mo … | Continue reading

Offline bots have arrived for Friday the 13th: The Game, so now you don't have to venture into the hit-and-miss world of other people online.The bots are a free addition for all platforms and work on every map of the game, and let you live out your murderous horror fantasy of bei … | Continue reading

It seems a shame to end Nintendo's extraordinary 2017 on a bum note, but here we are. The Champion's Ballad, the second expansion pack for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, is a workmanlike add-on that gives you a little bit more of one of the best games in years, without … | Continue reading

A note from the editor: Jelly Deals is a deals site launched by our parent company, Gamer Network, with a mission to find the best bargains out there. Look out for the Jelly Deals roundup of reduced-price games and kit every Saturday on Eurogamer.As it has a tendency to do most d … | Continue reading

Animal Crossing is, like Tetris, a game that is constantly evolving in quiet ways while seeming - superficially and to outsiders - to be a game that never changes at all. Holding a piece, the instant drop, even the number of pieces visibly queued up ahead: these are all elements … | Continue reading

Dragon Quest Builders, Square Enix's Minecraft-style construction RPG, is coming to Switch next year on February 9th.The game originally launched on PS4, PS3, and Vita last year, and was very well received. Despite its obvious similarities to Minecraft, both in its blocky aesthet … | Continue reading

Developer Bloober Team's dizzying first-person haunted house horror game Layers of Fear is currently free on Humble Store, and you even get its superb soundtrack thrown in.Layers of Fear received some fairly mixed reviews on release in 2016, but it's one of my absolute favourite … | Continue reading

Nintendo has teased yet another new character for its sublime fighter Arms, due to arrive as part of Update 5 "within this year".This will be the third fighter to join the Arms League in a little over a month - following on from Springtron and Misango - and is the sixth Arms newc … | Continue reading

There's a winter event coming to For Honor and, with it, a limited two-versus-two brawl on a frozen lake of thin ice! Better yet, it melts and cracks the longer you fight.The Frost Wind Festival takes place from 21st December through to 4th January 2018, so there's plenty of time … | Continue reading

Fancy 3D replays will be a part of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' glitzy 1.0 release this week, on Wednesday 20th December.The replays record what's going on around you so when you die - assuming you do, of course - you can replay what went down, seeing things from your killer's … | Continue reading

There's a second Monster Hunter World beta on PlayStation 4 this week. It runs from 22nd December right through to Boxing Day. Goodness me is Christmas really that close?!The exact start and finish times are: 22nd December 5pm GMT/6pm CET/9am PST, through to 26th December 5pm GMT … | Continue reading

A note from the editor: Jelly Deals is a deals site launched by our parent company, Gamer Network, with a mission to find the best bargains out there. Look out for the Jelly Deals roundup of reduced-price games and kit every Saturday on Eurogamer.Never let it be said that video g … | Continue reading

There are few experiences as crushing as being properly roasted in a fighting game. The coordination goes from your thumbs; the blood drains from your face; all sense of strategy implodes as blow after blow snakes through your defences and punts you helplessly around the stage. A … | Continue reading