Just over a year after it originally came out, acclaimed detective game Her Story is finally on its way to Android devices. Well, it's out now in fact. Since Her Story's release, it's won three BAFTAs and countless other accolades, and stands out as one of 2015's most interesting … | Continue reading
Oculus Rift is extremely hard to get hold of. The VR headset manufacturer has had parts supply and manufacturing problems that have severely restricted the number of headsets available to the extent that it still hasn't fulfilled all preorders made through its own website. (Its l … | Continue reading
DICE's decision to go back to WWI for its latest Battlefield looks to have been complemented by a wealth of historical research and a neat line in authenticity, as chronicled by a recent and quite fascinating video detailing all the real-life artifacts that have made their way in … | Continue reading
Microsoft's made its one millionth Xbox One Elite controller.Xbox boss Phil Spencer tweeted a picture of the millionth Xbox One Elite controller, which carries a special inscription.Now, we're not talking about a million sold, here. More likely, we're talking a million shipped. B … | Continue reading
Sony has nearly 21m PlayStation Plus subscribers on its books.In an investor relations report released today, Sony said PlayStation Plus has an impressive 20.8m paid subscribers.That's across multiple devices - not just on PlayStation 4, which has cracked the 40m install base sin … | Continue reading
Overwatch's highly anticipated Competitive Play mode is launching today on PC. That's the good news.The bad news is that console players will have to wait until next week. "We don't have an exact date to share, but we can confirm that the patch is going through approvals right no … | Continue reading
The System Shock remake - which is now being billed as a full fledged "reboot" - has now launched a Kickstarter campaign, complete with a free pre-alpha demo."We want to demonstrate our commitment and passion for System Shock by providing a fun and exciting experience to potentia … | Continue reading
Doom's first post-launch update is due this Thursday, 30th June, and it adds the new Photo Mode feature for capturing classier screenshots. This will be available from the pause menu once you're loaded into a game map.The new update will also add the ability to alter your weapon … | Continue reading
Call of Duty: Black Ops 3's upcoming Descent DLC Pack adds dragons. Really.Due on PS4 12th July, the upcoming expansion adds the new Zombies chapter, Gorod Krovi, in which the CoDBlops gang face off against the undead along with "giant mechanised soldiers and ferocious dragons." … | Continue reading
Viking strategy sequel The Banner Saga 2 wasn't going to launch on consoles until 26th July, but porting team Shiny Shoe was remarkably ahead of schedule so we're now getting it in the next few days.The Xbox One version will arrive as early as this Friday, where it will be free f … | Continue reading
It's no secret that the Kinect has been a colossal failure on Xbox One with very few developers implementing the motion-tracking peripheral in any notable way. That's about to change on 13th July with puzzle/platformer Fru, an Xbox One Kinect-exclusive that requires players to co … | Continue reading
Adventures of Mana, a remake of the precursor to Secret of Mana, is now available on Vita for £10.49 / €13.99.Adventures of Mana is a 3D remake of the 1991 Game Boy title Final Fantasy Adventure, which was released in Europe as Mystic Quest. The original adventure was so successf … | Continue reading
Free-to-play team-based mech shooter Hawken is finally coming to PS4 and Xbox One next month. Or, more specifically, 1st July on Xbox One and 8th July for PS4.Hawken launched in 2012 on PC where it failed to become the breakthrough hit it was billed as, though not for lack of try … | Continue reading
Gearbox's MOBA/shooter hybrid Battleborn may not have been a smash hit sales-wise out the gate, but the Texas studio is committed to the game and has big plans to flesh it out with a plethora of DLC. In a recent blog post Gearbox laid out a roadmap of what's coming to Battleborn … | Continue reading
PlayStation owners aren't the only ones suffering a bereavement today. Microsoft has announced plans to "sunset" Xbox Fitness, its Kinect-powered workout app for Xbox One. As of yesterday, Xbox Fitness content can no longer be purchased. In a year's time - from 1st July 2017 - su … | Continue reading
Update 11/patch 2.5.0 will be released for The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited 1st August on PC and Mac, and 16th August on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It'll be around 5.6GB, according to an announcement on the ESO subreddit.Update 11 finally brings text chat to the conso … | Continue reading
Microsoft's announced July's Xbox Games with Gold titles.On Xbox One, Xbox Live Gold members can download the superb strategy game The Banner Saga 2 for free during July.Competitive multiplayer puzzle game Tumblestone is free from 16th July to 15th August.Read more… | Continue reading
There is a rainbow in my heart, as Chang once said (in The Blue Lotus?). The good news is that Housemarque is adding a load of new stuff to Alienation for free this July. The bad news is that this probably means that some people at Housemarque are working on Alienation when they … | Continue reading
What a cruel week it's been. Sony has just announced that the PlayStation 4 is to cease support of Ustream, the broadcast service that's been a part of Live from PlayStation since its launch. It's a truly sad day. PlayStation 4 owners will no longer be able use the service to bro … | Continue reading
Development on the PC version of Godus has ground to a halt, Eurogamer understands.Peter Molyneux's controversial god simulation has been stuck on Steam as an Early Access title ever since it launched there in September 2013.And now, sources tell Eurogamer, developer 22cans has m … | Continue reading
I used to be a massive fan of survival games, especially ones featuring zombies. I couldn't get enough of them, and streamed them for countless hours. Well, you probably could count them if you went back through all the archived videos, but it'd take a while, is what I'm saying. … | Continue reading
Yooka-Laylee may have been delayed until early 2017, but we're hopeful that Playtonic can match the lofty expectations that come with creating a successor to Banjo-Kazooie. From our early look at the studio back when they revealed their Kickstarter campaign, to this most recent g … | Continue reading
Fans have restored some of the content that got lost in translation when Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE made the journey from east to west, patching the Wii U JRPG in order to move it in line with its Japanese counterpart. The patch - picked up by our friends at nintendolife - brings … | Continue reading
For four years League of Legends has been the most-played game each week in South Korean PC gaming cafes - but no longer. Overwatch has beaten it.There isn'… | Continue reading
Sony has forced a Saudi gamer to change his PSN Online ID after declaring it offensive.Earlier in June, Sony banned 26-year-old Jihad Al Mofadda's PlayStation 4 account over his online ID, "iJihad".As chronicled in a post on the PS4 subReddit, Al Mofadda endured a frustrating bac … | Continue reading
I spent the first few hours of Inside thinking: sure, this is all fine, but it's hardly the spider, is it? That's the danger of making a follow-up to a game that has such a singular impact, I guess. In my memory, at least, when you're playing Limbo, when you're navigating that mo … | Continue reading
For some reason, we're watching Quantico in my house. It's a drama about terrorists and the FBI. Have you seen it? It's not terrible, but it's not great, either. In fact, Quantico is barely anything at all. Something in a recent episode made my wife sit up pretty sharply, however … | Continue reading
Twitch has launched microtransactions that let you buy cheers.A cheer is a chat message highlighted by special animated emotes that viewers can buy with Bits. 100 Bits costs $1.40.To use a cheer, you need to type "cheer" followed by a number in chat, for example cheer10. Higher n … | Continue reading
Ah when creativity inspires creativity! Behold the work of professional artist Astor Alexander, who has made characters from The Witcher series, Mario, Zelda, BioShock and Metroid look very different indeed. He's turned them into pulp book covers, noir detective images and even R … | Continue reading
The developer behind Orion: Prelude says Activision had Valve pull his game from Steam over allegedly stolen guns. Trek Industries boss David Prassel s… | Continue reading
Recently revealed prototype controllers for the original Xbox keep up the longstanding tradition of absolutely bonkers game-pad mock-ups. Seamus Blackley, one of the designers behind the original Xbox proposal in the late 90s through to the console's release in 2001, revealed the … | Continue reading
Lumo, the isometric-puzzle adventure by former Ruffian Games co-founder Gareth Noyce, finally has a release date on PlayStation Vita.Having already launched on PS4, PC, Mac and Linux earlier this year - and very recently on Xbox One - the adventure makes its handheld debut on Jul … | Continue reading
Talk about kicking it old-school. The signing of one-man brand Dino Dini should have been a real coup for Sony. Coming over 25 years after Kick Off 2 - still a totemic 16-bit scrambler, as beloved in its own weird way as the all-conquering Sensible Soccer - the announcement of Di … | Continue reading
High up on the furthest mountain in The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine there's a secret. You can't get there normally because it's out of bounds. But if you use a mod to run the game in debug mode and unlock the game's camera then you can teleport Geralt there. Then you'll see it.The … | Continue reading
Years after release, Grand Theft Auto 5 fans have uncovered a new secret about the game.This mystery was solved by a team of 20 players working together to scan through the game's code, as Rockstar developers played a cat-and-mouse game with fans.The hunt began last year with the … | Continue reading
Controversial PC game key reseller G2A has announced a new policy that lets developers apply for a royalty for any of their products sold on its marketplace.The announcement comes after a high-profile row with Punch Club publisher TinyBuild, which claimed G2A sold nearly half a m … | Continue reading
Warner Bros. has delayed Batman: Return to Arkham.It was supposed to come out on 29th July. In a statement published to the Warner Bros. Games forum, the publisher did not offer a revised release date.Here's the statement:Read more… | Continue reading
Drugs and driving don't go together. Unless you're blissed out in the passenger seat of a Citroen Saxo listening to Spacemen 3 while the glorious English countryside rushes by, but generally it's best to keep the two well apart. When they do collide, though, it can be a joyous me … | Continue reading
This year's E3 was a river of dads, and I am unhappy about it. (I did wonder briefly about the appropriate collective noun for dads: a Wickes, a Touchline,… | Continue reading
A Ford dealership in Quincy, Massachusetts has used copyrighted art assets from Firewatch in an email campaign.Firewatch publisher Panic, Inc. posted the ad on Twitter with the caption "Ahh, remember when Henry and Delilah were excited about the Ford Freedom Sales Event? #ripoffe … | Continue reading
Microsoft has really been pushing its Windows 10 platform and for good reason. It has an Xbox App, DirectX 12 support, and other nifty gaming features. But it also has the terrifying HAL-like tendency to take over your machine whether you want it to or not. Many have been critica … | Continue reading
The Minecraft movie officially has a release date... in 2019.24th May to be exact. That's straight from the horse's mouth of Minecraft developer Mojang."Yes, that might seem like a long time away, but it just so happens to be the right amount of time to make it completely awesome … | Continue reading
Fallout 4's most protective gear isn't its power armour - it's its rubbish bins. As documented by Redditor Quinchilion, these lightweight metallic wicker waste receptacles double as indestructible forces of nature, capable of shielding oneself from an explosion. Read more… | Continue reading
Vlambeer's essential action roguelike Nuclear Throne just received online co-op in the form of an unofficial mod - albeit one embraced by the game's developer.Entitled Nuclear Throne Together, the mod allows two players to remotely journey through the procedurally-generated waste … | Continue reading
The original Doom was one of gaming's great milestones. It wasn't the first of its genre - or even the first by developer id Software who previously made Wolfenstein - but it was arguably the best. So popular was Doom that nonchalant musings about it in trade magazines became the … | Continue reading
I love a good conspiracy theory. That's not to say I ever believe them - mostly I just enjoy snorting into my coffee while marvelling at the mental gymnastics that excitable, like-minded communities or fandoms are capable of. The best ones are a perfect blend of the ridiculous, a … | Continue reading
YouTuber Duba has celebrated Destiny's best weapons the only way he knows how - by turning their names into a rap.Duba regularly presents videos showcasing the weekly wares of Destiny travelling merchant Xûr. In them, he raps about where to find the hooded vendor and what he's br … | Continue reading
HTC Vive owners rejoice: at the end of last week, Oculus, manufacturers of the rival VR headset Rift, removed the hardware check that prevents games exclusive to the Oculus platform from being played on anything other than a Rift.The check was originally introduced to prevent Viv … | Continue reading