We're used to cringe-worthy video game celebrity promotions. Who can forget the time EA wheeled Pele on-stage at E3?This one, though, this one will take some beating.To promote the launch of Overwatch, a company called The Integrity Club convinced Blizzard to let it create a live … | Continue reading
The latest Game of Thrones season concludes today - and we can't wait to see what happens. Who will win? Who will die? What's going to happen to that nice Ned Stark?To celebrate (and to also sell Blu-rays), Microsoft has created a bunch of specially-branded Game of Thrones Xbox O … | Continue reading
65daysofstatic have announced they're touring the No Man's Sky soundtrack.The UK instrumental band say it's the largest tour ever for a video game soundtrack.Tickets for European dates go on sale on 29th June, with the rest of the world to follow once dates have been confirmed.Re … | Continue reading
Super Stardust Ultra is coming to PlayStation VR. Boxart for Super Stardust Ultra VR was spotted in the wild by thesixthaxis over the weekend, with some further details revealing the game will feature all the original modes alongside a new first-person perspective. The news isn't … | Continue reading
Oh cripes, Burnout Paradise is £2.50 on Steam right now. That's not very much money at all, is it?Paradise isn't the best Burnout game, obvs, since the best Burnout game is Burnout 3: Takedown, in which the series' combination of flair and violence was held in perfect balance. Ev … | Continue reading
It is made from The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim parts but its story, its setting and its mechanics are all built anew - the free total conversion mod Enderal is finally ready to be released."The German version will be activated on July 1-3rd," tweeted maker SureAI (via Reddit). "The … | Continue reading
Daredevil is now a well-known part of the Marvel universe, thanks mostly to the popular Netflix show.But, as the latest Unseen64 video explains below, we could have gotten a big open world game starring Daredevil all the way back in 2003, for the PlayStation 2.Daredevil the game … | Continue reading
Resident Evil 7's lead developers have reassured fans the full game won't be a ghost story, despite the recent playable demo and announcement trailer sugges… | Continue reading
Torbjorn's turrets are being significantly nerfed in Overwatch - but only on console (PlayStation 4, Xbox One).In a Reddit comment, game director Jeff Kaplan said the damage Torbjorn's turrets do on console will be reduced by 30 per cent. This will happen mid-to-late July.Wrote K … | Continue reading
The FIFA community reckons it's exposed a "chemistry glitch" that proves a long-running theory about Ultimate Team handicapping.Users on the FIFA subReddit have picked apart the way the football game works and believe they've proved a troubling glitch that might have been a part … | Continue reading
Coming up to three years after its release, DICE continues to tweak and fine-tune Battlefield 4, with an all-new user interface that will make it easier for players to partner up in squads and to find maps and modes. The new UI is coming to Battlefield 4, Battlefield Hardline and … | Continue reading
Back at E3, Nintendo told us that Zelda: Breath of the Wild's rupee currency works a little differently.For starters, you won't find any rupees by slicing l… | Continue reading
Modders are doing the inevitable: putting Overwatch characters into Street Fighter 5.Last week, modder "TheJamk" caught the internet's attention after he used Cammy as the basis for a Tracer mod. Check it out in the video, below. It's a good fit!Now, we're seeing more Overwatch c … | Continue reading
Sonic Team is working on an all-new Sonic game for next year. We don't know what platforms it'll be coming to, or whether it'll be sticking to the time-honoured Sonic Cycle. Right now, we just know it's happening, and it's happening in 2017. The announcement came from Sonic Team' … | Continue reading
This autumn, Destiny's travelling merchant Xûr will turn his back on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. These "legacy" consoles, as developer B… | Continue reading
Balrog is coming out alongside Ibuki as downloadable characters for Street Fighter 5 this week.The fighting game's big June update is pegged for this Friday, 1st July (so yes, it misses June), and alongside Ibuki comes everyone's favourite video game boxer.The video, below, shows … | Continue reading
Firstly, and most importantly, it's worth knowing this: you can now play as a Felyne in Monster Hunter. That alone is likely worth the price of admission for most people. It certainly is for me. Stepping into the paws of the rambunctious, adorable cats that are the mewing heart o … | Continue reading
Greetings, Eurogamers. We're fully recovered from the news onslaught that was E3 and taking time to digest it all. And by digesting it, we mean frantically googling what actually is a teraflop anyway. That's because Microsoft announced not one but two consoles within the space of … | Continue reading
When the first specs for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One leaked, an apparent disparity in their graphical performance was highlighted with one stark comparison.… | Continue reading
With apologies to Kojima, the original Snake was pretty solid. A killer app before smartphones were even a thing, the game transformed blocky Nokia handsets into persuasive handheld gaming devices. Now there's a free globalised upgrade for desktop, iOS and Android that smooths of … | Continue reading
Developed by Capcom Osaka, Umbrella Corps takes elements from the Resident Evil series and places them into an online multiplayer shooter with first and third-person perspectives. Available on PS4 and PC, and built using the Unity engine, it's not exactly a game fans were crying … | Continue reading
It's been a good week for people who enjoy half-cloaks and complicated bits of machinery, all things told. Star Wars Battlefront's new DLC let's you play as cape-sporting cloud man Lando Calrissian, whereas Fallout 4's Contraptions workshop DLC lets you tinker with all sorts of, … | Continue reading
Imagine being Ben Fogle. I'm sure we all have, at some point. It must be tough. The daily challenge of having to look rugged and cuddly at the same time. The effort of batting away armies of women who just want to ruffle your hair. The struggle to convince yourself that it's OK, … | Continue reading
Pac-Man looks poised to make his debut on current gen consoles as a listing for Pac-Man: Championship Edition 2 has been spotted on the Korean ratings board (via lifelower on Twitter).The first Pac-Man: Championship Edition was released in 2007 on Xbox Live. The acclaimed title w … | Continue reading
The Mass Effect series will be getting four new spin-off novels bridging the gap between the trilogy we all know and love and the highly anticipated fourth entry, Mass Effect: Andromeda, due in Q1 2017."The novels will act as prequel and sequels to the events in the games and wil … | Continue reading
Furi, an action game comprised entirely of boss fights, is due on 5th July for PS4 and PC (via Steam), developer The Game Bakers has announced.We've covered Furi before, but here's a recap: A mysterious hero is pitted against a variety of bosses to regain their freedom. Your move … | Continue reading
Machine Games, the developer of Wolfenstein: The New Order and a studio that contributed to id's recent Doom reboot, has made a new Quake episode in honour of the classic shooter's 20th birthday."Happy 20th to Quake @idsoftware! As a gift to the fans, we created a new episode of … | Continue reading
Whore of the Orient, that mysterious game by Team Bondi (LA Noire), sounds like it is dead and buried - and has been for a while. When asked in a Gamehugs podcast (via finder) whether we'd ever see Whore of the Orient, a former producer for the project answered "I don't think so … | Continue reading
BioWare didn't show much of Mass Effect Andromeda at E3 2016, but one thing it did reveal was Ryder, the game's protagonist.Or, to be exact, the female version of Ryder. Like many BioWare games, Andromeda will let you play as a character based on either gender. Unlike many BioWar … | Continue reading
The UK has voted to leave the European Union in an historic campaign - but what does it mean for the UK video game industry?The UK is home to a raft of video game publishers and developers, many of which export their games worldwide and hire staff from across the world. What now … | Continue reading
Destiny's Hunter class took a big hit in the game's recent June update. Two of the three Hunter subclasses - Gunslingers and Bladedancers - were nerfed significantly in the latest round of sandbox changes - leaving some Hunter players miffed.Now, Destiny developer Bungie has expl … | Continue reading
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is not giftable during the ongoing Steam sale, Valve has confirmed.Valve launched the Steam Summer Sale yesterday and knocked 50 per cent off CS:GO. It wasn't long before people noticed the competitive multiplayer first-person shooter could not be … | Continue reading
Halo 5 gets the big Warzone Firefight update next week - and the full game will be free to download and play to coincide with the launch.Warzone Firefight,… | Continue reading
My hands-on time with Shadow Warrior 2 started innocently enough: a quick run-through of the controls from Flying Wild Hog's, Tadek Zielinksi before an introduction to the sequel's brand new level structure. "The first Shadow Warrior was a linear corridor shooter." Tadek explaine … | Continue reading
I learnt everything I know about history from Civilization, which I played for hours on end on my Amiga back in the early nineties.Now, high school students in North America can do the same - except in school.Developer Firaxis is working with GlassLab to create CivilizationEDU, a … | Continue reading
This week, Alderac Entertainment Group announced it would cease production on collectible card game Doomtown: Reloaded. On paper this means that, after October 2016, there will be no new expansions released for the cowboy card game set in the weird west town of Gomorrah. In pract … | Continue reading
On the face of it, Mighty No. 9 shouldn't be causing PlayStation 4 or Xbox One any problems. After all, it's a simplistic Unreal Engine 3-based side-scroller, and despite its humble origins as a Kickstarter-funded project, this should be a fairly easy win for Keiji Inafune and hi … | Continue reading
Sega mascot and Mario arch-frenemy Sonic the Hedgehog has turned 25 today.The famous blue hedgehog made his debut in the game of his namesake on Sega Mega Drive / Sega Genesis on 23rd June 1991 in North America.He's since gone on to star in over 30 titles of varying quality. His … | Continue reading
Devil's Third, the debut effort of Ninja Gaiden creator Tomonobu Itagaki's Valhalla Game Studios, only launched last August but it's already shuttering its online multiplayer at the end of the year.According to Nintendo's official site, Devil's Third is going offline on 29th Dece … | Continue reading
Xbox One has added eight new titles to its library of backwards compatible games.The big one this time is Fallout: New Vegas, Obsidian's beloved take on the post-apocalyptic gangster city.We've also got Ubisoft's own take on post-apocalyptic survival with I am Alive, Twisted Pixe … | Continue reading
Steam's annual Summer Sale is now live, offering plenty of sales and daily deals between now and 4th July at 6pm UK time.Some current highlights include:There's hundreds, maybe thousands, of other deals on offer. What, if anything, are you picking up?Read more… | Continue reading
Dynasty Warriors developer Omega Force recently revealed its upcoming Warriors spin-off based on the popular pulpy manga series Berserk. Now we have a trailer showing brief snippets of gameplay.Publisher Koei Tecmo described Bersek - which is just a working title - as "the most l … | Continue reading
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, the Castlevania spiritual successor by Castlevania: Symphony of the Night producer and co-director Koji Igarashi, now has a demo for folks who pledged $60 or more to the game's Kickstarter.As stated in a Kickstarter update, the demo is currently … | Continue reading
Mighty No. 9's end credits are an incredible three hours and 48 minutes long. This is because developer Comcept needed to thank all 71,493 backers who pledg… | Continue reading
Acclaimed cyberpunk adventure Read Only Memories is slated for a PS4 and Vita release on 16th August.For those unfamiliar with the game, it's set in 2064 Neo San Francisco and follows the exploits of a person looking for their kidnaped friend Turing, who just so happens to be the … | Continue reading
Nintendo has finally shown off its Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DLC for Hyrule Warriors: Legends on 3DS.The download launches next week, on Thursday 30th June and then for the game's Wii U version at a later date.With the DLC installed, Hyrule Warriors: Legends owners can pl … | Continue reading
Last night, screenshots of upcoming Wii U game Paper Mario: Color Splash caused a storm on Twitter, as sections of dialogue were interpreted as a reference to the harassment of developer Zoe Quinn.The specific dialogue sections reference a group of "Five Fun Guys" and an event du … | Continue reading
In space no-one can hear you scream - unless you're in a Call of Duty spacesuit, that is.The next Call of Duty game, Infinite Warfare, takes the first-person shooter series into the future and up into space, where soldiers fight in zero gravity on the hulls of huge spaceships.In … | Continue reading