The video game birthdays keep on coming: now Quake is 20 years old.id Software's hugely popular PC first-person shooter came out in the US on 22nd June 1996, courtesy of publisher GT Interactive.In a Quake retrospective published in 2011, Jim Rossignol discussed the influence of … | Continue reading
Overwatch players have been testing the game's new competitive mode and they're not thrilled about the way it handles sudden death.Right now, a competitive game sees you playing two rounds on the same map, with both teams having a chance to attack and defend. However if these two … | Continue reading
Rez Infinite comes out on 13th October 2016 for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation VR.That makes it a PSVR launch title. Sony's virtual reality headset comes out on 13th October, too. It costs £350.Martin Robinson took a look at Rez Infinite back in December and declared it PSVR's bes … | Continue reading
Next week Capcom will update fighting game Street Fighter 5 so that you can finally buy Hot Ryu.Hot Ryu, alongside the other premium costumes, costs £3.29. Previously, these costumes were available only to those who pre-ordered the game. Now, the only way to get them is to fork o … | Continue reading
The public test for Overwatch's highly anticipated competitive mode is now live, letting players try out ranked matches for the first time since the closed beta. Any progress or unlocks earned in the public test branch don't carry over to the main game, but nonetheless it's a goo … | Continue reading
Resident Evil has been many, varied things throughout its 20 year history. A haunted house adventure, a sprawling action game, a wayward co-op shooter and even a vague console MMO. Next year, with the recently unveiled Resident Evil 7, there's even the novel promise of a horror g … | Continue reading
The boys from Respawn are back. By the time Titanfall 2 launches, it will have been two-and-a half years since their mech-focused first-person shooter first touched down on Xbox One. Titanfall 2 makes the franchise - finally - multiplatform. Not just PC but PlayStation 4, too. Th … | Continue reading
The N64 launched 20 years ago today in Japan.Nintendo's console came out there on 23rd June 1996. It didn't launch in Europe until 1st March 1997 - almost a year later.N64 is probably best remembered for the wonderful Nintendo-made games it housed, including the groundbreaking Su … | Continue reading
The UK's two biggest video game magazine companies are now one.Future Publishing, which makes veteran video game industry magazine Edge, announced today it had bought Imagine Publishing, which makes GamesTM, in an all share deal valued at £14.2m.The surprise deal marries two long … | Continue reading
Whenever we talk about Civilization 5, we talk about its expansions. Most fans credit Gods & Kings and Brave New World with transforming what was a good game into a great one. Those same fans are now delighted to hear that Ed Beach, the lead designer on both of those expansions, … | Continue reading
The row between G2A and tinyBuild over PC game key reselling is getting ugly, with accusations of blackmail and ultimatums flying around.To recap: earlier this week tinyBuild claimed G2A, a popular PC key-reselling website, sold nearly half a million dollars' worth of its games - … | Continue reading
Sony's asymmetrical multiplayer twin-stick shooter Kill Strain will launch on 19th July as a free-to-play title.PlayStation Plus subscribers will receive it one week earlier on 12th July.As detailed on the PlayStation Blog, Kill Strain's unique premise pits two teams of four merc … | Continue reading
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild certainly shakes things up a lot by making the classic franchise open-world, but the new terrain isn't the only radical change to the formula. Instead of cutting grass to replenish lost HP, Breath of the Wild will make players hunt, gather … | Continue reading
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number's level editor is now available on Steam. "Thank you so much for your patience and help over the extended development of… | Continue reading
Shovel Knight developer Yacht Club Games already went above and beyond by creating the wonderful free DLC Plague of Shadows, which added an entirely new campaign where players assume the role of former baddie Plague Knight. Sure it recycled most of the levels from the original ga … | Continue reading
Doom 2 modder Doug Keener has recreated Jerry Seinfeld's classic NBC sitcom in id Software's 1994 shooter."After over 100 hours of work, I present to you Seinfeld.wad; a replica of Jerry Seinfeld's Apartment from his hit sitcom, Seinfeld!" Keener wrote on his YouTube notes for th … | Continue reading
Bungie is trying to ramp up the rate it builds new Destiny content, as the developer prepares to launch the game's third year.There had been an expectation this autumn would bring a fully-fledged sequel to Destiny. Instead, Destiny's playerbase is getting Rise of Iron, another ex … | Continue reading
Drawing perhaps the longest queue in E3 history, it's fair to say that The Legend of Zelda - Breath of the Wind was quite the crowd pleaser at the show last week. It's no surprise either - fans have been patiently awaiting the release of a new Zelda title on Wii U for years and h … | Continue reading
A lot of collectible card games let you buy and open card packs. It's a fun mechanic, but one of the issues with the system is its randomness. Most of the time you get a load of cards you either don't want - or already have.Gwent, the standalone collectible card game that began l … | Continue reading
Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE is an imperfect yet brilliant marriage of two beloved franchises. | Continue reading
Sonic the Hedgehog has stuck the boot in to Mighty No. 9 amid the game's troubled launch.Mighty No. 9 launched yesterday following negative reviews and reports that developer Comcept had sent Kickstarter backers the wrong game codes.Now, the official Sonic the Hedgehog Twitter, w … | Continue reading
Vivendi has now gobbled up more than 20 per cent of Ubisoft shares, as its concerted effort for control in the family-owned games company continues.Earlier this month, Vivendi took over Gameloft, the mobile games company owned by Michel Guillemot, brother of Ubisoft boss Yves Gui … | Continue reading
After pumping over 60 hours into DICE's Star Wars Battlefront, I should finally admit that I've quite enjoyed this wilfully simple brand of multiplayer shoo… | Continue reading
Criterion, British developer of the beloved Burnout racing franchise, is no longer working on its extreme sports racing IP.Instead, the studio has been put… | Continue reading
If you've ever played a Ubisoft open world game then you'll know the score. Assassin's Creed features towers to climb which unlock missions around you. Far Cry features towers which, again, unlock missions around you. And - guess what - Watch Dogs 1 features towers which unlock m … | Continue reading
PlayStation 4 owners can play online for free this weekend.PlayStation Plus, which costs around £40 a year, is set for an open weekend. It starts 10am UK ti… | Continue reading
Limbo, the wonderful puzzle platformer from Playdead, is free to download from Steam right now.But be quick, it's not free for long. The offer ends at 10am Pacific Time today, which is 6pm UK time.Once you add the game it will remain in your account after the free period.Read mor … | Continue reading
Asymmetrical multiplayer horror game Dead by Daylight has sold more than a quarter million copies in only a week.Publisher Starbreeze (Payday 2, Brothers: A… | Continue reading
Overwatch will be removing the option to avoid certain players.In theory the feature was created to prevent players from being harassed by trolls. But in th… | Continue reading
The Star Wars: Battlefront Bespin DLC arrives today and introduces the Cloud City and new heroes Lando Calrissian and Dengar, among other things. And alongside Bespin comes a beefy free new update for everyone.In that free universal update is a rank increase to 70 as well as a ne … | Continue reading
The Fable Fortune Kickstarter has been canned, but the game will launch on Steam, its developers have said.Flaming Fowl Studios, the new developer set up in the wake of the closure of Lionhead Studios, took collectible card game Fable Fortune to Kickstarter with the blessing of F … | Continue reading
The Star Citizen Terms of Service have changed and it's now a bit harder to get a refund.The Terms of Service changed 10th June, reported Kotaku UK, and alt… | Continue reading
Back in April we gave away some codes for Paragon, Epic's new MOBA-shooter-thing. They were rather well received, so we're doing it again: we have another 1,000 Early Access keys available for nothing, which you can claim using the widget below. Each of these keys grants you acce … | Continue reading
There's DLC, and then there's this DLC. Hadean Lands is an interactive fiction game done in the old adventure game style. There are no graphics. You si… | Continue reading
I'm not a fist bumper. I just want to get that out of the way early on before you see me awkwardly fist bump Boss Key Productions co-founder, Cliff Bleszinski, at the end of this interview. Apparently, it's his thing. He fist bumps people, rather than shaking hands, to avoid pick … | Continue reading
Watching Sony's E3 2016 media briefing, you'd be forgiven for thinking all of the games made by the company were variations of Naughty Dog's post-apocalyptic masterpiece The Last of Us.God of War now has a tighter, over-the-shoulder camera perspective, and as its debut trailer un … | Continue reading
Mighty No. 9, the Mega Man spiritual successor that comes out today, has got off to a rocky start.Kickstarter backers report problems with game codes. In some cases, backers have been sent codes for the wrong version of the game.Meanwhile, the Xbox 360 version has been delayed at … | Continue reading
When you come out of nowhere and dominate in the Korean pro Overwatch scene, defeating the other top teams to qualify for the Nexus Cup, people are going to ask questions. Are you hacking? You must be! These accusations were levelled against a teenage girl, 17-years-old, known as … | Continue reading
This year, Disney Infinity would have gained itself a pretty cool-looking Doctor Strange figurine.It won't now, of course, because Disney canned its toys-to-life franchise last month when it decided it wasn't making quite enough money.Disney Infinity's demise took out developer A … | Continue reading
Minecraft's new Battle Mode launches today on all console versions of the game, although the price for more maps is steeper than some had expected.You can get three new maps - Temple, Medusa and Lair - today via Battle Map Pack 1, which costs £2.39.Or you can stump up £7.99 for t … | Continue reading
One week ago, I played Zelda: Breath of the Wild and thought it was Nintendo's most ambitious game in years. It was the first game I played at this year's E3, and it remained my personal game of the show for the rest of the week. Which is why, come Thursday afternoon, as E3 wound … | Continue reading
Horse's tail disappearing? Body parts floating in mid-air? Marlene not talking to you? Sounds like you need The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt patch 1.22 (out now).No… | Continue reading
Sony raised eyebrows at E3 last week when it unveiled a very different look and feel for the new God of War. But there was more to the video that ran during Sony's media briefing than a straight up gameplay reveal.One NeoGAF user has picked apart the video and reckons he's spotte … | Continue reading
One indie developer claims a popular PC key-reselling website sold nearly half a million dollars' worth of its games - and didn't receive a penny in return.In an email sent to Eurogamer Alex Nichiporchik, boss of Punch Club and SpeedRunners publisher tinyBuild, accused G2A.com of … | Continue reading
We have the 1980s to thank for any number of embarrassing cultural trends - neoliberalism, an epidemic of mullets, Christopher Lambert's acting career - but sometimes I think the decade's most terrible legacy is allowing video game creators to pass off shabby design as quasi-sati … | Continue reading
The Stanley Parable designer William Pugh released the second free game at his new studio Crows Crows Crows. The first, if you don't remember, was the gloriously titled first-person adventure Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist. This lates … | Continue reading
South Park: The Fractured But Whole will let players create female avatars, a new feature since South Park: The Stick of Truth only let you play as a boy.South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone revealed the new option in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. "In Stick of … | Continue reading
Over two years ago Ex-Assassin's Creed and Far Cry developers Julien Cuny and Louis-Pierre Pharand announced ReRoll, a crowdfunded "survival action RPG" that would use drones to map out the entire planet. That game has now been cancelled.As posted on Reddit, an email was sent to … | Continue reading