P.T.-inspired first-person horror game Allison Road has been cancelled.Developer Lilith made the announcement on Twitter. "Sadly Allison Road had to be cancelled," the developer said. "Thx for all your support and very sad it came 2 this."This cancellation is surprising as Alliso … | Continue reading
The Legend of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild is being co-developed by over 100 staffers from Xenoblade studio Monolith Soft.In an interview with GameInformer Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto revealed this. "Yes they are involved in this Zelda. People from Tokyo and Kyoto are working tog … | Continue reading
After raising more than $3.8m on Kickstarter, Mighty No. 9 has an awful lot to prove. Mega Man fans were delighted to see a spiritual successor developed by… | Continue reading
Climb to the highest ranks in reworked Overwatch Competitive Play - still due to arrive late June - and you'll be rewarded with a golden weapon!"Rewards are always controversial when it comes to anything competitive and anything PvP based," said game director Jeff Kaplan in an Ov … | Continue reading
I'm a big fan of dumb 90s shooters, so obviously I've played and loved every Serious Sam game out there. That's why I got all giddy at this years E3 when I found out I'd be getting a hands-on with the newest instalment in Croteam's series, Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope.The demo w … | Continue reading
BioWare has decided to leave behind Mass Effect 3's controversial ending choices, rather than let them impact the upcoming Mass Effect: Andromeda.Andromeda has been in development since late 2012, and this year's EA E3 press conference marked the third year in a row the game has … | Continue reading
"Hello everyone - I am back!"You can say one thing about Hideo Kojima: he certainly knows how to make an entrance. The superstar developer strode out onto Sony's E3 stage like a rock star - and was greeted by the sort of welcome usually reserved for returning war heroes. Which, i … | Continue reading
The Warcraft movie hasn't Thralled critics but it's doing the business globally - and director Duncan Jones is up for a sequel if it comes to it.Globally the Warcraft movie has made $377.6m, reported Box Office Mojo, and more than $200m of that in China. That makes Warcraft the m … | Continue reading
Fallout 4 mods are up and running on Xbox One, albeit with a dash of controversy we reported on earlier this month. But it seems developer Bethesda is running into issues getting mods going on PlayStation 4.The latest Creation Kit Update brought with it PS4 mod support, and in th … | Continue reading
No Man's Sky developer Hello Games has revealed a three-year long lawsuit brought by broadcasting giant Sky.The legal dispute, over the use of 'Sky' in the game's name, has only come to light now it has been concluded."We finally settled with Sky (they own the word 'Sky')," Hello … | Continue reading
Frame-rate testing of Final Fantasy 15's Trial of the Titan demo - as seen at Microsoft's E3 presentation - shows Xbox One performance in a much improved state after two playable demos showed the game struggling to hit its 30fps frame-rate target. The E3 segment is taken straight … | Continue reading
The Kingdom Hearts franchise has always been somewhat adventurous with its subtitles, from 358/2 Days to Birth by Sleep. Square Enix no longer thinks about words and numbers like the rest of us, having long ago shrugged off the mortal shackles of reason and logic. But perhaps its … | Continue reading
This week's reveal of the Xbox One S is our first look at how console technology is evolving to match the increased functionality of the latest living room displays. The new unit is equipped with an HDMI 2.0 controller, opening the door to ultra HD media support and games rendere … | Continue reading
"Anti-heroes" aren't supposed to look like Wario. Anti-heroes aren't supposed to have characteristics at all, technically - the whole point is that they're defined by negation - but in the course of countless gothic, noir and gritty fictions, they've come to share certain traits … | Continue reading
With the reveal of Microsoft's Project Scorpio and Sony's PlayStation Neo, the platform holders find themselves at a crossroads. Whether it's a 2.3x or 4x increase in processing power compared to their predecessors, the question is, just how should these resources be used to impr … | Continue reading
E3 week is always a hectic affair. Typically speaking nobody has had enough sleep, everyone's had far too much caffeine and there's never not a huge stack of things on which to report. Small wonder, then, that it often takes for the show itself to close before we get the chance t … | Continue reading
Fallen London's an oddity. More than a million and a half words of sort-of-multiplayer online interactive fiction, free-to-play but polite about it, kinda grindy but absolutely crammed with story: a videogame with no moving pictures at all[1]. I originally built it, and I founde … | Continue reading
Formerly Vita-exclusive first-person dungeon-crawling action game Severed is coming to Wii U, 3DS and iOS this summer.Severed is the latest game by Drinkbox Studios, the Toronto-based studio behind Guacamelee! and Mutant Blobs Attack.Severed puts players in the role of a one-arme … | Continue reading
Bayonetta and Devil May Cry creator Hideki Kamiya wants to make a third Bayonetta title after he wraps up development on Scalebound.When asked in an interview with Polygon if he'd consider making Bayonetta 3 next, Kamiya replied, "To answer your question straightly, yes.""It's ac … | Continue reading
Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls developer Quantic Dream is releasing a remastered version of its 2005 sci-fi thriller Fahrenheit (or Indigo Prophecy, as it's known in North America) on PS4 18th July.Priced at $14.99 (so about £9.99 in the UK), Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remaste … | Continue reading
iNK Stories' historical drama 1979 Revolution is now available on iOS devices.Priced at £3.99 / $4.99, 1979 Revolution follows the exploits of a young photojournalist named Reza Shirazi as he returns to his homeland of Iran after studying abroad. There's civil unrest as much of t … | Continue reading
The first flock of games to support Xbox Play Anywhere have been listed. These are the games that will be cross-buy on Windows 10 and Xbox One, which means if you buy one version, you get the other free, and your saved games and add-ons work with both.Microsoft announced Xbox Pla … | Continue reading
One of the things I love most about strategy gaming is its breadth, and few comparisons speak to that like the pairing of The Creative Assembly, architect o… | Continue reading
Assetto Corsa is getting the coveted Porsche licence, with cars from the Stuttgart marque coming to both the PC and console versions of Kunos' driving simulator this autumn via DLC. It's an impressive coup for the relatively small developer, especially given how scarce Porsche ha … | Continue reading
Internet money-handler PayPal has, whoops, let it be known that the Steam summer sale will begin Thursday, 23rd June.The tweet, which is still around now, confidently announced: "It's official: the [Steam summer sale] starts 23rd June. The Steam Summer Sale started in June last y … | Continue reading
We've decided to take a slightly different tack with our E3 awards this year. Rather than pick a single game of the show, or nominate games to other sub-categories based on genre or achievement in some specific area of technology or design, we've simply picked five games that par … | Continue reading
This War of Mine (the video game) is a game about living hand to mouth and making hard decisions. Even when it's going well, it manages to maintain this terrible, gnawing sense of anxiety; your survivors may want for nothing, but the next catastrophe is just around the corner. Ea … | Continue reading
We've been contacted by readers who are concerned their Thrustmaster racing wheels no longer work with Dirt Rally on PlayStation 4 following the release of a recent patch (v1.11).Drivers had been surprised to discover they could no longer get past the starting line.The good news, … | Continue reading
It's all over for another year, and it was... pretty good. It's becoming clearer that we're never going to relive the intoxicating insanity of 2013's hardware throwdown, possibly ever, so we're just going to have to make do with some really strong software lineups, and Nintendo h … | Continue reading
Dead Rising 4 will be exclusive to Xbox One and Windows 10, but only for a year.Developer Capcom Vancouver tweeted "You'll be able to play it first on Xbox One and Windows 10."Journalist Ryan Brown offered further clarification on Twitter where he stated "Capcom rep says that Dea … | Continue reading
PlayStation 2 cult classic horror game Forbidden Siren (or just Siren in other territories) is now available on PS4.Priced at £7.99, this classic title has received 1080p up-rendering, Trophies, SharePlay and Vita Remote Play. It's also 25 per cent off through 21st June.Forbidden … | Continue reading
Lords of the Fallen developer Deck13 has revealed new gameplay of its upcoming sci-fi adventure The Surge.Described by Deck 13 as being Dark Souls-like, The Surge is set in the future after plans to stop global warming backfired and the only survivors are outfitted with slick exo … | Continue reading
Robert Yang's gay sex-themed experimental titles Hurt Me Plenty, Succulent, and Stick Shift, have been remastered and released on Steam as the anthology Radiator 2.We covered Succulent and Stick Shift before. The former lets you control a man fellating a popsicle, while the latt … | Continue reading
Last November Activision Blizzard announced that it would be launching a film studio. Today the publisher revealed that its first project will be a Skylanders animated series for Netflix entitled Skylanders Academy.Set to premiere this autumn, Skylanders Academy features quite th … | Continue reading
Portal 2 and Left 4 Dead have been added to the Xbox One's backwards compatibility list.It's worth noting that the original Portal has been backwards compatible for some time now, while Left 4 Dead 2 became backwards compatible in March.In addition to these Valve classics, the Xb … | Continue reading
Yakuza 0 has received a new E3 trailer showing us more of the game's English version ahead of its "early 2017" release on PS4.Set in 1988, this prequel serves as an origin story for series stalwart Kazuma Kiryu and fan-fave mob boss Goro Majima. Both will be playable. This will b … | Continue reading
Sea of Thieves lets you and a group of friends sail pirate ships in a huge open ocean. You can drink grog. You can play the accordion. The best bits of the E3 demo are when these crews of grog-drinking, shanty-singing players come rattling together in a cannon-filled collision. I … | Continue reading
Overwatch Competitive Play should return towards the end of the month - that's the target - but when it does, don't expect it to be immaculate. It could take a few seasons of iteration before Blizzard has it where it wants it."Competitive Play is quite a big effort for us this ti … | Continue reading
Rare's mysterious shared world pirate game was first shown off at E3 last year via a brief snippet of in-engine footage. The teaser posed more questions than it answered - chief among them, for many, was how the game would be monetised.Job listings with experience in free-to-play … | Continue reading
Codemasters has released the first official footage of its forthcoming F1 2016, giving us our best look yet at this weekend's all-new street race in Baku. The Grand Prix in Azerbaijan is one of Formula 1's oddest exploits in some time, the street circuit boasting an expected top … | Continue reading
If nothing else, Hideo Kojima's newly unveiled Death Stranding was the most baffling thing at E3 this week, its short teaser packing in a whole world of enigma as it introduced the PlayStation 4 project from the director's new studio. As is often the way with Kojima's work, there … | Continue reading
In an interview with Wesley yesterday, Xbox boss Phil Spencer strongly suggested that if you use a 1080p TV for gaming then the new and more powerful Xbox, Project Scorpio, "is not going to do anything for you". "Scorpio is designed as a 4K console," he said, "and if you don't ha … | Continue reading
A few weeks ago, Eurogamer received an invitation to visit Naughty America, a long-standing subscription-based porn company and distributor, at their booth on the E3 show floor. For reasons unknown the invite was addressed to me specifically, but I'm sitting out this expo, so who … | Continue reading
E3 Thursday is the party drawing to a close, when you know you've had the best experiences already but can't resist sneaking in an extra drink or harvesting one of the remaining snacks that's been sat around for a while but is still mostly good. We refer, of course, to The Last G … | Continue reading
Rare's Xbox One and Windows 10 pirate game Sea of Thieves will be released in or around February 2017, Microsoft has said.Xbox Games Marketing boss Aaron Greenberg talked about the game's release-window during an interview with Kinda Funny (via COG Connected and Videogamer)."Not … | Continue reading
It felt surreal to sit down to play The Last Guardian, a game in development for so long I had started to wonder if I had imagined its existence.Here we have a game that was announced what feels like a lifetime ago for a console we've all left behind. Back then, The Last Guardian … | Continue reading
During the video for Project Scorpio, two minutes of puffery dedicated to Microsoft's bright Christmas 2017, there is a man who speaks with his mouth but betrays everything with his eyes. "This doesn't mean we're leaving the Xbox One behind," he says, but the truth is there to se … | Continue reading
Final Fantasy 12: The Zodiac Age will let players speed up the gameplay by 4x.First spotted by Kotaku, Square Enix revealed this new feature during an E3 livestream (captured below by YouTuber GamersPrey HD). Of course, this will make grinding for levels look like a Benny Hill sk … | Continue reading