Ubisoft has shifted its policy towards cheating in The Division and will now issue permanent bans to anyone caught cheating, even if it's a first offense.Prior to this, the developer only issued 14-day suspensions. But clearly this was not enough as cheating via third-party softw … | Continue reading
Three new PlayStation VR games have been announced.The first, Statik, is a puzzle mystery game by LittleBigPlanet Vita developer Tarsier Studios. It follows the exploits of Dr. Ingen and his assistant Edith as they examine a series of peculiar devices to "unravel the complexities … | Continue reading
Bungie is set to reveal this year's big Destiny expansion, Rise of Iron, at 6pm this evening.We already have a good idea what's going to be revealed - thanks to several leaks over the past few days.If you've missed the news, Rise of Iron will launch 20th September for PlayStation … | Continue reading
Tada! There's a new HTC Vive Business Edition and it's more expensive but no different. Well, the hardware isn't any different, but the £891.67 (exclud… | Continue reading
Street Fighter 5's new story mode, due out at the end of June as part of a free update, lets you play as all six DLC characters, Capcom has said.Two of these are available now: Alex and Guile. So, Ibuki, Balrog, Urien and Juri will also be playable.The official release of Balrog, … | Continue reading
This whole Nostalrius business has been remarkable. Who would have thought a team behind a private/pirate World of Warcraft server - depending on how you look at it - would one day be invited to Blizzard for a meeting that included Mike Morhaime (CEO), J. Allen Brack (WOW executi … | Continue reading
The Duncan Jones Warcraft movie may have been a flop in America but in China it's bigger than Star Wars: The Force Awakens - it's massive! Perhaps we'll see sequels after all.The Warcraft movie made around $47m in one day in China, whereas it made just $25m all opening weekend in … | Continue reading
Bungie will officially announce its new Destiny expansion Rise of Iron tonight during a livestream at 6pm UK time, but its trailer has now leaked. Rise of Iron's contents were spilled online last night, and now we can see it in action courtesy of a leaked ad that popped up on Sna … | Continue reading
So, just to clear things up, and flying against Betteridge's law of headlines, the answer is yes. I have played APB Reloaded on Xbox One, and while I can't claim to have tried out everything else on the console I can say with some confidence this is as bad as it gets on Microsoft … | Continue reading
Footballing car favourite Rocket League will be free to download and play on Xbox One this weekend.The offer coincides with an unlocked weekend of Xbox Live, so anyone can join multiplayer for free.It's the first time that Xbox Live has been unlocked on both Xbox One and Xbox 360 … | Continue reading
Doom's campaign was a wonderful surprise, and a progressive and worthy follow-up to a true classic. The multiplayer? Not so much. Sure, it's fun enough, and as Jon Denton said the other day, it features some smart design. But few would argue that Doom's multiplayer holds a candle … | Continue reading
Harry Potter, Adventure Time, Mission Impossible, The A-Team and the new Ghostbuster film are all headed to Lego Dimensions for its second year.Publisher Warner Bros. is set to reveal the game's second phase later today, but sets are already available to view on Amazon Mexico.The … | Continue reading
With the switch to Frostbite 3 for this reboot, Mirror's Edge Catalyst targets a 60fps update over the 30fps of the original's last-gen debut. On sampling the beta a few weeks ago, the upgrade in smoothness and controller response was immediately apparent, where gameplay felt far … | Continue reading
Earlier this year Frozen Synapse developer Mode 7 revealed its first game as a publisher with SMAC Games' isometric action-stealth-platformer Tokyo 42. Now we have a 12-minute video of Mode 7 co-founder Paul Kilduff-Taylor walking us through the game's alpha demo.This early build … | Continue reading
Reckless cat simulator Catlateral Damage will arrive on European PS4s this Monday, 13th June.Catlateral Damage originally launched last spring on PC, Mac and Linux, while the PS4 version only made its way to North America this past March.Developer Chris Chung told Eurogamer that … | Continue reading
Last summer Microsoft announced that the Xbox One would receive a feature this year allowing folks to record live TV for free... if you have an external har… | Continue reading
Apple will allow video game developers to offer titles as a subscription service starting this autumn.As reported by The Verge in an interview with Apple senior vice president Phil Schiller, Apple is "going to open up [subscriptions] to all categories... and that includes games." … | Continue reading
Destiny's next expansion, Rise of Iron, will leave behind PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 players when it launches this autumn.Bungie has yet to announce the new… | Continue reading
Mike Bithelll's stealthy cyberpunk adventure Volume is getting a free PlayStation VR expansion called Coda.It adds 30 new levels along with an all new story and protagonist.One neat addition to this VR expansion is the ability to scale and rotate the board. "You can make swoosh s … | Continue reading
Max Payne and Quantum Break developer Remedy Entertainment is working on two news games, but neither of them will be related to Alan Wake.Remedy's head of communications, Thomas Puha, confirmed this in a state of the studio blog post. "We're working on something else, but at the … | Continue reading
After all the leaks, Watch Dogs 2 is now officially out in the open. Ubisoft's open world hackathon sequel is brighter and busier than the original, and swaps the dark, rainy streets of Chicago for sunny San Francisco and its surrounding bay area. Not only does this change bring … | Continue reading
Eidos Montreal's follow-up to 2011's Deus Ex: Human Revolution is to introduce an all-new challenge mode, featuring self-contained levels, leaderboards and booster packs which can be bought via microtransactions. Dubbed Breach, it's being developed by a team within Eidos Montreal … | Continue reading
Square Enix Montreal is extending its Go series to the Deus Ex universe, with Deus Ex Go due to hit mobile platforms later this year. It follows successful mobile outings for Square's established properties, with Lara Croft Go and Hitman Go both releasing to critical acclaim. Deu … | Continue reading
You've probably seen the leaks. Watch Dogs 2 is set in San Francisco and features a new main character. It's also coming this year, on 11th November.Now you're up to speed, Ubisoft will show off the rest of its Watch Dogs reveal live today at 5pm UK time. Tune in for gameplay, in … | Continue reading
Today Activision announced the return of Call of Duty XP, the big Call of Duty event. It's set to take place 2nd to 4th September in Los Angeles.As part of the announcement, Activision said attendees can play an exclusive Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare experience for PlayStation … | Continue reading
CD Projekt plans to release Gwent, the card game that's a part of The Witcher 3, as a standalone game.That's according to a report by NerdLeaks, which spotted a trademark filed with the European Union Intellectual Property Office for Gwent The Witcher Card Game.There's even a log … | Continue reading
The GOG.com summer sale has begun and for the first 48 hours you can get System Shock 2 completely free.The quirky thing about the summer sale this year is earning XP that goes towards unlocking games for free. Those games are Spelunky, Gabriel Knight and a Dreamfall Chapters sea … | Continue reading
Warner Bros just announced Injustice 2, the next fighting game from the people behind Mortal Kombat. It's due out on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in 2017.Warner failed to mention a PC version, which perhaps isn't surprising given the publisher's recent troubled past on the platform … | Continue reading
Good news and bad news. First, the bad news: we won't hear about Kingdom Hearts 3 until this winter, Square Enix said today.Now, the good news: Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue, the HD remastered collection of the Kingdom Hearts series, comes out this December globall … | Continue reading
Bright and colourful MMO WildStar should get a big old boost this week when it arrives, two years after launch, on Steam. The game is free-to-play but there will be various bundles available to buy.The WildStar Steam page is up but the game won't be available until Thursday, 9th … | Continue reading
Ubisoft has issued a warning to Rainbow Six Siege cheaters and hackers: you'll suffer a permanent ban on first offense.Rainbow Six Siege, a multiplayer shoo… | Continue reading
Not to be outdone by the recently unveiled Gran Turismo Sport, Turn 10 has just announced that Forza Motorsport 6 is making its own move for eSports with a new online championship coming to the Xbox One exclusive game. What the championship actually entails remains a little fuzzy … | Continue reading
The new Kick Off game has been delayed a week.Dino Dini's Kick Off Revival is now due out on 24th June - it had been due out on 17th June."In the interests of delivering a high quality, polished gaming experience to players, they have decided to release the game a week later than … | Continue reading
The Naughty Dog developer who drew Nathan Drake's journal entries in Uncharted 4 has picked out her 10 favourite spreads.There may be spoilers ahead.Drake's journal is a mechanic in all of the Uncharted games. The adventurer uses it to sketch objects, jot down thoughts and house … | Continue reading
Since its April launch, the sought-after virtual reality headset HTC Vive has encountered shipping delays. But no longer. The official website has been updated to say that if you buy an HTC Vive from there it will ship in two-to-three business days."There are a few feelings you c … | Continue reading
Doom's Ultra-Nightmare mode is so difficult that nobody at developer id Software was able to complete it. The premise is simple: Take the game's most punishing difficulty setting, Nightmare, then apply permadeath to it. One wrong move and a six-hour play session can be wiped clea … | Continue reading
When news of Horizon Zero Dawn's new release date broke on Monday, I noticed a couple of people in our comments saying things along the lines of "it looks cool, but I've got no idea what you do apart from killing robot dinosaurs".To be honest, if the game just involved killing ro … | Continue reading
Koji Igarashi, the developer behind some of the best-loved entries in the Castlevania series, has given us our best look yet at Bloodstained, the all-new si… | Continue reading
The Guilty Gear series is driven by the unmistakeable hunger of the underdog. When series creator Daisuke Ishiwatari was a university student he obsessed over how he could design a fighting game to compete with the genre's heavyweights, Capcom's Street Fighter and SNK's King of F … | Continue reading
Those who pledge £100 or more to the Fable Fortune Kickstarter can play an early version of the game from tomorrow.Developer Flying Fowl will make the alpha build available to Hero tier or above backers via Steam code.The Fable Fortune Kickstarter launched at the end of May with … | Continue reading
An image has appeared online that reveals Injustice 2.Injustice 2 is the follow-up to Injustice: Gods Among Us, the DC-themed fighting game from Mortal Kombat maker NetherRealm that came out in 2013.The image, of a promotional poster that shows Batman about to punch The Flash, wa … | Continue reading
Nintendo's eShop first opened its digital doors five years ago this week and, to celebrate, the big N will hold a big sale.The deals begin at 3pm UK time this Friday, 9th June, and runs until 23rd June. Dozens of games will be half price, including 3DS, Wii U and Virtual Console … | Continue reading
XCOM 2 comes out on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on 9th September.Firaxis has partnered with developer The Workshop to port its excellent turn-based strategy game to consoles, following its launch as a PC exclusive at the start of the year.Fans had hoped XCOM 2 would eventually mak … | Continue reading
There's a way of exploiting The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt to earn lots and lots of money, and it involves rolling a beehive into town and then having the bees sting and kill a dwarf, obviously.As has been pointed out, this is an exploit that's been around since last autumn, but given … | Continue reading
The Overwatch launch appears to have been a phenomenal success. With more than seven million players having registered since launch, across three different platforms, Blizzard's first multiplayer shooter is already one of the largest in the world. But for this game to truly achie … | Continue reading
The Definitive Edition of Dead Island gives the game a dramatic graphical upgrade over the 2011 original, with new effects and reworked assets providing alm… | Continue reading
Persona 5 finally has a release date for the west - though unfortunately it's not arriving in the US until February 2017, some nine years after Persona 4, two years after Atlus' RPG sequel was first expected on PS4, and five months after its Japanese release. Still, it's definite … | Continue reading
A PlayStation 4 and Xbox One remaster of The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim is rumoured to be announced at Bethesda's E3 conference this Sunday, 12th June. We'll be reporting from it live; check our E3 2016 guide for conference timings. Eurogamer understands this rumour to be true, and … | Continue reading