The flood of Final Fantasy games shows no sign of slowing: Square Enix has announced a 28th October 2016 release date for World of Final Fantasy.This isn't a Final Fantasy take on World of Warcraft. No, World of Final Fantasy is a PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita chibi version … | Continue reading

FIFA 17 is being built with the Frostbite game engine, EA has said.That's for the PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions, anyway. EA said the Frostbite game engine tech is available on those platforms only. FIFA 17 is also coming out on PS3 and Xbox 360.Frostbite is the game eng … | Continue reading

The trick to Arthur Conan Doyle's original Sherlock Holmes stories is that they aren't, strictly speaking, "Sherlock Holmes stories", but stories about Sherlock Holmes, written by the esteemed Dr John Watson. Baker Street's most eminent physician might exist in a state of hapless … | Continue reading

Watch Dogs 2 will launch on Tuesday, 15th November and be set in San Francisco.That's according to marketing material visible on IGN - which has gone live early, ahead of tomorrow's official 5pm reveal.Imagery shows a new protagonist standing in front of San Fran's Golden Gate Br … | Continue reading

Diablo 3 director Jay Wilson is leaving Blizzard Entertainment after a decade with the company."Sad to say after 10 of the best years of my life this will be my last week at Blizzard, and in the games industry," Wilson said on Twitter."I'm leaving to pursue my original passion, w … | Continue reading

Killzone developer Guerrilla Games' upcoming PS4-exclusive robot dinosaur-hunting game Horizon Zero Dawn will launch on 3rd March in the UK.The rest of Europe will get it a couple of days earlier on 1st March, while North Americans will receive it on 28th February.It was original … | Continue reading

Stop me if you think that you've heard this one before. Mirror's Edge Catalyst is a game of high ambition that is capable of awe-inspiring moments, and one that's all too often undone by a series of suspect design decisions and some truly atrocious combat. It's almost as if, in r … | Continue reading

Fallout 4's user created mods at last arrive on console - a feature rarely seen outside of PC's domain, and something of an experiment with its Xbox One debut this month. Over 800 mods are up for grabs, ranging from graphical tweaks, new sound effects, and even brand new missions … | Continue reading

Videogame Nation - the only video game show currently on British TV - has been cancelled.VGN, which was produced by Ginx TV, aired on Challenge from 30th March 2014 to 11th June 2016.In a post on Facebook, co-host Dan Maher (Eurogamer's video producer Aoife Wilson also worked on … | Continue reading

First off, the bad news: Yooka-Laylee will no longer launch this year. Instead of an October release, British developer Playtonic has rescheduled its love letter to classic Rare platformers for arrival in Q1 2017 - in other words, sometime between the beginning of January and the … | Continue reading

The Witcher 3 is a fantastic-looking game - but modders are making it look even better.One modder has revamped and improved the game's lighting - and the results are impressive.The video, below, shows off Essenthy's "Super Turbo Lighting" mod. There's some seriously impressive sh … | Continue reading

Microsoft's next major Xbox One update further blurs the lines between the console and Windows 10, and revamps the platform's store with Top Free and Top Paid categories.This summer will see the first Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps arrive on Xbox One and use the same code … | Continue reading

There's an ongoing row over "stolen" Fallout 4 mods.It appears that some of the most popular mods available for the Xbox One version of the game include mods made by PC players. And in some cases, these mods are not credited.The issue emerged last week in a thread on Reddit when … | Continue reading

EGX, the UK's largest games show, has partnered with Amazon, a retailer you may have heard of, for this year's show at the Birmingham NEC. Amazon is the exclusive retail partner of this year's EGX, which means that attendees will be able to buy and pre-order games and hardware fr … | Continue reading

The very best Final Fantasy game ever made - and if you think otherwise I will fight you - is getting an HD remaster, with Final Fantasy 12 coming to PlayStation 4 in 2017. Square Enix made the announcement via its YouTube channel, releasing a brief trailer that shows the makeove … | Continue reading

Last month, we heard about a group of Russian Star Wars fans remaking the never-released Battlefront 3.Re-named as Star Wars: Galaxy in Turmoil, the remake project aims to rebuild and release the Battlefront game once in development at TimeSplitters studio Free Radical Design.Now … | Continue reading

The cynical view of Planet Robobot is that it's a stopgap. A schedule-filler. It's Nintendo calling a favour from one of its most reliable development partners while most of its internal studios busy themselves preparing games for a new hardware debut. This is, in many ways, the … | Continue reading

Combining classic score-driven gameplay with next-generation physics, Dangerous Golf offers a unique blend of old and new ideas that have almost nothing to do with actual golf. At its core, you'll spend most of your time guiding a flaming golf ball around in slow motion while sma … | Continue reading

We all know the big players, the Kojimas, the Miyamotos, the Suda51s; but the magic of video games is about more than just the front men. It's about the details, the microcosm of daily working life, and the less recognisable figures that somehow contributed to the industry at lar … | Continue reading

The best thing about Mirror's Edge isn't the parkour, the sense of movement and momentum, or even the sharp, bleached-out world that you're moving through beneath a vast sky of Sega blue. It's the doors: the red doors, each one opened not with a polite survival-horror twist of a … | Continue reading

Fallout 4's latest Far Harbor DLC performed poorly on PS4, where frame-rates typically stuck at 20fps, and even locked to 15fps at points. However, Bethesda has announced that a solution is readily available, ahead of the patch's arrival. Simply deleting the expansion from your h … | Continue reading

Playing The Wind Waker inspired me to build a boat. There, I've said it. It still sounds a little silly - to me at least - and I'll get to that. But can we at least acknowledge that the game made a convincing case for the joys of sailing?In it, the sea-breeze blew in curlicue swi … | Continue reading

Someone has made an 8-bit demake of Jonathan Blow's fiendishly difficult puzzle game The Witness.Or at least its starting area anyway. This free demo for the cutely titled The Wit.nes only encompasses 32 puzzles (whereas the real The Witness has 600).Developed by Dustin Long, thi … | Continue reading

DmC: Devil May Cry and Enslaved developer Ninja Theory has a tendency to shoot for the moon with its narratively ambitious roster of action games, and early impressions on its upcoming psychological viking adventure Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice have left our Bertie Purchese a bit … | Continue reading

Myst creators Rand and Robyn Miller are releasing their crowdfunded spiritual successor to the popular puzzler, Obduction, on 26th July for PC and Mac. It will also have Oculus Rift support.Obduction will go for $29.99 (about £21) and be available from Steam, GOG, Humble Store, M … | Continue reading

Rainbow Six: Siege can now be purchased on PC at a discounted price via a new Starter Edition that eschews many of the game's features.For a mere £12 / €15 / $15, players can purchase this Starter Edition that offers an initial two Operators (randomly chosen from Rook, Sledge, As … | Continue reading

APB Reloaded has launched on Xbox One as a free-to-download game supported with microtransactions. But there's nothing "micro" about one of these transactions in particular.The open-world action MMO features an in-game currency called G1C, which is used to buy weapons, armour, cl … | Continue reading

Burnout - from Takedown onwards, at least - was always defined by its focus, its unshakeable sense of what it was, and what it should be doing with its players. This was a driving game in which driving badly rewarded you with the magic juice that allowed you to drive even more ba … | Continue reading

Mad Catz has suffered a huge loss on Rock Band 4.The Rock Band 4 distributor and plastic instrument maker recorded a $11.6 (£8m) loss for the past financial year. That's down from a $4.7m (£3.2m) profit for the year before that, Eurogamer sister site GamesIndustry.biz reported.Re … | Continue reading

It's one thing nailing a long, complex fighting game combo in the comfort of training mode. It's another thing entirely to do it at a high-profile fighting game tournament against a fellow pro-player.This week, professional fighting game player Christopher Gonzalez, aka NYChrisG, … | Continue reading

Elite: Dangerous recently revamped with the release of a big new expansion. But one of the unintended consequences was it made AI spaceships incredibly powerful - so powerful, in fact, that developer Frontier was forced to strip them of their upgraded weapons.The Engineers (2.1) … | Continue reading

The new Pokédex in Pokémon Sun and Moon is itself a Pokémon.Well, sort of. Your Pokédex device is inhabited by a new breed of Rotom, the Pokémon found in human-made electrical items. It has various forms - an oven, a fridge, a garden mower. And, now, a Pokédex.Rotom will imbue yo … | Continue reading

Capcom has apologised to Street Fighter 5 players for its silence around upcoming features and characters.Capcom failed to let players know that Ibuki, the latest DLC character, had been delayed from May to June.But beyond that, Capcom has failed to acknowledge feedback from play … | Continue reading

Rock of Ages, ACE Team's devilishly delightful twist on tower defence, is getting a sequel this autumn on PS4, Xbox One and PC.Dubbed Rock of Ages 2: Bigger and Boulder, this sequel will continue the peculiar genre-merging mechanics of the first Rock of Ages wherein players deplo … | Continue reading

The late great game designer Kenji Eno's 1995 cult classic horror game D is now available for PC via GOG, where it's going for £4.09.Developer Night Dive Studios - who previously ported System Shock 2 and Turok to modern digital platforms before embarking on a full-fledged System … | Continue reading

The Sims 4 has received a major update that allows loads of new gender customisation options.Until now certain hairstyles, clothing, voices, walking styles and physiques were only available to one sex or another in Maxis' suburban simulation. Now players can ascribe any cosmetic … | Continue reading

Sega's 1989 classic Wonder Boy 3: The Dragon's Trap is getting a fully-fledged remake for "consoles" and PC.French developer Lizardcube is handling the remake - which eschews the number from the title - with DotEmu on publishing duties. Wonder Boy series creator Ryuichi Nishizawa … | Continue reading

The new Toussaint region of The Witcher 3's Blood and Wine expansion looks stunning on PC, but its delivery on console has - until now - been a mystery. To benefit the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One delivery of this new area, developer CD Projekt Red states a more memory-efficient ap … | Continue reading

You can now duplicate games from your Steam library into your GOG.com library using a new feature called GOG Connect, which connects your two accounts.Duplicates are permanent but the games that are eligible are only available for a limited time due to contractual reasons. There … | Continue reading

Free massively-multiplayer online role-playing game Neverwinter is coming to PlayStation 4 this summer and does not require PlayStation Plus to play.The game, naturally, has optional microtransactions, but you should be able to play from start to level-cap, as one of eight classe … | Continue reading