Listen, I know Bertie wrote up some starter tips for Overwatch ahead of its release, but this is a bit different. Not only are these tips being represented in video form, but they're also way better. Don't tell Bertie I've said that.Whether you're a new player, terrified of Basti … | Continue reading
Rockstar's released a trailer for Further Adventures in Finance and Felony, the next big update for GTA Online.Further Adventures in Finance and Felony, due out on 7th June, lets you build a criminal empire as a CEO. You can traffic illicit cargo and contraband, disrupt rival sup … | Continue reading
It is, simply, a phenomenon: Minecraft has now sold more than 100m copies worldwide across PC, console and mobile platforms.The game is owned in every country and territory on the planet - even Antarctica (it's probably David Attenborough) - and in 2016 more than 53,000 copies ha … | Continue reading
If you've been following our exploits in Hitman thus far, you may have seen a pattern emerging among the video team. I'm perfectly awful and Ian's a brave amateur, while Aoife is the peerless assassin. With episode 3: Marrakech, however, I'm happy to say the tables have turned. W … | Continue reading
The Order: 1886 developer Ready at Dawn's upcoming physics-based multiplayer arena brawler De-formers is a big departure from the studio's steampunk flagship title. A multiplatform (PS4, Xbox One and PC) offering published as part of GameStop's recently announced GameTrust initia … | Continue reading
Just over a year ago Sony launched one of the best looking console games of the modern era with Ready at Dawn's narrative-heavy third-person steampunk shooter The Order: 1886. It was a technical marvel for spring 2015 and one that Digital Foundry editor Richard Leadbetter called … | Continue reading
Nintendo socks, shoes, sandals and caps are now available from skater/emo clothing maker Vans.If you ever idly doodled mushrooms and goombas on your Converse and wished for something more official, well here we are: Mario, Donkey Kong, Zelda and Duck Hunt designed duds.This "ulti … | Continue reading
AMD has revealed the Radeon RX 480 graphics card - its debut GPU based on the new Polaris graphics technology. Set to go on sale on June 29th priced at $199, the RX 480 has been validated for premium VR PC gaming and should offer ballpark performance equivalent to GTX 970/980 and … | Continue reading
Shaun the Sheep will be playable in Super Mario Maker from tomorrow, 3rd June.You'll be able to unlock Shaun by completing a new event course. When playing as the sheep you'll also be able to pose in Mario's trademark cap and dungarees.Bizarre.Read more… | Continue reading
Okay, let's cut straight to it - of course there's not an all-singing, all-dancing brand new Metal Gear Solid video game coming from Konami this year. After… | Continue reading
Maybe it's something in the water, or maybe it's because most of its residents would rather gulp back a beer to hydrate themselves, but there's something awfully fighty about Osaka. A bawdy counterpoint to the dignity traditionally associated with the city of Kyoto, it's no wonde … | Continue reading
A silver screen adaptation of Tom Clancy's The Division is in the works with Donnie Darko himself Jake Gyllenhaal playing the lead.As reported by Variety, Gyllenhaal is also producing the film. A movie based on The Division shouldn't be that surprising given that Ubisoft's shared … | Continue reading
Pixeljunk developer Q-Games' upcoming empire-building sandbox affair The Tomorrow Children will receive an open beta this Friday, 3rd June, at 9am UK time.It will last until Monday, 6th June at 9am UK time.The Tomorrow Children is set in a strange void where you send children to … | Continue reading
Rocket League has clearly been a success, but we didn't know just how successful until now. According to a new report by Forbes, the vehicular spin on football has shifted 5m units and raised over $110m in sales.That's on top of all the free-ish downloads it received during its P … | Continue reading
UPDATE 02/06/2016 1.15am: Analyst Christine Arrington of IHS Technology told Eurogamer that she thinks a Vivendi takeover would be good for Ubisoft, despite… | Continue reading
One of the many great things about The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine is that it knows how to have fun. The new region of Toussaint is packed with weird characters and weirder quests, so I collected some of my favourites in the video below. Be warned, though - alongisde a great deal o … | Continue reading
Industrial, the codenamed next game from This War of Mine team 11 bit Studios, will be officially revealed around PAX Prime in early September, and released… | Continue reading
Former developers at shuttered Sony Liverpool and Evolution Studios are making a new game called Filthy Lucre. It's due out later in 2016.Filthy Lucre is fr… | Continue reading
Skylanders Imaginators has been announced with an October 2016 release date. The US press release says 16th October, which is a Sunday, and the German press release says 14th October, which is a Friday - which sounds like a UK date to me.The big new thing in Imaginators is the ab … | Continue reading
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade machine is an oddity which, despite not being all that great, enraptured a generation of players. The XBLA re-release's incredible sales suggests most of them still play games and, for whatever reasons, Turtles arcade is one of those games … | Continue reading
Last week, Paradox pulled a Stellaris mod that altered the game's human race to consist of only white people with European names. Stellaris is an excellent 4X Grand Strategy game in which human empires are made up of multicultural populations.Labelling the mod as "discriminatory" … | Continue reading
Just how does Overwatch fare running on lower-end PCs? The good news is Blizzard has extremely good form in PC optimisation to date - and whether it's World… | Continue reading
Blizzard appears to be looking at Overwatch heroes McCree and D. Va with regard to making balance changes.With McCree it's Fan the Hammer that's the issue when used in combination with his stunning Flashbang grenade. Fan the Hammer looses a round of ammo in the blink of an eye an … | Continue reading
The first surprise, perhaps, is that Konami is still actively making big budget console titles. Pro Evolution Soccer 2017 isn't a new Pachinko machine - it's a proper, bona fide video game. It's a very good one, too, as you might have expected if you've been paying attention to P … | Continue reading
Minecraft developer Mojang is cracking down on the sorts of creations people erect in its procedurally-generated sandbox. The gist is that people can still make whatever they want, unless it's specifically to promote an unrelated product. That's now against the user guidelines."W … | Continue reading
Minecraft: Story Mode's next episode, A Portal to Mystery, is due on 7th June for PC, Mac, PS4, PS3, Xbox One, and Xbox 360 along with iOS and Android platforms.The first season of Minecraft: Story Mode wrapped up in late March with Episode 5: Order Up. But developer Telltale dec … | Continue reading
Id Software's new Doom reboot really hearkens back to the good old days of gaming with its swift movement and brazen dismissal of reloading as a concept, and here's yet another way Doom feels like an "edgy" 90s adventure: The soundtrack contains hidden satanic imagery.As outlined … | Continue reading
PlayStation Plus' Instant Game Collection for June includes PS4 titles Gone Home and NBA 2K16.PS3 players will receive the episodic survival horror title Siren: Blood Curse (all 12 episodes) along with monochromatic spacial puzzler Echochrome.The Vita will receive mini-game compi … | Continue reading
The digital version of Resident Evil 5 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One comes out on 28th June, Capcom has announced.A retail disc version comes out in North America on 12th July. There's no word on whether this physical version will launch in Europe.Resident Evil 5 for current-gen … | Continue reading
I really enjoyed The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine; so much so, in fact, I gave it a gold sticker. I think it's a brilliant romp from the very start, but thankfully you don't have to take my word for it - I went back and captured the first half hour of Blood and Wine to give you a ta … | Continue reading
Fallout 4 gets mods for Xbox One today. It's a feature that's been in the works for some time, but for console users mods may be a daunting prospect. How do they work? How do you download them? What mods are available? Will they mess up my save files?Eurogamer video chief Ian Hig … | Continue reading
Lionhead is dead, but Fable lives on - in collectible card game form.Fable Fortune is a free-to-play Hearthstone-style game Lionhead had been working on in secret alongside the cancelled Fable Legends.Microsoft shut down Lionhead in March, leaving around 100 people looking for a … | Continue reading
Just Cause 3's second sizeable add-on introduces an all-new, commendably punchy mech as part of the Air, Land and Sea expansion pack, which is coming to season pass holders on June 3rd with a wider release from June 10th. Mech Land Assault follows on from Sky Fortress, March's ex … | Continue reading
I'm delighted to announce a new addition to the Eurogamer team today: Matthew Reynolds, who's joining us as Guides Editor.Matthew replaces John Bedford, who's gone on to work full-time on his passion project - our sister site MetaBomb.Matthew will be a familiar face to some of yo … | Continue reading
Pacifism was always a weird name for it: I ended up killing millions. But at the heart of Geometry Wars' greatest mode was a clever twist on the game's central idea. Here was a twin-stick shooter in which you could no longer shoot. In Pacifism, you had to kill indirectly, by raci … | Continue reading
There's a huge new patch for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt that introduces key new features such as level-scaling for enemies; a book that shows you how many Gwent cards you're missing and where you can find them; and an overhaul for the user interface. Cor blimey.Patch 1.2 (2.6-2.8GB … | Continue reading
Overwatch is top of the UK game sales chart.Chart-Track, which tracks physical sales only, said 47 per cent of launch week sales were on PlayStation 4, 36 per cent on Xbox One, and 18 per cent on PC. Who said PC physical sales were dead? (They are dead. Overwatch is an outlier.)O … | Continue reading
Capcom has unveiled Ibuki as Street Fighter 5's next DLC character.The tricksy ninja works slightly differently in SF5 than previous versions of the game. Here, she can glide through the air and toss out ninja bombs, making it hard to predict where she will land. Also, now she ca … | Continue reading
In a press release announcing Swedish studio Starbreeze has bought the full rights to the Payday franchise, Payday 3 was confirmed.Starbreeze's agreement with publisher 505 Games for Payday includes a note about money made from Payday 3.The note says 505 gets a 33 per cent revenu … | Continue reading
Gran Turismo Sport, Polyphony Digital's PlayStation 4 debut that arrives this November, will see one of the key features of the series in recent years dropped, with dynamic weather and light conditions no longer playing a part. The news was confirmed to GTPlanet during this past … | Continue reading
Developer Techland returns to the Dead Island series with this Definitive Collection, combining the original release with its Riptide sequel - rebuilt for PC, PS4 and Xbox One using Chrome Engine 6, the same in-house engine that powers the visually spectacular Dying Light. The co … | Continue reading
The point at which we should have known that the decade-in-the-making Warcraft film (released in the UK today) wasn't going to work out was when its title was extended to Warcraft: The Beginning. Everything misguided about this production can be read into the two words after that … | Continue reading
The new Fallout 4: Far Harbor DLC released recently, with some PlayStation 4 owners claiming that this expanded area has substantial performance issues not found in the main game. Based on just a two-hour sample of this new content, criticisms surrounding poor frame-rates on PS4 … | Continue reading
Lewis Carroll once wrote "begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop." What he didn't say was how you should stop, which is probably why so many videogame endings are so arrestingly weird.Ideally, the end of a game delivers a satisfying last bout of gam … | Continue reading
Even if the city of Helsinki didn't have a decent claim to being the capital of video games, it's certainly got a decent shout of being where the real capit… | Continue reading
If there's one thing I know about how to successfully market a video game*, it's that creativity is a good thing - just look at the giant Overwatch figures that appeared around the world last week. However while it's a good idea to be creative, that's not to say that a creative i … | Continue reading
PC is already home to superb renditions of the Final Fantasy series' back catalogue, but the arrival of Final Fantasy X and X-2 HD Remaster marks a very special moment. This PC release is the first time this entry has become available outside Sony's ecosystem, with a port that's … | Continue reading
Dear Donald Trump,You've had a tricky relationship with video games over the years, just like you've had with women, black people, gays, lesbians, Muslims, Mexicans, Sir Alan Sugar, and Scottish wind turbines. One minute you're claiming they're the root of all evil. The next you' … | Continue reading