Steins;Gate 0, the sequel to the grammatically confusing sci-fi visual novel Steins;Gate, is coming to Europe and North America on PS4 and Vita later this year via publisher PQube.Developed by 5pb. and Nitroplus, the first Steins;Gate was a critically acclaimed tale of teenagers … | Continue reading
Fallout 4 mods will be available on Xbox One next Tuesday, 31st May.Bethesda made the announcement on Twitter, where it also noted that the PS4 version will receive Fallout 4 mods sometime in June.As of now, Bethesda's website has 668 mods for Fallout 4. Read more… | Continue reading
Overwatch is such a phenomenon that Blizzard's latest multiplayer shooter has inspired a slew of fan-made porn based on the game. This too has been rather popular as Pornhub realised people searched for Overwatch-related porn 817 per cent more on 5th May when the open beta went l … | Continue reading
Strategy game Total War: Warhammer, which is still not called Total Warhammer, is the fastest-selling Total War game ever.It sold over half a million copies in the first few days on sale, developer Creative Assembly said.That sales success has resulted in the game regularly toppi … | Continue reading
Rockstar will deploy its biggest ever expansion to Grand Theft Auto Online on 7th June.Further Adventures in Finance and Felony continues the online mod's ever increasing levels of illegality, now allowing you to become CEO of your own criminal company.You'll get a high-rise HQ a … | Continue reading
Square Enix has announced that it's to localise Dragon Quest Builders, the Minecraft-esque spin-off to the long-running RPG series, with the game coming to PlayStation 4 and Vita this October. Dragon Quest is currently celebrating its 30th anniversary, and Builders launched in Ja … | Continue reading
Codemasters' second F1 game on the current generation of consoles will restore some of the features absent in last year's F1 2015, with F1 2016 reintroducing the career mode, the safety car and also bringing a host of other improvements. Last year's F1 game was a strong start for … | Continue reading
Remember those guys from the opening screen of Street Fighter 2? Finally, their identity has been revealed.You know, these guys.They'd face off at the start screen of the 25-year-old fighting game, then a knock-out punch, before the camera pans up a skyscraper to reveal the Stree … | Continue reading
Remember War for the Overworld, the spiritual successor to Dungeon Keeper that came out in 2015? A big new expansion for it goes live tonight at 7pm.The expansion is called Heart of Gold, and contains four new campaign levels, new defences, units and spells, and a new dungeon the … | Continue reading
After years of waiting, legendary PlayStation project The Last Guardian will finally launch this year.A blow-out of new information on the game has confirme… | Continue reading
2012 snowboarding reboot SSX is now playable on Xbox One thanks to the console's backwards compatibility service.As ever, if you own the game already then you simply need to insert the disc/redownload the game to get started.This latest addition completes a week full of other bac … | Continue reading
In 2009 the developers who made the well received Wii game Silent Hill: Shattered Memories moved onto what promised to be a much larger, much more ambitious game for multiple platforms. That game was a brand new, single-player, story-driven Legacy of Kain, the kind of project fan … | Continue reading
Announced back at E3 2015 but barely glimpsed since, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands is back on the scene.Looking like a cross between Far Cry and Ghost Recon, Wildlands boasts a large open area based on a near-future Bolivia.There's no release date yet, but today's push for t … | Continue reading
Now that everyone's in slightly less of a flap about its episodic release structure, one thing's become very clear: IO's Hitman reboot might well be seeing Agent 47 at his very best. The Paris taster laid a great foundation, followed up admirably by Episode 2's Sapienza. For the … | Continue reading
Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens season pass has been detailed - and you'll need it to play a selection of Jedi characters including Samuel L. Jackson aka Mace Windu.Even hated prequel character Jar Jar Binks is included in one of the character packs.Priced at £7.99, the season … | Continue reading
The upcoming Blood and Wine expansion for The Witcher 3 has some of the most striking areas seen running on REDengine 3, and for those who felt The Witcher 3 fell shortof its ambitious E3 showings, it marks a strong comeback. Set around the richly detailed, rose-adorned kingdom o … | Continue reading
Indie publisher Devolver Digital has picked up Absolver, a stylish "online combat RPG" due for release on PC and unnamed consoles next year.Absolver is the… | Continue reading
Minecraft's console versions are getting a new mode next month, and a new way for Microsoft to monetise the game.June will see the launch of Minecraft's first mini-game, Battle, which will launch for free on PlayStation 3, PS4, Vita, Wii U, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.The mode allows f … | Continue reading
Trawl is a game about trying to make sense of things. It's about trying to make sense of the controls of your small boat, which chugs around a midnight ocean as you gather strange objects from the seabed. It's a game about trying to make sense of these objects, too, working out w … | Continue reading
There are whispers and speculation but I can tell you Cyberpunk 2077 will definitely not be at E3 this year. That comes from the horse's mouth: CD Projekt co-founder Marcin Iwinski himself."It might happen that we will be at E3 and we will show something at E3, but I just want to … | Continue reading
PlayStation 4 has now sold more than 40m units worldwide.The console passed the 40m milestone this week, Sony reported today. It remains the fastest-selling PlayStation in the company's history.Software-wise, 270.9m PS4 games have now been sold or digitally downloaded.Read more… | Continue reading
No Man's Sky's release has slipped again, according to a round of new reports.As yet there's no official word of a delay from either Hello Games or publisher Sony, but Kotaku and TechRadar both say they've heard the game will no longer meet its 21st June date.It doesn't sound lik … | Continue reading
Elder Scrolls: Legends. Runescape Legends. Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft. Skylanders: Battlecast.Today, Ubisoft has joined the ranks of companies with confusingly-similar collectible card games. Meet Rabbids Heroes:There's plenty familiar there - classes of character (Knight, W … | Continue reading
Kumatomo, a curious Nintendogs-esque game from Bandai Namco that came out on Nintendo's 3DS a couple of years back, is being localised for the UK this summer. Rebranded as Teddy Together, it sees a bear moving into the player's house brandishing a mysterious key. Over time and th … | Continue reading
Platinum Games has been around for nearly ten years at this point and has produced some of the best action games ever made. As the studio has grown, however, various teams within the company have taken on smaller, lower-budget projects, including last year's surprisingly solid Tr … | Continue reading
Monster Hunter Stories, the RPG spin-off for Capcom's phenomenally successful series, has got a release date in Japan - and a new range of Amiibos set to accompany the 3DS game. Monster Hunter Stories will be launching on October 8th in Japan, with three new Amiibos arriving alon … | Continue reading
The first time you play Overwatch, Bastion seems overpowered as hell. Here's a character that can, at any time, transform into a turret. An actual turret. If an enemy player gets set up in the right spot like this, they can hold off your entire team with a near-constant stream of … | Continue reading
Hohokum, Super Exploding Zoo, and Frosbisher Says developer Ricky Haggett has announced an upcoming PS4 and PC title called Loot Rascals.The debut effort of Haggett's new studio Hollow Ponds, Loot Rascals is a procedurally-generated roguelike set on an alien planet where players … | Continue reading
Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune's spiritual successor to the Blue Bomber, Mighty No. 9, has received a new trailer and the reaction hasn't been good.The latest trailer (below) currently has 5234 downvotes and only 583 upvotes on YouTube.The overwhelming majority of the criticism s … | Continue reading
A Mirror's Edge television series is in the works.As reported by Deadline, production company Endemol Shine Studios (The Biggest Loser, Big Brother, MasterChef) will adapt EA's parkour franchise into a "female-centered action series."It will follow the adventures of Faith, a woma … | Continue reading
The Humble Ubisoft Bundle Encore is Ubisoft's new pay-what-you-want offering and it's one of Humble's best yet.Pay more than $1 to receive Grow Home, Rayman Origins and Call of Juarez: Gunslinger.Pay more than the average - currently at $6.56 (about £4.50) - and you'll also recei … | Continue reading
EA Origin - the PC service granting players loads of EA games, discounts, and early access to upcoming title for £3.99 a month - has added the Mass Effect Trilogy to its Vault.The first Mass Effect is just the base game, but Mass Effects 2 & 3 are the Digital Deluxe Editions of t … | Continue reading
Goat Simulator shoots for the stars tomorrow in its upcoming sci-fi expansion Waste of Space.Due on PC, iOS, Android and Amazon, Waste of Space was developed by Gone North Games, who made the previous Goat Simulator DLC GoatZ. This latest expansion is set in deep space where you … | Continue reading
Hitman - Episode Three: Marrakesh is due on 31st May for PS4, Xbox One and PC."Marrakesh has been built with a maze of alleys, a range of souks that line the medina walls and a fully-fledged shisha café," developer Io Interactive said on its blog. "Moving upwards, players can enj … | Continue reading
Two new Xbox One consoles are planned for release over the next two years, according to a new report.Kotaku's sources reveal a more powerful Xbox, codenamed Scorpio, is set for release in 2017. Kotaku says this will feature a more powerful GPU and will be able to support Oculus R … | Continue reading
Konami's announced PES 2017, due out this autumn, alongside a few screenshots. PES 2017 platforms are PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. On… | Continue reading
Microsoft's embattled phone business looks in deep trouble as it announced a whopping 1850 job cuts and an associated $950m write-off.1350 of these cuts are in Finland as Microsoft kills what remains of its disastrous $7.2bn purchase of Nokia.In a memo to staff published on Recod … | Continue reading
I've got a rather special live stream in store for you all today - I'll be playing 90 minutes of Lumo with the game's creator Garth Noyce, who'll be joining in via the medium of Skype. So, if you've been itching to see this enchanting game in action, or just want to watch Gareth … | Continue reading
Frantic food prep multiplayer game Overcooked has been picked up by British publisher Team 17 for launch on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One later this year.Overcooked is a couch co-op friendly experience from Cambridge-based indie Ghost Town Games, which was recently founded by ex … | Continue reading
The most endearing thing about the knights of old is not their chivalry, their boldness or their devotion to beauty. Rather, it's how enthusiastically they use those three qualities to justify behaving like total idiots. Take Sir Lancelot in Chrétien De Troyes' The Knight of the … | Continue reading
An Overwatch fan with cerebral palsy has thanked Blizzard for the extensive array of customisable controls in its new arena shooter.Zak - Reddit username zak552 - praised Blizzard for the way Overwatch caters for players who use alternative controls.In a message posted to the Ove … | Continue reading
Amid the noise around Doom, Overwatch and the er, less noise surrounding Battleborn, it's easy to forget Epic is still plugging away on a new Unreal Tournam… | Continue reading
Titanfall 2 has added a grappling hook, according to a new leak.Artwork and gameplay details for Respawn's sci-fi shooter sequel were posted anonymously on Reddit last night.Grappling hooks will apparently have multiple uses, such as "getting into your Titan, aiding free-running, … | Continue reading
This coming weekend, Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi will once again be taking to the Nürburgring in what's become an anomaly on the motor racing calendar in the modern era; a 24 hour race around one of the sport's most challenging tracks, where over 160 cars compete throu … | Continue reading
A jury ruled in favour of defendant Valve on 2nd November 2017, finding the plaintiff was not discriminated against for transgender or disability reasons, n… | Continue reading
A dedicated group of modders are collaborating to make a colossal Fallout 4 campaign set in Seattle.Dubbed Fallout Cascadia, the giant mod aims to be "just a bit smaller than Fallout 3, but [with] more quests and locations than Fallout 4's Far Harbor DLC." That's pretty big!It wi … | Continue reading
Resident Evil competitive shooter spin-off Umbrella Corps will feature locales from Resident Evil 2.These include Raccoon City and its Police Department, as can be viewed in the trailer below.Capcom confirmed last year that it will remake Resi 2. Whether that will be a straight u … | Continue reading
Survival game 7 Days to Die will arrive on PS4 and Xbox One on 1st July, via Telltale Game's publishing division.Those in North America will receive it three days earlier on 28th June.7 Days to Die is a genre hodgepodge of first-person shooter, tower defence, survival horror and … | Continue reading