The Overwatch launch, in terms of server performance, is going very well. But there's an issue the community feels is being ignored and they would like to see changed. It's the game's tick rate. The tick rate is how often a server updates every second. Generally the higher it is, … | Continue reading
Xbox owners can get The Crew, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Goat Simulator and Super Meat Boy via Games with Gold next month.June's offering will mark Games with Gold's third anniversary. To celebrate, next month's pick of games is better than most.The Xbox One version of Goat Simulator w … | Continue reading
Spider-Man will dangle his way into Lego Marvel's Avengers today as a free download.You can nab the Spider-Man character pack on PC, PlayStation 3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.Spidey was left out of the base game - although it released way back before Captain America: Civil War ar … | Continue reading
Unsuccessful Kickstarter candidate Shadow of the Eternals was designed to be the spiritual successor to beloved GameCube classic Eternal Darkness.It failed. As of late 2013, the game had been given two crowdfunding campaigns and the developer was shut down. Now, apparently, it's … | Continue reading
Paradox has removed a Stellaris mod which altered the game's human race to be entirely made up of white characters with European names.This mod, which was creatively titled 'European Phenotype and Names Only (White Humans)', is no longer available to download via the Steam Worksh … | Continue reading
Homefront: The Revolution has seen much change over its turbulent four-year journey to release. Surviving the closure of publisher THQ, and also an ill-fated spell as Crytek's UK subsidiary (ending in missed wages for its staff), the reformed team at Dambuster Studios lives on to … | Continue reading
Total Warhammer: Warhammer servers are now live, although a small portion of players are experiencing game crashes.Sega has blamed the problem on the amount of players currently online.Thankfully, only a fraction of active players are affected. Out of 40k people playing in the ga … | Continue reading
Since Hideo Kojima's contract with Konami ended on December 16th, the director has embraced freedom with the unmistakeable gusto of the recent divorcee. His Twitter feed is a flick-book of selfies with Hollywood actors and directors in exotic locales, interspersed with photograph … | Continue reading
Ron Gilbert, creator of Monkey Island, has asked Disney to sell back his gaming IP.That includes the rights to beloved adventure game franchise Monkey Islan… | Continue reading
Overwatch Competitive mode will return "sometime towards the end of June", game director Jeff Kaplan has said.Competitive mode appeared at the end of closed beta but was omitted from open beta because of player feedback. In a live interview on Facebook last night Kaplan expanded … | Continue reading
The Division's long-promised 1.2 game update lands today, bringing with it new activities, fresh gear and a second end-game Incursion mission.There's also a nifty new mechanic where you can nab Dark Zone loot from those around you after it has been tied to the extraction helicopt … | Continue reading
Lumo is steeped in the nerdish romance of the British 1980s video game development scene. For those who lived through those days, this wistful isometric puzzler, an ode to John Ritman's 1987 game Head Over Heels, is a reminder of mornings spent in the computer room at school, whe … | Continue reading
Five Nights at Freddy's developer Scott Cawthon is releasing the fifth commercial outing in his animatronic horror series with Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location.Revealed via a new trailer (below) and teaser on the game's official website, Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Lo … | Continue reading
Overwatch is now live in Europe and its micro-transactions have been revealed.As promised, the micro-transactions are entirely cosmetic and can all be obtained through dedicated play. Gaining a new level rewards players with loots boxes containing up to four new skins, voice line … | Continue reading
Last year Crossy Road developer Hipster Whale released Pac-Man 256, a mobile game based on a glitch that occurs for players who conquer the original Pac-Man's 255th level. Now, that game is coming to PS4, Xbox One and PC on 21st June - which just so happens to be Pac-Man's 36th b … | Continue reading
Syberia 3, the long-awaited third outing in Microïds point-and-click adventure series, will launch on 1st December for PC, Mac, PS4 and Xbox One.That's four years after it was first announced. And 12 years since Syberia 2 from 2004.This time out series stalwart and lawyer Kate Wa … | Continue reading
Blizzard didn't unveil a new Overwatch hero in its Soldier 76 'Hero' animated short yesterday - didn't do anything of the sort. I wasn't the only one fairly… | Continue reading
Non-fantasy medieval RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance has been pushed back until 2017.Developer Warhorse Studios confirmed the delay in a statement to WCCF Tech.Kingdom Come: Deliverance was originally scheduled for late 2015, then delayed to this summer. Warhorse said earlier this … | Continue reading
Uncharted 4 sold an impressive 2.7m copies worldwide during its first week on sale, Sony has reported.That figure includes physical copies and downloads.Naughty Dog's final Nathan Drake adventure has become the fastest-selling first party game on PlayStation 4. In the UK, it topp … | Continue reading
Dino Dini's Kick Off Revival comes out on 17th June.That's in the middle of Euro 2016. Will England have been knocked out by then? With Gary Cahill at the back, anything's possible.The Digital Lounge released the new Kick Off's first gameplay. Check it out in the video, below. It … | Continue reading
On 22nd May 2006, Valve put out a press release promising an episodic trilogy for Half-Life 2. Eurogamer wrote a news story, authored by one Ellie Gibson, w… | Continue reading
New chart entrants Homefront: The Revolution and Fire Emblem Birthright/Conquest have failed to topple Uncharted 4 and Doom from the top two slots of the UK chart.Homefront fired into third place, while Fire Emblem's split release saw it take both fifth and 11th spots in the UK a … | Continue reading
Fallout 4's largest expansion to date is more soggy B&B holiday than a hair-raising voyage to parts unknown, but I can't fault its opening sections. Dispatched to a mysterious island in search of a teenage runaway, I've barely set foot in the town of Far Harbor itself when I'm as … | Continue reading
Oculus Rift's latest security update was designed to make piracy harder, but its overall effect has been to make it easier than ever.Last week, Oculus released its v1.4 patch which added an extra security step when launching games - the app now checks whether you have a Rift head … | Continue reading
There's a story in Overwatch. It isn't rammed in your face, it doesn't get in the way of the action, but it is there. I didn't know much at all about it after 20 hours or so of playing but now I do, I wanted to share it with you, because knowing a bit more about adds a certain je … | Continue reading
I'm sorry Drew Barrymore.I thought you were an idiot for running up the stairs when that murderous intruder chased you with a butcher's knife at the opening of Scream. "Don't go up there, you fool!" I thought. "You won't have a way back down!"Recently I found myself making the ex … | Continue reading
Tricky one, Doom. Tricky one to reboot, or deboot, or whatever it is that id Software has been tasked with this time around. Tricky lineage to negotiate. How do you expand upon a game whose force and purity all but created the pace, mechanics, and look of a generation of shooters … | Continue reading
Theme parks are meant to be happy places, but video game theme parks often don't make the grade on account of poor ride safety or how they're more haunted than a ouija board factory built on the burned-down remains of another ouija board factory. Take Atlantic Island Park from su … | Continue reading
Do you remember the first time a video game told you a story? By that I don't mean the first time you played a video game that had a story. I mean the first time it made one up for you, like a grandmother who's reached the end of her book of fairytales, but the grandchildren are … | Continue reading
After all that worrying over nothing about Doom (thanks, multiplayer beta), the game released last week and surprised us all with an absolutely cracking campaign, which came very close to nailing the feel of its original 90's predecessor.But did you know there was once another ve … | Continue reading
There was a time when a new id Software release could make waves across the industry - redefining entire genres, upping the ante for high-end graphics, and changing the face of multiplayer games forever. With those halcyon days lingering in our rear view mirrors over the past few … | Continue reading
This all happened in the winter of 1999 - a weird time for video games. The PlayStation was drawing to the end of its spectacular life, and the hype had begun for its successor. Microsoft was muttering about the Xbox. Everyone was looking forward to a new generation. Then there w … | Continue reading
If you thought the Tetris movie (I'm sorry, Tetris trilogy) was a stretch, well here's another one for you. Fruit Ninja, the mobile hit about slicing fruit by swiping on a touch screen, is likewise getting the silver screen treatment.As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Fruit N … | Continue reading
Blizzard's latest marketing stunt has seen the publisher release a series of oversized Overwatch sculptures around the world.Twitter user RuzGofDi snapped pics of a colossal action figure of Tracer in a sealed box on Hollywood Boulevard.This isn't the only Overwatch statue poppin … | Continue reading
Samorost 3 is a very peculiar game, albeit an immensely charming one. The non-verbal throwback to point-and-click adventures of yore is best known for its enchanting visual style and bizarre audio. And now developer Amanita Design has released a video showing us how these crazy s … | Continue reading
Croteam's acclaimed first-person philosophical puzzler The Talos Principle will be getting a sequel.As reported by Damir Đurović on Twitter, Croteam coder Alen Ladavac made the announcement at conference Nordic Game 2016.Croteam's official Twitter account retweeted Đurović, furth … | Continue reading
Eurogamer noticed an increased number of readers to a four-year-old news story today. The article was about a Capcom PR stunt promoting Resident Evil by setting up a fake butcher shop with graphic sculptures of supposedly human meat. Now, nearly four years later, it looks like th … | Continue reading
After yesterday's review of Total War: Warhammer, I saw a few comments asking specifically about the game's performance. This series has had its share of issues with PC optimisation and I figured it would be useful to show you what the game looks like in action.Now, I'm playing o … | Continue reading
The second one-off Elusive Target mission in Hitman will go live next Friday, 27th May, publisher Square Enix has just confirmed.This time you'll be hunting for "The Congressman" somewhere in the game's Sapienza location. The same rules as last weekend's first Elusive Target miss … | Continue reading
Homefront: The Revolution developer Deep Silver Dambuster Studios has acknowledged the performance present in the game today - its day of launch.Writing in a post on the game's official forum, community manager Craig Turner admitted the game was not yet at its best."We're aware t … | Continue reading
A couple of Elite: Dangerous release date announcements for you today. The first: Elite Dangerous: Horizons, the name given to the space game's second season of expansions, launches on the Xbox One version of the game on 3rd June.The second: The Engineers expansion launches for t … | Continue reading
Much like Doom's stellar campaign demonstrates the single-player first-person shooter coming full circle while dragging the best of the past 20 years along for its blood-soaked ride, so too does its multiplayer. Here we have a return to online combat as an afterthought; a frozen … | Continue reading
Prison Architect launches on PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One on 28th June.Pre-order the popular penitentiary sim before that date and you'll get a free DLC pack, All Day and a Night, with eight additional maps, plots and prison wardens.That same offer applies to anyone with … | Continue reading
Street Fighter 5 players have had a few months with the game and are getting to grips with the characters and how everything works.But one mystery had remai… | Continue reading
This autumn's Destiny expansion is called Rise of Iron, a fresh leak has revealed.Artwork obtained by Kotaku shows Iron Banner boss Lord Saladin centre stage, in a location that looks a lot like Earth's Cosmodrome wall.As expected, Rise of Iron contains a new raid and will weigh … | Continue reading
Naughty Dog included a raft of superb accessibility options in Uncharted 4 that most players probably skipped over.Which is why it's great to see the video, below, go into detail on the work the developer did to make the PlayStation 4 exclusive more accessible.Naughty Dog game de … | Continue reading
According to CD Projekt co-founder Marcin Iwinski, the company doesn't have a next Witcher game in any kind of development. Nor is one planned.I asked him whether the studio will leave The Witcher series for good - following the release of Witcher 3 Blood and Wine on 31st May - o … | Continue reading
King of Fighters 14 comes out in Europe on 26th August.The PlayStation 4 fighting game costs £49.99 at retail and digital.It's been picked up by Deep Silver, the publisher of Saints Row, Homefront: The Revolution and Dead Island.Read more… | Continue reading