Dark Souls 3 was the best-selling game in US retail for the month of April, analyst NPD Group has revealed.NPD's Liam Callahan noted that Dark Souls 3 sales nearly doubled that of Dark Souls 2, when adjusted for days in the market. Publisher Bandai Namco recently boasted about it … | Continue reading
Overwatch's open beta had an astounding 9.7m players globally when it premiered last week on PS4, Xbox One and PC.That's the biggest open beta Blizzard has ever had.In the five days the beta was live folks spent more than 4.9bn minutes (that's over 81m hours) playing it.Read more … | Continue reading
Star Trek Online is getting PS4 and Xbox One ports this autumn, publisher Perfect World Entertainment has announced.The free-to-play MMO launched six years… | Continue reading
UPDATE 13/05/2016 4.52pm: Hitman's first Elusive Target will go live at 5pm UK time. That's in just a few minutes!Here's a trailer detailing the first Elusi… | Continue reading
The Division has 9.5m registered users, according to publisher Ubisoft's latest earnings report.That's not quite the same thing as sales since a single household could have multiple users using one copy of the game, but it gives a pretty good idea as to the game's success. The co … | Continue reading
Monster Hunter: Generations - aka Monster Hunter X - will launch in Europe on 15th July.The 3DS game is set to arrive with a special edition New Nintendo 3DS XL bundle, too:Generations introduces a new mode for beginner players where you control a Felyne - one of the game's anthr … | Continue reading
The Russian Embassy in London has tweeted a screenshot from PC real-time strategy game Command & Conquer: Generals.The image, of three green army trucks, was posted with the accompanying text: "Extremists near Aleppo received several truckloads of chemical ammo."Aleppo, the large … | Continue reading
Back in January, Eurogamer published artwork and gameplay details of Star Wars: Outpost, a PC and mobile strategy title which had been in development for two years at LucasArts before being canned.Now, footage has surfaced online which looks to be from the same project - although … | Continue reading
I was listening to Tom Hanks' Desert Island Discs on the bus this week when I realised I was in no way emotionally prepared for it. This should not have been surprising, of course, since Desert Island Discs, particularly with Kirsty in charge, has a formula that helps get beneath … | Continue reading
I absolutely loved The Last of Us. Joel and Ellie's journey from the quarantine zones of Boston to that ending in Utah ranks as one of my favourite video ga… | Continue reading
Collectible card battler Chronicle: Runescape Legends will launch fully via Steam on Thursday, 26th May.The Runescape spin-off is already available try via its open beta, which has been running for the past couple of months. Download the beta and try it before launch day and you' … | Continue reading
In October 2008, Microsoft released Lionhead's Fable 2 to critical and commercial acclaim. At a launch party an emotional Peter Molyneux held aloft glowing reviews and praised the exhausted team of developers who had spent the previous four years pouring everything they had into … | Continue reading
Less than a week since its reveal, Battlefield 1 now has the best-rated trailer across the whole of YouTube.That statistic covers games, TV shows and movies. After six days, it boasts a colossal view count of 26m, with 1.3m upvotes and 24k down.To put that in perspective, compare … | Continue reading
When you hit an enemy in Overwatch it needs to sound satisfying, right? That was the challenge facing sound designer, Paul Lackey, in the early stages of the game's development. 'What sounds truly satisfying?' he found himself thinking, as he grabbed a drink one evening after wor … | Continue reading
The Assassin's Creed movie now has its first trailer, which shows off Michael Fassbender's main character, the film's present day and historical storylines plus a brooding Jeremy Irons.The movie will tell a new story set within the main Assassin's Creed universe. That said, it lo … | Continue reading
Hitman is a series of some wonder. It has been since its inception in 2000, and the latest instalment (helpfully differentiated as Hitmanᵀᴹ) is a hugely welcome return to form. Despite its focus on methodical professionalism and minimal exposure, the series has always been surpri … | Continue reading
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Spirit of Justice, the new name for what was formerly known as Ace Attorney 6, will arrive this September as a 3DS-exclusive in Europe and North America.It will only be available as a digital download on the eShop, where it will cost £24.99 / €29.99 … | Continue reading
Civilization 6 has just been announced, with a trailer that doesn't show us any gameplay, but does include narration from Sean Bean.Set to release on 21st October, this will be the first numbered Civilization in over six years. "The visual presentation of the game is inspired by … | Continue reading
This autumn's Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing smartphone games will be free-to-play, Nintendo and DeNA confirmed to the Wall Street Journal today.There's no detail on what either game's in-app purchases will look like. Will Animal Crossing involve a currency you can buy? Will Fir … | Continue reading
Medicine is broken. "Drugs are tested by people who manufacture them, in poorly designed studies, on hopelessly small numbers of weird, unrepresentative patients, and analysed using techniques which are flawed by design, in such a way that they exaggerate the benefits of treatmen … | Continue reading
In last night's EA financial splurge we learned that Titanfall 2 will release alongside Battlefield 1 this autumn. Both have very different settings but both are shooters with a emphasis on multiplayer.During an investor call this prompted a question about "cannibalisation" - odd … | Continue reading
Dark Souls 3, "the spectacular conclusion to From Software's trilogy", is the fastest-selling instalment in the series, having shipped 3m copies.The 3m figure breaks down into 1.5m copies shipped in North America, 1m shipped in Europe, and 500,000 in Asia and Japan, according to … | Continue reading
A couple of years ago I was dozing in front of the TV when I woke to see a spaceship on fire. In actual fact, it was a zeppelin, vast and menacing, presente… | Continue reading
Uncharted 4: A thief's End just launched yesterday and folks have discovered a couple of very funny, self-deprecating hidden Trophies.As reported by PlaySta… | Continue reading
Star Wars: Battlefront will receive a sequel next year, publisher EA confirmed in a financial call earlier today. This shouldn't be a huge surprise as Star Wars: Battlefront sold exceptionally well with over 14m copies shipped in just over four months.EA also noted that Uncharted … | Continue reading
Titanfall is is slated for a Q4 release, publisher EA has confirmed.This approximate release window was officially revealed in an earnings report, where it noted that Respawn's recently announced sequel will arrive in the third quarter of fiscal year 2017, which is actually the f … | Continue reading
Disney Interactive will no longer self-publish console video games. That means it will cease development on Disney Infinity and shutter its developer Avalan… | Continue reading
Star Wars: Battlefront has sold over 14m copies to retailers, publisher EA announced in its latest financial report.That's not quite the same thing as selling through to consumers, but it's also worth noting that this report is looking at sales figures ending on 31st March, 2016, … | Continue reading
Stellaris, the latest massive strategy game from Paradox Interactive, has broken the publisher's record for day one revenue.Selling over 200,000 copies within its first 24 hours, Stellaris almost matched the sales record currently held by Paradox's surprise city building hit, Cit … | Continue reading
There won't be any new content released for The Witcher 3 after second expansion Blood and Wine, game director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz has told me.CD Projekt Red never promised anything beyond the 16 free pieces of DLC and the two expansions but this is up to date confirmation from … | Continue reading
Postal Redux, the remake of 1997's infamous mass murdering game Postal, will arrive for PC via Steam on 20th May.A PS4 release is planned for Q4 while Mac and Linux players will receive it shortly after the PC release, though no exact date has been pinned down.Developed by the se … | Continue reading
This is more like it. The Witcher 3's second expansion, Blood & Wine, is a treat - as welcome a return to the adventures of monster hunter Geralt as you… | Continue reading
A year ago I sat in a room with a downcast Adam Badowski, studio head of CD Projekt Red, and we talked about The Witcher 3 'graphics downgrade'. He wanted his game to visually knock people's socks off but instead it faced criticism.Something he said stuck with me. He said, and I' … | Continue reading
CD Projekt Red has officially announced the release date for the second, and final, Witcher 3 expansion Blood and Wine. It is 31st May, a day later than was rumoured yesterday.The release date arrives as the embargo lifts on Blood and Wine coverage. I spent a few hours with the g … | Continue reading
Microsoft has announced upgrades for the Universal Windows Platform, allowing for v-sync control, unlocked frame-rates and G-Sync/FreeSync support. The upgrade is due to roll out today, but there's a small sting in the tail - developers need to revisit their existing UWP games an … | Continue reading
Ghost Games has announced it's working on a new Need for Speed game that's due for release next year, while it's also winding down work on last year's reboot of EA's long-running racing franchise. In a detailed blog post on its official site, Ghost Games outlined the progress tha … | Continue reading
Well, the wait is finally over. Wise-cracking, jet-setting, henley shirt-wearing mass-murderer Nathan Drake is back in his latest and last adventure, A Thief's End. Our very own editor Oli Welsh liked the single player campaign enough to award it a Recommended badge, but while he … | Continue reading
In discussing a World of Warcraft: Legion spider mount that costs a whopping 2m gold, assistant game director Ion Hazzikostas gave a glimpse behind the curtain at what it takes to keep millions of players happy.His long post came after he was called out for saying "the 2m price-t … | Continue reading
Overwatch's recent open beta was quite unlike any other. Barring the inclusion of competitive play, users were actually sampling the game in its entirety, with any improvements or alterations set to arrive via future updates. As Blizzard said, aside from some bug-fixes, "the vers … | Continue reading
The Pokémon Company has revealed new details on Pokémon Sun & Moon, the latest instalments in the phenomenally successful RPG series, showing off the starter Pokémon players will be setting out their adventures with and announcing both games are set to release in Europe on Novemb … | Continue reading
In honour of the Panama Papers leak, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory director Clint Hocking has recorded a Let's Play of what's regarded as the best level in the entire stealth series - the Panamanian Bank."In honour of all of the assholes who don't pay their taxes around the world a … | Continue reading
Last week EA unveiled Battlefield 1, DICE's new first-person shooter, with an explosive new trailer. It takes the series to World War 1, a war that saw the old clash with the new. So, from the muddy, mustard gas filled trenches we'll see sword fights and bayonet charges and horse … | Continue reading
UPDATE 17/05/2016 10.13pm: CEO of Japanese video game consultancy firm Kantan Games, Serkan Toto, believes that Resident Evil 7 is in development and that i… | Continue reading
Homefront: The Revolution may not be out until next Friday but, thanks to a guy on the inside, I've got my hands on the PC version a bit early. Join me as I play through the first hour of PC gameplay in the Let's Play video below.It's worth noting I captured this footage on an In … | Continue reading
Final Fantasy 10/10-2 HD Remaster comes out on PC on 12th May, according to the game's Steam store page,The PC version is based on the international version… | Continue reading
Uncharted 4 launches today, and if you're picking up a creaky old physical boxed version, make sure to download the patch.Uncharted 4's day one patch is a hefty 4.978GB and brings the game up to version 1.01. Why so big? It includes the entire multiplayer portion of the game.That … | Continue reading
The Creative Assembly (Alien: Isolation) 3D artist James Brady has recreated the Midwich Elementary School scene from Silent Hill in Unreal Engine 4.Amusingly, Brady's colleague at The Creative Assembly, Liam Tart, offered a similar treatment of Half-Life 2 when he replicated Val … | Continue reading
Dark Souls 3 modder googl4 has created a mod that makes From Software's latest action-RPG look an awful lot like Limbo with a completely colourless palette.… | Continue reading