Cult animatronic horror series Five Nights at Freddy's is planned for consoles, according to developer Scott Cawthon.When asked on Steam about a console release, Cawthon answered: "Actually, yes! It will happen. I'm talking with a few companies who are interested in doing console … | Continue reading
Dead Island: Definitive Edition will include an all new 16-bit beat-'em-up mini-game entitled Dead Island Retro Revenge.In the vein of Streets of Rage or The Simpsons the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade Game, Dead Island Retro Revenge follows a man named Max on a quest to res … | Continue reading
Space is quiet, for a little while. Unlike Paradox's other grand strategy games, Stellaris doesn't tell you everything from the start. You're not ready for that yet. If you're a bit of a space romantic, you might look out at the great expanse and get a sense that something's happ … | Continue reading
The months prior to the launch of PlayStation 4 were filled with both excitement and rampant speculation - the likes of the now-cancelled Star Wars 1313 and Ubisoft's Watch Dogs hinted at what was to come, but the reality didn't quite live up to the promise. However, with the rel … | Continue reading
It's finally happened: Super Mario is (officially) in Minecraft. Minecraft: Wii U Edition, that is.On 18th May Nintendo will release a free Super Mario-themed update for Minecraft: Wii U Edition. It's a partnership between Nintendo, Mojang and Microsoft. That's right - Nintendo i … | Continue reading
The second, bigger Witcher 3 expansion Blood and Wine may be released 30th May.That's according to an apparent Steam listing for the game that jumped the gun yesterday and has since been taken down. A screenshot was captured on Twitter (via IGN) and looks authentic.Among the expa … | Continue reading
The Donkey Kong world record high score has changed hands multiple times over the years. But perhaps the to-ing and fro-ing is about to end.On 5th May Donkey Kong player Wes Copeland posted a new world record high score of 1.218m in the classic arcade game - and reckons it's as c … | Continue reading
Blizzard has extended the Overwatch open beta by a day.It was supposed to end this evening. It will now run until 10am PDT on 10th May - that's 6pm UK time tomorrow."We hope everyone has been enjoying the Overwatch Open Beta," community manager Lylirra wrote in a post on Battle.n … | Continue reading
Street Fighter 5 has sold 1.4m copies, Capcom has announced.That's across PlayStation 4, PC and includes download copies. Those sales were from release in February up to 31st March.Capcom had hoped to sell 2m copies of the fighting game by the end of its financial year. Despite t … | Continue reading
You might look at Galak-Z and wonder what needs adding. Here is procedural deep-space dogfighting with roguelike elements, lurid acid-belching foes, gorgeous hand-drawn explosions, and the ability, when things get tough, to transform yourself from a nimble little starfighter and … | Continue reading
Just how much graphics power do you need to get a great virtual reality experience? Oculus released a series of recommended specs which - by and large - wor… | Continue reading
The next generation of PC graphics technology is finally starting to gear up. There's innovation incoming from all angles, with the arrival of DirectX 12, plus mass production of new graphics cards using cutting-edge architectures paired with state-of-the-art production processes … | Continue reading
Eve: Valkyrie drops you into the cockpit of a starship, but when I first loaded it up, it dropped me into the cockpit geometry itself. The Rift I was wearing seemed to think I was a giant, and I was left peering at the majesty of the universe through parts of a control panel. And … | Continue reading
Id Software's Doom reboot comes out next Friday, 13th May, and publisher Bethesda Softworks has revealed the PC system specs as well as the exact times you'll be able to start playing.The PC system requirements are as follows:Minimum:Read more… | Continue reading
Nvidia has officially revealed the GeForce GTX 1080 and GTX 1070, based on its new Pascal architecture, offering an astonishing leap in performance and power efficiency over its existing 900-series Maxwell cards. According to Nvidia, the GTX 1080 is faster than two GTX 980s in SL … | Continue reading
A couple of days ago, Activision announced that Modern Warfare Remastered would only be available to those who bought the Legacy Editions of Infinite Warfare.To say I wasn't impressed by this announcement would be an understatement. Locking it inside the premium editions of Infin … | Continue reading
Quit while you're ahead, they say. Nonsense. What if Mo Farah had realised he was in the lead at 9,995 meters, and had a sit down? What if Alan Sugar had been satisfied with the CPC 464, and retired? What if Churchill had received the telegram about Hitler's defeat at Stalingrad, … | Continue reading
EA has officially announced the next Battlefield game as the World War 1-based Battlefield 1. It will be released worldwide on 21st October, though folks wh… | Continue reading
Battlefield 5 will be unveiled live tonight at 9pm UK time (4pm EST) and you can watch the whole thing right here via the embed below.The stream is already live with a time-filling franchise retrospective pre-show.Unlike last week's Call of Duty: Infinity Warfare announcement, DI … | Continue reading
The action roguelike has quickly become among my favourite video game genres. It started with Mossmouth's delectable action platformer Spelunky and has quickly expanded into other polished procedurally-generated adventures like The Binding of Isaac, Nuclear Throne, Downwell, Ente … | Continue reading
Battleborn's in for a rough ride, and it has nothing to do with Gearbox's rapid decline in public approval. No, unfortunately for this curious and ambitious hybrid of bombastic FPS and tactically astute MOBA, it has a little game called Overwatch gatecrashing every party it tires … | Continue reading
Alright folks, buckle in. It's time for some serious games journalism, courtesy of eurogamer dot net.Earlier in the week we published an interview with Creative Assembly brand director, Rob Bartholomew, in which we asked him to talk us through the studio's stance on the controver … | Continue reading
Battlefield 5 will be unveiled tonight at 9pm UK time, via a trailer posted online.This morning, DICE developer Randy Evans teased the company's big announcement using a poop emoji - in an apparent nod to last week's Call of Duty reveal.Call of Duty's official Twitter account tea … | Continue reading
Quantum Break was left in a bit of state at the PC version's launch, but this week we have update 1.7 - a whopping 27GB patch - to potentially address its issues. Ranging from stuttering frame-rates owing to a 50fps cap on 60Hz displays, a 30fps mode with severe frame-pacing issu … | Continue reading
Last night, Activision Blizzard posted its quarterly financial results and - no surprise, really - it is doing just fine.The company posted better-than-expected revenues, posted user growth across its collection of games (those released by Activision itself, plus Blizzard and mob … | Continue reading
I'll begin with this, so as to establish my position. I am a terrible capitalist. I come from a background in which there is an inherent guilt associated with wealth. Not one of radical communism or fierce anarchy, but that quietly parochial English shame which afflicts all matte … | Continue reading
Killer 7 and No More Heroes director Suda 51's first game at the studio he founded, Grasshopper Manufacture, was a little known PlayStation One visual novel called The Silver Case. Never released outside of Japan, it's only now, 17 years later, getting a western release with an a … | Continue reading
Persona 5 will launch in Japan on 15th September for PS4 and PS3.No western release has been confirmed, but given the popularity of the series in these parts it seems more than likely to receive an English localisation.Publisher Atlus has released a new trailer showing over four … | Continue reading
For nearly a year Windows 10 has been a free upgrade for users of Windows 7 and up, but that promotion is coming to an end on 29th July.After that, it will cost $119 (about £82). Corporate vice president of Microsoft's Windows and Devices Group Yusuf Mehdi noted on the Windows Bl … | Continue reading
Trine developer Frozenbyte will launch its upcoming stealth adventure Shadwen on 17th May for PS4, PC, Mac and Linux.It will cost €16.99 / $16.99, though the computer versions will be on sale for €14.55 / $14.55 at launch.Shadwen places players in the role of an assassin who's fo … | Continue reading
I'm smitten by Overwatch and played feverishly through closed beta, and I learned a few things along the way. I thought I'd share them here - a few tips, if you like, to help with the open beta, which begins today (and runs until Monday 9th).I'm not going into character specifics … | Continue reading
There's a new Uncharted mobile game where you can unlock exclusive rewards for your Uncharted 4 multiplayer profile.Uncharted: Fortune Hunter is available as a free download now for iPhone, iPad and Android.A top-down puzzle game, Fortune Hunter sees you guiding a pixellated Nath … | Continue reading
Alien Hunters, the second DLC pack for XCOM 2, will be available from 12th May.It'll bring a new narrative mission, some extra weapons and armour, and the armory aboard your Avenger should see a bit of an update. But the most interesting addition comes in the form of three new "R … | Continue reading
I was reflecting the other day on the fact that leadership is hard. This wasn't, thankfully, because anybody had put me in charge of anything. I had simply glanced at my phone screen during an idle moment to see two crowns glancing back at me from different app icons, and I reali … | Continue reading
Total War: Warhammer will launch with official modding tools and Steam Workshop support, as well as a number of mods which are being prepared for day one.Despite an earlier announcement that suggested this wouldn't be possible due to Creative Assembly's partnership with Games Wor … | Continue reading
Nintendo will host a day-long live-stream of The Legend of Zelda for Wii U at E3 this year.In a press release announcing the stream, it was referred to as "Nintendo's kick-off to E3". Zelda, again, was referred to as "Nintendo's focus of the show this year".There was no mention o … | Continue reading
This is a rare treat: the creators of a popular series and a beloved character laying them to rest with elegant finality, and going out on an absolute high. In games as in other media, dignified endings aren't easy to come by. But Naughty Dog have outdone themselves with what the … | Continue reading
Dark Souls 3 players who have reached the game's second half will no doubt remember Pontiff Sulyvahn, the dual-wielding cleric with an obnoxious habit of duplicating himself. But there's a way to slaughter this sadistic boss in only one hit, though it requires a witch's brew of b … | Continue reading
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth's Afterbirth DLC is coming to PS4 on 10th May.The PC, Mac and Linux versions of The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth received the substantial add-on around last Halloween.As detailed on the PlayStation Blog, Afterbirth adds the following new features:Read m … | Continue reading
Titanfall developer Respawn is making a third-person Star Wars game.Respawn is working with EA and Lucasfilm on the project, according to a note from designer Stig Asmussen."The entire company erupted in cheers when it was announced that this would be our next endeavour," he said … | Continue reading
However Uncharted 4 ends up playing, there's no denying how good the game already looks. But if you did want to tweak the visuals for Nathan Drake's final adventure, Naughty Dog has provided all manner of graphical filters so you can do just that.These visual options are availabl … | Continue reading
Here's our best look yet at upcoming Fallout 4 expansion Far Harbor, which will arrive later this month on 19th May for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.Fallout 4 developer Bethesda has boasted that Far Harbor will host the largest landmass ever added to a Fallout game via DLC. Wit … | Continue reading
Star Wars: The Force Awakens' top talent have recorded new dialogue for the film's Lego game adaptation.The film's biggest stars are returning: Harrison Ford, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Carrie Fisher and Oscar Isaac (aka Han Solo, Rey, Finn, Leia and Poe - as if you needed to be … | Continue reading
2D sandbox title Terraria finally has a Wii U launch date. It'll arrive in Europe next month on 24th June, and in North America on 28th June.Terraria first released in May 2011 for PC, where it built up a solid fanbase as it added features and grew in scope.It then continued to e … | Continue reading
Creative Assembly has offered pre-order incentives, in the form of extra units and playable factions, since Napoleon: Total War in 2010. It's always been unpopular with certain parts of the fanbase, but I don't think we've ever seen a reaction quite like the one following the new … | Continue reading
It's difficult to understate Pandemic's impact upon board gaming. This game, in which players work together to save the world from an outbreak of deadly diseases, is the most successful cooperative board game of the last ten years, possibly of all time. Released in 2007, its blen … | Continue reading
Rat mashing fans rejoice - developer Fatshark has announced three new maps for Warhammer: The End Times - Vermintide. The maps, each of which takes place outside of the Ubersreik region, will be bundled together in a DLC called Drachenfels. Not the catchiest of names, but then it … | Continue reading
Looking for a Rey to spend your money? Ren look no further for it is Star Wars Day! M'az Kanata believe it!There are promotions on Steam, GOG, PlayStation Network, Xbox Live and the App Store. Google Play doesn't seem to be doing anything significant. There are a handful of promo … | Continue reading