Housemarque specialises in creating arcade action titles, with Alienation the latest in a long line of frenetic shooters backed up by a remarkable suite of technology. Conceptually, it's similar in nature to the firm's PS3/PS4 title, Dead Nation, but the sci-fi focus opens the do … | Continue reading
You've never seen The Legend of Zelda like this before. Tomorrow, Nintendo's top adventure franchise is reimagined as a Hong Kong crime drama.In this adaptation, Link is a lone cop looking into Ganon's crime empire. But he quits the force after disobeying orders in an attempt to … | Continue reading
Uncharted 4 marks the end of a ten-year journey for Nathan Drake - the explorer, archaeologist, and charming mass-murderer who redefined what it meant to raid a tomb. After some truly memorable adventures and tens of millions of copies sold, now feels like a good time to look bac … | Continue reading
Watch this Dangerous Golf footage and it's clear you're seeing a game made by the creators of Burnout.Swap out the flaming golf ball for a car and the gorgeously-rendered interior for a busy intersection and you have Burnout's fan-favourite Crash mode, which tasked you with smash … | Continue reading
Dishonored 2 has assembled a helluva cast to bring its characters to life.Before they get all the limelight (again) it's worth noting that Stephen Russell has been picked to play the game's de facto lead character Corvo - though you can play as Emily Kaldwin in Dishonored 2 as we … | Continue reading
You have probably played a Lego game or two before, and have a good idea how they work. But the upcoming Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens introduces a couple of new features to the franchise.First up, there's cover shooting - perhaps not the first thing you'd associate with Lego … | Continue reading
Many games change significantly enough in their lifetimes that reading reviews written months or years ago can be misleading. You could be faced with a page… | Continue reading
An LA-based motion capture actor has apparently spilled the beans on Watch Dogs 2's protagonist.The new lead character for Ubisoft's series was seemingly posted on Instagram back in April. The picture came from an actor who claimed he had just finished portraying the protagonist. … | Continue reading
Severed is a very innovative game for 2011. When touchscreen gameplay became a new phenomena we had no shortage of titles like Infinity Blade and Fruit Ninja pioneering ways to merge touchscreen input with the precise thrill of an action game. The results weren't always elegant, … | Continue reading
EA is giving away free DLC for Battlefield 4 and Battlefield Hardline in the buildup to the next Battlefield title - which is planned to be revealed this Friday at 9pm UK time.To commemorate that, the publisher is letting folks snag Battlefield 4's add-on Dragon's Teeth and Battl … | Continue reading
Jet Set Radio is one of three new titles currently available on Xbox One via Xbox 360 backwards compatibility.The other games included in today's update are MX vs. ATV Reflex and Texas Hold 'Em, a 2007 XBLA poker title by Gearbox Software before it blew up with Borderlands.Last w … | Continue reading
Tomorrow is Star Wars Day - "May the fourth be with you" - and in celebration EA has gifts planned for Star Wars Battlefront. Don't get too excited.They are: 4,444 credits given for logging in; Jabba the Hutt stocking a new Bacta Bomb Star Card (not free); and a free, four-hour O … | Continue reading
Dishonored 2 will be released worldwide 11th November 2016 on PC, PS4 and Xbox One, Bethesda has announced.The gameplay world premiere will happen at E3; evening time 12th June if you live in the US, or wee hours of the morning 13th June if you live in Europe.We haven't heard a g … | Continue reading
The nods and winks are over: Sega and Relic Entertainment have announced the game we all knew was coming: Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 3.We dont have any gameplay or screenshots, but according to the official blurb, Dawn of War 3 sees players lead elite hero units and big armies … | Continue reading
Overwatch's more serious, ranked Competitive Play mode will be disabled during the open beta, up until "sometime" after the game launches on 24th May.Game director Jeff Kaplan announced this on the Overwatch forum, suggesting there were still kinks with Competitive Play that need … | Continue reading
With the full hardware specification for the PlayStation Neo out in the open, several questions spring to mind, principally - why now: as the impending arrival of the Nintendo NX caused a rethink at Sony headquarters? And perhaps more curiously, how is Microsoft going to respond? … | Continue reading
Nolan "Nathan Drake" North is used to starring in games. Now, he's turning his hand to making one.North, fresh from reprising his role as Nathan Drake in the soon-to-be-released Uncharted 4, will soon have a stab at producing a mobile game.The mobile game is based on Con Man, a c … | Continue reading
Street Fighter combo master "Desk" has taken Street Fighter 5 to task and completed the game's hardest trials one-handed.Each character in the game has 10 c… | Continue reading
It looks like Call of Duty is - finally - leaving the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 behind.After last year's Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 launched on last-gen consoles in limited form, this year's game, Infinite Warfare, will not launch on last-gen consoles at all.The move has been on … | Continue reading
Stupendously good indie platformer Super Meat Boy launches on Wii U on 12th May.The release date marks the end of the game's long journey onto a Nintendo console - some six years after its debut on the Wii was cancelled.Super Meat Boy's Wii U version is the work of experienced po … | Continue reading
Fancy Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered but not interested in buying Call of Duty: Infinity Warfare? You're out of luck.In a FAQ on Activision's support website, the company confirmed Modern Warfare Remastered will not come as a separate disc. It is a full game download inc … | Continue reading
One day in early 2014 Sam Barlow placed a scrap of paper on the kitchen table at his home on the South Coast of England. A few weeks earlier he had left a lucrative job as game director at Climax Studios. The games that he had made during his decade spent at the studio had won aw … | Continue reading
Former Bungie designer Niles Sankey is releasing a PS4-exclusive first-person sci-fi mystery game entitled Asemblance later this month.Little is known about Asemblance, but Sankey noted on the PlayStation Blog that this debut effort of the company he founded, Nilo Studios, is hea … | Continue reading
Fallout: New Vegas may be over a half decade old, but plenty of modders are still tinkering with Obsidian's sequel. Earlier this year we saw someone making a multiplayer mod, while another updated its looting UI to be like that of Fallout 4, and yet another modder is making an ex … | Continue reading
Oldschool shmup Raiden V is launching 11th May exclusively on Xbox One in Europe, North America and Asia, developer Moss has announced.This will be the first new entry in the quarter century old Raiden series in nine years.Raiden V launched in Japan in March where Xbox One users … | Continue reading
Assassin's Creed co-creator Patrice Désilets has revealed footage from his unfinished project 1666 Amsterdam after recently acquiring the rights to the game from Ubisoft.YouTuber Brandon Sheffield captured this offscreen footage from Désilets' presentation at the Reboot Develop C … | Continue reading
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End will launch next week on 10th May and developer Naughty Dog has just outlined how its multiplayer will work.First off, all additional maps and modes will be free, Naughty Dog noted on the PlayStation Blog. Furthermore, all DLC items will be unlockable … | Continue reading
The NX will not be sold at a loss upon its March 2017 launch, Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima has confirmed."We are not thinking of launching the hardware at a loss," Kimishima said in a Q&A about the company's latest financial report. This may come as a surprise to some, as … | Continue reading
Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune's crowdfunded spiritual successor to the Blue Bomber, Mighty No. 9, will finally launch on 24th June in Europe.Those in North America and Asia will receive it three days earlier on 21st June.Mighty No. 9 has become somewhat notorious for its many de … | Continue reading
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare has now been officially revealed, following rumours that it would be set - at least partially - in space.The game's debut trailer was released this morning and teases a campaign that ventures even further into the realms of sci-fi than the likes of … | Continue reading
Lollipop Chainsaw and No More Heroes director Suda 51 is known for taking risks. His studio Grasshopper Manufacture has created some of the strangest games out there from the surreal puzzle adventure Flower, Sun and Rain to the bonkers horror shooter Killer 7, you know a Suda tit … | Continue reading
Without sounding too much like a street magician: think of a video game helicopter. Any video game helicopter. Don't tell me what it is for now, just keep it in your mind. If it didn't crash, then the chances are it was used to spoon-feed you a few plot points before the action s … | Continue reading
Greetings, Eurogamers. It's a bank holiday in the UK and if "time immemorial" is anything to go by, this means relentless rain for all three of our days off. Conditions are therefore perfect for parking yourself in front of three of our videos.Similarly gloomy are the industrial … | Continue reading
Bastion and Transistor developer Supergiant has always made games with a lot of character, although they didn't necessarily have a lot of characters. Focused primarily on a sole hero/heroine with a supporting narrator and bit-part antagonist, they kept their narrative structures … | Continue reading
Serving as both a prequel and a reboot of sorts, Mirror's Edge Catalyst swaps out the last-gen title's Unreal Engine 3 for DICE's proprietary Frostbite 3, with the developer targeting 60fps for this latest outing - a sizeable jump from the 30fps original. The recent beta gave us … | Continue reading
Alicia Vikander has been cast as plucky archaeologist / gymnast / millionaire Lara Croft in the upcoming Tomb Raider cinematic reboot. This piece of news made me realise two things; first, that they were making a new Tomb Raider movie and second, that it's been fifteen years sinc … | Continue reading
Since the leak of the PlayStation Neo specs, we've been asking ourselves: just what does this mean for the games? Sony's handbook for developers mandates that all PS4 games developed from October 2016 onwards must have Neo support taking advantage of the improved hardware, potent … | Continue reading
In 1972, Atari co-founder Nolan Bushell hired an electrical engineer named Allan Alcorn to work for his fledgling video game company. Alcorn was experienced in computer science but had never been involved in video game development, so Bushell set him a practice exercise: replicat … | Continue reading
John Romero and Adrian Carmack have cancelled their Kickstarter for first-person shooter Blackroom in order to make a gameplay demo.The pair plan to resume the Kickstarter once the gameplay demo is complete.The gameplay demo will take more time than the Kickstarter has left, Nigh … | Continue reading
When you set up an Oculus Rift, as I did this morning, with much misplugging of wires and bumping of head on underside of desk, you are greeted with a few vistas to acclimatise you to this brave new world of virtual reality that you are entering. And I mean entering. One of these … | Continue reading
A lot of Warhammer 40K video games that have come out recently haven't been up to much. Space Hulk: Deathwing actually looks really good!Space Hulk: Deathwi… | Continue reading
More than ten years after its announcement, the PlayStation exclusive Nioh reemerges under the guiding hand of Team Ninja for release this year. On the surface, Nioh feels like a cross between Dark Souls and Ninja Gaiden 2004 and after playing through this rather challenging alph … | Continue reading
Lego Dimensions is nearing the end of its successful first year - just one small release of figures is left, next month - but we may already have a glimpse at what's coming next.Or rather, who is coming next: a Supergirl figurine for Lego Dimensions has been listed (and now pulle … | Continue reading
The Chaos Warriors DLC, which allows players to control the Chaos race in Total War: Warhammer, will now be free to everyone that purchases the game within the first seven days.The DLC was originally planned as a pre-order incentive, something that upset Total War fans who were d … | Continue reading
Hearthstone is no stranger to change. Between its official launch two years ago and the latest milestone of 50m players, it has been regularly refreshed by drops of new cards. But this week's arrivals of the game's Standard play mode, where only the past two years of cards can be … | Continue reading
Steam's new Sega Mega Drive Classics Hub only launched yesterday, but modders are already having their fun with it.The hub ads Steam Workshop support to all Mega Drive games on Valve's platform. This lets you share and download mods for those games.And what mods are already avail … | Continue reading
Yesterday, Hearthstone players discovered a card had gone wrong. Using a simple technique, you could give your hero character the ability to Taunt.This morning, Blizzard has sprung into action and fixed it. But video evidence of the eye-opening exploit remains.Taunt is an ability … | Continue reading
The Walking Dead: Michonne's leading lady has a lot bearing down on her. She needs to survive a zombie apocalypse, find a reason to go on living after her daughters allegedly died in a walker attack she was absent for, and, most arduously, prove to us that Telltale's spin-off of … | Continue reading