Ex Machina and The Danish Girl star Alicia Vikander will play Lara Croft in the next Tomb Raider film.As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, the next Tomb Raider movie will be directed by Roar Uthaug (Cold Prey, The Wave). It will follow a younger Lara as she embarks upon her ear … | Continue reading
YouTubers will soon be able to receive revenue made during Content ID claim disputes.As is, if a YouTuber uploads a video and someone else claims the video was theirs first, YouTube prevents anyone from receiving revenue while the situation is sorted. This is unfortunate for thos … | Continue reading
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided has received a "101 trailer" in which cyborg security expert Adam Jensen gruffly explains the ins and outs of Eidos Montreal's upcoming sci-fi stealth adventure.Set in 2029, we follow Jensen as he fights terrorism in a world where augmented people are per … | Continue reading
First-person puzzle shooter Superhot is coming to Xbox One on 3rd May.Originally it was scheduled to arrive on Microsoft's console back in March, but it got delayed.Superhot, for those who don't know, is a minimalist first-person shooter where time only moves when you do. As a re … | Continue reading
After Doom's disappointing multiplayer beta, my excitement for the reboot of id's classic first person shooter was at an all time low. That all changed last night when Bethesda finally demoed a large chunk of campaign gameplay during a Twitch stream with id Software's Marty Strat … | Continue reading
Id Software has finally begun showing off the campaign portion of its Doom reboot two weeks ahead of its 13th May release and in its latest video the developer has teased a nostalgia-tinged secret.Minor spoilers follow:In the above IGN video creative director Hugo Martin and exec … | Continue reading
Forza Motorsport 6: Apex - the free-to-download PC version of the previously Xbox One-exclusive racing game - goes into open beta on 5th May.That's for Windows 10.Microsoft said Apex is a "focused and curated single-player tour of Forza Motorsport's best content". That means no m … | Continue reading
Fallout 4's Survival Mode comes to the console versions of the open-world post-apocalyptic role-playing shooter game next week, Bethesda has said.Survival Mode arrives as part of the 1.5 update, which is now available to all users on Steam.Creation Kit and Bethesda.net Mods are s … | Continue reading
The Lancer is one of the most recognisable video game weapons ever designed - an improbable hybrid worthy of Jekyll and Hyde, which sums up at a glance Gears of War's oddly persuasive mixture of styles and tones. It is barbaric yet precise, a clownish torture device that doubles … | Continue reading
The Warcraft movie recreates a number of locations from the game upon which it is based, including, wait for it, Goldshire Inn!World of Warcraft Alliance pl… | Continue reading
If high-performance graphics cards like Titan X, Fury X and GTX 980 Ti aren't enough to satisfy your lust for top-tier PC hardware, this year will see the arrival of new hardware with the potential to take gaming visuals and performance to the next level. Historically, AMD and Nv … | Continue reading
We're less than three years into the life of Xbox One and PlayStation 4, yet reports abound about new versions of each.Digital Foundry has done an excellent job laying out the many details of Sony's upcoming, unannounced PlayStation 4K and how it will co-exist with PS4. But Micro … | Continue reading
You can now buy games from Steam using Bitcoin.The cryptocurrency is now a payment method from within the Steam client.Bitpay, a Bitcoin payment processing company, Valve approached it about adding Bitcoin to Steam "because they were looking for a fast, international payment meth … | Continue reading
After 26 years, Nintendo is winding down its ownership of the Seattle Mariners baseball team.Back in 1992, Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi stepped bought commanding 55 per cent interest in the squad - which is local to Nintendo of America's Redmond HQ - to save it from being … | Continue reading
Sony's PlayStation Network made more money than all of Nintendo during the last financial year.The difference was pointed out this morning by Twitter user Z… | Continue reading
Unusually for an animated movie aimed at younger viewers with a full global theatrical release, Ratchet & Clank isn't available to watch in 3D. This is… | Continue reading
Doom developer id Software has shown off a few sections of the upcoming shooter's single-player campaign ahead of its 13th May release for PC, PS4 and Xbox One. On a Twitch stream creative director Hugo Martin and executive producer Marty Stratton played through a couple … | Continue reading
Teen horror adventure Oxenfree is coming to PS4 on 31st May as a Director's Cut with all new content like alternate endings, as well as a New Game Plus mode with additional dialogue and locations.This New Game Plus Mode will continue the story of Alex and her friends as they expl … | Continue reading
Dark Souls and Bloodborne developer From Software is already beginning work on a new IP, according to a translated interview with Chinese outlet GGN Gamer.Translated by NeoGAF users, From president and Dark Souls director Hidetaka Miyazaki said of the series' future "rather than … | Continue reading
An experienced video game networking coder and long-time programmer has issued a damning appraisal of The Division's problems with exploits and glitches.Glenn Fiedler has an 18-year career in the game industry at developers such as BioShock and Tribes studio Irrational Games, LA … | Continue reading
Sony's announced May's PlayStation Plus lineup of games.PlayStation 4 Plus subscribers get dictator sim Tropico 5 and combat racer Table Top Racing. Table Top Racing, remember, is from the studio run by Nick Burcombe, the co-creator of Wipeout.PS3 owners get Bionic Commando Rearm … | Continue reading
The developer that gave us Unreal Tournament and Gears of War is back with a new, MOBA-based shooter. Our resident MOBA nerd and Overwatch obsessive Chris Bratt reckons it's good, and now you can try it for yourself: we've got 1000 early access codes to give away, usable on PS4 o … | Continue reading
Dark Souls 3 has plenty of surprises in store for fans - one of which we've been meaning to cover since its launch. For those who haven't progressed to the game's final third, we'd recommend bailing out on this article for now. It's a great moment and we'd rather not spoil it. So … | Continue reading
The third season of Telltale's The Walking Dead will again include Clementine, creator Robert Kirkman has confirmed.But Kirkman stopped short of confirming Clementine as this season's playable character, as she was in season two."We'll be checking in on Clementine, we'll see what … | Continue reading
Red Hook Games has announced a slight delay for Darkest Dungeon on PS4 and Vita. It was due spring/early summer but has been moved to late July/August."We w… | Continue reading
The next Trials release will be a mash-up with over-the-top Far Cry spin-off Blood Dragon.That's according to a ratings board listing for "Trials of the Blood Dragon", which has popped up on the Taiwan Game Software Rating Regulations Board (thanks, Gematsu).Ubisoft is yet to rev … | Continue reading
NX won't be at E3 and the new Zelda won't release until 2017. But, on the upside, you can now get a bunch of cheap 3DS and Wii U games right now via Humble Bundle.Half a dozen indie games are included in the offer, alongside Super Street Fighter 4: 3D Edition for 3DS and Darkside … | Continue reading
For the first time since time began, iPhone sales fell, which meant - for the first time since 2003 - Apple posted a quarterly revenue decline.In the quarter ended 26th March, Apple recorded 51m iPhone sales, which is a significant drop of 10m on the same period a year before. iP … | Continue reading
An unnamed number of copies of Uncharted 4 were stolen while in transit, Sony has said.A "few" copies of the game have surfaced in the UK as a result, Sony's Shuhei Yoshida said in a post on the PlayStation Blog.Yesterday we reported that copies of the PlayStation 4 exclusive had … | Continue reading
Nintendo's next smartphone apps will be new Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem games.Both will arrive this autumn and are described as "pure game applications", rather than the more app-like Miitomo.Nintendo's first smartphone app Miitomo now has 10m unique users, it was also announ … | Continue reading
Fallout 4 mods come to Xbox One in May, Bethesda announced. They arrive on PlayStation 4 a month later, in June.Official modding via the Creation Kit is in open beta on PC now via Steam.Bethesda's built a new system that sees mods uploaded to Bethesda.net. Mods can then be browse … | Continue reading
Nintendo's NX console will receive its global launch in March 2017, the company has just confirmed - missing the Christmas release window many had expected.More to follow.Read more… | Continue reading
Cliff Bleszinski said goodbye to Gears of War four years ago, but I'm not sure he's left it behind. We're sitting in a curtained-off area of the showfloor below the offices of Bosskey Productions - the studio Bleszinski founded in 2014 with former Guerilla Games development direc … | Continue reading
This year's Call of Duty - the one set in the far future, in space - will be named Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare.That's according to a promotional tab for the game now visible via the PlayStation 4's console store in the US, first spotted by Reddit.No other information on the ti … | Continue reading
The latest episode of Hitman launches today, transporting players and Agent 47 to the sun-drenched beaches of Sapienza, Italy. This gorgeous level features… | Continue reading
Five years ago, PlayStation Network was hacked and the personal details of 77m users accessed.It was the largest security breach of its kind to ever hit console gamers, and an event with huge repercussions for PlayStation - both in the short term for its users, left for weeks wit … | Continue reading
Next month's Xbox Live Games with Gold titles will include PopCap puzzle hit Peggle and Double Fine's saccharine-sweet sequel Costume Quest 2.Peggle will be available to download on Xbox 360 and Xbox One from 1-15th May, followed by Codemasters' racing sequel GRID 2 from 16-31st … | Continue reading
This week Mojang released Crown and Council, a free to play strategy game, entirely without warning or fanfare. A surprising lack of pomp and circumstance, really, given it's a game all about ruling a kingdom. Intrigued to see how Mojang tackled the slaughter of one's enemies, I … | Continue reading
Uncharted 4 is already in some people's hands - two weeks before it officially goes on sale.eBay has a number of listings for Naughty Dog's PlayStation 4 exclusive - with some sold for £90.It looks like the street date for the game has been broken, with reports indicating Amazon … | Continue reading
Something unexpectedly thrilling happened on Saturday, during CCP's annual Eve Fanfest event in Reykjavik. Following last year's death of an in-game leader of the Amarr Empire faction (think very angry, very ruthless space monks with a fetish for lasers), players were tasked with … | Continue reading
There was a to-do recently when Blizzard lawyers forced the World of Warcraft Nostalrius servers to close. They were pirate/private servers not allowed by Blizzard so they didn't have a wooden leg to stand on, yet they offered something Blizzard does not: a vanilla (pre-expansion … | Continue reading
Controller cables - everyone hates them. Thankfully, ever since the GameCube's trusty Wavebird, they have been going out of fashion.But what if you wanted to play your original NES with a wireless pad? Well, to answer that very question, now you can.Peripheral makers 8Bitdo and A … | Continue reading
The Gears of War 4 season pass costs £39.99, Microsoft has confirmed.That's just four quid cheaper than the game itself costs from the likes of Amazon.So, w… | Continue reading
The Dark Brotherhood content for The Elder Scrolls Online will be released 31st May on PC and Mac, and 14th June on PS4 and Xbox One. Or, if you like, you can try it out on the Public Test Server from today.The Dark Brotherhood assassin quests are beloved in the Elder Scrolls ser … | Continue reading
Lionsgate, the film company behind blockbuster teen franchises Twilight and Hunger Games, has announced plans to launch over 100 movies on Steam.Valve announced the move last night, and promised series such as Saw and Divergent were also on the way.Browsing the catalogue right no … | Continue reading
Assassin's Creed co-creator Patrice Désilets has gained control of 1666 Amsterdam, the open world historical adventure IP he was developing at Ubisoft befor… | Continue reading
As a child, I used to believe that there was more to the world than meets the eye. Not fairies, of course. Nothing so diaphanous or innocent. Growing up in Malaysia, my imagination swarmed with hungry ghosts and pontianaks, and all the other things that go bump in the Southeast A … | Continue reading
Video game legends John Romero and Adrian Carmack - two of four founding members of id Software (Doom, Quake) - have taken to Kickstarter to fund a new but… | Continue reading