"Multiplier up." That voice! That perfect Housemarque voice, so calm in the face of chaos, so endlessly assured. In Resogun, she spoke to you through your controller - a wonderful piece of release-window magic that did more to make the PS4 feel exciting and new than almost anythi … | Continue reading
Tales of Berseria, the latest in Bandai Namco's long-running JRPG series, will land in Europe and North America for PC and PlayStation 4 next spring.Berseria is notable for being the first game in 21-year-old series to feature a sole female protagonist (previous entry Tales of Xi … | Continue reading
Minecraft maker Mojang has released a free new game on Steam called Crown and Council.It's a one-man creation, birthed by Henrik Pettersson in a game jam, a… | Continue reading
Fox News is no stranger to reporting on video games, but this may be the first time the right-wing media mouthpiece has ever called out a game for being glitchy.But that's just what Fox News anchor Tom Shillue did when he finally let out his frustrations about The Division.Shillu … | Continue reading
Lost Reavers for the Wii U is probably the worst game I've played this year, so far.I was trying to decide how best to sum up my disdain for the game and I think the following screen grab taken from a chat I was having with Johnny does the job pretty well.Think I'm over-exaggerat … | Continue reading
Blizzard has removed the ability to say "sorry" to your Hearthstone opponents. The collectible card battler has allowed players to apologise since its… | Continue reading
Gaming's biggest esports league has banned a high profile team for being sponsored by YouPorn.The ESL (Electronic Sports League) issued the ruling despite offers from Team YP to change its name and drop all outward reference to its sponsor.Team YP has been backed by the adult ent … | Continue reading
PlayStation 4 exclusive Ratchet & Clank has topped the UK all-format charts - and has become the first game in Sony's long-running series to do so.But Nintendo's Wii U exclusive Star Fox Zero fared less well - it only made the chart's sixth place.To put the new Ratchet & Clank's … | Continue reading
Despite riding a rocky road since its release, Rock Band 4 isn't going anywhere just yet. Developer Harmonix has announced "big, big" expansion pack this September.More details on what that expansion will contain are set to arrive in June at E3.Speaking over the weekend at a PAX … | Continue reading
Acclaimed game audio wizard Jory Prum has passed away, aged just 41.Jory Prum, 1975-2016.Prum's name may not be immediately familiar, but his work will be.… | Continue reading
In school, I was repeatedly told that there are two types of people in the world: one type answers the exam question to the best of their ability, and the other refuses to accept the premise of the question and explains why not. The second type of person gets the better grade. I … | Continue reading
Welcome to your weekend round-up of Outside Xbox videos. This time we begin with new gameplay footage from mob-'em-up Mafia 3. If you're familiar with the M… | Continue reading
There was a time when you could always rely on Apple to bring the most powerful smartphone technology to market in the smallest possible form-factor, a proud tradition that persisted up until the release of the iPhone 6. It may well have been a relatively svelte 4.7-incher in a w … | Continue reading
If you ever had doubts as to whether Fable Legends was a worthy extension of Lionhead's much-loved RPG series, consider this: in the final, never fully released game, there were at least 10 different ways to fart. There's Sterling, the self-obsessed hero who lets rip into his han … | Continue reading
Star Fox Zero has finally launched, with Martin Robinson finding the game enjoyable but spread a bit thin. News of the slightly underwhelming dogfighter (foxfighter?) got me and Aoife thinking - 19 years on, how does Star Fox 64 hold up?We found out, by which I mean we sat down o … | Continue reading
A PS4 exclusive until now, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture's PC release is unusual - not least for Sony Santa Monica's hand in publishing and funding the project. However, the shift in platform means developer The Chinese Room can bolster the game's already impressive visuals wit … | Continue reading
Working for a site like Eurogamer, you quickly come to realise that everyone on staff has a little gaming niche they're secretly head over heels in love with. Martin Robinson is a big shmup fan, for instance, while Aoife's Stardew Valley addiction currently has her one chicken si … | Continue reading
There have been times during my career that I've found myself at a press event, listening to the creative director of a role-playing game, talking about the… | Continue reading
Gearbox has officially confirmed at a PAX East panel attended by Eurogamer that it will be developing its third Borderlands game (the Pre-Sequel was created by 2K Australia) after it wraps up production on Battleborn and its DLC."It's no secret, obviously there's going to be anot … | Continue reading
In Play is a column taking a weekly sideways look at new game releases. Bait your clicks, moi? Well, for one thing, it's my website and I'll troll if I want to. For another: I absolutely mean that headline. Of course, our official game of last year was Bloodborne, while you guys … | Continue reading
Platinum Games president Tatsuya Minami has departed the company, the developer has now announced.The confirmation, in an emailed statement passed to Polygon, claims the staffing change as part of an internal restructuring the lead-up to the company's 10th anniversary in August.T … | Continue reading
You may not be familiar with Lichdom: Battlemage, but after reading this, you may not be able to forget it either. Lichdom is a console port of a two-year-old PC game that also happens to be one of the worst performing console games we've ever tested. We've run through the likes … | Continue reading
It's happened again. Nintendo has suffered another UK stock heist.Thousands of pounds worth of Nintendo games were stolen last week from a lorry parked at the A14's Thrapston services. It's unclear which games are gone, although the news has left some fans worried about their ord … | Continue reading
Here's an easy story to digest: pictures. Specifically, a clutch of new screenshots for upcoming Witcher 3 expansion Blood & Wine.In them we see hero Geralt talking to what looks like royalty, we see him in a very flowery and appealing tent, we see him among giant mushrooms, and … | Continue reading
In a remarkably frank interview, Blizzard has referred to cancelled MMO project Titan as an "utter failure".Titan was officially cancelled in November 2014 after more than seven years of development.Jeff Kaplan spoke more candidly to GameSpot than he ever has, publicly, about Tit … | Continue reading
I have done many disappointing things and disappointed many people during my time on this earth. My GCSE results weren't great, I flaked on my close friend's 21st birthday party, and the less said about my sex life the better. Throughout this long, rich history of letting people … | Continue reading
Mirror's Edge Catalyst is currently in open beta and I rather like it. However, while Faith's skills at parkour lend her a gratifying sense of poise and grace, the same cannot be said for the guards trying to stop her. Ian also noticed that the lawmen of Mirror's Edge Catalyst ar … | Continue reading
Hello! Here's some news we're pretty excited about: Eurogamer is hiring once again.Firstly, there's a new position on Eurogamer up for grabs: a Social Media Executive, which is a fancy title for a pretty fun but also pretty important position.We're really proud of the stuff we pu … | Continue reading
AMD has revealed the existence of new "design wins" for its Semi-Custom processor design business, suggesting that three new console designs will roll out to the market throughout this year and beyond. Gamesindustry.biz reports that this is expected to generate $1.5bn of revenue … | Continue reading
If Bosskey's daring, uneven debut has taught me anything, it's that every blast cloud has its silver lining. We're a few minutes into a round of Capture The Flag variant Overcharge on the Grandview map - a mixture of Black Ops 3's Combine and Shanghai from Deus Ex: Human Revoluti … | Continue reading
You now need a Prime subscription to buy games such as Grand Theft Auto 5, Rainbow Six: Siege or FIFA 16 direct from retail giant Amazon.The bizarre change, spotted by Videogamer, appears to have quietly taken effect overnight.But there's a big caveat to the above. All of these g … | Continue reading
Ubisoft has won an important battle in its fight against players glitching their way to The Division's best loot, but the community has already discovered a workaround for the developer's previous patch, rolled out only yesterday.The developer applied a new hotfix to the game la … | Continue reading
Insomniac Games prides itself on being first. At a recent media event attended by Eurogamer at the company's Burbank studio, Insomniac chief creative officer Brian Hastings gloats about how the company's upcoming aquatic adventure Song of the Deep is its "first metroidvania game" … | Continue reading
The launch of next week's Citadel expansion took centre stage at the Eve Online keynote at this year's Fanfest in Reykjavik, Iceland.It's a much-anticipated release which will allow players to build their very own stations, complete with fitting services, trading markets, and all … | Continue reading
Mirror's Edge: Catalyst will no longer launch at the end of next month. Instead, it'll arrive at the beginning of June.EA and DICE's first-person parkour reboot will now arrive on Thursday, 9th June in Europe - that's a delay of two weeks from its previous arrival date of 26th Ma … | Continue reading
Sony's released a new gameplay video that gives us an updated look at the Shadow of the Beast remake.The video, below, focuses on combat, but also touches o… | Continue reading
Enjoyable Ubisoft platformer Rayman Origins is now playable on Xbox One, thanks to the console's backwards compatibility service.Many of the game's levels are already on Xbox One, in a way - sequel Rayman Legends, which was even better, included them as a bonus. But if you don't … | Continue reading
The Elder Scrolls: Legends, the strategy card video game announced during Bethesda's press conference at E3 2015, goes into closed beta today.Accompanying the launch of the closed beta is a gameplay video, below, that shows off how it all works.There are plenty of mechanics Heart … | Continue reading
Polish indie studio Reikon Games has revealed Ruiner, a top-down action shooter published by Devolver Digital.A cross between the gameplay and gore of Hotline Miami and the visuals of cyberpunk classics Akira and Bladerunner, Ruiner is being developed for release this year on PC, … | Continue reading
An era has ended: Microsoft is ceasing production of Xbox 360 after almost eleven years, 90 million sales and more games than I'd care to count, from sprawling Norse-inspired RPGs to borderline-pornographic Arkanoid clones. It leaves behind a console landscape once again dominate … | Continue reading
Konami has made a Welsh language cover of PES's Euro 2016 game because Wales is in the game and these days they're pretty good.Konami made the cover available to download and print. From there, it can be inserted into the game's packaging. There's a physical version, out today, f … | Continue reading
The Mirror's Edge Catalyst closed beta is finally out and the lucky few who managed to snag a code will soon be parkouring their way around the City of Glass; avoiding bad guys, bullets and really, really long drops.Our very own Johnny Chiodini had an early hands-on with the clos … | Continue reading
Eve Valkyrie - CCP's space shooter set within the Ev Online universe - will support cross-platform play in the future. The news was revealed by the game's executive producer, Owen O'Brien, during the opening ceremony of the company's annual Fanfest gathering in Reykjavik, Iceland … | Continue reading
Five years after the great PlayStation Network hack of April 2011 - the one that saw more than 70m accounts compromised - Sony has announced plans to add two-step verification to the service.In a statement issued to Polygon, Sony confirmed the upcoming security feature:"In order … | Continue reading
Is VR the future? A tired old question, perhaps, but when you browse the Vive games available on Steam at the moment, VR certainly looks an awful lot like the present. You know: the glitchy, lovably half-baked present of any infant technology, in which people are chucking everyth … | Continue reading
With development on Planet Coaster trundling along quite nicely, anticipation for Frontier's return to the theme park genre continues to grow; especially since its main competitor, Roller Coaster Tycoon World seems to be having some serious teething problems. Intrigued as to exac … | Continue reading
Lego's top-selling Minecraft range will get a big new addition in June with the arrival of an enormous £169.99 set named The Village. It will be the largest set in the range, boasting 1600 pieces, and also with three biomes act like a hub for various other Lego Minecraft sets to … | Continue reading
Nintendo smartphone app Miitomo will next week host an array of costume items themed around Wii U paint-shooting success Splatoon.It will be the first full… | Continue reading