You'll soon be able to legitimately mod Sega Mega Drive classics via Steam, the former platform has announced.Sega's Mega Drive Classics Hub will feature Steam Workshop support and a library of Mega Drive games accessible via a virtual bedroom interface when it launches on 28th A … | Continue reading
Blizzard has announced changes to some of Hearthstone's most popular classic cards.The rebalancing comes ahead of next week's new expansion, Whispers of the Old Gods, and is designed to ensure the new cards have a greater impact.Hearthstone's Druid class has taken the greatest hi … | Continue reading
The MOBA craze has transitioned to first person shooters, with two titles throwing up open beta tests within weeks of each other. Blizzard's Overwatch put in a solid 60fps appearance, but Battleborn takes a slightly different approach. Borderlands developer Gearbox caps performan … | Continue reading
In the wake of Sony's confirmation of the PlayStation 4K Neo's existence, we thought we would re-publish this Digital Foundry article, outlining how the ori… | Continue reading
10 years and five months after its original launch, Microsoft has discontinued production of the Xbox 360.Writing in a blog post published this afternoon, X… | Continue reading
In the 19 years since Star Fox 64 there have been a handful of new entries in the series, but full-on sequels? Not so much. Rare's Star Fox Adventures was a famously wayward appropriation of the universe, Q-Games' Command a noble and enjoyable experiment that put the series back … | Continue reading
3DS shooter spin-off Metroid Prime: Federation Force will launch for 3DS in Europe on 2nd September, Nintendo has announced.Federation Force found unfortunate fame last year when it was announced at E3 2015 to a universally negative response. Reaction to today's date announcement … | Continue reading
If you go to the Frozen Synapse website, it proudly proclaims that it is the ultimate tactical game, which is a pretty bold claim. It's also an erroneous one; with Frozen Synapse 2 on the way, that would technically make Frozen Synapse the penultimate strategy game. Nitpicking as … | Continue reading
A high-profile Smite streamer has left developer Hi-Rez Studios after making controversial comments about suicide while playing the game.Brandon "DM Brandon" Nance, who has nearly 80,000 followers and nearly 6.5m views on Twitch, announced his departure from the game developer af … | Continue reading
Ubisoft is coming under increasing pressure from The Division players who have called on the company to tackle the game's growing list of exploits.The latest high-profile exploit allows you to ratchet up your weapons' damage output if you own a gun with the Competitive perk, whic … | Continue reading
A keen-eyed observer might have noticed a few new icons pop up in their PES 2016 menu a few weeks back. The game's latest patch, weighing in at a hefty 3.9GB, brought with it a raft of Euro 2016 content - but Konami's been pretty quiet about the release. It's hard to imagine a mo … | Continue reading
UPDATE 16/05/2016 10pm: The Dark Souls board game Kickstarter campaign has ended with a final tally of $5,342,789. That's pretty incredible when one conside… | Continue reading
Life-falling-apart sim Always Sometimes Monsters is getting a sequel with the confusingly titled Sometimes Always Monsters.Announced today by developer Vegabond Dog and publisher Devolver Digital, this follow-up is due later this year on Steam.The perplexing title is that way for … | Continue reading
Hearthstone's next major expansion, Whispers of the Old Gods, is due on 27th April in Europe and Asia for PC, Mac, iOS and Android devices, Blizzard has announced.Those in the Americas will receive it a day earlier on 26th April.Whispers of the Old Gods introduces 134 new cards a … | Continue reading
Moody noir adventure game Blues and Bullets will bring its first episode to PS4 on 20th April.It previously launched on PC, Mac, Linux and Xbox One last summer. The second episode just recently came to Steam last month.Set in the fictitious city Santa Esperanza in the 1920s, Blue … | Continue reading
The Walking Dead: Michonne, Telltale's standalone spin-off of Robert Kirkman's zombie apocalypse series, will launch its final episode, What We Deserve, on 26th April for PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360, PC and Mac, along with iOS and Android devices.This concluding chapter focuses … | Continue reading
Bastion and Transistor developer Supergiant has announced a party-based RPG called Pyre. It looks a little something like this:Like Transistor before it, Pyre will launch simultaneously on PS4 and PC.The game will follow a group of exiles partaking in a ritualistic competition to … | Continue reading
I love Play of the Game in Overwatch, that clip of someone doing something extraordinary during the battle you just had. I love the nervous little wait before you find out whose play has been picked. Will it be yours? Some games you know it won't because you had a stinker, but in … | Continue reading
Spiders, the Paris-based developer of Bound by Flame, has released a gameplay trailer for its next game: The Technomancer.The Technomancer is a sci-fi action RPG set in a cyberpunk world, and is due out for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on 21st June. The action takes place on Ma … | Continue reading
There's a character in The Banner Saga called Egil. You probably won't remember much about him even if you played the first game, aside from the fact that he carries a big shield and clearly fancies the protagonist's daughter, Alette. He's alright, but a little forgettable in wha … | Continue reading
Ever since the mid-generational PlayStation 4 upgrade was revealed, and then confirmed, the big story we've all been chasing is the complete lowdown of the hardware specification. We're still not entirely sure why Sony is looking to release a mid-gen upgrade to its massively succ … | Continue reading
Aging online adventure Runescape has been revamped with a fresh look, thanks to a new visual engine.15 years after it first launched, Runescape is now ditch… | Continue reading
Mafia 3 comes out on 7th October 2016, 2K Games has announced.That's for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.Mafia 3, developed by Hangar 13, is set in the open world of 1968 New Bordeaux, a reimagined version of New Orleans.Read more… | Continue reading
Being the oldest member of 'Team Video' at Eurogamer, I'm prone to a good tickling of my nostalgia button. That's why, when a game comes along that reminds… | Continue reading
Curious Destiny fans have spotted a clue that points to a possible 20th September release date for the game's next big expansion.The recent, enjoyable but limited April update includes a mysterious new piece of lore, hidden inside a Dead Ghost, which can be found in the Prison of … | Continue reading
GungHo Online Entertainment has put out a new trailer for Let it Die, the PlayStation 4 exclusive from Suda 51.Suda 51 is the brains behind Killer 7, No More Heroes and Lollipop Chainsaw. His studio, Grasshopper Manufacture, is working on Let it Die, a free-to-play survival actio … | Continue reading
If you want to weigh Destiny's April update by the new activities it adds, then you're going to be disappointed. In terms of new content, to use the c-word, there's far less meat on this beast's bones than in any add-on before it. There's far less, even, than December 2014's disa … | Continue reading
Following the success of IndieGoGo campaigns for new versions of the Spectrum, someone's launched a crowdfunding campaign that taps into nostalgia for another retro home computer: the Commodore 64.But unlike the officially-licensed new Spectrum computers, this new Commodore 64 is … | Continue reading
The concept behind Souls multiplayer is unique among big-budget releases, and so to this day feels fresh. Online multiplayer design over-values symmetry as some sort of foundational principle - which in certain genres, to be sure, it is. But the Souls series thrives on placing a … | Continue reading
Ratchet & Clank and Sunset Overdrive developer Insomniac is releasing its aquatic 2D metroidvania Song of the Deep on 12th July for PS4, Xbox One and PC.Song of the Deep is the first game to be published by GameStop, and so its physical release will remain exclusive to the retail … | Continue reading
Slender: The Arrival developer Blue Isle Studios has announced its upcoming sci-fi game Valley.Due this summer on PC, PS4 and Xbox One, Valley is a first-person adventure that revolves around a "L.E.A.F. Suit" that allows players to run faster, jump higher, and "manipulate life a … | Continue reading
Overwatch's closed beta is coming to an end on 25th April at approximately 6pm UK time.Blizzard specified that no new players will be invited to the closed beta in that time.Of course, the game will enter an open beta on all platforms (PC, PS4 and Xbox One) from 5th-9th May, whil … | Continue reading
Funcom, the developer of The Longest Journey and The Secret World, will launch its first-person horror game The Park on 3rd May for PS4 and Xbox One.It was previously slated to arrive on PS4 last week, but was delayed a bit.This will be Funcom's first console release since 2006's … | Continue reading
That was quick. Dean Hall's Rocketwerkz studio already has a Vive game up on Early Access. It's called Out of Ammo, and Chris Bratt and I have spent the morning messing around with it.And I think it might be love. Out of Ammo's very simple, but it's also wonderfully suited to VR: … | Continue reading
YouTuber and Fallout fanatic Many a True Nerd has adapted Fallout: New Vegas into a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure video series.Entitled Fallout: New Vegas - Choose Your Own Apocalypse, this "interactive novel" tasks players with going through Fallout: New Vegas' campaign by making a … | Continue reading
World of Warcraft's sixth expansion, Legion, is set to launch on 30th August, Blizzard has announced.Players can pre-order Legion and receive an instant level-100 character boost, along with early access to the new Demon Hunter class. Though the timing for when this upcoming clas … | Continue reading
A Batman Arkham HD Collection has been leaked via a GameStop employee sending pictures of the unannounced anthology to Eurogamer.As seen in the following picture, Batman Arkham HD Collection contains both Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City along with all the DLC for bo … | Continue reading
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow developer MercurySteam has announced an upcoming asymmetrical multiplayer title called Raiders of the Broken Planet.Due later this year on PS4, Xbox One and PC, the developer described Raiders of the Broken Planet as a "distinctive blend of shooting, … | Continue reading
Rebellion, maker of Sniper Elite and the Zombie Army Trilogy, has released Battlezone 98 Redux, the remaster of the 1998 Battlezone game, on Steam. There it… | Continue reading
Capcom has come up with a solution for Street Fighter 5's rage quitting problem.As I reported earlier this year, Street Fighter 5 does not punish those who quit online matches early. As far as the game is concerned, it's as if the match never happened. I get maybe one in seven ma … | Continue reading
Guile is the next DLC character for Street Fighter 5, Capcom has announced.He'll be available for free later this month to all players, and he'll stay free until the Zenny shop launches and he gets his own set of Trials and Character Story. His Battle Costume is free to all Seaso … | Continue reading
Life is Strange concluded almost six months ago but Dontnod's episodic series still sparks discussion in the Eurogamer office.So we jumped at the chance to meet the Dontnod team again while they were in London for the video game BAFTAs - where Life is Strange scooped the Best Sto … | Continue reading
The new Doom launched in multiplayer open beta form last week - and it's having a tough time from Steam user reviews.At the time of publication, Doom's multiplayer had a "mostly negative" Steam user review rating. That's from a whopping 12,267 user reviews. 7634 of those user rev … | Continue reading
The Gears of War 4 multiplayer beta launched today and anyone who owns Gears of War: Ultimate Edition should soon have access to it.Anyone else who wants to play will have to wait until the 25th of April when the beta opens up to all those with Xbox Live Gold membership. If you c … | Continue reading
Ratchet & Clank and Sunset Overdrive developer Insomniac Games has announced two new Oculus-exclusive titles. These are in addition to the studio's already announced third-person survival-horror Oculus game Edge of Nowhere.One of them is an Oculus Touch-based two-player competiti … | Continue reading
Insomniac Games is known more for polish than originality. After 11 Ratchet & Clank titles, a few first-person shooters, and Sunset Overdrive's open-world mayhem, Insomniac's got a reputation as a commendable, workmanlike studio, but not a particularly daring one. That's all chan … | Continue reading
Last year, the BBC's Watchdog programme investigated Sony's digital refund policy after it received a number of complaints from PlayStation owners who had struggled to get their money back after fraudulent purchases.At the time, Sony was heavily criticised for not refunding some … | Continue reading
Last week, The Division received its big April update which included Falcon Lost, an eight-player raid-style "incursion" activity. There were technical problems as the update went live, but players were eventually able to battle through these to grab their first dollop of proper … | Continue reading