I've got my own particular tale about a hamster and a vacuum cleaner, but it's probably for the best I don't share it here (I was eight years old, me and my friend were very stupid and it's not something I'd ever do again. The hamster lived, though). This tale's a bit more savour … | Continue reading
Fire Emblem Warriors' new 1.2 update, due next Thursday 16th November, introduces (for reasons that are not entirely clear) a new feature that sees certain characters' clothes falling off whenever they get hit.It's not anywhere near as salacious as it sounds, however; the new fea … | Continue reading
Nintendo has released a rather lovely bit farewell art, made up of hundreds of different Miiverse posts, to bid the service farewell.Miiverse - Nintendo's very own social media space for 3DS and Wii U - was easily one of the company's most barmily delightful ideas in recent times … | Continue reading
Pokémon Go developer Niantic's next game will be Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, another augmented-reality smartphone app, due for launch sometime in 2018.It makes sense - like Pokémon, Harry Potter is a huge franchise with years and years worth of stuff which fans will no doubt wan … | Continue reading
Another day, another Grand Theft Auto 5 sales milestone. But this one's a biggie: GTA5 is now the best-selling game of all time in the US.Rockstar's open world has sold more copies and earned more money from sales than any other game, ever, across the pond.Parent company Take-Two … | Continue reading
A note from the editor: Jelly Deals is a deals site launched by our parent company, Gamer Network, with a mission to find the best bargains out there. Look out for the Jelly Deals roundup of reduced-price games and kit every Saturday on Eurogamer.This may be the week of the Xbox … | Continue reading
Total War: Rome 2 is set to receive a new "grand-scale" campaign pack at the end of the month, entitled Empire Divided.Set in 270 AD, players will find the Roman Empire in a bit of a state, with its grasp on the world loosening and plenty of enemies eager to take advantage of its … | Continue reading
Activision's annual Call of Duty: WW2 sales press release is in, and amongst the bombastic headlines are a couple of genuinely interesting tidbits.First off… | Continue reading
A note from the editor: Jelly Deals is a deals site launched by our parent company, Gamer Network, with a mission to find the best bargains out there. Look out for the Jelly Deals roundup of reduced-price games and kit every Saturday on Eurogamer.This week, if you head to the onl … | Continue reading
Amid server issues, deserted social spaces and arguments over weapon balance, one part of Call of Duty: WW2 has been universally praised thus far: War.There is nothing particularly revolutionary about War mode. We've seen its design in many multiplayer shooters before. It lifts e … | Continue reading
EA DICE has further explained the thinking behind Star Wars: Battlefront 2 loot crates,and talked more about how they're changing after the controversial multiplayer beta in October.DICE also separately said the Flametrooper's damage would be buffed for Star Wars Battlefront 2's … | Continue reading
Four years, two games and countless expansions later, Destiny players are once again grinding loot from a cave.The latest exploit lets you grind out tokens for this week's Faction Rally event by running in and out of a cave's back door to farm a respawning chest.Once you get into … | Continue reading
Cited as an example of ultra HD gaming on Microsoft's list of Xbox One X enhanced titles, Diablo 3 is an evolution of Blizzard's good work on the PlayStation 4 Pro version of the game. The same principles are in place: the game targets a native 2160p presentation, but utilises a … | Continue reading
At last week's Blizzcon, Blizzard announced that all Hearthstone players would net the new Legendary card Marin the Fox for free from November 6th. Consider this your reminder (because I completely forgot, so perhaps you did too).Marin the Fox is technically part of Hearthstone's … | Continue reading
Launch sales of Assassin's Creed Origins were double that of previous game Syndicate, Ubisoft has revealed.The detail, announced in a financial call to investors last night, sheds new light on the data released after Origins' first week on sale here in the UK - that the game's ph … | Continue reading
Where exactly to start with Need for Speed Payback, Ghost Games' third take on EA's long-running arcade racer series? Let's go with Tyler Morgan, the figurehead of the three-strong crew you take control of in your attempt to win back the streets of Fortune City, an expansive cari … | Continue reading
IO Interactive has confirmed that there's a new Hitman game in the works."We're making great progress," IO Interactive CEO Hakan Abrak said of the next Hitman in a post celebrating the launch of Hitman's Game of the Year edition, "We have exciting new features and some franchise … | Continue reading
Sony has revealed a new PlayStation 4 Pro bundle featuring "five exclusive adventures", which, it turns out, is a fancy way of saying 'four games and some DLC'. Just to temper your expectations before we get too far, however: it's currently sold out.The 'Only on PlayStation' bund … | Continue reading
Telltale Games has laid off 90 members of staff - around 25 percent of its total workforce - the company has announced.In a statement addressing the move, the episodic-games-focussed studio - perhaps best known for its Walking Dead and Minecraft: Story Mode series of adventure ga … | Continue reading
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has now sold over 20 million copies, creative director Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene has revealed on Twitter.To put that into… | Continue reading
Assassin's Creed Origins' first Trials of the Gods challenge, pitting you against a gargantuan version of Anubis, the Egyptian god of death, starts today."This ancient deity has sprung from a glitch in the Animus," says Ubisoft of Anubis, "and is eager to guide Bayek's soul to th … | Continue reading
I will state up-front that I am no historian. I know next to nothing about World War 2. But the one thing I thought I knew revolves around the V-2 rocket. And now the V-2 rocket is in COD: WW2, I'm starting to worry I might be wrong about that as well.The V-2 rocket replaces nuke … | Continue reading
BioWare has celebrated a decade of Mass Effect by releasing a new video featuring developers involved in the much-loved, now much-missed space franchise.Today is 7th November, known to Mass Effect fans as N7 Day - BioWare's annual celebration of the series. This year is also the … | Continue reading
A note from the editor: Jelly Deals is a deals site launched by our parent company, Gamer Network, with a mission to find the best bargains out there. Look out for the Jelly Deals roundup of reduced-price games and kit every Saturday on Eurogamer.Humble is celebrating all things … | Continue reading
Xbox One X enhancements for Rise of the Tomb Raider are now available, and players who have already purchased the game for Xbox One can now download the new technical features on Xbox One X for free.The Xbox One X enhancements add enhanced HDR/4K visuals, Dolby Atmos audio, impro … | Continue reading
Assassin's Creed Origins will soon let you officially toggle between different styles for Bayek's beard and hair, after fans found an option to do so hidden in the game's console versions. The follicular feature will arrive in a forthcoming update, developer Ubisoft revealed. It' … | Continue reading
Ark developer Studio Wildcard has detailed the Xbox One X enhancements coming to its dinosaur survival-adventure game.Provided as a free update to Xbox players, Ark on the Xbox One X features true sky dynamics, greater draw distance, HDR vivid colour, and faster loading times.Thi … | Continue reading
Wolfenstein 2 has its first major update and it opens the Vault, among other things.The Vault is behind a big door on board the U-boat Evas Hammer, Wolfenstein 2's hub area. The door had a countdown timer on it since launch, but now it's officially open for business.THERE MAY BE … | Continue reading
Nintendo's just wrapped up its Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Direct presentation, revealing a handful of new details for the imminent JRPG from Monolith Soft. The big headline was the announcement of a season pass, which will weigh in at £26.99 and offer almost a year's worth of content … | Continue reading
Earlier this year, Sonic Mania ushered Sega's flagship mascot back into the limelight with with a game every bit as good as the original 16-bit Mega Drive titles. It answered the question of whether Sonic's core 2D gameplay would stand up over time with a resounding 'yes!' and ca … | Continue reading
Sledgehammer takes Call of Duty back to its roots, refining rather than redefining the series for the best entry in years. | Continue reading
A note from the editor: Jelly Deals is a deals site launched by our parent company, Gamer Network, with a mission to find the best bargains out there. Look out for the Jelly Deals roundup of reduced-price games and kit every Saturday on Eurogamer.We're about two weeks away from B … | Continue reading
Remember last month when Argos promised to deliver Xbox One X at 12.01am? Well, the retailer kept its promise. There were caveats to the offer - as a trial scheme it was only available for London Zones 1-5, and pre-order slots were limited. Still, in light of today's Amazon UK Xb … | Continue reading
A highly-skilled Call of Duty: WW2 player has confirmed the game does indeed have a nuke scorestreak.Fans had wondered whether the latest game in the series had a nuke scorestreak, as other Call of Duty games have. Data-miners had uncovered mention of a nuke in the game's files, … | Continue reading
Three more Xbox 360 classics will be enhanced for Xbox One X including Skate 3, Mirror's Edge, and Gears of War 3, Microsoft has announced. Xbox mouthpiece… | Continue reading
With Star Wars Battlefront 2 looming over the horizon, EA's cross-promotion work is fully operational. First up, we have a Star Wars kit for use in FIFA 18.The Inferno Squad-inspired kit is available from today, 7th November until 28th November in FIFA Ultimate Team. (All you hav … | Continue reading
Xbox One X is now available in the UK - but many Amazon customers are still to receive theirs. Last night's midnight launch was fine if you wanted to wait outside in the cold, but many Amazon UK customers had pre-ordered to avoid this - and to guarantee a limited edition Project … | Continue reading
A note from the editor: Jelly Deals is a deals site launched by our parent company, Gamer Network, with a mission to find the best bargains out there. Look out for the Jelly Deals roundup of reduced-price games and kit every Saturday on Eurogamer.This is a post about an amiibo de … | Continue reading
After years of predictable roadmaps and often iterative bumps in existing technology, the last 12 months has seen some radical jumps in the capabilities of PC hardware - but few could have predicted yesterday's announcement that Intel and AMD would join forces to take on Nvidia i … | Continue reading
Sony's annual PlayStation Experience presentation now has a date and time: Friday, 8th December at 8pm Pacific (which, here in the UK, is the 9th at 4am).(We're not sure yet if we're going to stay up that night... or just get up early the following day.)Tune in (or check the foll … | Continue reading
The Xbox One X does wonders for Halo 3. Splashed onto a big 4K telly by Microsoft's ultra-powerful new console, Bungie's decade-old first-person shooter looks better than most shooters released today. I dipped back into Halo 3 while waiting for bigger, well, massive modern games … | Continue reading
Call of Duty: WW2's microtransaction currency - used to purchase loot boxes - will go live on November 14th, Activision has revealed.The news comes via a support document recently added to Activision's website. Listed under the 'bonus content' drop-down is an update pertaining to … | Continue reading
Beautiful isometric stealth-shooter Tokyo 42 just got a little bit bigger. Its first DLC expansion, Smaceshi's Castles, is now available on Steam.Tokyo 42, according to Eurogamer's Christian Donlan in his enthusiastic review earlier this year, "blends the original GTA, ditching t … | Continue reading
Uplay members can get Ubisoft's 2014 open-world hacker-thriller Watch Dogs free on PC, starting tomorrow.The offer runs from 4pm on November 7th until 4pm on November 13th. If you're already signed up to Uplay, you just need to follow the promotional breadcrumbs when you log in n … | Continue reading
Titanfall 2 made big headlines for Xbox One X during the preview period, when Respawn Entertainment's Drew McCoy noted that the game's dynamic scaler hit a maximum of 6K resolution during pre-production testing. The Xbox One X patch dropped last week, but it's clear that somethin … | Continue reading
A note from the editor: Jelly Deals is a deals site launched by our parent company, Gamer Network, with a mission to find the best bargains out there. Look out for the Jelly Deals roundup of reduced-price games and kit every Saturday on Eurogamer.The Gold Edition of Resident Evil … | Continue reading
There's a nostalgic euphoria I associate with the sound of crunching snow. It reminds me of childhood winters wrapped up in scratchy scarves and impractical mittens, trudging through Irish fields, white as the eye could see and making that first welly-boot footprint in an untouch … | Continue reading
Early last year Blizzard stamped out an unofficial vanilla World of Warcraft server project called Nostalrius. But it didn't go quietly.Hundreds of thousands of people signed a petition calling for a Blizzard rethink. The crux of their argument: why can't we offer a version of a … | Continue reading