Titanfall 2 has been officially revealed and it will contain the series' titular giant mechs... only now equipped with swords.Developer Respawn released the following teaser trailer noting that a full reveal will follow on 12th June at EA Play, the publisher's pre-E3 event.We've … | Continue reading
In a post 9/11 world Muslims haven't exactly had the most rounded portrayal in the west - though when it comes to video games they never had much positive representation before 9/11 either. At worst they're sprinkled into shooters as enemy cannon fodder, and at best represented a … | Continue reading
Open world multiplayer survival game Rust now assigns gender according to your SteamID, just as it already assigned skin colour and penis size. And once they're assigned, they can't be changed - when you respawn you return to life as the assigned 'you'."We understand this is a so … | Continue reading
Punch-Out!! came out nearly 29 years ago, so you'd think all its secrets would have been uncovered by now.You'd be wrong.Reddit user midwesternhousewives found a "tell" in the NES game that indicates when the player should punch their opponent for a knock-out. That tell is a bear … | Continue reading
YouTuber Many A True Nerd took his thoroughly enjoyable You Only Live Once series to Fallout 3 eight months ago. Yesterday, he completed the game and all its add-ons.The video, below, shows off the run's final hour with an assault on the Enclave base - the culmination of the Brok … | Continue reading
Codemasters has picked up Evolution Studios - and in the process turned the once PlayStation-exclusive developer multiplatform.Last month Sony announced the closure of Cheshire-based Evolution Studios, leaving the future of Driveclub - and the jobs of its developers - in doubt.No … | Continue reading
Quantum Break is the UK's best-selling boxed game.While Remedy's action shooter is out on Windows 10 and Xbox One, sales tracked by Chart-Track are for the Xbox One version only. Chart-Track does not include download sales in its report.Quantum Break only just beat Codemasters' D … | Continue reading
A Texan manufacturer has come under fire for making a Nintendo Entertainment System-themed handgun.Precision Syndicate was criticised after it posted pictures of a Glock modified to look like a NES Zapper to social media.Comments posted to the company's Facebook page expressed co … | Continue reading
Gears of War 4 has a release date - 11th October - and now it has a teaser trailer that sets the scene.Gears of War 4 is set 25 years after Gears of War 3, and as such stars Marcus Fenix's son, JD. The trailer fuses JD's fight against a new enemy with a scene taken from his child … | Continue reading
Sadly absent on Nintendo's last console, the high-achieving Platinum Games revives a much-loved franchise on Wii U this month. After many delays to get its controls just right, Star Fox Zero makes smart use of the GamePad's oft-neglected second display and gyro controls, now lett … | Continue reading
Greetings, Eurogamers, and welcome to another weekly dispatch from Outside Xbox. Here are another three videos guaranteed to give you a warm, fuzzy sense of satisfaction when you get to the end of them.If only the same could be said for these eight games that required you shell o … | Continue reading
There's a common joke made about Monopoly that it destroys lives. The massively popular love-letter to capitalist greed has become notorious for its ability to ruin friendships, end relationships, and shatter family-ties like brittle glass. Whether Monopoly truly is a cardboard h … | Continue reading
Dark Souls 2 is a strange game, though its weirdness emanates from just how conventional it is - especially given it's part of a series known for forging new boundaries. Over a year ago I wrote about revisiting Demon's Souls and being delighted to find it the freshest, riskiest a … | Continue reading
Hello! I'm writing this post to you from one of the chilly tunnels of Tobacco Dock, home to EGX Rezzed. I'm mostly being propped up by coffee at this point, but it's been a lovely weekend. Ian and I found a quiet corner to talk about the best things we've seen and played this wee … | Continue reading
Hello from hip East London! It's the third day of EGX Rezzed and the second day of developer sessions - but if you can't make it to the show, you can watch all the sessions live on YouTube in the embeds below.We've got sessions on some of our favourite recent and future PC games … | Continue reading
Happy final EGX Rezzed day! It's been a good time so far, the warrens of the Tobacco Dock playing host to so many fascinating games. We've come up with a quickfire list of our own highlights, games we've discovered or become reacquainted with old favourites (hello Gang Beasts, on … | Continue reading
One of the big strengths of Oculus Rift is its plug-and-play simplicity. Put the camera sensor on the desk, plug in the cables and one simple calibration later you're good to go. There's a certain level of simplicity to it, tempered only by the nagging feeling that the product's … | Continue reading
It's day three of Rezzed in East London - our parent company Gamer Network's friendly and indie-focused game show, little sister to September's big, bad (in a good way) EGX. Just like EGX, we host and stream developer sessions live at the show, this time with a little help from o … | Continue reading
H.G. Wells left quite a mark. He destroyed civilisation half a dozen times. He infested Woking with Martians. He took us to the end of time and back again. He pretty much co-founded science fiction as a genre. That stuff is well-known, but I hadn't been aware that he also invente … | Continue reading
Solid Snake voice actor David Hayter may have been replaced by Kiefer Sutherland, but the classic Metal Gear Solid actor is sure getting a lot of mileage out of the role as he just reprised his most well known character in a Ford commercial.That's right, the car manufacturer coll … | Continue reading
Civilization 4 lead designer Soren Johnson's upcoming economic real-time strategy game Offworld Trading Company is leaving Steam Early Access on 28th April.Offworld Trading Company is the debut effort of Johnson's new studio Mohawk Games. It's been on Steam Early Access since Feb … | Continue reading
Don't Starve Together will emerge out of Steam Early Access on 21st April.That's just the start, however, as Klei still has big plans for Don't Starve Together additions. For one, it's working on a free content pack called "Through the Ages" that's designed specifically for multi … | Continue reading
Both of Alan Wake's DLC expansions are currently free on the Xbox Marketplace.You may recall that Remedy Entertainment's horror action affair became backwards compatible last month. Well now you can play both story add-ons, The Writer and The Signal, on Xbox One as well;.The core … | Continue reading
Dark Souls is getting an official board game courtesy of Steamforged Games.The game is being licensed by Bandai Namco and a Kickstarter will launch for it later this month."As Dark Souls fans, we could not be more excited to be given the honour of developing a board game that emb … | Continue reading
Dark Souls publisher Bandai Namco has launched a clothing line promoting From Software's action-RPG series. However, it looks like this: Prep… | Continue reading
Nosgoth, the competitive multiplayer Legacy of Kain spin-off, has been cancelled.Publisher Square Enix said the free-to-download human versus vampire game would not make it to full release having spent over a year in Early Access on Steam."This was not an easy decision to come to … | Continue reading
There was a Beavis and Butt-Head arcade game prototype that never turned into a finished product. That arcade game has not only been uncovered, it's been restored.Galloping Ghost Arcade in Chicago managed to get its hands one of the ultra rare Beavis and Butt-Head prototypes buil … | Continue reading
Movie studios talked about the 'high concept' or the 'elevator pitch'; the ability to condense the plot or premise of a film to a two-minute sell, a breathless paragraph, a single tag line and image that will lodge in the audience's mind. If you're making a video game in 2016, so … | Continue reading
A modder has fused a Raspberry Pi with the Game Boy for super cool results."Wermy" published a video to YouTube showing off his Pi Zero Game Boy, which uses real Game Boy cartridges that let him play emulated versions of retro games.The Game Boy Zero, as it's called, is the combi … | Continue reading
Hello, we're at EGX Rezzed today. Are you there too? Either way, you can watch a live version of Eurogamer's once-every-other-weekly podcast at 5PM BST today.If you're at the show, you can find us at the developer sessions area. It's the terrifyingly big room, where they usually … | Continue reading
The Unreal Engine 4 reboot of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, known as Apeiron, sounds too good to be true. BioWare's treasured 2003 role-playing game brought not only up to date visually but also mechanically, with new content on top. Yet there are pictures and videos of … | Continue reading
With the rather memorable Ocarina of Time episode of Late to the Party, Chris Bratt proved that he's not all that comfortable when it comes to older game control schemes. Being the sadistic sort, I decided to introduce him to Silent Hill 2, which, long story short, he didn't get … | Continue reading
Quantum Break has arrived on the PC and to suggest that the results are disappointing would be a massive understatement. PC gamers are left out in the cold with another high profile release failing to deliver expected levels of performance, features and customisation. As things s … | Continue reading
When No Man's Sky was unveiled in 2013, one of the many things about it that caught the eye was its music. Now, the people behind the ambitious space game's soundtrack have announced it'll go on sale alongside the game this summer.No Man's Sky: Music for an Infinite Universe come … | Continue reading
It's been a month since Microsoft dropped the bombshell it would support cross-network play between Xbox One and other consoles - including, in theory, PlayStation 4. The past few weeks have also seen the console giant finally make good on its suggestion that all retail Xbox One … | Continue reading
One of Fallout 4's best features has been modded into Fallout: New Vegas - and it makes the game a lot better to play.Modder Xilandro took the quick loot system from Fallout 4 and popped it into New Vegas. Fallout 4's quick loot system makes the process of looting more seamless. … | Continue reading
Hello from EGX Rezzed, here in London's Tobacco Dock, which last night hosted the BAFTA Game Awards. The coveted Best Game prize was won by… | Continue reading
Bang! I'm woken up from a deep sleep in the middle of my first night at Witcher School by the sound of explosions in the castle courtyard below. Witcher masters yell as they stamp up the stairs and open the heavy wooden doors to our dormitory tower to wake us. I find my uniform - … | Continue reading
HTC has issued an update on Vive shipments and finally addressed the virtual reality headset's messy European launch.In a post on the HTC Vive blog, the company admitted the launch, which was supposed to see shipments begin on Monday, had suffered from "multiple issues", but said … | Continue reading
PlayStation 4 users have discovered the console's latest update does more than advertised.PS4 firmware 3.50 went out this week with the headline addition of PC and Mac remote play as well as the ability to appear offline.But, as chronicled by eagle-eyed PS4 users on Reddit, 3.50 … | Continue reading
Game designers learn about this power early into their careers. The virtual gun remains the most useful tool in the designer's box; nothing is better suited to giving players the ability to affect objects both near and far, or with such delicious kickback of cause and effect. Cli … | Continue reading
The official Dark Souls Twitter account has taken a page from the official Sonic the Hedgehog Twitter account and gone bananas with today's meme de jour. We… | Continue reading
The little known sci-fi first-person stealth adventure Consortium looks to be getting a sequel as the crowdfunding campaign for a follow-up has already breezed past the halfway point of its $300k Fig goal in only a day.If you're like me, you probably hadn't heard of Consortium. L … | Continue reading
Earlier this week a couple of hardcore Zelda fans put up a browser-based remake of the original The Legend of Zelda made with voxels to commemorate the seri… | Continue reading
Telltale Games will be publishing the open-world zombie survival sim 7 Days to Die for consoles.Due this June on PS4 and Xbox One, 7 Days to Die is described by Telltale as "a unique combination of first person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games." It' … | Continue reading
Koei Tecmo's Attack on Titan game now bares the subtitle Wings of Freedom and is slated for a 26th August release in Europe on PS4, Xbox One, PC, PS3 and Vi… | Continue reading
Resident Evil's third-person shooter spin-off Umbrella Corps is now set for a 21st June release on PS4 and PC.It was previously slated to come out in May.Capcom also release a slew of details about character customisation options. You'll be able to alter your characters various g … | Continue reading
Worms is one of the most instantly recognisable franchises going - not surprising, given it's been around for over 20 years. By the same token, however, it's an easy one to underestimate; if you've played one you've played them all, right? Not so, claim Ian and Chris, who went he … | Continue reading