Back in 2014 retro hardware boutique manufacturer, Analogue Interactive announced a $499 1080p variant of the NES called the Analogue Nt. Before that it manufactured a £400 / $649 wooden SNK Neo Geo CMVS. Now it's releasing its priciest, most ostentatious offering yet with the $4 … | Continue reading
EA has lashed out at Donald Trump for using copyrighted audio from Mass Effect 2's trailer for a campaign ad."We do not support our assets being used in political campaigns," the video game publisher told GameInformer after Trump retweeted the video in question.By all accounts th … | Continue reading
New Dark Souls 3 speedruns have emerged shattering the previous record.When it comes to making a beeline to the end credits, there's Japanese YouTuber muzi_… | Continue reading
Rhythm-based tower-defense game Loud on Planet X is due on 19th April for PS4 and Steam.The iOS and Android editions will follow two days later on 21st April. A Vita version is also planned.Loud on Planet X was developed by Canadian studio Pop Sandbox and its lead developer Andre … | Continue reading
Team Ninja's upcoming PS4-exclusive hack-and-slash affair Nioh will be getting an alpha demo later this month.The demo will only be available from 26th April through 5th May. Those who complete it will receive the The Mark of the Conqueror DLC, which will add some "special DLC" t … | Continue reading
The fifth main Star Ocean game - the one with the bizarre subtitle Integrity and Faithlessness - will come to European PlayStation 4s 1st July 2016, Square Enix has announced.That's actually fairly close to the Japanese release, which happened only days ago - 31st March 2016. The … | Continue reading
Well, this is new. We're crouched in one of the rustling pockets of tall grass that's flecked across the plains of Madagascar, pushing Nathan Drake slowly t… | Continue reading
A high-profile UK fighting game tournament held over the weekend was marred by streaming issues.Hypespotting, held in Glasgow, Scotland, failed to stream significant portions of its Street Fighter 5 tournament - sparking some members of the UK fighting game community to call the … | Continue reading
The Final Fantasy 15 Ultimate Collector's Edition sold out in minutes - and it didn't take long for the coveted collection to appear on eBay.Scalpers have listed the collection for up to three times the face value. We've seen UK listings that have sold for a whopping £420.The Fin … | Continue reading
UPDATE 5/4/16 1.30pm: Surprising no one, the Kickstarter project to fund a Life is Strange sequel has now been cancelled. There's no update yet from th… | Continue reading
There have been hiccups processing some orders for virtual reality headsets Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.Oculus blamed an "unexpected component shortage" in an email to early customers. "We've been working through an unexpected component shortage, and unfortunately that issue has imp … | Continue reading
In an industry built on sequels there are plenty of also-rans - those that fail to move on, those that change too much, and those that can't handle the expectation. Though it would be harsh to call Dark Souls 2 a failure all three of these factors played a part in its final form, … | Continue reading
Pseudo-British Overwatch hero, Tracer will be playable in Heroes of the Storm a whole two weeks prior to the launch of Overwatch's open beta.Heroes of the Storm players who pre-purchase a digital copy of the Overwatch: Origins Edition on PC will unlock Tracer from the 19th April, … | Continue reading
Popular PC sandbox role-playing game Starbound is finally close to leaving Steam Early Access and launching as a full release.There's still no release date, but developer/publisher Chucklefish has at last nailed down which features will be present in the game's version 1.0.The 2D … | Continue reading
After a decade of on-and-off development, the end is in sight for Final Fantasy 15. Across multiple setbacks, changes in production personnel, and one name change, Square Enix now lays down the gauntlet with a firm September 30th launch date, and a brand new 'Platinum' demo for p … | Continue reading
Destiny's long-term exclusive content deal with PlayStation isn't just limited to big expansions - the game's April update has stuff just for Sony fans too.We had already heard mention of a PlayStation-exclusive set of quests involving Reef character Petra. You'll only get to pla … | Continue reading
The free Mediah Expansion has landed for Black Desert Online. It's a 2GB download and contains a significant amount of new content. Simultaneously the game's Korean developer, Pearl Abyss, held a press conference and detailed future plans for the game.Let's begin with Mediah. It' … | Continue reading
Overwatch's second animated short is all about Widowmaker, the game's cold-hearted assassin lady. She's french and well into spiders.These shorts, intended to flesh out the backstory of Overwatch's heroes (and villains), continue to look really, very good, following last month's … | Continue reading
PlayStation 4 fan Peter Byrne, who has cerebral palsy, has received a specially-made controller to help him play.The custom pad was modded by Sony's Alex Nawabi, a PlayStation staff member who works on the company's research and development team (thanks, Kotaku).Byrne contacted S … | Continue reading
Gearbox's Aliens: Colonial Marines wasn't great. Now, a modder has fixed it.TemplarGFX's "ACM Overhaul", released on 20th March and updated since, lets thos… | Continue reading
Harassment, hoaxes, mob justice, public shaming, doxing, citizen journalism, disinformation, snuff, celebrity breakdowns, racist chat-bots, joke plagiarism and an endless stream of delectable cat gifs. The effects of the rise of social media on humanity are myriad, varied and - l … | Continue reading
Occasionally we are invited to play a first-person shooter in multiplayer matches against people who make it their business to be very good at them. Take th… | Continue reading
Last year, we applauded Samsung's apparent willingness to listen to its critics and change the way it makes smartphones. The result was the wonderful Galaxy S6, a premium metal-and-glass handset more than capable of going toe-to-toe with Apple in the desirability stakes - and one … | Continue reading
Dual-wielding: for a while, that seemed like the way games moved forward. What's better than holding one gun? Holding two! Good scrum everybody! But progress is a complex business, and while a lot of design is about adding new elements to the mix, what happens when you start to t … | Continue reading
Early footage of Mass Effect: Andromeda has appeared online.The brief snippets of gameplay are taken from a build of the game which dates back to 2014, All Games Delta reported. The footage popped up online as part of a BioWare artist's showreel.Despite the age of the footage, it … | Continue reading
It's been years in the making, but Remedy's Quantum Break is finally ready. The Finnish team's love of slow-motion will seemingly never die - and it finds a good home this time in a time-bending action title that focuses on moving in and out of time while shooting your way throug … | Continue reading
Hello! Let's talk about puking, shall we? Did you know the oldest word in the English language for throwing up is actually not the medical term vomit, but actually spew? It comes from the Anglo-Saxon word spēowan. Gosh I'm glad I did all those medieval units at university, they'v … | Continue reading
Bandai Namco is making a Japanese VR installation to help people conquer their fears.Launching in Tokyo on 15th April and lasting through mid-October, Project I Can will feature six different elaborate VR experiences. One of them, Fear of Heights Show, tasks players with donning … | Continue reading
Progress on motorcycle action game Road Redemption has been quiet for some time, leading many to ponder if the crowdfunded Steam Early Access game had been abandoned, but developer DarkSeas Games has issued a Kickstarter update assuring everyone that this is not the case. In fact … | Continue reading
Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear, the new official DLC to an 18-year-old RPG, has just launched on Steam for £14.99 / $19.99.The expansion was made by a lot of the original Baldur's Gate creators at their new studio Beamdog. BioWare co-founder Trent Oster and former lead progr … | Continue reading
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Dear Esther and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs developer The Chinese Room has revealed that its next game will be an isometric RPG called Total Dark. That's a far cry from its previous work that's all more or less fallen under the dreadful "walking s … | Continue reading
This week Atari launched RollerCoaster Tycoon World on Steam as an Early Access title - and unfortunately it's a bit of a mess.Fans were already upset with the publisher for launching the game on Early Access in the first place - they'd expected a full release in shops back in De … | Continue reading
Guitar Hero Live developer Freestyle Games has suffered a number of redundancies - but owner Activision has said the studio will remain open.Staff entered into a consultation period with Activision in February. This has now concluded and, according to a source familiar with the s … | Continue reading
Unless you got access to the super secretive Alpha, chances are you've never seen Doom's multiplayer mode in action. All that is set to change at 3.30pm today, when I'll be streaming ninety minutes of multiplayer from Doom's closed beta. Expect guns, guts and gore galore. Probabl … | Continue reading
BAFTA-nominated PlayStation 4 adventure Everybody's Gone to the Rapture will get a release on PC.The game was previously spotted on Steam's database and in patch notes for the most recent AMD graphics drivers. Now, Brighton-based developer The Chinese Room has made it official.Th … | Continue reading
There was a Killer Instinct 2 cabinet in the bar of my student union. I never played it - I can't remember anyone playing it - but I do remember being dazzled all the same: the metallic sheen on the text, the swing of a character's hair, the way that the Nintendo and Rare logos b … | Continue reading
Dark Souls 3 hasn't even launched in the west, but after only a week of being available in Japan a speedrunner has completed From Software's latest opus in one hour, 42 minutes and 10 seconds.Now before anyone says "it's only two hours long" I want to be clear that Dark Souls 3 i … | Continue reading
Editor's note: Our full Dark Souls 3 review will go up next week wherein veteran Souls aficionado Rich Stanton will evaluate From Software's latest action-R… | Continue reading
If you've spent any time on Twitter or Facebook over the past 24 hours then you'll have probably seen a glut of Miitomo pictures pop up.Nintendo's first smartphone app lets you snap a Miifoto of your avatar and pop it on to a photo or background, then customise it to your heart's … | Continue reading
Space MMO Eve Online is playing host to gaming's largest conflict ever, according to developer CCP Games.Over 60,000 players are facing off as part of what's been dubbed the next great war in Eve Online.Two major battles have already taken place in a virtual war that has sparked … | Continue reading
There's a war going on within Elite Dangerous - and it's sending shockwaves rippling throughout the game's virtual universe.It was sparked by a particularly determined group of mischief-makers who are hell bent on killing other players - even those who have joined a massive priva … | Continue reading
Street Fighter 5 has a real problem with the way it forces players to unlock character colours.The fighting game sees two colours per character unlocked from the start. To unlock other colours, you have to soldier through Survival mode.Here's how it works: to unlock colour three … | Continue reading
Previously, Microsoft promised a copy of Xbox 360 downloadable game Alan Wake's American Nightmare with pre-orders the upcoming Quantum Break.Now, in many cases, American Nightmare is being replaced by a digital copy of Xbox 360 launch game Kameo: Elements of Power.The switcheroo … | Continue reading
Call of Duty: Black Ops 3's next map pack includes a remake of Banzai, one of the most popular maps from Treyarch's World at War.Eclipse features four new m… | Continue reading
A slick yet hollow hybrid of television and third-person shooting, Quantum Break sees electric style winning out over a lack of substance. | Continue reading
Acclaimed metroidvania Axiom Verge is coming to Vita on 20th April, developer Tom Happ has announced.North Americans will receive it one day earlier on the 19th.The side-scrolling sci-fi throwback launched last year on PS4, PC, Mac and Linux. If you already own the PS4 version, y … | Continue reading
Nintendo's new loyalty program My Nintendo has launched in Europe and North America today to coincide with the western release of its first mobile app Miitomo.Players earn points by completing missions - such as purchasing games, linking your My Nintendo account to your Nintendo … | Continue reading
Final Fantasy 11 has finally shuttered its PS2 and Xbox 360 servers, Square Enix has announced.We knew this was coming as Square made the announcement last year, but the publisher never listed a specific date for the closure. The PS2 version launched way back in May 2002, at leas … | Continue reading