Hostel and the original Cabin Fever director Eli Roth has made an animated short film promoting Dark Souls 3.Working with animation studio Six Point Harness, Roth's video, The Witches, is about two minutes long and contains all the gore and subtly macabre comedy one would expect … | Continue reading
Dead Space and Saints Row 4 are now backwards compatible on Xbox One.That's convenient as Dead Space is also a free Games with Gold offering for April, so you can enjoy Visceral's sci-fi horror adventure on Microsoft's latest console.Earlier this week Xbox One's backwards compati … | Continue reading
Final Fantasy 15 is launching on 30th September for PS4 and Xbox One, but there's still been no word on a PC version. Now game director Hajime Tabata has addressed the issue stating that if it comes at all, it's going to be after the console release.Tabata told Endgadget that the … | Continue reading
Hitman's second episode, Sapienza, will be out on 26th April, developer Io-Interactive has announced.That's probably a longer wait that you were expecting, but the good news is the developer is staying on top of the current content and has released a new update adding new mission … | Continue reading
Destiny's free April update adds a new reward named Sterling Treasure, which comprises a bag of random items.You can earn three Sterling Treasure packs each week - one will be granted automatically upon reset, another by completing the Level 41 Prison of Elders activity and a thi … | Continue reading
Dreadbit has announced its next game, Seraph, ahead of its launch on Early Access next month.Described as a "skill-based, acrobatic shooter", Seraph is a 2D… | Continue reading
We've had a lot of posts up on the site regarding Final Fantasy 15 today, following the big live event in the early hours of this morning. You might have read Aoife's thoughts on the demo or enjoyed that GIF with the flying car, but to be honest, we haven't been talking about the … | Continue reading
Nintendo has launched its first smartphone app, Miitomo, in the UK for iOS and Android devices.Miitomo is about you - answering questions about yourself and discussing your answers with others. You can also customise your Mii avatar with all sorts of clothing.The in-app store has … | Continue reading
Where next for StarCraft 2? Back to an ancient promise, I think. Back to StarCraft: Ghost, the stealth-action console title that never was. Because how to take what's great about StarCraft and shift genres like that? Maybe the solution is simple: reverse it. Bring the Ghost to St … | Continue reading
One of the more surprising moments of last night's Uncovered: Final Fantasy 15 event was footage of the game's car sprouting wings.Don't believe us? Here you go:You can read live reaction to Square Enix's press and fan conference from Aoife, who was over in LA for the occasion, b … | Continue reading
I am a tiny person, a few inches tall, and I sit in Shuhei Yoshida's enormous, outstretched hand. The cheerful Sony executive gently holds me aloft on a sta… | Continue reading
Nintendo marketing employee Alison Rapp, the target of a persistent online hate campaign, has been dismissed from the company. Rapp revealed she had been fi… | Continue reading
When Adr1ft was announced at the end of 2014, the initial reports immediately compared it to Alfonso Cuarón's spatially dazzling thriller Gravity. At first glance this is not an unfair comparison. Both are near-future space adventures which are aesthetically similar, blending the … | Continue reading
Frozen Synapse developer Mode 7 has revealed its first game as a publisher with SMAC Games' isometric action affair Tokyo 42.Due in 2017, Tokyo 42 looks to combine the open-world mayhem of the first Grand Theft Auto with Hitman's stealth and the cutesy Japanese aesthetic of somet … | Continue reading
Far Cry Primal is getting an all new super difficult Survival Mode upon its next update on 12th April.This new mode will make things much, much harder - though its ruleset can be applied to any difficulty should you wish. As detailed on the Ubisoft Blog, it will offer permadeath, … | Continue reading
It's been nearly three years since Microsoft said that retail Xbox Ones would also function as dev kits, but that dreams is finally being realised this summ… | Continue reading
NightCry, the survival-horror spiritual successor to Clock Tower by that series' creator Hifumi Kono, is out now for PC on Steam and Playism.Priced at £18.99 / $24.99, this point-and-click affair follows the exploits of a woman on a haunted cruise ship.The game toggles between ex … | Continue reading
The PS4-exclusive remake of Shadow of the Beast will launch on 17th May, developer Heavy Spectrum has announced.The vicious sci-fi action-adventure follows a freed slave fighter named Aarbron as he tackles the hazards of the strange, beautiful world of Karamoon. Heavy Spectrum is … | Continue reading
You can do the Carlton dance in Destiny. And now you can do the Carlton dance in the new Doom.Eurogamer video supremo Ian Higton has dipped his toes into the Doom closed beta and uncovered four taunts, one of which is the Carlton dance made famous in TV show The Fresh Prince of B … | Continue reading
A final Fantasy 15 demo is due tomorrow, it has been revealed.The announcement was expected to go live tonight around 3am UK time when Square Enix kicks off a press conference about the highly anticipated title. But then some early images and trailers leaked, via Gematsu, and now … | Continue reading
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PlayStation Plus' Instant Game Collection - i.e. free games for subscribers - has been revealed for April.On 5th April PS Plus subscribers will gain access to Zombi, i.e. the PS4 version of Zombi U. PS4 owners will also receive the team-based space shooter RPG Dead Star, the new … | Continue reading
Sci-fi dogfighting classic Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D is now available via Steam, priced £6.99.The first of three Star Wars: Rogue Squadron projects from renowned developer Factor 5, this 1999 PC version has been dusted off by Disney as the company re-releases its old back cata … | Continue reading
The first two levels of TimeSplitters 2 are included as an Easter egg in Homefront: The Revolution.Siberia and Chicago are both playable via an arcade cabinet hidden in Homefront's version of Philadelphia, which has been invaded by North Korean troops.The arcade machine is locate … | Continue reading
It took me a long time to work out how to deal with doors. And with corridors that had a kink in them. And with the elevator that lets me out on each floor, beckoning me to slaughter with a cheery ding. Bunker Punks looks and moves a lot like Doom, and it turns out that you have … | Continue reading
Rocket League launched in the summer of 2015 and seemed to be everywhere at once. If you owned a PlayStation 4 and enjoyed having a nice time, you were likely one of six million players who downloaded the game within its first month on PlayStation Plus. Or perhaps you purchased a … | Continue reading
Twitch is finally available as a standalone app on PlayStation 4 in the UK.The streaming service has been on Xbox One for ages. We downloaded the PS4 app just now and it is pretty much identical (which is a good thing, the Xbox One version is great).Previously you could only watc … | Continue reading
To understand rally and, by association, Dirt Rally, a British video game that conjures all of the long-form drama and complexity of the sport with unmatched brilliance, you must first disavow yourself of the notion that it's simply a case of reaching the finish line first. That' … | Continue reading
Rocket League, the game where FIFA meets cars, is adding a new mode.This time around it's cars and basketball.As you might expect, Psyonix's fresh Dunk House mode requires players to score goals - or points - via an aerial hoop.Read more… | Continue reading
Spicy Horse, the Shanghai-based studio founded by American McGee, has cut its staff down to a core team.Job losses earlier this week have now been confirmed by McGee via Twitter, following an earlier report on Chinese social media site Weibo that Spicy Horse had closed completely … | Continue reading
An EA marketing survey detailing Mass Effect: Andromeda has leaked online.The questionnaire provides facts about BioWare's upcoming space shooter sequel, then asks how likely it is you would buy the game after hearing them.Here's the opening blurb:Read more… | Continue reading
Ryuichi 'Woshige' Shigeno had been waiting for more than a decade to fight Ken-ichi 'Ogawazato' Ogawa on a tournament stage when he heard that he'd drawn, as he puts it today, the "match of his dreams." When he was 13-years-old, Shigeno played in his first Japanese national video … | Continue reading
Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor 2 seems like it's a thing that's happening as the title was leaked via a stuntwoman's curriculum vitae.As discovered by NerdLeaks, the actress listed her role as "stunt/acting" for the yet-to-be-announced title and noted Blur as the employer. Blur S … | Continue reading
We've seen plenty of Overwatch on the PC - thanks to the ongoing beta - but Blizzard's class-based shooter is also set to launch on both the PS4 and Xbox One in just under two months. So how exactly do those console versions compare?I had some hands-on time with the PS4 and Xbox … | Continue reading
The Xbox One's backwards compatible list has just been bolstered by Left 4 Dead 2.Yesterday the service received a few other titles such as Soul Caliber HD, Halo Wars and The King of Fighters '98 Ultimate Match.Fans have been clamouring for a Left 4 Dead 3 since Valve's sequel la … | Continue reading
Fallout 4's extra hard Survival Mode enters beta today on Steam and Bethesda has provided a full breakdown of everything this new challenge mode changes.… | Continue reading
Years after its release, I thought I'd seen everything you could do in SNES classic Super Mario World.But now, someone has programmed Super Mario World from within the game - while playing it - so it transforms into a completely different and entirely functioning other game, Flap … | Continue reading
Valve has shut down an exploit which allowed games to be released on Steam without any kind of verification. Aware of the loophole, a coder… | Continue reading
Killer Instinct is a fighting game that requires expert timing and split second reactions to succeed online. Oh and sight. You need to see what's going on on your screen to win. Right?Wrong."Sightless Kombat" is a completely blind gamer who in January hit the "Killer" rank in the … | Continue reading
Miitomo, Nintendo's first mobile app, launches in the UK and across Europe this Thursday, 31st March.The free-to-play app arrived in Japan earlier this month and racked up more than a million downloads.Miitomo allows Mii characters to meet and share discussions, fuelled by answer … | Continue reading
Yesterday Capcom released an update for fighting game Street fighter 5 that paves the way for tomorrow's addition of new character Alex and the opening of the in-game shop.Fans took the opportunity to dig into the fresh game code and uncovered new alternate costumes. They're coll … | Continue reading
Nintendo has confirmed the Link's Awakening character playable in Hyrule Warriors: it's Marin.She's available in this summer's Link's Awakening Pack, for both 3DS and Wii U versions of the game.Nintendo has yet to reveal her final character design but has released this official c … | Continue reading
As expected, Capcom's patched out Chun-Li's ridiculous boob physics from Street Fighter 5.In February we reported on a "bug" that sent Chun-Li's boobs bouncing all over the place.Oddly, Chun-Li's boobs only bounced around when you picked her as player two during character select. … | Continue reading
The next Call of Duty will feature a radical departure for the series - it's set in space.2016's Call of Duty will offer space combat between warring sci-fi groups in the far flung future.Previous entries in the series such as Advanced Warfare and Black Ops 3 have strayed into th … | Continue reading
It's pretty rare that the moment an entire video game genre was conceived can be pinpointed to the second. But David Brevik, lead programmer, designer and co-creator of Diablo, did just that during an anecdote-packed postmortem session at the Game Developers Conference earlier th … | Continue reading
Microsoft has added another three Xbox 360 games to the Xbox One's backwards compatibility list: Halo Wars, SoulCalibur 2 HD Online and King of Fighters '98.The addition of Halo Wars has been long in the making - preview programme members have been testing it for a while.Other ga … | Continue reading
Sony has floated the possibility of PlayStation VR coming to PC. Masayasu Ito, Sony executive vice president, PlayStation project division manager and software design department head revealed in a Nikkei interview that the firm is looking to expand in a variety of areas.Ito noted … | Continue reading
What if Alan Wake's pulpy main character and shlocky story were a 1980s LucasArts adventure game?Remedy's cult classic fits the genre perfectly, as demonstrated in an authentic-feeling 2D take which has popped up on YouTube.Titled Alan Lake, the game is a loving parody of the ori … | Continue reading