Nintendo has countered a claim that it will cease Wii U production before the end of the year.The report, published yesterday by Japanese newspaper Nikkei, stated that the final Wii U would roll off the production line before 2016's end.Nintendo has now taken the unusual step of … | Continue reading
On December 12, 2015, Conor McGregor broke the record for the fastest knockout in a UFC title fight. It took just 13 seconds for the Irish featherweight to land the critical punch, flooring the incumbent champion, José Aldo, in less time than it takes to brew a cup of tea. The bo … | Continue reading
Fallout 4's long-awaited extra hard Survival Mode will launch on Steam beta next week, developer Bethesda teased on Twitter."Once it's out of PC beta it'll go to Steam release and we can submit for consoles," tweeted Bethesda vice president of marketing and PR Pete Hines.We previ … | Continue reading
EA has apologised for an oversight in EA Sports UFC 2 in which it gave a practicing Muslim fighter a Christian victory celebration.UFC fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov is a practicing Muslim, yet his avatar in EA Sports UFC 2 caps off certain victories by making the sign of the cross … | Continue reading
Hitman developer Io-Interactive is still navigating the waters of how to release a triple A game episodically and we've got some good news and bad news. The bad news first: the much touted Elusive Targets have been delayed until "closer to the planned release of the next episode" … | Continue reading
Star Ocean: Integrity & Faithlessness has been confirmed for a summer release in Europe and North America.The PS4-exclusive action-RPG follows the exploits of a man named Fidel who finds himself protecting a mysterious girl who's being hunted by unknown forces. Publisher Square E … | Continue reading
The Binding of Isaac developers Edmund McMillen and James Id have announced a new game entitled The Legend of Bum-boMcMillen called the upcoming project a "turn based puzzle RPG type thingy thats randomly generated" in its announcement on The Binding of Isaac's blog.He noted that … | Continue reading
Stylish retro action-adventure Hyper Light Drifter is coming to PC, Mac and Linux on 31st March.There's even a Steam page set up and a glorious new trailer celebrating the impending launch.As for the PS4 and Xbox One versions, those are set for spring. Vita and Wii U versions wil … | Continue reading
Telltale is developing an extra three episodes of its popular Minecraft: Story Mode series.Story Mode's fifth part - originally announced as the last - will launch on 29th March and set up three more episodes due later this year.Telltale's trio of extra adventures will come as pa … | Continue reading
On the 20th anniversary of a game like Resident Evil there are going to be a hundred articles about Jill sandwiches, bad acting, and all those other encrusted details that accumulate over time. Gaming is a technology-led medium and so, as time passes, such easy trivialities come … | Continue reading
It's going from bad to worse for the UK video game development industry. After Microsoft closed down Lionhead, Sony has now closed down Driveclub developer Evolution.In a statement Sony said it would try to move some staff onto other projects, but redundancies are expected.Evolut … | Continue reading
Steam hit Stardew Valley has a new update today aimed at improving your in-game marriage.(Your real-life relationships? They're still up to you).Your Stardew spouse now has unique dialogue after marriage designed to better reflect each characters' personality.Read more… | Continue reading
Sega has finally confirmed Yakuza 0 for a European release, coming "early 2017".The crime gang prequel will launch exclusively for PlayStation 4, via physical and digital release.It's worth noting there's no English dub - you'll get the original Japanese voice over for full authe … | Continue reading
Rise of the Tomb Raider will receive Cold Darkness Awakened, its final slice of extra content, on the 29th March.That date applies to the Xbox and PC versio… | Continue reading
Fallout 4 is packed with stuff, including cool holotape games you can play on terminals. These holotape games are based on famous retro arcade games, such as Donkey Kong and Pitfall. Now, with the arrival of the Automatron add-on, a new holotape has been added to the mix.THERE MA … | Continue reading
Tyranny isn't the story of a village boy/girl thrust into greatness, embarking on some seemingly hopeless quest to avenge a loved one, recently slain at the hands of The Bad Guy. No, in Tyranny, The Bad Guy has already won. And you helped him."Not only were you on their side," sa … | Continue reading
BBC Sport's covering a FIFA tournament - and it's not going down well with its 5.39m followers on Twitter.Oliver Chesses, one of the UK's best FIFA players.… | Continue reading
The Resident Evil series turns 20 years old today. Capcom's survival horror franchise began with the Japanese launch of Resident Evil for PlayStation on 22n… | Continue reading
A beefy 8GB update rolls out for Star Wars Battlefront today (timings here) in preparation for - but not exclusively for - the paid Outer Rim content.Chief among the free new content available to all are new Hutt Contracts, which offer new weapons (the DL-18 and DT-12 pistols, an … | Continue reading
Scribblenauts: Fighting Words has been cancelled by publisher Warner Bros., with 45 staff at developer 5th Cell let go.Lead animator Tim Borrelli broke the news via Twitter last night, revealing he had been laid off a week ago in a first round of redundancies. Another wave of emp … | Continue reading
Surprise! The PlayStation Vita port of Firaxis' wonderful 2012 turn-based strategy game is out now.It popped up overnight on the PlayStation Store. There, XCOM: Enemy Unknown Plus costs £15.99 and weighs in at 2.2GB.Enemy Unknown Plus has yet to be announced by publisher 2K, but … | Continue reading
Today, the BBC finally hands out the Micro Bit, a small computer designed to encourage programming, to thousands of UK schoolchildren.The eye-catching initiative was announced in July last year, but only now are the tiny computers being sent out - later in the school year than or … | Continue reading
You can now buy the PlayStation 2 versions of Manhunt and Bully on PlayStation 4.The two Rockstar titles cost £11.99 apiece and weigh in at 2GB.Don't expect any shiny new visuals or extras for either - these are the same games you remember, years after each of their PS2 debuts sp … | Continue reading
Call of Duty: Black Ops 3's Nuketown map is now free to all players - four months after the game came out.The Nuketown Personalisation Pack is available to download on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It includes a Nuketown-themed weapon camo, three Nuketown-themed weapon reticles … | Continue reading
Lots of games compare themselves to Dark Souls these days. Why wouldn't they? From Software's instant classic began as a niche import with Demon's Souls before taking the world by storm and spreading its influence everywhere. "It's like Dark Souls with zombies" Ubisoft would say … | Continue reading
A Fallout 4 modder has created a mod that lets you play as everyone's favourite Commonwealth canine: Dogmeat.Dubbed Be The Dog, the mod by AbbaLovesyou on NexusMods actually lets you play as any dog in the Fallout 4 universe, be it a raider dog, feral vicious dog, or Dogmeat. But … | Continue reading
So I'm not sure if any of you have noticed, but Blizzard is pretty okay at this cinematic business. You know, I think they should probably make a movie or something.Overwatch has seen a little of this already, with a really impressive first trailer, and this is set to continue th … | Continue reading
Boxing game Punch Club has been pirated over 1.5m times, publisher tiny Build has announced.That sounds bad - and it is - but (but!) the game has also sold over 300k copies, which isn't bad at all.The publisher wrote a detailed blog post analysing the stats between piracy vs unit … | Continue reading
Apple has announced the iPhone SE, a new four-inch iPhone. It's also announced a new 9.7-inch iPad Pro.Both will be available on 31st March with pre-orders beginning 24th March.First, let's go over the iPhone SE.Read more… | Continue reading
Ubisoft has revealed full details of the first significant update for The Division, with the headline tweaks looking set to make the Dark Zone a more tantal… | Continue reading
Deadlight is getting the remastered treatment with Deadlight: Directors Cut, publisher Deep Silver has announced.It's due 21st June on Xbox One, PS4 and PC. This marks Deadlight's PlayStation debut.The price has already been set at $19.99 (about £14).Read more… | Continue reading
The original Assassin's Creed is now available to play on Xbox One via the console's backwards compatibility support.Ubisoft's open-world stabathon is joined by GRID 2 and Dark Void in the latest update to Microsoft's back-compat catalogue.If you haven't played the first Assassin … | Continue reading
Doom's six multiplayer modes have been revealed ahead of its 13th May launch on PS4, Xbox One and PS4.There's a new trailer showing snippets of each, while the Bethesda Blog offers a detailed rundown on all of them. Here's our own summary:Team Deathmatch - Self-explanatory. Rack … | Continue reading
The Division players have discovered a technique for quickly farming Phoenix Credits, the open world shooter's end-game currency.Phoenix Credits can be exchanged for blueprints to some of the best guns in the game. They're also hard to come by.But there's an area where Phoenix Cr … | Continue reading
Quantum Break is a curious game. Curious because, even this close to launch, no-one is one hundred percent sure what it actually is or how its various elements are supposed to work. What I've gathered from previews thus far is that it's part game, part TV show, but the time has f … | Continue reading
Pokémon Go is an in-development augmented reality smartphone app from the people behind the popular Google Ingress.The Pokémon Company is yet to officially unveil any footage of it in action, but what appears to be the first gameplay has now been posted online.A caveat - the foot … | Continue reading
Day of the Tentacle isn't just arguably the best adventure ever made, but the Platonic Form of the genre in all its puzzle-solving, dialogue-tree ripping, twisted brain logic joy. It might not be the most exciting, nor has it the best story - it lacks the drama that intersperses … | Continue reading
Indie adventure game Firewatch has ignited 500,000 sales since its launch one month ago.A sun-drenched tale of survival and its human cost, Firewatch is the first game from San Francisco-based startup Campo Santo and the first to be published by software company Panic. The publis … | Continue reading
We've been keeping an eye on Planet Coaster for a while now. Frontier certainly seems confident that its return to the park simulation genre can cater to both coaster fanatics and deep sim fans alike, but what about people with a chronic lack of common sense? Despite being remark … | Continue reading
Factor 5 is best remembered for its excellent Star Wars: Rogue Squadron series for N64 and GameCube.But it was also once working on a Superman game which would marry the studio's expertise in aerial controls with the DC universe and the Man of Steel's many comic book foes.Code-na … | Continue reading
N64 classic Star Fox 64 swoops onto the Wii U Virtual Console this Thursday.The game's regular price is £8.99, but Star Fox 64 is discounted to £4.49 for it… | Continue reading
343's released footage of Warzone Firefight, the upcoming cooperative mode for Halo 5.Warzone Firefight takes the cool Warzone mode in Halo 5 and splices it with the much-loved Firefight mode from Halo 3: ODST. Warzone Firefight sees up to eight players working together to comple … | Continue reading
Microsoft wants to know if you'd sell your Xbox digital games for 10 per cent of the purchase price.The question popped up in a customer survey sent to Xbox owners, which surfaced on Reddit:"If the console digital games store for the console you owned offered customers the option … | Continue reading
We had GamesMaster in the nineties. Thumb Bandits in the noughties. Now, in the twenty-tens, we've got Go 8 Bit.Comedian, TV presenter and Metal Gear Solid lover Dara O Briain hosts Go 8 Bit, a new six-part series for Dave based on the live Edinburgh show of the same name.Not hea … | Continue reading
I've lost count of how many times I've shuffled hotbars of skills and spells in persistent online fantasy worlds. What I want is my abilities available on keys one-to-five, because those are the ones I can get to quickly from movement keys WASD. But there are never only five abil … | Continue reading
Hello, Eurogamers, and welcome to your weekly sampler of moving images and sounds from Outside Xbox. The latest Show of the Week salutes Hitman: No Subtitle… | Continue reading
Gears of War: Ultimate Edition is the first big PC game to be released exclusively as a Universal Windows Platform application and its problematic release highlights some of the key challenges Microsoft faces in moving forward with its storefront. In getting the game up and runni … | Continue reading
Some tensions never let up, even after well over 20 years. Do you remember the battle between Kick Off and Sensible Soccer? For most of us it was one of countless 90s playground spats - SNES vs. Mega Drive, Blur vs. Oasis - that's passed into the irrelevance of childhood memory. … | Continue reading