We've been on a mission over the last six months - to fully get to grips with the importance of the CPU in a gaming PC and that's involved benchmarking the lion's share of the processors on the market today, including a decent, representative proportion of the new Skylake line fr … | Continue reading
Here's a hot take that's both more than a little lukewarm and likely isn't all that controversial: I think I preferred Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes to its full-blown follow-up The Phantom Pain. When Konami first announced its plans for a smaller, splintered Metal Gear Solid 5 … | Continue reading
WildStar publisher NCSoft has let go of a number of staff from developer Carbine after canceling its plan to bring the sci-fi MMO to China.The company made the announcement on its official forum where it noted that it will continue "operating and updating WildStar as a live game … | Continue reading
Another Code: Two Memories, Hotel Dusk: Room 215 and Last Window: The Secret of Cape West director Taisuke Kanasaki has announced an upcoming 3DS detective game called Chase: Unsolved Cases Investigation Division.As reported by Gematsu (translating its official Japanese site), se … | Continue reading
What do Rocket League and Dying Light have in common? They're both multiplatform and they both have cars. That's not much, but it's enough for the developers of both games to team up and introduce crossover content with one another.In Dying Light: The Following, you can get dune … | Continue reading
EVE Online developer CCP Games is porting its Gear VR shooter Gunjack to PC on 28th March with Oculus Rift support.It will also be compatible with HTC Vive later this year.Priced at $9.99 (about £7), Gunjack places players on a gun turret for a deep space mining vessel that's bei … | Continue reading
EverQuest Next, the ambitious MMO by Daybreak Games (formerly Sony Online Entertainment), has been cancelled.The colossal MMO had been in development for years, and indeed our John Bedford played a build of it back in 2013. He came away from his EverQuest Next preview equal parts … | Continue reading
Hearthstone's first expansion for 2016, Whispers of the Old Gods, launches late April to early May, Blizzard has announced.Whispers of the Old Gods adds 134 new cards to the game, themed around the four titular Old Gods of the WarCraft universe: C'Thun - the only God to be named … | Continue reading
Recently announced strategy sequel Frozen Synapse 2 has revealed its first gameplay in the following trailer.This sequel to Mode 7's 2011 acclaimed turn-based tactics game is set in a procedurally-generated city where players can infiltrate any building they desire. Inspired by X … | Continue reading
In Play is a column taking a weekly sideways look at new game releases.This week, BAFTA announced the nominations for next month's Game Awards. All things considered, the institution has done a pretty good job of wrangling the mad diversity of the video game arts into a handful o … | Continue reading
Assassin's Creed 3 was leaked on a plane. Hearthstone's latest expansion was leaked via a painting on a brick wall.Now, the next Disney Infinity playset has been leaked via a packet of Kraft Macaroni & Cheese Dinner.It's for Finding Dory, Pixar's upcoming sequel to Finding Nemo w … | Continue reading
We wrote about the impressive real-life version of Hitman created for people to play earlier this week. But here is the real-life Hitman game being controlled by the most dangerous men in the UK - The Chuckle Brothers.Watch as your favourite childhood TV heroes become cold-bloode … | Continue reading
Blizzard has only gone and released an official patch for Diablo 2, a game that's 16 years old - and hasn't been patched in five years!The new patch - 1.14a phwoar - aims to get the old game running properly on newer operating systems. But there's a suggestion in a quote from Bli … | Continue reading
We've seen somecool Fallout: New Vegas mods over the years, but The Frontier may be the most ambitious yet.The Frontier takes place in Portland, Oregon, where the NCR and the Legion are fighting a war.What's cool about The Frontier is it's set in a brand new area similar in size … | Continue reading
Flame Over isn't just another roguelike - although it definitely is another roguelike. There are procedural environments, for sure, and there's the constant… | Continue reading
The end is in sight for the first week of what Ubisoft hopes, I'm sure, will be a long journey for a lot of people. I'm talking of course, about The Division, which this week has both proven to be Ubisoft's biggest launch and not without its problems. I've been pleasantly surpri … | Continue reading
Since its release this time last year, Cities: Skylines has sold over two million copies worldwide.Colossal Order's latest city builder has demolished sales records from launch, with many players welcoming it as a real alternative to 2013's disappointing SimCity reboot.Despite co … | Continue reading
It's been a brilliant financial year for CD Projekt, crowned by the release of The Witcher 3, a critical and commercial success that has propelled the Polish company to sales and revenue an order of magnitude higher than anything it's enjoyed before.Combined Witcher game sales - … | Continue reading
Hot on the heels of the addition of Arbiter from Halo and Rash from Battletoads to fighting game Killer Instinct comes word that General RAAM from Gears of War is set to make a playable appearance.Shoryuken reports General RAAM and Mira will join the game during season three, whi … | Continue reading
Microsoft's Kinect sensor has found itself at the centre of a major art world scandal.As reported by Hyperallergic, the drama began last month when a couple of artists allegedly used the Microsoft peripheral to scan the bust of Queen Nefertiti, a highly esteemed Egyptian artifact … | Continue reading
Halo and Destiny composer Marty O'Donnell has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a new musical project. Echoes of the First Dreamer is a "musical prequel" to Golem, O'Donnell's new PlayStation VR project at Seattle startup Highwire Games.The standalone symphony introduces mu … | Continue reading
Frontier has confirmed Elite Dangerous' official support for Oculus Rift in time for the virtual reality headset's launch later this month.Frontier will release an updated version of the space game that contains support for the latest version of Oculus rift for free. All existing … | Continue reading
For 20 years the trend in shmups has been to pack the screen with as many bullets as possible, but Raiden likes to play things a little differently. This, after all, is a series that helped shape the modern scrolling shooter as we understand it today, so why should it follow even … | Continue reading
Remember Nosgoth? The free-to-play competitive multiplayer action set within the Legacy of Kain universe? After over a year in Early Access, it's nearing launch.Nosgoth is the other game Rocket League developer Psyonix is working on. It's a team-based human versus vampire multipl … | Continue reading
Dark Souls 3's PC version will run at 60fps, publisher Bandai Namco confirmed on Twitter.To see if you've got a good enough kit to run it, check out the Dark Souls 3 PC system specs.In other Dark Souls news, Bandai Namco just awarded $10k to the winner of its Dark Souls lore vide … | Continue reading
Far Cry: Primal was February's top-selling game in US retail shops, according to chart-tracking group NPD.Interestingly, NPD noted that spin-off Far Cry: Primal had "greater sales than Far Cry 4 when adjusted for the number of days the games sold within their respective launch mo … | Continue reading
Procedurally-generated co-op action-RPG Moon Hunters has launched for PC on Steam.Announced in 2014, Moon Hunters became part of the Square Enix Collective after a very successful Kickstarter campaign saw developer Kitfox Games raise $178,986 Canadian dollars.Moon Hunter's unique … | Continue reading
Retro City Rampage DX, the enhanced port of Brian Provinciano's throwback to arcade games of yore, is out today on iOS devices.Priced at £3.99 / $4.99, the mobile version of Retro City Rampage includes the entire game, right down to all its mini-games and the anaglyphic 3D racer … | Continue reading
Toki Tori developer Two Tribes will be closing its doors this autumn, but not before releasing shmup Rive in September.So why shut down the studio when it still has one final game on the docket? According to Two Tribes, it's because they're "dinosaurs".The studio explained in a n … | Continue reading
Finally released into the wild after two beta tests, The Division fully opens its incredibly detailed recreation of New York City to the masses. Besides a few issues, the game seems to be holding up well. Online connections have been consistently stable for us, while in terms of … | Continue reading
XCOM 2 should now run better on your PC, thanks to its first major patch."The XCOM team has been working hard to improve performance, balance, and stability issues reported by our fans," explains the official blog post. "We will continue to improve the XCOM 2 experience with addi … | Continue reading
Zen Pinball is bringing its acclaimed franchise to Oculus Rift on 28th March with Pinball FX2 VR.This VR debut for the studio will include three tables: Mars, Secrets of the Deep and Epic Quest.Since it's set in VR, Zen has constructed a virtual "stunning beachside mansion" housi … | Continue reading
Sheltered, a post-apocalyptic management sim about a family in a fallout shelter, is coming to PS4, Xbox One, PC, Mac and Linux on 15th March, publisher Team17 has announced.Developed by the two-person team at Unicube after raising £30,148 on Kickstarter, Sheltered tasks players … | Continue reading
There will soon be yet another collectible card game vying for your attention, this time from EA and Plants vs. Zombies developer PopCap Games.Plants vs. Zombies: Heroes launches this year for mobile devices and once again pits the ever-warring plants against the undead.Your deck … | Continue reading
This doesn't happen every day: we have a couple of new opportunities to join our writing team here at Eurogamer. Both are working on the game guides that we introduced in 2014, and that we are now looking to expand on, improve, and integrate more closely with the rest of what we … | Continue reading
Capcom has lifted the lid on Alex, the first downloadable character for fighting game Street Fighter 5.The images, below, show off his new look. Alex, who first appeared in Street Fighter 3 in 1997, is a grappler, so focuses on an up close and personal style.As such, he has a hig … | Continue reading
With more than 67 million players logging in each month, League of Legends is the most popular video game in the world. Actually, that sentence doesn't even do it justice - those numbers are about two years out of date by now, and developer Riot Games claims today's figures are " … | Continue reading
Hearthstone's next major expansion has been leaked via a painting on a wall.Blizzard's collectible card battler is due for its next big expansion. The developer has scheduled a livestream event at 6pm tomorrow, 11th March, to detail "what's coming next for the game".But, 24 hours … | Continue reading
Hitman's Intro Pack hits Xbox One, PS4 and PC tomorrow, 11th March, offering the Paris map and two smaller prologue locations for $15 or £11.99. Already wea… | Continue reading
Editor's note: We will review the full season of Hitman once every episode has been released. But, as it is a systems-driven sandbox game, we feel that there is enough to go on in this initial release to warrant a full Eurogamer verdict.We play games to unwind, but how many of th … | Continue reading
The new Hitman game is out today... sort of. As you've no doubt heard, IO Interactive decided to split Hitman up into episodic chunks rather than release it all at once - a move that has proved divisive among the community. We'll get into the pros and cons of such an approach in … | Continue reading
You can pay $1200 for a ticket to see the Assassin's Creed movie - and get a limited-edition replica Spanish crossbow with it.The offer, available in the US as part of deal between Assassin's Creed creator Ubisoft and website Kernel, also comes with a digital copy of the film scr … | Continue reading
The Turing Test is the next first-person puzzler from Derby-based developer Bulkhead Interactive, the studio behind Pneuma: Breath of Life.The Turing Test is being developed using Unreal Engine 4. It's set for release on PC via Steam and on Xbox One in August.This time, Bulkhead … | Continue reading
Gears of War 4 is - currently - an Xbox One exclusive. But it sounds like that will change.In a video interview with Game Informer, Gears development chief Rod Fergusson was asked whether Gears of War 4 would come to the PC. His answer came with a smirk: "Possibly."It would, perh … | Continue reading
This year's BAFTA Game Awards include a whopping 10 nominations for Everybody's Gone to the Rapture.Rapture developer The Chinese Room is up for Artistic Achievement, Audio Achievement, British Game, Game Innovation, Music, Original Property, Story and two Performer awards, along … | Continue reading
Dead Island 2 is now being developed by British studio Sumo Digital. The zombie-killing sequel was previously in development at Spec Ops: Th… | Continue reading
The Division has sold more copies in 24 hours than any other game in Ubisoft's history.Ubisoft trumpeted the news in a blog post last night, but did not claim The Division had won the most sales of any new game in a new franchise in a 24 hour period - that record still belongs to … | Continue reading
Trippy neon rhythm game Thumper has been revealed for PS4 and Steam later this year with PlayStation VR support.The simple game puts players in control of a metallic beetle hurtling through a cylinder towards a maniacal giant head. Using only one analog stick and one button you m … | Continue reading