Assassin's Creed Origins has confirmed, once and for all, it takes place in the same shared universe as fellow Ubisoft series Watch Dogs.The theory both series are connected is not new. Ubisoft has played with the idea before, and slipped references to each into the others' games … | Continue reading
Overwatch fans learnt quite a lot from this year's Blizzcon announcements. We now know the story behind Reinhardt's scarred eye, that we will soon be seeing a new support hero and map and that Jeff Kaplan continues to be the nicest man in games development. But at the Overwatch A … | Continue reading
A note from the editor: Jelly Deals is a deals site launched by our parent company, Gamer Network, with a mission to find the best bargains out there. Look out for the Jelly Deals roundup of reduced-price games and kit every Saturday on Eurogamer.Gaming headsets are still big bus … | Continue reading
Like Destiny's Tower, Call of Duty WW2's Headquarters is a space designed for players to hang out, emote, form groups and acquire loot. It is built for 48 players to inhabit at once.Except, for much of this weekend, it lay empty.Call of Duty WW2 developer Sledgehammer Games was f … | Continue reading
The latest Last of Us 2 trailer hit the headlines for its eyebrow-raising, eye-wincing levels of violence. So it was easy to miss new clues to the game's lo… | Continue reading
A note from the editor: Jelly Deals is a deals site launched by our parent company, Gamer Network, with a mission to find the best bargains out there. Look out for the Jelly Deals roundup of reduced-price games and kit every Saturday on Eurogamer.It's that time again, folks. We'v … | Continue reading
Call of Duty WW2 has stormed the UK chart, with sales up significantly on last year. WW2 launch sales were up by an impressive 57 per cent o… | Continue reading
Hit smartphone app Pokémon Go has refreshed its list of in-game raids for the first time since the activity was introduced at the start of the summer.… | Continue reading
Security are scratching their heads over how to search them. Cosplay is one thing, but the two sword-toting armour-clad cosplayers strutting proudly toward the Battersea Evolution venue are something else entirely. One's wearing a standard but nevertheless impressive suit of armo … | Continue reading
If you played World of Warcraft when it launched you'll remember world PvP. You'll remember the impromptu battles at Tarren Mill between Horde and Alliance, or Stranglethorn Vale or Booty Bay. Unorganised fun that echoed the Orcs vs. Humans essence of Warcraft as a real-time stra … | Continue reading
Editor's note: Once a month we invite the wonderful Gareth Damian Martin, editor of Heterotopias, to show us what proper writing about games looks like before we shoo him away for making the rest of us look bad. If you want to read more in-depth critical writing, you can find the … | Continue reading
A note from the editor: Jelly Deals is a deals site launched by our parent company, Gamer Network, with a mission to find the best bargains out there. Look… | Continue reading
Invented languages have been a part of fantasy storytelling at least since Tolkien wrote his Middle-Earth stories. By now we're all used to the idea that one way to make your imagined world feel real but unfamiliar is to invent a new language for at least some of its inhabitants … | Continue reading
Eurogamer has become quite used to attending Blizzcon and asking the World of Warcraft team about their stance on Legacy servers. We're not so used to Blizzard actually having anything to say on that front.That all changed at this morning's opening ceremony as executive producer … | Continue reading
Snipperclips will finally support Switch's amply sized Pro Controller and Joy-Con grip, thanks to a free update due next week.Snipperclips launched alongside Switch earlier this year, and its delightful multiplayer puzzle action - based around paper-cutting and shape manipulation … | Continue reading
Chinese free-to-play publisher Perfect World Entertainment has shut down Torchlight developer Runic Games, and laid off the majority of staff at Gigantic studio Motiga."I'm sorry to say that today will be Runic's last day open", Runic's studio head Marsh Lefler said in a statemen … | Continue reading
The seventh World of Warcraft expansion, Battle for Azeroth, has been announced.The headline features are Allied Races, level 120 (double the original level cap I'll have you know), Warfronts and a new Kul Tiras zone.Exactly what Allied Races and Warfronts are we don't yet know, … | Continue reading
Blizzard has actually done it - official vanilla World of Warcraft legacy servers are coming. World of Warcraft Classic is going to be a thing.It's a bigger project than we probably realise so Blizzard said it's going to take some time. How long, we don't know. But it will be the … | Continue reading
It's a bumper night for Overwatch at BlizzCon 2017 - there's both a new hero and a new map coming!The new hero is Moira, a support healer. She can teleport - an ability called Fade - and she produces beams and orbs that heal and drain. Her ultimate looks like a combined super-bea … | Continue reading
Blizzard has announced this year's final HearthStone expansion, Kobolds & Catacombs.It is, as you might imagine, themed around perilous underground dungeoneering and will add a total of 135 new cards.One of the biggest new card features will be legendary weapons for all nine clas … | Continue reading
Blizzard has announced that its phenomenally popular real-time strategy game StarCraft 2 will go free-to-play from November 14th.Once this happens, the full Wings of Liberty single-player story campaign will be free to everyone, and those that already own Wings of Liberty will ge … | Continue reading
The team behind PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has apologised for "the inconvenience caused by the cheaters" and assured fans of the hot Battle Royale title the "development team is doing their best to detect and ban those who use cheats in a more proactive manner".The apology was … | Continue reading
Assassin's Creed Origins is a beautiful game, and one made for sharing via its fantastic photo mode tool.Yesterday, Ubisoft added a suite of extra photo mode options to Origins so you can show off its version of Egypt with an even more varied range of effects. But, already, we've … | Continue reading
There's been a BlizzCon 2017 leak ahead of the opening ceremony this evening. Overwatch character Hanzo, and World of Warcraft dragon lady Alexstrasza, are heading to Heroes of the Storm, according the a screenshot of the Chinese HOTS website on ResetEra.Hanzo's arrival means you … | Continue reading
One of the more irritating facets of game consoles' generational cycle is the scorched-earth approach to peripheral compatibility. Since the business began, platform holders and their partners in the peripheral business have used new console generations as an excuse to get gamers … | Continue reading
Upcoming Switch exclusive Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is getting a Nintendo Direct presentation next week. Nintendo will detail its role-playing game during a dedicated video stream, to be held on Tuesday, 7th November at 2pm UK time.You'll be able to watch via Nintendo's YouTube chan … | Continue reading
One year on from the release of the PlayStation 4 Pro, the fortunes of Sony's 'supercharged' console have varied. While titles like Gran Turismo Sport and Horizon Zero Dawn have demonstrated just how well console titles can scale to 4K HDR displays, too many games are delivering … | Continue reading
Activision has not yet said how many copies Destiny 2 has sold, but in the company's latest financial results briefing last night it revealed an eye-opening… | Continue reading
Earlier this week we reported that in Call of Duty: WW2, loot boxes drop from the sky onto Normandy beach and open in front of other players. It looks like this:It turns out the game has a mission that tasks you with watching people open the loot boxes.Call of Duty: WW2 has Order … | Continue reading
Bubsy and his platforming ilk remind me in a strange, tangled way of high-frequency trading. This is the dodgy Wall Street manoeuvre, as detailed in Michael Lewis' Flash Boys, in which money men exploit their speedy internet connections and clever algorithms to spot your buy orde … | Continue reading
If you plan on downloading games onto your fancy new Xbox One X, be ready for some truly gargantuan file sizes.I've been downloading games on our office Xbox One X for a couple of weeks now, and some of the sizes for games I've seen are truly eye-watering.Fuelled by 4K Xbox One X … | Continue reading
Surgeon Simulator and I Am Bread developer Bossa Studios is taking a unique approach to the fate of its next project, Decksplash.After a year in development, Decksplash's future will be decided by a week-long free trial on Steam. If 100,000 people play the game it will be release … | Continue reading
Octodad: Dadliest Catch is propelling its way onto the Nintendo Switch on 9th November.Developer Young Horses Games confirmed the tentacular indie title will make its way onto the Switch, hitting the Nintendo eshop in both North America and Europe next week.Initially released in … | Continue reading
For Honor Season Four starts on 14th November and it adds two new heroes to Ubisoft's multiplayer-focused melee combat game.The Order & Havoc update adds the Aramusha, a ronin-like Hybrid for the Samurai faction, and the Shaman, a lightning-fast Assassin for the Vikings.The Aramu … | Continue reading
Games Done Quick has unveiled the full schedule for its 2018 Awesome Games Done Quick charity speed-running event.Awesome Games Done Quick will run from January 7th to January 14th next year, and all money raised will go to the Prevent Cancer Foundation.Over 150 speed-runs will b … | Continue reading
Cult classic murder mystery Deadly Premonition is now backwards-compatible on Xbox One.That, according to the few moments I just spent cutting and pasting games into a spreadsheet, now brings the number of Xbox One compatible Xbox 360 games up to 452.Directed by Hidetaka "Swery" … | Continue reading
Superb rhythm game Voez is getting another free update on Switch next week, and it will add 14 new songs to the game's already extensive track roster.Voez's 1.3 update is due to arrive next Thursday, November 9th, and publisher Flyhigh Works has revealed two of the 14 incoming tr … | Continue reading
American Truck Simulator will hit the open road and head to New Mexico when its latest major expansion launches next week, on Thursday, November 9th.New Mexico is the second major expansion to release for American Truck Simulator, following on from last year's Arizona DLC. It bri … | Continue reading
Bandai Namco has put out a new video for promising Arc System Works developed fighting game Dragon Ball Fighterz that gives us our best look at the story mode yet.Here's the setup: a troop of clones appears and warriors suddenly fall unconscious. It's all about Android 21 and And … | Continue reading
Ubisoft released Monopoly for Nintendo Switch this week, and players have discovered it has pretty horrendous loading times.Players have reported loading times of between five and 10 minutes for everything as simple as loading the main menu to loading a game.Monopoly, which costs … | Continue reading
There's a new patch for Assassin's Creed Origins on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One which improves the game's excellent photo mode. New photo effects in the… | Continue reading
Pokémon Ultra Sun and Moon sees the return of Team Rocket, the series' original baddies.You'll be able to fight against Rocket boss Giovanni and his Mewtwo, first seen in the Pokémon anime two decades ago.Re-named as Team Rainbow Rocket, Giovanni's crew includes the bosses of oth … | Continue reading
Late last month Jeff Kaplan announced big changes to how we watch Overwatch eSports, which can be a messy and confusing viewing experience. He talked about team uniforms, instant replays and an overhaul to the spectator user interface, but the to-camera developer diary showed no … | Continue reading
Nintendo has trumpeted the success of Super Mario Odyssey by releasing new sales stats for its 3D platformer around the world. In Europe, Nintendo revealed Odyssey to be the fastest-selling Mario game ever released, beating previous record holder Super Mario Galaxy 2, released fo … | Continue reading
Lucas Pope turned down Uncharted 3. He found a seat at Naughty Dog during the development of the first Uncharted and stuck around for Uncharted 2, but when Drake's third outing rocked up, he left the studio because he wanted to experiment with smaller, weirder games. Those experi … | Continue reading
Telltale Games is bringing every episode of its The Walking Dead series to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in a single box, with new visual enhancements. The Walking Dead Collection includes seasons one, two and three of the celebrated survival horror story.Also included are mini-seri … | Continue reading
The environments of massive open-world games, particularly in recent years, have been rightly praised for their representation, scale and design accuracy. However, there are some gems at the other end of the spectrum - environments that make you feel cramped, tense and desperate … | Continue reading