EVE Online has added a new mini-game that crowdsources players to assist in real world science.Entitled Project Discovery, the new feature is based around identifying patterns of protein distribution in human cells. The Sisters of EVE project lead, Professor Lundberg, will guide … | Continue reading
Anarchy's Children, the first DLC pack for XCOM 2, comes out 17th March.If you're waiting for something storydriven, this isn't the DLC for you. But let's be honest, it's much more important than that. We're talking soldier customisation, folks.Featuring over 100 new "exotic" hai … | Continue reading
The Division players have hit a bottleneck in the game's beginning sections, in an area where lots of other players gather.We wrote about this area yesterday and advised how to get past players who are griefing by blocking its entrance and exit doorways.But people are still havin … | Continue reading
Sony has added 22 games to its PlayStation Now subscription streaming service.Now available is the Uncharted trilogy, Journey, Flow and Flower, and more Ratchet & Clank and God of War games.Here's the list of 22 games added today:Read more… | Continue reading
The Doom closed beta runs from 31st March to 3rd April 2016, Bethesda has announced.That's for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.The beta lets people try out Team Deathmatch and the new Warpath mode on two maps: Heatwave and Infernal. It's available only to those who bought Wolfenst … | Continue reading
Editor's note: This is an early impressions piece based on our first two days playing The Division. We're looking to have our full review up early next week.A tourist can get more of a bead on a city in their first few hours than those who've lived there for years, Bill Burroughs … | Continue reading
Kinect Sports developer Rare - the British studio Microsoft did not decide to close this week - has an update for its fans.The studio has released a video i… | Continue reading
Released this week on Steam Early Access, The Culling is a brand new take on the recent craze for Battle Royale / Hunger Games inspired modes in survival games. While fun to play, The Culling could still benefit from a lot of work. Graphically it's quite similar to Ark: Survival … | Continue reading
Part-way through a new trailer montaging free Star Wars Battlefront content we're told something called Hutt Contracts are coming soon. The announcement is followed by a clip of Jabba the Hutt presenting hologram projections of guns, before the words "unlock new gear" flash on sc … | Continue reading
A nifty new emulator lets you play NES games in 3D - sort of.It's still pretty rough, but the idea behind the software works in practice. Footage posted to Reddit shows NES classics Super Mario Bros. 3, Mega Man and Contra running with 3D-converted visuals.The emulator appears to … | Continue reading
A computer has just beaten the world champion of Go.Google's DeepMind AlphaGo program beat South Korea's Lee Se-dol in the first of a series of games in Seoul, the BBC reports.It's been described as a landmark victory for AI, which had struggled with the 3000-year-old Chinese gam … | Continue reading
Below is the first footage (non live-stream) of fan-made Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic reboot Apeiron. It shows the old 2003 role-playing game brought visually and impressively up to date in Unreal Engine 4.YouTuber MrMattyPlays recorded and shared the footage having bee … | Continue reading
Sony has added a new health and safety notice to the PlayStation 4, and in the process updated its guidance for virtual reality headset use by children.Reddit user KGrizzly spotted a new virtual reality safety notice had been added in the 3.5 beta firmware health and safety secti … | Continue reading
Splatoon and Mario Maker, two of Nintendo's biggest Wii U games, get shiny new updates today.Mario Maker gains a half dozen new items, including screen-filling Skewers (shake a Thwomp to make one appear) and Keys, allowing you to create more complicated levels (shake a P-Switch t … | Continue reading
On 4th April 2013, Adam Orth, a creative director at Microsoft Game Studios, walked through the front door of his home in Seattle and turned off his mobile… | Continue reading
Side-scrolling Souls-like Salt & Sanctuary, the latest game by Ska Studios (The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile, Charlie Murder), is coming to PS4 on 15th March.Vita and PC versions are expected to follow at a later date.The release date was noted on the PlayStation Blog where it was a … | Continue reading
IO Interactive's popular Hitman franchise was adapted into a big budget real-life interactive experience.Production company Realm Pictures, who you may remember from last year's incredible Chatroulette-based Real Life First Person Shooter, was hired by IO to comprise a scenario t … | Continue reading
Amazon Japan now ships games overseas. As spotted by Twitter user Hadler, then tested by many NeoGAF members, this opens up all sorts of che… | Continue reading
Free-to-play fighting game Rising Thunder, the in-development title by former Capcom "special combat advisor" and the face of Street Fight Seth Killian, is being shuttered on 18th March as developer Radiant Entertainment has been acquired by League of Legends studio Riot Games.Ki … | Continue reading
In 2014 game developer and special effects wizard David OReilly created a mountain simulator and for his next trick he's letting you inject consciousness into all sorts of inanimate objects with the upcoming PS4 game Everything."In Everything - every single thing is a playable ch … | Continue reading
Turn-based strategy infiltration game Invisible, Inc. is coming to PS4 on 19th April, developer Klei Entertainment has announced.It will cost $19.99 (about… | Continue reading
Ubisoft has snuck one of its own development studios in the midst of midtown Manhattan in its latest post-apocalyptic adventure The Division.As you can see in Ian's video below, the Ubisoft Manhattan office contains plenty of artwork and decorations from Grow Home and a poster fo … | Continue reading
Day of the Tentacle Remastered is set for a 22nd March release on PS4, Vita and PC.You can pre-order it on GOG for 10 per cent off, bringing the price to £9.99 rather than the usual £10.99. Doing so grants you some snazzy wallpapers.It's also available to pre-order on the North A … | Continue reading
Gears of War 4 is set 25 years after the events of Gears of War 3 and features three new playable characters, one of whom is Marcus Fenix's son.Microsoft snapped up the latest Game Informer cover reveal and the US magazine has first dibs on a raft of details.Marcus Fenix's son is … | Continue reading
The future of Ruffian's Hollowpoint looks troubled as the studio's partnership with publisher Paradox has fallen apart.Ruffian, developer of Crackdown 2, announced Hollowpoint in 2014 as part of Sony's Gamescom conference. It was billed as a co-op tactical action game that rekind … | Continue reading
Valkyria Chronicles Remastered comes out on PlayStation 4 on 17th May, Sega has announced.The remake of the much-loved PS3 turn-based strategy RPG includes… | Continue reading
Alienation, the twin-stick sci-fi shooter from Resogun developer Housemarque, comes out on PlayStation 4 on 26th April.Housemarque released a short gameplay video, below, that shows Alienation looks like it's coming along pretty well. Plus, lovely explosions.Alienation features t … | Continue reading
Total War: Warhammer has been delayed by a month. It's now due out 24th May."This could be the best Total War game we've ever made. We don't want to rush it." explained Mike Simpson, Total War creative director.The reason for the delay is a little unclear, although Simpson sugges … | Continue reading
This one's been a long time coming. Last year, we reviewed Intel's Skylake-based Core i7 6700K and lauded its brutally fast gaming performance, where its combination of architectural improvements plus higher levels of memory bandwidth translated into tangibly faster, smoother gam … | Continue reading
A free content drop has landed for Star Wars Battlefront. It's dubbed the March Update and is rolling out now on all platforms (although it isn't available for us in the UK on PlayStation 4 yet).In the update are a new single-player/co-op Mission and a new multiplayer map.The new … | Continue reading
One budding builder has made a startling discovery in Prison Architect and found a hidden 3D mode in the game. It, as you might expect, turns the top-down world 3D, allowing you to zoom right down into the corridors as if you were standing next to the, um, hovering, triangular gu … | Continue reading
Frogwares, the developer of Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments, has revealed The Sinking City, which it describes as an open-world investigation Lovecraftian game."It's bigger than what we've ever made and we feel it's the right next step for us, bringing the investigations … | Continue reading
The Division is now officially available to buy in shops, and as such the game's microtransaction packs are also live.Ubisoft has wobbled on what it's actually calling these packs - DLC? microtransactions? add-ons? - but not wavered on the fact that all Division microtransactions … | Continue reading
Children are inherently monstrous.They pull each other's hair, torment kittens, damage property with reckless abandon - all without a tremor of shame. They operate on whimsy, bouncing from joy to malevolence at the drop of a toy, caught up in a whirlwind of new experiences and in … | Continue reading
Rock Band 4 developer Harmonix is now working with video game peripheral creator PDP as its new co-publisher. Previously the music game studio was collaborating with Mad Catz.According to an FAQ about the partnership, PDP's new peripherals won't ship until autumn. But don't worry … | Continue reading
BioWare senior editor Cameron Harris is departing from Mass Effect: Andromeda and the video game industry at large come mid-April.Harris made the announcement on Twitter with the following series of tweets:"I've decided to exit the video-game industry to return to Seattle for new … | Continue reading
The Division is getting three paid DLC expansions, though it turns out only the first two of these have 30-day Xbox exclusivity.As detailed on the Ubisoft Blog, the first paid expansion, Underground, tasks players with tracking down enemies in what's ostensibly a new map of subwa … | Continue reading
Multiplayer competitive platformer Ultimate Chicken Horse is out now for PC, Mac and Linux via Steam.The party game tasks up to four players to collaborate on building a stage, with each person picking one piece of scenery to add to the level. The goal is to make the stage challe … | Continue reading
Descent's original creators at Revival Productions have released a playable demo of their upcoming "six-degrees-of-freedom" shooter Overload.This spiritual successor to Descent launched a Kickstarter campaign last month, though it's barely over halfway towards its $300k goal with … | Continue reading
The Assassin's Creed movie won't be out until 21st December, but it's reportedly already greenlit a sequel.According to The Tracking Board, New Regency has already signed with producers Jean-Julien Baronnet from Ubisoft Motion Pictures, Frank Marshall through his Kennedy-Marshall … | Continue reading
Rebellion is prepping an all-new Sniper Elite, with the fourth instalment in the World War 2 series coming to PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One later this year. Set in Italy in 1943, the new Sniper Elite makes a break from the last generation of hardware, offering up larger maps in … | Continue reading
Carmageddon: Max Damage arrives on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in the UK on Friday, 3rd June.Max Damage was previously announced for PC as well, but there's no mention of when that version will launch.You should know what to expect from a Carmageddon game by now: bloody racing and … | Continue reading
Microsoft has announced plans to shutter Lionhead Studios in the UK.The developer's Xbox One and Windows 10 game Fable Legends has been canned.Danish studio Press Play is also gone. It created Max and the Curse of Brotherhood and Kalimba.Read more… | Continue reading
Ubisoft has seemingly kept one rather substantial secret about The Division up its sleeves prior to the launch, with a nice surprise waiting for players in their first moments with the game. Needless to say, should you want to go in unspoiled you should turn away now. The opening … | Continue reading
Remedy is still actively discussing a sequel to 2010's Alan Wake, and is keen to return to the world of fictional horror writer. The Finnish studio's desire to make a follow-up to the Xbox 360 original has been an open secret for years, and the recent trademarking of 'Alan Wake R … | Continue reading
Destiny players may recognise something very familiar in The Division - a Light level system for when you pass the game's main level cap.Hit The Division's soft level cap of 30 and you'll still be able to progress your character further by picking up top-level gear.You will then … | Continue reading
Overwatch could be set to launch on the 24th May, according to a leaked ad campaign from IGN. Reddit user 'Deadpoolthegreat' spotted the mistake earlier this morning, grabbing screenshots before it was hastily pulled from the site.Alongside the release date itself, the ad promise … | Continue reading
The Division features at least 26 missions in its main campaign, according to data mined from the game via a new leak.Ubisoft's online shooter launches tomorrow, but the game can now be pre-loaded.A user who picked through The Division's files has posted numerous details of the g … | Continue reading