Bezier, despite the French title, lifted from the Renault employee Pierre Bézier, who in the 1960s helped teach computers how to draw curves, is a quintessentially British sort of video game. It fits snugly within the tradition of eccentric psychedelic shooters - Jeff Minter's Sp … | Continue reading
Mike recently ventured into Dark Souls 3 and came back a harrowed man, and yet he can't wait to dive back into the punishing Kingdom of Lothric. In new Xbox… | Continue reading
Having seen the worthwhile results of SSD and hybrid drive upgrades on PlayStation 4, it's now Xbox One's turn in the test seat. With its stock 5,400rpm drive turning in loading times of well over a minute in certain titles - such as Just Cause 3 and Grand Theft Auto 5 - Microsof … | Continue reading
Midway through my conversation with the creators of Cosmic Encounter, the boardgame in which colourful aliens attempt to colonise each other's planets, Peter Olotka interrupts co-designer Bill Eberle to make a casual observation. "By the way. There's no board," he says. There's a … | Continue reading
The battle lines are drawn. 2016 is the year in which the big players of the virtual reality space - HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR - finally make a move on a compelling but still uncertain market. A lot is at stake for each to make a great first impression to buyers; f … | Continue reading
We've done an extraordinary amount of flailing in the Eurogamer office this week, thanks the the arrival of the HTC Vive and its attendant Tron-like controllers. Wondering how best to illustrate what it's like to play a Vive demo for this week's Eurogamer Show, we somehow arrived … | Continue reading
In deepest, darkest south-east London, there lies a strange and almost forgotten monument to times past. Walk north from Forest Hill station and you will see its crumbling facade. Enter the dingy interior, breathe in the stale air, and marvel at the mysterious collection of anci … | Continue reading
Earlier this week Mortal Kombat X launched its Kombat Pack 2 DLC for PS4 and Xbox One, adding Leatherface, Triborg, Bo' Rai Cho and the Xenomorph from Alien to NetherRealm's fighting game. Now, you can play these characters for free this weekend.As reported by Kotaku, accessing t … | Continue reading
Mutant Mudds Super Challenge, the sequel to Renegade Kid's delightful retro platformer Mutant Mudds, is slated for a 17th March release in Europe and North America.As reported by Nintendolife, the game's Wii U and 3DS versions will support Cross-Buy. So purchase it for £8.99 / €9 … | Continue reading
Shadow Moses Project, the Metal Gear Solid fan remake being developed in Unreal Engine 4, has been unceremoniously shut down."We have to cancel the Shadow Moses Project for reasons beyond our control," the developer said on the project's Facebook page. "We would like to thank eve … | Continue reading
Ubisoft's second Far Cry title on current-gen consoles adds plenty of visual extras over Far Cry 4; Primal is a better-looking game for its use of volumetric lighting, but also impressively upholds a sturdy 30 frames per second. Equally, there's a sense Ubisoft's comfort with the … | Continue reading
A brand new retro console that uses plastic cartridges - tempting, right? That's what this whole Coleco Chameleon issue is about. A company called Retro Video Game Systems has a machine called the Coleco Chameleon and it was inches away from Kickstarter - until some strange and w … | Continue reading
Spintires is now back on Steam.The indie hit was pulled from Valve's platform last week after players reported the game crashing within minutes of being booted up.Some suggested the crash issue was Spintires developer Pavel Zagrebelnyy sabotaging his own game over alleged unpaid … | Continue reading
I'm not sure how many people picked Project Cars as their game of the year in 2015, but I'll admit it was a mighty fine racer: an all-inclusive, absolutely gorgeous driving game that delivered one of the best pure motorsport experiences we've had since TOCA's heyday. So Bandai Na … | Continue reading
With both Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls coming to PS4 this week, I thought it would be a good opportunity to introduce Chris to the original PS3 version of Heavy Rain, complete with awkward motion controls and unintentionally creepy children. The result is probably the most ri … | Continue reading
Thimbleweed Park, the old-school point and click adventure game from the creators of Maniac Mansion, continues to look promising.Ron Gilbert, who's working… | Continue reading
I met a whale this week. I was standing on the creaking deck of a sunken ship, and I had been watching a cloud of manta rays drift past overhead when I sensed a disturbance in the water. I turned, and a whale was watching me: a vast blue whale, with that grumpy mouth and those hu … | Continue reading
Go on Google Maps today and you'll spot a cute The Legend of Zelda surprise.In the bottom right hand corner of your screen you'll see a small image of Link wielding the famous Master Sword and Hyrule Shield. Click on it to browse street view images.Then, while in street view, Lin … | Continue reading
When Microsoft announced Quantum Break would launch on PC alongside Xbox One, it wasn't quite the warm homecoming developer Remedy might have expected. Some fans were upset that the live action/third-person shooter hybrid would no longer be an Xbox One exclusive, taking to Twitte … | Continue reading
UPDATE: Microsoft has responded to Tim Sweeney's Guardian piece, insisting its Universal Windows Platform is "a fully open ecosystem". Kevin Gallo, cor… | Continue reading
What is Star Citizen? It's so big now it seems almost incomprehensible. $100m - that's a hell of a budget, let alone raised through crowdfunding. No-one saw it coming, everything ballooned in scope and scale, and no-one seems to know what it is any more.Isn't Star Citizen all mod … | Continue reading
The Fire Emblem and Shin Megami Tensei crossover has been announced for the west as Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE. (Pronounced Tokyo Mirage Sessions Sharp FE.)Due on Wii U 24th June in Europe and North America, Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE is a turn-based RPG from Atlus. Released back i … | Continue reading
Teslagrad developer Rain Games has announced a follow-up to its lauded 2014 metroidvania with World to the West.Set in the same universe as Teslagrad, World to the West opts for a top-down perspective that's more Zelda than Metroid, though it seems to retain its action puzzler ro … | Continue reading
Bandai Namco's free-to-play dungeon-crawling adventure Lost Reavers is coming to the Wii U eShop on 28th April, Nintendo announced during its latest Nintendo Direct presentation.An open beta will be available starting 14th April.Formerly known as Project Treasure, the action-RPG … | Continue reading
Monster Hunter X is coming to the western world as Monster Hunter: Generations this summer on 3DS.This marks the first game in the franchise to let you play… | Continue reading
Nintendo used its latest Direct to announce an all-new Kirby game for the 3DS in the style of Triple Deluxe, with Kirby Robobo Planet due out on the handheld on June 10th. Robobo Planet is to launch alongside a new range of Amiibo, too, with Kirby, Meta Knight, Waddle Dee and Kin … | Continue reading
Fire Emblem Fates will launch in Europe on 20th May, Nintendo has just announced.Both the Birthright and Conquest versions of the game will arrive on the sa… | Continue reading
Super Nintendo games are finally coming to the 3DS' Virtual Console, with Earthbound and Super Mario World available from tonight on the eShop. There's a catch, though - only the most recent iteration of the hardware, the new 3DS, will support the games. We're not sure whether yo … | Continue reading
The Artful Escape of Francis Vendetti is made in Unreal Engine 4, but you'd never know it. The 2D glam rock story of a young musician developing his stage persona through a cosmic journey eschews the glistening metallic 3D corridors we often see from Epic's tech in favour of lush … | Continue reading
Ubisoft has just detailed two huge features for The Division set to arrive via free post-launch updates: raid-like "incursions" and player trading.April sees the first incursion added to the game. Ubisoft describes the feature as "a new challenging end-game activity developed spe … | Continue reading
Frontier Developments has delayed the full launch of season two of Elite: Dangerous - and players are worried about what it means for future expansions.Elite: Dangerous is now divided up into paid seasons. Each of these is designed to provide new content in the form of several ma … | Continue reading
Do you want more Dead Island before Dead Island 2? It's a question you may not have asked, but something publisher Deep Silver would now like you to consider.The Dead Island: Definitive Edition regurgitates the series so far for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on 31st May, publish … | Continue reading
No Man's Sky has got a firm, final release date, with Hello Games' ambitious space exploration game coming on June 24th. The date would seem to be for both PC and PS4 versions, with Hello Games' Sean Murray saying both versions would release at the same time during the PC Gaming … | Continue reading
Well over two years after No Man's Sky was unveiled, Hello Games' Sean Murray is still fielding the same question that's been circling this game from the very start. And each and every time he's answered it patiently, diligently and, somewhat commendably, without displaying any f … | Continue reading
You can play Epic's upcoming MOBA, Paragon, from the 18th March - if you buy the Founder's Pack.For $19.99 (UK price TBA), you can play the game ahead of its official launch, as well as receive a number of character skins, boosts, and other cosmetic items. However, Paragon is sti … | Continue reading
Just Cause 3 add-on Sky Fortress launches on 15th March, publisher Square Enix has said.But season pass holders get access a week earlier, from 8th March.The pack includes a new Iron Man-esque wingsuit with machine guns and missiles, as well as a new aerial area to explore.Read m … | Continue reading
What happened to that over-the-top shooter Strafe that made waves on Kickstarter a year ago? The wires did go a bit quiet. But that's because developer Pixel Titans was off signing a publisher: Devolver.Now Strafe has a release date of early 2017 on PC and Mac. That alpha prototy … | Continue reading
The adventure game genre meets the lurching experience of QWOP in Manual Samuel, an indie adventure from Norwegian studio Perfectly ParaNormal.Headed to PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One this summer, the 2D title has you manually controlling all of main character Sam's functions - w … | Continue reading
These days Scottish video game programmer and designer Chris Sawyer flies under the radar. The inventor of RollerCoaster Tycoon seems happy to let Atari build new games in the much-loved strategy series while he gets on with other, pressing matters, such as riding real-life rolle … | Continue reading
Devolver's impressive Enter the Gungeon will be released 5th April on PC, Mac and PS4. It'll cost £11.99 with a pre-order discount of 10 per cent.Gungeon is a mash-up of an old-school Zelda game, a shoot-'em-up and a Hong Kong action movie. Zelda because it looks a like A Link to … | Continue reading
London PC and indie game event EGX Rezzed (put on by Eurogamer's parent company Gamer Network) will host some of the talent behind Firewatch and Dying Light… | Continue reading
The HTC Vive is an incredible thing to play around with. It just is. I don't know if it's the future of video games, but I do like it an awful lot. However, there are undeniably some hurdles to jump over when it comes to virtual reality. For starters, the HTC Vive will set you ba … | Continue reading
Devil Daggers is really compelling and extremely difficult, as one handsome, erudite and modest Eurogamer staffer noted in his review just yesterday. Chris, Ian and I have all been playing around with Devil Daggers recently, so we decided to have a friendly competition to determi … | Continue reading
Far Cry Primal's map is largely based on that of 2014's Far Cry 4, down to the same road and river layouts.It's something of a surprise, since the Stone Age valley of Oros is set in Central Europe and Far Cry 4 is supposed to be set in the Himalayas.Developer Ubisoft never mentio … | Continue reading
Clock Tower spiritual successor NightyCry is now slated for a spring 2016 release on PC, developer Nude Maker announced in a new Kickstarter update.You can… | Continue reading
Tough terrain driving game Spintires has been removed from sale on Steam amid various reports of the game crashing within mere minutes of being booted up.Weirdly, fans have speculated that the crashes were not an unintentional bug, but rather the game's programmer Pavel Zagrebeln … | Continue reading
Last week a piece of Star Wars: Battlefront promo art teased Greedo and Nien Nunb as playable characters in the upcoming Outer Rim DLC expansion due later this month. Now EA has confirmed the "iconic" pairing as a villain and hero respectively.In case those names don't ring a bel … | Continue reading
Star Wars: The Force Awakens lead actor John Boyega has publicly called Electronic Arts out for its lack of a single-player story mode in Star Wars: Battlefront."Will fans get a full on offline story mode? It's more of an enjoyable way to learn controls," the man who plays Finn t … | Continue reading