Unpronounceable strategy board game Carcassonne is now available to play on Xbox One, via the console's backwards compatibility service.The game became available over the weekend, shortly after last week's announcement of back compatibility for Geometry Wars.As with all Xbox One … | Continue reading
Far Cry Primal has leapt to the top of the UK all-format charts in its debut week of release.Ubisoft's Stone Age adventure beat off competition from EA shooter Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2, which dug its heels into second place.But there's no word yet on how well either s … | Continue reading
Fergus McGovern, founder of British developer and port house Probe Software, has died.He was reportedly aged just 50.McGovern founded Probe Software (later re-named Probe Entertainment) in 1984. The studio was a huge British success story, and worked on world-famous games such as … | Continue reading
Shenmue 3 is real - it still feels slightly strange typing that - and our latest update suggests it's shaping up pretty well. Yu Suzuki and his studio Ys Net has offered Kickstarter backers a new look at work in progress on Shenmue 3, with a batch of fresh screens being released … | Continue reading
Here's how much money you'll need to buy an HTC Vive virtual reality headset: £689.If you live in the US, it's $799. In the rest of Europe, it'll cost you €899.It seems a lot, and it is. Oculus Rifts costs £499 by comparison, although that is just a headset. Read more… | Continue reading
These days it's not hard to find free indie games to play. With sites like Newgrounds, Kongregate and Itch.io providing a platform for up-and-coming developers, it's never been easier for aspiring game creators to bring their experimental prototypes to the masses. This will attra … | Continue reading
Mouse and keyboard remains the interface of choice for a wealth of PC games, but the bottom line is that there are plenty of titles out there that play better using a gamepad - to the point where it has become required kit. Our aim with this guide is pretty straightforward - we'l … | Continue reading
Outside, the snow is packed in glass sheets, peppered in places with stones that offer a shoe some hope of holding its grip. Here in Tromsø, the most northerly city on planet Earth (so long as you define 'city' as a place with more than 20,000 inhabitants; those people who live f … | Continue reading
At the PS4's launch, the Dual Shock 4 felt like a robustly constructed unit - a well crafted pad with a number of key improvements over its predecessor. But after just a few weeks of use, it was surprising to find the rubber material of its analogue sticks starting to flake away, … | Continue reading
Good news for fans of giant space orbs and also pocket monsters - Nintendo has officially announced Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon for 3DS, with both games due out before the sun sets on 2016. Before you pick your celestial body of choice / starting Pokémon however, you might be in … | Continue reading
Imagine you have just hit 'start' on a new first-person video game. You find yourself in a room facing a doorway with 'this way' written in large letters over the top. You take a very quick look around and notice a few closed chests and cupboards beside you and then a door behind … | Continue reading
Valve has fired the host of its Dota2 tournament Shanghai Major after only a day and a half. James Harding. Valve head honcho Gabe Newel… | Continue reading
One of Firewatch's most divisive design decisions was whether to reveal the player's location on the in-game map. This convenient waypoint system works well… | Continue reading
Earlier this week a NeoGAF poster going by Trevelyan9999 claimed to have insider knowledge that the next Zelda game would launch later this year as an NX title - or at least come to NX very shortly after a Wii U release. Rumours are a dime a dozen in this industry, so we didn't p … | Continue reading
UCLA School of Law failed to uphold its own standard when it used trademarked Rock Band 4 images in a piece of marketing material paying tribute to one of its alumni.The ad in question honoured its 2010 Alumnus of the Year, John Branca, after Billboard named him one of its Power … | Continue reading
The Conduit developer High Voltage is making a collectible card game for Oculus Rift called Dragon Front.The upcoming CCG will feature competitive leaderboards and multiple factions with their own unique card attributes. The full game will contain 280 characters, 80 encampments, … | Continue reading
The Suffering lead designer Richard Rouse III has announced an ambitious narratively-driven stealth adventure called The Church of Darkness.Billed as a "top-down action-infiltration game" The Church of Darkness' main appeal is that the story significantly changes with each playth … | Continue reading
Perhaps Nintendo's notoriously bad 1989 peripheral the Power Glove was actually nearly three decades ahead of its time as Sony has recently filed three patents on its own glove controller.As spotted by NeoGAF user Rösti, the patents in question would be comprised of a flex sensor … | Continue reading
Superhot's developer has teased a VR release for its super hot debut title.The ingenious first-person puzzle game where time only moves when you do has been receiving rave reviews lately and the developer noted in a Kickstarter update that it has "secretive" plans to bring VR sup … | Continue reading
Samorost 3, the upcoming adventure by Machinarium and Botanicula developer Amanita Design, is coming to PC and Mac on 24th March.The developer confirmed to Eurogamer that Samorost 3 will also arrive on iOS and Android platforms later this year.Amanita Design cut its teeth making … | Continue reading
In Play is a column taking a weekly sideways look at new game releases. It's a bit like our old series Game of the Week, if you remember that. There are weeks when you look at the new releases and think that video game developers and publishers are doing a pretty good job. This … | Continue reading
Bryan Henderson has told the people behind a new game bundle designed to give him up to $10,000 that he wants the money to go to charity instead.Henderson told GameBundle.com to give the 10 per cent of revenue promised to him by the company to video game charity Special Effect.La … | Continue reading
Nintendo has officially announced Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon, which will launch for 3DS this year.The two games were announced just now in a Pokémon Direct broadcast from Nintendo.Pokémon celebrates its 20th anniversary this year - a perfect time, then, for a new generation of … | Continue reading
10 days after Street Fighter 5 launched, the fighting game's online portion is much improved.I've put time into the game this week and can report online play works well, although there is still much work to be done.Street Fighter 5 launched with a raft of problems, among them spo … | Continue reading
Focus Home Interactive's MIA Call of Cthulhu game is back from the dead.Sherlock Holmes and Magrunner developer Frogwares was working on a video game based on Chaosium's pen & paper RPG set within H. P. Lovecraft's famously twisted universe, but that was back in 2014. We hadn't h … | Continue reading
You've already had your say on the very best Zelda games as we celebrate the series' 30th anniversary - and you did a mighty fine job too, even if I'm fairl… | Continue reading
In Superhot, time only moves when you move. That's one hell of a sentence and it's the reason why this game currently sits so comfy in the number one spot on Steam's top sellers list. Here's a first-person shooter in which you, as Christian put it in yesterday's review, "do the s … | Continue reading
Ubisoft is one of the world's biggest gaming companies, so the idea it could be targeted by a hostile takeover feels like an odd one.But that's exactly what's happening right now, as French conglomerate Vivendi gobbles up Ubisoft shares to gain ever more influence over the family … | Continue reading
There's been a lot of talk about Firewatch and its sub-par performance on PlayStation 4 over the past few weeks and with the recent release of patch 1.02, we felt it was time to take a closer look. Frame-rate issues may not seem like a big deal for a narrative-driven adventure, b … | Continue reading
Nintendo has lowered its annual profit forecast down from 50 billion yen to 33 billion (£316m to £208m).The reason for the reduction? Nintendo has sold less 3DS hardware and software than expected.The company has also been hit by a recent rise in the yen's value.Read more… | Continue reading
Happy Friday! Here's two parkour people jumping around in Mario costumes.YouTube channel Dark Pixel mixes free-running and some nice 3D effects to turn this video of Mario and Luigi leaping about into something worth watching.Dark Pixel released an earlier take on the idea three … | Continue reading
Factorio, from indie outfit Wube, is a game ostensibly about designing, building and maintaining factories, but there's a whole lot more to it.After crashing on an alien planet, you must manually harvest resources to survive. But, as the gameplay video below explains, Factorio is … | Continue reading
Learning the river used to be a big deal. It's most of what a pilot did, I think, although pilot may be the wrong word in a trade that had a lot of idiosyncratic terminologies. Regardless: you learned the river, and a lot of what you learned about was underwater and invisible. Wi … | Continue reading
Last week Activision tried something a little new and released a multiplayer-only edition of Call of Duty: Black Op 3 on Steam. Now this Multiplayer Starter Pack is free to try out this weekend from now until Sunday, 28th February at 9pm UK time.Remember, the Multiplayer Starter … | Continue reading
If you've ever played a Dark Souls game and found your hollowware not quite hollow enough to fit the mood of From Software's darkly romantic RPG series, you may be in luck as strategy guide developer Prima Game will be shipping actual estus flasks with its luxurious Dark Souls 3 … | Continue reading
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved now supports Xbox One via backwards compatibility.Available for £3.39, the Xbox 360 launch title is oft credited as the game that kicked off the Xbox Live Arcade revolution. Originally conceived as a mini-game in Bizarre Creations' Project Gotham Raci … | Continue reading
Nippon Ichi's cult classic strategy RPG Disgaea has arrived on Steam, but many are calling it a lacking port.Numerous reports state that it runs poorly, even on high-end PCs. User reviews along with sites like Rock, Paper, Shotgun, PC Gamer and Destructoid have reported on this p … | Continue reading
Harebrained Schemes' upcoming action-roguelike Necropolis was slated for a March release on PC, but that's just been delayed until summer. That's the bad news. The good is that it will feature a simultaneous release on PS4 and Xbox One via a new publishing arrangement with Bandai … | Continue reading
Honestly, who expected Nien Nunb? Who even is Nien Nunb? He's the "jowled, mouse-eyed native of Sullust" as Wikipedia puts it, who flew with Lando on the Millennium Falcon in the Battle of Endor in Return of the Jedi.The reason the Star Wars Battlefront community suspects Nunb an … | Continue reading
Capcom's announced PlayStation 4 and Xbox One ports of Resident Evil 4, 5 and 6.Resident Evil 6 comes out on 29th March and includes all the additional post-launch DLC (so, all the costumes originally only available through ResidentEvil.net).Resident Evil 5 follows in the summer, … | Continue reading
Prison Architect's new console version is due to launch on PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One during the first half of this year.Based on the footage belo… | Continue reading
Football vehicle game Rocket League will soon get the new Batmobile.That is, the new Batmobile from upcoming movie Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.The Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Car Pack comes out on 8th March for PC via Steam, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, Rocket League … | Continue reading
Logos and trademarks for Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon have been spotted online.Their appearance on the EU trademark website comes just a before a special Pokémon-themed Nintendo Direct is scheduled to take place.Nintendo announced the Pokémon Direct yesterday via Twitter, and pro … | Continue reading
Turns out there is a killer trick to creating hyper-violent entertainment: do the slow stuff fast, and the fast stuff slow. That's literature right there. And cinema. Someone doing crucial research into a baddie's tax affairs, or the ballistics analysis on a bullet lodged in cart … | Continue reading
Former US State Senator Leland Yee has been sentenced to five years in prison on charges of corruption and weapon smuggling.You may remember Yee as being a vocal opponent of video game violence - he campaigned for tighter restrictions around the sale of games and a state-backed r … | Continue reading
Halo 5 Grifball is up and running, and it's a lot of fun. But the Halo community has already flagged a few issues, one of which has to do with betrayal.Grifball is a game mode that involves infinite use of the Gravity Hammer, a hulking melee weapon that does massive splash damage … | Continue reading
To mark the 30th anniversary of the Zelda series, an occasion that passed this Sunday, we asked you to let us know your favourite Zelda games, in order that we could impose some arbitrary hierarchy on an expansive series and have a nice clean list at the end of it all. Thanks so … | Continue reading
Quantum Break and Alan Wake developer Remedy has rekindled fan hopes of a sequel by registering the "Alan Wake's Return" trademark.The studio also acquired the alanwakesreturn.com domain name last year (thanks, NeoGAF).Remedy's trademark registration comes as its upcoming PC and … | Continue reading