In January 2016 Halo player Adam Bartels - aka thecrzedspartan - lost his two teenage daughters, Trinity, 15, and Lena, 12, in an electrical fire at the family home in Wauzeka, a village in Wisconsin, United States.After the tragedy was brought to the attention of r/Halo, develop … | Continue reading
There's no arguing, Black Desert Online has one of the finest character creation screens of any genre. It's powerful enough to have been made its own download, a world away from just putting Head One onto Body One, or Boobs Two in the case of half the characters in most MMOs. Twe … | Continue reading
Streets of Rage 2's soundtrack is getting a vinyl release from London-based record label Data Discs. You may remember Data Discs for releasi… | Continue reading
Back in 2008 a series of logos for cancelled Star Wars games were revealed in the book Rogue Leaders: The Story of LucasArts. Yesterday it came to light that one of these titles, Star Wars Episode VII: Shadows of the Sith, would have starred Luke Skywalker's son facing off agains … | Continue reading
Halo 5 will receive the co-op survival challenge mode Warzone Firefight later this year, developer 343 Industries teased in its latest trailer. The mode premiered with Halo 3: ODST and was included in Halo: Reach, but not Halo 4. The new mode "will bring PvE to Halo 5: Guardians … | Continue reading
Trine developer Frozenbyte has released a PC demo for its upcoming stealth adventure Shadwen. The more people play the demo, the cheaper its launch price will be when it comes to PC and consoles this spring.You can snag the demo this week from Steam, GOG, or the Humble Store. "Ea … | Continue reading
Dark Souls 3 has received a new trailer ahead of its 12th April western launch for PS4, Xbox One and PC. Set to the theme of True Colors by Tom Kelly and Billy Steinberg, this latest trailer shows us a handful of new settings and bosses. There's a giant sentient tree, a fiery wol … | Continue reading
PlayStation Plus' Instant Game Collection - i.e. free bonus games for subscribers - will include Galak-Z and Broforce for PS4 come 1st March.The latter was voted on by the community in its Vote to Play poll recently, while Galak-Z is an arcadey action-roguelike we recommended upo … | Continue reading
Infamous mass-murdering isometric shooter Postal is getting a remake by series creator Running With Scissors.Dubbed Postal Redux, this remake will come to PC and Mac this spring with a PS4 release to follow later this year, which will mark the series' console debut.Postal Redux w … | Continue reading
The arcade versions of Mortal Kombat 1, 2, 3 and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 each contain secret menus that only recently were uncovered.Late 2015 the secret menus, named the EJB menus after Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon, were documented on The Cutting Room Floor, a website dedic … | Continue reading
The Walking Dead: Michonne begins with its titular character about to blow her brains out. After a surreal sequence suggesting her children were killed due to her own failure, Michonne is at the end of her tether. With nothing left to live for, she ends up adrift on a boat with a … | Continue reading
A Reddit user has dug into Fallout 4's files and extracted information about the upcoming Survival difficulty - and it sounds like it significantly changes… | Continue reading
Hitman will be available to try in open beta via PlayStation 4 on 4th March.The test version will contain the game's Prologue mission, which contains two free-form training targets.Hitman pre-order customers recently got to try out the level in a closed beta test. Now, anyone wit … | Continue reading
Off-road driving simulation Spintires has had a rough ride. It was one of Eurogamer's favourite games of 2014, the year it took Steam by storm. But then dev… | Continue reading
Remember Darkspore? It's the 2011 video game that took the creature editing tech from Will Wright's Spore and turned it into a basic action-role-playing game. Soon, it'll be no more.Darkspore closes its doors on 1st March 2016, EA announced on the Darkspore forum. After that date … | Continue reading
Counter-Strike eSports continues its impressive growth in popularity - and Valve is pumping more money into prize pools as a result.It's just announced that beginning with MLG Columbus 2016, each CS:GO Major Championship prize pool will be a cool $1m. That's up from $250,000."Whe … | Continue reading
Earlier this week Valve released its very own SteamVR Performance Test, and now people are fussing over Half-Life 3 and Left 4 Dead 3. Again.What's new this time? The files within the Source 2 game engine build that's a part of the performance test include references to Half-Life … | Continue reading
Microsoft's released a hefty 5GB update for Gears of War Ultimate Edition.The title update makes changes to playlists and adjusts gameplay.The headline changes are kills in social playlists now also count towards the "Seriously" achievement (kill 10000 people in versus competitiv … | Continue reading
Does everyone talk to themselves when they're playing games, or is it just me? I'm not just chatting rubbish about the weather or the state of the economy you understand - I just like to consistently reaffirm my own opinions about whatever it is I'm currently thumbing through. It … | Continue reading
Dino Dini's released screenshots of Kick Off Revival, and it looks like Kick Off should.The screenshots, below, show off a pre-alpha version of the game, which is due out exclusively on PlayStation 4 and Vita in 2016. It's early days, then, but you can see Kick Off's trademark to … | Continue reading
In gameplay terms, a few hours of play with the Hitman beta suggests a return to form for the series, bringing back traditional stealth action paired with b… | Continue reading
Action-roguelike Risk of Rain is coming to PS4 and Vita, via publisher Code Mystics.Hopoo Games' indie success launched on PC to rave reviews and now the developer is adding a host of new features to this console and handheld rendition such as automatic matchmaking."With just one … | Continue reading
Humble Indie Bundle 16 has launched and it's a good one. Pay what you want to receive Retro City Rampage DX, Outlast, and Never Alone with its Foxtales DLC. You'll even receive an 80 per cent discount on Outlast's Whistleblower DLC in the Humble Store.Pay more than the average pr … | Continue reading
Far Cry Primal is out today on PS4, Xbox One and PC, and it comes with a day one patch that adds an entirely new extra challenging difficulty level Expert Mode.As stated on the game's official blog, Expert Mode makes the following changes to Ubisoft's latest open-world opus:The n … | Continue reading
The Mega Man Legacy Collection has arrived today on the 3DS eShop for £13.49.Like the PS4, Xbox One and PC versions from August, this anthology bundles together remastered versions of the six original Mega Man games. The collection also includes score-chasing Challenge Modes, a d … | Continue reading
The March Games with Gold offering have been unveiled, via an official Spanish Xbox promo, and Xbox One users with Gold subscriptions will be able to snag both Lords of the Fallen and Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments for free.Crimes and Punishments will be available all mo … | Continue reading
Kevin Smith's most famous creations, Jay and Silent Bob, are getting their own game. At least they will if developer Interabang (Super Comboman) can raise $400k on crowdfunding platform Fig to finance Jay and Silent Bob: Chronic Blunt Punch.Slated for PS4, Xbox One and PC, the Cl … | Continue reading
Talisman: The Horus Heresy comes out today on PC. On Steam it costs £18.99, but there's a 10 per cent discount during launch week.The digital board game is based on the Talisman rule system and is set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe during the events of the Horus Heresy.The Horu … | Continue reading
The Ship: Remastered has set sail on Steam. There it costs £14.99.The Ship: Remasted is a remake of the 2006 game, The Ship: Murder Party. It's a multiplayer-focused game set on a series of 1920s cruise ships. The player must kill or be killed. All you have to go on is the name o … | Continue reading
Tom Clancy's The Division is a strange beast. On one hand, it's a really fun cover based shooter; on the other, it looks like it ought to be populated exclusively by Liam Neesons. While the loot system is pleasingly comprehensive, there's something about The Division's realistic … | Continue reading
The popular Source Engine-based PC first-person shooter series Insurgency is being rebuilt in Unreal Engine 4 and now coming to consoles.Insurgency: Sandstorm is from publisher Focus Home Interactive and developer New World Interactive, and is due out on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbo … | Continue reading
If you pre-order the Xbox One version of the new Doom, you get Doom 1 and Doom 2. So says the Xbox Store.Doom 1 and Doom 2 are already playable on Xbox One via the Backward Compatibility feature.According to the game description, if you pre-order the new Doom the codes will be de … | Continue reading
Japanese smash hit Yo-Kai Watch will finally arrive in Europe on 29th April. The 3DS role-player is frequently compared to Pokémon for its m… | Continue reading
Ever think Star Wars Battlefront doesn't look filmy enough? Well, phew, because now it does - now it has a film grain effect you can layer on top.Film grain comes in the free new February update that's rolling out now (not yet available on PlayStation 4 in the UK, for what it's w … | Continue reading
Fallout 4 1.4 update is now in beta on Steam, and due out proper on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One soon, Bethesda has said.The patch paves the way for the add-on content announced last week, but now adds new features that improve the post-apocalyptic open-world role-playing game' … | Continue reading
Japanese gothic Lolita smhup Deathsmiles is coming to PC via Steam on 10th March, publisher Degica has announced.Cave's classic shooter originally debuted on Japanese arcades in 2007 before receiving an Xbox 360 version in 2009-2011 (depending on the region), an iOS port in 2011, … | Continue reading
Xbox Live is currently down for the count.Microsoft noted on its Xbox Live Status page that Purchase and Content Usage (Buying items, redeeming codes, or downloading purchases) and Xbox Live Core Services (Signing in; creating, managing, or recovering an account; search) are "lim … | Continue reading
Doom publisher Bethesda has detailed how its territory control mode, Warpath, will work.It's essentially the genre's familiar King of the Hill mode with a twist: the capture point moves in a circular pattern around the map on a clearly marked trajectory. On the opposite side of t … | Continue reading
Is your PC a bad enough dude to run Virtual Reality?Our Digital Foundry guru Richard Leadbetter dug into this VR-ready query last month and now Valve has released its very own SteamVR Performance Test.The Portal-themed analysis "measures your system's rendering power using a two- … | Continue reading
If you ever wanted to re-enact Speed but without that pesky bomb or fast driving, you're in luck as Bus Simulator 16 will bring the excitement of transporting commuters to Steam on 2nd March.Despite the title, this latest job simulator is not developed by Euro Truck Simulator's S … | Continue reading
Tom Clancy's The Division beta was played by 6.4m players this weekend, setting a new record for betas of new IPs on current-gen platforms.To put this in perspective, Destiny's beta was played by 4.6m players.Of course, when Destiny's beta launched in July 2014 far fewer people h … | Continue reading
The HTC Vive Virtual Reality kit's consumer edition has been priced at $800.That's roughly £565, but no UK pricing has been announced and these things rarely come down to a straight currency conversion. We'll update when the price in pounds is confirmed.$800 may sound like a lot … | Continue reading
Hot on the heels of our review, I'll be streaming 90 minutes of Far Cry Primal at 3:30pm.The game starts off pretty slow and it takes quite a few hours to unlock some of protagonist Takkar's cooler skills, but I played through a big chunk of the game over the weekend and have man … | Continue reading
Stainless Games has announced a new Carmageddon for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. There's no mention of a PC version.Carmageddon: Max Damage, due out on console mid 2016, continues the vehicle combat game's over-the-top violence. There are over 30 cars, 10 environments and, as you' … | Continue reading
Held at gunpoint and shoved into the boot of his own car, programmer Francesco Cavallari was forced to consider his options."It was a Nissan Micra - I don't know if you know those?" Francesco says, remembering. "I was in the boot of a Micra. I could barely believe I fitted."Franc … | Continue reading
Devil Daggers opens with your nameless protagonist in an empty abyss beckoned to snag the game's titular weapon. Do so and an endless stream of demons will descend upon you as you flee, fire, and hop your way to a very quick demise. Your character may be resurrecting unspeakable … | Continue reading
A leaner, hungrier Far Cry from a bygone age that falls slightly short of achieving its potential. | Continue reading
Konami's Euro 2016 DLC doesn't feature official licenses for all of the teams set to take part in the tournament.Just 15 of the 24 qualified Euro 2016 teams are licensed. They are: England, Wales, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Croatia, Slovakia, Icelan … | Continue reading