Destiny 2 downtime, I was beginning to miss you. After a couple of weeks with no server maintenance, Bungie is tinkering with Destiny behind the scenes once more.Destiny 2 servers are going offline right now as I type these very words. As of 5pm UK time (9am Pacific), all players … | Continue reading
Resident Evil Revelations' upcoming Nintendo Switch re-release includes two exclusive mini-games made to look like retro classics.The extras were created just for the Switch's upcoming dual-pack of Resident Evil Revelations 1 and 2, due to launch on 28th November.Ghost Ship Panic … | 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.If you're particularly tech-savvy … | Continue reading
Earlier this week, EA announced it had shut down Visceral Games and retooled the linear, story-driven Star Wars game it was working on in favour of "a broader experience".Now, EA's released a new trailer that shows off the single-player campaign in Star Wars: Battlefront 2, the c … | Continue reading
Pokémon Go's Halloween event has now been officially detailed and, as repeated leaks showed, it will introduce the first creatures from Pokémon's third gen.The introduction of Ghost-type Pokémon Duskull, Dusclops, Shuppet, Sableye and Banette will begin when the event starts, at … | 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.From the looks of things, Sony is … | Continue reading
Hearthstone is getting a cool new feature for Halloween - the ability to pick cards from two classes when starting an Arena run.It's a first for Hearthstone, which has previously stuck rigidly to its hero class system (although certain cards in last year's Gadgetzan expansion cou … | Continue reading
Destiny 2's prestige raid went live last night - but the team recognised by Bungie as completing it first used a glitch to seal their victory.Bungie had delayed the raid's prestige version by a full week while it tried to remove a serious exploit that stopped enemies spawning dur … | 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.With Black Friday 2017 happening … | Continue reading
Nintendo Switch has a big system update with some much-requested features: video capture and save game transfers.But, for video capture at least, there's a catch: it currently only works with four Nintendo-developed games: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (version 1.3 onwa … | Continue reading
For a second, holding a golden necklace above the open mouth of the cremulator, I paused. But only for a second. The cremulator is essentially an extremely hardcore blender: it is used in the funeral business to grind any bone fragments that remain after the fires of cremation ha … | Continue reading
New Wave Toys has launched a Kickstarter for its first officially licensed, fully playable miniature arcade cabinet replica, based on Atari's Centipede.The RepliCade x Centipede cabinet, to give it its full, somewhat unwieldy name, is an "accurately reproduced 1/6th scale" model … | Continue reading
Firaxis has offered up details on Indonesia and Khmer, its two new Civilization 6 factions due to release later this year.Khmer, led by King Jayavarman VII, last appeared in Civilization 4 and brings with it a range of unique benefits, including Jayavarman's Monasteries of the Ki … | Continue reading
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney's 3DS revamp will launch in the UK on November 23rd and in the US on November 21st, Capcom has announced.Apollo Justice: Ace At… | Continue reading
Nintendo's superb fist-banger Arms has received another sizeable update, this time adding an achievements system, a Replay feature, and a mysterious new challenger in solo mode.Arguably the most interesting addition in Arms' 3.2 update is the achievements system which unlocks new … | Continue reading
How generous of Nintendo Switch to provide ways to talk about games we might already have missed. Today's case in point: Moonlighter, now also coming to Swi… | Continue reading
Toys-to-life franchise Lego Dimensions has drawn to a close, a year earlier than originally planned. Publisher Warner Bros. is yet to officially confirm the cancellation, but the writing has been on the wall for some time - and sources close to the company have told Eurogamer the … | Continue reading
For all its idiosyncratic brilliance, Hyrule Warriors - the first time that Nintendo loaned its characters and mythology to Koei Tecmo in return for a fidgety battlefield opus (this time dressed in felt green) - was an untidy marriage. On home turf, Link is a solitary warrior-err … | 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.Over the years, Australia has giv … | Continue reading
Swedish developer Fatshark has revealed the first gameplay footage for sequel Warhammer: Vermintide 2, confirming Chaos as the new faction though Skaven will return as well.But perhaps more pertinently Fatshark declared Vermintide 2 will "NOT", capital letters, have loot boxes. " … | 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.Those of you looking forward to N … | Continue reading
Without being signed up to work on a big franchise, or having successfully developed one of its own over the course of 20 toilsome years, it can be tough for a studio to launch a new 3D open world RPG in a landscape dominated by Witchers, Mass Effects, Fallouts and Elder Scrolls. … | Continue reading
Call of Duty publisher Activision has patented a method of matchmaking designed to increase a player's spend on microtransactions.This system would deliberately pair you with someone who had a premium item to show off, in the hope you would see and then spend money on it yourself … | Continue reading
Years later, Microsoft is returning to Halo: Master Chief Collection. The anthology of classic Halo games will be updated with Xbox One X "advancements" next year, developer 343 Industries revealed in a community livestream last night. There will also, finally, be fixes for some … | Continue reading
The year is 2007. Console owners tap their fingers in barely contained impatience. For years they have been starved of Valve's delicious, full-bodied courses, forced to watch from the bleachers as Valve mixes a unique blend of kinetic first-person with extraordinary tech. Besides … | Continue reading
Classic FM has announced that its weekly video game music show High Score will return for a second series, consisting of six hour-long episodes, in November.High Score will once again be presented by Jessica Curry, BAFTA-award-winning composer, and co-founder of Everybody's Gone … | Continue reading
EA has shut down Visceral Games, the studio behind Dead Space and Battlefield Hardline, and will "pivot" the direction of its untitled Star Wars game.Visceral was deep in development of a new story-focussed Star Wars game. Little was known about the project other than the fact it … | Continue reading
English copies of Fire Emblem Warriors on Switch will receive a free Japanese-language voice pack update when the game launches on October 20th, Nintendo has confirmed.There has, of course, been some confusion surrounding the game's dual-audio status in the run up to release. Nin … | Continue reading
Elysium, the private/pirate vanilla World of Warcraft server that took over from Nostalrius, has imploded amid allegations the people in charge were pocketing donations and creating gold and characters to sell to players for real money.A coup was led yesterday by a splinter group … | Continue reading
The original Evil Within was a divisive release, but most can agree that technically speaking, it was a bit of a mess. With a choppy frame-rate across both… | Continue reading
Greenheart Games' business sim Game Dev Tycoon is coming to iPhone and iPad on 28th November, with an Android release and Steam content update not far behind.The title's mobile release will see a UI overhaul as well as a "2017 update" which introduces new game topics. This update … | Continue reading
When Microsoft announced Minecraft's Better Together update, fans cheered. Minecraft feels built for cross-network play. It's the world's biggest family game, an experience designed with collaborative play in mind, and now truly open to everyone regardless of device (except PlayS … | Continue reading
Tucked away at the end of the Wolfenstein 2 launch trailer, below, is a brief glimpse at a coughing and spluttering Hitler himself. Well, the back of his head. So yes, Hitler is in Wolfenstein 2.Why is this interesting? MachineGames' previous two Wolfenstein titles, The New Order … | Continue reading
Developer Monolith has confirmed infinite Shadow Wars will arrive with Shadow of War's first DLC - the Slaughter Tribe.The news was confirmed during a Monoloith Shadow of War live stream. You can watch a clip of the announcement below: Read more… | 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.In about a month-and-a-half, one … | Continue reading
The UK government has responded to concerns surrounding video game loot boxes.Over a week ago, Daniel Zeichner, Labour MP for Cambridge, submitted two written questions on behalf of reddit user and constituent Artfunkel. The questions, addressed to the Secretary of State, were as … | Continue reading
Sony has announced it will publish an indie game for the Switch - that little console produced by its long-time rival Nintendo.Tiny Metal, an indie tactical battler, is one of several upcoming games to be published by Unties, Sony Music Entertainment's just-announced game publish … | Continue reading
Did you make the top 1000 leaderboard for the Star Wars Battlefront 2 beta on Xbox One? If you did you have won a prize! It may be a $60 gift card or free Xbox Live membership for one or three months, which isn't much good if you have a yearly recurring subscription but hey ho.Th … | Continue reading
Back in 2014, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor was accused of copying gameplay animations from Assassin's Creed 2.Now, sequel Shadow of War includes a cheeky nod to Assassin's Creed in one of its achievements/trophies.Everything is Permitted is a 30 Gamerscore achievement in Shadow … | 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
A wonky blaster retains its charm, but Rogue Trooper still deserves better. | Continue reading
Valve shooter Team Fortress 2 is getting a big update this week, 10 years on from its initial launch.Jungle Inferno is a mix of maps and cosmetic bits made partly by Valve and partly by the game's community.Today, Valve revealed Mercenary Park - a new map made in-house which look … | Continue reading
The Yorkshire Games Festival is back for a second year, running from November 8th to November 12th, and a full schedule of events has now been revealed.… | Continue reading
Something had to give. After Gran Turismo 6, a wild, vast and maddeningly uneven game that whisked players from West Sussex to the moon and back in its eccentric hymn to the automobile, developer Polyphony Digital had to try a different tack. The result, a typically belated debut … | Continue reading
In news that is both weirdly thrilling, and also slightly unverifiable (given my general lack of Russian language proficiency), someone has found a playable game of Tetris hidden away on the dashboard display of certain Russian trucks.As spotted by Jalopnik, the GAZelle Next seri … | Continue reading
Japanese publisher Atlus has released a nifty freebie in the form of a retro-style, Shin Megami Tensei-inspired Metroidvania game for PC.Shin Megami Tensei Synchronicity Prologue, as the game is known, first surfaced last week during a trailer for Atlus' upcoming 3DS remake Shin … | Continue reading
Mario and Rabbids: Kingdom Battle on Switch has, somewhat unexpectedly, received the first of its two large-scale season pass content updates today, in the form of new single-player challenges and a co-op campaign.The season pass was revealed prior to Mario and Rabbids: Kingdom B … | 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.Somehow, The Witcher series of vi … | Continue reading