Battlefield 1's big October patch comes out today and promises various improvements to gameplay, new Dog Tags and new gameplay settings, but the headline addition is it lets players browse servers for the fan-favourite Operations mode. This should make it much quicker and easier … | Continue reading
DICE's Frostbite engine kicked off the console generation with Battlefield 4, and the technology has evolved considerably over the last four years. Star Wars Battlefront 2 may well be its most spectacular outing yet. Importing and enhancing many of the new features from last year … | Continue reading
Sony has announced a few officially-licensed wired PlayStation 4 controllers - and one of them looks a bit like a Nintendo Switch Joy-Con.The Nacon wired compact controller, Hori wired mini gamepad and @Play wired compact controller all come out in time for Christmas.Nacon's comp … | Continue reading
On 12th November 2015, Jon Hare launched a Kickstarter for Sociable Soccer, the spiritual successor to the classic football game he designed 25 years ago. H… | Continue reading
EA has announced a new selection of titles and trials coming to its Origin Access and EA Access on-demand subscription services between now and the end of December, including Mass Effect: Andromeda and Dead Space 3.Mass Effect: Andromeda, BioWare's much maligned but still surpris … | Continue reading
Respawn Entertainment and Oculus have joined forces to work on a "super secret" new VR game, currently scheduled for a 2019 release.About the only solid det… | Continue reading
Oculus will launch a new low-cost, standalone VR headset early next year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced at today's Oculus Connect event in San Jose.Oculus Go, as the new "super lightweight" headset is known, is designed to be as affordable and accessible as possible, pos … | Continue reading
Murder scene mop-'em-up Serial Cleaner is on its way to Switch and will reach the system before the end of the year, developer iFun4All has announced.Serial Cleaner, a 70s-inspired stealth game, replete with appropriately funky soundtrack, launched on PC, Xbox One, and PS4 earlie … | Continue reading
Fortnite's Battle Royale mode has garnered over 10 million players since its launch two weeks ago, Epic has announced.It's great news for Fortnite, which struggled to make much of an impact when it launched in early access, minus Battle Royale mode, earlier this year. Within 24 h … | 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.GOG is up to its old tricks again … | Continue reading
Call of Duty: WW2 has a London map set during the Blitz, developer Sledgehammer has revealed.Sledgehammer tweeted an image of the London Docks map, which features a couple of buses (one of which has fallen into a crater in the ground) and a cafe / pub that doubles as an air raid … | Continue reading
We really enjoyed Total War: Warhammer 2 at launch, but we're still waiting on arguably its most exciting feature: the 'Mortal Empires' campaign.This new mode, which combines the maps of both Total War: Warhammer and Total War: Warhammer 2, arrives on the 26th October. Better sti … | Continue reading
After a month of play, the Destiny community is picking apart Destiny 2's endgame - with mixed results. There are two major bugbears at present - the game's focus on tokens as a means of ranking up and collecting loot, and the shift away from endgame multiplayer activities factor … | Continue reading
As an honest and god-fearing Englishman, I have nothing but undying respect for the Crown. Every day I wake up in my Royal Family-branded pyjamas and swear my own personal oath of allegiance to the British monarchy. Queen Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning monarch in British hi … | Continue reading
Valve has updated Dust 2, probably the most popular and iconic Counter-Strike map.In a post on the Counter-Strike website, Valve said it had improved "player readability" throughout the map, refined movement around the world including cover, and, crucially, upgraded the visuals t … | 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.The Xbox One Elite Controller was … | Continue reading
EA has added guest play to FIFA 18 after a sustained player campaign that put pressure on the developers to reverse its controversial decision to omit the popular feature from the game.EA came under fire from some FIFA fans when FIFA 18 launched and players discovered guest play … | Continue reading
Super Mario Odyssey has a toe-tapping live-action music video, featuring a CGI Mario.The video is for Odyssey's catchy Jump Up, Super Star! track, which has accompanied many of the game's trailers.Set in the game's New York-esque New Donk City, Mario boogies with dancers dressed … | Continue reading
Firaxis has announced the next big update for strategy game Civilization 6, and it reboots the religion part of the game.While Civ 6 includes religion as a victory condition, it's one of the lesser fleshed-out strategies. The update, planned for release this autumn, adds new beli … | Continue reading
It's coming up to a year since Final Fantasy 15 released, but it's not as if work has stopped on Square Enix's epic RPG. Updates keep rolling out, a PC version is in the works - as well as a Switch version, which is still in the very early planning stages - while we're still a ch … | Continue reading
WayForward's retro-inspired, Metroidvania-style movie tie-in The Mummy Demastered will release on PC, PS4, Xbox One, and Switch on October 24th.Although it's officially linked to this summer's not-exactly-blockbusting Tom Cruise vehicle The Mummy, WayForward's Demastered jettison … | Continue reading
Following a week of leaks and fevered speculation, Blizzard has finally, officially peeled back the dark, unholy shroud obscuring details of Overwatch's 2017 Hallowe'en celebrations.Overwatch's Hallowe'en Terror 2017 event, says Blizzard, will run from today, October 10th, to Nov … | Continue reading
Destiny 2's hardcore PvP mode Iron Banner launched today - and players have already found a cool Overwatch Easter egg.Iron Banner is the domain of Saladin Forge, an Iron Lord who narrates the action as players shoot each other to bits.Saladin is voiced by Keith Ferguson, who, it … | Continue reading
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is, perhaps a little prematurely, deep in the throes of the spooky season, having kicked off its "Willard Wyler's Hallowe'en Scream" celebrations yesterday.The event will run until November 1st and offers a reasonable chunk of appropriately ghoulish … | Continue reading
Assassin's Creed: Origins has two major DLCs in the works - one of which is an undead-themed Egyptian mummy expansion, The Curse of the Pharaohs.Ubisoft has published a post-launch schedule which details both free and paid-for content coming to Origins, including the contents of … | Continue reading
The recent Call of Duty: WW2 open beta sparked the inevitable datamine - and a huge amount of unannounced information has been unearthed.The Call of Duty: W… | 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.For the next few days, Humble is … | Continue reading
At its inaugural expo event in London this weekend, Frontier Developments outlined the next 12 months of updates for its currently alien-infested space sim Elite: Dangerous. There's an awful lot of exciting stuff in store, ranging from new ships and guild-owned space stations, to … | Continue reading
Remember the Tamagotchi? Cared for one, fed it, raised it, then forgot all about it and felt guilty when it died?Well, it's coming back - in North America, at least - to celebrate the toy's 20th anniversary. The virtual pet trapped in a plastic shell is two decades old this Novem … | 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.Starting today, Currys PC World i … | Continue reading
Last night Hull City midfielder David Meyler captained the Republic of Ireland in their 0-1 victory over Wales. He is on the brink of taking Ireland to the 2018 World Cup in Russia. He is already a national hero.It turns out, he's also a bit of a hero in the FIFA community.Sandwi … | Continue reading
When Microsoft launched Xbox One S in August 2016, it did so with the offer of a free adaptor to use the console with Kinect.That promotion expired in March this year.When Microsoft launches Xbox One X this November, there will be no similar offer.Read more… | Continue reading
The great thing about Tolkien's Middle-Earth, I reckon, is that it's bigger than a book, bigger than a movie screen, bigger than any collection of words or images you could ever arrange. Middle-Earth has rules that cannot be broken and it has borders that cannot easily be expande … | Continue reading
Unfortunately, the intriguing virtual reality game The Invisible Hours, made by Rime developer Tequila Works, has been held back a week in Europe. In the US it launches today, 10th October and on all three VR platforms, but in Europe it launches 17th October.Tequila Works confirm … | 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 currently saving you … | Continue reading
Now this is more like it. After announcing an exclusive global partnership with Championship side Fulham, Konami has opened its wallet and signed a deal with Europa League hopefuls Arsenal.At a time when Arsenal's best want to leave for bigger and better things, Konami's best has … | Continue reading
Heading into the release of Gran Turismo Sport - which is next week! - I was a little concerned that some of the series' trademark eccentricity might be lost as part of Polyphony Digital's new streamlined approach. How very wrong I was. There's a time-limited demo that's currentl … | Continue reading
Bungie has delayed Destiny 2's prestige raid rollout at the last minute. The top-tier challenge was due to go live today, at 10am UK time. Instead, it'll get a week-long delay.The reason for the hold-up? Bungie blamed the discovery of a exploit which "causes encounters to be stri … | Continue reading
Clash Royale has just rolled out its Epic Quests update. It's a bit of a beast, including everything from a quickfire new Touchdown mode that ditches towers altogether in favour of something that feels like American Football (I think it's great, but I'm in the minority by the loo … | Continue reading
A modern indie classic on PC finds in Nintendo's Switch the perfect platform. | Continue reading
Star Wars: Battlefront 2's public beta has been extended, and will now run until Wednesday October 11th, EA has announced.The beta, which began last Wednesday for those with game pre-orders and opened for everyone else on Friday, was originally scheduled to end earlier today. How … | Continue reading
Theme park sim Planet Coaster is getting a free "anniversary" update soon, adding new rides, new staff management features, and a new scenario editor.Once the update arrives, vendors - who up until now have been perpetually imprisoned inside their squalid retail booths - will fin … | Continue reading
You can play open world tactical shooter Ghost Recon: Wildlands for free this weekend on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC, Ubisoft has announced.The promotio… | Continue reading
Ninja Theory will donate all proceeds it receives from sales of Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice tomorrow, October 10th, to UK mental health charity Rethink.The donation is being made to coincide with tomorrow's World Mental Health Day, which this year is focussed on raising awarenes … | Continue reading
Loot boxes are the hot topic of games right now, and their inclusion in big-budget titles such as Destiny 2, Forza 7 and Middle-earth: Shadow of War has set tongues wagging.So, what's the deal with loot chests in Assassin's Creed Origins? Happily, it sounds like good news.I recen … | Continue reading
Star Wars Battlefront 2 has a loot crate problem instead of a progression system.The only way to get new abilities and weapons in Battlefront 2 is from opening loot crates, bought either with in-game currency or real-world currency, price TBD. Either you randomly receive the abil … | 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.Before you say anything - yes, th … | Continue reading