Developer Toxic Games has revealed a first look at first-person sci-fi adventure Q.U.B.E. 2 gameplay.Footage from the Portal-like sequel shows the player solving puzzles in a world made of cuboids, while receiving assistance from an AI. Though the video shown displays an early de … | Continue reading
Pokémon's upcoming enhanced re-releases of Sun and Moon will let you travel through a wormhole and visit the mysterious world where the series' new Ultra Beasts originated.Introduced in Sun and Moon, Ultra Beasts are extradimensional Pokémon with - shall we say - outlandish desig … | Continue reading
Arms, Nintendo's springy brawler for the Switch, is getting a tie-in graphic novel next year courtesy of Dark Horse. It's an extension of an existing relationship between Nintendo and Dark Horse, which has brought us the likes of Hyrule Hystoria and the forthcoming The Legend of … | Continue reading
Sony has announced a modest new SingStar game for PS4, called SingStar Celebration. It's due Wednesday, 25th October, a day after my birthday in case you're wondering, and is part of Sony's PlayLink push. There's no word on price but I'm checking.PlayLink is Sony trying to broade … | Continue reading
The rumours are true. Intel's new Coffee Lake-S represents the biggest generational leap we've seen since the classic Sandy Bridge second-gen Core line, launched way back in 2011. The Core i5 2500K and i7 2600K were the stuff of legend - processors so good, many still use them to … | Continue reading
In the music industry, people often refer to Second Album Syndrome - a phenomenon whereby a popular artist sets about making their sophomore record, only this time the stakes are considerably higher due to increased exposure and fan expectation. This sometimes leads to artists tr … | Continue reading
Konami has scrubbed Neymar from the menus and splash screen of PES 2018 on the quiet.Today's patch mentions "a variety of minor adjustments have been made to each mode to improve the overall gaming experience". It turns out one of these minor adjustments was replacing the Brazili … | Continue reading
How well do you know Mario? It turns out that this is quite a weird question to try and answer. Most of the time when you're playing a Mario game, you are Mario. When you're right in the middle of it you feel that familiar weight through the fingers, that same elastic pull of gra … | Continue reading
Last night, the final round of Assassin's Creed Origins previews hit the internet ahead of the game's late-October launch.Eurogamer's take, written by the lovely Tom Phillips, focused on gameplay. Others focused on the detailed version of Egypt Ubisoft has created. But Assassin's … | Continue reading
Street Fighter 5 will finally get an arcade mode early next year, according to a leak on Amazon.Street Fighter 5 Arcade Edition leaked last month with no product details. Now it's popped up on Amazon and the online shop has spilled all the beans.According to Amazon, the Arcade Ed … | Continue reading
Overwatch's Mercy has been nerfed in the game's latest PTR, not long after the hero's recent rework.In the last major Overwatch patch both Mercy and D.Va were remodelled to help balance the game. Mercy's ultimate ability was changed from Resurrect to Valkyrie, a move which grants … | Continue reading
We've been waiting for this for a long time. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was one of the key titles we were looking to see upgraded for Sony's super-charged PS4… | Continue reading
FIFA 18 came out on Nintendo Switch last week - and it didn't take long for fans to discover that you can't play against or with friends online.Our Martin w… | Continue reading
Fortnite Battle Royale has introduced duos and supply drops in the game's latest update.According to developer Epic Games, the new update is now available in Europe and North America, with duos allowing players to team up in pairs rather than the previous option of solo or squad … | Continue reading
Microsoft has backtracked on its unpopular changes to Forza Motorsport 7's VIP bonuses, following a firestorm of fan outrage.Late last week, early adopters were dismayed to find Forza 7's VIP bonuses did not work as they had in Forza 5 and 6. Worse, Microsoft had not communicated … | Continue reading
I've played Ni No Kuni 2 a couple of times now, and I can't shake my growing concerns for it. I loved the first Ni No Kuni and was delighted when - after four years - a sequel was finally announced. More than anything else about the first game, I remember its warmth: the story of … | Continue reading
Nintendo's great Miiverse experiment, in which the company made the bold, absurdly ambitious move to establish its own game-related social media service for Wii U and 3DS, was equal parts brilliant and baffling.In its heyday, it was a truly wonderful place, alive with japes, joke … | Continue reading
If you're a fan of Final Fantasy (and also books), publisher Dark Horse has some potentially pleasing news: it's releasing the first official English translation of the long-running Final Fantasy Ultimania art book series in the west, starting on June 5th next year.Square Enix's … | Continue reading
Sony has announced that a Horizon: Zero Dawn software bundle-'em-up, called the Complete Collection, will come to PlayStation 4 on December 6th.As you can probably surmise from its title, the Complete Collection includes both the original Horizon: Zero Dawn and its soon-to-be-rel … | Continue reading
Defiant Development has announced that Hand of Fate 2, the sequel to its unusual, enormously entertaining deck-building role-playing game, will release on PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 on November 7.The original Hand of Fate's main gimmick was that it (mostly) shirked the ultra … | Continue reading
Here's something to make you feel old: the original Assassin's Creed launched a whole decade ago. It's been 10 years since Assassin's Creed featured grumpy old Altair, imprisoned poor Desmond, and introduced now-ingrained concepts such as the Animus, Abstergo, and snazzy clothes … | Continue reading
UK shop GAME sold Star Wars Battlefront 2 PC beta codes this afternoon for the sum of £0.10 - although the link has now been removed. The codes did work though - we tried it. We contacted GAME and the retailer told us that the now-removed offer was a mistake - part of the bundle … | Continue reading
Capcom's released the first gameplay of Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite DLC characters Black Panther and Sigma.Capcom superhero Black Panther looks like he works similarly to Wolverine (there are no X-Men characters in Infinite, unfortunately), with fast claw attacks. Here's the offic … | Continue reading
The Witcher 3 PS4 Pro patch has just arrived, adding 4K resolution support and a "slight" boost to performance. It took longer than "just a few days" after all."Yes, the game has just received an upgrade patch, enabling it to take advantage of the additional power offered by the … | Continue reading
Left 4 Dead and Evolve developer Turtle Rock Studios has announced its new VR game The Well.The Well is a fantasy RPG where players find themselves exploring Tholl - "a world beyond your imagination". When a demonic force called the Tesh threatens to destroy the Tholl, you are su … | Continue reading
If you ever played 2005 Mortal Kombat spin-off Shaolin Monks, you'll remember it was a co-op focused beat-em-up with four playable characters: Liu Kang, Kun… | Continue reading
District 9 director Neill Blomkamp wrote and directed a short film using the Unity game engine and it's super cool.Blomkamp, alongside Oats Studios, created the second video in the Adam story (the first is here), which was designed to show off graphical advances made with the pop … | Continue reading
The BlizzCon 2017 opening ceremony - the place for this year's major Blizzard announcements - will take place Friday, 3rd November at 6pm GMT. And as always we'll be both in the audience there and in our office here covering it live. What will be announced? Probably a new World o … | Continue reading
Abandon Ship is a sort of Sid Meier's Pirates meets FTL, and it's a game I've had my eye on for some time. Now, the developers have released a new gameplay video that focuses on exploration - and it makes Abandon Ship look even more promising.In the video we see how players navig … | Continue reading
Before I go on to lament the 14 years that have passed since the last Road Rash game - 2003's Jailbreak on Nintendo's Game Boy Advance, for the record, itself a port of an earlier PlayStation game - let's spare a thought for the three years that have passed since Road Redemption, … | Continue reading
Yesterday we reported on FIFA 18's first major patch, which focuses on welcome changes to goalkeepers and shooting. But it didn't take long for fans to react to a couple of changes that initially went under the radar.The first is another welcome change. The in-game radar icons ar … | Continue reading
Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a masterpiece of game design. Exploring the huge, seamless world of Hyrule, your curiosity always feels like it is rewarded. And yet, at the same time, the world never feels like it is guiding you anywhere in particular, or simply dragging you from on … | Continue reading
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has been experiencing a lot of server and connection issues recently. Players have been struggling with matchmaking, logging in, long queue times and crashes, but developer Bluehole has now apologised for the problems and assured players it is workin … | Continue reading
Who would have thought a game about being a pest of a goose could be so charming?Imagine you are the waterfowl waddling in from a nearby lake to terrorise a groundskeeper at his work, ticking off a todo list of naughtiness that includes getting into the garden, stealing the groun … | Continue reading
How many games can claim to still have a dedicated following, 10 years after their release? That still have fans conjuring up new mods to alter and add to the game? S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl is pretty much the definition of a video game cult classic. This strange Ukrain … | Continue reading
NetherRealm has yet to show off Hellboy, who is set to arrive in Injustice 2 as part of the game's Fighter Pack Two DLC, but that hasn't stopped the developer revealing a brand new character.In Injustice 2, DC superhero Atom is physics prodigy Ryan Choi, who assumed the role of A … | Continue reading
UPDATE 9/10/2017: Three more skins for Overwatch's Halloween Terror event have leaked through Facebook advertisements. Earlier this week we saw McCree and R… | Continue reading
Ever since Stranger Things came out on Netflix and took over the hearts and minds of '80s children across the world, people have said, this would make an awesome video game. Well, now Stranger Things is a video game.The imaginatively-titled Stranger Things: The Game is an officia … | Continue reading
Congratulations, I suppose, to Dead Orbit - the winning faction in Destiny 2's first Faction Rally event. The grumpy goth group beat technicoloured team Future War Cult (AKA the best team) and the regal rabble of New Monarchy. Now, all Destiny 2 players can buy a pretty average s … | Continue reading
Microsoft has revealed Halo Recruit, a short Halo-themed experience designed to show off mixed reality headsets.The five-minute Halo experience was designed for the upcoming Windows Mixed Reality headsets. In a Halo Waypoint blogpost, 343 chief Kiki Wolfkill managed expectations … | Continue reading
Hello! Remember Thirty Flights of Loving? Remember Borges and that trolley dash? Remember Bernoulli and his principle? Brendon Chung's examination of the power of cinematic editing is one of my games of forever, I reckon, and Oli approved too. Anyway, Chung's now released a bunch … | Continue reading
If you're a regular player of Turn 10's racing games, your first reaction to Forza Motorsport 7 is likely to be: what's new? After a rare stumble with the slender and skittish fifth game, this most consistent of series hit its confident stride again with the highly polished Forza … | Continue reading
Chucklefish's gorgeous, mysterious magic-school-themed life sim is a bit of an odd one; not because it doesn't look utterly smashing (it really, really does), but because it could still be a good long while until release. In fact, despite the game's recent tease on Twitter, it ha … | Continue reading
Getting a game through console certification can, according to many a developer, be a long, frustrating process. Any bugs uncovered by a platform holder can lead to certification failure, forcing the exhausting cycle to begin anew.In a fascinating new video, Traveller's Tales fou … | Continue reading
To date, publisher Dark Horse has released two beautiful, strapping Zelda-themed books in the form of the Hyrule Historia and Arts & Artifacts. It's now announced that a third hardback extravaganza is on the way early next year.This newest book, The Legend of Zelda: Encyclopedia, … | Continue reading
You can always depends on Splatoon 2's Splatfests to ask the difficult questions. First we were forced to decide between ketchup and mayonnaise as the supreme condiment (the correct answer here, of course, is mayonnaise), then came the thorny issue of flight or invisibility as th … | Continue reading
Star Wars: Battlefront 2 is set to have a far more engaging multiplayer than the original 2015 reboot. At DICE's headquarters in Stockholm I had the chance… | Continue reading
Red Dead Redemption 2 is a truly significant release - not just for Rockstar, but for the entire console generation. It's the first title designed from the ground up for PS4 and Xbox One, after all. Sure GTA5 received an impressive upgrade when it landed on these machines, but it … | Continue reading