I never thought I'd see Divinity: Original Sin 2 finished in under an hour - heck I spent that long creating a character - but a 37 minute speedrun has been recorded, and not even a month has passed since launch.The speedrunner, Onin, uses a bunch of exploits to achieve the 37:48 … | Continue reading
Well, this is all mighty exciting - we're just over a week away from Polyphony Digital's debut on PlayStation 4 with Gran Turismo Sport. It only took four years!Before then, though, there's a limited-time demo that's hitting the PlayStation Store on Monday. It goes live at 10am B … | Continue reading
Isn't 'firmware' a boring word? It sounds like a pair of body-control underpants. Anyway, PlayStation 4 firmware 5.0 has been released. It is 374.7MB.The bi… | Continue reading
EA has released FIFA 18's first big patch - and it makes some important changes to the game.This update, available now on PC and soon on console, makes improvements to the goalkeepers, which some considered to be poor, and makes shooting slightly harder.One of the chief criticism … | Continue reading
A developer at League of Legends studio Riot appears to have left the company after controversial comments he made about a popular streamer blew up online.Aaron Rutledge, known online as Riot Sanjuro, hit out at popular League streamer "Tyler1" in a series of Discord posts.22-yea … | Continue reading
What a jolly coincidence! Multiplayer support has returned to the old Star Wars Battlefront 2 mere days before the open beta for the new Star Wars Battlefro… | Continue reading
Microsoft's Spotify rival, Groove Music, is shutting down. The streaming subscription service is available on Xbox One and Windows, but has… | Continue reading
Andrew House is no longer the boss of PlayStation, or Sony Interactive Entertainment if you want to put it poshly. He hands the reins to his deputy, John Kodera, but will remain as director and chairman until the end of the year and then, it seems, toddle off.It's not clear where … | Continue reading
As if it wasn't obvious enough from the stage upon which Capcom chose to introduce the newest Monster Hunter, this one's going to be a little different. Mon… | Continue reading
When Studio MDHR's marvellously frantic toon shooter Cuphead finally released on Xbox One and PC last Friday, two things immediately became clear: it's a truly beautiful piece of work, exquisitely nailing its 1930s cartoon aesthetic, and it's hilariously difficult to boot.That ha … | Continue reading
Free-to-play mech shooter Hawken will be removed from Steam on January 2, 2018, and its PC servers will be shut down. Additionally, all DLC and purchasable content will be unavailable as of today.According to a statement on the official Hawken Facebook page, the decision has been … | Continue reading
Farming-and-wooing-based indie smash Stardew Valley is finally making its long-awaited debut on Nintendo Switch this Thursday, October 5th.Developer ConcernedApe broke the news in a post on the official Stardew Valley blog, noting that the game will cost $14.99 on Switch, giving … | Continue reading
Scorn grabbed plenty of headlines when it was announced last year, mainly thanks to its deeply unsettling aesthetics. At the time of writing this, the official Scorn trailer has had over 23 million views and the game's Kickstarter campaign has been funded with a week still to go, … | Continue reading
HTC Vive virtual reality headset bundles now offer a free copy of Fallout 4 VR while stocks last. Fallout 4 VR is the entire Fallout 4 game in virtual reality, with new combat, crafting and reimagined building systems. It's full-priced - £40 - but not due until 12th December so H … | Continue reading
Forza Motorsport 7 launches tomorrow, but the Ultimate Edition of the game has been playable since Friday - and fans have been surprised to discover a change to how VIP membership works which, they say, makes it much less valuable.VIP membership is a Forza series staple, included … | Continue reading
Nioh comes out on PC via Steam on 7th November 2017, Koei Tecmo has announced.The well-received samurai action game launched on PlayStation 4 back in February.Nioh arrives on PC in Complete Edition form, and includes the base game and all three DLC expansions: Dragon of the North … | Continue reading
A decade before CD Projekt Red's The Witcher (1) was released, there was another Witcher game was being made. In 1997, a Polish team by the name of Metropolis Software, led by Adrian Chmielarz (Bulletstorm, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter), was making the game. I talked to him thre … | Continue reading
Yet again, Destiny 2 is down for hours this week. It's the fourth time in as many weeks the game will be pulled offline for maintenance.Players will not be able to sign in from 4pm UK time tomorrow, 3rd October, until 8pm.And, again, players in Europe will be hardest hit - as Bun … | Continue reading
FIFA 18 scored first place in the UK games chart this week, though its physical launch sales were down by a quarter.Numbers company Chart-Track recorded retail copy sales as being down 25 per cent during FIFA 18's launch week compared to FIFA 17 a year ago. Should EA be worried? … | Continue reading
Sony has announced a hardware update for PlayStation VR is in the works.The updated PlayStation VR model will include a new design, packaging and an improve… | Continue reading
In the 1930s, employees at Universal Studio Cartoons devised a game to interrupt the bow-backed routine of inking cels and preparing animation frames. The men would work rubber bands and clumps of spit-mulched paper into spongy balls, hide them on their laps and, at an opportune … | Continue reading
The NES mini was a huge success, but very much a first effort from Nintendo ripe for improvement. Fine for more casual gamers, the experience for enthusiasts was let down by flaws including subpar video scaling, ultra-short controller cords, audio lag and a range of minor emulati … | Continue reading
After launching the anime-inspired mech-shooter SHOGO: Mobile Armor Division, Monolith Productions was down in the dumps. Although SHOGO had reviewed pretty well, internally Monolith's view on the game reflected my own when I returned to it a few weeks ago. In both style and sub … | Continue reading
Atari broke cover this week, revealing more about its planned console, dubbed Ataribox. Useful detail is thin on the ground, but we know that it's using a custom AMD processor, that it's based on the open source Linux platform and will cost a minimum of $250. So just what can we … | 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 excitement of EGX is over for … | Continue reading
Where do monsters come from? Popular culture has a voracious appetite for monsters, and games perhaps more than anything else. We fight them in their hordes, summon them, collect them and befriend them. With each new release, we need more monsters, distinctive but still familiar … | Continue reading
Last years NES Mini was drastically underproduced and that's putting it mildly. The palm-sized retro console sold out in a matter of minutes and it became so sought after that chancers, scalpers and even CEX began re-selling the unit at overly inflated prices.Thankfully Nintendo … | Continue reading
The games industry has joined forces to support severely physically disabled gamers all over the world through charity SpecialEffect's One Special Day event.Companies including EA, SEGA and Rovio have partnered with SpecialEffect for the charity event, which sees them giving a da … | Continue reading
This is a nice idea. Sports Interactive has announced the headline features of Football Manager 2018 as if it were a segment on a BBC News broadcast.The studio anchor outlines the rumours swirling around the game and then introduces her roving reporter colleague in the field - we … | 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.Head down to the Humble Store thi … | Continue reading
A school gym in England, mid-'90s, and two local rugby players await orders. One is small and wide and called Adrian, and one is tall and weighs about 20 stone. He's Big Dave. Adrian has been getting flattened by Big Dave all day but he keeps getting back up. It's the rugby train … | Continue reading
The Wii Shop Channel shuts down in 2019, Nintendo has announced.Originally reported by Gematsu, the closure is set for 31st January 2019. After this date users will no longer be able to buy titles or applications from the channel for the Wii or Wii U.From 27th March 2018, users c … | Continue reading
Hot on the heels of the NES mini and the SNES mini comes another nostalgia-fuelled retro console: the C64 mini. The C64 mini in the wild.… | Continue reading
Right, we've all been thinking it. It's a bit nuts that Rockstar went to the trouble of animating the sway of that horse's testicles in yesterday's trailer for Red Dead Redemption 2, right?I'm not saying that's the only thing of note. We've done a whole video in fact, which you c … | Continue reading
Enchanting indie title Flower is now available on the App store.The announcement comes as a bit of a surprise considering Sony owns the Flower trademark and the game had launched on PlayStation consoles only. However, developer thatgamecompany, whose previous work includes Journe … | Continue reading
FIFA 18 just came out on Nintendo Switch, which should be reason for cheer. It's a decent port of this year's game, albeit running on an older engine and understandably without all the bells and whistles of its PlayStation 4 and Xbox One counterparts (and missing a few features s … | Continue reading
Microsoft has delayed the shutdown of its indie games programme for Xbox 360 until next month.Xbox Live Indie Games was due to end today, according to a tweet by ID@Xbox. However, the closure has now been delayed until 7th October to allow players more time to get games before th … | Continue reading
Editor's note: We've only recently taken receipt of final retail code for Forza Motorsport 7, so our review will be with you early next week. Before then, here's some early impressions culled from a couple of hours' play. Forza Motorsport isn't exactly showing its age - even if … | Continue reading
Many Dead Rising fans were disappointed in Dead Rising 4 when it came out, and while Capcom has updated the game since its initial release in December 2016, some feel it's still not quite the game it could be.Well, the developers at Capcom Vancouver have just announced a raft of … | Continue reading
Rollercoaster Tycoon Classic is out now on PC and Mac via Steam priced £14.99.The theme park sim came out on mobile and tablet devices back in December 2016… | Continue reading
It turns out Mario is a bit of a monster.When you're playing Super Mario World on your SNES mini, know this: he's punching Yoshi in the head to make him stick out his tongue, not pointing forward to tell him where to go.And if you played Super Mario World back in the day, like I … | Continue reading
Rockstar's released a new trailer for Red Dead Redemption 2 - and it reveals story information.The game tells the story of outlaw Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde gang as, according to the official blurb, "they rob, fight and steal their way across the vast and rugged heart of … | Continue reading
Cliff Bleszinski's studio Boss Key Productions is offering Steam users the chance to play its latest title LawBreakers free this weekend.The free weekend begins today at 6pm UK time and runs until 6pm UK time on 2nd October. Unfortunately the promotion only applies to the Steam v … | Continue reading
After a 22-year absence, Elite's legendary alien menace, the Thargoids, are back. This isn't a surprise invasion, of course; developer Frontier has been teasing the Thargoids' eventual return in Elite: Dangerous for over two years now, with a masterfully orchestrated campaign of … | Continue reading
John Lewis sold the coveted SNES mini last night - but for some it did not go well.The UK shop said it would sell Nintendo's little retro console from 8pm last night, and so the horde descended upon its website. According to exasperated customers who contacted Eurogamer, John Lew … | Continue reading
Golf, the well-worn saying goes, is a good walk spoiled. Golf Story, on the other hand, is a slight 16-bit styled RPG that's fortified by its embrace of that most sedate of sports. This is a pairing that, against expectations, works a treat. Except it won't be that much of a surp … | 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.Today, Amazon has gone and introd … | Continue reading
I've finally had some brilliant moments in Fortnite. I've had some brilliant moments, unexpected and thrilling and hilarious. For weeks, I dipped in and out of a game that I dearly wanted to love, a game made with obvious craft and care and wit, but a game whose once-voguish elem … | Continue reading