Last month the developers of Shenmue 3 released a trailer for the game and the faces, well, they came in for a bit of stick.Now, Ys Net has published a new video showing off the progress it's made with facial animations.The video comes across as a quickfire response to the vocife … | Continue reading
Blizzard has released a mobile app version of its Battle.net software for iOS and Android.Unfortunately the app doesn't do much right now, apart from letting users add players via Battletag or QR code, chat on the go and see which games friends are playing."If you've ever wanted … | Continue reading
I've been playing Hearthstone now for more than four years, since the days of its closed beta, but I can still remember every update to the game and how well it stuck with me, and how, generally, it was received by the game's talkative community. This time last year, I was put of … | Continue reading
Fortnite's back on the map after the successful launch of its Battle Royale mode.The game's Battle Royale launched yesterday as a free mode for Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC, and according to developer Epic saw over one million players on day one.Fortnite's Battle Royale was see … | Continue reading
Volition has suffered a round of layoffs, according to a report from Kotaku.Over 30 people were let go from the developer of Saints Row and Agents of Mayhem, Kotaku said. It had around 200 staff beforehand.Kotaku said publisher Deep Silver was unhappy with the poor sales of Agent … | Continue reading
Curious about the hardware Nintendo is using to power the new SNES mini? Well, wonder no more. Nintendo has rather cunningly repurposed the exact same technology used in last year's NES mini. Crack open the cute SNES-styled outer layer and the mainboard within is almost a complet … | Continue reading
Sony's announced the PlayStation Plus games for October and the list includes a whopper: Metal Gear Solid 5.Hideo Kojima's Solid Snake swansong is free to download if you're a Plus subscriber from 3rd October.Elsewhere, PlayStation 4 users get Amnesia: Collection, which is a nice … | Continue reading
PlayStation Network is down for some users.We're unable to get online with our PlayStation 4, which says PSN is down for maintenance. The PlayStation Store is currently offline, too.Sony's pointed the finger at Virgin Media, although we've received reports that users of other int … | Continue reading
Assassin's Creed Origins will get a free update next year called Discovery Tour that effectively turns the game into an interactive museum. Currently slated for release early in 2018, Discovery Tour takes the assets and NPCs from the main game and curates them to form a series of … | Continue reading
Skyrim Creation Club's new Survival Mode is now available on Steam for beta testing.Survival Mode transforms Skyrim into a "land of unrelenting cold and harsh wilderness". The new mode adds gameplay features such as hunger, fatigue, temperature effects and the inability to fast … | 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.Look, I'm going to make this as b … | Continue reading
Microsoft has announced October's Xbox Games with Gold titles.On Xbox One, Xbox Live Gold members can download indie adventure Gone Home for free during the… | 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 Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+ … | Continue reading
Developers nDreams and Near Light took to the stage at EGX last week to give us a taste of their latest VR game, Shooty Fruity.The multi-tasking VR title sees players partaking in normal supermarket jobs while defending the store from an onslaught of giant mutant fruit. Eurogamer … | Continue reading
The Mirage Dragon would have wowed me in 1996. It would have blown my mind. It would have fairly erupted from the screen, this twisting, sinuous metal spacecraft, mouth gaping and malevolent and firing laser beams in every direction. After it had blasted me to pieces, it would ha … | Continue reading
It's true, we've covered Rise of the Tomb Raider so many times over the past couple of years that we've even given it a YouTube playlist - but this is by no means a bad thing. It simply demonstrates the love and care developer Nixxes has poured into maintaining the game over the … | Continue reading
Persona 5 is a wonderful PlayStation 4 and PS3 game but it is not available on PC. You can play it on PC, however, via emulation. Well, you could.The RPCS3 emulator was yesterday hit by a legal threat from Atlus, maker of the game. More specifically, it was RPC3 maker Nekotekina … | 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.Despite being originally released … | Continue reading
Historical-not-fantastical medieval role-playing game Kingdom Come: Deliverance has long been in the headlines. Ever since we saw its next-gen mud we follow… | Continue reading
Valve has removed over 150 games from Steam in an ongoing battle against asset flippers. Asset flippers are developers who create games using previously made assets but with little to no original material. This allows developers to churn out poor games cheaply and make a handsome … | Continue reading
The Ataribox console will cost between $249-$299 (probably £999 thanks Brexit) and begin shipping late spring 2018.Inside the petite PC - for it runs Linux with a custom interface - will be an AMD processor and Radeon graphics card, Atari said in a newsletter. The Ataribox will b … | Continue reading
If you're after bold proclamations about the state of gaming in Japan, you might be better off looking elsewhere. Ask a native, perhaps, or someone more int… | Continue reading
Warner Bros. has apologised for the way it handled the controversial Shadow of War Forthog Orc-Slayer DLC and offered refunds to those who bought it.Monolith executive producer Michael Forgey, who died from a brain tumour last year aged just 43-years-old, was set to appear in Sha … | Continue reading
He has seen things you wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. C-beams glittering in the dark near the Tannhäuser gate. Roy Batty's dying monologue is a key scene of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, its pathos buttressed by a sense of wonder in the face of t … | Continue reading
Hob's world is a mechanism: a beautiful, delicate thing of dials and pulleys and clamps and switches. It is intricate, and it is precise, and as you play through Hob the world you move through is never far from your thoughts. You descend beneath its copper and slate crust at time … | 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.Given how difficult the Nintendo … | Continue reading
Cities: Skylines' next expansion Green Cities will be released on 19th October and let you build eco-friendly cities that, importantly, no longer fill your rivers with horrible brown waste.By introducing more than 200 new buildings to the core game, Green Cities will give players … | 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 are or have ever been the … | Continue reading
Mario Odyssey is the Switch game we've been waiting for, a key technical showcase from one of Nintendo's most talented development teams. The template of Mario Galaxy's full 3D exploration is in place - and in many ways it feels a direct successor to those two Wii classics - but … | Continue reading
Star Wars film actor John Boyega (Finn) narrates a new Battlefront 2 trailer that shows all aspects of the upcoming game.Boyega cycles through locations, heroes, game modes, characters, classes and star cards in nearly five minutes of footage. He's hoping to show - and succeeds - … | Continue reading
Ruiner hates you. I don't mean that just in the sense that Ruiner is punishing, though it's certainly that - the game's "Normal" difficulty setting makes the average Call of Duty final stand look like a pillowfight in a nursery. I mean that Ruiner's entire universe is radioactive … | 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
Nearly six years ago, Super Meat Boy co-creator Tommy Refenes prototyped a mobile version of the game on his laptop, working in a hotel room just before GDC. It was rough and early, but as he worked the game grew from the idea of a straight port to one designed - maybe even impro … | Continue reading
Remember Cammy's stage from Super Street Fighter 2? It's coming back as a DLC stage for Street Fighter 5.Capcom announced the new stage, called English Manor, is out today priced $3.99/€3.99 in real money or 70,000 in Fight Money.Here's how the stage looks in Super Street Fighter … | Continue reading
The long-awaited Nintendo Switch version of Yooka-Laylee is being held back by issues with game engine Unity.Developer Playtonic's latest blog update on the game blames the long wait so far on Unity needing to update to its latest version, 5.6, in order to solve the the engine's … | Continue reading
Microsoft once had plans to release an Xbox smartwatch, new photos suggest.Images of an early prototype were first published by SuomiMobiili (thanks, NeoWin).The device is said to have been in the works around 2013, for a release in 2015. It would have worked with Microsoft Surfa … | Continue reading
While we wait for Capcom to release the long-awaited Resident Evil 2 remake, we have its official board game to look forward to.Steamforged Games, which is behind the Dark souls board game, launched a Kickstarter for Resident Evil 2 that asked for £150,000. With 27 days to go, it … | Continue reading
The unprecedented, 340-day video game voice acting strike organised by the Screen Actors Guild‐American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SA… | Continue reading
Cristiano Ronaldo, one of the greatest footballers of all time, has a trademark celebration. When he scores he runs off to jump, twirl, plant his feet with his hands by his side. Pretty much all football fans have seen this.What I didn't know is that Ronaldo actually screams a pa … | Continue reading
I met a mysterious old man this last Saturday. He told me he was 87, and I did not believe it. Then, to prove it, he lifted his huge round sunglasses and made me stare at his eyes, which were light blue and rather milky with cataracts. "Still don't believe it?" he asked. I told 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.The ongoing monthly service from … | Continue reading
It's taken nearly two decades, but they've finally nailed it. Warhammer 2 is Total War perfected. Yeah, I know I'm supposed to be wary of deploying the P word in reviews, at least not before watering it down with some safe, lazy adverb, but 'flawless' would be taking it a bit too … | 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.8Bitdo, for those who haven't hea … | 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.I'm not entirely sure what it mea … | Continue reading
You know how Spurs never made a superstar signing in the summer but are still really good and should really end up in the top four of the Premier League? Well, FIFA is Spurs this year.Stick with me here. I'll explain.FIFA 18 is really good, but there's no headline-grabbing game-c … | Continue reading
Last month, big budget Lord of the Rings game Middle-earth: Shadow of War revealed it would supplement its full-fat price-tag by including loot boxes purchasable with real-world money. It was an announcement which, predictably, did not go down well with fans.The single-player act … | Continue reading
In a slightly bizarre chain of events, Pokémon Gold and Silver are back in the UK chart some 16 years after their initial Game Boy Color launch.This re-release is for the 3DS Virtual Console, but Nintendo printed cardboard boxes with download codes stashed inside and is selling t … | Continue reading
Was Valve once developing ideas for a four-player, co-operative fantasy adventure game? Artwork by former employee Drew Wolf suggests so.Wolf's "Untitled Fantasy Game" gallery on his website shows character work for an internal R&D project, "a fantasy adventure game centered arou … | Continue reading