Destiny 2 will be unplayable today for six hours, between 2pm and 8pm UK time.That's 6am until midday Pacific time, or 9am until 3pm Eastern.This is the thi… | Continue reading
Just under a year after the launch of Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, a "walking simulator" about dealing with loss in Shropshire in 1984, it won three BAFTAs. For its developer The Chinese Room, it seemed things couldn't get any better. Fans anxiously awaited the studio's next … | Continue reading
Cast your mind back to Xbox One's launch in 2013 and a few big games stand out, with Killer Instinct one of them. As Microsoft's flagship fighting game, it offered a long overdue revival of Rare's classic franchise, enhanced with the latest 3D console technology. Every impact for … | Continue reading
Strange Brigade, the new game by Sniper Elite studio Rebellion, is a charming beast, a breathless romp right out of the pages of a hammy British adventure mag. It's Brendan Fraser's rolled up shirt sleeves in the sandy archaeological action film The Mummy, his beefy fists thumpin … | Continue reading
We've been having a lovely old time here at EGX. Andy Serkis turned up, Doug Cockle came and did the Geralt voice for Bertie (whether he liked it or not), Chris Bratt had some very Chris Bratt conversations with X-COM and XCOM maestros Julian Gollop and Jake Solomon, and then as … | Continue reading
Editor's note: Once a month we invite the wonderful Gareth Damian Martin, editor of Heterotopias, to show us what proper writing about games looks like before we shoo him away for making the rest of us look bad. You can read Gareth's pieces on Dark Souls and Resident Evil - and y … | Continue reading
Move over Dream Daddy, there's a new dating simulator in town and it's considerably... furrier.Purrfect Date is the adorable new six-chapter title from Boss… | 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.This week's rendition of the best … | Continue reading
Built to run existing game engines at native 4K, our first taste of what the new Xbox One X hardware could deliver came in the form of a Forza Motorsport tech demo, built to base Xbox One spec, but offering ultra HD resolution, a locked 60 frames per second - and with processing … | Continue reading
The meticulous, mysterious and award-winning Inside appears to be heading to Nintendo Switch and iOS.Japanese publication Famitsu heard the news from Inside creator Arnt Jensen while he was on a tour of Japan, dinnering with The Last Guardian maker Fumito Ueda and team, and Metal … | Continue reading
Super Mario Run is getting its biggest update yet, with fresh levels, a new quickfire mode and the addition of a new playable character: Princess Daisy.You can unlock Daisy by playing through Remix 10, a "frenetic" mode which will feature 10 level snippets from across the game. E … | Continue reading
The best - or at least the most famous - stories in video games are rarely the best video game stories. Yes, you can argue that the morally grimy ending of The Last of Us is up there with darker blockbuster movies, that the BioShock series' philoso-scientific musings are at least … | Continue reading
It's been 20 years since the release of Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee and the game, as well as it's peculiar protagonist, still holds a special place in the hearts of many. So it was music to fans' ears when developer Oddworld Inhabitants revealed it was working on a new entry in the O … | Continue reading
The developer of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has hit out at Epic's Fortnite for "replicating" its game.In an eyebrow-raising press release, Bluepoint exec Chang Han Kim slammed Fortnite's new Battle Royale mode for its similarities to PUBG. Kim said his studio was "concerned" a … | Continue reading
Lovely looking musical action-adventure game Figment has just been released on Steam. It's the latest title by Bedtime Digital Games, who you might know from Back to Bed which was also surreal and filled with charm.Hand-drawn and set within the recesses of someone's mind, Figment … | Continue reading
You're probably aware by now, but Eurogamer's Chris Bratt really loves XCOM and consequently has a bit of a man-crush on Jake Solomon, the designer who masterminded its rebirth at Firaxis with XCOM: Enemy Unknown and the recent XCOM 2.Chris has spoken to Jake quite a few times no … | Continue reading
Nyamyam - the team behind 2014's pop-up book puzzle game Tengami - has debuted its next project at EGX.Astrologaster is a narrative adventure featuring real historical figure Simon Forman, a 'doctor' in the 16th century who solved people's problems and medical ills - from love tr … | Continue reading
Yesterday at EGX in Birmingham, I took to the stage with Rich Leadbetter and John Linneman from Digital Foundry to chat about Xbox One X and the future of console technology. We'd held a similar discussion at EGX Rezzed in London back in April, but back then we couldn't reveal th … | Continue reading
Destiny's three factions arrive in Destiny 2 next week, on 26th September.Factions are like teams, you pick a favourite and support them by earning XP and in-game items for their vendors. In return you earn reputation with them and unlock their stores of exclusive gear and weapon … | Continue reading
Has it really been fourteen years? True, the wait for an all-new Virtual On has been softened by home ports of Marz and Force, but even then we've been holding our breath for a while for the true return of Sega's mech-battling series. Well, it's here, I've played it and I know o … | Continue reading
Is there a better fit for virtual reality than the humble racing game? Ever since sampling iRacing with an Oculus Rift I've sworn by the pairing, and now have a dedicated set-up at home. There's something sublime about how the technology fits the genre - how a fixed cockpit works … | Continue reading
About halfway through Original Sin 2's campaign, you acquire the ability to talk to ghosts. Cast "Spirit Vision" in any given area of its massive, detailed world, and any nearby souls waiting in the queue to the afterlife will be revealed to you, their transparent outline glowing … | Continue reading
In his review of Gunpoint, the first game from former journo Tom Francis, Dan Whitehead described the protagonist as a "flea in a trenchcoat" - springing through windows to administer dainty mouse-click beatdowns. To continue the theme, Heat Signature reminds me of those horrible … | Continue reading
Earlier today I had the privilege of taking the stage with Andy Serkis - famed Hollywood actor, master of the art of performance capture, the man behind Gollum, Snoke, Kong and Captain Haddock for goodness' sake. He visited EGX in Birmingham to promote Planet of the Apes: Lost Fr … | Continue reading
Mamma mia! Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle is now the best-selling third-party game on Nintendo Switch.That's according to physical sales tracked from North American and Australian numbers company NPD as well as UK company Chart-Track GFK.It's not too surprising - there haven't b … | Continue reading
Vostok Inc, a twin-stick clicker hybrid we thoroughly recommend, is coming to Nintendo Switch. Andreas Firnigl, boss of developer Nosebleed, told me the news at EGX 2017 today."I really really wanted to do a Switch version because it's a perfect thing," he said. "One of the very … | Continue reading
Crowdfunded sequel Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire has a publisher. It isn't Paradox, which published Pillars 1, but Versus Evil, publisher of The Banner Saga series.There's no concrete release date to go with the announcement but an "early 2018" window for PC, Linux and Mac. "We … | Continue reading
In October of 2008, Bethesda Game Studios released Fallout 3 and in doing so, changed the series forever. Gone were the 2D sprites, isometric camera and turn-based combat of the original games in favour of something the studio believed could appeal better to a larger, more mainst … | Continue reading
Hello! You're probably aware that Gamer Network, Eurogamer's parent company, also runs EGX, which is currently underway in Birmingham. Throughout the course of the show, various developers will be giving talks about the games they're working on.If you'd like to watch any of these … | Continue reading
Just how powerful is Nintendo Switch and what are its limits? From Digital Foundry's perspective, it's been fun - and fascinating - to see the evolution of the platform, our expectations of the core Tegra X1 processor's capabilities exceeded by several key releases. But a Switch … | Continue reading
Supernatural adventure RPG Vampyr will now launch in spring 2018, developer Dontnod has decided.It was previously down for release later this year on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.Dontnod is, of course, the developer of the original Life is Strange - and is now also working on a … | Continue reading
Mugsters is a charming puzzle adventure game seemingly built for gifs.You play a human who tries to escape from an alien threat across various sandbox levels in single-player and two-player co-op. Expect plenty of physics-based shenanigans and loads of vehicles.The idea is you ex … | Continue reading
Following its reveal at Tuesday's Sony Press Conference, Square Enix afforded us a first look proper at Left Alive, the third-person survival shooter set in the Front Mission universe. Producer Shinji Hashimoto, game director Toshifumi Nabeshima and character artist Yoji Shinkawa … | Continue reading
Minecraft's big new cross-platform version is available right now on Windows 10 PC, Xbox One, iPhone and iPad, Android, and for VR devices.It is a huge moment in the history of the game - and of gaming in general - although the Nintendo Switch version is lagging behind."We're wor … | Continue reading
My absolute favourite thing about the first SteamWorld Dig - a game that, in the memory, seems pretty much bursting with favourite things - was a simple collectable. It was an in-game currency of some kind, although inevitably I can't remember what you could spend it on. What I c … | Continue reading
Fortnite's Battle Royale mode is launching as a free standalone game for Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC.The 100-player PVP mode in Fortnite will be completely free for everyone from 26th September.It's a canny move - gazumping the launch of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds on consol … | Continue reading
Street Fighter 5 Arcade Edition has been spotted online.ShopTo has a listing for a PlayStation 4 version of the game, which carries a Tuesday, 16th January 2018 release date and a £39.99 RRP.There's no other detail (we've asked Capcom for comment), but the expectation is this is … | Continue reading
After the madness of Pokémon Go's summer Legendary raiding, the app is bringing back its smaller scale monthly events. First up is Equinox, to celebrate the arrival of autumn. It will run from 9pm UK time on Friday 22nd September until 9pm UK time on Monday 2nd October.Most notab … | Continue reading
The frog was more or less out of the bag earlier today when a bunch of gameplay videos were leaked onto YouTube, but we played three new Super Mario Odyssey worlds last week at a Nintendo preview event. The session took us from the game's very first cutscene and starting area, a … | Continue reading
Remedy's Quantum Break was announced for Xbox One X back at Gamescom and we managed to get a few minutes of time on the game, where first impressions were positive. The resolution upgrade was palpable and performance looked relatively solid. A couple of weeks on, and we managed 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.Initially announced at the beginn … | Continue reading
Everton football club fans are not best pleased about the hideous new Angry Birds logo on their players' sleeves.Nevertheless, the Angry Birds twitter account appears to be having fun amidst the mockery.This is the first year Premier League teams have been able slap corporate spo … | Continue reading
I played a bit of Destiny 2 last night, and wow, there's the Tower up in smoke. First thing, seconds into the game, and the whole place has been trashed, while gods - or humans who have ascended to some place near gods - are flung in every direction as space invaders move in. The … | Continue reading
What happens when you have a CEO who hasn't slept for three days and had a few sips of wine? Well, firstly you get a quite amazingly frank, entertaining and honest interview, and then sometimes you get a little bit more. Australian YouTuber SpotTheOzzie was streaming himself play … | Continue reading
Nintendo handhelds have long been home to Picross, a pictoral number puzzler particularly popular in Japan.Today, a new version of the game was announced for Nintendo Switch - and it's called Picross S.Picross S will be available to download from the Switch eShop from next Thursd … | Continue reading
A few short weeks back, Final Fantasy 15 director Hajime Tabata hinted that Square Enix was looking into bringing his game to Nintendo's Switch console, and now we've an idea of what exactly that might look like - even if it's still very much in the planning stage. There was some … | Continue reading
In less than a day the world's first - or so it claims - 8K virtual reality headset has raced past a Kickstarter goal of $200,000, amassing, with 44 days still to go, nearly $600,000.Pimax: The World's First 8K VR Headset has a 4K display for each eye, making everything much shar … | Continue reading
We'll be able to show you more of Super Mario Odyssey in the not-too-distant future, but until then, one YouTube channel has decided to dump all of its footage online.Details revealed by the footage are, of course, already being spread on NeoGAF and reddit.For example, there's a … | Continue reading