1984 classic NES Golf is hidden within every Nintendo Switch, fans have found.Not only that, but the retro sports game appears to have been updated with motion controls - which use the Switch's Joy-Con controllers.NES Golf is baked into the system's firmware, Switchbrew discovere … | Continue reading
Destiny 2 servers will be down again today to allow for maintenance work.The servers will be unavailable from 3pm-7pm UK time. That's from 10am Eastern, or 7am Pacific. Players will not be able to log in when the work starts and those who are still in the server an hour later wil … | Continue reading
Mortal Kombat veteran Raiden hits Injustice 2 in October as part of Fighter Pack 2, and developer NetherRealm has released a gameplay video showing off his new moves.The god of thunder has all the electricity-based attacks you could hope for, as well as his long-standing teleport … | Continue reading
Gearbox won't update Battleborn after this autumn, it's said.With all hands on deck for the next Borderlands, there is no planned content for Battleborn after the fall update, creative director Randy Varnell said in a post on the Gearbox website.Battleborn came out in May 2016, w … | Continue reading
Twin Peaks is back, and so is Swery. Taking a holiday to tour the town where they filmed David Lynch's series - North Bend, Washington - it should come as n… | Continue reading
One of the most popular and influential titles of all-time, id software's Doom played a key part in gaming's challenging 90s transition from two to three dimensions, and its legacy of technical innovation continues to this day. Last week, Nintendo and Bethesda announced a handhel … | Continue reading
Have you heard of the North Pond Hermit? It's a wonderful story: strange and wistful. For 27 years a man named Chrisopher Knight lived in the wilderness of Maine, sleeping in a camp beautifully hidden amongst boulders and sneaking out, every few weeks, to steal supplies from the … | Continue reading
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has had more people play it at once than any other game in Steam history.The game's official Twitter account boasted about this stat, revealing a chart in which its reported 1,342,857 players toppled Dota 2's impressive figure of 1,295,114.PUBG's fig … | Continue reading
We've already taken a look at the excellent Radeon RX Vega 56, the cut-down version of the full-fat graphics card reviewed here today - and it's a winner. A couple of outliers aside, it's as fast as Nvidia's GTX 1070 or significantly faster and it easily overclocks to push furthe … | 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.Happy Saturday, everyone. Once mo … | Continue reading
It's hardly surprising that the Destiny community got so angry about Destiny 2's microtransaction system, and the new consumable cosmetics that comes with it. And it's hardly surprising that the fury spread beyond the bounds of the Destiny subreddit. Outrage over corporate greed … | Continue reading
Asymmetrical multiplayer horror game Dead by Daylight has added The Texas Chainsaw Massacre's iconic mass murderer, Leatherface, to the game as paid DLC.… | Continue reading
Destiny 2 has now been playable for more than a week and, as is tradition, today brought Activision's triumphant press release on the launch. But there was no mention of a sales number.Let's break down what the press release actually tells us."With franchise pre-order records bro … | Continue reading
Hearthstone players can now call upon their favourite cards and cardbacks in these snazzy 3D-printed phone cases.Manufacturer Fabzat worked with Blizzard to offer numerous cards such as Dr. Boom, Leeroy Jenkins or Ragnaros the Firelord, or fan-favourite cardbacks such as the game … | Continue reading
A delivery van carrying a number of Total War: Warhammer 2 collector's editions was robbed in Milton Keynes earlier this week, ahead of the game's launch on the 28th September.The Serpent God Edition (which has an RRP of £99.99) includes a physical copy of Total War: Warhammer 2, … | 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.Because roughly all of you who re … | Continue reading
It's a date: 26th September marks the long-awaited release of Elite Dangerous: Horizons 2.4 - The Return and the first time Elite players can fight the Thargoids since the nineties.The Thargoids are the Elite series' evil alien race. Players have discovered multiple hints at thei … | Continue reading
Blizzard is one the world's biggest gaming companies, with titles such as World of Warcraft and Diablo titans in the games industry. What you may not know,… | Continue reading
Over the years, I've come to know what to expect from Obsidian, or so I thought. Obsidian makes RPGs, beautiful, intriguing, sometimes slightly shonky RPGs with great writing and vivid characters and just a lingering trace of thriftiness. They make games where the concepts, where … | Continue reading
Destiny 2 feels like an apology. It is the righting of the wrongs committed by the divisive Destiny 1, a game I couldn't help but pump a thousand hours into despite it often feeling like pulling teeth.The developers at Bungie, with Halo-fuelled egos dented from the mediocre criti … | 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 past week, Humble has bee … | Continue reading
It seems Atlus may have blown one of its big announcements for The Tokyo Game Show. First reported by Hachima, a banner on the developer's NicoNico live stream page was spotted advertising pre-orders for a limited edition version of Dragon's Crown Pro on PlayStation 4.The banner … | Continue reading
Here's a couple of minutes of gameplay for Warhammer Quest 2, the turn-based strategy game for mobile devices.In the video below, developer Ben Murch narrates movement and combat, before briefly showing off spells, bombs and fire damage.The game looks suitably atmospheric and a d … | Continue reading
Regular readers will know I'm no Liverpool fan (my brother, sucked in by the Irish side of my family, supports them, which adds extra spice). But even I have to admit these players are legends. Well, every one of them except Steve McManaman.Konami has announced four ex-Liverpool … | Continue reading
Destiny's famous weekly vendor Xur is back in Destiny 2 for the very first time. And, this week, he's in a tree.No longer is the tentacle-faced Xur kept to the bounds of social spaces such as the Tower and the Reef. Xur now appears on the surface of planets, just as with Destiny … | Continue reading
The developers of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds have now banned over 150,000 cheaters from the game, according to Brendan 'PlayerUnknown' Greene.Greene announced the news via Twitter, revealing 8000 cheaters had been banned within a 24 hour period.The number of cheaters banned fr … | Continue reading
Editor's note: Final review code came in hot for Divinity: Original Sin 2, so ahead of our final review - which will be landing next week - we wanted to offer you some early impressions from the opening of the game. Enjoy! 13 hours into Divinity: Original Sin 2, and I've just le … | Continue reading
Bungie has said it did not realise the meme it referenced on a piece of Destiny 2 armour had been appropriated by alt-right hate groups.In a new blog post, Bungie said the armour had been designed in June 2015 and so it had missed the meme's more recent, "vile" connotations."Grap … | Continue reading
When I played PES 2018 earlier this year, the series' global product and brand manager Adam Bhatti told me it was the first game of a three-year cycle; a new foundation upon which Konami's looking to build. For better and worse, it feels like it. There are marked improvements in … | Continue reading
Call of Duty: WW2 is getting an open beta on PC via Steam from 29th September through 2nd October.Unlike the console beta that occurred earlier this month, this will be available to everyone - not just those who pre-ordered the game.Developer Sledgehammer Games said that part of … | Continue reading
When Doom was announced for Switch earlier this week many were wondering what corners id Software would have to cut to make its stellar shooter run smoothly on Nintendo's hybrid console/handheld. And now we know.According to Endgadget, a Bethesda rep confirmed that the Switch rel … | Continue reading
Back in 2015 developer Noio unleashed Kingdom, a beautifully enigmatic side-scrolling game about creating and expanding an empire. Now that game is available on the Nintendo Switch eShop as Kingdom: New Lands.Priced at £10.99 / €14.99 / $14.99, Kingdom: New Lands plants players o … | Continue reading
Eurogamer's Game of the Year 2016, Overwatch, is getting another free weekend trial, lasting from Friday 22nd September through the early morning of Tuesday the 26th on PS4, Xbox One and PC.For more specific times, it kicks off on 22nd September at 7pm UK time and lasts through 2 … | Continue reading
Sine Mora EX, the definitive edition of Digital Reality and Grasshopper Manufacture's time-hopping shmup, will arrive on Switch in Europe on 10th October.Our friends in the US will receive it a couple of weeks earlier on 26th September.The PS4, Xbox One, and PC versions of Sine M … | 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.Psychonauts, despite not quite be … | Continue reading
Goofy open-world crime adventure Saints Row: The Third has been added to the Xbox One's backwards compatible library.It's joined by horror game Slender: The Arrival, SNES classic port Super Contra, Chair Entertainment's twin-stick shooter Undertow, and card-based party game Monop … | Continue reading
Sony has revealed a Call of Duty: WW2 edition of the PlayStation 4 and it's pretty hideous looking.The green camo console was announced via the official PlayStation blog and is part of a Limited Edition Call of Duty: WW2 PlayStation 4 Bundle. The bundle also comes with a matching … | Continue reading
For the three people who, like me, played 3DS eShop exclusive Dillon's Rolling Western, last night's Nintendo Direct in Japan held a welcome surprise.The Dead Heat Breakers is a new action tower defense title for 3DS, due to launch in Japan next year. In it, Nintendo's cowboy arm … | Continue reading
Fantasy Strike, the accessible fighting game from Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix lead designer David Sirlin, has entered Steam Early Access after an unsuccessful crowdfunding drive.Fantasy Strike asked for $500,000 on Fig, but the crowdfunder ended in August after just $14 … | Continue reading
Microsoft is planning a quiet revolution in the way that games are streamed and installed onto Xbox One and Xbox One X. The new system - known internally as Intelligent Delivery - aims to save hard drive space and reduce download times by allowing users to only download the asset … | 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.LEGO Dimensions came out a few ye … | Continue reading
Klei Entertainment has been quiet about Don't Starve for a few months now, but it seems the team has been working on a raft of new gubbins.In the official Don't Starve forum, the developer announced a new single-player DLC called Hamlet.In the Hamlet DLC, which is due for release … | Continue reading
Microsoft has improved the resolution of Xbox One's Game DVR feature, used to record your gameplay highlights. It'll now capture at 1080p, instead of the previous 720p.This bump is available now to Xbox Insiders in the alpha ring, who receieve updates as early as possible. It wil … | 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 it being less than a mont … | Continue reading
Leviathan, Destiny 2's first raid, has been beaten. Destiny clan The Legend Himself was first to the finish line, after dropping the challenge's final boss in around five and a half hours.Leviathan went live at 6pm last night. A puzzle box of encounters, platforming and explorati … | Continue reading
Dealing with toxic behaviour is slowing Overwatch development, Blizzard's Jeff Kaplan has said.In the latest Overwatch developer update video, called Play Nice, Play Fair, Kaplan addressed an issue which has been plaguing the Overwatch community for some time - "the rising tide o … | Continue reading
I read a wonderful thing once about ants, and it made me love them more than I did already - and I already really loved ants. This thing I read - I cannot remember the source or the specifics - talked about how ants construct their nests, how they achieve a level of intelligence … | Continue reading
Nintendo may not have confirmed a proper Virtual Console yet for the Switch, but it's moving in that direction with today's announcement that it will be releasing several of its 80s arcade classics on its popular handheld/console hybrid.As revealed during its Nintendo Direct earl … | Continue reading