The Destiny 2 beta finally arrived on PC this week, delivering a vast upgrade in terms of customisation over the console builds. Adjustable quality settings, unlocked frame-rate and field of view along with HDR support take pride of place in a package that seemingly does everythi … | Continue reading
I'm 200 miles from home, holidaying in a part of Devon with no phone signal, barely any roads of sensible passing width, and two moaning, groaning children in tow. It's hammering it down outside, ponds forming on driveways - the very epitome of a British summer's day. The DVD col … | Continue reading
A year after Microsoft published Dead Rising 4 as a timed-exclusive on Xbox One and Windows 10 PC, the game is coming to PlayStation 4.Dead Rising 4: Frank's Big Package launches on Sony's console on 5th December 2017, Capcom said.This special edition includes the main game as 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.When Persona 5 first launched bac … | Continue reading
FIFA's story mode, The Journey, already has Frostbite-powered cutscenes where you make decisions using a conversation wheel. Well, now they're in Career Mod… | Continue reading
This is the first gameplay trailer for Frostpunk, the new city-builder by This War of Mine developer 11 bit Studios.The footage shows humankind's last settlement grow from a frozen smoulder into a prospering, steaming steampunk city. As gameplay unfolds so do crisis points appear … | Continue reading
The team behind a fan remake of Tomb Raider 2 has released a playable demo.Chief developer Nicobass released the demo, which features the first cave of the Great Wall level, over at tombraider-dox.com.Nicobass, with help from a handful of contributors, has rebuilt Tomb Raider 2 u … | Continue reading
Alexis Kennedy - who created Fallen London, was creative director of the marvellous Sunless Sea, and who has recently been writing parts of the next Dragon Age for BioWare - has unveiled a deeply imaginative new narrative game called Cultist Simulator.Set in the 1920s, Cultist Si … | Continue reading
Super Play was my favourite video game magazine of the 90s. As a teenage SNES obsessive I never missed an issue. I loved Wil Overton's manga-influenced covers (I still have the Cybernator one somewhere), the features on Japanese role-playing games that never came out on these sho … | Continue reading
If you've been playing the Call of duty: WW2 multiplayer beta (check out Edwin's impressions here), you'll have noticed the new Overwatch play of the game-style feature that displays at the end of a match.Developer Sledgehammer Games has ditched the final kill replay that traditi … | Continue reading
A Shadow of War developer who died of cancer has been immortalised as an orc slayer in the game.Monolith executive producer Michael Forgey, who died from a brain tumour last year aged just 43-years-old, appears in Shadow of War as DLC character Forthog Orc-Slayer.If you have the … | Continue reading
Imagine a playable race inverting the rules of a game, where healing hurts but poison heals, and where non-player characters run away because they're scared. On the upside there's no need for lockpicks because one bony finger will do, and playing dead is as simple as lying down. … | Continue reading
The Switch version of FIFA 18 is a bit of an oddity. It's certainly the most fully-fledged FIFA we've had outside of the console and PC versions - Ultimate Team on a handheld console is quite something - but it's also, for obvious reasons, still a more limited version next to all … | Continue reading
So we're fighting the Nazis again. And in the game. Call of Duty's return to the heroism-soaked beaches and foxholes of World War 2 is either providentially or unfortunately timed. Wolfenstein and Sniper Elite's fine efforts notwithstanding, I'd sort of forgotten that National So … | Continue reading
Dino Dini's Kick Off Revival comes out on Steam on 12th September.The nostalgia-fuelled football game launched on PlayStation 4 in June 2016 to mediocre reviews. "After over 25 years, Kick Off is back," wrote Graeme Virtue in Eurogamer's review. "But even for a budget proposition … | Continue reading
Destiny 2's raid goes live a week after the game comes out on 6th September.Bungie said the raid launches at 10am PT (6PM UK time) on 13th September.Destiny 2's Trials goes live a couple of days later, at 10am PT (6pm UK time) on 15th September.Read more… | Continue reading
I've been playing Ark: Survival Evolved for almost two years now, and I'm still not 100 per cent sure if it's a good game. Strip away the appealing dinosaur-themed veneer, and developer Studio Wildcard's long-in-early-access survival adventure starts to look surprisingly routine. … | Continue reading
Despite radio silence for a short while, the Metal Gear movie is still being worked on - and not only that, it seems it's in very good hands. The Metal Gear movie was first announced back in 2006 and has, over the years, had names such as Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman and even acc … | Continue reading
Puzzle Fighter is back, this time on mobile and developed by the team behind Dead Rising.Capcom Vancouver built the free-to-download Puzzle Fighter for iPhone, iPad and Android devices. It's due out soon as a soft launch in select countries, with a global release planned for late … | Continue reading
Sega has announced Sonic Forces comes out on 7th November in Europe. PlayStation 4 Bonus Edition. The physical-only Bonus Edition contains four Sonic F… | Continue reading
Earlier this week, H1Z1's Battle Royale style spin-off, King of the Kill, released its first big update in what seems like an age.The 'Combat Update' has retuned and rebalanced the core mechanics in a bid to perfect the game's signature, action-packed, arena shooter gameplay.Alon … | Continue reading
17 years ago, Human Head released Rune, an action adventure PC game based on Norse mythology. It was pretty good and quite a lot of people liked it. The PC game box looked like this:Now, Human Head is bringing Rune back with a new game in the series.Rune: Ragnarok is described as … | Continue reading
It's only a tiny slice of the final product of course - a taster of three years' hard graft from one of the most respected developers in the business - but the arrival of the Call of Duty: World War 2 beta gives us our first look at how Sledgehammer Games has evolved one of the m … | Continue reading
Capcom released Street Fighter 5's latest DLC character on Tuesday and already players are doing crazy things with her.Menat is a brand new character to the Street Fighter series (she popped up in Ed's backstory). The fortune teller is the apprentice of Rose, with a combat style … | Continue reading
Niantic has revealed how you'll catch Legendary beasts Raikou, Entei, and Suicune in Pokémon Go.All three creatures will roll out today (or most likely tomorrow in the UK) and individually appear in specific regions for one month at a time.Fire-type Entei will be in Europe and Af … | Continue reading
Developer Team 17 has announced turn-based strategy game Worms W.M.D will invade Nintendo Switch later this year.Worms W.M.D for Switch includes the same ca… | 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.With less than a month left until … | Continue reading
Battlefield 1's next expansion, In the Name of the Tsar, comes out 19th September on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, EA has announced.According to a blog post on the Battlefield website, 19th September is when the expansion will be available to all players, but Premium Pass owner … | Continue reading
Human Head and Digital Extremes have announced Survived By, a free-to-play PC game that looks like a load of other popular games rolled into one.Human Head, which was making Prey 2 before Bethesda cancelled it, is working with Warframe developer Digital Extremes on the game. Surv … | Continue reading
Has there ever been a console more exotic than the Neo Geo? A rarefied beast in the 90s that boasted near mythical power, its games exuded a certain class; a selection of muscular, meaty 2D action titles, they're often as beautiful to behold today as they've ever been. And they'r … | 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.Over a year on from the game's re … | Continue reading
Charity speedrunners Games Done Quick has announced it will hold an event to raise money for those affected by Hurricane Harvey.Harvey Relief Done Quick runs this weekend, starting 8pm Friday to 8pm Sunday (EDT). In the UK that's 1am Saturday to 1am Monday.The charity event will … | Continue reading
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Street Fighter series, Capcom is re-releasing Street Fighter 2 on an actual SNES cart.The only problem is, it could cause your SNES to catch fire.In one of the more striking video game safety warnings we've seen, retailer iam8bit said the … | Continue reading
In chaos theory, there's a well-known concept called the butterfly effect. In essence, it's about how small causes can have large effects - an idea with its roots in weather forecasting, but one with deeply poetic underpinnings. What if you had the ability to avoid a devastating … | Continue reading
Friday the 13th: The Game's latest patch went live earlier this week and brought with it some much needed changes to the game.Perhaps one of the most significant is the removal of the ability to kill your teammates. Early this month, when publisher Gun Media announced team-kills … | Continue reading
Sony's announced the PlayStation Plus games for September.Headlining is inFamous: Second Son, Sucker Punch's action adventure PlayStation 4 exclusive that came out in March 2014. Our Oli gave it a 7/10 (remember review scores?), saying: "As pretty and playable as it is, in no sen … | Continue reading
Sony will give PlayStation VR title Rigs to all PlayStation Plus members as a bonus game.From 5th September, PS Plus members can download the first-person arena-based shooter.In a note to press, Sony said in the SIEE region (or the PAL region), nearly two-thirds of PS VR owners a … | Continue reading
Myst's spiritual successor offers a lot of the same delights as its 1993 forbear, but is hampered by litany of technical issues. | Continue reading
Nintendo unveiled its "Nindies" (a terrible word that means independent games coming to Nintendo platforms) showcase in a livestream earlier today and the r… | Continue reading
Grasshopper Manufacture's cult classic lightsaber dueling punk fever dream No More Heroes is getting a spin-off on Switch. It's called No More Heroes: Travis Strikes Again.As revealed in a new Nintendo livestream, NMH: Travis Strikes Again is set seven years after the events of t … | Continue reading
Cult classic platformer Super Meat Boy is getting a sequel that will launch exclusively on Switch in 2018.It's called Super Meat Boy Forever, a title that may sound familiar as it was originally announced as a mobile game before getting stuck in development limbo.The game gets it … | Continue reading
Developer Fatshark has teased a sequel to its first person Skaven slaying game Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide. The brief teaser video, which you can view below, shows the unifying symbol of the Skaven clans - Warhammer's race of rat men - while an unseen creature of some kind … | Continue reading
Few sports labour under as much socio-political baggage as golf. It is a game popularised by royalty, spread by Empire, and moderated by prejudice (exhibit 1/59,674: Lord Moncrieff who, in 1902 decreed that women should only be allowed to play providing they not hit the ball furt … | Continue reading
With the penultimate season of Game of Thrones finished on TV and a colossal amount of people talking about it, it's hard to imagine any video game maker ever passing up the opportunity to get a piece of that franchise pie. But as I found out recently, Obsidian Entertainment did … | Continue reading
Blizzard is toughening its stance on toxic behaviour in Overwatch.In response to a thread on the official Overwatch forum titled 'report system is a failure', Overwatch chief Jeff Kaplan revealed Blizzard's road map for tackling unsavoury behaviour in-game.In the short term, Kapl … | Continue reading
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 3 will soon get modding tools.A new update, planned for release yesterday but delayed at the last moment, also includes a huge multiplayer balance update that makes key changes to a raft of units across the three factions.Elsewhere, there's a handy c … | 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.Humble is back with the ninth ent … | Continue reading
After four days of players battling it out for a share of a $350,000 prize pool, the Gamescom PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Invitational is over.The idea of holding an invitational for a game in Early Access seems absurd, but Battlegrounds is not just any Early Access game. Curre … | Continue reading