PC gamers are review-bombing Sonic Mania on Steam over what they believe is an underhanded inclusion of DRM.Sonic Mania came out on Steam yesterday after a two week delay and users soon discovered the game contained the controversial DRM, Denuvo.However, there was no mention of t … | Continue reading
UK shop CEX recently suffered an online security breach that may affect up to two million of its customers.CEX, which deals in secondhand video games as well as other consumer electronics, said an unauthorised third party accessed its computer systems and some customer data was c … | Continue reading
UPDATE 23RD OCTOBER: A brief update to let you know winners will be chosen this week! Sorry it's taken a while to sort out.ORIGINAL STORY 11TH SEPTEMBER: We… | Continue reading
Absolver isn't a Dark Souls game. It seems wise to state that up front, because for its first few hours Absolver manages a very good impression of a Dark Souls game, albeit one that has traded its Covenants for martial art schools, its "jolly cooperation" for Jeet Kune Do. There' … | Continue reading
AMC and Finnish developer Next Games have announced they are releasing a new location-based augmented reality mobile game, The Walking Dead: Our World, base… | Continue reading
Five years ago the creators of popular webcomic Homestuck raised nearly $2.5m on Kickstarter to make a video game spin-off. Now, half a decade later, that game is coming out. Dubbed Hiveswap, this Homestuck affair is a four-part episodic point-and-click adventure slated for a 14t … | Continue reading
The first two seasons of Telltale's The Walking Dead series, along with its spin-off The Walking Dead Michonne, are now available on Xbox One via the backwards compatibility library.We really liked the first season, from way back in 2012. Our Oli Welsh said its conclusion was "su … | Continue reading
Earlier this month Bertie and I visited Obsidian Entertainment, the excellent, proudly independent role-playing game developer based in Irvine, California. There's plenty of history there, from the team's work on games like Pillars of Eternity, Alpha Protocol and Fallout: New Veg … | Continue reading
Nintendo will reveal its upcoming seasonal lineup of independent games in its "Nindies Summer Showcase" livestream Wednesday, 30th August, at 6pm UK time.Indie games that we know of that are on the horizon for Switch include Steamworld Dig 2, Stardew Valley, Lumo, Celeste, Ultima … | Continue reading
A couple of weeks ago I got to try Sea Hero Quest VR - a virtual reality game which will, somewhat astonishingly, help in the fight against dementia.I've seen the damage dementia can cause firsthand. There's little to be done to slow its creeping progress, or the inescapable fact … | 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.Last week, I mentioned the long-a … | Continue reading
Brendan Greene has confirmed that the upcoming desert map for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds will be 8x8 km in size - equal to that of the original Erangel map.While it was previously announced that the desert map would be half that size, measuring only 4x4 km, Brendan told me dur … | Continue reading
Microsoft discontinued the original Xbox One after it released the Xbox One S, it has confirmed.The Xbox One S, which launched in August 2016, effectively replaced the original Xbox One. Any you see available to buy will be from shops clearing stock or second hand."As is typical … | Continue reading
Last week Ark: Survival Evolved developer Wildcard said PlayStation 4-Xbox One cross-play worked internally but Sony "won't allow" it publicly. The revelation, in a tweet by Wildcard co-founder Jeremy Stieglitz, followed recent reports of Sony blocking Minecraft and Rocket League … | Continue reading
Towards the end of 2014, Jeremy Stieglitz and Jesse Rapczak knew they wanted to make a game together. "It was just Jesse and me in the beginning. You don't set out as 'let's build a team and make a game but we don't have an idea for a game'. It was quite the opposite," Stieglitz … | Continue reading
It is, as ever, a busy time for Telltale Games. This year the studio finished Batman's first season and Walking Dead's third, released Guardians of the Galaxy's first season and then Minecraft's and Batman's second. Oh, and it launched Batman season one on Switch. Phew!Last month … | Continue reading
Tom Watson's done it. Hillary Clinton's done it. Now, Luigi's dabbed too.Eagle-eyed fans spotted Mario's bro perform the dab dance move in Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle. Turn your speakers up and watch the below:Oli, who wrote our Mario + Rabbids review, confirmed the dab move … | Continue reading
The Miiverse's days have finally been numbered. Nintendo's social messaging service will close on 8th November in Japan, with other regions set to follow suit. Perhaps more importantly, its closure takes with it a number of key features for Wii U games. Nintendo's Miiverse launc … | Continue reading
The highly recommended Uncharted: The Lost Legacy - a shorter but much leaner instalment, and cheaper too - is top of the UK physical-sales game chart. This marks the sixth time in 2017 a PlayStation exclusive has debuted top of the list.Oli praised Uncharted: The Lost Legacy for … | Continue reading
Rabbid Peach is the game character of the century. One of Ubisoft's madcap, bug-eyed mascots dressed in Princess Peach cosplay, she fuses the anarchic irreverence of the former with the queenly preening of the latter in a squat, sassy bundle of diva delight. Beat a boss and she f … | Continue reading
Crazes come and go on Steam but few games ever get close to unseating Dota 2 at the top of the concurrent-players table - until now. After days of threatening it, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has had more players than Dota 2.It was a fleeting moment and Dota 2 has since reclaime … | Continue reading
Two Yakuza games within eight months? Maybe 2017 isn't so bad after all. Kiwami isn't a new game, however, but a remake - a sweeping visual overhaul of the 2005 original, with a number of systemic and narrative tweaks besides, bringing it more in line with this year's 80s-set pre … | Continue reading
Capcom's put out a new video for upcoming fighting game Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite and I have to admit, the game looks a lot better than it has done in recent months.The video, below, shows off Jedah, Ghost Rider, Dormammu and Firebrand, as well as a new Infinity Stone that looks … | Continue reading
Splatoon 2 is getting its first all-new maps, with Manta Maria coming to Turf War and Ranked Battle Modes this Saturday and Lost Outpost coming to co-op mode Salmon Run from tomorrow. The news comes via a dump of Nintendo-related news this morning as Gamescom gets up and running. … | 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.During its Gamescom livestream ye … | Continue reading
The Bard's Tale: Remastered and Resnarkled has just been released by developer inXile Entertainment.Writing on The Bard's Tale official Facebook page, the developer revealed it has released a remastered version of the game for PlayStation 4 and PS Vita."inXile Entertainment is pr … | Continue reading
A brisk running time and lower stakes do the Uncharted formula no harm at all - even if this spin-off sticks a bit too close to the script. | Continue reading
Back in May 2017, Warfame developer Digital Extremes announced its next game, codenamed Keystone. It's now revealed the final title, The Amazing Eternals and released gameplay footage.The video below shows off The Amazing Eternals, which is a free-to-play competitive shooter fuse … | Continue reading
Developer nDreams has announced its latest VR game, Shooty Fruity. Shooty Fruity is set in a 1950s-style American supermarket. You are an employee going about your day job - oh, and shooting mutant fruit that's trying to take over the store.The game is a job simulator meets shoot … | Continue reading
The Trail comes out on PC via Steam today priced £10. The Trail is the third game from 22cans, following Curiosity and Godus. First laun… | 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.Even though Nintendo kind of buri … | Continue reading
Football Manager 2018 comes out on Friday, 10th November 2017, Sega has announced. Time for some irrational worry based on the first game of… | Continue reading
For Honor is a great fighting game marred by technical issues. That's a sentiment that has dogged the game since it came out - now thrust once again into the public eye by a recent Ubisoft-backed tournament that ended in farce.The winner of the PC hero series tournament set up by … | Continue reading
What if mutant monster hunter Geralt, the eponymous witcher in The Witcher books and video games, were a samurai? What if The Witcher 4 went East? It's all a daydream but one brought to some kind of life by Maul Cosplay in a short live action video. Maul Cosplay has been hired as … | Continue reading
While we wait for another main game in the Titanfall series (Respawn recently said it's working on more Titanfall, so despite lower than expected sales of Titanfall 2, I reckon Titanfall 3 is on the way), there's a mobile Titanfall real-time strategy game to try.Titanfall: Assaul … | Continue reading
Rez Infinite, last year's VR-enabled update and expansion of Tetsuya Mizuguchi's classic 2001 head trip, now has a PC version - and it's released today on Steam.Like the PS4 version, Rez Infinite on PC supports VR - via both Oculus Rift and HTC Vive headsets - and 4K display reso … | 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.Ni No Kuni won plenty of hearts w … | Continue reading
Overwatch's Summer Games event kicks off tomorrow through 28th August and now we know what its seasonal skins entail.Blizzard revealed the new beach-based costumes on Overwatch's official site. There's also quite a few shots of them in action in the Summer Games trailer below:Jus … | Continue reading
Nintendo has announced livestreams for two of its biggest upcoming titles during Gamescom.Super Mario Odyssey and Metroid: Samus Returns will both be played live from the show, and key developers will be on hand to reveal more of the games.For Mario, you'll want to tune in at 2pm … | Continue reading
Ubisoft has revealed an extended section of side-mission gameplay from Assassin's Creed Origins. There's pyramid looting, eagle scouting, sneaking and fight… | Continue reading
It's not often big publishers warn their customers about the size of an upcoming patch, but that's exactly what Ubisoft has done with Rainbow Six Siege.In a post on the Rainbow Six website, Ubisoft revealed the size of its upcoming season three patch for the various platforms the … | Continue reading
Ghost Recon: Wildlands now has a free five-hour trial on both PS4 and Xbox One.This new demo supports both single-player and online co-op, so you can get a proper feel for the tactical open-world shooter by hopping into a game with friends.This isn't the first time Ubisoft has of … | Continue reading
Rime finally has a Nintendo Switch release date: 17th November 2017.Tequila Works' puzzle adventure game costs £29.99 on the eShop, with a special physical edition priced £39.99. The physical edition includes the full game, a download code and the original score.Rime came out on … | Continue reading
Today's big update for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds includes an immediately-visible change to the game's main menu: a big box linking to the game's Rules of Conduct."Read the full rules," it says, so like good players we did.Among the expected and important stuff - don't be a ra … | Continue reading
I was four years old when Creative Assembly started making games! Today the Total War and Alien: Isolation studio turns 30.By way of celebration, CA is brin… | 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.You may have already read the new … | Continue reading
Earlier this week, Nintendo detailed the amiibo functionality for Metroid: Samus Returns - and that you'll need four figurines to unlock everything the game has to offer, such as an extra difficulty mode and concept art/music galleries.Today, images have surfaced of the amiibo fu … | Continue reading
As you'll know if you read my Wolfenstein 2 hands-on preview, I'm excited for MachineGames' upcoming first-person shooter. Today, I'm excited to present to you an hour-and-a-half of brand new gameplay.Johnny and Aoife recently played two different sections of Wolfenstein 2: The R … | Continue reading