Dragon's Dogma is headed to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One for the first time this year in the scaly, fire-breathing shape of a new, remastered version.Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen Remastered, to give this version its full title, now has a 5th October release date in Japan.Dark Arisen … | Continue reading
Okay, stop everything. Das Boot is headed to VR. The legendary German U-boat movie from 1981 is resurfacing as a TV series in late 2018, and Remote Control Productions will be developing what sounds like the prototype for a virtual reality game in parallel.Seeing that the movie i … | Continue reading
Absolver could be one of the rare genuine progressions in the fighting game genre. Like most fighting games, Absolver requires patience, thought and meticulous timing to succeed. But at the heart of the third-person brawling is an interesting and unique combat deck system that le … | Continue reading
The next PS4 system update is on the horizon and Sony is accepting beta sign-ups for those who want to test its impending features ahead of time.Simply sign up for the beta and make sure your profile is set to be the console's master account.Should you wish to opt out of the tria … | Continue reading
Left 4 Dead and Evolve developer Turtle Rock Studios is releasing a VR game tie-in for the upcoming Blade Runner sequel.Entitled Blade Runner 2049: Replicant Pursuit, the game is coming to Gear VR this Friday, 21st July.Replicant Pursuit places players in the cockpit of a "spinn … | Continue reading
The Xbox One backwards compatibility library just grew four titles fatter today with the addition of Virtua Fighter 2, Quantum Conundrum, Costume Quest 2 an… | Continue reading
Last month our Bertie Purchese checked out the upcoming Polish cyberpunk adventure Observer, the next game by Layers of Fear developer Bloober. He called it "a real stunner" and was rather taken by its lead voice actor."You're voiced brilliantly by an apparently well known actor … | Continue reading
Id Software's Doom reboot has been out for over a year now and the developer decided to make all of its paid DLC free for everyone as part of today's update 6.66.The game never had any single-player DLC as all of the paid content was specific to the game's multiplayer modes. They … | Continue reading
Sci-fi soulslike The Surge now has a demo on PS4, Xbox One and PC.According to developer Deck13, this demo comprises "hours of unlocked content" and your progress will carry over into the full game, should you buy it.The Surge is Deck13's follow-up to Lords of the Fallen. It's a … | Continue reading
Telltale's seemingly-forgotten The Wolf Among Us series is getting a second season - just days after suggesting to fans it wouldn't happen."I worry about people getting their hopes up in the wrong direction," Telltale's head of communications Job Stauffer told fans on Twitter ear … | Continue reading
Xbox One users have reported seeing a bizarre error message which talks about My Little Pony.The console alert, which discusses a particular episode of the My Little Pony cartoon series, has now popped up for numerous users.Xbox fans confused by the popup began screenshotting the … | Continue reading
It's not often a developer changes its mind about a decision that would have had a seismic impact on its game just a day after announcing it to press, but that's exactly what the people behind dinosaur survival hit Ark have done.Studio Wildcard has made a last-minute decision not … | Continue reading
Let's get the nice stuff out of the way. Splatnet, which has just sneaked out onto iOS and Android devices as part of the Nintendo Switch Online app, is just lovely - a joyous, colourful, varied and detailed breakdown of all that you've been up to in Splatoon 2, complete with run … | Continue reading
Destiny 2's beta has a big glitch which gives players an infinite super for the duration of its Inverted Spire strike.Your super is your ultimate ability. Each subclass has one, and it can only be used after filling up your super bar by killing enemies. After use, this bar resets … | Continue reading
The End is Nigh has quite the trailer. Presented as a fourth wall-breaking Let's Play video about a blob named Ash (voiced by Red Letter Media's Rich Evans) playing through a minimalist pixelated platformer called The End is Nigh, all seems well with the affable Ash until tragedy … | Continue reading
There's a Paul McCartney Easter egg in the Destiny 2 beta that references the awful song he sang for the first game.McCartney's Hope for the Future came out alongside Destiny back in 2014. The promo for the song, below, sees a holographic McCartney deliver a sermon to captivated … | Continue reading
Just as they did with the original Destiny, players of Destiny 2's beta have managed to glitch themselves into unfinished areas.Despite only being available mere hours, people have already found a way to access what they describe as a Lost Sector on the planetoid Nessus.Lost Sect … | Continue reading
This puzzle-platformer lives in the shadow of Playdead's Inside, but its rage against Romanian Communism is authentic and raw. | Continue reading
A fresh update is rolling out to Pokémon Go with new tweaks to the game's recently-revamped gym system.The new version - 1.39.0 for iPhone/iPad and v0.69.0 for Android - also brings some much-requested quality of life changes to the game.Critically, players will be able to heal t … | Continue reading
Nintendo has launched its mobile phone app for Switch owners on both iPhone/iPad and Android.The app will let you voice chat with Switch friends and invite others to play via Facebook, Twitter and Whatsapp.It will also offer game-specific information, for example your online matc … | Continue reading
Everybody knows bugs. There are funny ones and stupid ones. There are annoying ones and actually-damaging ones. But however they manifest themselves, bugs sit right between a game's maker and its player, a sudden manifestation of mistakes that have been made, a crack in the simul … | Continue reading
Titanfall 2's four-player co-op horde mode, Frontier Defense, will be added 25th July as a free update on all platforms.Here players will have to defend their Harvester against five waves of increasingly difficult enemies. By defeating foes you'll earn currency to buy traps, sent … | Continue reading
The latest Humble Bundle is Telltale Games themed with almost every title the studio has developed available for a mere $15 (about £11.50). That's a $275 value! Plus the proceeds go to charity.Pay more than $1 (£0.77) and you'll receive Steam keys for The Walking Dead: Season One … | Continue reading
Tonight's the night that Destiny fans around the world have been waiting for. By the time you read this the Destiny 2 beta should be live for all PS4 owners… | Continue reading
Life is Strange: Before the Storm has received a mixed reaction from fans since its unveiling last month. On the one hand - more of Life is Strange's fan-favourite character Chloe. On the other hand - she's voiced by someone else.Seeing a chunk of Before the Storm gameplay at E3 … | Continue reading
A couple of years back, there was a struggle to place a label on the original Splatoon. Was Nintendo's colourful Wii U exclusive a shooter or wasn't it? I came away perfectly content with the answer that it was simply a Nintendo game, in the very best definition of the term - som … | Continue reading
Did you play The Burning Crusade when the World fo Warcraft expansion launched back in January 2007? I did. I remember the queues, the slow grind to level 70 and the soul-destroying progression. But I also remember the first time I walked through the Dark Portal to Outland. It wa … | Continue reading
It doesn't sound like there will be another season of Telltale's Tales from the Borderlands or The Wolf Among Us any time soon.Writing on Twitter last night, Telltale's head of communications Job Stauffer addressed the fate of each fan-favourite game after rumours swirled ahead o … | Continue reading
Nintendo's Switch is a console of two halves: tablet and dock, a unique combination designed to service the platform holder's hybrid gaming dream. The unit itself is well-designed with high levels of workmanship, but the dock? It's a bit of a clunker - it does the job, but it's b … | Continue reading
Recently I had some minor surgery done and should, by rights, have been resting. Instead of doing that though, I couldn't stop obsessing over some map coordinates I found hidden in Get Even.Out of a handful of fake coordinates listed in the game this one specific coordinate point … | Continue reading
UK developer Splash Damage is working on multiplayer games for World of Tanks maker Wargaming.Splash Damage, developer of Brink, Dirty Bomb, the multiplayer portion of Batman: Arkham Oranges and parts of Gears of War: Ultimate Edition and Gears of War 4, is developing games in "t … | Continue reading
Crash Bandicoot developer Vicarious Visions has confirmed the remaster is harder than the original after fans spent the past three weeks trying to work out… | Continue reading
Look at images of Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles and it's hard not to fall in love a little. This indie open-world adventure seems to encompass the whimsical, childhood innocence many of us crave. It's a game that allows you to take in a lush environment without the stress … | Continue reading
Downloaded the Destiny 2 beta client already? Well, this morning brings a fresh update. The file's size is now 15.06GB on PlayStation 4, up a few GB from yesterday.If you have a beta key but haven't download the beta client yet, it's a good idea to get that downloading as soon as … | Continue reading
American McGee has, clearly, had enough of all the Alice questions.He wants people to stop asking him about Alice 3. In a new blog post, McGee said he gets asked about it a lot."I get this question constantly," he said. "Several times per day. Across YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, L … | Continue reading
Time-bending FPS Superhot is coming to PS4 on 19th July in Europe.Our North American friends will receive it two days later on Friday, 21st July.As is the case on PC, Superhot on PS4 will have VR support, but only if you buy the version tailored for that, Superhot VR.Read more… | Continue reading
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine developer Pocketwatch Games is releasing its next game, an animal-based RTS called Tooth and Tail, on 12th September for PS4, PC, Mac and Linux.Described by the developer as "RTS distilled", Tooth and Tail's matches are expected to last a brisk 5-12 m … | Continue reading
Splatoon, Nintendo's comical paint-based brawler about squid-human hybrid children, is getting an anime spin-off.As reported by Japanese magazine CoroCoro (via JapaneseNintendo), the series will premiere on CoroCoro's YouTube page on 12th August.CoroCoro already has a manga seria … | Continue reading
SNK's 1994 Neo Geo and arcade classic frisbee fighting game Windjammers is coming to PS4 and Vita on 29th August.This modern adaptation by retro game restoration studio DotEmu takes the classic disc-throwing gameplay of the original Windjammers, but applies online integration and … | Continue reading
The people behind the Street Fighter EX series of games have announced their next fighting game - and confirmed the return of a fan favourite character.Japanese developer Arika announced its new untitled project over the weekend with an eye-catching trailer that shows Skullomania … | Continue reading
At the end of April it was an enormous pleasure to be asked to host Brenda and John Romero on stage at Polish conference Digital Dragons, and the recording is now online. It's nearly an hour long so I suggest listening to it in the background like a podcast - you won't miss any c … | Continue reading
PC to mobile cross-platform play is coming to Runescape.Publisher Jagex announced today both Runescape and Old School Runescape will come to mobile and tablet devices, making them the first Western MMORPGS to provide full interoperable play between PC and mobile. The new feature … | Continue reading
In what seems to be a relentless line of celebrity deaths, the passing of George A. Romero will sadly probably only make waves in the bloodier corners of mo… | Continue reading
If Animal Crossing's Mr. Resetti hasn't taught you already, it's bad form to quit in the middle of play.Raging out of a Splatoon 2 match is no different. In fact, Nintendo will warn you if you repeatedly quit when losing.Players have noted a cheeky message from Nintendo within th … | Continue reading
UPDATE 3.30pm: Since we reported on this story more details have come to light via a French note to investors issued at the end of last month. This note ind… | Continue reading
Creative Assembly has detailed its pre-order bonus for Total War: Warhammer 2 and responded to the significant backlash levelled at the game's prequel last year.Those that pre-ordered the original TW: Warhammer were able to play as the Chaos Warriors, one of the game's starting f … | Continue reading
Dragon Ball FighterZ, the upcoming fighting game based on the hugely popular anime, includes Trunks.In the anime, Trunks is the half-Saiyan half-Human son of Vegeta and Bulma. His announcement for the game brings the confirmed playable character count up to seven. They are:Dragon … | Continue reading
George A. Romero, the legendary filmmaker behind Night of the Living Dead and its sequels, has died from lung cancer aged 77.Considered by many as the godfather of the zombie genre, Romero's huge influence can be seen throughout film, television and video games.His series of Dead … | Continue reading