Kingdom Hearts fans rejoice! Finally, we are getting a Toy Story world. At Disney's D23 expo on Saturday, we got to see a bit more of Kingdom Hearts 3 and found out the game will release sometime in 2018. The new trailer follows Sora, Donald and Goofy on an adventure with Woody, … | Continue reading
Arc System Works has announced its next 2D fighting game: BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle.It fuses three fighting game series: Arc System Works' own BlazBlue, Per… | Continue reading
Player Unknown's Battlegrounds is getting a first-person only mode.PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds announced on Twitter the game is getting first-person only servers in the next monthly update. The new servers will be added to European and North American solo and duo games first an … | Continue reading
At the Evo fighting game tournament this weekend Capcom hosted an exhibition match for the upcoming Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite - and during it we got our first look at gameplay for both Jedah and Gamora.Gamora, from Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, uses a combination of sci-fi … | Continue reading
PlayStation 4-exclusive Final Fantasy 12: The Zodiac Age is the new UK chart number one.Square Enix's role-playing game remaster is the publisher's first chart topper since Deus Ex: Mankind Divided last year.The Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy, which topped the chart for the last … | Continue reading
This past weekend's EVO 2017 tournament included announcements from all of the major games on show - except for Super Smash Bros., because Nintendo.Stepping up to fill that gap? Meet Icons: Combat Arena, a new game which looks... exactly like Smash.The similarities are no coincid … | Continue reading
There's a wind farm being built just outside of Brighton. It's a huge project and so it seems to be taking forever. And at the same time, it seems to be moving ludicrously fast, a vast ship zipping back and forth across the edge of the sea, leaving silver stilts in its wake - the … | Continue reading
Following on from the inclusion of Akuma from Street Fighter, Tekken 7 is set to receive another guest character from a rival fighting game series: Geese Howard from Fatal Fury.Geese Howard made his debut in 1991 SNK classic Fatal Fury: King of Fighters as the local crime boss. H … | Continue reading
Capcom has unveiled the next DLC character for Street Fighter 5 - and he's easily the biggest fighter in the game.Abigail made his video game debut as a bos… | Continue reading
Veteran Japanese fighting game pro Tokido has won the Street Fighter 5 tournament at Evo 2017, battling through the losers side of the bracket to defeat the USA's Punk in a one-sided Grand Finals.Using Akuma, 32-year-old Hajime "Tokido" Taniguchi beat Victor "Punk" Woodley, an 18 … | Continue reading
January 13th, 2017: Nintendo has its first Switch hands-on event and as we make our way around the booths at the Hammersmith Apollo venue, there's a pervadi… | 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.Now that all the Prime Day excite … | Continue reading
Now here's the thing: The world of Breath of the Wild is one of the most spectacular in a Zelda game yet. Its Hyrule is a recognisable, organic one. All majestic vistas and the just-so undulations of hills and so-true sparkles on running streams and so on. To video game fans, who … | Continue reading
Destiny 2 looks like it'll suck up at least as many hundreds of hours of my life as the original game, but on its reveal fans were divided on whether it looked too similar to Destiny 1.The latest reveal of a new Crucible map, for the game's player-versus-player section, doesn't r … | Continue reading
Ready for Nidhogg 2? Joust as well - the sword-bearing sequel slices onto PlayStation 4 on 15th August.The announcement was made via the EU PlayStation blog so only covers the PS4 edition. We expect its PC version on the same date.Nidhogg 2 features fancier visuals than its very … | Continue reading
The New Nintendo 3DS has been discontinued.Nintendo confirmed production of the handheld had ended in Japan earlier this week. Today, Nintendo of Europe confirmed to Eurogamer that the New Nintendo 3DS had also been discontinued here, too.Read more… | Continue reading
Miami-bright murder-scene cleanup game Serial Cleaner arrives on PC, PS4 and Xbox One today (the Steam Early Access version will become the launch version at 6pm). It costs £12.Developed by small Polish team iFun4All, Serial Cleaner was one of our picks of EGX Rezzed 2017.It's a … | Continue reading
Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition for Xbox 360 is now playable on Xbox One, thanks to the latter console's backwards compatibility programme. Eurogamer… | Continue reading
The 10-hour Mass Effect: Andromeda trial once offered on EA Access on Xbox and PC has returned and is now open to people on PS4 as well.If you previously took part you can play again but only with the trial-time you have remaining. If you decide to buy the full game you can carry … | Continue reading
The chamber is dimly lit and smells of damp. On a battered wooden table sits a copy of The End Is Nigh, a brand new game from Super Meat Boy developer, Ed McMillan. Next to that is a dusty VHS player with a post-it note stuck to the front instructing you to "Play me!".>>EXAMINE T … | Continue reading
Want to up your game in Pokémon Go? How about this official accessory designed to be worn on your finger?Look familiar? It's the Pokémon Go Plus bracelet gadget from last year but now with a ring attached instead of a bracelet. It saves you using two hands, I suppose.The doohicky … | Continue reading
"They just don't make games like that anymore. I don't think they ever really made games like that."Final Fantasy 12 is, for myself and countless others, a very special game. A bold, high production adventure that dared to toss aside the conventions of a well-loved series, and a … | Continue reading
Since 1989's Pretty Hate Machine Nine Inch Nails' frontman Trent Reznor has pined for something he can never have. And now we know what that something is: the mythical early 1980s arcade game, Polybius.In case you're not familiar with the legend of Polybius, word on the street wa … | Continue reading
The long-anticipated Just Cause 3 Multiplayer Mod is finally getting a proper launch on 20th July. It will be on Steam and everything.The mod by fan group Nanos GbR has been in beta since January, but it's worked out most of the kinks in the half-year it's been publicly available … | Continue reading
Xbox One is receiving an update today adding a huge host of new features. One of the most exciting for many is the long teased ability to upload custom… | Continue reading
The Lord of the Rings Online finally gets to Mordor at the end of this month - over 10 years after the game came out.The Mordor expansion launches on 31st July. As you'd expect it's set in Mordor, the black, volcanic plain occupied and controlled by Lord of the Rings supervillain … | Continue reading
Gran Turismo Sport has a new release date, and this one's for keeps. Maybe. Originally planned for release last November, the series has since stuck to its traditional penchant for delays, being pushed back to this year. And now we have a day - October 18th - when we can play dev … | Continue reading
Microsoft has announced plans for a live show at Gamescom in August during which it'll make Xbox One X-related announcements.The live show is set for 8pm UK time on Sunday, 20th August.Microsoft said it'll have Xbox One X at Gamescom, as you'd expect, as well as 27 playable games … | Continue reading
Ni No Kuni 2 has been delayed to 19th January 2018, developer Level-5 has announced.The Japanese role-playing game had been set to launch in November.In a video message to fans, Level-5 boss Akihiro Hino explained the delay as the result of a need to improve the game before relea … | Continue reading
Here's an odd one: UK superband Radiohead has released a super expensive version of perhaps its best album - and it includes a mysterious Easter egg found via a ZX Spectrum.To celebrate the 20th anniversary of OK Computer, Radiohead has released a £100 special edition of the semi … | Continue reading
Mario Kart is getting a first-person VR spin-off for Japanese arcades.Mario Kart Arcade GP VR is the latest arcade version of the series to be developed by Bandai Namco - and the first designed for a virtual reality headset.You see the race from the driver's point of view, with N … | Continue reading
There was a time when the idea of streaming games over the internet was the hottest, most disruptive technology in the business. Why buy a console or PC when you can stream gameplay over the internet? Why upgrade your hardware when servers across the internet can be upgraded inst … | Continue reading
We have a new record for the biggest esports prize pool ever - and it's gone to the previous record holder Dota 2.This year's The International surpassed last year's largest ever esports prize purse of $20,770,460. At the time of publication, the prize pool was at $20.8m, but wit … | Continue reading
Controversial retailer Sports Direct has plunged a huge amount of cash into GAME.Sports Direct now owns a quarter of GAME, Eurogamer's sister site GamesIndustry.biz reported. The sports chain's billionaire boss Mike Ashley has snapped up 44m GAME shares - which equates to 25.75 p … | Continue reading
Writing flavour text for games must be a strange job. On some days you're shaping the world around you, expanding and enriching the story with a tantalising trail of literary breadcrumbs (it's hard to imagine what TK would be like without its written element). On others, however, … | Continue reading
The Netflix adaptation of Castlevania is kind of weird.It feels like a pilot episode inexplicably chopped up in four places. The first season literally ends with the iconic cast coming together to prepare for the inevitable battle against everyone's favorite antagonist. Needless … | Continue reading
Hitman's 26th and final Elusive Target for Season One will launch this Friday at 1pm UK time. It will be available for exactly 10 days (240 hours).Called The Entertainer, this timed event will be set in Marrakesh. It has two objectives: kill Mr. Giggles, and retrieve the client l … | Continue reading
Capcom has just unleashed a new Humble Bundle, offering insanely cheap deals on games in an effort to help charity.From now through 25th July at 7pm, you'll be able to pick up DmC: Devil May Cry, Umbrella Corps, and the Strider remake all for a mere $1.Offer more than the average … | Continue reading
Surreal family drama What Remains of Edith Finch is coming to Xbox One on 19th July, publisher Annapurna Interactive has announced.Giant Sparrow's sophomore effort, after The Unfinished Swan, launched in April on PS4 and PC.It tells the strange story of the uniquely unfortunate F … | Continue reading
Titanfall 2 and Battlefield 1 will join the EA Access vault later this month, the publisher has announced.Both games are fairly new, having launched only last October. They're also both quite good, with Titanfall 2 in particular ending up a close runner-up for Eurogamer's Game of … | Continue reading
Nintendo has announced a special edition version of the upcoming Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon which includes extra in-game potions.The Ultra Dual Edition of the games includes physical copies of both titles in a special Steelbook case, plus download codes for 50 potions to us … | Continue reading
XCOM 2's expansion is going to be bloody massive. We've talked about this already, following its announcement at E3, but that first trailer only scratched the surface of what Firaxis has been working on. They couldn't properly convey that many new systems in a two-minute video, i … | Continue reading
Pokémon Go Fest will take place later this month to celebrate the game's first birthday, and those attending in Grant Park, Chicago on 22nd July will need to work to unlock a "major global reward" for everyone else playing. But what could it be?First, players in the park must ca … | Continue reading
The objective of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is to kill everyone else, so you are the last man (or woman) standing. However, when streamer DooM49 gathered an enormous team of 50 players together for an "epic 50 man madness" stream they showed that friendship can exist in the wa … | Continue reading
Blizzard has announced major investment in its Overwatch League, the official home of Overwatch esports, first announced at last year's Blizzcon.Seven team slots have been acquired by organisations from both the traditional sports and esports worlds, as well as a couple of tech-f … | Continue reading
"We had Communism and we had Cyberpunk." Mike Pondsmith would hear those words 25 years after he'd joked about how few people would play a Polish translation of his American paper role-playing game Cyberpunk in a country behind the Iron Curtain. They would be the words spoken by … | Continue reading
Forget Freebird, move over DragonForce. Rock Band 4 just added the 17-minute classic In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.The '60s acid rock classic, originally released by Iron Butterfly, costs slightly more than normal due to its extraordinary length - nearly four times that of a standard Rock B … | Continue reading
Ubisoft is adding loot boxes to Rainbow Six Siege in an update rolling out from today.Patch 2.1.1. introduces Alpha Packs, a "chance-based loot system". Ubisoft gave players a heads up the blind boxes would be added earlier this year, although they've taken a while to materialise … | Continue reading