Switch is getting its first media app - but only in Japan.NicoNico, a Japanese video-sharing platform similar to YouTube, will launch its Switch app later this week. You won't be able to download it in Europe unless you have a Japanese account. The app's launch is still significa … | Continue reading
Arms version 2.0, the biggest update to Nintendo's Switch exclusive, is now live, bringing with it a suite of big changes and addition. New character Max Brass - who previously served as one of the bosses in the single-player Grand Prix mode - is the headline, but he's joined by … | Continue reading
Treyarch's Spider-Man 2 was first released on 28 June 2004. More than 13 years later, it still holds up as a yardstick for both Spider-Man and superhero video games. But it's not the combat people remember. It's not the balloon kid or pizza delivery side missions. It's not the am … | Continue reading
Retro City Rampage developer Brian Provinciano has unloaded a lot of details on his next game, Shakedown Hawaii, which is massively more ambitious than his previous oldschool gaming throwback.While Shakedown Hawaii boasts a similar aesthetic to Retro City Rampage, this is an infi … | Continue reading
Mafia's third DLC expansion, Sign of the Times, is slated for release on 25th July.This campaign add-on sees protagonist Lincoln Clay going to war with a nefarious cult called the Ensanglante that has taken over Sammy's bar and uses psychedelic drugs to brainwash citizens of New … | Continue reading
BroForce and Genital Jousting developer Free Lives released a brand new VR game on Steam Early Access. It's a cartoonish first-person gladiator sim called Gorn and it looks every bit as deliriously demented as the developer's previous output.Available for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive … | Continue reading
Earlier this year porting company and publisher Nicalis announced that it would be bringing the definitive version of Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya's cult classic platformer Cave Story to Nintendo Switch. This recent edition launched last month in North America with some new features lik … | Continue reading
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's recent Master Trials DLC adds a three-part series of combat arenas called the Trial of the Sword. This 51-level obstacle course provides a stiff challenge that took roughly four hours for anyone to conquer upon its launch a week and a hal … | Continue reading
We're no strangers to Splatoon 2, of course. It was one of the very first Switch titles we played at Nintendo's launch event - and the chances are that if y… | Continue reading
It is, if you want to look at it one way, simply more of the same. Splatoon 2's single-player doesn't offer up any big twists or surprises on the original's… | Continue reading
Sub-Zero is out today for fighting game Injustice 2.The Mortal Kombat veteran is a guest character in NetherRealm's DC Universe brawler.He's available if you bought the Injustice 2 Ultimate Edition, Injustice 2 Deluxe Edition, the Injustice 2 Ultimate Pack or Fighter Pack number … | Continue reading
The Escapists 2 launches on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on 22nd August.The game costs £19.99 (or the same amount in dollars and euros). You can pre-order today on Steam. Pre-order customers get access to an additional prison.A version for Nintendo Switch is also on the cards, … | Continue reading
Arms' first significant update - which will be introducing Max Brass as a playable character - will also introduce an all-new versus mode that allows players to control Hedlok, the fighter who has served as the game's ultimate challenge. The update, which goes live in the UK tomo … | Continue reading
If you're after some measure of whether Laser League - the all-new future sports game from OlliOlli developer roll7 - is any good, then consider this. Promotional banners are being furled up and packed away at a preview being event held in a windowless sticky-floored east London … | Continue reading
Want to get into esports but don't have the skills to be a pro? The University of Leicester has a course designed to teach students about the business of es… | 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.Amazon's annual self-celebration … | Continue reading
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD will be removed from Steam next week.According to an announcement on Steam, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD will be retired on 17th July. Until then the game is on sale with an 80 per cent discount, costing £1.39 as opposed to its usual price of £6.99. Once it … | Continue reading
I love fighting games, but I understand they're too complex for many people to bother with. This is a problem the genre has run up against for years, and the likes of Capcom and Namco and NetherRealm have struggled to come up with a solution.David Sirlin, the fighting game expert … | Continue reading
Destiny's popular player-versus-player Control mode returns in Destiny 2 - but with some big changes.Matches now begin with each team controlling one of the three control points from the get-go, while capturing points no longer requires you to 'uncapture' it from the opposite tea … | Continue reading
The ultra rare Mega Drive game we reported on last month ended up selling on eBay for £3380.Lakers versus Celtics and the NBA Playoffs is a 26-year-old Mega Drive game that was sought after by retro fans because it never officially made it out of publisher EA's European office - … | Continue reading
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds could be getting a whole new range of items and skins.Redditor DevinWatson went digging through the game files of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and came came across some hidden gems. In a post called Data Mining Unreleased Skins / Items, DevinWatson … | Continue reading
Sony has the most appealing bargain this morning in Amazon's Prime Day sale - a PlayStation 4, spare controller, plus copies of megahits Overwatch and the C… | Continue reading
A caveat up front: while I think I have experienced much of what De Mambo has to offer, it is entirely possible that I am like a child, as Newton once put it, playing with shells on a stretch of beach while behind me an entire ocean roars and tugs at the shore, unseen. De Mambo f … | Continue reading
Valve's seminal first-person shooter Half-Life has received a new patch, nearly 19 years after its November 1998 launch.It's nothing major, to be sure, but it fixes a few crashes the community had pointed out. That may not be much, but it just goes to show that Valve has not give … | Continue reading
Valve banned over 40K Steam accounts for cheating on 6th July, making it the single largest banhammer the company has ever deployed. As reported by Dot… | Continue reading
Back in 2014 the small studio Ragequit released a multiplayer-only aerial combat game called Strike Vector. It later had a PS4 and Xbox One release called Strike Vector EX that added a host of new content, like a campaign mode. Now PC players are getting this enhanced edition and … | Continue reading
Fable's card-combat spin-off and Hearthstone competitor Fable Fortune has had a last minute delay. Instead of premiering on Early Access tomorrow, as was the original plan, it's been pushed back to 25th July on both PC and Xbox One.The PC release was on track, but there was a sna … | Continue reading
Team Ninja's samurai action epic Nioh is getting its second paid DLC pack, Defiant Honor, on 25th July.This €9.99 expansion is set in the wintry Osaka Castle, which is based on a real historical landmark. Nioh creative director Tom Lee described it on the PlayStation Blog as "the … | Continue reading
We didn't quite know what to expect from Final Fantasy 12: The Zodiac Age on PlayStation 4 and PS4 Pro. On the one hand, developer Virtuous Games did a good job with its existing Final Fantasy 10 and 10-2 remasters, with decent artwork upgrades that sat well on a full HD display. … | Continue reading
EA, via the PlayStation Blog, has announced the details of the Star Wars Battlefront 2 beta, which begins in early October.The open beta kicks off on 6th October, but you can play two days early by pre-ordering the game. It ends on 9th October.The beta lets you play Galactic Assa … | Continue reading
Punch! Bosh! Blart! Wrestling is coming to Nintendo Switch in the six-packed shape of WWE 2K18.It's the first official WWE game to grace a Nintendo system since WWE '13 in 2012 - all the way back on the Wii.WWE wrestling man Seth Rollins just confirmed the news via Twitter. He's … | Continue reading
This is Wild West Online, an online multiplayer game set in, you guessed it, the Wild West.The video below shows a brief look at character creation, a town, various NPCs, exploration and combat. You can visit a saloon to pick up quests, steal stuff, which affects your reputation … | Continue reading
PlayStation 4 Pro will be available in Glacier White in a bundle with Destiny 2.The colour was previously available for the PS4 Slim as of earlier this year… | Continue reading
Launched last year, Nintendo's much sought after NES mini microconsoles are now well out of stock. Except, that is, for a curious new shipment being placed for sale online...But what's this? While it might look similar on the outside, and even run emulated NES games correctly - i … | Continue reading
30 years and 15-or-so games after its debut, Final Fantasy is not a string of sequels but a solar system of discrete planets, of varying likeness, linked only by a weird selection of motifs - airships, crystals, birds that can be ridden like feathery ponies. Within that solar sys … | 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.A number of years ago, Nintendo t … | Continue reading
Oculus has just announced a significant price drop for the Rift headset and Touch controller bundle: it's down to £399. It's an impressive d… | Continue reading
Mass Effect: Andromeda launched back in March to fierce criticism of its facial animations. Four months later, BioWare is still issuing patches to fix them.… | Continue reading
The impressive sales success of Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy continues - it's now secured two weeks at number one in the UK chart.This is this first time a PlayStation 4 exclusive has held onto the top spot since Uncharted 4 came out back in 2016.Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy … | Continue reading
Battlefield 1 Premium Trials begins this month.Premium Trials, which lets players who don't own a Battlefield 1 Premium Pass play on maps they normally wouldn't have access to, starts with the release of this month's new night map Prise de Tahure.Here's how it works: if you don't … | Continue reading
Netflix's animated Castlevania adaptation will get a second season.Eight new episodes have been ordered by Netflix - double the length of its four episode f… | Continue reading
Summer Games Done Quick has smashed last year's record, raising over $1.7m for Doctors Without Borders.Finishing early this morning, the speedrunning marath… | Continue reading
I've picked a hell of a time to pen a love letter to Mercy. As these words are being written, the Overwatch-playing internet is having kittens over the long… | Continue reading
With PlayStation 4 Pro on the market and Xbox One X to follow, Microsoft and Sony's R&D focus is inevitably going to shift towards the next wave of machines. Questions surround the kind of generational leap that's possible in the next couple of years, and how much these new machi … | Continue reading
When stealth is done right, it's a gratifying test of your skill, patience and focus. When stealth is done wrong, it's more irritating than a mosquito in your room at 3AM asking to borrow a tenner. How about that stealth section in Aliens: Colonial Marines, in which the Xenomorph … | Continue reading
It's some time in the spring of 1988. Steve Brown, creator of the smash hit games Cauldron, Cauldron 2 and Barbarian, is holding a pair of pliers while in the midst of a dramatic photo shoot for Barbarian 2. "Maria would breathe in heavily and the pressure from her bosom would sn … | 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.Well, we've made it into July and … | Continue reading
Doomfist has finally arrived in Overwatch after what felt like an interminable wait and, to be honest, he's not quite the hero I was expecting. He's a surprisingly mobile assault character who isn't voiced by Terry Crews and, at least thus far, I'm a big fan. He's a bit tricky to … | Continue reading