Frontier Developments' celebrated Elite Dangerous arrived on PlayStation 4 recently, joining the already established PC and Xbox One versions. There's a reason we've held off coverage until now: the PS4 build launched with v-sync disabled, resulting in a sub-optimal presentation. … | Continue reading
I think it's safe to say that the Eurogamer video team has the PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds bug at the minute. It's also a truth universally accepted that, at any given moment, the people on said team are only a hair's breadth away from attempting to murder one another. So, in o … | Continue reading
On the surface, games often seem to have a difficult relationship with creativity. For every Minecraft, which makes building stuff - often gorgeous, complex, deeply improbable stuff - seem well within the reach of even the least imaginative of players (i.e me), there's a game tha … | Continue reading
Firewatch developer Campo Santo and publisher Panic, Inc. are no stranger to clever fourth wall-breaking merchandise. One of the game's strangest features is that you can find a disposable camera in the 1980s Wyoming wilderness, take pictures in-game, then pay the publisher to se … | Continue reading
Nier: Automata is an absolutely splendid game full of mystery, suspense, wonder and whimsy. It's also got a host of bizarre technical problems on PC.Many as… | Continue reading
Point-and-click adventure Thimbleweed Park is coming to the Nintendo Switch, but the official announcement isn't until next week. Confusing, I know.Developer Terrible Toybox is to make a super secret announcement about Thimbleweed Park next week, rumoured to be the revealing of t … | Continue reading
Eiji Aonuma, the series producer and manager of The Legend of Zelda, has revealed a handful more details on The Champion's Ballad, the next big DLC drop for Breath of the Wild which is due to drop towards the end of the year. Speaking at Japan Expo in Paris, Aonuma confirmed you … | Continue reading
If you bought a Paradox game between 17th May and 6th July in any currency other than US dollars, you can get a free game or two DLCs.The publisher offer follows a recent kerfuffle with game pricing. Paradox put up its prices as a result of that old currency fluctuation chestnut, … | Continue reading
What if BioShock and Prince of Persia made a baby? It might look something like City of Brass.City of Brass is the newest title from ex-BioShock developers at Uppercut Games, the company behind Submerged and Epoch. You play as a roguish thief, battling through the City of Brass t … | Continue reading
Arms' first sizeable update is coming next week, introducing Max Brass as a playable character and bringing its roster up to 11 fighters. Max Brass is already in the game, of course, serving as a mini-boss of sorts. A hulking pugilist who looks like he's stepped from Platinum Gam … | Continue reading
For over a year now, I've been trying to collect every Codemasters game released for the ZX Spectrum. It's a bit of a weird hobby, yes, but it's something I… | Continue reading
Microsoft plans to add game gifting to the Xbox One store soon.Xbox vice president Mike Ybarra confirmed on Twitter the feature was "not far". With Gamescom looming over the horizon, it sounds like Xbox One users will get game gifting sooner rather than later.Currently neither th … | Continue reading
Remember Firefall, Red 5's sci-fi shooter MMO? It's finally dead.In a note on the Red 5 website, the company thanked players for their "loyalty and dedication to the online community".The note also mentioned a mobile version of Firefall. Apparently players of the MMO will be "rew … | Continue reading
Blizzard has announced the next expansion for card strategy game Hearthstone.Knights of the Frozen Throne, out in August, adds 135 cards to the game and lets you transform heroes into Death Knights.Nine of those cards are new legendary Hero Cards that, when played, transform hero … | Continue reading
World of Warcraft fans reckon they've worked out the location of the next expansion - using an image of a map on a leaked skirt.Subtle clues unearthed by the WOW community suggest the next expansion is set in Kul Tiras, which indicates players will fight the Old Gods.The World of … | Continue reading
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds full launch date has been pushed back to the end of 2017. Writing on Steam, Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene announced the full launch was being pushed back from its initial six-month time-frame, which would have meant a September release."Over the pas … | Continue reading
Bungie's detailed the Destiny 2 beta.You get the game's opening story mission, a Strike and two PVP modes - it's basically all the stuff that's been revealed so far on the game.The opening mission is called Homecoming. The Strike is The Inverted Spire, and the Crucible modes are … | Continue reading
Like many, I'd heard about the Crash Bandicoot's cameo in Uncharted 4: A Thief's End before I witnessed it myself. I knew the basic premise: Nathan Drake plays the PS1 classic. And I'll be honest: I thought this seemed like a terrible idea.On paper, it sounded like cutesy fourth … | Continue reading
The first lengthy high quality video of Monster Hunter World gameplay has surfaced offering 23 minutes of drool-inducing anticipation.As previously discussed, this next Monster Hunter is coming to consoles and it's using the PS4 and Xbox One's hefty horsepower to host colossal st … | Continue reading
Ever since Overwatch's launch last year, there have been murmurs that Blizzard would add a new character called Doomfist to its roster of playable heroes. And now it has!But first some background on Doomfist's legacy. Whispers of him coming began with an early cinematic starring … | Continue reading
Halo 5 will support true 4k resolution on Xbox One X, developer 343 Industries has announced. As with Elite Dangerous, a 4K patch will arrive for Halo 5 ahead of the Xbox One X's launch on 7th November.That's not the only Halo related boon coming to Xbox One soon, as the series' … | Continue reading
A new update to Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor lets the player's greatest nemesis live on in upcoming sequel Middle-earth: Shadow of War, it has been announced.A free update available to PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Steam players, called Nemesis Forge, lets the game automatically … | Continue reading
Nintendo's Online app for its Switch console - the only way to participate in voice chat in online matches - is launching on July 21st alongside Splatoon 2. It'll be our first real taste of Nintendo's online service, which is undergoing a free trial this year before it becomes a … | Continue reading
PlayStation Now, Sony's Netflix-style video game streaming service, finally has PS4 games. Previously there were PS3 games.51 PS4 games were added to the service today. Like with the PS3 games, you can access PlayStation Now titles on PS4 or Windows PC. So you can now play the li … | Continue reading
UPDATE: Niantic has said the event will now end on 24th July - 11 days later than originally planned, giving you more chances to catch the newly announced P… | Continue reading
The Tomorrow Children shuts down on 1st November, Sony has announced.That's the day online services for the PlayStation 4 exclusive end - just over a year after the game came out.Q-Games' quasi MMO town-building tower-defense sandbox game promised much but struggled at launch. Ou … | Continue reading
PlayStation 4 exclusive Horizon Zero Dawn gets a big new update today that adds a host of new features to the game.The headline new features of patch 1.30 are New Game + and an Ultra Hard difficulty, but there are also new Trophies and unlockables.New Game +, as you'd expect, let … | Continue reading
eBay is battling SNES mini scalpers by pulling listings for the sought-after retro console.Shortly after SNES mini pre-orders went live in the UK, scalpers popped the console on eBay often with a huge markup in price. Listings for the microconsole stretched to £300, although most … | Continue reading
Super Mario Odyssey players will never see a Game Over screen, Nintendo has revealed.Posting on the official Japanese Super Mario Odyssey Twitter page, Nintendo said players lose coins when they fail - and that's it.I asked John Linneman, Digital Foundry extraordinaire and Japan … | Continue reading
Hot on the heels of its Bayonetta for Switch tease, PlatinumGames has suggested its quirky action game The Wonderful 101 will also make its way onto Nintendo's new console.The tweet below, shows Wonderful 101-style characters playing Wonderful 101 on a Nintendo Switch with Joy-co … | Continue reading
To my surprise and delight, one of 2017's very best video games is made by none other than Sonic Team. Yup, that Sonic Team - the developer formerly known as Sega AM8, the one behind behind Sega's iconic mascot and the very same studio that's been by the hedgehog's side through t … | Continue reading
Cult classic 1997 first-person shooter Shadow Warrior is now free on GOG.Developed by 3D Realms, of Duke Nukem fame, Shadow Warrior is a similarly politically incorrect piece of 90s pop culture. Starring a legendary ninja assassin named Lo Wang, Shadow Warrior pits players agains … | Continue reading
Bungie has shown off our first proper look at Destiny 2's new hub location, which will replace Destiny 1's Tower (which gets blown up at the beginning of the game, sniff).The Farm looks like it will be of a similar size, and feature a couple of familiar amenities - a Cryptarch fo … | 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.Today marks the beginning of the … | Continue reading
There exists an officially-licensed Half-Life comic - and this month Chapter 3 comes out.That's right, we said Half-Life and 3 in the same sentence, and it relates to an actual thing that's actually confirmed to be coming out. Shocking!It's called Half-Life: A Place In The West - … | Continue reading
Cuphead will never come out on PlayStation 4, its developer has confirmed.The eye-catching run and gun action game is a console exclusive for Xbox One, Stud… | Continue reading
A list of heroes has been uncovered in Star Wars Battlefront 2's ongoing closed alpha.References to new and returning hero characters were found within its files by reddit user uninspired_zebra. You can find the full list below.Returning are Luke, Leia, Han, Chewie, Darth Vader, … | Continue reading
Creative Assembly has announced plans for a new set of Total War games which focus on much smaller moments in history than its major titles.The Total War Saga series of games will offer the standard turn-based campaign and real-time battles you'd expect, but with a focus on confl … | Continue reading
We were hoping that E3 would be the venue to put to rest the question of Xbox One X's raw gaming potential, but only a handful of native titles were reveale… | Continue reading
Netflix Castlevania creator Adi Shankar has announced his next animated series - an Assassin's Creed anime.Shankar, known for his work on the R-rated Dredd, Machine Gun Preacher and The Grey, was contacted by Ubisoft to discuss the project.Writing on Facebook, Shankar revealed th … | Continue reading
Nintendo still rules video game sales in Japan.Japanese video game magazine Famitsu published sales figures for the first half of 2017, and eight of the top 10 best-selling games are for Nintendo platforms.Perhaps unsurprisingly, the best-selling game in Japan so far this year is … | Continue reading
Bad news for League of Legends fans - developer Riot announced it will raise the price of Riot Points in the UK due to Brexit.From 25th July, prices for RP in the UK will increase by 20 per cent. Riot Points are League of Legends' in-game currency, and are used to buy skins, cham … | Continue reading
Mass Effect Andromeda will soon add an unexpected new race to its multiplayer mode - batarians.A familiar race from the Mass Effect trilogy, batarians are completely new to Andromeda. They don't appear in the game's single-player campaign and lore-wise this is the first suggestio … | Continue reading
There's good news and bad news in the world of Grand Theft Auto 5 modding.OpenIV, which many consider to be the most important GTA-related mod project aroun… | Continue reading
Back in May, Nintendo UK listed the neon pink and green Joy-Con, themed especially for Splatoon 2, for launch in autumn.Splatoon 2 launches in the UK on 21st July - so it would have been a long wait for the game's tie-in controllers.Now, Nintendo UK has updated its release schedu … | Continue reading
Chinese internet Goliath Tencent has rationed the amount of time children can play its hugely popular mobile hit Honor of Kings amid fears young people were becoming addicted to the game.In order "to dispel parents' worries", Tencent will add stronger age verification, but it's a … | Continue reading
Small Spanish studio Tequila Works has opened up about the turbulent development of emotive exploration game Rime. It was a game announced with a bang as a PlayStation 4 exclusive in 2013, but it dropped exclusivity - dropped off the radar - and didn't materialise until May this … | Continue reading
The man with the world's highest Xbox Gamerscore has, after 11 years, finally been overtaken.Ray "Stallion83" Cox has held the title since Achievement-hunting first became a thing, and previously became the first in the world to pass every major Gamerscore milestone - including b … | Continue reading