There are a number of ways to lose in Riot - Civil Unrest, a strange and jittery and deeply unnerving game that has just hit Early Access on Steam. Riot is, as the name suggests, a riot simulator. You can play as rebels or the security forces, each side with their own objectives … | Continue reading
Dreadnought, the free-to-play multiplayer game about big spaceships which don't get along, has moved out of open beta and launched on PlayStation 4. Arriving in the launch build are voice chat, Trophies and aim assist, and there's still a lot to do. "It's been a fun, crazy beta e … | Continue reading
Pokémon Go's latest update adds 50 more creatures from Gen 3, along with an all-new weather-based gameplay mechanic. There's no word on when the update will drop, although players now expect it imminently.Among the 50 Pokémon included are Gen 3 starters Treecko, Torchic and Mudki … | Continue reading
Creative Assembly has issued a refreshingly frank update on the progress - or lack of - of Total War Warhammer's development.The blog post revolves around Mortal Empires, the ambitious mode that combines the maps of Total War Warhammer and Total War Warhammer 2 into one mega camp … | Continue reading
Valve's Portal series has a new entry - sort-of - in the form of a Bridge Constructor spin-off.The cunningly-named Bridge Constructor Portal launches for Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, as well as on mobile platforms via iPhone, iPad and Android.The teaser trailer, … | Continue reading
After months of teasing, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has finally named its upcoming desert map and detailed some its various locales. Miramar, the new map's final name, will offer a more varied landscape of locations and hotspots than the original Erangel. Two cities - Los Leon … | Continue reading
Superhot is getting a significant standalone expansion called Mind Control Delete, which will put a roguelike twist on the game. The full release is roughly a year away but a barebones build will be on Steam Early Access tomorrow, 7th December, and grow over time.In the full Mind … | Continue reading
Firaxis has announced Korea for Civilization 6 expansion Rise and Fall.Nine new leaders are added to Civilization 6 with the Rise and Fall expansion, which is due out early 2018. (Our Chris Bratt runs through everything you need to know about it in the video below.)Korea's leader … | Continue reading
Are you a scrub or are you a saint? That is, in essence, the question being posed by Arms' next Party Crash, it's time-limited event that sees players fight for two characters as they partake in a quick succession of themed fights over a couple of days. In one corner there's Ninj … | Continue reading
Capcom has submitted an Amaterasu Courier for use in Dota 2 - and it looks like it will be added to the game.Amaterasu, protagonist of Capcom's lovely Okami series, is currently up for votes on the Steam Workshop. The reception has been positive, so it looks like Valve will appro … | Continue reading
The third and final episode of Life is Strange: Before the Storm will launch just before Christmas, on 20th December (thanks, IGN).Titled 'Hell is Empty', the episode will round out the three-part storyline set a couple of years before the original Life is Strange game.The series … | 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.We're only a week or so removed f … | Continue reading
This past week has been a rough one for the FIFA community, with disturbing allegations of cheating calling into question the legitimacy of FIFA Ultimate Team's most competitive mode.Some of FIFA 18's top players have been accused of disconnecting to avoid recording a loss via wh … | Continue reading
Pokémon Go artwork advertising the arrival of Gen 3 has leaked onto Apple's own App Store. We say 'leaked' - it's likely someone behind the scenes simply uploaded the image a little bit too early.The promotion's subheading still references Go's Halloween event which featured the … | Continue reading
Steadily, patiently, Ubisoft has made a big success of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege and it's lovely to see. The game had a rocky start in December 2015, but has now passed 25 million registered players.Ubisoft's 'years' of seasonal content for the game are one of the major reas … | Continue reading
Perfection is something many strive for but few obtain. In the world of Pokémon, perfection is shrouded in hidden mechanics and obscured by a meta-game often seen as tiresome by hardcore players. For the Pokémon breeders, genners and hackers, perfection lies in the unravelling an … | Continue reading
Rise of the Tomb Raider's year-old Blood Ties DLC episode, in which Lara goes a-poking around musty old Croft Manor, has finally received VR support on PC.B… | Continue reading
Titan Comics has offered the first look at its recently announced Bloodborne comic series, Bloodborne: The Death of Sleep. The series is being created… | Continue reading
Developer Red Hook has announced The Color of Madness, the latest paid DLC expansion for its superb Lovecraftian stress box, Darkest Dungeon.The Color of Madness will be the third paid expansion for Red Hook's visually striking, relentlessly punishing turn-based strategy game, fo … | Continue reading
Nintendo has announced the theme for its latest Splatoon 2 Splatfest in Europe, and it's a modest improvement on last month's insipid Warm Breakfast vs. Cold Breakfast face-off. For December, Nintendo is asking: book or film?That's as specific as the question gets, however, so yo … | Continue reading
A Choose Your Own Adventure Netflix show for adults? Excuse me?It's happening, according to Bloomberg. It has no name but it has an aim: to put you in control of the storylines you see.Netflix does this already but in kids titles you probably overlooked. They are Puss in Book: Tr … | Continue reading
I rarely play fighting games, and, man, I did not expect them to be this soothing. Arms is violent for sure - enemies are pummelled, the ground judders with… | Continue reading
Still playing Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp? Nintendo's anthropomorphic sim for smartphones now has a second in-game event running to keep you busy. From now until next Monday's reset (6am) you'll gain friendship XP at a faster rate when completing villager requests. Unlocked all … | Continue reading
Five Nights at Freddy's developer Scott Cawthon has released a new game, named Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator. On the surface, it's a retro-themed tycoon game where you run your own pizza restaurant. But, as players have discovered, it's actually something more sinister.Yes, … | Continue reading
TVs are an ugly room decoration when they're not in use, featureless black slabs our sofas point towards. I'd rather look at a bunch of peaceful fish swimming around. But oh all the moisture those aquariums pump out - I can't face the mould and mildew. But wait, what's this? An a … | Continue reading
Things are not at all well in the world of Star Control, with a public war of words erupting between two parties who claim the rights to sell the classic PC space games.The story began with a 1st December blog post from Fred Ford and Paul Reiche, the original creators of the Star … | Continue reading
Nintendo will launch a selection of its most popular Wii and GameCube games on Nvidia's Android-powered Shield tablet in China.Super Mario Galaxy, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Punch-out!! will all arrive for the device, remastered with 108 … | Continue reading
It's fair to say that Battlefront 2 has endured a difficult time of late, much in the same way Anakin Skywalker had a difficult time after fighting Obi Wan… | Continue reading
PC players can download the excellent Assassin's Creed: Black Flag for free next week, as part of Ubisoft's Happy Playdays seasonal promotion.If you fancy downloading the rip-roaring, piratical high seas adventure (which I still reckon is the best Assassin's Creed game, but then … | Continue reading
Capcom has unveiled full, final details of its upcoming PlayStation 4-exclusive Monster Hunter World beta, due to begin this Saturday.More specifically, the… | Continue reading
In a frenzy of Mega Man-themed news, Capcom has unveiled a brand-new mainline series entry in the form of Mega Man 11, re-releases for all Mega Man X games, and the long-awaited release of both Mega Man Legacy Collections on Switch.All three announcements were made as part of Meg … | Continue reading
It's been a remarkable year for Nintendo's Switch and Monolith Soft is ensuring a strong finish with Xenoblade Chronicles 2. Building on the technology that powered Xenoblade X on the Wii U, this new game expands upon its engine in numerous ways enabling cool new visual effects i … | Continue reading
Pokémon Go developer Niantic has announced that it's completely overhauling its first augmented reality game Ingress next year. The new update, known as Ingress Prime, will introduce a new story arc, new technology, and a new interface.Ingress launched in 2012 and has, according … | Continue reading
The first of EA's adjustments to the loot box ecosystem in Star Wars Battlefront 2 have gone live but they're insignificant and skirt the bigger issue. In other words, the loot box system remains the same.What's changed is the speed at which you can earn things.End-of-round credi … | Continue reading
DayZ will finally - after more than four years - shed the Steam Early Access label and launch in 2018. Czech developer Bohemia committed to a console - Xbox - version in 2018 as well."DayZ will be out of Early Access next year," wrote Bohemia in an end-of-year DayZ update, "and w … | Continue reading
For 15 years, American Bryan Bosshardt's 53-second speedrun of GoldeneEye's first level, Dam, has held fast. Over the weekend, the Dam burst.Australian Karl Jobst recorded a 52-second run of GoldeneEye's iconic opening level, and he declared it the "best run I've ever done in my … | Continue reading
Nintendo's latest mobile game Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp had a lengthy, delayed road to release - that much is widely known. But what fans may not realise is how much the project changed from initial concept to release.Essentially, Pocket Camp started life as a different game a … | Continue reading
The Switch is getting another classic from the sadly departed boutique developer Psikyo this week, with vertical-scrolling shmup Gunbird coming courtesy of publisher Zerodiv. Gunbird follows on from the arrival of Strikers 1945 and Gunbarich, a brace of Psikyo titles, back in Sep … | Continue reading
Children's campaigners and a UK Member of Parliament have criticised upcoming PlayStation 4 exclusive Detroit: Become Human for its controversial domestic abuse scene.At Paris Games Week in October, Detroit hit the headlines after Sony released a trailer for the game in which sce … | Continue reading
Sony releases a nostalgia-fuelled PS2 dynamic theme for the PS4 this week - and it looks and sounds awesome.The Legacy Dashboard Theme hits the PlayStation Store on Wednesday, 6th December, and is sure to rekindle memories of the PS2's iconic dashboard.If you have the theme, you' … | Continue reading
I never thought I'd write about a game called Legendary Gary.It's a hand-drawn adventure about an unspectacular man playing a fantasy game on his computer, only all of a sudden the game and his life begin mixing as one, and Gary's life gets very weird. By rights it should be terr … | Continue reading
ArenaNet's Guild Wars 2 is an interesting beast. Since 2012, the Fantasy MMORPG has offered players the chance to delve into the world of Tyria any time they want without ever being charged a subscription fee. Not something we see very often.The model must be working, however, as … | Continue reading
This month will bring a slew of updates for Assassin's Creed: Origins, including a new difficulty mode, Horde mode and a big fan-requested feature: enemy scaling.But perhaps most exciting, a "new surprise quest" will also pop up - which looks like Ubisoft and Square Enix's Final … | Continue reading
An ingenious streamer broadcast a real-life UFC pay-per-view event while pretending to play the latest UFC video game - and got away with it.AJ Lester, from the US, streamed the entire UFC 218 broadcast on Saturday night across multiple platforms, including Twitch - with controll … | Continue reading
There may be spoilers for the Dishonored series of games ahead. "The Void is unspeakable. It is infinite and it is nowhere, ever-changing and perpetual. There are more things in the endless black Void, Kirin Jindosh, than are dreamt of in your natural philosophy" (Letter from De … | Continue reading
We've already looked at the Fallout 4 patch for Xbox One X, and the impression there is that although massively improved over the turn-out on base console, perhaps the visual sliders were pushed up a little too high, resulting in some issues with performance. Now the verdict is i … | 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.We're back, after all that Black … | Continue reading
Two things happened this week that made me think about beautiful stuff vanishing from the world, and about the strange notion that there might be a kind a melancholic pleasure to be had - if melancholic pleasures can be had - in the spaces created by fresh absence. I'm not ghouli … | Continue reading