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Abandon Ship, a kind of cross between Sid Meier's Pirates and FTL, will now be released "early 2018" on Steam Early Access rather than this year. "We're committed to delivering an extremely high-quality experience and to ensuring even our initial release is as feature-complete an … | Continue reading
Far Cry 5 is the first game in Ubisoft's franchise to be set in the US. After more than a decade, the series which has defined itself by inviting players to… | Continue reading
Whew! Thank goodness all those sales are finished with. Wasn't it noisy? What, they aren't? Oh no! Returning is Sony's 12 Deals of Christmas campaign, as well as a new two-for-€30 deal where you get two PlayStation 4 games for €30, and there are some good ones too: The Last Guard … | Continue reading
EA Sports UFC 3 has a beta available, and some fans are calling it out for including pay-to-win mechanics. The response has floated around the internet for the past few days via angry blogs on various sites - but what's really going on?On the face of it, things sound bad. There a … | Continue reading
Apparently Star Wars Battlefront 2 is not setting a bad enough example, because Hi-Rez has unveiled a loot box-based card-ability system for Paladins which works in much the same way.It's not a one-for-one likeness. Paladins is a free-to-play game where microtransactions are the … | Continue reading
Life is Strange's original stars Ashly Burch and Hannah Telle have both been confirmed as returning for the bonus episode of prequel Before the Storm.Due to hit in early 2018, the episode will see Burch return to the role she originated, following the recent, lengthy voice actor … | Continue reading
The most frustrating trial of David Bossa's YouTube career came earlier this year, as he was macheting his way through the lambent sprawl of Persona 5. That game's campaign is infamously long-winded, with heaps of incidental micro-episodes packed into Tokyo's sinuous alleyways. A … | Continue reading
There are still a number of high-profile Xbox One X titles still in the pipeline (Forza Horizon 3, anyone?) but two significant upgrades arrived in tandem yesterday. Bethesda's Skyrim upgrade looks to deliver a native 4K experience in line with the PS4 Pro version - and we'll be … | Continue reading
For decades now, console gaming has traditionally focused on delivering a specific experience for each platform, tailored by the developer. Sure, we've seen high frame-rate modes and occasional toggles between different presets but nothing like the kind of full suite of options f … | Continue reading
Capcom's revealed some cool new costumes coming to fighting game Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite next month.My favourite is Haggar's Metro City Mayor costume, which gives the old bruiser a nice shirt and tie.I also like Frank West's Proto Man costume.Read more… | Continue reading
Remember Jazz Jackrabbit? The colourful PC platformer was last seen sidescrolling on PC in the mid-nineties. But it's so far been absent from modern day online shops - until now.GOG has released Jazz Jackrabbit: The Complete Collection and Jazz Jackrabbit 2: The Complete Collecti … | Continue reading
Hearthstone's next big expansion, Kobolds and Catacombs, is due for release next week - but it was not always going to be themed as such.Blizzard's original plan for the set was a collection themed around World of Warcraft's mysterious mecha-goblins, the Blingtrons, and during de … | Continue reading
Rex is a boy whose virtues are so gleamingly obvious and uncomplicated that they threaten to render him friendless. He spends his days industriously, niggling at sea beds in a Victorian diving costume - all brass and glass curves - salvaging trinkets from wrecks. Only the bare mi … | Continue reading
Arms - the best game of 2017, quite possibly of all time, a point which isn't really even up for debate so don't even try - just got another update which in… | Continue reading
After last night's blog post on the state of Destiny 2, which detailed improvements due over the next month and touched upon last weekend's storm of XP controversy, Bungie has now published a podcast with further information on several hot-button topics. Most interesting, I thoug … | Continue reading
Ode is a musical exploration game, which is a bit like saying ET is a movie about missing your flight. Ode is music and exploration. Somehow, they are separate and yet entirely intertwined.You play as a chubby little sprite of some kind, snugly encased in a crystal marble. You sp … | Continue reading
A couple of weeks ago, I put my mental and physical endurance to the test with four epic hours in Sykrim VR. You'd think that would be more than enough virtual excitement for now, but you'd be wrong. Today, I'm going one better; I'm going to go straight to hell.From 11am today I … | Continue reading
Sledgehammer has revealed a big patch for Call of Duty: WW2 which makes some much-needed changes to the game.Perhaps the headline change is a nerf to the M1… | Continue reading
WARNING: This piece contains major spoilers for Call of Duty: WW2's campaign. The end of the Second World War unearthed the truth of the darkest days for humanity. More than six million Jews and three million others were rounded up, dehumanised and shoved into cattle cars befor … | Continue reading
Bungie has at last posted its big blog update to address the state of Destiny 2, after a bruising few days where fan anger at both long-term problems and la… | Continue reading
Publisher Atlus has confirmed that Shin Megami Tensei 5, which was recently announced for release on Nintendo Switch in Japan, will be making its way to the west - and there's a freshly localised trailer to celebrate the news.Shin Megami Tensei 5 is the latest mainline entry in A … | Continue reading
Sony has announced the full timetable for its 2017 PlayStation Experience event, due to be held - and live-streamed - from 4am on Saturday, December 9th, in the UK. Notable occurrences include the first new showing of Media Molecule's Dreams in absolutely ages, as well as a chat … | Continue reading
Sony has announced the PlayStation Plus games for December.The first title up for grabs is Darksiders 2: Deathinitive Edition for PlayStation 4, a remaster of the PlayStation 3 action adventure which sees players take on the role of Death as he embarks on a quest to avenge his br … | Continue reading
Street Fighter 5 got a raft of new costumes today, and one of them will be of interest to Frozen fans.Kolin, a character who has ice and snow powers, got a "holiday" costume that makes her look a lot like, well... have a look for yourself.Yep, that's definitely Kolin cosplaying a … | 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.Given that it's already a Wednesd … | Continue reading
Remember Battlezone 2: Combat Commander? Well, it's coming back via a remaster due for release in 2018.British game company Rebellion has charged Big Boat Interactive with remastering Pandemic's hybrid tank shooter / FPS / RTS, which first came out in 1999.The remaster, simply ca … | Continue reading
Geese Howard from the Fatal Fury series joins Tekken 7 as a guest DLC character tomorrow, 30th November.There's a new trailer, below, that shows off some lovely Geese Howard gameplay. The DLC includes a new original stage (the Howard Estate) and a couple of costumes: Phoenix Kimo … | Continue reading
Star Citizen is now selling virtual plots of land for up to £96.The space game, which already sells spaceships for hundreds of pounds, now lets you buy what are called Land Claim Licenses. This is a virtual certificate that entitles you to claim a parcel of land in the game - alt … | Continue reading
Have you ever wondered what Stardew Valley's Pelican Town, and its residents, would look like in 3D? Well wonder no longer because thanks to artist DrGluon and Sims YouTuber Loverrlee we now know - cute as a button.The town was recreated in The Sims 4's build mode with Twitch str … | Continue reading
For nearly two weeks the ability to buy controversial loot boxes in Star Wars Battlefront 2 has been unavailable, greying out the issue of the game being pay-to-win. EA said the ability to spend money in the game would return at "a later date" but we have yet to hear anything sin … | Continue reading
Out of the many Xbox One X upgrades we tested during the preview period, Quantum Break was one of the most intriguing, featuring the choice between 1080p and '4K' modes - both a leap over the base Xbox One's 720p - along with enhanced detail. Visually, it offered a night and day … | Continue reading
It looks like a game from a bygone era. The 2D graphics are basic in the extreme. There are no animations to speak of. The viewpoint is top-down and staying that way. Its user interface rekindles memories of Windows 95. It is fiddly, abstruse and hugely complex. It is a slow burn … | Continue reading
Nintendo and Kellogg's are launching a Super Mario breakfast cereal whose box is also an amiibo.Currently only announced for release in the US, Super Mario Cereal is described as a "mixed berry cereal with marshmallows".The marshmallows are shaped like ? Boxes, Super Mushrooms an … | Continue reading
After a week of criticism, Destiny 2 developer Bungie has pulled tonight's planned Curse of Osiris DLC livestream. Instead, it will release a blog post penned by studio leadership to address the current atmosphere of anger which has engulfed in the game's community.Right now, Des … | Continue reading
The final episode of Resident Evil Revelations 2 is out now, and the conclusion packs in plenty of puzzling - alongside some ferocious firefights - to make sure the adventure ends with a bang. If you come unstuck at any point, take a look at our comprehensive walkthrough, which s … | 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.If you've not been keeping up wit … | Continue reading
Fornite's latest update is a whopper, fixing a lot of pesky bugs and adding some much-needed new content to both Battle Royale and Save the World.The new update adds smoke grenades to Battle Royale. Smoke grenades can be found in all container types, but can also be found randoml … | Continue reading
Hearthstone's next big expansion, Kobolds and Catacombs, arrives next Friday, 8th December.Along with 135 new cards, Blizzard is stuffing the expansion with free single-player content which anyone can access for free (the fun-looking Choose Your Own Adventure-like Dungeon Run mod … | Continue reading
Wondering why there aren't more Indian-made video games? In a way, you've been playing them for years without realising it. Faced by a massive rise in AAA development budgets since the early noughties, international publishers like EA typically outsource work to skilled but lower … | Continue reading
Publisher FoxNext has announced that a brand-new X-Files game, The X-Files: Deep State, will launch on iOS, Android, and Facebook early next year. It marks the TV series' first video game spin-off since The X-Files: Resist or Serve appeared on PS2 back in 2004.You might want to t … | Continue reading
Developer Scott Ethington has announced Ripped Pants at Work, a "frantic stealth game about searching for new pants". That's the trouser kind, by the way.Ripped Pants at Work begins when a routine pencil-retrieval operation goes badly wrong, causing your trousers to tear so vigor … | Continue reading
Square Enix CEO Yosuke Matsuda has spoken out on the future of Deus Ex - the first time the company has discussed the status of its long-running sci-fi series since reports emerged more than ten months ago that it had been placed on hiatus.Back in January, Eurogamer revealed that … | Continue reading
Frantic, local-multiplayer-focussed dungeon raider Crawl is coming to Switch on December 19th, developer Powerhoof has revealed.Crawl's handsome, strikingly animated pixel art might be its most immediately arresting feature, but it's got one hell of a gameplay hook too. In Crawl, … | Continue reading
Earlier this month, Take-Two interactive chairman and CEO Strauss Zelnick told investors to expect "recurrent consumer spending" to be a key part of every game the company published."It may not always be an online model," said Zelnick, "it probably won't always be a virtual curre … | Continue reading
Hearthstone's 2018 release schedule will take the form of three more big expansions, developer Blizzard has revealed.After years of alternating between 100-plus card expansions and smaller, narrative-driven single-player "Adventure" drops, 2017 has seen a move to consolidate the … | Continue reading
Hysterical multiplayer brawler Gang Beasts is coming to PlayStation 4 on 12th December, just in time for family arguments this holiday season.According to the official PlayStation blog, Gang Beasts will arrive with new modes like "clumsy-yet-brutal two vs two soccer matches", a f … | Continue reading
Do you still spot people staring intently at their phones, spinning their finger across the illuminated screen, and think, 'I wonder if they're playing Pokémon Go?' Maybe you played the game yourself at launch or, maybe, you're one of those still playing. This past week has shown … | Continue reading