Firaxis has announced the first big expansion for strategy game Civilization 6.It's called Rise and Fall, it costs £24.99 and it's out 8th February 2018.The… | Continue reading
At long last, Yooka-Laylee will launch for Nintendo Switch on 14th December.Pre-orders for the game go live a week beforehand, on 7th December, from the Switch eShop - where Yooka-Laylee will be exclusively available as a digital download.So why has it taken so long? I chatted wi … | Continue reading
A Hat in Time is heading to consoles next week. According to the game's official Twitter, the cute 3D platformer will hit Xbox One and PlayStation 4 on 6th December. You can watch the announcement trailer below.The development team also revealed splitscreen will be released next … | Continue reading
Marvel Heroes has shut down over a month earlier than planned.Developer Gazillion Entertainment - now officially closed down - had said the free-to-play Diablo-esque action role-playing online game would go dark on 31st December, but a note published yesterday from the official M … | Continue reading
Chinese tech giant Tencent announced last week it had won the exclusive rights to publish and distribute PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds in China. Now, wasting no time with the hot commodity, it has announced plans to port the game to mobile platforms in China.Tencent will co-devel … | 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.To finish off this year's Black F … | Continue reading
After a successful Global Catch Challenge to unlock Farfetch'd worldwide, Pokémon Go has another surprise up its sleeve - legendary raids for Ho-oh.The brightly-coloured turkey is available to hunt down right now, until 12th December.Ho-oh is the final legendary bird to appear in … | Continue reading
I'm convinced much of Animal Crossing's magic happens in my head. When I'm away from my town, I mean, and wondering what's happening back in the game. If Portia is still angry at me for nudging her into that trap. If my gorilla neighbour has replied to my letter about his awful w … | 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… | Continue reading
Amid increasing unrest within the Destiny 2 community over a variety of experience point gain issues, endgame problems and a lack of meaningful communication from developer Bungie, Activision has released a free trial for the online shooter.The trial begins today, 28th November o … | Continue reading
Only months after Atomega landed, Ubisoft Reflections has a new game out. It's a playful musical adventure called Ode.Ode's a wonderfully strange beast: you… | Continue reading
Prison Architect's Escape Mode is coming to Xbox One and PS4 next year as paid DLC.Escape Mode has been part of Prison Architect on PC since 2015, and completely flips the game's core prison building and management premise on its head. In Escape Mode, your task isn't to construct … | Continue reading
Grasshopper Manufacture's oddball free-to-play PS4 hack-and-slasher Let It Die is getting a slightly inexplicable World of Tanks collaboration event as part of its first birthday celebrations. The event was teased in September, but full details have now been revealed.The collabor … | Continue reading
From Software's seminal action RPG Demon's Souls will, after nearly nine years of unremittingly bleak multiplayer adventuring, see its wonderfully idiosyncratic online services discontinued on February 28th, 2018.Sony Japan was the first to break the news, leaving many to wonder … | Continue reading
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Last month Epic Games filed civil complaints against two alleged Fortnite cheaters. The pair were accused of being associated with the cheat provider Addicted Cheats, allegedly acting as support personnel for the site and using aimbot software "with the deliberate intention of ru … | Continue reading
There's a new Warhammer 40,000 game in the works - yes, another one! - but this one looks interesting.Gladius - Relics of War looks a lot like a Warhammer 40,000-flavoured Civilization game. It's developed by Proxy Studios, maker of 4X turn-based game Pandora: First Contact, and … | Continue reading
Out of hours and during a public holiday, Bungie was forced to respond to a firestorm of controversy over the past weekend, after Destiny 2 players discovered the game frequently constrained progress towards your next free loot box-style Bright Engram.Bungie issued a statement to … | Continue reading
Call of Duty: WW2 suffered yet another leak over the weekend, this time video footage of unreleased game modes and weapons.The video, from self-described dataminer and modder "MrJaRnii", was published to YouTube before it was taken down. Of course, the internet never forgets, and … | Continue reading
Sega has embraced its inner meme and released a Sanic T-shirt DLC for Sonic Forces.In case you had any doubts, the release was confirmed on Twitter via the official Sonic the Hedgehog account.The free DLC includes an Sanic T-shirt for your custom character inspired by the Sanic t … | Continue reading
All hail Crysis, the "Maximum Game". How odd it feels to revisit this legendary mass-melter of motherboards, this bane of frame rates and comparison threads, on what passes for a budget gaming laptop 10 years down the line. The intro especially rouses much the same sense of everl … | Continue reading
Black Friday 2017 may have come and gone but Amazon is resurrecting one of this year's very best deals one last time. Cyber Monday is the unfortunately named follow-up event to Black Friday and launches tomorrow, Monday 27th November. It brings with it a fresh set of bundles and … | Continue reading
Project Cars 2 on Xbox One X is an intriguing example of a developer looking to achieve across the board improvements as opposed to focusing on a boost to pixel count alone. Instead of putting all resources into pushing more pixels, what if game makers targeted the inclusion of m … | Continue reading
Say what you will about Apple's overly expensive products, locked-down ecosystem and its habit of playing catch-up with key technological features, but the original iPhone was undeniably groundbreaking. Released a decade ago this year, it established a new paradigm for the mobile … | Continue reading
When does a console generation arrive?Most people would agree that the seventh gen started when the Xbox 360 launched but that answers a different and thoroughly less interesting question.It isn't unreasonable to say that the 360 era arrived on the carrier wave of Patrick Stewart … | Continue reading
Pokémon Go's Global Catch Challenge event to unlock the ultra-rare Japan-exclusive Farfetch'd has hit its enormous 3bn catch goal.Over the past six days, the Pokémon Go community has made steady progress towards catching 3bn creatures. Yes, three billion - quite frankly, a ridicu … | Continue reading
Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds is an expansion for one of the year's best games in just about every sense of the word. This isn't just more of the same - from a technological standpoint, it's a genuine effort to push on to even greater heights, and an impressive evolution of … | Continue reading
For 17 years I have been in a relationship with one of the best-selling PC franchises of all time. As all relationships can be, ours has been turbulent, to… | Continue reading
Rockstar is bringing Black Friday straight to the streets of Grand Theft Auto Online, in what may well be the first example of a fictional video game city having its very own Black Friday celebrations. I probably wouldn't be willing to put money on that fact though.As of today, 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.It's here. It's finally here. The … | Continue reading
The loot box debate has hit the mainstream media in a big way in the past couple of weeks, specifically due to their appearance in Star Wars: Battlefront 2, resulting in both Belgian and Hawaiian authorities calling for a ban and launching investigations into the practice. But wh … | Continue reading
An eye-opening thread on Destiny's subreddit is gathering pace. Titled "Here is what is really going on with XP In Destiny 2", it's a detailed dissection of how the game tracks XP - and how you can often be awarded far less than you think.This has all sorts of implications becaus … | Continue reading
It's no secret it's difficult to grind for credits in Star Wars: Battlefront 2 - it's a big part of why so many players were angry at EA implementing paid loot boxes. But several crafty players have found ways to cheat the system, with one trick involving a simple rubber band.Red … | Continue reading
After Hidden Agenda, here's this week's second entry in the "sub-David Cage" category of cinematic narrative games - although that categorisation is halfway unfair to both. Hidden Agenda is boring and misconceived, but structurally innovative; Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier, b … | 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.Update 1:52 pm: Right, well, John … | Continue reading
The LA Noire remaster is available on PS4, Xbox One and their 4K mid-gen refresh equivalents, but the real story here is the Switch port and the fact that it's the first time we've seen an open word game of this type running on Nintendo's hybrid system. It's also Rockstar's debut … | Continue reading
While you're waiting for that other Nintendo Switch Black Friday deal to go live, you can treat yourself to an even tinier Nintendo product.The Super Nintendo Classic Edition, or SNES Mini if you're into the whole brevity thing, is back in stock over at the Official Nintendo UK S … | Continue reading
One of the more pleasant surprises during an occasionally bleak Sony conference at last month's Paris Games Week was the reveal of Concrete Genie - a wistful third person adventure game gently exploring themes of bullying and childhood through luscious hand drawn art that stands … | Continue reading
We've heard a lot about the fabled Star Citizen alpha build 3.0, and we've been shown a lot of spectacular sights from it - spaceships careering down from outer space through atmospheres and onto the surface of planets.But what we've seen so far has come from developer Cloud Impe … | Continue reading
Triumph through adversity. Such has always been the way of Final Fantasy, which seems to exist in its own perpetual struggle. Indeed, it thrives off it - the series name famously originated from creator Hironobu Sakaguchi, working out of a then-beleaguered Square on what he belie … | Continue reading
Black Friday week isn't just about TVs and consoles and rushing to capitalise on some poor soul's stock-listing error. It's about gifts, and family. Accordingly, you might like to check out the various goods on sale over at Yellow Bulldog, which includes a lot of reasonably good … | Continue reading
Well, here it is. Black Friday 2017 has begun and the deals are in full swing, as evidenced by this absolute blinder of a Nintendo Switch deal over at Amazon UK right this very second.If you head over to the site at the moment, you'll be able to pick up a Limited Edition Nintendo … | Continue reading
Sea of Thieves, Rare's piratical multiplayer sailing adventure, has almost reached the end of its year-long Technical Alpha. However, one last testing phase is scheduled before the game launches early next year - and everyone's invited to come aboard.Rare's Technical Alpha was an … | Continue reading
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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.Not only is today Thanksgiving Da … | Continue reading
Blizzard has given us a brand new, legendary card from the upcoming expansion Kobolds and Catacombs to show off. So, without further ado, here it is.Meet Temporus, a beefy new seven mana Dragon with an eye-catching card effect.Hearthstone has never had a card like this before. Ta … | 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.Fresh off the release of Microsof … | Continue reading
Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon include a heartwarming nod to the late, great Nintendo president Satoru Iwata. You can find it for yourself within the HeaHea City offices of Game Freak, Pokémon's real-life developer (which always includes a fictional branch of its studio to visi … | Continue reading