GoldenEye 007 superfans have released the latest version of an impressive recreation of Rare's seminal shooter.GoldenEye: Source is a free PC multiplayer ar… | Continue reading
There will be a second Halo Wars 2 beta, Microsoft has said.In a post on Xbox Wire, 343 Industries' Dan Ayoub said the second beta will run early 2017 for both Windows 10 PC and Xbox One. The first beta was Xbox One only.The Xbox Wire post goes into detail on the changes the deve … | Continue reading
The UK Gambling Commission is taking a renewed interest in esports betting, following the recent controversy surrounding sites such as CS:GO Lotto.… | Continue reading
Rome: Total War, one of the best strategy games ever made, will be playable on a flipping iPad.Instead of commanding your troops with a mouse and keyboard, as is right and proper, you draw movement orders with your fingers on a touchscreen.Instead of sitting in front of a PC, as … | Continue reading
English indie rock band Florence + the Machine has today released a selection of new tracks recorded for Final Fantasy 15. Titled Songs from Final Fantasy 15, the collection comprises three tracks; Too Much Is Never Enough, I Will Be and a rendition of Ben E. King's classic, Stan … | Continue reading
Warcraft film director Duncan Jones has a bit of a thing for impossibly catchy '90s pop song The One and Only, by Chesney one-hit-wonder Hawkes. Jones snuck the song into his film Moon, via an alarm clock, and into his film Source Code via a phone's ring tone. And he almost got i … | Continue reading
Intrepid explorers, No Man's Sky launches tomorrow on PC, but not until 6pm in the UK.That's 10am for West Coast US folks and 1pm for their East Coast brethren.Furthermore, pre-loading will be unavailable, so you'll have to wait however long it takes to download 10GB.Read more… | Continue reading
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Spirit of Justice is now due 8th September on the 3DS eShop where it will cost £24.99 / €29.99/ $29.99.You'll be able to try the beginning for free, however, as soon as 25th August when a demo will be made available.This latest lawyering adventure p … | Continue reading
Over two years ago Tarsier Studios, the Swedish team behind LittleBigPlanet Vita, unveiled a spooky platforming adventure called Hunger. It received a glorious teaser trailer last year and now Bandai Namco has picked it up under the new name Little Nightmares.The eye-catching tit … | Continue reading
'If only you could talk to these creatures', proclaimed the now infamous Edge review of the original Doom in an endearing and enduring daydream. It's a sentiment that's been mocked ever since, but they may have had a point - and at the very least it's something that's crossed the … | Continue reading
CD Projekt Red has confirmed the release date for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition as 30th August. In some territories it will be known a… | Continue reading
Endless Space 2 will initially be released on Steam Early Access this summer, although the exact date is yet to be confirmed.Alongside this announcement, Amplitude Studios also revealed the game's first two factions: the Sophons and the Cravers. Both of these made their debut in … | Continue reading
People who have powered their way to the centre of No Man's Sky's universe have some advice: keep your Atlas Stones - don't sell them despite their high sal… | Continue reading
Five years in the making by indie developer Hello Games, No Man's Sky is a game of incredible scale from a relatively small team. Built on an in-house engine, the final product weighs in at a meagre 5GB on your hard drive - a tiny amount compared to any typical AAA release. This … | Continue reading
No Man's Sky has a huge exploit which is letting users farm the game's rarest items.The method, detailed below, allows people nab valuable resources such as Atlas Stones again and again. Due to the resource-driven nature of the game - where some items require many steps to create … | Continue reading
Since its inception in 2004, Telltale Games has continued to release narrative-driven adventure games focused on choice and consequence. Before you even begin playing, however, you're asked to make one of the most important choices - which version to play. With upwards of nine un … | Continue reading
Earlier this year Deadlight developer Tequila Works reacquired the rights to its stylish upcoming fantasy adventure Rime. Now it has a new publisher.Grey Box, along with its parent company Six Foot, are working together on this one. The pair previously published the hard sci-fi r … | Continue reading
Just Cause 3's third DLC expansion, Bavarium Sea Heist, adds a "rocket boat" to its roster of sandbox wonders.Due tomorrow for Air, Land and Sea Expansion Pass holders and 18th August for everyone else, Bavarium Sea Heist has players infiltrating an offshore base to acquire the " … | Continue reading
The Witcher 3's virtual card game spin-off Gwent has been delayed. Originally it was slated to enter closed beta on PC and Xbox One in September, but now it's been pushed back until 25th October."Unfortunately, we feel we need some extra time with the game before we hand it off t … | Continue reading
Remedy's time-stopping action adventure Quantum Break will get a Steam release on 14th September, Microsoft has announced.The game is already available on PC via the Windows Store, as well as on Xbox One, where it first launched.Hopefully it will arrive in better shape than when … | Continue reading
The Silver Case, the first game peculiar Japanese auteur Suda 51 made at his studio Grasshopper Manufacture, is getting a remake for PC this autumn where it will make its western debut. And now it has a free demo on Steam.The 1999 visual novel is set in a futuristic Tokyo in the … | Continue reading
I think it's safe to say that No Man's Sky has successfully captured my attention. This isn't overly surprising as I'm a big fan of Elite: Dangerous, a game which scratches many of the same itches as Hello Games' colourful new release. Coming to No Man's Sky as an Elite player, h … | Continue reading
The excellent Rayman Oranges will be free to download for a month, starting next week.You'll be able to nab the cel-shaded platformer without charge from Wednesday 17th of August, when it will replace Splinter Cell as Ubisoft's freebie game of the month.All of this is in aid of … | Continue reading
Ahead of this month's Legion expansion launch, World of Warcraft is being hit by a huge demon invasion.Over the next three weeks, the Burning Legion will sweep across Azeroth, with a new questline being made available for all players over level 10. Yup. Good stuff. We've seen sim … | Continue reading
The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones and Minecraft: Story Mode developer Telltale Games has teased a new project surrounding hit TV show Mr. Robot.The popular NBC series - broadcast here in the UK via Amazon Prime - centres around the hacking skills of lead character Eli, played by … | Continue reading
Remember that old trailer for Prey 2 - the one from E3 2011 that cast the player as a super cool Alien Bounty Hunter? Of course you do, that game looked brilliant. Pity it got cancelled then.Fast forward to this years E3 and we were once again surprised by a Prey trailer, but thi … | Continue reading
PlayStation has roped in British comedian Bill Bailey to promote No Man's Sky here in the UK.The advert below features the bearded stand-up coming packaged with the game, and providing voice-over for it. If only this were true. It's sort-of reminiscent of how British institution … | Continue reading
The sixth Resident Evil film will take the series back to its Raccoon City roots, as evidenced in the below trailer.Resident Evil: The Final Chapter is due to launch in January next year and finally bring the 15-year-long movie series to a close.The Final Chapter is once again wr … | Continue reading
With AMD's focus elsewhere in the graphics market, Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1080 has held an iron grip on the GPU top-end, offering a phenomenal level of performance, in exchange for a hefty price-premium. The new Titan X Pascal ups the ante still further: even more power, and an eve … | Continue reading
PlayStation 4K will finally be unveiled on 7th September at a special event in New York.We'll be reporting live - the action will kick off at 3pm local time - so 8pm back here in the UK.Sony's invitations for the event, which is titled "PlayStation Meeting", simply promise "detai … | Continue reading
For one summer in the mid-2000s, a not insignificant portion of the game designer Robin Hunicke's day involved placing a Nintendo Wii disc into an envelope and posting it to Stephen Spielberg's boat. Spielberg was on holiday at the time, taking a break with his family from swelte … | Continue reading
Two players in No Man's Sky managed to go to the exact same place in real-time, but still weren't able to see each other.The incident began when Redditor TheGalacticCactus (TheSadCactus on Twitch) realised they had landed on a planet recently discovered by a different player, Psy … | Continue reading
Acclaimed anthropomorphic animal strategy game Armello is making its way to Xbox One on 30th August.That date also marks the release of its Usurpers Hero Pack DLC, which will be available on PS4, PC and Xbox One.This expansion will add four new playable characters and new equipme … | Continue reading
Experimental first-person shooter Superhot is getting a card game spin-off.That may seem really bizarre for a game thats appeal lies in its unique mechanic where time only moves when you do, but Polish tabletop company Board and Dice along with veteran game designer Manuel Correi … | Continue reading
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon has been added to the Xbox One's backwards compatible library.It's a good choice for a move to heftier hardware as the original game really struggled on Xbox 360 and PS3."Performance isn't a strong suit with sustained drops to 22FPS being common-place on b … | Continue reading
The three Dead Rising games from the former console generation are all getting remastered and now we know when to expect them and how much they'll cost.Priced at £15.99 / €19.99 / $19.99, each game is due on 13th September digitally. Pre-orders for the Dead Rising Triple Pack wil … | Continue reading
Persona 5 has been set for a 14th February release in Europe, publisher Deep Silver has announced.That's the same day it launches in the Americas, where Atlus is publishing it.The PS4 version will cost £54.99 / €69.99, while its PS3 counterpart will be a bit cheaper at £39.99 / € … | Continue reading
Blizzard has banned a widely-disliked Hearthstone card from the game's pay-to-enter arena mode - before the card in question has even been released.Upcoming Priest spell Purify has whipped up a storm of controversy among Hearthstone fans. Simply put - they are angry at how bad th … | Continue reading
Meowth and Marowak, two of the original 151 Pokémon, will both get a makeover in the upcoming 3DS games Sun and Moon.Alolan Meowth is a dark type, while Alolan Marowak is fire/ghost type. Both were revealed in the latest issue of the Japanese magazine CoroCoro (thanks, Serebii).M … | Continue reading
Destiny: Rise of Iron boasts a brand new social hub, set atop Felwinter Peak, a snowy monastery-esque location where you can hang out with wolves, pretend y… | Continue reading
There's a brand new tracking mechanic in Pokémon Go - but only a small handful of players can try it out. The feature has been redesigned around Pokéstops,… | Continue reading
We're into our first day with the highly anticipated No Man's Sky running on PlayStation 4 and by and large, in terms of performance, the game is holding up nicely. First impressions are striking: we haven't seen a game quite like this so far in this console generation - its engi … | Continue reading
Contrary to popular belief, our jobs rarely consist of playing games all day. Mostly it's just a rushed 10 minutes or so here and there before we slink off back to our desks to write another thousand words of copy. I'm happy to report, however, that today we'll be bucking that tr … | Continue reading
In Overwatch, Lucio Ball is called Lucio Ball because only Lucio is allowed to play. Not D. Va, not Reinhardt, not anyone else. If anyone else shows up in your three-on-three ball game then it's a bug. And now that people have found a way to trigger the bug: it's an exploit.The g … | Continue reading
Players are taking their first steps in No Man's Sky - with that massive day one patch installed - and reporting back on their findings. So, how do the game's near-infinite number of worlds shape up? Are they different enough? Are they unique? Are they just palette swaps of diffe … | Continue reading
Last month Pokémon Go received some criticism for tethering some of its digital creatures and virtual landmarks to solemn memorials like Washington DC's Hol… | Continue reading
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron has appeared on PS4 and Xbox One via the PSN Store and Xbox Marketplace in Australia, suggesting an EU release won't be far behind.As spotted by Twitter users lifelower and Sora96, the port of High Moon Studios' 2012 licensed game was handled by Fu … | Continue reading
Pokémon Go has shattered the record for highest earning mobile game launch month by a country mile.As reported by analytics firm Sensor Tower, Niantic's augmented reality phenomenon set a new world record after grossing over $200m in worldwide net revenue in its first month (and … | Continue reading