How are we only two (and a bit) months away from the release of Civilization 6? When did that happen?!Having played it a couple of times now, I'm feeling pr… | Continue reading
PlayStation players had to wait a year for Limbo, the first game from talented indie studio Playdead.This time around, with Inside, they'll only have to wait a few weeks more.Inside will launch for PlayStation 4 on 23rd August, which is far sooner than we were expecting. The side … | Continue reading
According to EA, millions of people are still playing online shooter Star Wars: Battlefront.The mega publisher reported its financial results for the three month period ending 30th June, and during that time 6.6 million played DICE's Star Wars game.That number surprised me somewh … | Continue reading
The developer of dinosaur survival hit Ark has folded free-to-play spin-off Survival of the Fittest back into the main game, Survival Evolved.This means that Survival of the Fittest will no longer be a separate free-to-play game. But it will be maintained as a playable game mode … | Continue reading
Thorn, one of Destiny's best-known guns and arguably its most divisive, returns in this September's Rise of Iron expansion.Back in Year One, Thorn was among the strongest weapons in the game, especially in Destiny's competitive modes. The hand cannon was the only gun in the game … | Continue reading
A remaster that came out of nowhere, Marvel Ultimate Alliance and its sequel arrive on current-gen consoles (with a PC port of the sequel) but it's fair to say that the experience falls well short. The extent of the disappointment is as variable as the quality of the ports themse … | Continue reading
There's an interesting debate rumbling within the Overwatch community right now, and it has to do with the new Summer Games loot boxes.Yesterday, Blizzard launched the Summer Games 2016 seasonal event for the popular online team shooter.The Olympics-themed event, set to run for t … | Continue reading
The founder of much-loved, much-missed fansite Pokévision has penned an impassioned open letter to the boss of Pokémon Go, requesting that the developer listen to feedback from the game's fans.Pokévision creator Yangcheng Liu's open letter, addressed to John Hanke, head honcho of … | Continue reading
I loved the Marvel Ultimate Alliance Games. They were easy-going co-op fun that left this Marvel enthusiast smiling from ear to ear.So, it pained me to learn that the exciting current-gen ports of both Marvel Ultimate Alliance and Ultimate Alliance 2 launched in a bit of a mess.A … | Continue reading
Final Fantasy 15 has a season pass, as you might expect. Now, we know what's in it.Overnight, the Final Fantasy 15 season pass was added to the Japanese PlayStation Store, and according to translation work done by Gematsu, it contains six pieces of downloadable content.Here's the … | Continue reading
One of the largest and high profile Counter-Strike gambling sites is seeking to stay online despite Valve's round of cease-and-desist letters.… | Continue reading
Beautiful deep-sea diving game Abzû set sail today; reviewer Martin Gaston rather liked it and he's lovely so that's good enough for me. Aoife was also rather taken with Abzû when she played it last year, so she's going to be having a bit of an underwater adventure live this afte … | Continue reading
Handsome, enigmatic first-person puzzler The Turing Test comes out on Xbox One and PC on 30th August. This is the next game by Pneuma: Breath of Life developer Bulkhead - that game also being a first-person puzzler, so plenty of practice n' that. In his review Edwin said Pneuma: … | Continue reading
A film version of Ubisoft's The Division is on the way, starring Donnie Darko's Jake Gyllenhaal and Interstellar's Jessica Chastain.The duo will also help develop the film - both of their own production companies are involved.It still sounds like early days. Ubisoft's press relea … | Continue reading
There's a Beauty and the Beast-themed card in Hearthstone's upcoming One Night in Karazhan expansion.Want to see it? Be our guest:Kara Kazham! is a 5-cost warlock spell which summons a 1/1 Candle, a 2/2 Broom and a 3/3 Teapot onto the board.Read more… | Continue reading
Microsoft's reveal of the Xbox One S at E3 this year left us with questions. Lots of them. How did the firm graft on 4K support to the existing hardware? Are we looking at a processor shrink and an architectural revamp? What formats of HDR are supported? Can selected titles actua … | Continue reading
Xbox One S releases today and we finally have detailed data on exactly how the new console is faster than the original model. What's more, we've had access to production hardware for several days now, meaning we can test it. The bottom line is this: Xbox One S has a GPU clock-spe … | Continue reading
In many ways, the new Xbox One S is the physical embodiment of Microsoft's efforts in reconnecting with the core gamer. Gone are the functional, slab-like set-top box aesthetics of the original hardware and in comes a fresh new design. Yes, it's smaller, lighter, more refined - b … | Continue reading
Well wouldn't you know it, you wait years for some proper sci-fi games then a whole host of them come tumbling down from the skies. The Signal From Tölva, the new game from Sir, You Are Being Hunted devs Big Robot, has just been announced, and it's complemented by a wonderful tra … | Continue reading
I love me some Space Wolves. When I was big into building armies and painting figurines, the grey ones were my go-to Space Marine chapter. It was something about their unfussy nature. That, and the big bad wolves bits of their armour.Anyway, the Space Wolves are set to star in a … | Continue reading
There's been a rare sighting in Pokémon Go. No, not a new community update from Niantic - something far more unusual: the legendary Pokémon Articuno.Articuno is one of few critters you can't currently catch. Fans have snooped into Pokémon Go's files and seen Articuno in there, wa … | Continue reading
There's evidence - quite a lot of evidence - pointing towards Overwatch getting limited edition loot boxes this summer in celebration of the Olympic Games Rio 2016.The Summer Games loot boxes appear to contain skins for some characters - three of them that we can see - and sprays … | Continue reading
ABZÛ (to give it its stylised title, and spare a thought for the poor SEO team on this one) is a slow, thoughtful indie adventure - but you probably clocked then when you saw the circumflex over the U. I know, I know, when it comes to indie games you always rock up for the diacri … | Continue reading
Sony's released platformer Ape Escape 2 for PlayStation 4 in Europe.Ape Escape 2, developed by Sony's Japan studio, came out for the PS2 back in 2002 in Jap… | Continue reading
Oh dear there appears to have been another wave of Overwatch bans, Blizzard primarily - or most noticeably - turfing out cheaters using triggerbots, which a… | Continue reading
The past few days have seen Pokémon Go's popularity plunge among hardcore fans.An unannounced app update over the weekend removed the game's malfunctioning tracking feature and simultaneously blocked third-party tools that helped players hunt down Pokémon and calculate their pote … | Continue reading
Another month has passed, and players of the PlayStation 4 version of Fallout 4 are still no closer to getting the promised mod support.Fallout 4 mod support, which launched on Xbox One back in May, was delayed on PS4 back in June.At the time, Bethesda revealed some of the proble … | Continue reading
Destiny was once described as a cross between a traditional first-person shooter such as Halo, and a massively multiplayer online role-playing game such as World of Warcraft. Destiny didn't quite turn out that way, but after the game came out it was clear many of the developers a … | Continue reading
Editor's note: The first episode of Telltale's Batman is out today on PC, PS4, Xbox One, X360, PS3 and mobile. We'll be looking to give you a full review once all episodes have been released, and for now here's our take on the series' opening.I've witnessed Thomas and Martha Wayn … | Continue reading
Professional football player Wendell Lira is retiring from real-life FIFA to compete in its video game adaptation.As reported by the BBC, the Brazilian striker from Goianésia is stepping down from football after winning FIFA's Puskás Award for the best goal of 2015 in a 2-1 game … | Continue reading
First-person horror sequel Outlast 2 has been delayed until Q1 2017. It was previously set for this autumn."Our mission as an indie studio is to deliver to you the best, most terrifying, most fulfilling experiences possible," developer Red Barrels said on Facebook. "That's why we … | Continue reading
Dark Souls veteran and Twitch streamer The_Happy_Hob made a name for himself earlier this year when he made his way through Dark Souls without taking a single hit from an enemy. Though the pro player was not the first to attain such a victory in Dark Souls 3 (a feat accomplished … | Continue reading
For someone who hasn't played Hearthstone, I know more than I should about it. Nothing useful like what cards to use for an easy win, of course, but I do know my fair share of Warcraft lore. I know what Rusty Horn sounds like, too, and I know that Trump is the unfortunately named … | Continue reading
Five minutes of fresh Pokémon Sun and Moon footage has shown off new Pokémon forms and species, including one critter that looks like Donald Trump.He's called Gumshoos, and is the evolution of mongoose-style Pokémon Yungoos.There are also new forms for some old favourites, such a … | Continue reading
After an extensive investigation, 38 Studios - the company founded by former baseball star Curt Schilling, that made Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning - has bee… | Continue reading
If you're looking for pedigree, it doesn't really come much stronger than this. Directed by the man who helmed the Metroid Prime trilogy. Written by the man who helped build the Halo universe. And with the involvement of an outspoken Japanese development legend who's never far aw … | Continue reading
Brexit sparked turmoil for the pound - and now it's having a knock-on effect on the price of video game products.Following Britain's decision to leave the EU, the pound sank to a 31-year-low against the dollar.On Wednesday, 6th July, Sterling hit a low of $1.2796. The last time t … | Continue reading
The Ghostbusters game Aoife gave short shrift to in her review was apparently only developed in eight months, which explains a thing or two.That detail comes from a Kotaku report that the developer behind the game, Fireforge, has filed for bankruptcy. Apparently it has a bill of … | Continue reading
Pokémon Go players have reacted in anger after numerous fan-made tools to help discover Pokémon were forced to shut down.Pokévision, one of the largest and best designed, went dark over the weekend. Other web-based and mobile apps have also fallen silent. The services ranged in p … | Continue reading
No Man's Sky - perhaps the most anticipated game of 2016 - isn't out until next week. But one player with a copy of the game has claimed to have reached the… | Continue reading
Greetings, Eurogamers, and thanks for joining us for this hand-picked selection of the videos from Outside Xbox, where this week we've been thinking about secret bonus levels. Remember the secret Cloud City level in Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith, Aztec in GoldenEye, and the … | Continue reading
Pokémon Go has received its first major patch. Two features known to be not working or causing issues have been binned, another safety warning has been added, but the app now seems faster and more stable overall as a result.The app's broken footprint feature, designed to narrow d … | Continue reading
News of Nintendo's NX has taken the spotlight this week, with sources pointing to a mobile device that interfaces with a game dock for your HDTV. Inside, th… | Continue reading
Editor's note: To mark the occasion of Marvel Ultimate Alliance's re-release, we tempted Dan Whitehead back from semi-retirement to explore what made the or… | Continue reading
Ever since its 2011 launch, PlayStation Vita's security has remained relatively intact. We've seen a bunch of PSP emulator exploits, and around a year ago, a native Vita exploit was released for an older firmware that required the unit tethered to a PC. Now, hacking collective Te … | Continue reading
A note from the editor: Jelly Deals is a new deals site launched by our parent company, Gamer Network, with a mission to find the best bargains out there. (It also has the best name.) We've invited the Jelly Deals team to share a weekly roundup of (mostly) gaming-related bargains … | Continue reading
The weather in the UK has been rather lovely recently, hasn't it? All this sunshine might have been a little too much for us last week, but it didn't stop us day-dreaming about packing up all our video games and jetting off on holiday somewhere.However, those dreams of lonely bea … | Continue reading
Within two decades, possibly sooner, our notion of what constitutes reality is going to completely collapse in on itself like a supermarket own-brand tent at a rainy music festival. Hello, welcome to another article about Pokémon Go. Bear with me.Until about 15 years ago you cou … | Continue reading