We Happy Few turned out to be a very different game to the one I was expecting. The twisted, dystopian world shown in this year's E3 trailer suggested a game similar to Bioshock. Having spent an hour or two in the procedurally generated town of Washington Wells, however, I'm much … | Continue reading
Rainbow Six Siege Season 3 begins 2nd August with the release of Brazilian themed expansion Operation Skull Rain. Operation Skull Rain packs a free new map for everyone, set in an overcrowded Brazilian favela, and adds two paid-for characters called Caveira and Capitão.Capitão is … | Continue reading
I'm delighted to announce that Chris Tapsell has joined the Eurogamer team as our new Guides Writer. (In fact, Eurogamer's latest Chris joined us a couple of weeks ago, but we thought we should ease him in gently before letting you lot loose on him.)Chris will be working alongsid … | Continue reading
I've been watching For Honor with a mounting sense of excitement for quite a while now. Admittedly this is mostly because it reminds me very much of Chivalry: Medieval Warfare, a game I used to play rather a lot. Chivalry is absurd medieval sword swinging at its finest, so I'm ve … | Continue reading
Toki Tori 2 developer Two Tribes is releasing its final game, Rive, this September on PS4 and Xbox One, but the future of its Wii U version is looking uncertain.Two Tribes co-founder Collin van Ginkel explained to NintendoLife that the developer is struggling to get its 2.5D plat … | Continue reading
Telltale Games' upcoming Batman series will premiere an all new multiplayer function in which groups of players can vote on choices.Inevitably the choice wi… | Continue reading
No Man's Sky's PC version has been pushed back a few days.Three days, to be exact. According to the game's official site, this PC release won't launch until 12th August. It will be available on Steam, GOG, the Humble Store, and iam8bit where you can snag the $150 Explorer's Editi … | Continue reading
Xbox Gamertags will soon expire after five years, should you go that long without signing into Xbox Live.This stipulation was snuck into the changes made in Microsoft's new service agreement."Notice that Xbox now requires that you sign in at least every five years to keep your ga … | Continue reading
Earlier this year retro peripheral companies Analogue and 8Bitdo joined forces to create a wireless receiver for the original NES, allowing players to enjoy their classic games on native hardware without those clunky cords getting in the way.Now the peripheral makers have offered … | Continue reading
Last week Capcom announced remasters of its first few Dead Rising games for PS4, Xbox One and PC. Now we know who's behind these restorations and what they look like.As revealed on the Xbox Store, the original Dead Rising is being ported to modern platforms via QLOC, a Polish qua … | Continue reading
Bit weird, wasn't it, when Richard Garriott and Starr Long tried to sell their blood on eBay for $5000? I wouldn't do that. Imagine someone owning your blood: they could make black pudding with it. That's disgusting. Or they could use it to curse you and what would you do about t … | Continue reading
Universe-spanning exploration game No Man's Sky does not require a PlayStation Plus subscription to play.Not to disappoint you, but the chances of meeting another player in the game are so small - and the likelihood you'll meet anyone you know so infinitesimal - that the game is … | Continue reading
Last weekend, Sega unveiled not one but two new Sonic titles headed our way in 2017.Before then, though, Sonic will return to the world of video games in November as part of Lego Dimensions.We've known of Sonic's involvement in Lego Dimensions' second year for some time, although … | Continue reading
Headlander makes a helluva trailer. Its central premise and a lavish lust for early 70s sci-fi kitsch are instantly eye-catching, the fact that it comes from the same studio that made the wonderfully written adventure classic Psychonauts only raising expectations. Take a brief l … | Continue reading
The agonisingly slow drip drip drip of new SNES games on the New 3DS' Virtual Console turns into a bruising gush this week, with three classic Street Fighter games on their way to Nintendo's handheld, as announced by Nintendo UK's Twitter account.Street Fighter 2 Turbo: Hyper Fig … | Continue reading
Hideo Kojima is still very much on his world tour, it seems, and having only recently sampled the breakfasts of Brighton (a woeful hash brown, some miserable button mushrooms and a tiny little sausage - come on Brighton, we can do better than this) he popped up at this weekend's … | Continue reading
This sounds fun: a rock opera based on Elite: Dangerous, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe next month.The show is called Mercy and the Wild Sea and combines film, live music and performance. Judging by the promotional video, that film will contain game footage of spaceships flying … | Continue reading
Are you Team Valor, Team Mystic, or did you slip up and choose Team Instinct?Whichever Pokémon Go team you're on, you now have a leader to pledge your servi… | Continue reading
After a meteoric rise following the launch of Pokémon Go, Nintendo's share price has fallen abruptly.The reason? It seems investors have finally heard Nintendo doesn't actually own the mobile phenomenon.A Nintendo financial briefing on Friday broke the news that, since it didn't … | Continue reading
Splatoon's not going anywhere - the amazing success of Nintendo's Wii U exclusive has ensured that - but over a year of support came to an end over the weekend as the last ever Splatfest was held. And in a perfectly fitting finale, the players chose the only option, crowning Mari … | Continue reading
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 1 and 2 are being spruced up and re-released on PC, PS4 and Xbox One this week. They're due Tuesday, 26th July (which probably translates to Wednesday for European PlayStation Store), and can be bought either in a two-game bundle for $60, or individually … | Continue reading
Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy 15 got a release date and extended trailer at Comic-Con this weekend.The animated film, which stars Sean Bean, Lena Headey and Aaron Paul, will be released digitally 30th August and on Blu-ray 4th October. But if you live in the US you'll be able to see … | Continue reading
The ostensibly bad guy sometimes has a good point after all, when you think about it (we've been thinking about it). Reconsider Streets of Rage 2's beleaguered barkeep Barbon, Batman Arkham Origins' took-it-too-far activist Anarky and did-what-he-had-to King Logan from Fable 3, j … | Continue reading
We have unfinished business with the Radeon RX 480. When we initially reviewed the card, we took a look at the 8GB reference version - as supplied by AMD. However, the main selling point of the product is the $199 price-tag, which sees us move firmly into 4GB territory. UK prices … | Continue reading
The recent release of Lumo has proved there is still much love not just for retro-themed games, but also the isometric viewpoint that became popular on 8-bit computers in the mid-80s. While Lumo's creator, Gareth Noyce, freely admits to the classic Head Over Heels as a major infl … | Continue reading
A 28-year-old man who threatened Blizzard employees with violence after his Heroes of the Storm account was silenced has been arrested, charged and may face jail time, the Justice Department has announced (via Polygon)Stephen Cebula, from California, was reported by Heroes of the … | Continue reading
Sega has announced two new Sonic games - one that's a retro remake of sorts and one that's completely new.The new game is dubbed Project Sonic and is due next autumn. It's in development for NX, PC, PS4 and Xbox One. A cinematic trailer announced it and heavily suggested there wi … | 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 Coalition has been hard at work on Gears of War 4 for years now, but 2016 is the year when fans will finally get their hands on the game. Microsoft showed off an impressive demo of Gears 4 at its E3 media briefing this year and we were impressed to learn that it was shown run … | Continue reading
I hate summer. Man's natural state, as far as I'm concerned, is not one spent constantly sticking to oneself, one's clothing, one's loved ones, passing vehicles, or anything else. With this week's heatwave having evaporated all thoughts other than 'crikey it's hot' from our brain … | Continue reading
Can a £60/$99 smartphone really provide a decent Pokémon Go experience? On paper, this shouldn't possibly work, yet somehow... well, it does. Perhaps you're… | Continue reading
The upcoming Gears of War 4 will be one of the very first Xbox Play Anywhere releases, with digital purchases cross-playable between Windows 10 and Xbox One - but the question is, what exclusive enhancements can PC owners enjoy that leverage the more powerful hardware, and to wha … | Continue reading
Sony's put out a new trailer for No Man's Sky, which showcases the trade side to the space game.The video, below, reveals how you can harvest resources from the game world, then sell them at a space base.It's here we get a snapshot of No Man's Sky's menu screens, which remind me … | Continue reading
An intrepid modder is reworking The Witcher 3 so it can be played in first-person.Modder SkacikPL has been working on re-jigging The Witcher 3's camera for some time now, and has released a series of videos showing his work in progress.The video, below, offers a tour of the huge … | Continue reading
Activision's put out 12 minutes of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare gameplay.The video, below, expands upon the footage shown at E3 in June.Infinite Warfare, from Modern Warfare developer Infinity Ward, is set in the future and expands the series' traditional boots on the ground co … | Continue reading
The Walking Dead: Season Three will - finally - see developer Telltale update the engine of its undead survival series.Telltale's third run of episodes is due to launch this autumn, and will move on the series' timeline by several years.Returning character Clementine is now a tee … | Continue reading
You'll be able to go hands and eyes-on with PlayStation VR at this year's EGX.Sony's virtual reality headset will be accompanied by a variety of PSVR games, such as launch collection PlayStation VR Worlds and mechanised sporty shooter RIGS.EGX - which is run by Eurogamer's parent … | Continue reading
Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1080 is the undisputed GPU king, unparalleled in virtually every game application - but that situation changes just two weeks from now on August 2nd, with the release of a new, next-gen Nvidia Titan X. Based on the firm's new Pascal architecture, we're lookin … | Continue reading
Two developers have now said they are ready to roll-out cross-network play between Xbox Live and PlayStation Network.The only thing holding them back now is Sony.Rocket League developer Psyonix and Gwent studio CD Projekt Red have both said they are all systems go for PlayStation … | Continue reading
Juri, Street Fighter 5's next downloadable character, will be available from 26th July, Capcom has said. As with all the game's DLC characters, you can buy Juri with Fight Money or real money.Juri, who made her debut in Street Fighter 4, is a Taekwondo expert from South Korea and … | Continue reading
Lucasarts' seminal 1992 point-and-click adventure classic Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis nearly received a sequel before being consigned to the grave.As detailed by The International House of Mojo, Lucasarts was waist deep into production on a follow-up Indiana Jones adve … | Continue reading
Xbox One has added eight new backwards compatible Xbox 360 titles to its library.These include Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episodes 1 & 2, Capcom Arcade Cabinet, Pac-Man Museum, Bionic Commando Rearmed 2, NeoGeo Battle Coliseum, Crystal Defenders and Fret Nice.Sonic's appearance is espe … | Continue reading
YouTuber and modder Limit Breakers has replaced every single texture in Dark Souls 3 with a kitschy pattern depicting a crab atop a black background.From the armour to the landscape to the enemies, it's all crab as far as the eye can see. Near the end of the video we even see a g … | Continue reading
A website that lets you successfully "cheat" Pokémon Go has divided fans of the smash hit app.Pokévision.com uses the game's API to show where Pokémon have spawned around you.It's as simple as putting in your postal or zip code, then seeing where the critters are on a map of your … | Continue reading
A group of Pokémon Go fans have uncovered a remarkable amount of data on the game, including one particularly important mechanic tied directly to the main Pokémon series.The Silph Road, a subreddit dedicated to figuring out exactly how Pokémon Go works, has found data confirming … | Continue reading
I was going to tell you all about how much fun Blast Ball, a multiplayer mode that's a part of Next Level Games' Metroid Prime Federation Force, can be, but that doesn't seem pertinent now when you can go and download it yourself. All of it. For free. Now. On your Nintendo 3DS ha … | Continue reading
You know the story by now. Nintendo announces what amounts to the first Metroid game in 6 years, and the first to bear the Metroid Prime moniker in the best part of a decade, and it's not what the fans wanted. It is very, very much not what the fans wanted, adopting a chibi art-s … | Continue reading
That's it, Pokémon Go is over. One Pokéfan has caught them all.Well, almost.Redditor ftb_hodor has filled his Pokédex with every creature currently available in the game, in the US, after walking a staggering 153.2km.Read more… | Continue reading