If you pre-order Civilization 6, you get early access to the Aztecs.The Aztecs unlock for all players 90 days after Firaxis' PC strategy game comes out on 21st October 2016.The Aztecs are ruled by Montezuma I, the fifth king of the city of Tenochtitlan and second emperor of the A … | Continue reading
If you're a Pokémon Go player, the Eurogamer office is pretty perfectly situated. Sandwiched between two pokéstops (and in range of both), office hours are basically one long stream of lure drops and pokémon captures. Most of the time, however, I work from home, where I am in ran … | Continue reading
Fallout 4's Vault-Tec Workshop DLC, out on 26th July, is the first Workshop add-on with quests.Here's how it all works. If you're above level 20, you'll hear a distress beacon no matter where you are in Bethesda's post-apocalyptic open world.This alerts you to an emergency at Vau … | Continue reading
Benchmark specialist Futuremark has updated its 3DMark software with a new test designed from the ground up to support DirectX 12 - and its results are causing some controversy. AMD users in particular are somewhat surprised by the higher results gleaned from Nvidia hardware, sug … | Continue reading
No Man's Sky uses fancy maths to generate its infinite, procedurally-generated galaxy. But is the maths Hello Games used to build the game its own creation?In 2003, a Belgian plant geneticist named Johan Gielis published an equation that can describe a large number of natural for … | Continue reading
Pokémon Go's check-in locations, Pokéstops, are meant to be places of local interest. Churches, museums, landmarks. Often, however they are... not so much.To build an app with data for the entire planet, developer Niantic understandably had to crowdsource its information. The stu … | Continue reading
Square Enix is making the world's first Apple Watch-exclusive role-playing game.It's called Cosmos Rings, and it's due out worldwide this summer. The official website is up and running.According to a report by Siliconera, Cosmos Rings sends you messages according to your daily st … | Continue reading
Ark: Survival of the Fittest, the competitive multiplayer online survival arena spin-off of the main Ark game, will not come out on PlayStation 4 in July as previously announced.In an update to a post on the PlayStation Blog, developer Studio Wildcard said it had put the PS4 vers … | Continue reading
There's now another pre-order incentive for Destiny's upcoming sequel - an in-game Sparrow vehicle shaped like the game's most iconic weapon, Gjallarhorn.Anyone can get a Gjallarwing, as it has been officially dubbed, although normally it is for sale in the game's real-world mone … | Continue reading
The rumours of Pokémon getting a live-action film treatment have solidified as Legendary Entertainment has acquired the rights to turn the franchise into a feature film.As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, this movie will be a live-action affair based around Detective Pikachu.T … | Continue reading
Last year speedrunner PangaeaPanga conquered Super Mario World while wearing a blindfold through the entire game. He blazed through it in an impressive 23 minutes and 14 seconds too.Now Japanese pro player Hup Chapter has bested this record by several minutes, performing the same … | Continue reading
Towerfall developer Matt Thorson has announced his next game, a mountain climbing platformer called Celeste.Due in 2017, there's already a playable prototype you can check out in your browser. Made in only four days, this embryonic version of Celeste is very basic, but it gets th … | Continue reading
Night Dive Studios' highly anticipated System Shock reboot was originally only slated for PC and Xbox One but now it's confirmed for PS4 as well.Aiming for a Q1 2018 release, the System Shock re-imagining has surpassed its $900k Kickstarter goal with a current tally of $1,077,745 … | Continue reading
Back in May Killer 7 and No More Heroes director Suda 51 announced an HD remake of The Silver Case, the first game from his studio Grasshopper Manufacture.Now we have a trailer showing what the modern art style looks like in this re-imagining of a 1999 PlayStation One title. We a … | Continue reading
Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 is real and it's coming this September to PS4, Xbox One and PC.Like the brilliant Pac-Man Championship Edition DX, this sequel will allow players to chain together pursuing ghosts in a conga line before devouring the whole lot of them in one fell sw … | Continue reading
Inversus, a clever "negative-space shooter" developed by Bungie's former lead sandbox engineer Ryan Juckett, is coming to PS4 and PC on 16th August.The seemingly simple-looking title has players control sentient black and white squares with a revolver chamber icon on them dictati … | Continue reading
Well, here it is: that single-player Star Wars Battlefront you've been waiting for has arrived. Well, sort of. The Skirmishes announced for DICE's shooter a… | Continue reading
Maybe you're just not that into Pokémon Go. Maybe you're sick of friends, colleagues and family members talking about it constantly. Maybe your favourite games website not-so-stealthily posts about it too much (not possible).Well, spare a thought for our email inboxes right now. … | Continue reading
Microsoft's released new gameplay of Gears of War 4's campaign.The video, below, confirms that daddy Marcus Fenix comes along for the ride during at least one point in the game. We only catch a glimpse of him in action in the gameplay, as the player is in control of his son, JD, … | Continue reading
I know what you're thinking - here we go again, another bloody zombie game. How many's that now? One million? Two? You might want to bear with me on this one, because Zombie Night Terror has managed to do what no other zombie game has been able to do in a long time; namely inject … | Continue reading
Abzû comes out on PC and PlayStation 4 on 2nd August.It looks like Sony has snapped up the underwater adventure game as a (timed?) console exclusive, which… | Continue reading
Dragon Quest Builders comes out in Europe on 14th October 2016, Square Enix has announced.The Minecraft-esque Dragon Quest spin-off is due out for PlayStation 4 and Vita.Martin's played Dragon Quest Builders, and calls it "a fairly light construction RPG" and "a neat gateway to t … | Continue reading
The first episode of the excellent Life is Strange is free from tomorrow, 21st July.A timey-wimey teen drama in five parts, Life is Strange won over plenty of us here at Eurogamer when it launched over the course of last year.Starting tomorrow, anyone who has yet to try the tale … | Continue reading
Street Fighter 5's system for unlocking character colours is awful. Soon, it will get a little less awful.As I reported in April, Street Fighter 5 has a real problem with the way it forces players to unlock character colours.The fighting game sees two colours per character unlock … | Continue reading
UPDATE 21/07/2016 10.54pm: Ana is now live on PS4, Sony has tweeted. Have at, you!ORIGINAL STORY 20/07/2016 10.18am:New Overwatch hero Ana, a support sniper… | Continue reading
It looks like people are waiting for the Xbox One S and Project Scorpio before buying an Xbox One.Microsoft reported its financials for the fourth quarter of its 2016 financial year, so for the three-month period ending June 2016, and said gaming revenue decreased $152m, or nine … | Continue reading
One of the pleasures of VR is seeing old genres reinvented or reinvigorated by an all-new perspective. The Assembly, nDream's sci-fi moral adventure created bespoke for virtual reality, is a case in point - it's a slow-paced, combat free exploration adventure told from the perspe … | Continue reading
Hearthstone's next adventure will be revealed on 28th July, an invitation sent to press by Blizzard suggests.More to the point, the invite appears to hint at the adventure's setting: classic World of Wacraft dungeon Karazhan.Blizzard's mailout hints at magic and mystery, includes … | Continue reading
Elite: Dangerous players reckon the Thargoids are, finally, coming to the space game.The Thargoids are a mysterious alien race that starred in the old Elite games. They weren't in Elite: Dangerous, however.Now, it looks like the Thargoids will soon make an appearance after player … | Continue reading
Nintendo is giving Animal Crossing: New Leaf a new lease of life.Four years after its original launch on 3DS, the quirky life-sim is getting new content, with amiibo figurine and card support.Animal Crossing amiibo will now be supported within the game. Cards will prompt their sp … | Continue reading
Twitch has banned one of its biggest streamers as the crackdown on Counter-Strike gambling websites continues.James "PhantomL0rd" Varga, who with 1.3m followers was the seventh biggest streamer on Twitch, has seen his channel closed following accusations he rigged Counter-Strike: … | Continue reading
Rock Band 4's first major expansion, Rock Band Rivals, will add an all new campaign themed around a documentary being made about your band when it premieres this October.Dubbed "Rockudrama" a narrator will tell the story of your band's trials and tribulations as your group was ri … | Continue reading
Publisher 2K has released a new Humble Bundle that offers Battleborn for a mere $15 (about £12) only 2.5 months after release.The Humble 2K Bundle 2 lets players snag The Darkness 2, Spec Ops: The Line, and Duke Nukem Forever for a mere $1.Pay more than the average (currently $6. … | Continue reading
Surreal point-and-click adventure Kentucky Route Zero has just launched its fourth episode on Steam, GOG, the Humble Store and itch.io.Cardboard Computer's strange series about an antique delivery man and his dog searching for a mythical highway has been in the works for quite so … | Continue reading
Hitman's next Elusive Target lets you assassinate a man played by Point Break star Gary Busey.This followed an online campaign wherein players could vote on who should play the target with the choices being Gary Cole or Gary Busey.This Sapienza-set timed mission, The Wildcard, wi … | Continue reading
Rick and Morty are getting an officially licensed VR adventure exclusively on HTC Vive.Entitled Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality, this spin-off of the Adu… | Continue reading
Team Ninja's tough as nails samurai action game Nioh is getting an open beta demo that will run from 23rd August through 5th September.Publisher Koei Tecmo… | Continue reading
Ubisoft is releasing a digital version of the popular card game Uno for PS4, Xbox One and PC on 9th August.A previous digital version of Uno was released in… | Continue reading
Telltale's Batman series begins on 2nd August with its first episode Realm of Shadows. It will be available on PS4, PS3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PC, Mac, iOS and Android.A physical retail release will be available on 16th September in Europe (and 13th September in North America) that … | Continue reading
The upcoming Pokémon Sun and Moon lets you train your Pokémon further, beyond the usual level cap of 100, via a new mechanic.Hyper Training is a brand new feature for this winter's 3DS games and is only available for Pokémon you have levelled up to 100.In layman's terms, this new … | Continue reading
10 Second Ninja X is out now and goodness me does it ever make me want to smash my controller into little tiny pieces and then sprinkle those pieces over some breakfast cereal. It's not like I expected to top the global leaderboards when I started playing earlier today, but I at … | Continue reading
We already know about the huge number of new franchises headed to Lego Dimensions for its second year. We already know which will arrive first, when the game returns for its second season this September.But fans of the Lego-to-life brand are being kept waiting for other specifics … | Continue reading
Virtual reality game The Assembly comes out today for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.nDreams' story-led sci-fi thriller costs £19.99.There's also a non-VR edition… | Continue reading
Have you logged into Overwatch on PS4 to discover you're a lower level than when you logged out? And that you've lost in-game credits and even skill rating?You weren't drunk; it's a genuine problem. Eurogamer was contacted by a reader suffering from the same bug, and there are ma … | Continue reading
Rise of the Tomb Raider will include a new chapter featuring PlayStation VR support when it finally launches for PS4 on 11th October.The game originally arrived for Xbox One as a controversial timed-exclusive last December. It got a generally positive reception, although in the m … | Continue reading
UPDATE 22/7/16: Pokémon Go is now available in Japan and already hugely popular, fuelled by a pent-up demand for the app and 3000 sponsored Pokémon Gyms in… | Continue reading
I remember learning about the Great Fire of London and picturing an old city so stuffed with crooked houses leaning together that people with manky teef could pass babies safely from top window to opposite top window. It's a true story! But I had to imagine all that. Wouldn't it … | Continue reading
Homefront: The Revolution's recent patch 1.06 boosts frame-rates on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One by a margin of up to 25 per cent, or 5fps in terms of in-game frame-rate. It's good news for both systems and the update promises a suite of optimisations to achieve this - including tw … | Continue reading