A fortnight ago, YouTube stars Trevor "Tmartn" Martin and Tom "Syndicate" Cassell were discovered as the owners of gambling site CS:GO Lotto.Both had promoted the game without properly disclosing their ownership, and presented the site as an easy way to earn money. Tmartn even pr … | Continue reading
If you've had a look at the Eurogamer video channel before (or read my Necropolis review, for that matter), you'll know I'm a big fan of roguelikes. There's something about the sense of challenge, the feeling of going it alone against insurmountable odds, that I really enjoy.Okhl … | Continue reading
Gravity Rush 2 launches on PlayStation 4 in the UK on 2nd December 2016, Sony has announced.The Sony Japan Studio-developed action game comes out elsewhere in Europe a few days earlier, on 30th November.Sony announced a couple of pre-order bonuses: an alternate white costume DLC … | Continue reading
Tokyo RPG Factory's first game offers an elegant counterbalance to Final Fantasy 15. The teams behind each, steered by directors who first fell in love with the Japanese RPG as children, have laboured side-by-side behind acres of perpendicular glass in Square-Enix's new Shinjuku … | Continue reading
Fraudsters have forced the developer of RimWorld to stop giving out Steam keys to new buyers of his game. Tynan Sylvester, the indie developer behind s… | Continue reading
Microsoft will launch the Xbox One S on 2nd August, priced £350.Initially, the 40 per cent more compact console will only be available in its 2TB size, although 1TB and 500GB models will follow at an as-yet unknown future date.1TB and 500GB hard drive models will cost £300 and £2 … | Continue reading
Xbox One will finally get the ability to play background music next month as part of a fresh console update, but it sounds like streaming service Spotify won't be included.Spotify has been an exclusive partner with PlayStation since March 2015, when it stated it would be exclusiv … | Continue reading
A high-profile Super Smash Bros. professional player was dumped by his sponsor after being accused of "groping" a woman during the Evo 2016 fighting game tournament event.Mexican player Cristian "Hyuga" Medina, known as one of the best Super Smash Bros. Brawl Toon Link players in … | Continue reading
The hype around Resident Evil 7 may have settled down a little, especially now we know we have to wait to find out the true use of that finger, but the feeling around the game still seems positive.We are yet to hear when Resident Evil 7's demo will arrive on Xbox One, but PlaySta … | Continue reading
Guilty Gear Xrd Revelator is updated today alongside the arrival of fan-favourite character Dizzy.Dizzy's addition to Guilty Gear Xrd Revelator's roster of playable characters was announced at the Evo 2016 fighting game tournament yesterday alongside a teaser trailer, below.Dizzy … | Continue reading
Star Wars: The Old Republic will expand again this autumn with the release of Knights of the Eternal Throne (the acronym KOTET is catchier, particularly when paired with "SWOTOR", which is how SWTOR tends to be pronounced - sounds a bit like an alien Star Wars language when you s … | Continue reading
Surprise! A demo for King of Fighters 14 comes out tomorrow, 19th July, on PlayStation 4.The demo includes seven playable characters (the final game, due out on 26th August, includes 50). These are Kyo Kusanagi, Mai Shiranui, Iori Yagami, and newcomers Sylvie Paula Paula, King of … | Continue reading
Over the weekend, amid the frenzy of the Evo 2016 fighting game tournament, Capcom announced and released an add-on for Street Fighter 5 that went down like a lead balloon with players.Street Fighter 5's "CPT Premier Package" includes three new costumes (one for Chun-Li, one for … | Continue reading
Never-ending cartoon series The Simpsons has spoofed the phenomenon that is Pokémon Go.The popular Pokémon app isn't mentioned by name in the skit, embedded below, but Homer is seen jabbing his phone to catch common critters such as Rattata and Drowzee while ignoring what's going … | Continue reading
Trophies for the first, classic Dead Rising game have popped up online - suggesting a new launch for PlayStation 4 is on the cards.The awards list comes via Exophase, which has form for revealing games long ahead of announcement, such as the remasters of Heavy Rain and Beyond.Dea … | Continue reading
Lego Dimension's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them expansion has been spotted, thanks to the new Argos catalogue.We knew a Lego Dimensions tie-in for the upcoming Harry Potter spin-off was on the way, but not what it would contain.Now we know - you'll get a Newt Scamander m … | Continue reading
Bob and Master Raven have joined the Tekken 7 lineup of playable characters.Publisher and developer Bandai Namco released gameplay videos for both characters during the Evo 2016 fighting game tournament.Here's the video for Bob, an American fighter who uses freestyle karate:Read … | Continue reading
Developed by original creators Stainless Games, Carmageddon: Max Damage serves as both homage and sequel to the first PC titles from 1997 and 1998, combining car combat, racing, and general road rage in a package boasting a reworked physics system, an upgraded engine, and updated … | Continue reading
Eyedol is the final character to be added to PC and Xbox One fighting game Killer Instinct Season 3.Eyedol was the ultra cheap final boss of the original Killer Instinct that came out in 1994. If you never had the pleasure of taking on the soul-destroying demonic brute back in th … | Continue reading
Street Fighter 5 has its first world champion, with South Korean player Lee "Infiltration" Seonwoo taking the Evo 2016 title.Infiltration, playing as Nash, beat Japanese R. Mika player Keita "Fuudo" Ai in the grand final.Infiltration, who came into Evo as favourite, must now be c … | Continue reading
Trials on Tatooine, the first officially-sanctioned VR lightsaber battler, launches for free today for HTC Vive.The "cinematic virtual reality experiment",… | Continue reading
It's not often that we review vendor-specific versions of graphics cards, but with MSI Gaming Z version of the GTX 1080 we had to make an exception. In our original review, we didn't have enough time to assess the overclocking potential of Nvidia's top tier card. But more than th … | Continue reading
Greetings Eurogamers. We like to think one can appreciate every single Outside Xbox video without any prior knowledge of the video games involved, Xbox as a… | Continue reading
The first BitSummit, in 2013, was an experiment. Let's put a bunch of Japanese indie developers in a room and mix in media and representatives from the wider industry, and see what happens. The second BitSummit refined the model, and the show hit its stride in the third year. The … | Continue reading
Have you checked out the Digital Foundry YouTube channel recently? You're guaranteed daily videos, some exclusive comparisons and analyses you won't see anywhere else - and we also like to try out some new ideas. DF Retro is the brainchild of John Linneman, possessed of a gaming … | Continue reading
In the first dungeon - deep breath - I find a dark room hidden behind a door that is opened by a switch that is hidden behind a block. Wheels within wheels! And yet, things get stranger still. Inside this dark room that I have just uncovered stands an old man with a message: "The … | Continue reading
Amy Hennig has just spoken in public for the first time about the Star Wars game she's making at Visceral and.... Well, she didn't reveal too much, which is understandable given the game's 2018 release date, but a few small details could be gleamed from what was said at a panel d … | Continue reading
Star Wars Battlefront's fourth and final DLC pack will bring locations and characters from this winter's Rogue One to the shooter, with the tropical planet of Scarif complemented by Jyn and Krennic - the characters played by Felicity Jones and Ben Mendelsohn. The news came as par … | Continue reading
EA has confirmed the two new heroes that will be coming as part of the Death Star DLC pack for Star Wars Battlefront, with Chewbacca and bounty hunter Bossk joining the roster for DICE's multiplayer shooter. There'll also be an emphasis on big space skirmishes introduced by the m … | Continue reading
Pokémon Go has been out officially in the UK for what, two days now? And yet it's hard to remember a time when it wasn't draining the life from my phone and reacquainting me with that thing healthy people do - walking, I think they call it. In recognition of the explosive ubiquit … | Continue reading
It's been a while since we've done one of these! While putting together our tech analysis for id software's fantastic Doom reboot, one thing became clear - this was a game handing in a remarkable level of visual fidelity while maintaining an extremely high frame-rate. The scale o … | Continue reading
In 2012 Valve launched Greenlight, a corner of Steam where developers could try (with the help of the public, press and anything else they could lay their hands on) and woo Valve into letting them flog their game.If that sounds kind of ridiculous, it's worth bearing in mind that … | Continue reading
We're quite fond of a little healthy competition here at Eurogamer, which is why it's fair to say the recent meteoric rise of Pokémon Go has the potential to bring out the worst in us. Sure, it isn't even a multiplayer game, and there's been a nice cameraderie about everyone taki … | Continue reading
Feel free to ignore this paragraph if you knew this already, but Eurogamer is based in Brighton, a mostly-lovely seaside city in England plagued only by hungry seagulls and an awful train service connecting us with London.This is important as I can personally testify how bad Sout … | Continue reading
Appetising couch co-op game Overcooked launches for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on 3rd August.We've been following Overcooked for a while, and have met up with its indie dev duo Ghost Town Games to give it a try. It was a lot of fun - you can watch our attempts below.If you're … | Continue reading
The creator of one of Fallout: New Vegas' biggest and best mods has drawn attention to the striking similarities between his work and a Fallout 4 DLC quest.Modder Guillaume Veer, aka BaronVonChateau, took to Moddb to point out that the Fallout 4 Far Harbor DLC quest Brain Dead sh … | Continue reading
Telltale's upcoming Batman series arrives for download this August, published by Warner Bros.It's the first time Warner has published a Telltale game - and this agreement also covers The Walking Dead's upcoming third season, due later this year.Batman will also launch on a Season … | Continue reading
Nintendo has confirmed new details on its NES mini console announced yesterday - namely that it won't connect to the internet, so will only play its startin… | Continue reading
Paul Feig, director of the divisive new Ghostbusters film, has admitted that the maelstrom of negativity that preceded its launch may well have done it a favour in the long run, drawing attention it might not otherwise have received. There's no such thing as bad publicity, as the … | Continue reading
Elite Dangerous is, for some, a living, breathing universe driven primarily by player actions.For others, though, it's a game that developer Frontier should tweak more often to tackle "griefers".This ongoing debate was thrust back to the forefront of the Elite Dangerous community … | Continue reading
Pokémon Go has been officially available in the UK for 24 hours, and already British police forces have stepped in to offer some useful words of advice.A common theme is: "don't Pokémon and drive". Good advice, espoused here by Eurogamer's local police force in Sussex.Meanwhile, … | Continue reading
EA wants/wanted Origin to be a prosperous online shop so it restricted the PC games it made to being sold there, which makes sense, even if it's a bit annoying. Now I don't know if EA is relaxing that stance, or if the games involved are now considered old enough (presumably this … | Continue reading
Star Citizen, the ambitious PC space game, has been in development for a long time. Too long, for some.One player, who goes by the name Streetroller, managed to score a whopping $2500 refund after taking his case against developer Cloud Imperium Games to the California Attorney G … | Continue reading
Ubisoft has announced a release date for Grow Up, the sequel to last year's beanstalk-based charmer Grow Home. Grow Up will be coming to PS4, Xbox One and P… | Continue reading
Activision's released fresh gameplay of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Remastered, showing off one of its most iconic missions.The video, below, shows a playthrough of Crew Expendable, the second mission of Infinity Ward's groundbreaking first-person shooter. In it, the player in … | Continue reading
Nintendo shares have risen in value by over 50 per cent since the launch of the smartphone phenomenon Pokémon Go. Small wonder when you consider that the app is the most popular mobile game in the US ever in terms of daily active users, raking in millions of dollars a day, and ta … | Continue reading
The most heavily funded game on Patreon was just cancelled.Breeding Season was described as an "unholy combination of a farming sim and a sex game" about breeding people and anime-inspired fantasy humanoids. This niche elevator pitch convinced 10,796 backers to collectively pledg … | Continue reading
The first custom bundle for Microsoft's upcoming Xbox One S is Gears of War 4-themed.Priced at $449 (or your local equivalent), this stylish limited edition bundle contains a stylish Gears-branded Xbox One S with a 2TB hard drive, a themed "Crimson Omen" controller, and a full ga … | Continue reading