Back in 1996 ad agency Digital Cafe created a free Doom mod called Chex Quest as a pack-in toy for the popular breakfast cereal. Naturally, it was about pro… | Continue reading
Stylish Zelda-like Hyper Light Drifter is coming to PS4 and Xbox One on 26th, July.Developer Heart Machine made the announcement to Gematsu. The game was described by the developer as an "action adventure RPG in the vein of the best 16bit classics, with modernised mechanics and … | Continue reading
Six months later an offline Skirmish mode is coming to Star Wars Battlefront on consoles. It will be available starting 20th July, said EA on the Star Wars Battlefront website. That's next Wednesday! Offline Skirmish mode is for consoles only. Skirmish offers the modes Walker Ass … | Continue reading
Yesterday, Valve clarified its rules on sites that use Steam to run gambling businesses.Gambling businesses, that is, such as CS:GO Lotto - the site owned and promoted by YouTube stars who did not properly disclose how they were profiting from it.Now, streaming giant Twitch has i … | Continue reading
Total War: Warhammer gets a new playable race, the Beastmen, as its next Campaign Pack launches on the 28th July. It'll cost £13.99.Call of the Beastmen is the game's first substantial expansion, introducing the new race into the Grand Campaign, as well as adding a new Story Camp … | Continue reading
A new Micro Machines game is out.Mobile game publisher Chillingo, which is owned by EA, has released Micro Machines on the App Store. It's developed by Codemasters.Up to four players can play across 10 tracks in three race modes. You can collect and race over 60 vehicles, with 60 … | Continue reading
There's always one, isn't there, who takes it a step too far. Take most medieval role-playing games for instance, with their six inventory slots for equipment or thereabouts; not Kingdom Come: Deliverance - it has 20!There are six body slots, four leg slots, four head slots, two … | Continue reading
Crowdfunded retro revivals are having a tough time of it.Last week I reported on the Recreated ZX Spectrum, yet another Kickstarter that's failed to live up… | Continue reading
10 Second Ninja X, the latest version of the fun PC platformer, comes out on Tuesday, 19th July. That's for PC, PlayStation 4, Vita and Xbox One.10 Second Ninja X asks you to complete its levels in just a matter of seconds. 10 seconds, to be exact. The quicker you complete the le … | Continue reading
Nintendo will launch brand new hardware this year after all - but not the console you were expecting.The Nintendo Classic Mini: Nintendo Entertainment System is a miniature replica of the original NES.It will launch here in the UK on 11th November, and comes with 30 NES games bui … | Continue reading
UPDATE: A rep from Jagex has told Eurogamer that it's not the Shandong company that has acquired Jagex. Rather, the investors are in the process of forming… | Continue reading
Some developers, quite deservedly, can boast of excellent reputations for game development. With Overwatch, Hearthstone and World of Warcraft being as hugely popular as they are, for example, it's hard to imagine Blizzard ever having turned out a duff game. Well, not so fast. Tur … | Continue reading
There's something big happening in Guild Wars 2 this month: Living World Season 3, which begins 26th July.These seasons are how Guild Wars 2 does big story arcs, so we're at the beginning of another. Season 3 is intended for top-level players, level 80, but you can boost yourself … | Continue reading
Bethesda has released Fallout Shelter on PC.To get the strategy game, you have to download the Bethesda launcher. From there, you need to create a Bethesda.net account, or, if you have one already and like me forgot your password, request a password reminder.Once you're all logge … | Continue reading
It's been a long time coming. First released in 2012 after extended alpha and beta testing, Hawken's mech-fuelled combat action attracted plenty of attentio… | Continue reading
After an excruciating wait - if indeed you did wait and didn't do the old workaround - Pokemon Go has been released in the UK on Android and iOS. It's right there - look! It's the game that's been taking the world by storm - even in the countries it isn't officially released. We' … | Continue reading
Holopoint is a VR archery game, and it's almost impossible to explain why it's so good without sounding like a wanker. It doesn't look like much. You're in a dojo, and some blue cubes straight out of My First Unity Project hang in the air around you. You shoot arrows at those, ho … | Continue reading
Having launched in the US only one week ago, Pokémon Go is already the biggest mobile game in US history based on its daily active users.According to analysis site SurveyMonkey, Pokémon Go had just under 21m daily active users as of yesterday. The record prior to that was Candy C … | Continue reading
Valve has promised to crack down on users who offer in-game goods as prizes for gambling sites. CS:GO Lotto was one such site implicated in a… | Continue reading
Event[0] is a game about a stranded astronaut talking to an artificial intelligence to help them get back to earth. Like Firewatch before it, much of this solitary adventure is centered around conversing with your colleague. Unlike Firewatch, your colleague is a computer recallin … | Continue reading
The Swindle, Gun Monkeys, and Ben There, Dan That developer Size Five Games has revealed the first gameplay footage of its upcoming football game Behold the Kickmen.Size Five founder and creative lead Dan Marshall has admitted that he doesn't know the rules of football and doesn' … | Continue reading
Thirty Flights of Loving and Atom Zombie Smasher developer Blendo Games is releasing its long-anticipated cyberpunk heist game Quadrilateral Cowboy on 25th July.This will only be the PC version, however. The Mac and Linux versions will follow in September.Quadrilateral Cowboy has … | Continue reading
Ubisoft is giving away the first Splinter Cell to celebrate the publisher's 30th anniversary.As such, it's offering one free game a month on PC. Last month it was Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and there are still five months to go this year. What could be next?You only have … | Continue reading
Double Fine's sci-fi action platformer Headlander will launch on 26th July for PS4 and PC, publisher Adult Swim has announced.Set in a future where mankind has collectively uploaded its consciousness into the cloud, there is only one human still tethered to their corporeal form - … | Continue reading
Those of you that watched yesterday's gameplay reveal for Overwatch's newest hero, Ana, will have likely paid close attention to the moment she prevents McCree's ultimate using her sleep dart ability. That has some serious potential, we think.With the character already being play … | Continue reading
EA's released a patch for FIFA 16 designed to tackle the FIFA Ultimate Team chemistry glitch.As we reported last month, FIFA players found a troubling glitch that meant the game buffed low-rated teams and nerfed highly rated teams without telling players.This had to do with chemi … | Continue reading
The PC version of the Doom 2016 reboot finally has the Vulkan API update we've been waiting for. Everyone's a winner in terms of higher performance but for AMD owners in particular, there are some game-changing improvements. Our initial tests suggest anything from a 30 to 40 per … | Continue reading
Microsoft will not hold a press conference at this year's Gamescom.A "new and more intimate" event, Xbox FanFest 2016, will be held for those attending next month in Cologne, Microsoft has said.Microsoft will still have a booth at the show, it said, where it will feature upcoming … | Continue reading
A stylish roguelike both made and hampered by its own pacing. | Continue reading
You can now celebrate Pride within Grand Theft Auto 5 via a free PC mod.The Los Santos Pride add-on is unofficial, sadly, but has been made by a rainbow of supporters and is backed by Stockholm Pride - the largest Pride festival in Scandinavia.Download the mod from LosSantosPride … | Continue reading
Pokémon already has an anime film franchise, but the huge success of Pokémon Go has prompted talk of a fresh, live-action cinema project.Hollywood studio Legendary Pictures is especially keen to seal a deal, reports Deadline, no doubt after seeing Nintendo's stock leap a staggeri … | Continue reading
Picking up any new game for the first time, there's an elementary question of identity. Are you a part of the game's world, or apart from it - protagonist or a glorified spectator, fulcrum or false god or all of these things and more? In Fru - the possibly last, probably greatest … | Continue reading
Hearthstone has a brand new shaman hero, and it is a murloc - one of Warcraft's tiny amphibians which plague card players in rush decks.But you can't buy Morgl the Oracle. Nor can you work by yourself to unlock him. You'll need a friend.Morgl is the reward for participating in He … | Continue reading
This week, EA has added cutesy platformer Unravel and so-so racer Need for Speed to both EA Access on Xbox One and Origin Access on PC. Late… | Continue reading
Speedrunning festival for charity, Games Done Quick, has wrapped up its summer event on Saturday after raising $1,296,061 for Doctors Without Borders.The six-day event saw dozens of games sped through by the industry's top players at a lightning pace. Here are some highlights:Cas … | Continue reading
Blizzard will forbid Overwatch Competitive Play teams from doubling up on heroes - or tripling, quadrupling, and so on."The big thing for Competitive Play is we're going to turn on one-hero limit, so players will not be able to stack more than one of the same hero within a Compet … | Continue reading
Ana Amari has been revealed as the next Overwatch hero, and included in the announcement splurge was an origins story video for her, which contains a picture of the vintage Overwatch team. It's this picture that poses an interesting question: who are the two unidentified people i … | Continue reading
Blizzard has revealed its 22nd Overwatch hero, Ana Amari.As last week's tease suggested, she's a support sniper with the ability to both damage her enemies and heal her allies, by firing at them with her rifle.This is brand new for Overwatch, but it's also a mechanic that's rarel … | Continue reading
It's pretty rare that a company can enter the world of consumer electronics manufacturing and not have a pretty rough time for it, and so it's been for Oculus, the Facebook-owned virtual reality pioneer. Its VR headset Rift has been dogged with supply and manufacturing issues, le … | Continue reading
Pokémon Go is a huge phenomenon, but there are places where people should simply know not be on their mobile phones.Pretty much at the top of that list? The Holocaust Museum in Washington DC.Speaking with the Washington Post, the institution has said it is trying to get the - cou … | Continue reading
Fallout 4's Vault-Tec Workshop DLC comes out on 26th July, Bethesda has announced.Vault-Tec Workshop is the fifth add-on for Fallout 4 and the third workshop add-on. It lets you create a massive Vault and attract new dwellers. As an Overseer, you can run Vault-Tec-style experimen … | Continue reading
Two brand new Pokémon have been unveiled - and they are some of the strangest species yet.Images of the pair appeared this afternoon via the Japanese magazine CoroCoro (via trusted Pokésource Serebii).Neither have English names, as yet, but both will be among the selection of new … | Continue reading
Dangerous Golf has been fixed, and I will argue that from the slightly awkward position of someone who never thought it was broken in the first place. No. Let's try it a different way. How about this? I suspect that there has never been a better time to try out this strange, wilf … | Continue reading
There's a brand new first-party exclusive on PlayStation 4 today, developed by Sony San Diego.You may be forgiven for not remembering Kill Strain, even though it has been in the works for ages. A free-to-play asymmetric team shooter, it was announced back in December 2014.Since t … | Continue reading
Being a long-time fan and a three-time reviewer of Monster Hunter, I feel like I've seen it all. I must have sunk somewhere between 500 and 750 hours of finger-cramping killing and crafting into Capcom's series, and, although I'm not exactly a god-tier G-Rank player, I know my wa … | Continue reading
UPDATE 13/07/2016 11.07pm: Popular YouTube personality Felix "PewDiePie" Kjellberg has addressed Warner Bros.' Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor YouTube promot… | Continue reading
Over the weekend, Rocket League players found images pointing to a key and crate loot system in the game.Now, developer Psyonix has confirmed it is bringing the Counter-Strike-style mechanic to the game.Images of a crate and key card were posted to the Rocket League Reddit three … | Continue reading
The Pokémon Gym that stands ten minutes from where I live is an imposing beast: a wedge of purple-orange glass slicing through the Croydon skyline. Right now, it belongs to Team Yellow, which is great because that's who I've sworn fealty with, but also not so great because it is … | Continue reading