The UK's newspapers, amid the maelstrom of the biggest political turmoil of modern times, have found a page or two to take on new mobile phenomenon Pokémon Go.The papers that ask the toughest questions of the augmented reality game are those you'd expect: The Daily Mail and The D … | Continue reading
The huge Apex expansion has been released for Arma 3. It costs £25 alone or £45 bundled with the base game.Apex brings an entire South Pacific area to the series for the first time - a massive archipelago some 100km2 in size. There are jungles, shanty towns, even a volcano for go … | Continue reading
The next Worms game includes guest stars from a raft of video games as pre-order bonuses.Worms W.M.D has guest stars from Rocket League, Payday 2, Saints Row 4 and even Goat Simulator. But to get them you have to pre-order the game.Rocket League brings a tank and the Octane Battl … | Continue reading
You may not realise it, but Pokémon Go on iOS grants The Pokémon Company and developer Niantic full access to your Google Account. That includes, but is not limited to: viewing and sending email, viewing and deleting Google Drive documents, seeing what you've been watching on You … | Continue reading
Battlefield, a series famed for its multiplayer battles and not its ropey stories, will be turned into a television show. Anonymous Content, the company responsible for hit TV series True Detective, will be in charge, collaborating with Paramount and EA to make it happen.Michael … | Continue reading
A few weeks ago, Windows 10's lock screen suddenly served up an image of unearthly beauty: a luminous alien mushroom vehicle of some kind, delicate and almost translucent, perched on the end of a midnight jetty. It turned out to be the diving gondola at the end of Selin Pier in G … | Continue reading
Popular Doom mod Brutal Doom, which makes id Software's 1993 classic and its sequel much more violent and aggressive, has received a new upgrade that adds weapons from this year's Doom reboot.Beyond simply adding the new weapons, this Brutal Doom update lets you dual-wield most f … | Continue reading
Only two days after id Software's Doom reboot launched speedrunner Zero Master managed to be the first to complete its hardest difficulty setting, Ultra-Nightmare, which is actually regular Nightmare with permadeath enabled, i.e. you only get one shot at it. Indeed, it is a mode … | Continue reading
Several retailers have released images of what PlayStation VR game box art looks like with amusing warnings letting folks know what games require a host of VR peripherals.The ones that only offer PSVR as an option simply say "PlayStation VR Compatible" at the top. However, the Pl … | Continue reading
Pokémon Go is bigger than Tinder. Think about that for a moment! There are more people roaming the streets right now, catching invisible Pokémon, than there are folk swiping left and right in the name of fleeting romance. Incredible.Perhaps the best thing to come out of this game … | Continue reading
It's hard to think of a game with a more infamous reputation than Lichdom Battlemage. It launched on consoles in April with an average frame-rate under 15fp… | Continue reading
The Civilization 6 theme will be composed by Christopher Tin, the only composer to receive a Grammy award for a video game soundtrack.Baba Yetu, the theme f… | Continue reading
Splash Damage, the maker of Dirty Bomb and Gears of War 4's multiplayer, has an unlikely new owner: a Chinese chicken meat supplier called Leyou.This will be Leyou's second major video game studio acquisition, having pecked up Warframe developer Digital Extremes partially in 2015 … | Continue reading
Warner Bros.' delayed Batman: Return to Arkham is being held back until at least November, multiple sources have told Eurogamer.Return to Arkham contains Rocksteady's excellent Batman: Arkham Asylum and its open world follow-up Batman: Arkham City, remastered for PlayStation 4 an … | Continue reading
GTA 5 Redux is perhaps the most ambitious GTA mod yet - and it's out on 26th August.On the graphics side, GTA 5 Redux rewrites the game's weather system, adds brand new, real-life company textures for billboards, and increases the number of and quality of effects.But there's more … | Continue reading
Pokémon Go has not long made its debut on smartphones, but developer Niantic is already teasing what's next for the location-based game.While the app encourages players to work together to locate and lure Pokémon out in the wild, there are plans to introduce one of the mainstays … | Continue reading
The developer of the Just Cause series of games has hired the chief creator of its popular multiplayer mod.In a post on the Just Cause multiplayer website, lead developer Cameron Foote said he had joined Avalanche Studios Sweden as a developer "so that I could work on projects pr … | Continue reading
Frontier has cancelled its own $100,000 Elite Dangerous tournament - upsetting some players who spent many hours preparing for it.In November 2015, the Cambridge-based developer announced a new competitive community close quarters combat (CQC) tournament. It excited players becau … | Continue reading
Long War Studios is back with a couple of new mods for XCOM 2, introducing laser weapons, four new classes and a reworking of the game's perk system.Following the success of its incredible Long War overhaul for XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the team partnered with Firaxis to produce a ser … | Continue reading
Pokémon Go is a smash hit success, with the game's popularity sparking headlines around the world.But not all of those headlines have been positive - and some media reports have zeroed in on the unintended consequences of the app's lure mechanic.Pokémon Go's lure feature works, a … | Continue reading
In our PC review we called Kerbal Space Program "an essential sandbox for anyone with an interest in space, rocketry, or explosions" and awarded it top honours. And this week it's being released on PlayStation 4. Hooray!The US PlayStation Blog said Kerbal Space Program launches t … | Continue reading
I question how secret this particular secret agent truly is. There's the jetpack, for starters, boosting you out of a clear blue sky, thrusters sending forth bright orange flame. Then there are the machine guns, the mounted shotgun, the rocket launcher. And then there's the probl … | Continue reading
Pokémon Go, in the places it has been released (which don't include the UK yet), is a phenomenon. The search term Pokémon has never been as popular and the game has rocketed to the top of the American iOS chart, making an estimated $1.6m a day. It's a top 10 Android game in the U … | Continue reading
Greetings, Eurogamers. That wasn't too scary, right? A nice, gentle introduction to another weekly digest of Outside Xbox videos. No surprises or sudden loud noises. Not even an exclamation mark!Compare that to these eight games that demonstrate precisely zero chill and drop you … | Continue reading
Surround sound gaming headsets are nothing new, and the feature sets often look very similar. Support for multiple platforms is the norm, along with Dolby Digital and DTS support to get an authentic multi-channel experience - without the need for several speakers to be placed aro … | Continue reading
For a few moments at the beginning of Red Dead Redemption it's unclear just what kind of Western we're in. A paddle steamer comes in to dock at a place called Blackwater, wistful piano drifting over a bustling crowd impatient to step into the promise of the frontier. But then we … | Continue reading
You might have seen a video we uploaded earlier this week, in which we demonstrated how to create your very own rudimentary catapult in Breath of the Wild. All you need is a treasure chest, a metallic plank and a boulder, and you too can fling Link into the air and watch as he so … | Continue reading
Naked willy survival game Rust is changing in a big way. It's doing so via a new XP and levelling system, which may sound unremarkable but has a profound effect on how the game is played.Blueprints are gone - you no longer need to piece together blueprints in order to know how to … | Continue reading
The first Steam Summer Sale without daily or flash deals was a resounding success, according to Steam Spy - so expect it to stay this way.Having no daily or flash sales but continual discounts instead meant prices didn't drop as low as in previous years. The average discount in t … | Continue reading
Announced just two months ago, Battlefield 1 is now available to select users in alpha form across all three major gaming platforms. In typical DICE fashion… | Continue reading
It sounds like Pokémon Go won't be released in the UK this weekend. The global roll-out has been halted until server issues are ironed out in territories where the game is live.John Hanke, CEO of Pokémon Go operator Niantic, told Business Insider that a release in countries such … | 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
Hello! Chris Donlan here. Simon Parkin and I recently attended a wonderful talk at Brighton's Catalyst Club, in which historian Mathew Homewood picked over some of the strangest sports in Sussex history. I think it's quite interesting to think of games as being related to this qu … | Continue reading
Evolve's player count has skyrocketed 15,930 per cent since it changed its payment model from a retail product to a free-to-play structure yesterday.On Wedn… | Continue reading
First-person floating simulator Adr1ft is coming to PS4 in Europe and North America on 15th July.Developer Adam Orth tweeted that it will cost $19.99 (about £15).The deep space survival game drew many comparisons to Alfonso Cuarón's zero-g thriller Gravity, with its central premi … | Continue reading
Earlier this year game developer Daniel Mullins released the deceptively titled cult classic Pony Island, a fourth wall-breaking horror comedy about the dev… | Continue reading
UPDATE 25TH JULY: Starbound 1.0 has launched on Steam and costs £11.99. There's a launch trailer to mark the occasion. ORIGINAL STORY 8TH JULY: After roughl… | Continue reading
Delightful co-op abomination Push Me Pull You is coming to PC, Mac and Linux on 14th July.The 2v2 multiplayer game launched on PS4 in May and now it's bringing its horrific humour to Steam, the Humble Store, and itch.io beginning next Thursday at 6pm UK time.For those unfamiliar … | Continue reading
Red Dead Redemption is back thanks to a much-awaited Xbox One backwards compatibility update - now letting us play the game at smoother frame-rates than was ever possible on Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3. If you still have your original Xbox 360 disc (or have it bought from the Xbox … | Continue reading
Free-to-play augmented-reality scavenger hunt Pokémon GO isn't just the most downloaded app in the countries its premiered - the US, Australia and New Zealand - but also the top-grossing iOS app in these territories.According to App Annie, Pokémon GO has bested the likes of Mobil … | Continue reading
Gears of War, as a series, has just never appealed to me. Nothing personal Marcus Fenix, but although I can totally get behind a gun that can also be used t… | Continue reading
We've heard a lot this week about how Counter-Strike gambling sites can rig their bets for high profile YouTubers.Well, here's how it looks.Sites offer to fix results so that high profile YouTubers profit from the process. It makes for a more exciting video, and entices fans to t … | Continue reading
Oh it's so lovely to be back in wartime France. There's something reassuringly familiar about the stomping grounds of Battlefield 1's closed alpha, and the St. Quentin Scar map that's at the heart of it all: in those gentle French hills torn violently apart and in that bucolic vi … | Continue reading
This is an article about Inside's ending. As such, we will be spoiling it. All of it. Including details and bonus content you may have missed. You have been warned.Limbo developer Playdead's latest surreal nightmarish adventure Inside is memorable for a lot of reasons. It looks f … | Continue reading
You can now buy the blood of Ultima creator Richard "Lord British" Garriott on eBay.Garriott is selling his bodily fluid by the vial for $5k (around £3.8k). You'll get the blood in a reliquary and also receive loads of in-game items for Garriott's current project Shroud of the Av … | Continue reading
UPDATE 12TH JULY: The reason people weren't seeing the below change in effect was because of a bug, Blizzard has explained. The change is definitely live no… | Continue reading
Turbine, the veteran Boston-based online game developer, has laid off staff for the third year in a row. The Boston-based studio created the well-regarded online role-playing games Dungeons & Dragons Online and The Lord of the Rings Online, but it has suffered since the launch of … | Continue reading
G2A has moved to legitimise its business by adding security measures designed to verify those who sell game keys on the platform.G2A has been roundly criticised for providing a platform for fraudsters to sell game keys bought with stolen credit cards.Earlier this week, G2A announ … | Continue reading