Yooka-Laylee, the crowdfunded spiritual successor to Banjo-Kazooie led by many of the same developers, not only raised over £2m on Kickstarter, it managed to raise enough to fund themed socks celebrating the game.Yooka-Laylee developer Playtonic didn't produce this product, thoug … | Continue reading
Red Dead Redemption isn't the only Rockstar game getting backwards compatibility this week, as the GTA developer's adaptation of The Warriors is now available on PS4 as a PS2 Classic.Priced at £11.99 / $14.99, this 2005 brawler adaptation of Walter Hill's cult classic 1979 movie … | Continue reading
Electronics engineer James Newman spent £40k building a gigantic computer capable of such advanced technology as playing Tetris.The half-tonne (roughly 500kg) beast is 33ft (10m) wide and 6ft (2m) high and it's equipped with 40k transistors and 10k LED lights. It also burns 500 w … | Continue reading
Red Dead Redemption will be added the the Xbox One's backwards compatibility library on Friday.Xbox Live head honcho Major Nelson made the announcement on Twitter.The funny thing is that Red Dead Redemption was already briefly available on Microsoft's latest console back in Febru … | Continue reading
Ubisoft is adding two new independent directors to its board as the giant publisher wards off a hostile takeover from Vivendi.Pending shareholder approval on 29th September, Ubisoft would like to add Frederique Dame and Florence Naviner as independent directors. Conversely, one o … | Continue reading
Monster Hunter Generations will let you dress up your Felyne friends as Link from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.As announced in the following trailer, this will be a free DLC add-on. It's not the only Nintendo or Capcom costume crossover coming to Monster Hunter Generations … | Continue reading
Yesterday, many were shocked to hear how two YouTube stars had promoted an online gambling site without disclosing the fact they were its owners.The reaction on YouTube, Reddit and in Eurogamer's own comments was pretty much unanimous. Looking at the evidence, it was hard to avoi … | Continue reading
Battlefield is back and with its last update, DICE will have delivered four superb games in three short years - an amazing accomplishment. Battlefield 1 is powered by the latest iteration of its in-house Frostbite engine and this time, the development team is stepping back in tim … | Continue reading
It's not often we get a glimpse inside the hallowed halls of Valve - although we did once get to read the Valve Handbook for New Employees - but American publication Make: Magazine recently did. Make: Magazine was allowed to delve into the VR laboratories and see all the old Vive … | Continue reading
Some Battlefield 1 fans think there will be a pigeon mode in DICE's World War 1 shooter.Let's be clear: there has been no official confirmation of a pigeon mode as yet. If there is one, DICE is keeping it firmly under flaps.But take a look for a moment at the below video, origina … | Continue reading
We've already seen plenty of Battlefield 1 footage emerge from this year's E3. Martin and I had a good old natter over a bunch of gameplay last week and by now I'm pretty sure everyone has watched the 45 minute long, celebrity-filled Let's Play that features Snoop Dogg smoking a … | Continue reading
That's it, PlanetSide is dead. The massively-multiplayer online first-person shooter has been switched off. Meteors rained from the in-game sky 1st July as the world ended.Apocalypse-spotters were there to record the event (via PC Gamer).Daybreak, the game's maker, had warned the … | Continue reading
There's a lot to like about Breath of the Wild. The first hands-on demo was so good, says news man Tom Phillips, that he played it four times at this year's E3. That's four more times than I've been able to.But thankfully our friends over at Digital Foundry went hands-on with the … | Continue reading
PlayStation 3 game Yakuza 5 is currently available to download for free if you have PlayStation Plus (and live in Europe).It's a bit of a surprise, as this month's PlayStation Plus games have already been announced and Yakuza 5 is not one of them.July's PlayStation Plus list of g … | Continue reading
There's something new to play on PlayStation Vita - Twitch has launched an official Vita app. A 16.7MB download, the app will let you watch… | Continue reading
Xbox Avatars will soon be able to use wheelchairs, Microsoft has revealed.Writing on Twitter, Xbox chief Phil Spencer and platform boss Mike Ybarra have confirmed that it had heard the requests of real-life wheelchair users for a way to reflect themselves digitally.The below imag … | Continue reading
I've been looking at a lot of Overwatch fan art - and Witcher 3 fan art - and there are some fantastic pieces around. But nothing struck me quite like Andrew Tran's work.I love seeing familiar characters re-imagined in different ways, and with his Rockabilly series of Overwatch p … | Continue reading
It was hard work being dead in ancient Egypt. You had to put the hours in. Upon death, ancient Egyptians believed that your ba - soul is the closest word we have - was kicked loose from your body and freed to roam the lands. This freedom came with limitations, however. Every day … | Continue reading
The company behind the cool Destiny Titan figurine has revealed its models for the Hunter and Warlock classes. Bungie and 3A plan to release $190 (abou… | Continue reading
Sega Europe has purchased Amplitude Studios, the developer of the Endless franchise.Having created Endless Space and Endless Legend, the French studio is regarded as one of the leading developers in the 4X strategy genre. We're expecting the team's next game, Endless Space 2, to … | Continue reading
A speedrun of 2007 game BioShock was seemingly interrupted by a Windows 10 update during this year's Games Done Quick charity event.Speedrunner Blood_Thunder stumbled into the now infamous blue screen update as he approached a terminal in the game at around the 33 minute mark, to … | Continue reading
Microsoft's put out a survey for Killer Instinct that gives us an idea of potential new guest characters.The survey, released to Killer Instinct website Ultra-Combo.com, is designed to let developers at Iron Galaxy Studios and Microsoft Studios know what the community would like … | Continue reading
The upcoming Skyrim Special Edition adds a host of visual tweaks - as we've covered - ranging from extra foliage, upgraded shaders, dynamic depth of field,… | Continue reading
Steam has begun warning users not to use a high-profile Counter-Strike: GO gambling website after its ownership turned out to be two YouTube stars - who were also using YouTube to promote the site.Trevor "TmarTn" Martin and Tom "Syndicate" Cassell are listed in newly-uncovered bu … | Continue reading
Resident Evil 4 is one of the best games ever made, and so gave Capcom a problem that - until the recent reveal of Resident Evil 7, at least - it was in no rush to solve. How do you follow up a classic? Resident Evil 5 would spend four years in development, benefit from a new gen … | Continue reading
Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the UK's best-selling game, going by physical sales.It's the fourth biggest Lego video game launch of all time, UK numbers company Chart-Track said.So, its launch lands behind Indiana Jones (2008), Marvel Super Heroes (2013) and Batman (2008) … | Continue reading
Battlefield 1 has been extensively data-mined during the closed alpha that is currently running for a select few players, revealing what would seem to be every major detail about DICE's forthcoming period shooter. And I mean everything - so if you don't want the game spoilt for y … | Continue reading
Microsoft's big Xbox summer sale kicks off tomorrow.The Ultimate Game Sale has over 250 deals on Xbox One and Xbox 360 titles. And, since Microsoft is all about Windows 10 games these days, too, the sale includes discounts on Windows 10 games.There's up to 60 per cent off, which … | Continue reading
Independently developed self-published games (or "indie games" as per the common vernacular) are known for a lot of things. They're typified as quirky experiments like Minecraft, high brow narrative dramas like Dear Esther, peculiar puzzlers like Limbo, and novel arcade affairs l … | Continue reading
Greetings, Eurogamers, and thanks for joining us for this hand-picked selection of Outside Xbox videos, where we've recently expanded our field of expertise from video games to xenobiology.Imagine the infinitesimal chance of stumbling across sentient humanoid alien life in this v … | Continue reading
Competition improves technology - we need plurality in the PC components market and we need alternatives to market giants Intel and Nvidia. In short, the bo… | Continue reading
It's a peculiar sensation, looking back at another version of yourself and thinking "really?". BioShock Infinite was one of the very first games I covered professionally. I recall enjoying it at the time, but haven't thought about it much since that initial playthrough due to the … | Continue reading
Capcom's Resident Evil Remastered series kicked off nicely with RE6 handing in solid 1080p60 gameplay, albeit with little in the way of visual enhancements. It was a promising start though, and with that firm foundation in place, basic logic suggests that the earlier, less techno … | Continue reading
Everyone loves a mystery, don't they? I mean, why else would news about the discovery of Loch Ness Monster bones be trending on my Facebook feed right now?Mysteries are of course not confined to the real world; there are plenty of unanswered questions out there in video game land … | Continue reading
In a wood in the south of The Witcher 3's Toussaint lies a cemetery called Mere-Lachaiselongue. Perhaps you've been there, and perhaps you took the time to read the the inscriptions on its tumbling gravestones. If you did, they might have given you pause. They don't really fit in … | Continue reading
Blizzard has paid tribute to Overwatch fan Wu Hongyu, who passed away on 23rd May, the day before the game's launch. As reported by Redditor rebirdhk,… | Continue reading
Earlier this year dedicated Dark Souls player The_Happy_Hob finished From Software's cult classic without taking a single hit. Now he's met his match as Twi… | Continue reading
Blizzard is going to make another Diablo game, according to a new job listing.As found on the studio's hiring page, there's a listing for game director on an unannounced Diablo project."Blizzard Entertainment is seeking a game director with outstanding communications skills, prov … | Continue reading
Sci-fi thriller Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma has appeared on Steam, a mere two days after its Vita and 3DS launch earlier this week.This third and final entry in the Zero Escape franchise (which includes 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors and Zero Escape: Virtue's Last R … | Continue reading
Classic sci-fi horror adventure System Shock is getting a reboot by Nightdive Studios. Though it's currently in its embryonic pre-alpha phase and still raising money on Kickstarter, there's a demo of the remake available so we decided to give it a spin and see how it compares to … | Continue reading
Yeah alright, cards on the table. We couldn't find anyone in the office who hadn't played the original Bioshock. Which is hardly surprising when you're talking about a group of games journalists (incidentally, what would the collective noun for that be? A thinkpiece? A scribble? … | Continue reading
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask is being adapted into a short film by animation studio Ember Lab and the teaser is very pretty indeed.The short's music is composed by Theophany, an artist who already released an album of Zelda cover tunes called Time's End: Majora's Mask Remix … | Continue reading
Hey, there's a new Katamari game out today in the UK! But...Yeah, you already know the punchline. Tap My Katamari is a mobile game that takes the vibrant characters and universe created by Keita Takahashi way back in 2004 (!) and wears it like a shabby skin for a mobile clicker g … | Continue reading
The new Doom did a great job of rekindling the feel of old Doom, but one thing that it lacked from its predecessors was that classic weapon pose. You know, the one that sees your weapon pop up from the bottom centre of your screen.This week, developer id Software released an upda … | Continue reading
Capcom has dropped a big hint regarding the Resident Evil 7 demo's mysterious dummy finger item, which has puzzled fans over the past few weeks.The Resident Evil 7 teaser was released a couple of weeks ago during E3 for all PlayStation 4 owners with a PS Plus subscription.In an e … | Continue reading
When Star Ocean debuted on the Super Famicom 20 years ago the RPG, an American import that Japan made its own with pinch of Shintoism and a dollop of anime, was poised to change video games. The previous year Chrono Trigger had brought together Final Fantasy's Hironobu Sakaguchi … | Continue reading
A brand new Arma game has been released but it's an iOS and Android game called Arma Mobile Ops.It sounds a bit like Clash of Clans or the Arnie-promoted Mobile Strike: build a base and defend it from attacks, while putting together your own attacking force to send against others … | Continue reading
You might not have heard of Darren Cox, but you've likely come across some of the projects he helped foster. In his tenure at the head of Nissan's motorsports division he oversaw ambitious, often outlandish ventures such as the DeltaWing, a beautiful dart of a car that's still ca … | Continue reading