Wreck-It Ralph, Disney's take on the secret life of video game arcades, is getting a sequel.Wreck-It Ralph 2 launches on 9th March 2018, the House of Mouse announced last night, and explores the world of online gaming.The first film featured cameos from video game villains such a … | Continue reading
Street Fighter 5 gets a huge update today, one that adds a raft of new content as well as the long-awaited cinematic story mode.But be warned: for some reason Capcom has separated out the patch and the story mode into two, massive downloads. The 1.04 update can be downloaded auto … | Continue reading
LittleBigPlanet's online services are coming to an end in Japan.Sony's trilogy of main LittleBigPlanet games, plus spin-offs LittleBigPlanet Portable, Vita and Karting will see their servers shut down at the end of this month (thanks, NeoGAF).As of 31st July, Japanese players wil … | Continue reading
It's been a while, New York. About three months in fact. Three months since Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment surprised an audience turned cynical by Watch… | Continue reading
EGX, the big UK gaming event put on by Gamer Network, which also runs this website, has announced that submissions are open to all comers for this year's Leftfield Collection indie showcase.The Leftfield Collection is sponsored by Sega, and unlike the rest of the Rezzed indie zon … | Continue reading
A successful Kickstarter campaign for a NES game artbook has been shut down by Nintendo lawyers.The bad - if not exactly surprising - news dropped last night, when the Bitmap Books' NES Visual Compendium Kickstarter was just 24 hours from the end of its funding period.Attempting … | Continue reading
Last week we reported on Steam game Hadean Lands, which released a PDF certificate as £27 DLC. Hadean Lands, from Boston-based indie developer Andrew P… | Continue reading
Remaking a classic video game is an intimidating prospect. Stick too close to the original and you run the risk of releasing an archaic project that maybe doesn't hold up as well in modern times as it did in its day (see Doom 3: BFG Edition). Change too much, however, and purists … | Continue reading
Two-and-a-half years after launch, Xbox One will finally get background music support on 2nd August, Microsoft has announced.The ability to play games and listen to your own music in the background has been one of the most-requested features from Xbox One owners.Now, Microsoft ha … | Continue reading
The developer behind Orion: Prelude, the game Activision reportedly had pulled from Steam over allegedly stolen guns from Call of Duty, has admitted "blatant rips were made".Earlier this week, Trek Industries boss David Prassel said he received a Digital Millennium Copyright Act … | Continue reading
Hitman's fifth Elusive Contract goes live tomorrow, 1st July, at 1pm UK time, and it will remain available for 72 hours. This Elusive Contract, The Gunrunner, is the first of its type set in the latest Marrakesh map.Elusive Contracts can only be attempted once, ever, and you can' … | Continue reading
Scorn is billed as a game "where even changing weapons makes you feel a bit sick" and looking at its new trailer below, that sounds pretty accurate.Developed by the 10-person Serbian studio Ebb Software, Scorn's otherworldly visual stylings owe more than a little to Alien artist … | Continue reading
XCOM 2's third DLC expansion, Shen's Last Gift, just had a surprise launch tonight.The add-on follows the exploits of chief engineer Lily Shen, who must infiltrate an ADVENT facility to retrieve her late father's secret final project. Priced at £7.99, Shen's Last Gift features an … | Continue reading
Editor's note: To mark the announcement of the BioShock Collection - okay, the confirmation of the BioShock Collection after more leaks than even the tattiest corner of Rapture - we're returning to Richard Cobbett's brilliant retrospective on BioShock 2, first published in April … | Continue reading
Mobile game Final Fantasy Brave Exvius is out now on the App Store and Google Play.The free-to-download game for iOS and Android devices revolves around two knights from the kingdom of Grandshelt, a young girl and a crystal. You crawl through dungeons on the hunt for items and gi … | Continue reading
Back in March, we reported on 3DNes - a new NES emulator that can display retro games in 3D.The software looks at how flat sprites are layered in 2D games and uses this data to create 3D objects.The emulator works immediately with some games, although others require users to tink … | Continue reading
If you absolutely had to go, you could go out with less flair than this: dropping down from the radioactive vacuum and into the furious embrace of VY Canis Majoris, a star so big as to be a little bit implausible, really. As deaths go, it would be a touch ostentatious, but who ca … | Continue reading
CSR Racing 2, the sequel to the phenomenally successful mobile racer, is out on iOS and Android devices today. Like its predecessor, there's a strict focus on drag racing, with players able to race each other and form crews. What sets it apart are its looks - CSR Racing 2 looks a … | Continue reading
At long last, 2K Games has officially announced BioShock: The Collection.It arrives for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on 16th September in the UK (13th in North America) and here's what you get:That's the full trilogy, plus every single-player add-on, including the excellent Min … | Continue reading
Forget Overwatch Competitive Play - scoring with the basketball in the Lijiang Tower holding area now spews confetti and sounds an air horn as celebration!I tried for an hour-and-a-half this morning to recreate the winning shot but couldn't. Fortunately someone else, via Reddit, … | Continue reading
Twitch has launched a new Social Eating category, and invited streamers to share their breakfasts, lunches and dinners in front of the camera.Social eating is already popular in South Korea, where it is named "muk-bang" - literally, "eating broadcast". Cooking the food yourself i … | Continue reading
Nintendo needs to shift 2m copies of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild to recoup the game's huge development costs.The upcoming Zelda has been in development for more than five years, Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto explained during a recent investor Q&A (thanks, Cheesemeister) … | Continue reading
Dragon's Crown has been pulled from the PlayStation Store in Europe - slap bang in the middle of Sony's "Big in Japan" sale.The Japanese fantasy brawler was removed because of the expiration of the license held by publisher NIS America in Europe.Yesterday, Sony announced its "Big … | Continue reading
Neverwinter, the MMORPG that's been spun out of the Dungeons & Dragons franchise, has been given a final date for PlayStation 4. Oh, and that date is July 19th. Neverwinter is a free-to-play title, but early access is available for €19.99, allowing you to play from July 12th. For … | Continue reading
It's been a week of making hard choices with big consequences, and the toughest one lies ahead. On July 22nd Splatoon is getting its final Splatfest, and Nintendo's positing the ultimate question: Callie or Marie?Splatoon came out just over a year ago, and since then it's receive … | Continue reading
Help: The Game, a collection of 11 all-new games by studios such as Creative Assembly, Sports Interactive and Sumo Digital in support of the charity War Child, has a release date: it goes on sale on 26th July. It will be released through Steam and cost £9.99 / $14.99 / €14.99.Fir … | Continue reading
Half a dozen new creatures from this year's Pokémon Sun and Moon have leaked online. They look... not great.Recent Pokémon designs often come in for some flak - everyone hates the ice cream Pokémon Vanillite, for example.Then there's the Pokémon that is just a cog, Klink. Or the … | Continue reading
UPDATE: The Blood for the Blood God DLC is now available on Steam, priced £1.99.Installing this DLC is likely to raise the age requirement in some regions,… | Continue reading
Capcom's given us a peek behind the development curtain and revealed a handful of characters who didn't make it into Street Fighter 5.Street Fighter 5 director Takayuki Nakayama took to Capcom's website to discuss the likes of Fighting Literary Master, Fighting President, Clumsy … | Continue reading
Lego Star Wars reinvents itself enough to avoid the usual critiques of its gameplay, only to fall short trying to stretch out its story. | Continue reading
Trippy rhythm game Thumper will be a launch title on PlayStation VR upon its 13th October release, developer Drool has confirmed.It will simultaneously launch on Steam.We covered Thumper upon its announcement back in March. At the time I described it as "a more aggressive version … | Continue reading
Last months rumours of a BioShock collection have resurfaced with new promotional art and screenshots briefly found on 2K Games' website.The images have been removed from the publisher's site, but AllGamesDelta captured them before that happened.Furthermore, a NeoGAF user found s … | Continue reading
Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens lets you play as the film's director, JJ Abrams. Abrams is one of more than 150 characters on the game's roster of m… | Continue reading
Sony has unveiled its Instant Game Collection - i.e. PlayStation Plus freebies - for the month of July.Beginning on 5th July, PS4 users will receive Saints Row 4's standalone expansion Gat Out of Hell and boss fight only action game Furi. I recently played an early review copy of … | Continue reading
Total: War Warhammer's first major patch arrives tomorrow at 2PM BST.Update 1 brings with it a huge list of balance changes, AI tweaks and stability improvements, while also introducing a new Vampire Counts unit called the Blood Knights.Filling the role of late-game shock cavalry … | Continue reading
We're leaving the European Union, and the video game community has reacted in the best way possible: they've created a Twitter hashtag.From what I can tell, #BestBrexitGame was kicked off by Harvey Smith, co-creative director at Dishonored developer Arkane Studios, with the follo … | Continue reading
Three years after release, the fidelity of GTA 5's Los Santos is still wowing people: a hotel in LA has been caught using a screenshot of the game as a photo of downtown LA.A user on Reddit noted a ratty-looking screenshot of downtown Los Santos on the website of the Figueroa Hot … | Continue reading
There has been an awakening in your wallet. Have you felt it?Yes, the ever popular Lego franchise has just popped out a brand new title. The latest is based on last year's hugely anticipated Star Wars movie, The Force Awakens - meaning if you're a Star Wars fan, a Lego fan, or a … | Continue reading
Finally, it's happened: Final Fantasy 7 Monopoly is real.It's the work of Merchoid, a video game merchandise specialist, which said to expect a launch on 14th April 2017 - 20 years after the JRPG classic came out on PSone.Expect Monopoly to incorporate characters, locations and l … | Continue reading
One of the nice things about seeing a game like Overwatch become so popular is that it inspires the fan base to get creative; whether that's with endless Play of the Game memes, or with some surprisingly inventive pornography. Of course, not all of that creativity takes place out … | Continue reading
Competitive Play has returned to Overwatch. It's where most if not all of the serious competition will now take place, which in turn means the atmosphere around Quick Play should relax.But Competitive Play works slightly differently to standard Quick Play and there are some thing … | Continue reading
The Radeon RX 480 is a seriously impressive package. It's not the fastest graphics card on the market, but then it wasn't designed to be. AMD has targeted its Polaris technology debut at the mainstream gamer, the idea being to deliver exceptional 1080p gaming performance and VR r … | Continue reading
The people behind Press Play, the developer of Max: The Curse of Brotherhood, have formed a new studio and announced a new game.Microsoft shut down Danish developer Press Play alongside Fable studio Lionhead back in March. The corporation issued a statement at the time:Now, the f … | Continue reading
Here's a blast from the past: Hewson Consultants, aka the people behind 21st Century Entertainment, have returned with a new game.You might not have heard of Hewson Consultants, but if you had an Amiga back in the day you might have heard of its successor, 21st Century Entertainm … | Continue reading
Julian Gollop, the man that made XCOM, is finally returning to the genre he helped define.Back in March, we were delighted to hear that Gollop's next game, Phoenix Point, would focus on two very familiar themes: world-based strategy and turn-based tactical gameplay. Or to put it … | Continue reading
The Tetris movie is being spread out into a trilogy because the story is so big.Yep, the story for the Tetris movie is so big, one movie can't contain it. It must be three.That's according to the producer of the movie, who gave Empire magazine one of my favourite silly quotes of … | Continue reading
Road Redemption, the spiritual successor to the much-loved 90s classic Road Rash, has a release date, with the final game coming to PC, Mac and Linux on October 15th, while Xbox One and PS4 versions will follow on January 15 2017. It's a little way off from the original release d … | Continue reading
No longer shall Civ players have their games interrupted by a pithy Queen Elizabeth, demanding to know if they'd be interested in a new trade agreement with England.In Civilization 6, the English nation will instead be ruled by a young Queen Victoria, as shown in this latest vide … | Continue reading