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October 2015 Archive

    1. Assassin's Creed Syndicate time-lapse: world in motion
    2. Watch: Should games be made about 9/11?
    3. Rich Stanton on: From Billions to Bedrooms
    1. SXSW considers harassment conference after pulling game panels over threats of violence
    2. PlayStation Plus November free games revealed
    3. Watch: Fallout 4's Pip-Boy edition - what's it like?
    4. Eagle-eyed Steam users rewarded for reading small print
    5. Civilization Revolution 2 Plus hits PS Vita this December
    6. Uncharted, VR and what was absent from Sony's show: The Jim Ryan interview
    7. Tribes back catalogue now available for free
    8. Steam Halloween Sale is a monster, has Slender for £1.50
    9. Now Fallout gets officially licensed Nuka-Cola Quantum
    10. Moshi Monsters not above strict UK watchdog the ASA
    11. Konami shifts 5m copies of Metal Gear Solid 5
    12. Respawn announces new Titanfall game
    13. Halo 5: Guardians review
    14. Mirror's Edge Catalyst release date delayed until May 2016
    1. Hitman trailer shows off sunny new Sapienza location
    2. Paradox buys World of Darkness franchise from CCP
    3. Outlast 2 confirmed for autumn 2016
    4. Watch: Brutal survival horror game Noct in action
    5. Nier's sequel will have all the weirdness of the original, plus a little more polish
    6. Psychological thriller The Town of Light gets February release date
    7. Come and work for Gamer Network!
    8. Watch: 'Liberating' a base in Just Cause 3
    9. Batman: Arkham Knight PC still broken, players say
    10. The Rise and Fall of Sega Enterprises
    11. Massive PS4 sales continue
    12. The new My Nintendo reward program will let you earn points as you play
    13. Nintendo reveals Miitomo, its first smartphone game
    14. The Park review
    1. Xbox Games with Gold November titles named
    2. Destiny raid boss Crota defeated solo using Rock Band drum kit
    3. Rocket League match mutators to arrive in free November update
    4. DriveClub's impressive debut on PlayStation VR
    5. Zelda fans have a bone to pick with Nintendo over doge meme
    6. UK tabloids point the finger at Call of Duty, GTA in coverage of 15-year-old TalkTalk hacker
    7. Gran Turismo Sport is not Gran Turismo 7
    8. A Beginner's Guide to the world of Fallout
    9. Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer sells 2m copies
    10. Uncharted 4's multiplayer will be 60fps
    11. Escape From New York IP-holder wanted to sue Metal Gear Solid
    1. Michel Ancel reveals PlayStation 4-exclusive Wild gameplay
    2. Quantic Dream reveals sci-fi game Detroit
    3. Crytek's upcoming VR adventure Robinson: The Journey confirmed for PS4
    4. Boundless to merge Minecraft with Rick and Morty on PS4 and PC
    5. Gravity Rush 2 gameplay revealed
    6. PlayStation Paris Games Week 2015 conference live report
    7. Watch: 15 minutes of new Battleborn co-op and multiplayer gameplay
    8. Dhalsim wears a beard in Street Fighter 5
    9. Until Dawn: Rush of Blood announced for PlayStation VR
    10. Overwatch beta now live in Europe and America
    11. Sony mentions new PlayStation 4 Gran Turismo title
    12. Watch: What you actually do in Media Molecule's new game Dreams
    13. Looks like Driveclub Bikes for PS4 is a thing
    14. Naughty Dog debuts Uncharted 4 multiplayer footage
    15. Housemarque announces new game Matterfall
    16. Horizon: Zero Dawn gameplay footage shoots down a robot dinosaur
    17. No Man's Sky release date set for June 2016
    18. Watch The Emperor do Force Lightning in Star Wars Battlefront
    19. Face-Off: Assassin's Creed Syndicate
    20. Watch: What we expect from today's PlayStation conference
    21. Fallout 4's Trophy and Achievement list analysis and speculation
    22. Super Mario Maker update to add mid-level checkpoints, new levels
    23. Telltale surprise launches Minecraft: Story Mode episode two
    24. The deceptively harmless Kingdom coming to Xbox One
    25. Here's the Halo Master Chief Swarovski Helmet
    26. Incredible Hulk Grand Theft Auto 5 mod released
    27. Maia just got standalone scenario missions
    28. Project Zero: Maiden of Black Water review
    29. Ninja Theory revisits Hellblade heroine Senua's face
    30. European Rock Band 4 PS4 players want answers over unreleased DLC
    31. Warhammer: The End Times - Vermintide review
    32. Hats off to Destiny for its mask-filled Halloween event
    33. Xbox One backwards compatibility dated for November
    1. Don Bluth launches Dragon's Lair movie Kickstarter
    2. Alone in the Dark creator announces stealth horror game 2Dark
    3. Watch this real life Daredevil complete Ocarina of Time blindfolded
    4. Digital Foundry vs console texture filtering
    5. Burnout Paradise confirmed for Xbox One backwards compatibility
    6. Battlefield 4 map community helped DICE make is out tomorrow
    7. Watch: Chris, Ian and Johnny play Vermintide live!
    8. Mojang-published Cobalt delayed to February 2016
    9. Watch: How big is Just Cause 3?
    10. Halo 5's campaign goes back to basics - and it's all the better for it
    11. Developer of canned Darth Maul game plots EA revival pitch
    12. What works and what doesn't in Halo 5: Guardians
    13. Assassin's Creed: Syndicate has a cool secret Ubisoft hasn't told anyone about
    14. Watch: Yes, you can drift horse carriages in Assassin's Creed: Syndicate
    15. Assassin's Creed Syndicate review
    16. Performance Analysis: Assassin's Creed Syndicate
    17. For better or worse, From Russia With Love was vintage Bond
    18. Assassin's Creed: Syndicate is the UK's number one game
    19. Tales from the Borderlands Season One review
    20. PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight back on sale this week
    1. Watch: Six Fallout quests that are weird even for Fallout
    2. The carry: The strange career of a League of Legends star
    1. Oliver Twins release Dizzy game thought lost for 22 years
    2. The Vita is dead - or is it?
    3. Watch: When should we review games?
    1. Day of the Tentacle Remastered debuts in-game screenshots
    2. Fallout gets its own officially licensed beer
    3. Sonic Team apologises for scandalous in-game typo
    4. Pillars of Eternity sells 500k copies
    5. GAME manager accidentally orders company's entire stock of gift cards
    6. The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes review
    7. Guitar Hero Live review
    8. Square Enix explains why Final Fantasy 15's main characters all wear black
    9. Sony reaffirms lack of triple-A PlayStation Vita development
    10. Gameplay of canned Star Wars Battlefront 3 shows impressive ground-to-space tech
    11. Life is Strange review
    1. Dota 2 to receive Fallout 4's Mister Handy Announcer Pack
    2. Space combat roguelike Everspace confirmed for Xbox One and Windows 10
    3. Harmonix admits to employees posting positive Rock Band 4 Amazon reviews
    4. Watch: Doom multiplayer gameplay rekindles memories of id Software's best
    5. Goat Simulator and I Am Bread team up for GoatBread DLC
    6. Volume: Coda expansion headed first to PlayStation VR
    7. You can play as Chaos in Total War: Warhammer
    8. Activision announces eSports division
    9. Digital Foundry: Hands-on with Dark Souls 3
    10. Cult horror Pathologic being HD remastered for PC
    11. Witcher 3 patch 1.11 tackles Skellige's Most Wanted quest at long last
    12. There's a real-life Pokémon Gym in Japan
    13. What you need to know about importing Rock Band 3 songs to RB4
    14. Last-gen Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 delayed
    15. YouTube confirms paid subscription service
    16. Downwell review
    1. Resident Evil HD Remaster's original voice acting mod is complete
    2. PixelJunk Shooter Ultimate is out now on Steam
    3. Scribblenauts dev announces F2P action-RPG Anchors in the Drift
    4. Watch: Rainbow Six Siege is really fun in single player
    5. Game of Thrones' finale dated for November
    6. Does Metal Gear Solid 5's Eva costume DLC really have a "tactical advantage?"
    7. Intel Skylake: Core i7 6700K review
    8. Kingdom review
    9. Mushroom 11 review
    10. Ten days of Subterfuge
    11. Sniper Elite developer buys Woolfe: The Red Hood Diaries
    12. Intel Skylake: Core i5 6600K review
    13. Watch: Hard West is much more than a wild west XCOM
    14. It's Back to the Future Day! Here's an iconic scene recreated in GTA5
    15. All signs point to a PS4 price cut in the UK today
    16. Broforce review
    1. African-inspired point-and-click The Journey Down launches Kickstarter
    2. Project Zero: Maiden of Black Water removes skimpy costumes
    3. Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter announced for spring 2016
    4. Han Solo, Leia and Palpatine detailed in Star Wars: Battlefront
    5. Xbox One gets its own limited edition Fallout 4 controller
    6. Report sheds light on Destiny's troubled development
    7. Guitar Hero's decadent reboot breathes new life into the series
    8. Hideo Kojima left Konami earlier this month - report
    9. Halo 5's day one multiplayer update is 9GB
    10. Rebel Galaxy review
    11. Watch: What you missed in the Dark Souls 3 network stress test
    12. The Stanley Parable designer teases new game
    13. New Super Mario Bros. speedrun world record has been set
    14. Skullgirls dev explains why Indivisible costs $3.5m to make
    1. Turn-based zombie western Hard West gets a November release date
    2. Galak-Z launches on Steam next week
    3. Watch: Aoife forces Johnny to play Final Fantasy X
    4. How Life is Strange flips the script on video game romance
    5. Watch: Cor blimey, Ian's streaming Assassin's Creed Syndicate!
    6. Korean StarCraft rocked by another match-fixing scandal
    7. WRC 5 review
    1. Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 review
    2. Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 2GB vs 4GB review
    3. Watch: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided looks meaner, uncannier
    4. Jon Blyth on: Pubs vs video games
    5. Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 review
    6. Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 review
    7. Apple iPad Air 2 review
    8. MSI GT72 2QE Dominator Pro with GTX 980M review
    9. Hands-on with PlayStation TV Remote Play
    10. PlayStation TV review
    11. Linx 8 review - exploring the sub-£100 Windows tablet experience
    12. Alienware Alpha review
    13. Windows on a stick: the Hannspree Micro PC review
    14. New Nintendo 3DS review
    15. Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 Revisited
    16. The making of Uncharted: the Nathan Drake Collection
    17. Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan X review
    18. Google Nexus 6 review
    19. Radeon R9 390X 8GB review
    20. MSI Titan GT80 Titan SLI review
    21. MSI GS30 Shadow with Gaming Dock review
    22. Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti review
    23. AMD Radeon R9 Fury X review
    24. AMD Radeon R9 390 8GB review
    25. AMD Radeon R9 Fury review
    26. AMD Radeon R9 Nano review
    27. Radeon R9 380 2GB vs 4GB review
    28. G-Sync on a laptop: the Asus G751JY review
    29. When Halo went back to its RTS roots
    1. Nintendo now handing out NX console developer kits - report
    2. Face-Off: Transformers: Devastation
    1. Duke Nukem 3D finally gets a Sega Mega Drive release
    2. Sunless Sea is getting story DLC with Zubmariner expansion
    3. Watch the first mission from StarCraft 2: Legacy of the Void
    4. Watch: Hands-on with the Steam controller
    5. Remaining Batman Arkham Knight Season Pass content revealed
    6. EGX Rezzed 2016 tickets on sale now
    7. Why Warhammer 40K: Deathwatch is £19 on Steam but £2.29 on mobile
    8. Preparing your PC for Star Wars: Battlefront
    9. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 gets a surprise, huge patch
    10. The Witcher 3: Hearts of Stone review
    11. There's another rally game coming early next year
    12. Destiny: The Taken King raid hard mode unlocks next week
    13. Where can Metal Gear go from here?
    1. Watch the Ratchet & Clank movie's first full length trailer
    2. Dragon Quest Heroes review
    3. Assassin's Creed: Syndicate in-game footage flies through Victorian London
    4. Lego super sleuths are working out the next Lego Dimensions characters
    5. Fallout 4's fancy pants live-action trailer
    6. Watch: How many of his voices can Nolan North do in 60 seconds?
    7. 1000 The Crew Wild Run closed beta keys up for grabs
    8. Treyarch: why Call of Duty Zombies isn't its own game
    9. Witcher 3 Hearts of Stone adds Taxman to sting money exploiters
    10. Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam Bros. unfurls December release date
    11. DieselStormers forced to change name after Diesel wins trademark dispute
    12. The marvellously malicious Darkest Dungeon gets a release date
    13. Sublevel Zero review
    14. Watch: Star Wars Battlefront is a bit shallow (and that's alright)
    1. Konami apologises for Metal Gear Online's poor launch stability
    2. Doom multiplayer closed alpha sign-ups now available
    3. How a single tweak takes down Hearthstone's most powerful deck
    4. Overwatch closed beta begins this month (in the Americas)
    5. Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses 2016 concert tour dates announced
    6. Yes, the Rebels had it tough in the Star Wars Battlefront beta
    7. 3DS game returns to eShop after homebrew exploit fixed
    8. Looks like Nintendo's developing Zelda: Twilight Princess HD
    9. Kick Off reboot shoots for PS4 and Vita
    10. Space Hulk ported to… PS3
    11. Rise of Incarnates shutting down only months after launch
    12. Styx gets a sequel
    13. Placebo response can alter your experience of games, scientists say
    14. The wolf in Snake's clothing: Metal Gear's twisted hero
    15. Hide your purse, Steam is having a stealth-game sale
    16. Star Wars Battlefront won't have dedicated voice chat
    17. Bloodborne Game of the Year Edition launches this November
    1. Funcom's single-player horror game The Park gets a release date
    2. New Spelunky world record set at $3,404,400
    3. Allison Road picked up by Team 17, Kickstarter cancelled
    4. Deus Ex Revision spruces up an old classic
    5. The Witcher 3 patch 1.10 gives PS4 the boost it's been waiting for
    6. From today, you can do the Carlton dance in Destiny
    7. 80 Days review
    8. Stray dog sim Home Free is coming to PS4
    9. Watch: Ian play Bedlam, a game based on a book. How novel.
    10. More than 9 million played the Star Wars Battlefront beta
    11. Batman: Arkham Knight's combat challenges get character select today
    12. Telltale's cookie-cutter mechanics make Minecraft: Story Mode familiar fun
    13. New Homeworld resurfaces with brief gameplay footage
    14. Star Wars Battlefront beta extended until Tuesday
    15. Gabe Newell Simulator looks like an actual game that's coming out on Steam today
    16. Star Wars Battlefront has a £40 Season Pass
    17. Civilization: Beyond Earth - Rising Tide is generous, imaginative, and currently a bit broken
    18. Civ: Rising Tide's alliance bug has been fixed, Firaxis says
    19. Rocket League gets Back to the Future DLC
    1. Firewatch signals a February release date
    2. You can skip straight to the end of Call of Duty: Black Ops 3's campaign
    3. "I don't want you to get a second-rate experience…"
    4. Watch: Is Wild Run the reason to return to The Crew?
    5. Laserlife review
    6. Transformers: Devastation review
    7. People are already posting Halo 5: Guardians ending spoilers
    8. Nvidia GeForce GTX 950 review
    9. Rock Band 4 squeaks into the UK top 10
    10. Face-Off: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves on PS4
    11. Star Citizen hires heavyweight Hollywood cast for Squadron 42
    12. Lego Marvel's Avengers covers six Marvel films
    13. The Martian: Bring Him Home is a licensed mobile game done right
    1. Watch: Just Cause 3's rocket mines are our new favourite toy
    2. The truth about cats and dogs (playing video games)
    3. Seagate 2TB Game Drive for Xbox review
    4. Shattered Horizon: the FPS that got lost in space
    1. Face-Off: Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception on PS4
    2. Uncharted: Remastered, revisited, reassessed
    3. Performance Analysis: Star Wars Battlefront beta on PS4
    4. Performance Analysis: Star Wars: Battlefront beta on Xbox One
    5. Alexis Kennedy on: Building the frontier
    1. All Transformers games, comics and toys will be unified across one story
    2. Apple is removing games from people's purchase history
    3. Watch: Ian play Transformers Devastation, live at 5pm
    4. Everybody's Gone to the Rapture studio co-head departs, pens frank blog post why
    5. Spencer: Xbox One team focused on regaining fan trust, not beating PS4
    6. Pool Nation FX launches on Steam, is improved over Xbox One
    7. Dovetail Games Fishing gets a new name and release date
    8. Charming 'work it out yourself' game Kingdom gets a release date
    9. Please games, let me be stumped
    10. Why I hope we never see Master Chief's face
    11. PlayStation Now launches in UK, priced £12.99 a month
    12. League of Legends developer Riot takes on key selling website G2A
    13. EA adding more Star Wars Battlefront PC servers and it seems to be working
    14. Destiny is nerfing shotguns, again
    15. Street Fighter 5's Laura announced - officially, this time
    16. Fallout 4 28-35GB on console, PC system specs revealed
    17. Is Hardware: Rivals the new Rocket League?
    18. Shovel Knight's retail release delayed two weeks
    1. Battlefield Hardline headed to EA Access Vault next week
    2. Wadjet Eye reveals post-apocalyptic adventure Shardlight
    3. Broforce lets freedom ring next week with an official launch
    4. Star Wars: Battlefront beta data-mined, Leia, Han Solo and Emperor found
    5. Witcher 3 patch 1.10 is a monster, full notes revealed
    6. Telltale dates Tales from the Borderlands finale
    7. Just Cause 3 lets you hang upside down from a helicopter and blow up a petrol station
    8. Chaos Reborn leaves Early Access at the end of the month
    9. Watch: Lumo is nostalgic and lovely
    10. Storytelling in Mankind Divided: Choice, consequence and cynicism
    11. BBC Three to livestream League of Legends World Championships
    12. Bungie finally unlocks one of Destiny's most elusive guns
    13. High-profile FIFA YouTubers hacked, scream about it
    14. Metal Gear Online needs major work
    15. Watch a Crisis in Torment: Tides of Numenera
    16. Bethesda has "concerns" about Battlecry
    17. How Rise of the Tomb Raider's microtransactions work
    18. Halo 5's campaign lasts 8-12 hours - if played on normal
    19. Second Street Fighter 5 beta detailed
    20. Rediscovering Lego Dimensions through the eyes of a child
    21. Voice actors strike has been authorised
    1. Metal Gear Solid 5 will have horse armour DLC
    2. Watch five minutes of Resident Evil: Umbrella Corps gameplay
    3. Apotheon dev's new sci-fi action roguelike Cryptark enters Early Access
    4. Watch: We've played five hours of Anno 2205
    5. Watch: How do you soundtrack a video game?
    6. Loads of Sky Broadband customers can't play Rocket League on PS4
    7. Capcom pulls Ghost Trick from iOS App Store purchase history
    8. Adam Jensen voice actor portraying Far Cry Primal's lead character
    9. Looks like Super Meat Boy is headed to Wii U
    10. Halo 5's new Forge mode looks much improved
    11. Minecraft will change forever with addition of flying cape
    12. Is Headlander Double Fine's most whimsical game since Psychonauts?
    13. The Beginner's Guide review
    1. Sonic Lost World is coming to PC in November
    2. MGS fan is remaking the first Metal Gear in Unreal Engine 4
    3. HoloLens dev kits to launch in Q1 2016 for $3k
    4. Digital Foundry: Hands-on with Rainbow Six: Siege
    5. Digital Foundry: Hands-on with Star Wars: Battlefront
    6. Stone Age-set Far Cry Primal launches in February
    7. Star Wars: Battlefront beta already being live-streamed
    8. Battlefront's styling is pure Star Wars, but it's a Battlefield game at heart
    9. Telltale pulls iOS versions of The Walking Dead, Wolf Among Us, more
    10. Armikrog review
    11. Super Mario Advance 4's rare e-Reader levels recreated in Mario Maker
    12. Darksiders 2 Deathinitive Edition out 27th October
    13. Mad Catz apologises for Rock Band 4 Xbox One shortages
    14. Star Wars Battlefront PC specs confirmed
    15. Metal Gear Solid 5 just got one of the craziest microtransactions yet
    16. Ubisoft buys The Crew developer Ivory Tower
    17. Soma and the art of internal consequence
    18. Destiny will soon get microtransactions
    19. Guitar Hero Live developer explains its track DLC model yet again
    20. All GAME stores will soon get a dedicated Steam section
    21. Skullgirls dev launches Indiegogo campaign for action-RPG Indivisible
    22. Watch No Man's Sky wow Stephen Colbert
    1. Far Cry Primal is an ice age spin-off - report
    2. Introducing Home Free: a stray dog sim
    3. Ex-Metroid Prime devs announce twin-stick shooter Dead Star
    4. Star Wars Battlefront won't have microtransactions
    5. "I could do with a bit more money!": Yu Suzuki on the return of Shenmue
    6. The Elder Scrolls Online's next expansion takes you to the Orc capital
    7. Rock Band 4 review
    8. Watch a Destiny fireteam take apart the game's hardest challenge
    9. Face-Off: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5
    10. Lego Dimensions review
    11. Microsoft readies raft of Xbox One bundles for crucial Christmas 2015
    12. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 fails to make impression in UK chart
    13. Pokémon lawyers pursue party-planning Pokéfan for $4k payout
    14. Console Divinity: Original Sin gets a release date
    15. Rock Band 4 alert: you can now re-download previously bought Rock Band DLC
    16. Xbox One controller remapping coming for all pads soon
    1. Watch: Xbox One indie games you might fall in love with
    2. The monstrous evolution of Amnesia: The Dark Descent
    1. Watch: Should some franchises stay in the past?
    1. Jeremy Irons and Brendan Gleeson added to Assassin's Creed cast
    2. Watch: Uncharted - The Nathan Drake Collection live at 5pm
    3. We've got 330 free Steam copies of The Escapists for you
    4. MirrorMoon EP review
    5. The next Sonic is mobile game Sonic Dash 2
    6. Wheels of Aurelia: a game about driving?
    7. PS1 at 20: Fluid's symphony of drugs, dolphins and drum'n'bass
    8. Activision promises to address Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 issues
    9. Cities Skylines: After Dark review
    10. Criterion founders tease Burnout spiritual successor
    11. Face-Off: Uncharted: Drake's Fortune on PS4
    12. Free DLC pack hits Battlefield 4 this autumn
    13. The original WipEout design document revealed
    14. PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight goes back on sale at the end of October
    15. Laura is a brand new character for Street Fighter 5
    16. Destiny's two big PVP modes return soon - and they're a bit different
    17. Tony Hawks Pro Skater 5 review
    1. Trackmania Turbo delayed until early 2016
    2. Blood Bowl 2 review
    3. Soma has sold 92k copies in a week
    4. Watch: Ian try not to cry while playing Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5
    5. Nomad sky: Worlds Adrift is an unusual game
    6. Zangief returns for Street Fighter 5
    7. Square Enix cans convoluted Deus Ex: Mankind Divided pre-order program
    8. PS1 at 20: Destruction Derby and the art of being an idiot
    9. Bravo, UK games industry, which helps GamesAid raise £564,000 in a year
    10. Clandestine is a thrilling spy-'em-up, but you'll need a friend
    11. Ubisoft made a J-pop song about a Chihuahua and it's barking mad
    12. Dirt Rally's latest update introduces the sport's spiritual home