Latest Articles (Page 1654)

Microsoft's Games with Gold program is adding indie platformer Dust: An Elysian Tail and open-world action comedy Saints Row: The Third to its roster of free offerings for Xbox 360 users with Xbox Live Gold subscriptions.

Microsoft has praised an Xbox One fan's vision for the console's currently functional user interface.

Dead Island developer Techland has re-announced its fantasy dungeon-crawler Hellraid for a 2015 release on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One - rather than PS3 and Xbox 360.

UPDATE 29/04/2014: Outlast's Whistleblower DLC will be priced at €8.99 / $8.99.

Evolution Studios has explained the delay to DriveClub that pushed the PlayStation 4 racing game out of the console's launch window and into October 2014.

A better-than-hello (sorry) to news editor Wesley Yin-Poole, who joins host Bertie Purchese and me on the podcast this week, and with good reason. He's been to Seattle - well, Bellevue - to hang out with Bungie and play Destiny, its new not-an-MMO MMO.

UPDATE: Eurogamer YouTube Editor Ian Higton has taken the new PS4 update for a spin and made a video, below, of all the best bits.

Child of Light's kind of the perfect game for a relatively warm Spring week - it's light, breezy, and in its colourful vistas there's the slight hint of change and fresh beginnings. You get the sense that's how its developer Ubisoft Montreal feels about it too, having momentarily broken away from the triple-A churn to craft a small, delicate RPG.

Eve Online developer CCP recently announced it had cancelled its World of Darkness vampire MMO that it had been working on, to varying degrees, since 2007. Over the years we'd caught glimpses of it but never understood how it would work as an actual game. Until now.

In Bungie's new online first-person shooter Destiny, everything levels up. But what happens when you hit the level cap?

Jens Matthies is feeling a little flat. It's not that he's unhappy with his lot, or with the work put in by his team at MachineGames, the Swedish studio based in the city of Uppsala that's finishing up on its first ever project, Wolfenstein: The New Order. It's that Matthies' active role on the game is complete, and a journey that's spanned some five years is at last winding towards its conclusion.

Buy a new copy of Mario Kart 8 and register the game via the Club Nintendo website (between 30th May and 31st July) and you'll be eligible for a free Wii U game download.

Happy GDC! Happy GDC if you're Sony or Amazon, anyway, as we reckon the former's about to reveal a VR headset and the latter may have an entire console ready to announce - although it may not be quite the kind of console you're used to. Besides that, there are panels on whales in the free-to-play marketplace, panels on misogyny, panels on AI in games like Hearthstone and BioShock Infinite, and panels on luminosity and audio occlusion, although I probably made those last bits up. Oh, and Eugene Jarvis is telling all about the creation of Robotron: 2084. I didn't make that up.

British actor Bob Hoskins has died aged 71 following pneumonia, his agent has announced.

I'm always late to the party - even when most of the people at the party are dead. In the case of DayZ, I'm very late indeed. It's been two years since Dean Hall's mod started to turn ordinary gamers into hardened survivalists, and in that time, it feels like the game has helped cement a genre - or something that certainly behaves like one. I get hundreds of press releases in my inbox every week, and about two thirds of them promise that the latest title I'm about to fall in love with is just like DayZ - or just like Minecraft. These titles are not unrelated. In 2014, we love foraging and scavenging. We love finding our own tools and getting by on next to nothing. We love hardship. We love suffering. It's no longer enough to just thrive - we want to feel the sharp edge of survival itself.

Would you play a video game after suffering a collapsed lung? This League of Legends pro did.

PeterMolydeux is at it again, this time with Nintendo - A Sad Story part two.

How odd to see vintage online worlds Dark Age of Camelot and Ultima Online make the April Steam Greenlight selection, among 73 others.

You can now rent a Battlefield 4 server on console - but not on Xbox One.

The Elder Scrolls Online developer Zenimax Online Studios has taken the unusual step of requesting that players ignore the game's community code of conduct in an attempt to battle a fresh bout of black market gold spammers.

Video games are huge, collaborative endeavours where many disparate arts come together to create a single entity for our enjoyment, and just as in theatre, cinema and television, developers have learnt of the power that music holds. Since the very earliest days of gaming composers have been striving to enhance our experiences with their skills, to excite us, to inspire us, to amuse us. Sadly this element of gaming is sometimes overlooked since, in the process of assessing games, there are so many parts to consider and, understandably, there's only a finite amount of space to examine them all. Priorities have to be assigned, and outside music-centric games like Guitar Hero or Lumines other elements usually take necessary precedence.

Four months have passed since Watch Dogs' initial launch date and still the game isn't on shop shelves. But - as announced earlier today - Ubisoft's tech-savvy open world is now, finally, coming. Just two more months remain until its marathon five-year development draws to a close.

Years in the making and after millions in budget, its unlikely that Ubisoft sees Watch Dogs as a stand-alone affair.

Watch Dogs developer Ubisoft has teamed up with Nvidia to offer free a PC copy of the game to anyone who upgrades their graphics card.

Microsoft will launch Xbox One in China in September, it's announced.

A day that should have been one of pride for all at Electronic Arts and DICE, but one that has to surely go down in infamy. The day Battlefield 4 hit shelves, and set in motion a series of events that has shaken the company and its prized development studio, and punctured waning public faith.

UPDATE 03/04/14: The Naval Strike DLC releases for all non-Battlefield Premium members on 15th April, DICE has announced.

After running our preview comparison of Battlefield 4 exactly one month ago, it was startling to see how great the advantage proved for one platform in particular; a shocking signifier of the form all future next-gen comparisons might take. The PS4 had the higher internal resolution, a considerable performance lead in motion, and the addition of extra effects such as horizon-based ambient occlusion entirely missing on Xbox One. But now, with the retail releases out in the wild, we can see to what extent this disparity is set in stone, and whether DICE's implication of further tweaks to the Xbox One release actually makes up any ground.

A couple of Battlefield 4 players have released a new fan-made movie that may be the best yet.

Imagine waking one morning to discover that two of your staff had been detained in a foreign country over allegations of espionage. What would you do? You're not the head of MI6. You don't employ spies. You employ developers who make video games. You discover the news in your online forum but soon it's spread like wildfire, to local radio and TV, and people are knocking at your door for comment. What do you say? What do you tell the families of the arrested men?