Latest Articles (Page 1805)

Nordic Games, the company that owns the Darksiders franchise, has continued its IP acquisition charge, this time snapping up Atari dormant franchises Desperados and Silver.

There's an interesting bait and switch in Titanfall, the first-person shooter from the people who made Call of Duty what it is today.

Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot has defended his company's decision to delay high-profile Wii U exclusive Rayman Legends and turn it into a multiplatform release.

Dungelot's name probably seemed smart at the time, yet I can't help but feel it does this fizzingly clever roguelike no favours at all. That first syllable, 'Dunge' - urgh. Thankfully, Eurogamer knows better than to judge an app by its icon, because it turns out Dungelot is a cracker.

That was fun! Rezzed 2: Rezzed Harder is over, and thanks to everyone who made it to Birmingham's NEC Arena for two quite incredible days. It's a testament to the developers, organisers and those who came that Rezzed remains one of the most refreshing game shows around, even if I do say so myself.

Actress Ellen Page has accused Naughty Dog of ripping off her likeness for PlayStation 3 exclusive The Last of Us.

The alpha version of DayZ standalone still isn't ready for release but now there's an end in sight.

Welcome to the live stream page for Rezzed: The PC and Indie Games Show! Rezzed takes place at the NEC in Birmingham on Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd June and - as well as a show floor full of playable PC and indie games - is home to two days' worth of amazing developer sessions, where top people like Chris Avellone, Ragnar Tornquist, Dean Hall and Creative Assembly share the latest progress on their games. You can watch every session live on this page as it happens. Sessions start at 12pm BST / 1pm CEST each day and the full schedule is below the embed. Enjoy!

Red Thread Games demoed Kickstarted 3D adventure game Dreamfall Chapters live on stage at Rezzed in Birmingham, UK, today.

"Phew! Made it!" Luigi's post-stage cry is a classic example of Nintendo's economical approach to characterisation. While his brother's celebratory "Oh yeah! Mario time!" is the sign of a man enjoying himself, happy to be bounding through these joyously bright, precision-designed worlds, those three words reveal a humble guy just happy to have made it to the goal pole in one piece. Luigi's no hero: he's just bound by duty, tasked with rescuing the Princess while big bro's away.

Ragnar Tornquist, director of Kickstarted adventure game Dreamfall Chapters, has disagreed with George Lucas' view that the evolution of storytelling in video games is still waiting for a wildly popular success like the movie Titanic.

11 years: that's how long it took Nintendo to top Super Mario 64 with Galaxy. For over a decade, this astonishing, genre-redefining game reigned supreme, towering above all its peers, an influence not only on every other 3D platformer but on every game with a three-dimensional world. How do you follow that?

As Nvidia continues to roll out its stack of second-generation Kepler graphics cards, we couldn't help but adjust our focus towards AMD and wonder what's going on in the red corner. To the best of our knowledge, we won't be seeing any new desktop GPU products from the firm until the latter end of the year, and in the meantime we're left with just the recently released £100/$140 effort, the rather decent Radeon HD 7790, and new editions of last year's offerings - the price/performance king being the HD 7950.

Uplink and Darwinia developer Introversion has discussed the troubles that indie creators face getting their games noticed by publishers and traditional brick and mortar shops.

Oregon-based indie team The Fullbright Company won't be showing off its rather awesome-looking first-person exploration drama Gone Home at PAX Prime this year, due to the four-person studio's unanimous disagreement with Penny Arcade organisers over "a number of issues."

The Sony Xperia Z is without a doubt the best phone to come out of the company's R&D labs in years, boasting powerful tech, an eye-catching screen and a svelte and surprisingly resilient chassis. The Japanese electronics giant clearly knows this, as it has used the Xperia Z as the blueprint for its next stab at cracking the tricky - yet profitable - tablet market. The result is a device which is attractive to behold, packs plenty of horsepower and feels like a genuine challenger to the incumbent Apple iPad.

Welcome to your roundup of the best of the videos on Outside Xbox this week. A week that, to be honest, we were expecting to be quieter than the one preceding it. "This will be a week to reflect," we thought, our E3 shellshock fading. "On our interview with Thief reboot producer Stéphane Roy, for example, in which we discuss the new swoop mechanic, focus mode and controversial recasting of Garrett's voice actor."

"I can tell you I'm really excited about our story." That's Eric Holmes, creative director of Warner Bros' Montreal studio, talking about Batman: Arkham Origins in a GameSpot interview this week. As a fan of Rocksteady's previous Batman games, I'm excited that Holmes is excited. "I think it's a very important Batman story," he continues, "and I think fans are going to love that probably more than any other thing in the game."

Last month I wrote about a quirky little isometric adventure on Indiegogo called Fleish & Cherry in Crazy Hotel. Based on your comments, it seems like its 1930s era animation style piqued some of your interests. Now it has a demo available at Spanish developer Red Little House's official site.

The Copenhagen Game Collective's curio Dark Room Sex Game is getting remade as Dark Room Sex Game HD.

Microsoft has detailed its two-free-games-a-month initiative for Xbox Live Gold members by clarifying that a new title will be added on the 1st and 16th of every month.

Update #2: The Fable 3 giveaway was intended by Microsoft. It's part of a new two-free-games-a-month deal that will, at some point, include Halo 3 and Assassin's Creed 2.

Everyone's favourite top-down f***-'em-up Hotline Miami is due on PS3 and Vita as early as next week for £7.29 / €8.99 / $9.99, developer Dennaton Games has announced.

The bombastic E3 show floor was packed with open-world games.

Elder Scrolls and Fallout developer Bethesda might be the most guarded publisher out there today. At this year's E3 showfloor, most publishers are showing off a multitude of titles. There's usually a big budget triple-A release or three, a handful of digital titles, and maybe a mobile game or two to round out the booth. By comparison, Bethesda was showcasing only three games: first-person reboot, Wolfenstein: New Order; Shinji Mikami's survival horror curio The Evil Within; and MMORPG spin-off The Elder Scrolls Online.

UPDATE 2: Sony has told Eurogamer that a new PS3 update will be released on Thursday, 27th June that should fix the problems reported with the 4.45 firmware update.

When Bungie gave its online sci-fi shooter Destiny its gameplay debut on the Sony stage at E3 last week, there were a number of telling moments, but my favourite came early on. A dropship deposited studio founder Jason Jones' character before us (we were viewing the game through story lead Joe Staten's eyes). There was a slightly awkward pause and Jones chuckled. Then his character, a hunter clad in lightweight armour and cloak, busted out a cheerful wave and jogged over.

Conker's Bad Fur Day developer Chris Seavor has returned to Nintendo platforms with eShop game Rusty Pup.

Yesterday I questioned whether Microsoft's decision to change its Xbox One DRM plans addressed the underlying issues that got the company into trouble in the first place, but on the whole I was happy to see the proposed policies rolled back, and left hoping that Microsoft will use this as an opportunity to find a better balance between the art and business sides of gaming.

Are we satisfied with the current-gen controllers? After a generation defined by the most varied sequence of peripherals in decades, taking us from motion-sensitive wands, to infra-red cameras and a conveyor belt of plastic instruments, it's clear that - if done right - innovating your control system paves the way towards some equally innovative games. As the next-generation approaches by carriage of Sony and Microsoft, nailing the finer details of its next-gen gamepads is a crucial foundation for success. This is an unenviable task for their R&D departments, of course: while resisting change leaves both companies prone to falling behind the technical curve, meddling too much with a working formula carries a surefire threat of consumer backlash.