Skip to main content

Latest Articles (Page 2754)

  1. Dark blue icons of video game controllers on a light blue background

    Crayon Physics Deluxe pre-orders live

    15 dollars, including beta access soon.

    Kloonigames' Independent Games Festival-winning Crayon Physics Deluxe is finally available to pre-order for a ridiculously minuscule USD 14.95, which will also grant access to a beta version in due course.

    Read the rest of this article
  2. Dark blue icons of video game controllers on a light blue background

    Garriott leaves NCsoft as profits dive

    "New interests" made him do it.

    Tabula Rasa creator Richard Garriott has resigned from Korean publishing company NCsoft.

    Read the rest of this article
  3. Dark blue icons of video game controllers on a light blue background

    Blizzard bans 350k from Battle.net

    StarCraft and Diablo II hax0rs pwned.

    Having banned nearly 8,000 people for cheating at Warcraft III a fortnight ago, Blizzard has now banned over 350,000 StarCraft and Diablo II accounts also "found to be using third-party hacks" on Battle.net.

    Read the rest of this article
  4. Dark blue icons of video game controllers on a light blue background

    Microsoft bans Xbox 360 pirates

    Has them walk the Live plank.

    Microsoft has banned a bunch of rule-breaking Xbox 360 owners who have modified their consoles to play pirated games.

    Read the rest of this article
  5. Dark blue icons of video game controllers on a light blue background

    US to get Mirror's Edge PC in January

    DLC also down for early 2009 release.

    Electronic Arts has announced the PC version of Mirror's Edge will indeed be released in January - in the US, anyway.

    Read the rest of this article
  6. Dark blue icons of video game controllers on a light blue background

    Far Cry 2 sales hit 1 million mark

    In less than three weeks since launch.

    Ubisoft has announced that a million copies of Far Cry 2 have now been sold.

    Read the rest of this article
  7. Dark blue icons of video game controllers on a light blue background

    Review | Linger in Shadows

    Scene but not heard.

    It's a fair bet that a lot of people downloaded Linger in Shadows from PSN, perhaps enticed by its grungy visuals and impulse price point (GBP 1.99), only to be left utterly bewildered by the experience. To be fair, it's not as if Sony or Plastic, the coding team responsible, did a particularly good job of explaining what Linger in Shadows was going to be or what it was doing on PSN alongside more traditional gaming fare.

    Read the rest of this article
  8. Dark blue icons of video game controllers on a light blue background

    Big Fable II announcement next week

    Dev blog post sparks DLC rumours.

    A mysterious post on Lionhead's development blog suggests a Fable II announcement is due "early next week".

    Read the rest of this article
  9. Dark blue icons of video game controllers on a light blue background

    Review | The Lord of the Rings Online: The Mines of Moria

    What's Mines is Mines... what's yours is an exclusive item giveaway.

    Due to popular demand, we have 5,000 more exclusive in-game items for Lord of the Rings Online to give away. Head over to Eurogamers to claim your Hauberk of the Mithril Guard, for use on European servers, and then read on for our impressions of the beta test of the Mines of Moria, first expansion of the Tolkein MMO.

    Read the rest of this article
  10. Dark blue icons of video game controllers on a light blue background

    Developer confident about new Silent Hill

    Reckons it'll be "at least as compelling".

    Developer Double Helix believes Silent Hill: Homecoming will be "at least as compelling as some of the previous games" in the spooky series, despite being the studio's first attempt at the IP.

    Read the rest of this article
  11. Dark blue icons of video game controllers on a light blue background

    Football Manager 2009 patch on Friday

    SI starts tackling score-dropping bugs.

    Sports Interactive has told Eurogamer to expect a patch for Football Manger 2009 on Friday, alongisde the European launch of the game.

    Read the rest of this article
  12. Dark blue icons of video game controllers on a light blue background

    King's Bounty add-on in the works

    Interesting Russian RPG in demand.

    Russian developer Katauri is hard at work on an expansion to well-received PC tactical RPG King's Bounty: The Legend.

    Read the rest of this article
  13. Dark blue icons of video game controllers on a light blue background

    PS3 Sonic Unleashed moves to December

    Plus: US, UK, Asian versions all identical.

    SEGA has told Eurogamer that the PS3 version of Sonic Unleashed has been pushed back to an unspecific date in December.

    Read the rest of this article
  14. Dark blue icons of video game controllers on a light blue background

    Nintendo has told Eurogamer that Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the City will cost around GBP 59 if you want to buy it bundled with Wii Speak.

    Read the rest of this article
  15. Dark blue icons of video game controllers on a light blue background

    PC split-screen removed from L4D demo

    It will be in the full game, though.

    Valve has patched the PC demo of Left 4 Dead to remove split-screen play, which could be activated by plugging in an Xbox 360 controller and typing a short console command.

    Read the rest of this article
  16. Dark blue icons of video game controllers on a light blue background

    Review | eRepublik

    Bite-sized democracy.

    It wasn't widely reported, but in April of this year, the United States declared war on Canada. Perhaps it was inevitable - the smug superiority over low gun crime figures, that cruel stranglehold on the world's moose resources, or maybe just the country's odd propensity for coming up with place names like Flin Flon and Winnipeg - whatever the reason, the US of A seemed to feel that its neighbour to the north had it coming. It certainly looked like the whole business was going to be over quickly: on one side, a nation of proud arms-bearing hyper-capitalists hepped up on Big Tastys and Buffalo Jerky, and on the other, a cadre of unnaturally polite international backpackers. What could possibly go wrong for Uncle Sam?

    Read the rest of this article
  17. Dark blue icons of video game controllers on a light blue background

    Rock Band creators get USD 300m bonus

    For exceeding performance targets.

    MTV parent company Viacom plans to dish out enormous USD 300 million (GBP 193 million) in bonuses to Rock Band creators Harmonix for exceeding performance targets.

    Read the rest of this article
  18. Dark blue icons of video game controllers on a light blue background

    Maguire is "shopkeeper-slash-pop star"

    Web changed consumers, says Sony boss.

    Sony UK boss Ray Maguire has said he resembles a "shopkeeper-slash-pop star" on an internet, where "everyone now is a journalist".

    Read the rest of this article
  19. Dark blue icons of video game controllers on a light blue background

    Prince of Persia PC slips by a week

    Another Christmas top spot for Ubisoft?

    Ubisoft has pushed the PC release of Prince of Persia back a week to 12th December.

    Read the rest of this article
  20. Dark blue icons of video game controllers on a light blue background

    Lich King midnight launch plans revealed

    Capital cities under siege (in Azeroth).

    Blizzard has helpfully supplied a comprehensive list of every single shop in Europe that will sell you a copy of second World of Warcraft expansion Wrath of the Lich King at midnight tomorrow night.

    Read the rest of this article
  21. Dark blue icons of video game controllers on a light blue background

    Jumpgate beta nets 150,000 sign-ups

    Space combat MMO readies for launch.

    Codemasters Online has announced that 150,000 people have signed up for the beta test of its massively multiplayer space combat game Jumpgate: Evolution.

    Read the rest of this article
  22. Dark blue icons of video game controllers on a light blue background

    Final Fantasy VII: Snowboarding released

    For mobiles, and only in Japan.

    Square Enix has released the first snowboarding-themed instalment in the Final Fantasy series.

    Read the rest of this article
  23. Dark blue icons of video game controllers on a light blue background

    Q3's top five best-sellers revealed

    Madden, Wii Fit and Star Wars win out.

    Electronic Arts notched up the world's biggest selling game from July to September with Madden NFL 09 shifting 2.994 million units, according to a new report combining US, UK and Japanese sales data.

    Read the rest of this article
  24. Dark blue icons of video game controllers on a light blue background

    New ending for Chrono Trigger DS

    Revamped SNES classic gains features.

    Square Enix is planning to include a brand new ending in the DS remake of Chrono Trigger. And presumably this will be additional rather than a replacement, although we've asked the publisher for clarification.

    Read the rest of this article
  25. Dark blue icons of video game controllers on a light blue background

    25 characters in Street Fighter IV?

    Unconfirmed character-select screen.

    Eagle-eyed kicky-punchers at Belgium's NEXT expo in Heysel have uncovered what looks like a complete Street Fighter IV character roster.

    Read the rest of this article
  26. Dark blue icons of video game controllers on a light blue background

    Activision buys Guitar Hero port house

    Budcat Creations to join ranks.

    You sell some, you buy some. Having sold Swedish RTS developer Massive to Ubisoft, Activision Blizzard has replaced it with port specialist Budcat Creations.

    Read the rest of this article
  27. Dark blue icons of video game controllers on a light blue background

    Romance is "f***ing hard" - Bleszinski

    And women like Gears, he says.

    Cliff Bleszinski has admitted that tugging on our heart-strings in his new chart-topping game, Gears of War 2, was "f**ing hard to do".

    Read the rest of this article
  28. Dark blue icons of video game controllers on a light blue background

    Ubisoft snaps up World in Conflict

    And Swedish developer Massive.

    The Sierra Entertainment fire sale continues. Ubisoft has bought the rights to real-time strategy game World In Conflict - and picked up its Swedish developer Massive Entertainment while it was about it.

    Read the rest of this article
  29. Dark blue icons of video game controllers on a light blue background

    Gears 2 top UK chart, LBP in fourth

    Also slow start for MotorStorm, EndWar.

    Gears of War 2 has blasted its way to the top of the UK chart while LittleBigPlanet managed fourth behind FIFA 09 and Fallout 3.

    Read the rest of this article
  30. Dark blue icons of video game controllers on a light blue background

    UK charts: Fallout 3 is new clear leader

    Lots of new entries. Full top 40 inside.

    Fallout 3 has exploded into the UK charts, robbing the top spot from RPG rival Fable II.

    Read the rest of this article