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Surprise! Nintendo has announced a special Pokémon Direct broadcast set for this Thursday, 9th January at 2.30pm UK time.

Netflix has picked up the animated Ni No Kuni movie for release in English later this month.

Happy New Year! We're doing our preview of the coming year a little different this time round - instead of a single list on the site, we're writing individual pieces for the games we're most excited about.

Royal Mail has announced a set of stamps which feature classic British-designed gaming icons - including Lara Croft, Lemmings and Dizzy the egg.

Super Mario Maker 2 owners can now upload nearly double the number of courses, Nintendo has announced.

Now that 2020 is here we're having a little look ahead at some of the year's new games that have us intrigued.

Last night, Sony unveiled its PlayStation 5 logo for the first time during a press conference at CES.

Hello, and welcome to our new series which picks out interesting things that we'd love someone to make a game about.

Update (8AM): It turns out that AMD used a fan-made render of the Xbox Series X during their presentation. In a statement to The Verge, AMD admitted that "the Xbox Series X imagery used during the AMD CES press conference was not sourced from Microsoft and does not accurately represent the design or features of the upcoming console."

One of the best Star Wars video game characters ever is now canon - again.

Love it or hate it, The Witcher was one of Netflix's biggest hits in 2019 - despite the first season only having released at Christmas.

The Double-A Team is a feature series honouring the unpretentious, mid-budget, gimmicky commercial action games that no-one seems to make any more.

Crysis developer Crytek wants to dismiss its own lawsuit against Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games until the standalone single-player Squadron 42 comes out.

We'll be honest, there's not much to the new snippets of gameplay shown in this Animal Crossing: New Horizons trailer.

Over a decade since it was cancelled, Valve's unreleased Portal prequel, F-Stop has been revived via an unusual source: an indie developer.

A Mother 4 fan-game has resurfaced and rebranded following years of limbo.

After the apocalypse comes a little scavenger, moving over the broken landscape, searching for life. But this scavenger does not move like a scavenger - they do not move furtively, tentatively. Doomsday Vault has a control scheme based around swiping and holding in one of four directions to move. It makes your little on-screen avatar feel rather truck-like. Forward, backwards, turn, reverse. After the apocalypse who is left to ask them to be more elegant?

It's probably quite an understatement to say that 2019 was a good year for VR. Oculus released some new, game-changing headsets and published some incredible AAA VR experiences. The PSVR once again played host to a full year's worth of top notch titles and of course Valve announced the existence of Half Life: Alyx, a VR exclusive Half-Life spin-off that blew the collective minds of everyone in the gaming world.

Here's a question: How do you get a bunch of disillusioned kids in the arse end of Scotland into real time strategy games? I doubt it's a question the creators of Age of Empire 2 ever asked themselves but nonetheless, they provided a definitive answer. Now I can't help but wonder as I play through the recently released Definitive Edition, are there games that could manage similar feats? Better ones?

Shirley Curry, better known as the Skyrim Grandma, is set to appear in The Elder Scrolls 6 as an NPC. But before then she'll be available to play in Skyrim via a mod.

Media Molecule's Dreams is known for user-generated video games - platformers, shooters, puzzlers, that sort of thing. It is not, however, known for food.

The wonderful Boundary Break YouTube channel has forced open Respawn's Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and taken a look inside for our viewing pleasure.

Mobile games are often considered broadly "casual," but scratch the surface of any of them and you'll find people who aren't playing casually at all. Your aunt's got 50,000 hours in Candy Crush. Other Eurogamer writers are in long-standing beefs with Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp octopi. I've probably spent more time in one fan-made calculator to maximise gatcha pulls in K-pop management game BTS World than anything else this year.

Rockstar juggernaut Grand Theft Auto 5 will become available via Xbox Game Pass today, Microsoft has announced.

Free-to-play battle royale sensation Fortnite earned $1.8bn (£1.38bn) worldwide in 2019 - making it last year's biggest-earning game.

Vince Zampella, boss of Apex Legends and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order developer Respawn Entertainment, has taken on an expanded role as "head coach" of DICE LA.

It was never Professor Plum in our house. The professor was entirely innocent. He was in the clear. Perfect alibi. Water tight. He was doomed for eternity to be one of the good guys.

Sony's increasingly-unlikely-looking Uncharted film has now lost its sixth director, Deadline has reported.

CD Projekt's excellent role-player The Witcher 3 just hit its all-time concurrent player record on Steam - more than four years after the game first launched.

Lycra-clad glitchfest WWE 2K20 suffered a typically tough start to the new year yesterday morning when a freshly-discovered bug began crashing games as the clock struck midnight - 00:00, 1st January 2020.