August 2016 Archive

    1. Nvidia is making its own Fallout 4 mod
    2. 2K is reviving a Wii game for its VR debut
    3. PlayStation Plus' free September offerings include Journey, Lords of the Fallen
    4. Breath of the Wild won't arrive for Christmas, but these Legend of Zelda jumpers will
    5. Metroid Prime: Federation Force is a sales disaster in Japan
    6. After 13 years, Eve Online will become free to play
    7. Watch: 90 minutes of Battlefield 1 beta gameplay, live at 3:30pm
    8. Hitman's complete first season has a disc-based release date
    9. September Xbox Games with Gold includes Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China
    10. Forza Horizon given Xbox backwards compatibility ahead of Games with Gold release
    11. Virgin Media wants you to buy its "boss-mode level" broadband for gamers
    12. Battlefield 1 open beta launches this month
    13. Mario has an official Hot Wheels range
    14. Forza Horizon 3 PC specs revealed
    15. Here's some of the fine folks you'll meet in Resident Evil 7
    16. Worms WMD review
    17. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided tops UK chart but Human Revolution sales were "much stronger"
    18. Gran Turismo Sport delayed until 2017
    19. Fallout 4's final add-on Nuka World is out now and here are its opening moments
    20. Watch: Ian plays Fallout 4 Nuka World live
    21. World of Warcraft: Legion had a level 110 in five-and-a-half hours
    22. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt review
    23. Face-Off: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
    24. 4K PC gaming is finally viable - and it's stunning
    1. Sierra's greatest hits are super cheap in the latest Humble Bundle
    2. PlayStation Now is coming to PC tomorrow in the UK
    3. Eight-player TowerFall is now a thing
    4. Warren Spector talks about the story in System Shock 3
    5. Yooka-Laylee playable for the first time anywhere at EGX
    6. There's a new Minecraft mode on consoles today
    7. The Turing Test review
    8. There's a new report about those NX detachable controllers
    9. "We have to do better when we launch NX"
    10. I was there when The Witcher 3 launched
    11. Nintendo has a stellar new Galaxy 3DS design
    12. Metal Gear Solid 5 Definitive Edition spotted at various retailers
    13. This War of Mine dev unveils "deeply serious" new game Frostpunk
    14. Klei Entertainment's upcoming Hot Lava is exactly what it sounds like
    1. We take a look at Cities: Skylines inevitable Natural Disasters expansion
    2. What happened to gaming's Waterworld?
    1. Watch: The toughest decisions that made no difference whatsoever
    2. The Witcher 3 is one of the best war games there's ever been
    1. Watch: Our favourite local multiplayer games
    2. When bass fishing features go wrong: a cautionary tale
    3. Humble Bundle now offers amazing PlayStation deals via Capcom (Americas only)
    1. Watch: Aoife plays Morrowind for the first time, upsets Chris
    2. Resident Evil 7 story, combat details spilled by ESRB
    3. Face-Off: F1 2016
    4. Here are Overwatch characters reimagined as dogs
    5. Nioh is a Dark Souls imitator with soul
    6. Battlefield 4 just got a huge makeover on console
    7. Halo Online going offline, never getting full release
    8. Dead Rising 4 is a good zombie game, but maybe not a good Dead Rising
    1. Call of Duty 2 frame-rates massively improved on Xbox One
    2. Virginia, one of 2016's most promising games, is coming to Xbox One, PS4 and PC next month
    3. The sounds of Madden NFL 17 come from an unusual source
    4. Rick and Morty co-creator launches VR studio with former Epic producer
    5. CS:GO pros fight for $100,000 at EGX 2016
    6. Fallout Shelter adds Nuka World mascots in new update
    7. The other World War 1 shooter is out on PS4 next week
    8. Dear Esther walks to PS4, Xbox One next month
    9. Watch: Why I'm not sticking with No Man's Sky
    10. London's burning, London's burning - in Minecraft!
    11. Nine years in the making, the beautiful Owlboy prepares to launch
    12. Kingsglaive isn't a great movie, but it's a good intro to Final Fantasy 15's fascinating new world
    13. Here's the first trailer for the new Toejam & Earl game
    14. Finally, you can add 2-Step Verification to your PlayStation account
    15. After a wave of fan outcry, Respawn is making big changes to Titanfall 2
    16. Halo 5: Forge hits PC in September
    1. Performance Analysis: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
    2. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided's annoying microtransactions in the spotlight
    3. Deus Ex Mankind Divided review
    4. Here's the first trailer for Dark Souls 3's Ashes of Ariandel DLC
    5. "The way I see Twitter, it's like going to a bar with a bunch of friends"
    6. Watch: Standby for Operation Nostalgia as Ian plays Call of Duty 2
    7. Battlefield 1's £40 Premium Pass features French army, Russian Empire
    8. Seraph: The shooter that (mostly) ditches aiming
    9. Fresh League of Legends row highlights fragile nature of a pro eSports career
    10. Watch: The changing nature of WoW's expansions
    11. The hunt for Overwatch's next hero gets even more ridiculous
    12. When it comes to Spain, I kind of wish Civ 6 had chosen a different Philip
    13. Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare developers on the battle with the backlash
    14. A close look at Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 3's new cover system
    15. Take a tour of Resident Evil 7's disturbing new demo
    16. The Skyrim mod to Enderal
    1. Here's what the cancelled GoldenEye 007 XBLA remaster looked like
    2. The King of Fighters 14 review
    3. Here's what No Man's Sky's PC patches have fixed
    4. A new PC mod fixes one of No Man's Sky's most frustrating traits
    5. Chomping on corpses in single-player Divinity: Original Sin 2
    6. Watch - Deus Ex: Mankind Divided launch day mega stream
    7. The Witness is coming to Xbox One next month
    8. Louisiana flood damages Road Redemption dev's homes, delays game
    9. Dark Souls 3 DLC Ashes of Ariandel announced for October
    10. Sleeping Dogs developer's new game is, sadly, not Sleeping Dogs 2
    11. The PS4 Slim is real - confirmed
    12. Here's brand new footage of Torment: Tides of Numenera - running on Xbox One no less
    13. One of the Vita's prettiest puzzle games is getting an ambitious remake
    14. Pokémon Go update adds new Appraisal feature for finding a monster's Poképotential
    15. Microsoft announces official Xbox Onesie
    16. Stunning GTA 5 Redux mod delayed after creator hacked
    17. Faulty Overwatch console aim-assist will be fixed, says Blizzard
    18. Watchdog investigates Future merger with Imagine
    19. Death Stranding looks to co-star Mads Mikkelsen - rumour
    20. Here's exactly when Deus Ex: Mankind Divided launches
    1. Doom meets Gone Home in Doom 2 mod / memoir Autobiographical Architecture
    2. ZeniMax alleges John Carmack stole "thousands of documents" developing Oculus
    3. There's a cool Dark Souls Easter egg in the new Overwatch Eichenwalde map
    4. Allison Road is back in development
    5. Destiny: King's Fall - Hard Mode guide
    6. Destiny Calcified Fragment locations
    7. Hitman's next Elusive Target is coming this Friday
    8. PES 2017 demo detailed
    9. Capybara's long-awaited Below delayed indefinitely
    10. Watch new Dishonored 2 gameplay in latest Gamescom trailer
    11. Metroid Prime: Federation Force may point to a Metroid Prime 4
    12. PES 2017's unlicensed club team names are as brilliant as ever
    13. No Man's Sky's first post-launch patch is out now
    14. Digital Foundry: Hands on with PS4 Rise of the Tomb Raider
    15. Disgruntled No Man's Sky players thrust Sony's PS4 refund policy back into the spotlight
    16. Metroid Prime Federation Force review
    17. F1 2016 review
    18. Face-Off: No Man's Sky
    19. Watch: Little Nightmares taps into your darkest childhood fears
    20. Watch: Sea of Thieves lets you be a musical, drunk pirate
    21. You can talk to the Titans in Titanfall 2's campaign
    22. No Man's Sky is a fine example of one type of game (but many people were expecting another)
    23. Japan's Prime Minister just rocked up to the Olympics dressed as Mario
    1. In Theory: Can Sony upgrade PlayStation Neo's specs?
    2. Digital Foundry: Hands-on with DriveClub VR
    3. Forget Go - Pokémon Snap is the series' greatest spin-off
    1. Landing on a planet in Star Citizen looks spectacular
    2. Surprise - reboot of multiplayer oddity Savage out now
    3. Stealing, stabbing, choking: a first look at stealth in Kingdom Come Deliverance
    4. Jelly Deals roundup: Metal Gear, Skyrim: Special Edition, Fallout Anthology, and more
    5. Watch: Six things we learned at Gamescom 2016
    6. This coffee mug is Prey's most exciting new feature
    1. Watch: At least Metal Gear Solid 3 is still really good
    2. Surprise Fez update adds speedrun mode
    3. Pokémon Go cheaters get the boot
    4. Unpacking Overwatch's charming new Bastion animated short
    5. Destiny's PlayStation-exclusive content stays exclusive for longer than expected
    6. Eve Online free on Steam this weekend
    7. Final Fantasy 15's £190 Ultimate Collector's Edition doesn't include season pass
    8. Grow Up review
    1. 3DS sales nearly doubled last month in US retail following Pokémon Go craze
    2. Lego Harry Potter Collection leaked for PS4
    3. EA's Peter Moore: I'm not sure video game press conferences have a future
    4. Bandai Namco picks up evocative horror game Hunger, rebrands it Little Nightmares
    5. Deus Ex Go sneaks onto iOS and Android today
    6. Watch: 11 hidden details in Fallout 4's Nuka World trailer
    7. Natural Disasters are coming to Cities Skylines in a new expansion
    8. Sit down, there's a new Overwatch emote meta in town
    9. Ubisoft VR games Star Trek: Bridge Crew, Eagle Flight and Werewolves Within get release dates
    10. The first post-Kojima Metal Gear is a co-op survival game set in an alternate reality
    11. Konami tries to explain Metal Gear Survive's ridiculous story
    12. Star Wars Battlefront's incoming new mode sounds incredible
    13. Jade Empire is coming to iOS fashionably late - report
    1. Oxenfree dev just released a Mr. Robot game on iOS and Android
    2. Blizzard changes Overwatch "gg ez" messages into something very different
    3. Watch: What's next for Overwatch?
    4. N++ jumps to PC next week
    5. Ubisoft's extreme winter sports game Steep sets release date
    6. It looks like the white Xbox One S 2TB has sold out for good
    7. PlayStation Plus' August freebies unveiled
    8. NieR: Automata is coming to PC too
    9. Tekken 7's Harada on the thorny subject of sexy swimsuits and Western sensibilities
    10. Football Manager 2017 release date announced
    11. Watch: Ian and Johnny play Uno live at 3:30pm
    12. Meet the man Gabe Newell called an ass on Reddit
    13. Classic Spectrum game Skool Daze gets official remake
    14. The Crew gets a police-themed expansion this year
    15. Harley Quinn and Deadshot smash up Injustice 2
    16. Planet Coaster out this November
    17. Watch: Titanfall 2's multiplayer wants to get its hooks into you
    18. No Man's Sky modders start by shutting up your exosuit
    19. New Resident Evil 7 trailer poses more questions than it answers
    20. CS:GO Lounge drops skin gambling following Valve crackdown
    21. Here's another 10 minutes of Gears of War 4 gameplay
    22. A quick look at the beginning of BioShock, original compared to remastered
    23. ReCore's new trailer does a good job of showcasing Metroid Prime dev's next game
    24. No Man's Sky review
    25. Yooka-Laylee's ice level lets you transform into a snowplough
    1. Lego Dimensions' Supergirl will be exclusive to PS4
    2. Humble Bundle offers cheap Nuclear Throne, The Beginner's Guide and more
    3. No Man's Sky offers new PC patch beta
    4. Watch 15 minutes of gameplay from Sea of Thieves
    5. Assassin's Creed stuntman performs real-life leap of faith
    6. Private matchmaking coming to Destiny
    7. Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Zombies goes '80s, stars David Hasselhoff
    8. Our first look at this year's FIFA Ultimate Team
    9. New Overwatch castle map Eichenwalde revealed
    10. The Tomorrow Children will be F2P, early access coming next month
    11. Titanfall 2's open beta won't be on PC
    12. Got a spare 50 minutes for a Final Fantasy 15 gameplay video?
    13. 500GB and 1TB Xbox One S bundles announced
    14. Watch: 5 crappy retro games based on classic British TV shows
    15. EA Gamescom 2016 live report
    16. Early Access coming to Windows 10 via Xbox Game Preview programme
    17. Sunless Sea's first expansion to release in October
    18. All change for Overwatch Competitive Play
    19. You can max out your ship and equipment on the first planet in No Man's Sky
    20. There's a sneaky Half-Life 3 poster at Gamescom
    21. FIFA 17 partners with Man United, so PES 2017 partners with Liverpool
    22. Oculus Rift comes out in UK shops this September priced £549
    23. Warning: The Witcher 3 GOTY Edition won't let you carry over save data
    24. Monster Boy's Gamescom trailer shows off six playable characters
    1. This War of Mine dev to publish twin-stick shooter Tower 57
    2. Axiom Verge is coming to Wii U in two weeks
    3. Destiny - The Collection includes all the expansions, costs £50
    4. Frozenbyte announces co-op twin-stick wizardry game Nine Parchments
    5. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 3: "The grimdark is coming"
    6. Bound review
    7. Street Fighter 5 finally gets a meaningful rage quit penalty
    8. Looks like Blizzard silently improved Overwatch server tick rate
    9. Here's our first look at Fallout 4's Nuka-World DLC
    10. Oculus Rift review
    11. It looks like you can glitch Pokémon Go gyms using eggs
    12. People are finding strange things in No Man's Sky PC code
    13. PS4's next big update adds folders
    14. Cancelled Star Wars games: a Dark side Rogue Squadron and Chewbacca action adventure
    15. Fan-made Pokémon Uranium pulled after 1.5m downloads
    16. Pokémon Snap releases on Wii U Virtual Console this week
    17. No Man's Sky Sony's 2nd biggest ever PS4 launch in UK
    18. Final Fantasy 15 delayed by two months
    19. Watch: We play No Man's Sky on PC locked to 4K 60fps
    1. No Man's Sky isn't going over well on Steam
    2. Rome: Total War coming to iPad
    3. Watch: When friendly NPCs are the absolute worst
    4. Playlist: The games that shaped No Man's Sky
    1. Watch: Seven things we learned playing No Man's Sky
    2. AMD Radeon RX 460 review
    3. AMD Radeon RX 470 review
    4. AMD Radeon RX 480 review
    5. AMD Radeon RX 480 4GB vs 8GB review
    6. Jelly Deals roundup: Radeon R9 390, PC downloads and Persona 5
    7. Putting the magic back into magic in fantasy games
    1. No Man's Sky's most aggravating omission (on PS4)
    2. Sega 3D Classics Collection release date set for November
    3. No Man's Sky's PC settings revealed
    4. Outcast remake heading to PC, PS4 and Xbox One in March
    5. Killing Floor 2 lands November on PC, PS4
    6. Watch: Johnny is really terrible at the Sega Aladdin game
    7. Over a million UK players have spent money on Pokémon Go
    8. The THQ name lives again as Nordic Games rebrands
    9. GoldenEye returns as a cool mod on Valve's Source engine
    10. Second Halo Wars 2 beta planned for early 2017
    11. UK Gambling Commission seeks to tighten esports gambling
    12. Florence + the Machine made some Final Fantasy 15 songs
    13. It's only Chesney Hawkes' special Warcraft rendition of hit single The One and Only!
    14. How to avoid No Man's Sky's allegedly game-breaking glitch
    1. Here's exactly when No Man's Sky unlocks on PC
    2. Pre-order Destiny: Rise of Iron and you'll get an Iron Gjallarhorn sparrow, too
    3. Destiny fans despair as latest patch causes Beaver errors
    4. You can ring bells in Destiny: Rise of Iron's new social hub
    5. Destiny's most divisive gun returns for Rise of Iron
    6. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Spirit of Justice sets court date for September
    7. Destiny's Moments of Triumph Year Two is now live
    8. No Man's Sky limited edition has online play icon hidden under sticker
    9. Release date confirmed for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition
    10. Watch: building sky-ships in Worlds Adrift to fly into the unknown together
    11. Endless Space 2 will launch on Early Access this Summer
    12. No Man's Sky finishers have advice about Atlas Stones
    13. No Man's Sky has a game-breaking exploit which is letting users farm rarest items
    14. Tech Analysis: No Man's Sky
    15. More original Pokémon get new looks for Sun and Moon
    16. Telltale Batman has tech issues on consoles too
    1. Rime resurfaces with new publisher, now due next year
    2. Just Cause 3's next DLC adds a "rocket boat"
    3. Gwent closed beta delayed until October
    4. Quantum Break launches on Steam next month
    5. Suda 51's The Silver Case remake now has a demo
    6. Watch: How big is the grind in No Man's Sky?
    7. Rayman Origins free on PC next week
    8. Watch: 90 minutes of Worms W.M.D gameplay live at 3:30pm
    9. Something massive just happened in World of Warcraft lore
    10. Blizzard bans Hearthstone card from arena mode following player outcry
    11. Telltale Games is teasing something to do with Mr. Robot
    12. Watch: 9 secrets you may have missed in the Prey gameplay trailer
    13. "Cosmic emperor" Bill Bailey promoting No Man's Sky in the UK
    14. PlayStation 4K reveal date set for 7th September
    15. The final Resident Evil film has its first trailer
    16. Nvidia Titan X Pascal review
    17. No Man's Sky players meet in same spot, but can't see each other
    18. Robin Hunicke's extraordinary journey
    1. Armello is coming to Xbox One this month
    2. Superhot is getting a card game spin-off
    3. Read Only Memories released date set for PS4 and Vita
    4. Dead Rising remasters get release date and price
    5. Persona 5 is coming to Europe on Valentine's Day
    6. Pokémon Go has a new tracking mechanic, but only certain users have it
    7. Watch: We play No Man's Sky all day, basically
    8. Performance Analysis: No Man's Sky
    9. We visit 50 No Man's Sky planets in seven minutes
    10. Overwatch "taking action" against Lucio Ball exploiters
    11. Pokémon Go removed from the Hiroshima Peace Memorial and Holocaust Museum
    1. Metroid 2 fan remake pleases fans, but not Nintendo
    2. Transformers: Fall of Cybertron gets a surprise PS4 and Xbox One release in Australia
    3. No Man's Sky dev apologises for erroneous YouTube takedowns
    4. Pokémon Go earns eight times what Candy Crush Saga did in its first month
    5. Overcooked review
    6. Tomb Raider - Live in Concert premieres at Hammersmith Apollo in December
    7. Resident Evil 7 herbs revealed
    8. Three seasons of Hitman episodes apparently planned
    9. Rocket League gets free Rumble battle mode next month
    10. Our No Man's Sky review will be late, and here's why
    11. No Man's Sky has an enormous day one patch that adds multiple endings
    12. Watch Yooka-Laylee Toybox demo's hidden ending
    13. The Bunker proves there's plenty of life in the live action genre
    1. Watch: 6 new things Xbox One S can do (and one it won't)
    2. Spec Analysis: Nvidia's next-gen Titan X
    3. The making of Head Over Heels
    1. Pokémon Go banned in Iran due to "security concerns"
    2. Jelly Deals roundup: PSVR pre-orders, PC summer sales, Xbox One bundles and more
    3. Watch: 6 gaming dishes we'd really like to try
    4. Sonic boom: Ellie Gibson on nostalgia, novelty, and that 9/10
    1. Prey For the Gods Kickstarter nears end with confirmed PS4 and Xbox One versions
    2. Buzz! developer Relentless shut down
    3. Watch: Ian introduces Chris to the ZX Spectrum
    4. Hitman heads to Bangkok on 16th August
    5. Watch: Reigns brings out your inner tyrant
    6. Pokémon Go developer explains why it shut down third-party apps
    7. Just Cause 3 revisited: has performance got better or worse?
    8. Elder Scrolls: Legends launches PC open beta
    9. Pokémon Go Articuno pair hope for normality after "madness" of internet spotlight
    10. Yes, Battleborn flopped, but 2K vows to stick with it
    11. You didn't imagine it, Pokémon Go's recent patch did make monsters harder to catch
    12. The man behind one of Steam's most controversial games is back
    13. Quake Champions debuts gameplay footage
    14. Overwatch has over 15m players worldwide
    15. Prey reboot will be a metroidvania adventure
    1. Surprise! Doom's Unto the Evil DLC is now available
    2. XCOM 2 delayed three weeks on console
    3. Heavy Rain developer's Fahrenheit headed to PS4 next week
    4. Torment: Tides of Numenera also headed to PS4, Xbox One
    5. The Witcher 3 fine art prints are gorgeous indeed
    6. Watch: Do Overwatch's summer games boxes drop better loot?
    7. 16-bit Disney classics out now on PC
    8. Street Fighter 5's Balrog is not the Balrog I know and love
    9. New licences and a new feistiness see PES take the fight to FIFA
    10. Sudden Strike 4 announced
    11. Sega has quietly become one of the world's best PC strategy game companies
    12. Pokémon Go player claims to have first ever legendary
    13. There's a little Master Chief hidden inside the new Xbox One S
    14. Telltale's Batman is getting slammed by Steam reviews over buggy PC port
    1. Salt and Sanctuary dev pleads people calm down over delayed Vita port
    2. Darkest Dungeon lights up PS4, Vita next month
    3. Watch: 40 minutes of The Elder Scrolls Legends gameplay
    4. Inside gets PlayStation 4 release on 23rd August
    5. EA says millions are still playing Star Wars: Battlefront
    6. Ark dev folds Survival of the Fittest back into Survival Evolved
    7. Face-Off: Marvel Ultimate Alliance 1/2
    8. Pokévision creator issues impassioned plea to Pokémon Go boss
    9. Activision battles to fix Marvel Ultimate Alliance's troubled ports
    10. Yes, Final Fantasy 15 has a season pass
    1. Overwatch Olympic Games Rio loot boxes spotted with limited edition skins
    2. Loads of new Sun and Moon Pokémon have been revealed
    3. Pokémon Sun and Moon lets you train monsters past the level 100 cap
    4. CSGO Lounge seeks gambling licence in bid for legitimacy
    5. Microsoft Xbox One S review
    6. Tech Interview: Inside Xbox One S
    7. Enigmatic Xbox One, PC puzzler The Turing Test gets release date
    8. Xbox One S performance boost revealed
    9. The Eurogamer Podcast #12 - Pokémon Go and Richard Garriott's bodily fluids
    10. Ubisoft announces The Division film starring Jake Gyllenhaal
    11. Abzu review
    12. There's a Beauty and the Beast-themed card in the new Hearthstone expansion
    13. The new game from Sir, You Are Being Hunted devs takes a sci-fi twist
    14. There's a new turn-based Warhammer 40,000 strategy game in the works
    15. After a flood of negative feedback, Pokémon Go's developer is finally ready to talk
    16. Ape Escape 2 for PS4 out now in Europe
    17. "ARE THEY GONNA BAN ME FOR USING PAINT NOW TOO"
    18. The Assembly review
    19. Looks like Blizzard finally put Xur from Destiny in World of Warcraft
    20. Another month goes by and Fallout 4 mod support on PS4 is still MIA
    21. Telltale's Batman has a bit of an identity crisis
    1. Pro football player Wendell Lira leaves regular sports for career in eSports
    2. Outlast 2 delayed until early next year
    3. Watch this Dark Souls 3 all boss run completed without getting hit
    4. Watch: Chris teaches a reluctant Aoife how to play Hearthstone
    5. Curt Schilling's Kingdoms of Amalur company cleared of criminal charges
    6. ReCore feels more Metroid than Mega Man
    7. HTC Vive price hike for UK - blame Brexit
    8. Naff Ghostbusters game was made in only eight months - report
    9. Pokémon Go players erupt in anger after fan tools forced offline
    10. Star Wars: Galaxy in Turmoil in turmoil
    11. No Man's Sky leaker claims to have reached the centre of the galaxy already
    12. Pokémon Go update removes broken nearby footprints feature