Android
Inside Kingmakers: the big Digital Foundry tech interview
Recently revealed game Kingmakers seems to perfectly capture the childhood thrill of smashing together characters from different worlds, with its debut trailer featuring a huge medieval army being demolished by a modern soldier with automatic…
Five classic Rare games added to Nintendo Switch Online today
Nintendo will add five classic Rare games to Nintendo Switch today, including SNES hit Killer Instinct and N64 great Blast Corps. In Japan, Nintendo Switch Online subscribers will also get Mother 3…
Alan Wake 2 fastest-selling Remedy game, but yet to turn a profit
Alan Wake 2 is developer Remedy's fastest-selling game to date, but the studio is still to recuperate the project's development and marketing costs. In its latest financial report, Remedy said Alan Wake…
Three Fallout games are free on the Epic Store next week
Post-apocalyptic RPG fans are in luck; the next batch of freebies coming to the Epic Games Store have been revealed, and two bonafide RPG classes - Fallout and Fallout 2 - have made the…
iPhone
Turtle Beach VelocityOne Race review: direct drive racing wheels go mainstream
The Turtle Beach VelocityOne Race is a complete racing wheel and pedals of the sort that you'd expect to find in a mainstream electronics boutique alongside Logitech's ubiquitous G29, yet it offers a powerful 7.2nm…
Ghost of Tsushima: Director’s Cut gets May release date on PC
Following rumblings of an imminent release date for Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut on PC, Sony has made it official. Developer Sucker Punch's open-world samurai hit will launch via Steam and the Epic Games…
Vampire Survivors adds Space Dude and more in today’s cosmic Space 54 update
Vampire Survivors might continue to be suspiciously devoid of vampires, but it does now have a bunch of new cosmic sci-fi bits (clearly last year's Among Us collaboration just wasn't space-y enough), courtesy of…
Inside and Limbo studio’s long-in-the-works third game resurfaces in new concept art
It's been over seven years since Limbo and Inside developer Playdead first began teasing its mysterious third project, and now - nearly five years since Eurogamer last has cause to write about a sneaky…
MAC
Japanese Pokémon fan arrested for selling hacked creatures
A Japanese Pokémon fan faces fines and a potential prison sentence after his arrest for selling hacked versions of the game's creatures. 36-year-old Yoshihiro Yamakawa from Uji City works as an interior…
Slay the Spire is getting a sequel
Deck-building roguelite Slay the Spire is getting a sequel. It was announced at tonight's Triple-i showcase with a suitably gloomy animated trailer, featuring three characters seemingly from the original game: The Ironclad knight,…
Mortal Kombat 1 shows off soul-powered DLC fighter Ermac in new trailer
Mortal Kombat 1's upcoming playable DLC character, Ermac, has been given an airing in developer NetherRealm's latest gameplay trailer, ahead of his arrival later this month. Ermac is a bit of a series…
Stop Killing Games aims to mount political and legal challenges to games going offline
This week's shutdown of Ubisoft racing game The Crew has prompted the launch of a concerted effort to mount political and legal challenges to the increasingly common occurence of games you've bought becoming unplayable.…
PC
Xbox announces late April additions to Game Pass
Xbox has announced the next wave of games coming to Game Pass in late April. It begins today with the release of Harold Halibut across cloud, PC and Xbox Series X/S. "A visually…
Harold Halibut Review – IGN
Almost all video games are painstakingly made by human hands, but Harold Halibut takes that idea so literally that you can almost spot the fingerprints of its creators on screen. This colourful, story-driven adventure features…
Fallout TV show finale answers long-running series mystery
Amazon's Fallout TV show released in its entirety last week, and answered one of the series' longest-running mysteries in the process. Please note, there will be major spoilers for Fallout's first season below. If you…
Final Fantasy 14 players react positively to Dawntrail benchmark
The Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail benchmark tool is now live, allowing players to check out the graphical upgrade on the way with update 7.0. The improved lighting, textures and more have received plenty…
Still Wakes the Deep Developer Details the Specific British ’70s Influences on the Oil Rig Horror
[ad_1] Still Wakes the Deep developer The Chinese Room (Everyone’s Gone to the Rapture) is bringing a very distinct set of British influences to its oil rig-set horror game, ranging from its North Sea setting to the British prison sitcom Porridge. Still Wakes the Deep…
Horrific Xanatorium Creeps Onto PlayStation Next Week
[ad_1] Pageratta and publisher Kemco are releasing the horror visual novel Horrific Xanatorium on PS4 and PS5 next week. The Japanese game will hit PlayStation consoles alongside Xbox, Switch, and Steam on April 26, 2024. Horrific Xanatorium trailer [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U-Vhh7lyjQ[/embed] Horrific Xanatorium is a horror visual…
Final Fantasy XVI DLC Director Says Game Achieved Goal of Attracting Younger Players, Compared Rising Tide to an MMO Expansion
[ad_1] Final Fantasy XVI was a big hit last year, and its Rising Tide expansion releases Thursday. DLC Director Takeo Kujiraoka talked about the new expansion in a recent interview. He also described the game’s success in attracting a new generation of fans to the…
Players Should Be Able to Tip Game Devs, Says Ex Blizzard Exec
[ad_1] Former Blizzard Entertainment and Xbox executive Mike Ybarra has opined that players should be able to tip game devs. Ybarra, who was reportedly ousted from Blizzard following Microsoft’s purchase of Activision Blizzard, has been catching up on his backlog of games during his downtime.…
Fallout TV show holding “iconic” stuff back for Season 2, including deathclaws
[ad_1] Amazon's Fallout TV show has - a few minor controversies aside - been a hit with fans since arriving last week; but while it's covered plenty of the video games' post-apocalyptic basics across its eight episodes - from Pip-Boys and Power Armour to…
PC image quality enhanced: the new DLSS and XeSS tested
[ad_1] Machine learning-based image reconstruction has evolved into a genuinely game-changing technology - and what sets this apart from other PC features is that users can effectively mod improved versions of Nvidia DLSS and Intel XeSS into games with existing support, simply by swapping…
Baldur’s Gate 3 mod suggests popular NPC previously considered as a party member
[ad_1] Baldur's Gate 3 players who have modded their games are seeing references to a popular NPC character that suggests they were once set for full-on companion status. The Overexplained Interaction Options mod allows you to see which of your party members will…
World of Warcraft: The War Within beta testing sign-ups are now open
[ad_1] If you've been itching to dive into World of Warcraft's new subterranean expansion The War Within, there's an opportunity to do so ahead of release, with beta testing sign-ups now open. The War Within, which was announced during last year's BlizzCon, marks…
