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January 2014 Archive

    1. Ouya gets a new black model with double the storage
    2. Suda 51 and Tokyo Jungle dev collaborate on sidescrolling madness
    3. A fireside chat on Hearthstone's past, present and future
    4. Dead Island is tomorrow's free Games With Gold offering
    5. Kerbal Space Program Early Access review
    6. God of War dev Sony Santa Monica moving, expanding
    7. Next-Gen Face-Off: Tomb Raider Definitive Edition
    8. Remember Me developer files for bankruptcy - reports
    9. Rambo game out 21st February
    10. No exciting story DLC for Wii U Batman owners
    11. Zynga buys CSR, Clumsy Ninja dev NaturalMotion
    12. Funcom under investigation, offices closed
    13. Long Live the Queen review
    14. North Americans get Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary free this weekend
    1. Own one Wii U indie and get another for 60 per cent off
    2. Microsoft ad asks you to "ditch your PS3"
    3. Vita Indie Game Mega Pack bundles 10 games for €24.99
    4. State of Decay dev hires ArenaNet co-founder Pat Wyatt
    5. QuakeCon 2014 moves to July
    6. How War of the Vikings respects historical fidelity, brutality and women warriors
    7. EA launches free-to-play Dungeon Keeper for iOS, Android
    8. Octodad has four-player local co-op
    9. "We still believe the Vita has a role"
    10. Kingdom Come: Deliverance successfully funded on Kickstarter
    11. Vita Slim UK release date, price announced
    12. Tropico 5 announced for PlayStation 4
    13. OFT finalises 'principles' to stop exploitative micro-transactions
    14. Sony: UK PS4 to Xbox One sales ratio is 1.5:1
    15. PS1/PS2 games heading to PlayStation 4
    16. Xbox One firmware update due in March - report
    17. Video: Why you should be playing Rymdkapsel
    18. Iwata: Nintendo must harness smart devices, no restrictions for dev team
    19. Update on first Hearthstone Adventure and expansion
    20. DS games will be coming to the Wii U Virtual Console
    21. Mario Kart 8 now pegged for a May release
    1. See the first Google Glass game prototypes
    2. Toukiden: The Age of Demons demo is out today
    3. Microsoft rebrands SkyDrive to OneDrive after copyright dispute
    4. This new Elder Scrolls Online cinematic is outstanding
    5. Donkey Kong Country ignores the GamePad screen during regular play
    6. Nintendo boss Iwata halves pay, Miyamoto's wage cut too
    7. Assassin's Creed series ending existence "not exactly true"
    8. Call of Duty: Ghosts - Onslaught review
    9. Will Titanfall have problems like Battlefield 4 did?
    10. Sony sending out PlayStation Now beta invites
    11. The story of Rust
    12. Blood Dragon director pitched a game about a Jewish kleptomaniac
    13. Hotline Miami 2 will bring the pain in Q3
    1. Battlefield 4 launches Player Appreciation Month in February
    2. Three scrumptious new Witcher 3 screenshots
    3. In Dark Souls 2 undead players can still be invaded
    4. The Elder Scrolls Online PS4 won't require PS Plus
    5. iOS puzzler The Room 2 unlocks for iPhone this week
    6. First shots of the Sly Cooper film due 2016
    7. BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea Episode 2 trailer revealed
    8. 7 Days to Die alpha review
    9. What happened to Black Tusk's "highly ambitious" new IP?
    10. Impressive off-screen inFamous PS4 gameplay
    11. Alien: Isolation playable at EGX Rezzed in March
    12. Fable opening recreated with Project Spark
    13. Starbound beta review
    14. Thief achievement asks you not to rush through the game
    15. Source 2 images show next-gen Left 4 Dead 2 prototype - report
    16. Apple earns record amounts, defends its innovation
    17. Brilliant Oculus game lets you defuse a bomb nobody else can see
    18. LOL: 27 million people play it every day!
    19. Titanfall PC, Xbox One beta confirmed, rumoured for Valentine's Day
    20. Starbound beta patch will wipe characters, ships and worlds
    21. Successfully Kickstarted Dreamcast shmup Redux: Dark Matters is out now
    1. Epic sells Gears of War to Microsoft
    2. Kerbal Space Program lands on various schools' curriculum
    3. Ultra rare NES cartridge going for over $30K on eBay
    4. Performance analysis: Tomb Raider Definitive Edition
    5. "We should never have published Pac-Avoid," King admits
    6. Square Enix does crowdfunding with Ruffian's new game
    7. Ubisoft investigating BT Infinity Uplay problems
    8. Sega petitioned to release more games on PC
    9. The latest Lovecraft
    10. Video: How does the PS4 Tomb Raider compare to the original?
    11. Sony Online Entertainment closing MMOs, teasing new ones
    12. Final Fantasy 14 out on PS4 on 14th April
    13. UK chart: FIFA 14 nets another win
    14. The case of the disappearing video games
    1. Can a £100 PC graphics card match next-gen console?
    2. Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles retrospective
    1. Radeon R9 270X review
    2. Letter from America: Saving Nintendo's bacon
    3. Shadow of Mordor will give you a unique orc nemesis
    1. IGF declares these the best student-made games
    2. How Super 3D Noah's Ark came to be reprinted on SNES in 2014
    3. Spin the Bottle: Bumpie's Party DLC will use the Wii U GamePad's camera
    4. Does the 13GB Dead Rising 3 patch boost performance?
    5. Microsoft launches viral Titanfall promotion
    6. Assassin's Creed dev questions Shadows of Mordor similarities
    7. Microsoft: competitive pricing for digital downloads "on the agenda"
    8. Microsoft reports bumper profit after healthy Xbox One launch
    9. Thunder claps in as Killer Instinct's free character
    10. Tiny Barbarian DX review
    11. I do care for a next-gen medieval RPG with no fantasy
    12. Several Steam Machines' specs and prices revealed
    1. Rain World gameplay video shows off stealth
    2. Ex-CoD and Titanfall devs announce shmup/brawler hybrid To the Death
    3. The Dead Rising Collection beheading to Xbox 360 in March
    4. Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition is 60fps on PS4 - report
    5. It's Middle-earth: Shadows of Mordor in action
    6. Should BioWare give up romances?
    7. Bethesda reveals starry Elder Scrolls Online cast
    8. Earth Defense Force 2025 lands in Europe next month
    9. What's next for Housemarque?
    10. Yoshi's New Island gets 3DS release date
    11. Might & Magic 10: Legacy review
    12. Microsoft and BBC quiet on continued Xbox One iPlayer absence
    13. Tomb Raider emerges on Mac later today
    14. Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft beta review
    15. Alienware won't "prevent" users from modding Steam Machine
    16. Video shows hope for Elder Scrolls Online's group battles
    17. Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft enters open beta
    18. Watch Oculus Rift let people virtually swap bodies, genders
    19. The Castle Doctrine promo lets you win real money, weaponry
    20. Shovel Knight unearths at the end of Q1
    1. Indie devs troll King's "Candy" trademark as Banner Saga targeted
    2. Catlateral Damage and Rain World are greenlit on Steam
    3. Watch the opening of The Last of Us' Left Behind DLC
    4. BioShock Infinite and Metro: Last Light coming free to PS Plus
    5. Watch us play Dead Rising 3's new DLC from 5pm GMT
    6. Blizzard sues its first Hearthstone copycat
    7. Looking for Porkface - A Just Cause 2 Multiplayer adventure
    8. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney trilogy getting 3DS launch in Japan
    9. Deus Ex: The Fall arrives on Android today
    10. Microsoft paid YouTubers to say nice things about Xbox One - report
    11. XCOM creator Julian Gollop announces Chaos Reborn
    12. Rymdkapsel set for Steam this month
    1. Dogfighting multiplayer epic Strike Vector launches next week on Steam
    2. Square Enix details Tomb Raider Definitive Edition's fancy new effects
    3. La-Mulana 2 explores the secret depths of Kickstarter
    4. Spelunky mod lets you replay exact levels, share with friends
    5. Resident Evil 4 Ultimate HD Edition announced for PC
    6. Alienware: our Steam Machines can't be upgraded
    7. The Eurogamer.net Podcast: Championship Edition
    8. Candy Crush dev King has trademarked the word Candy
    9. Argos cuts Wii U Premium pack price to £179.99
    10. The evolution of Simogo
    11. Sony "investigating" PlayStation 4 error CE-34878-0 that corrupts save files
    12. ISP porn filters interfering League of Legends patching?
    13. Definitely not on rails
    14. Yes, Lionhead is working on something that isn't "Fable-esque"
    1. 13GB Dead Rising 3 update released ahead of Operation Broken Eagle DLC
    2. Video: a first ride on the free-to-play Trials Frontier
    3. Zavvi selling Xbox One for £20 less than RRP
    4. Digital Foundry vs. Gran Turismo 6
    5. Rust dev reveals spectacular sales success
    6. Project Zomboid multiplayer unveiled
    7. 3DS RPG Rune Factory 4's European release cancelled
    8. This piracy-enabling 3DS flashcard tried to prevent itself from being pirated
    9. Iwata: Nintendo losses won't mean "Mario on smartphones"
    10. Dr Luigi review
    11. Titanfall test gameplay footage hits the internet
    12. The making of RoboCop
    13. Thief PC minimum and recommended specs revealed
    14. Garriott's Shroud of the Avatar raises even more money
    15. This is Spinal, Killer Instinct's next new character
    16. Dark Souls 2 Achievements list leaks
    17. Star Wars 1313 trademark abandoned
    18. Teslagrad review
    1. Silent Hill retrospective
    1. Letter from America: Our fave PS1 and PS2 games
    2. In Theory: Valve and OpenGL: is PC gaming coming to mobile?
    3. What Outside Xbox is excited about in 2014
    4. Fable Trilogy confirmed for February
    1. Catlateral Damage developer explains upcoming additions
    2. Telltale's Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures are no longer for sale
    3. Don't Starve to receive Reign of Giants DLC this autumn
    4. Video: Let's Play DayZ: Bromance turns to tragedy
    5. Tomb Raider finally achieved profitability "by the end of last year"
    6. Video: Let's Play Rust: Making friends and bludgeoning wildlife
    7. PC Tech Comparison: Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
    8. Video: Let's Play stabbing each other in Nidhogg
    9. Klei's Incognita is now called Invisible, Inc.
    10. Sony creates custom PS3 hardware for PlayStation Now
    11. Players make how much money in Team Fortress 2?
    12. Buy Warlords of Draenor and boost to level 90 now
    13. Google developing smart contact lens to help diabetics
    14. NES Remix review
    15. Nintendo slashes Wii U sales forecast from 9m to 2.8m
    16. Hollywood's doomed BioShock movie was going to be beautiful
    17. Saints Row 4 PC and Company of Heroes 2 are free to play this weekend
    18. It looks like there's going to be a pre-release Titanfall test
    19. 3DS was the top-selling US games device last year
    20. Valve has no VR headset, it's backing Oculus Rift
    21. How to score big in Resogun
    22. Blizzard nerfs Pyroblast and tweaks nine other Hearthstone cards
    23. Call of Cthulhu game announced by Sherlock developer Frogwares
    24. Magnetized makes it to mobile after its clones were removed
    1. Broken Age's fuzzy, pixelated Retro Mode discovered
    2. Gone Home gets amazing fake DLC trailer Gun Home
    3. Shin Seikimatsu Kyūseishu Densetsu Hokuto no Ken retrospective
    4. Ubisoft is developing Tetris for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
    5. Video: Why you should be paying attention to Starbound
    6. Baldur's Gate 2: Enhanced Edition for iPad hits App Store
    7. Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes achievements leak
    8. Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare delayed by a week
    9. This is what a 10,000 unit space battle looks like
    10. What Ian Livingstone did next
    11. Surgeon Simulator dev prepping dentist mode for iPad
    12. Rockstar threatens to ban "game-breaking" GTA Online money cheats
    13. Octodad: Dadliest Catch PC, Mac and Linux release date announced
    14. First next-gen Hitman details revealed
    15. DICE continues to patch Battlefield 4
    16. Apple and Google pull plastic surgery game aimed at kids
    17. Xbox One's limited edition Titanfall controller looks like this
    18. Broken Age: Act 1 review
    19. Bizarre PS4 and Vita horror Kodoku gets first teaser trailer
    20. Ubisoft explains Ghost Recon Online's launch on Steam Early Access
    21. Chess 2: The Sequel checks in next week on Ouya
    22. For this developer, Steam sales "screw your fans"
    23. Probably the best RPG character sheet in the world
    24. The Last of Us: Left Behind release date spotted
    25. From The Getaway to underwater exploration
    26. Assetto Corsa beta review
    27. Hello Games says its office flooding won't delay No Man's Sky
    28. Apple to refund $32.5m to those whose kids bought in-app purchases
    1. Steam currently has 75 million active users
    2. Concursion combines fives retro genres in an all new way
    3. About that Camelot Unchained alpha in August
    4. Eurogamer readers' most anticipated games of 2014
    5. Someone is building Spirited Away's entire world in Minecraft
    6. GAME's back on track and eyeing the stock market
    7. Scammers sell trojan-filled version of Minecraft: Pocket Edition
    8. Bugbear's Next Car Game pops up on Steam Early Access
    9. Shops say Diablo 3 is coming to Xbox One
    10. Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street swaps WOW for LOL
    11. The people behind Machinarium don't just make crazy video games
    12. Dark Souls 2: Think you can defeat this lot?
    13. You thought that was it for Guild Wars 2?
    14. Rust alpha review
    15. Catlateral Damage is a first-person cat simulator
    1. Maxis explains why SimCity offline is taking so long
    2. The Wolf Among Us will be among us in February
    3. Airtight Games' Ouya-exclusive Soul Fjord due this month
    4. Broken Age to receive its finished public release in a fortnight
    5. Can an AI win a game jam?
    6. How to get the Assassin's Creed Liberation HD discount
    7. Watch us play early access hit Rust
    8. Wasteland 2 dev promises to improve game's combat
    9. PS4 survival horror Outlast coming free to PlayStation Plus
    10. Microsoft: no plans for a Halo movie
    11. Lord of the Rings Online licence renewed to 2017
    12. Nintendo sorry Wii U still lacks TVii feature in Europe
    13. Valve launches SteamVR beta for Oculus Rift
    14. Watch a blacksmith forge a real life version of Sephiroth's sword
    15. Dean Hall: "So much for the death of PC gaming"
    16. Magic: The Gathering movie in the works
    17. FIFA Team of the Year players in Ultimate Team packs now
    18. Total War: Rome 2 - Caesar in Gaul review
    19. Imagine Tokyo Jungle and Sword & Sworcery mated and had a slugcat baby
    1. Road Redemption gets new gameplay footage
    2. Call of Duty: Ghosts Onslaught DLC out end of January
    3. Mew-Genics' first gameplay footage teased in gif
    4. Six Japanese import PS1 titles dated for PlayStation Store
    5. HMV's flagship Oxford Street store shuts down today
    6. Xbox 360 was the UK's best-selling home console in 2013
    7. Finally! SimCity offline mode confirmed
    8. SimCity mods are go - but follow the five rules
    9. Project Zomboid alpha review
    10. Ambitious open-world horror game The Forest detailed
    11. As console ban lifts, China reveals "hostile" games block
    12. Speedrun event raises $1m for cancer charity
    13. There's a new Tekken movie
    14. Introducing the most anticipated games of 2014
    15. Codemasters has its own endless runner - with cars of course
    16. Max: The Curse of Brotherhood review
    1. Next-Gen Face-Off: Lego Marvel Super Heroes
    2. Contra 3 retrospective
    1. Letter from America: PS Now or never?
    2. Why Alien: Isolation is the Alien game you've been waiting for
    3. The Secret Developers: Wii U - the inside story
    4. Valve plays the long game again
    5. Yakuza: Ishin lets you visit brothels and haunted houses
    6. Sir, You Are Being Hunted dev releases free racing game
    7. Broken Age Episode One releases for backers on Tuesday
    8. First-person bullet-hell Drunken Robot Pornography adds weekly challenges
    9. State of Decay dev signs multi-year agreement with Microsoft
    10. Chibi-Robo! Photo Finder's North American release censors an ass
    1. Beyond: Two Souls sold over a million copies worldwide
    2. IGF finalist Jazzpunk is dated for February on Steam
    3. Quake Live gets its own standalone client
    4. Why Divinity: Original Sin might be the RPG you've been waiting for
    5. Marvel's Agents of Shield spotted using Mass Effect 3 concept art
    6. Rambo The Video Game's new trailer looks slightly less terrible
    7. Rayman Legends leaps to next gen in late February
    8. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance PC doesn't work offline
    9. Energy Hook a timed PS4 and Vita exclusive
    10. Rhythm Thief & the Paris Caper launches on iOS
    11. Eye-catching city-building strategy game Banished out next month
    12. Most Anticipated: Halo for Xbox One
    13. Project Spark beta begins on Xbox One next month
    14. Shake-up at Halo developer 343 Industries
    15. 2K Czech restructuring, Mafia 3 moving to US?
    16. Homeland star to replace Paul Walker in new Hitman film - report
    17. Most Anticipated: Super Smash Bros.
    18. Kirby villain King Dedede confirmed for Smash Bros. return
    1. Shaquille O'Neal teases Shaq Fu sequel
    2. Outrise pits 15 players against one giant playable boss monster
    3. This is Get Even, the next-gen FPS from Painkiller dev The Farm 51
    4. Side-scrolling skater OlliOlli gets PlayStation Vita release date
    5. "The God of War comparisons really p*ssed us off"
    6. How much better does Assassin's Creed: Liberation HD look?
    7. Watch us play DayZ - for five hours straight
    8. $1m up for grabs in the next Call of Duty Championship
    9. Bethesda lists Skyrim for PS4 and Xbox One
    10. Luigi's Mansion 2 dev will now work exclusively with Nintendo
    11. Most Anticipated: Dragon Age: Inquisition
    12. Video: What exactly is Eldritch: Mountains of Madness?
    13. This student-made first-person puzzler has a brain-meltingly clever mechanic
    14. A 30-minute demonstration of Dreamfall Chapters
    15. Watch @fourzerotwo chase two burglars out of the Robotoki office
    16. Xbox One update will fix "hidden, harder to use" social features
    17. Most Anticipated: X
    18. Steam Family Options now live
    19. PlayStation Now requires a 5Mb/s connection for a "good experience"
    20. Wintry survival sim Midwinter is getting a remake in 2015
    1. Steam Greenlights another 50 games, including Depression Quest
    2. Humble Bundle 10 contains Papo & Yo and Joe Danger 2
    3. Killing Floor 2 and Half-Minute Hero Two leaked - rumour
    4. The Witcher gets a board game spin-off
    5. Slender: The Arrival is coming to PS3 and Xbox 360
    6. Kids' Battle.net accounts changed to default "no buy" state
    7. Watch us play Halo: Spartan Assault from 5pm
    8. IGF finalist Don't Starve free on PS4 with Plus
    9. Razer's module-tastic PC is mad, or genius
    10. No plans for Alien: Isolation on Wii U, dev says
    11. Mirror's Edge writer Rhianna Pratchett isn't working on Mirror's Edge 2
    12. With SOCOM servers KIA, first footage of H-Hour emerges
    13. Turtle Beach signs PS4 official headset deal
    14. Independent Games Festival 2014 finalists announced
    15. Most Anticipated: Titanfall
    16. Nintendo's 3DS region-locking can be circumvented
    17. Yes, there's a new Robocop game!
    18. "You'll see more and more game developers" at Oculus
    19. Titanfall maximum player count is 6v6
    20. Ubisoft quiet on The Division delay report
    21. Telltale's president wants to make a James Bond game
    22. VVVVVV is heading to iOS, Android, Ouya and Vita
    1. Dark Souls gets its own themed cafe in Tokyo
    2. Sony announces game streaming service PlayStation Now
    3. Over 4.2 million PS4s have been sold worldwide
    4. Left 4 Dead dev reveals next-gen IP Evolve
    5. How Alien: Isolation recreates the horror of the 1979 original
    6. South Park RPG release date tweaked to 7th March
    7. GTA: San Andreas out now on Android, Kindle
    8. The Eurogamer.net Podcast: Cluedo survivors
    9. Alien: Isolation details appear on Xbox Games Store
    10. Do not expect DayZ beta before end of 2014
    11. Most Anticipated: The Last Guardian
    12. Dean Hall planning "really special" DayZ presentation for EGX Rezzed
    13. So, what's going on with Hitman?
    14. Sony mulls single subscription for all SOE PC users
    15. China lifts ban on foreign console sales
    16. Most Anticipated: The Witness
    17. Starbound's beta sold over one million copies in a month
    18. The next Halo game is still on track for this year
    19. Over 3 million Xbox Ones were sold in 2013
    20. First Steam Machine to debut this month for $1899
    21. Nintendo must pay royalties for every 3DS following court ruling
    1. Fan-made Morrowind remake is shaping up nicely
    2. No Man's Sky dev Hello Games announces Joe Danger Infinity
    3. Clint Hocking leaves Valve
    4. Sonic box artist Greg Martin passes away
    5. Watch Nvidia's new mobile chip run Unreal Engine 4
    6. DayZ sells 800,000 copies in under a month
    7. Army of Two producer claims "underwhelming" end result was "predictable"
    8. Sony turning off Gran Turismo 5, Resistance servers
    9. Most Anticipated: Mario Kart 8
    10. Third EA-owned company loses its leaders this month
    11. Most Anticipated: Quadrilateral Cowboy
    12. EverQuest, Vanguard leader Kickstarting new MMO
    13. UK chart: FIFA 14 kicks off new year top 40
    14. Codemasters teases multiple racing games due this year
    15. Oceanhorn: Monster of the Uncharted Seas review
    1. Letter from America: The highs and lows of 2013
    2. Is 2014 the year of virtual reality?
    3. If trailers told the truth
    4. The life of a porting house
    1. Gaming's most intriguing deleted scenes with Outside Xbox
    2. Eye-tracking hardware Tobii EyeX will launch in "mid-2014"
    1. Bravely Default censors its clothing upon its western release
    2. Blizzard warns WoW players to watch out for a Trojan
    3. Killer Instinct update swaps Sabrewulf as the free starter character
    4. Founders leave Burnout and NFS: Hot Pursuit studio Criterion
    5. Bethesda working to reinstate old Fallout games on Steam
    6. Redshirt review
    7. The Novelist review
    8. Activision's Marvel titles disappearing from PSN, Steam, Xbox Live
    9. It's the last day of the Steam Sale
    10. What to make of flOw and Flower on PS4?
    11. Analogue: A Hate Story dev announces the longest game title ever
    12. Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed morphs onto mobile
    13. Titanfall won't launch with mod support
    1. Valkyria Chronicles 3 gets English translation via fan-made patch
    2. Microsoft considered removing the Xbox One's disc drive after E3
    3. The Devil's Third is still on track for a 2014 release
    4. ToeJam & Earl 3's unreleased Dreamcast rough cut is now available
    5. LOL dev Riot retaliates to "greedy" taunts
    6. Minimalist fencing brawler Nidhogg due this month
    7. Sleeping Dogs free with Xbox Live Gold now
    8. Code Britannia: Tim Follin
    9. DayZ week-one sales rocket past 400,000
    10. Nintendo sorry for Christmas eShop hiccups
    11. Descent: Journeys Into the Dark review
    12. Code Britannia: The Pickford Brothers
    13. Code Britannia: Sandy White
    14. Code Britannia: Mel Croucher
    15. Christmas storms flood No Man's Sky dev Hello Games
    16. UK chart: FIFA 14 finishes the year on top
    17. Developers' Games of 2013
    18. Developers' Most Anticipated Games of 2014