With April’s pair of PS Plus games, embark on a globe-trotting journey in pursuit of a historical conspiracy behind a fabled pirate treasure, then have your nerves and driving skills tested in some of the world’s most challenging rallying courses. Let’s take a look. Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End [embedded content] Naughty Dog’s critically acclaimed
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As I wrote in my review of Resident Evil 3, one of my favourite things about the game is the level of detail that’s gone into making Raccoon City feel like a real place, despite all but a few streets of it being mysterious blocked off by walls of rubble and trashed police cars. It’s
COVID-19’s impact on the game industry pushes another game date back, as InXile’s Wasteland 3 has been pushed to August 28 (Be sure to check out an awesome feature on Wasteland 3 in the current issue of Game Informer!}. Studio head Brian Fargo issued a statement via Twitter, commenting that a shift to work-from-home procedures had impacted
By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 20:40 GMT Frontier Developments have announced the second DLC pack for Planet Zoo, featuring animals native to South America Pack, will release next week. The Planet Zoo South America Pack is set to release next week on April 7 and features five new animals and over 250 new
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Two days ago, we covered news from AMD that the company had suffered an IP breach. We now know more about what was taken from the company and how serious the theft is — or more appropriately, isn’t. At first
More details coming soon by Liam Doolan 46 mins ago [embedded content] Taito has announced Bubble Bobble 4 Friends will be receiving a new free update that adds additional content to the game. This includes new stages and the character, Baron von Blubba. Here’s a bit from the PR about it: Taito are currently developing
Eurogamer is backing the report from Video Games Chronicles that Nintendo is readying a number of Super Mario re-releases for the Nintendo Switch this year to celebrate the Italian plumbers 35th anniversary, The publication says that they have heard that both Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario 3D World Deluxe are just two of the
It was three years ago when we first heard of Children of Zodiarcs, as the Square Enix Collective was gearing up to show it off at EGX Rezzed 2017, with it soon to be followed at the bigger show later in the year. From there though things went a little quiet on the Xbox One
We know you’re busy and might miss out on all the exciting things we’re talking about on Xbox Wire every week. If you’ve got a few minutes, we can help remedy that. We’ve pared down the past week’s news into one easy-to-digest article for all things Xbox! Or, if you’d rather watch than read, you
I thought I would be bored by the time I beat up my 500,000th marine lackey, but to my surprise, One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 never let the smile fall from my face – except for when it’s trying to make me cry with its many faithfully recreated scenes of One Piece’s most emotional moments.
Square Enix has announced an “upgraded version” of 2010’s NieR Replicant for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Accompanying the surprise announcement was a trailer, which you can check out below. #NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139…, an upgraded version of the original, is now in development for #PS4, #Xbox One and #Steam! Enter an apocalyptic world
Persona 5 Royal is set to steal hearts on PS4 next week! Join Joker and the rest of the Phantom Thieves — including newcomer Kasumi — in an updated new take on the legendary JRPG series’ most recent mainline entry. Other new additions to Royal include a new area and activities, a grappling hook for
This week, Mount & Blade 2’s early access launch date was moved up by one whole day, Epic Games launched a publishing scheme, Half-Life: Alyx was the talk of the town, and that ol’ new coronavirus continued to disrupt things. Read on for more of the week’s PC gaming goings-on in our News Digest, and
Nintendo released a surprise Nintendo Direct presentation offering a shotgun blast of details for various Switch games. Apart from 2K’s Switch collections for Borderlands, XCOM 2, and BioShock, and a release date for the Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition (May 29), the presentation also dropped a variety of news on a bevy of titles. Super Smash
By Elizabeth Henges, Friday, 27 March 2020 20:29 GMT Want some awesome retro-style platforming on your Animal Crossing device? You can grab the full set of Shovel Knight games for the Switch at a nice discount! That’s right, if you want Shovel Knight and the three accompanying campaigns (which might as well be full games
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. It’s been a long time since Valve took us to the world of Half-Life, but the wait may have been worth it. The newly released Half-Life: Alyx is being called a true virtual reality masterpiece. It’s actually driving many people
[embedded content] Update (Fri 27th Mar, 2020 13:30 GMT): Gigantosaurus: The Game, a racing action game based on the popular animated series currently airing on Disney Junior, is launching today on Switch. A brand new trailer for the game has been released alongside its launch (see above) and we have more details in our original
During the latest Nintendo Direct Mini video presentation, Nintendo shined the spotlight on a breadth of different types of games launching for the Nintendo Switch in 2020 – some of which are available today! Games featured in the video include sprawling role-playing adventures like Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition and BRAVELY DEFAULT II; classic franchises like
The wedding of the year is here as the latest expansion for Borderlands 3 launches on Xbox One, PS4, PC and Google Stadia. And this one is all about guns, love and tentacles as we witness the marriage of Wainwright and Hammerlock! Available right now to purchase and download on all the usual Borderlands 3
Greetings everyone! Today I am very excited to let you know that Deep Sky Derelicts: Definitive Edition is now available on Xbox One! For those of you not familiar with the game, Deep Sky Derelicts offers an original sci-fi RPG experience combining tactical turn-based combat with cards and exciting rogue-lite exploration gameplay, all set in
Now more than ever, I’ll take any chance I can get to feel like a demigod – even if it’s just in a video game. Doom Eternal offers that power fantasy in spades but is always ready to check your first-person-shooting ego around the next corner with a bigger, faster, nastier demon from Hell. This
If it smells like something nearby is on fire then have no fear: It isn’t Scorpion performing a signature Fatality, it’s just legendary actor Bruce Campbell’s pants being set on fire. An email from WB Games today meant to announce the release of Spawn, the newest DLC character in Mortal Kombat 11 also contained an
Dogurai was initially made for a Game Boy themed game jam in 2014. Heavily inspired by platforming classics and videogame mascots from the 90s, the game was born of the simple idea of a samurai dog fighting robots. At first we were uncertain if we wanted to actually finish the game, so we left it
Hey, you, have you been sleeping on our favourite game of last year because you didn’t want to shop at the Epic Games Store? Friendo, you can now set a date for your adventure into Outer Wilds: June 18th. That’s the Steam release date for the fascinating sci-fi puzzle sandbox, publishers Annapurna announced today. Outer
As lockdowns sweep across the globe to try to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of people who are online has increased dramatically, so much so that countries are concerned that the internet could break. In Europe, Netflix is reducing streaming quality for 30 days. Netflix believes the move will lower its traffic by 25
By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 13:01 GMT Animal Crossing: New Horizons player reviews are rather negative on Metacritic. Over on Metacritic, users are review bombing Animal Crossing: New Horizons by handing the game more zeroes than we can count. There are some fours and twos thrown in there, but the majority of negative
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. It’s been a few years since Microsoft introduced DirectX 12, and there’s a new set of console introductions coming this fall, so the time is ripe for the unveiling of a new DirectX version. Microsoft has just launched DirectX 12
Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) Since the advent of platform gaming, the genre has come on leaps and bounds. Although some (this writer included) would argue that many titles overcomplicate their gameplay, introducing unnecessary additions that threaten to overwhelm younger gamers. Thankfully then, Wunderling is perhaps one of the most accessible platform titles in years,
The Coral coloured Nintendo Switch Lite system has been a massive success in Japan and has reportedly sold out at all major stores within just two days of it being on sale. It’s not clear whether the global coronavirus pandemic has caused issue with production of the unit as the other colours in the Switch
The original The Legend of Zelda had a lot of things long before other genres and properties became better known for them. It most certainly was a Souls-like open world adventure long before the term took the form it has today. The original Zelda was tough, and while later entries in the series left a