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September 2016 Archive

    1. There's a Skyrim concert coming to London, but...
    2. Sunless Sea director announces digital board game Cultist Simulator
    3. XCOM 2: Yes, it's harder, but you also care more
    4. Watch: Hands on with Battlezone's co-operative campaign
    5. Battleborn will be free to play soon - report
    6. Bungie shuts down Destiny's long-running Omnigul exploit
    7. Japan is getting its own Nintendo Classic Mini
    8. What do you actually do in games?
    9. Face-Off: Forza Horizon 3
    10. Introducing Breakaway: Amazon's esports game by the Killer Instinct devs
    1. Make Sail looks like a physics-based Wind Waker
    2. Watch: Is Firaxis done with XCOM 2?
    3. Destiny has a soft level cap of 20, but you can go beyond it
    4. Bulletstorm remaster dated for 2017, published by Borderlands studio Gearbox
    5. Watch: Ian plays Minecraft/Zelda mash-up Dragon Quest Builders live
    6. Banner Saga 2 marches onto mobile and tablets
    7. Crowdfundee Kingdom Come: Deliverance announces co-publisher Deep Silver
    8. These Shenmue fans got to tour Japan with Yu Suzuki
    9. UK shops are selling original PS4 bundles for £150
    10. Stardew Valley is changing the way you start your farm
    11. Blizzard to nerf Hearthstone's "most controversial" card
    12. And that's that for Tribes: Ascend - again
    13. Clustertruck is a cruel, brilliant joke of a game
    14. Michel Ancel is getting Beyond Good & Evil fans excited again
    15. Here's a teaser for The Bard's Tale 4
    16. Call of Duty: World at War now on Xbox One via backward compatibility
    17. And that's that for fan game Pokémon Uranium
    1. Super Mega Baseball 2 announced for next year
    2. PlayStation Plus October freebies include Resident Evil and Transformers: Devastation
    3. Watch: How Virginia's cutthroat editing makes it a more cinematic game
    4. Advertising Standards launches investigation into No Man's Sky
    5. inXile announces Wasteland 3 - and it's got multiplayer
    6. It didn't take long for CEX to hike the price of Call of Duty: World at War on Xbox 360
    7. Ubisoft buys mobile game company behind Threes clone, 2048
    8. Birthdays the Beginning sees Harvest Moon's creator aiming for greener pastures
    9. Destiny 2 will launch for PC, characters may be left behind - reports
    10. Here's our first look at the Battlefield 1 campaign
    1. How does XCOM 2 perform on consoles?
    2. The push and pull of Destiny's microtransactions
    3. GTA Online Bikers update lets you form a motorbike crew
    4. Endless Space 2 launches on Steam Early Access next week
    5. What does it take to run Forza Horizon 3 at 1080p60?
    6. Elite Dangerous has a "heat meta" and Frontier just poured cold water over it
    7. How EA works out FIFA 17 player ratings
    8. Street Fighter 5's Urien is making people knock themselves out
    9. How similar is Paladins to Overwatch?
    10. Forza Horizon 3 review
    11. N64 emulator pulled from Xbox One store
    12. Castlevania turns 30
    13. Nintendo hardware sales in the Americas are worse than you'd expect
    14. Fans revive Battlefield 2142
    1. Firewatch is getting a film adaptation
    2. Runner3 sees the return of Commander Video
    3. Sundered is Super Metroid meets Rogue Legacy
    4. Super Dungeon Bros out 1st November
    5. World War Z author writing Minecraft novel
    6. The Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega+ has an October release date
    7. Feeling flush: Hitman's new Colorado episode refreshes old toilet mechanics
    8. Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade review
    9. Blizzard reveals fix for Overwatch thumbstick acceleration control
    10. Minecraft console editions finally get polar bears, beets and banners
    11. Battlefield 1 EA and Origin Access trials detailed
    12. First Forza Horizon nears "end of life" status
    13. The Witness review
    14. Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare beta details revealed
    1. Pirates of the airwaves: How Sega won the hearts and minds of a generation
    2. Shovel Knight will guest star in Yooka Laylee
    3. Watch: Zombies invade Croft Manor in Lara's Nightmare DLC
    4. Lego Dimensions studio on its experimental year two, Marvel and Star Wars
    5. Watch Sunday's EGX 2016 sessions live
    6. Games of EGX 2016
    7. Digital Foundry: Hands-on with COD Infinite Warfare on PS4 Pro
    1. Failbetter Games announces Sunless Skies
    2. Planet Coaster will, of course, let you crash your rollercoasters
    3. First-person VR Pac-Man is as ridiculous as it sounds
    4. Jelly Deals roundup: Monkey Island, Dragon Age: Inquisition, GTA5 and more
    5. Forza Horizon 3 at 4K 60fps is simply breathtaking
    6. Destiny: Rise of Iron's new raid finished in just two hours
    7. Watch Saturday's EGX 2016 sessions live
    8. Report: Oculus Rift creator Palmer Luckey secretly funded pro-Trump meme website
    9. Game Genie declassified: That summer I played 230 Game Boy games
    1. NetherRealm addresses concern around Injustice 2's new Gear System
    2. Earn entry into Titanfall 2 multiplayer mode at US resturant
    3. Hacking cars and 3D-printing weapons in 30 minutes of Watch Dogs 2 gameplay
    4. Kabam kills Star Wars Uprising
    5. League of Legends eSports controversy continues as Riot announces sweeping changes to funding
    6. Forget Chewbacca, it's Bossk racking up the massive killstreaks in Star Wars Battlefront
    7. Destiny players are reviving an old Omnigul exploit to level-up in time for the Rise of Iron raid
    8. FIFA 17 review
    9. Four years later the Kingdoms of Amalur court case comes to an end
    10. Street Fighter 5's stages just got a lot better
    11. Watch Friday's EGX 2016 sessions live
    1. Watch five minutes of Dark Souls 3: Ashes of Ariandel gameplay
    2. Breaking up with Batman
    3. Hitman's US episode dated and detailed
    4. Watch new gameplay footage of Nier: Automata
    5. Resident Evil 7 PC requirements revealed
    6. ReCore update to tackle long load times on Xbox One
    7. Valve's unreleased Half-Life mod Threewave uncovered, fixed and released
    8. Try out seven EGX indie games at home for free
    9. Oculus Rift controllers Oculus Touch to cost £190 in UK - report
    10. Watch Thursday's EGX 2016 sessions live
    11. Face-Off: BioShock: The Collection
    12. Is DayZ still coming out on console and, you know, WTH is going on?
    13. Platforming, puzzles and an anime aesthetic converge in Forgotton Anne
    14. Firewatch Xbox One suffers last minute delay in Europe
    15. Big changes are coming to The Division
    16. FIFA 17 doesn't have Iceland because of a row over money
    17. Blizzard doing away with the Battle.net name
    18. Virginia review
    1. 10 things you must do at EGX 2016
    2. October's Xbox Games with Gold includes The Escapists
    3. New Dishonored 2 trailer shows us just how creative killing can get
    4. Destiny sherpas are helping players up Rise of Iron's mountain
    5. Watch: Aoife learns how to play Beasts of Balance
    6. Dark Souls 3: Ashes of Ariandel paints a world worth revisiting
    7. Star Wars Battlefront PSA: you can now equip two Trait cards
    8. Death Star DLC introduces the Star Wars: Battlefront you were looking for (sort of)
    9. Seraph, the balletic shooter with no aiming, leaves Early Access
    10. DICE reveals Battlefield 1 launch maps and modes
    11. Paladins boss speaks out over Overwatch clone claims
    12. The Bunker review
    1. Destiny: Rise of Iron launch woes force players into queue
    2. Yep, Hitler's in Sniper Elite 4
    3. Forza Horizon 3, the greatest racer in an age, studies the greats
    4. GTA 5 mod makers go to war over "stolen" files
    5. Behold our Pokémon Go Plus competition winners
    6. "We got caught in a s***storm"
    7. Destiny: The Taken King guide
    8. Here are your Battlefield 1 PC system requirements
    9. Capcom addresses concern around controversial Street Fighter 5 DLC
    1. Gears of War 4's campaign feels like an Epic revival
    2. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will not support PlayStation 4 Pro features
    3. Pokémon Go streamer mugged live on camera
    4. Poland's getting a limited edition Geralt Witcher stamp
    5. Devil Daggers now lets you watch top-down replays
    6. British FIFA YouTuber charged with promoting gambling
    7. PES 2017 review
    1. Watch: 7 new details we love in Forza Horizon 3
    2. Rapture leaked: The true story behind the making of BioShock
    3. Face-Off: Dead Rising Remastered
    4. Looking back at Spore in a post-No Man's Sky world
    1. FIFA 17: How the Frostbite engine improves visuals
    2. Star Citizen's first-person shooting changes coming along nicely
    3. Steam dumps developer for being "hostile" to customers
    4. Beast your eyes on 18 minutes of The Last Guardian gameplay
    5. The Death Star DLC looks snazzy in Star Wars Battlefront
    6. Jelly Deals roundup: Star Wars Battlefront, Bastion, Darksiders and more
    7. Watch: 5 crappy Spectrum games based on classic British game shows
    8. Watch the first Metal Gear Survive gameplay
    9. The space that isn't
    1. Suda 51's The Silver Case remake gets a release date
    2. Paladins open beta launch trailer reminds us a lot of Overwatch
    3. Sony's Shuhei Yoshida on No Man's Sky
    4. Hearthstone adds £4 Welcome Bundle with guaranteed legendary
    5. CD Projekt Red told us about undiscovered 'secrets' in The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine
    6. PlayStation announces job losses at Sony London, San Diego studios
    7. Destiny has an infectious new ARG with in-game boosts
    8. Birthdays the Beginning confirmed for Europe
    9. Legion finds World of Warcraft in the rudest possible health
    10. New video shows Jon Snow actor in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
    11. Three days with Nintendo's £35 Pokémon Go Plus accessory
    12. Resident Evil 7 demo updated with new areas
    13. Capcom points to Resident Evil 7 dummy finger use
    14. Win: We've got five Pokémon Go Plus gadgets to give away
    15. South Park: The Fractured But Whole delayed to early 2017
    1. Private matches revive Destiny's two-year-old competitive multiplayer
    2. Jonah is Chief Librarian in Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War 3
    3. Watch 23 minutes of For Honor gameplay
    4. 4-player co-op comes to Battlezone on PlayStation VR
    5. The latest Final Fantasy 15 trailer has loads of cutscenes
    6. All five Battlefield 4 expansions free until next week
    7. Cor it's Corvo in a Dishonored 2 gameplay trailer at last
    8. Two 80s-inspired horror games that turn things a little bit Upside Down
    1. Watch us play (and actually, genuinely enjoy) FIFA 17's Story Mode
    2. Rise of the Tomb Raider: the first PS4 Pro vs PC graphics comparison
    3. Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 review
    4. Watch: Ian's revisiting Dead Rising's Willamette Mall on PS4 at 3:30pm.
    5. Watch: We spend an hour exploring Sniper Elite 4's Viaduct level
    6. League of Legends attracts more than 100m players every month
    7. Huge hidden Star Citizen city found in game files
    8. Dean Hall of DayZ fame is making a big new multiplayer game
    9. Japan's getting a fancy Final Fantasy 15-themed PS4
    10. FIFA 17 demo out tomorrow
    11. Pokémon Go update with buddy feature, Plus support finally live in the UK
    12. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Spirit of Justice review
    1. It looks like Assassin's Creed 2, Brotherhood, Revelations are headed to PS4, Xbox One
    2. Zachtronics' new game Shenzen I/O promises the joys and frustrations of engineering
    3. Sega's brilliant Sonic Mania Collector's Edition isn't coming to Europe
    4. The Hero Factory: Conversations with Chris Metzen
    5. Homefront: The Revolution patch finally fixes console performance
    6. Your original PS4 now supports HDR, but no games currently make use of it
    7. How to upgrade PC copies of BioShock, BioShock 2 on Steam
    8. US PlayStation VR demo disc has 18 games, 10 more than Europe's
    9. What if Uncharted 4 on PS4 Pro ran at 60fps?
    10. Valve finally takes on Steam user review score manipulation
    11. The Forza Horizon 3 demo is out now on Xbox One
    12. Blizzard story overlord Chris Metzen retires aged 42
    13. Tech Analysis: Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
    14. Recore review
    15. PS4's big new update (the one with folders) goes live
    16. PlayStation Vita isn't dead, in Japan anyway
    17. Death Stranding is an action game with an open world
    18. Platinum's GranBlue Fantasy coming to PS4 and PSVR
    19. Earth Defense Force 5 announced for next year
    20. Nioh comes out February 2017
    21. Sony Tokyo Game Show 2016 conference live report
    1. Now there's a Titanfall card battler
    2. Forza Horizon 3: still the only racing game for everyone
    3. Animal Crossing: New Leaf update will weed your town
    4. Sunless Sea writer signs up for BioWare project
    5. World of Warcraft: Legion has some elaborate secrets
    6. The Last Guardian delayed again
    7. Blizzard thinking about selling announcer packs for StarCraft 2
    8. Play the Warcraft adventure game that was never released
    9. Destiny: Rise of Iron mission gameplay footage appears online
    10. Xbox One S: specs, price, 500GB release date and everything we know about the slim console
    11. Someone already built a SNES Mini
    12. Fallout 4 and Skyrim PS4 mods look dead - and Bethesda blames Sony
    13. Myst connection: The rise, fall and resurrection of Cyan
    14. RunGunJumpGun is one of the best autorunners since Canabalt
    1. PS4 Slim release date, price, specs, new DualShock 4 and everything we know
    1. Jelly Deals roundup: System Shock 2, New Amiibos, Dark Souls, and more
    2. Xbox One backward compatibility: every major game tested
    3. Watch: Seven games we'd love to see remastered
    4. Time crisis: Is this the end of the light gun?
    1. Final Fantasy 15 playable at EGX 2016
    2. PS4 Pro Performance Analysis: Horizon Zero Dawn
    3. Meet the first person to reach level 1000 in Overwatch
    4. Homefront: The Revolution free to play on Steam this weekend
    5. Pokémon Go Plus device launches next week
    6. The Tomorrow Children: A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma
    7. Thierry Henry is playable in NBA 2K17
    8. Blizzard to ban some of Hearthstone's most popular cards from arena
    9. Star Wars never looked so good
    10. Destiny just got a big pre-Rise of Iron update
    11. Sony plays down PS4 Pro's lack of 4K Blu-ray disc support
    12. PlayStation 4 Pro makes UK debut at EGX 2016 this month
    13. Watch: Digital Foundry discusses PlayStation 4 Pro
    14. Castlevania successor Bloodstained pushed back to 2018
    15. The Witness to get a PS4 Pro patch
    16. Pokémon Sun and Moon introduces Prof Oak's cousin
    17. Digital Foundry: Hands-on with the CUH-2000 PS4 Slim
    1. Digital Foundry: Three hours with PlayStation 4 Pro
    2. World of Warcraft: Legion day-one sales match series records
    3. Lego Harry Potter gets PlayStation 4 remaster
    4. Watch Endless Space 2's impressive, cinematic combat
    5. Microsoft's bullish response to Sony's PS4 Pro and slim
    6. With new PS4s come new peripherals
    7. Apple iPhone 7 more expensive in UK - blame Brexit
    8. Sony finally confirms PlayStation 4 slim model, priced £259
    9. Sony announces PlayStation 4 Pro for November 2016, priced £349
    10. Every PlayStation 4 to be made HDR capable via a patch
    11. Redout is the next-gen WipEout you've been waiting for
    12. The Crew is free to download on PC mid-September
    13. Interplay puts all of its games up for sale
    14. PlayStation Meeting 2016 live report
    1. Apple accidentally announces iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus via own website
    2. Here's Urien in Street Fighter 5
    3. Nintendo's Animal Crossing, Fire Emblem mobile games delayed to 2017
    4. Finally, Mario comes to iPhone
    5. Pokémon Go announced for Apple Watch
    6. Square Enix has taken over Abbey Road for a Final Fantasy concert tonight
    7. Watch: Ian's getting All Ghillied Up with Modern Warfare at 3:30pm
    8. Nintendo is giving away an NX
    9. Life after console generations has one big upside
    10. Microsoft's cheeky video explains Xbox One backwards compatibility
    11. Red Dead Redemption backwards compatible on Xbox One... for a few hours
    12. Assassin's Creed 1 now back compatible on Xbox One
    13. Halo Wars, SoulCalibur 2 now back-compatible on Xbox One
    14. Left 4 Dead 2 added to Xbox One's backwards compatible library
    15. Rayman Origins now back-compatible on Xbox One
    16. Looks like Call of Duty: Black Ops is back compatible on Xbox One today
    17. SSX slides into your Xbox One's backwards compatibility
    18. Fallout: New Vegas is now backwards compatible on Xbox One
    19. Imminent thriller Virginia gets first proper trailer
    20. PlayStation VR demo disc contains eight games
    21. EGX 2016 to host world first hands-on with Dishonored 2
    22. Peter Molyneux's new game The Trail gets stealth release in the Philippines
    1. Emulator Dolphin can now boot every GameCube game
    2. Virtua Fighter 5 is coming to PlayStation 4
    3. Sony is seemingly refunding Gran Turismo Sport pre-orders
    4. Pokémon Sun and Moon has a Pokémon Snap-style photo feature
    5. Batman: Return to Arkham out this October
    6. Watch: 90 minutes of The Tomorrow Children gameplay
    7. Battlefield 1's beta ends this Thursday
    8. Ronaldo replaces Messi as the highest-rated player in FIFA 17
    9. Battlefield 1's beta is broken and brilliant in equal measure
    10. This is what really happens when swords hit armour
    11. Some of Dead Rising's most hardcore fans are upset Frank West has a new voice
    12. The battle to fix Britain's internet heats up
    13. Jump the queue to play Dishonored 2 at EGX
    14. Ark fans burned by Scorched Earth, the Early Access game's "completely finished" expansion
    15. Cool-looking Tokyo 42 coming to PS4 and Xbox One as well as PC in 2017
    16. The dark romance of cars and nukes in Fallout 4
    1. Mother Russia Bleeds review
    2. Assetto Corsa console review
    3. This Steam Greenlight game Islands is going to be amazing
    4. Metroid Prime: Federation Force flops
    5. Animal Crossing welcomes... Hello Kitty
    6. Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour remaster announced
    7. Nintendo lawyers jump on No Mario's Sky parody
    8. The state of video game TV
    9. Wasp wins World Scrabble Championship
    10. Attack on Titan: Wings of Freedom review
    1. Pan-Pan and the kind of game you have to learn to read
    2. Watch: Games nearly ruined by one terrible level
    3. Hands-on with Modern Warfare Remastered
    4. Asus ROG GX800VH review - the world's most powerful gaming laptop?
    1. Jelly Deals roundup: Definitive Metal Gear, WOW Legion, Cities Skylines and more
    2. The Walking Dead Season 3 gets title and release date
    3. Overwatch Competitive Season 2, and Eichenwalde, are live
    4. Face-Off: Resident Evil 4 Remastered
    5. Nvidia's Pascal-powered laptop chips are a true generational leap
    6. Watch: Seven times video games were just really, really gross
    7. Pokémon Go, mid-life crisis and me, by Ellie Gibson
    1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered will contain all 16 multiplayer maps
    2. Firewatch spreading to Xbox One later this month
    3. Infinite Warfare's multiplayer beta kicks off 14th October on PS4
    4. Watch: 15 minutes of Infinite Warfare multiplayer gameplay
    5. Shadow Warrior 2 is coming to PC in "less than two months"
    6. Bungie talks Destiny: Rise of Iron's future events, wolves and raid
    7. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided DLC returns Human Revolution character
    8. Telltale's Batman gets second episode release date
    9. Watch us tour Fallout 4: Nuka World's best Easter eggs
    10. Verdun review
    11. Quantum Break Steam and Timeless Collector's Edition releases delayed
    12. Bethesda's touching tribute to a fan who passed away
    13. Sega explains why Shenmue remakes haven't happened yet
    14. Jelly Deals roundup: Overwatch, Madden 17, Captain Toad and more
    15. Master of Orion review
    1. Overwatch will be free to play next weekend on console
    2. Samorost 3 is now available on iOS
    3. Lindsay Lohan's Grand Theft Auto lawsuit rules in Rockstar's favour
    4. PlayStation Move is back, and now in a PSVR double pack
    5. Super Mario Maker headed to 3DS
    6. Early Access dino hit Ark gets "completely finished" expansion
    7. Catch up with today's 3DS Nintendo Direct here
    8. 3DS StreetPass now accepts more than 10 Miis at once
    9. Four years on, Animal Crossing: New Leaf is getting a big update
    10. New Zelda 30th anniversary amiibo will work with Breath of the Wild
    11. Yoshi's Woolly World gets 3DS version
    12. New Pikmin 3DS game announced
    13. Watch: We chat Dishonored 2 with director Harvey Smith
    14. Fallout 4's Nuka-World sticks too rigidly to the tracks
    15. Battlefield 1 open beta off to shaky start as EA servers suffer outage
    16. Performance Analysis: Assetto Corsa
    17. Sounds like we won't get a Mass Effect trilogy remaster
    18. Castle of Illusion remake will be removed from sale on Friday
    19. Deus Ex Go isn't really Deus Ex, but it understands what's great about it