Smithsonian researchers and a photographer placed "biocubes" in a bunch of different locations around the world to document what creatures and general life passed through them in a typical day. They took photos of everything that came within the range of the one-cubic-foot area, … | Continue reading
Picture it: THE FUTURE. The year is 1994 and you play as an office clerk who must deliver an important message to the Queen of Ice, the leader of the totalitarian government that presides over you. You accomplish this task by running along a maze-like pathway floating in the sky … | Continue reading
This past Christmas, Valve encountered a huge snafu when an error in a partner’s caching configuration temporarily caused users of game platform Steam to log into each other’s accounts. Although purchases couldn’t be made, there was plenty of personal information visible — includ … | Continue reading
Ubisoft has just detailed two huge features for The Division set to arrive via free post-launch updates: raid-like "incursions" and player trading.April sees the first incursion added to the game. Ubisoft describes the feature as "a new challenging end-game activity developed spe … | Continue reading
Agar.io is a quirky game that has gained a massive audience in part because you can easily play it against so many other people at once. The mobile and PC game starts you out as a tiny bacteria cell (Agar refers to the substance that scientists use to create bacteria cultures). T … | Continue reading
One of the most anticipated games of the year has a release date. Developer Hello Games revealed on the PlayStation Blog today that No Man’s Sky will release on June 21. The PlayStation 4 and PC space-exploration game has become one of the most interesting titles of the generatio … | Continue reading
This week fans of Pokemon are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the series. If you've followed the creature-collecting games from the original Game Boy to the Nintendo 3DS, this GIF, embedded below, will pluck your heart strings like Meowth plucks an electric guitar.What I dig … | Continue reading
Today we learned that No Man's Sky is finally launching on June 21st, and if you're really excited for the space sim, you might want to check out the special edition of the game, which comes with an incredibly cool metal spaceship. The package, which will cost you $149.99, featur … | Continue reading
We knew the much-hyped, open-world space exploration game No Man's Sky would be coming In June, and now we finally have a date: June 21st. Hello Games and Sony have announced the release date, with Hello Games planning to release the PC version simultaneously alongside its PlaySt … | Continue reading
Well over two years after No Man's Sky was unveiled, Hello Games' Sean Murray is still fielding the same question that's been circling this game from the very start. And each and every time he's answered it patiently, diligently and, somewhat commendably, without displaying any f … | Continue reading
No Man's Sky has got a firm, final release date, with Hello Games' ambitious space exploration game coming on June 24th. The date would seem to be for both PC and PS4 versions, with Hello Games' Sean Murray saying both versions would release at the same time during the PC Gaming … | Continue reading
You can play Epic's upcoming MOBA, Paragon, from the 18th March - if you buy the Founder's Pack.For $19.99 (UK price TBA), you can play the game ahead of its official launch, as well as receive a number of character skins, boosts, and other cosmetic items. However, Paragon is sti … | Continue reading
The adventure game genre meets the lurching experience of QWOP in Manual Samuel, an indie adventure from Norwegian studio Perfectly ParaNormal.Headed to PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One this summer, the 2D title has you manually controlling all of main character Sam's functions - w … | Continue reading
Jahr für Jahr brach Game of Thrones Rekorde bei den illegalen Downloads, was für die Serie bisher aber kein Problem war, eher wohl das Gegenteil. Dass letztes Jahr noch vor Beginn der fünften Staffel die ersten vier Folgen durchsicke... | Continue reading
Getting through to Apple’s customer care team on the phone is like a game of roulette, you could get someone in two minutes today and wait hours the next. Likewise, if you walk into an Apple store in any city in the world, you’re probably going to face a lengthy queue or be told … | Continue reading
These days Scottish video game programmer and designer Chris Sawyer flies under the radar. The inventor of RollerCoaster Tycoon seems happy to let Atari build new games in the much-loved strategy series while he gets on with other, pressing matters, such as riding real-life rolle … | Continue reading
Devolver's impressive Enter the Gungeon will be released 5th April on PC, Mac and PS4. It'll cost £11.99 with a pre-order discount of 10 per cent.Gungeon is a mash-up of an old-school Zelda game, a shoot-'em-up and a Hong Kong action movie. Zelda because it looks a like A Link to … | Continue reading
London PC and indie game event EGX Rezzed (put on by Eurogamer's parent company Gamer Network) will host some of the talent behind Firewatch and Dying Light… | Continue reading
Far Cry Primal's map is largely based on that of 2014's Far Cry 4, down to the same road and river layouts.It's something of a surprise, since the Stone Age valley of Oros is set in Central Europe and Far Cry 4 is supposed to be set in the Himalayas.Developer Ubisoft never mentio … | Continue reading
It's that time of week for new iOS game releases, and one big-name game actually had a very strange release, Supercell's latest Clash Royale, which exited soft-launch status and went worldwide late last night. Curiously, Apple went ahead and changed the Editor's Choice to Clash R … | Continue reading
Tough terrain driving game Spintires has been removed from sale on Steam amid various reports of the game crashing within mere minutes of being booted up.Weirdly, fans have speculated that the crashes were not an unintentional bug, but rather the game's programmer Pavel Zagrebeln … | Continue reading
Nitrome's Rust Bucket [Free] has gotten its second major update, and it brings two new features to the game. One is that 10 new puzzle levels have been added, bringing the total to 30. If you prefer progression-based games, and the fixed puzzle levels of Rust Bucket present some … | Continue reading
The developer responsible for Clash of Clans has another hit. Supercell’s Clash Royale, an online multiplayer tower-defense game for iOS and Android, has reached the top of the Apple App Store download chart, according to data provided to gamesbeat by intelligence firm SensorTowe … | Continue reading
Zynga’s stock price rose 4 percent to $2.25 a share in the first full day of trading on Wall Street after the company announced that it had appointed ex-Electronic Arts veteran Frank Gibeau as its new chief executive officer. Game industry analysts also said that they believed Ma … | Continue reading
Desert Golfing [$1.99] is a minimalist 2D golfing game from developer Justin Smith, who has been well-known for years now for creating quirky gaming experiences on a variety of platforms but is probably best-known on mobile for his wacky Bear Driving Simulator Enviro-Bear 2010 [$ … | Continue reading
Coca-Cola is entering into the virtual reality game, not with immersive videos of that sweet bubbly brown soda, but with cardboard VR goggles.See also: Cardboard VR viewer now available for purchase in Google's storeThe cardboard packaging of 12-packs of Coke products can be fold … | Continue reading
Stephen Curry is the leader of the pack in more ways than we can count these days. He's the frontrunner for the KIA MVP, which would make it his second straight, leading the Golden State Warriors on an historic chase for 73 (or more) wins and revolutionizing the game in the proce … | Continue reading
Clash Royale [Free], Supercell's latest game, has just released worldwide, and I'm sure many of you will be playing it for the first time today. So, we thought you'll probably need some help getting the most out of the game because the more you win, the more fun you'll have. And … | Continue reading
Following the huge success of Clash of Clans, Supercell has released a new strategy game called Clash Royale to the Google Play Store. | Continue reading
Here's the first trailer for Table Top Racing: World Tour, a miniaturised racer from WipEout co-creator Nick Burcombe.We've known for over a year that TTR: World Tour would be PlayStation 4 timed-exclusive, but developer Playrise Digital has today confirmed PC and Xbox One editio … | Continue reading
FEATURE: When I say Pokémon, most of you probably think of the games. But the franchise owes just as much of its success to its cartoon series. The Pokémon anime started in 1997, one year after the original game released in Japan. Those handheld classics celebrate their 20th anni … | Continue reading
The return of Mass Effect will have to wait a bit longer. While the next game in the space opera RPG series, Mass Effect: Andromeda, was originally scheduled to launch some time during the holiday 2016 window, according to EA CFO Blake Jorgensen it won't be coming until next year … | Continue reading
Zynga and Electronic Arts have exchanged hostages yet again. Zynga, the San Francisco social mobile game company announced yesterday that it had named former EA executive Frank Gibeau as its new chief executive. After Zynga made the announcement, Zynga’s stock price got a rare 7 … | Continue reading
10 Second Ninja was a fun little PC platformer which asked you to complete its levels in just a matter of seconds. 10 seconds, unsurprisingly.10 Second Ninja X, a new sequel revealed today, will build upon that with another 60 levels, all of which must - again - be completed in 1 … | Continue reading
You might remember that Forza Motorsport 6 was announced at a car show — NAIAS in Detroit last January — and now, Microsoft's Turn 10 Studios is doing it again: it just announced that there's a new Forza game in the works, and the hyper-limited Lamborghini Centenario, announced i … | Continue reading
Game consoles have traditionally been defined by being rigid, closed platforms. Going forward, Microsoft wants to change that by making the Xbox One a lot more like the PC. | Continue reading
Chivalry: Medieval Warfare developer Torn Banner Studios has revealed new game Mirage: Arcane Warfare.It's another multiplayer game with the same kind of slapstick combat that made Chivalry appealing, only this time there's more colour, and magic, which makes things even nuttier. … | Continue reading
Harmonix, the creators of Rock Band, might be one of the biggest independent game studios in the world but they still need a little help getting their game onto PC for the first time. The company has launched a crowdfunding campaign seeking to raise $1.5 million by April 5 to cre … | Continue reading
Online social game creator FlowPlay has cut a deal that allows its Vegas World social casino game players to spend money in the virtual world to raise money for the real-world nonprofit American Cancer Society during the month of March. The deal is the latest in a trend that help … | Continue reading
‘Rocket League’ is deviously simple — flippin’ soccer played by cars — but since its launch (and its position as one of my favorite games of 2015), its exceeded expectations of how rich and entertaining the indie game can be. Developer Psyonix and streaming platform Twitch have p … | Continue reading
Rocket League now has a league of its own. Game-streaming sight Twitch and developer Psyonix announced today that the game will have its own championship series, giving the soccer/racer hybrid its own competitive league. Registration opens this month for the three-month season wi … | Continue reading
Activision has just launched a new feature for Call of Duty: Black Ops III called the "live event viewer," which allows players to tune into e-sports matches from directly within the game. Those matches, naturally, will be from the newly launched Call of Duty World League, with w … | Continue reading
Prison Architect has launched on Xbox One via the Xbox Game Preview programme and costs £19.99. There's a free demo, as there are with all not-quite-finished-yet Xbox Game Preview games.Prison Architect has been announced for release on Xbox One as well as Xbox 360 and PS4, but n … | Continue reading
No Man's Sky will be a full priced release and pre-orders for the game will open tomorrow.That's according to details posted on the PlayStation blog last night, which were then swiftly removed. Hello Games' intergalactic sandbox was listed at $59.99 - the standard RRP for physica … | Continue reading
Glispa, the global performance marketing firm, closed the year with a revenue run rate of $100 million, thanks to its ability to help developers find new users through advertising, and then measure how much those users stay engaged with a game or app That means it’s on course to … | Continue reading
No Mass Effect: Andromeda this year. EA has said in an investor call that the fourth main Mass Effect game will be released during the first quarter of 2017, which spans January to end of March.That period represents the fourth quarter of EA's financial year - which begins April, … | Continue reading
It's been taking the soft-launch world by storm, and although Supercell has been relatively quiet about its worldwide launch it appears that today is the day that Clash Royale [Free] is finally seeing a wide release. Just moments ago the game popped up in the US App Store, and al … | Continue reading
VIDEO: Curry injures ankle in the third quarter against Thunder OAKLAND — The amazing hot streak of Stephen Curry was at least momentarily cooled by a sore left ankle that sidelined him for Tuesday night’s game against the Hawks at Oracle Arena. The injury is not believed to be s … | Continue reading