Blog Profile / Eurogamer
| URL : | http://www.eurogamer.net/blog.php | |
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| Filed Under: | Entertainment / Video Games | |
| Posts on Regator: | 15381 | |
| Posts / Week: | 152.1 | |
| Archived Since: | June 13, 2011 | |
Blog Post Archive
UK chart: Metro: Last Light turns up top
Koch/Deep Silver's new buy Metro: Last Light has stolen first place in the UK video games chart from Dead Island: Riptide, the publisher's other game. Last Light didn't, however, match the opening week sales of Metro 2033 - arguably the better game. Show More Summary
The next Xbox: everything we know so far
You probably know this bit already: Microsoft will unveil its next generation Xbox console during a special event at the company's Redmond HQ tomorrow - 21st May, 6pm UK time. You'll be able to watch all the action, exec slip-ups and...Show More Summary
Sony Xperia Z review
When Sony Ericsson became plain old Sony in 2011, the Japanese company made it clear that it was deadly serious about becoming a key player in the Android arena. As with all transitional periods, it's taken a while for the company to totally shake off the dust from the old days. Show More Summary
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved retrospective
Wikipedia has just informed me that, back when the Xbox 360 launched in 2005, European early adopters had 16 titles to choose from. Typically, they're a threadbare bunch. There are sublime entries, of course, like PGR3, and there are endearing botch jobs, like Condemned: Criminal Origins. Show More Summary
This week on Outside Xbox
Outside Xbox awaits next week's unveiling of a new Xbox with mingled excitement and trepidation, as if Tuesday 21 May were Christmas and Judgment Day rolled into one giant green Microsoft presentation. With the PlayStation 4 already out in the open, it's Microsoft's turn to impress - or to trip on the first hurdle in the next-gen race. Show More Summary
Watch Gran Turismo 6 at 60FPS
It's perhaps a little ironic that the creators of some of the most beautiful console games ever made so very rarely promote their games using actual in-game footage or screenshots. For Polyphony Digital, the trend continues with Gran...Show More Summary
Saturday Soapbox: IP Freely?
Pop quiz: can you name a major new DC or Marvel superhero character from the last twenty years? Not a supporting character, and not a new identity for an existing character, but a completely new creation that has taken its place alongside the likes of Batman, Spider-Man, The Hulk and Superman in the pop culture pantheon. Show More Summary
Ron Gilbert's match-three puzzler Scurvy Scallywags gets a trailer
Monkey Island and The Cave creator Ron Gilbert has issued a trailer for his upcoming iOS match-three puzzler Scurvy Scallywags in The Voyage to Discover the Ultimate Sea Shanty: A Musical Match-3 Pirate RPG (or SSITVTDTUSS:AMMTPRPG for short, as Gilbert calls it on his blog). Show More Summary
Avant garde stealth game Tangiers looks like a surreal noir nightmare
Tangiers looks unlike anything I've seen. A surreal stealth game by two-person Bristol-based indie outfit Andalusian Games, Tangiers is set in an abstract landscape that resembles a mix of Silent Hill's grey palette and featureless monstrosities...Show More Summary
Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection dated for July in North America
Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection, a PS3-exclusive anthology containing roughly 25 years of Metal Gear history, has been dated for 9th July in North America where it will be priced at $50, Konami has announced. That's not too shabby...Show More Summary
Men's Room Mayhem due next week
Men's Room Mayhem, the bathroom management line-drawing game by four ex-Sony Liverpool devs at Sawfly Studios, is set to launch next week on Vita, iPhone, iPad, and Android. The Vita version will debut in North America on Tuesday, 21st May, then come to the European PSN the following day and on the 23rd the mobile version will be released worldwide. Show More Summary
Six new games accepted on Steam Greenlight
As Valve is chopping up its lists of games that get past Greenlight into smaller, more frequent batches, it's announced the latest six titles to make it onto the service. Chief among them is Greenheartgames' Game Dev Tycoon, a game development...Show More Summary
Capcom inserts Tobias Fünke into a montage of its classic games
With Arrested Development only a week and a half away from its 26th May return after a seven year absence, the world is in the midst of David Cross fever with everyone's favourite analrapist (a mix of analyst and therapist) Dr. Tobias Fünke making the rounds. Show More Summary
Vita exclusive Killzone: Mercenary out on 6th September in the UK
Vita exclusive Killzone: Mercenary will release in the UK on 6th September, Sony has announced. There are a couple of pre-order bonuses up for grabs depending on where you put your money down. The BlackJack's Briefcase package offers a double XP boost for a couple of days and gives you a bit of extra cash in the game to buy snazzy weapons. Read more…
Sega Nintendo alliance announced for three Sonic exclusives on Wii U and 3DS
Sega and Nintendo have joined forces for the release of three Sonic games exclusively on the Wii U and 3DS. The exclusive partnership is for the next three Sonic games to be released. Two of these were announced during today's Nintendo...Show More Summary
Gran Turismo 6 preview: The turning point
Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi is - was - a man obsessed with reproduction. With fidelity, curation, collection and simulation. He has run his studio Polyphony Digital and its mighty racing series as a combination of scienceShow More Summary
Nintendo confirms Pikmin 3, The Wonderful 101 UK release dates
Nintendo has revealed release dates for a number of upcoming Wii U games, including Pikmin 3 and Platinum's The Wonderful 101. Pikmin 3 will finally arrive in Europe on 26th July. The three new player characters were named as Alph, Charlie, Brittany, who must scour the Pikmin world for food to survive. Show More Summary
Dragon's Prophet beta key giveaway!
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Ratchet & Clank: QForce Vita release date announced
The PS Vita version of Ratchet & Clank: QForce launches on the PlayStation Store on 22nd May, Insomniac has announced. Insomniac senior community manager James Stevenson revealed the news on the PlayStation Blog. If you have a PlayStation...Show More Summary
Metal Gear Rising Revengeance confirmed for PC
Super action game Metal Gear Rising Revengeance will release for PC, Konami has confirmed. Series creator Hideo Kojima made the announcement on the latest episode of Hideradio, published on Kojima Productions' Hideoblog. JP Kellams, creative producer at developer PlatinumGames, confirmed the news on Twitter but declined to offer more information. Show More Summary