Skip to main content

July 2015 Archive

July 31, 2015
1. P.T. gets a fan remake in Unity
2. Terraria is heading to Wii U and 3DS in Q1 2016
3. Batman: Arkham Knight mod lets you play as Alfred
4. Don't Starve announces Shipwrecked DLC
5. Zombi will have more melee weapons, but cuts multiplayer
6. There are now more than 100,000 achievements on Xbox Live
7. Video: The Batman: Arkham Knight easter eggs you probably missed
8. Nvidia Shield tablet recall due to "fire hazard"
9. Worms WMD announced for PC and Xbox One in 2016
10. Smash Bros. 3DS, Wii U update adds tournaments, YouTube uploading
11. Iron Man mod swoops into Grand Theft Auto 5
12. Star Wars Battlefront details team-based Blast Mode
July 30, 2015
1. Yooka-Laylee gets a publisher for "boring" stuff, not funding
2. Wasteland 2: Director's Cut confirms a release date
3. Race the Sun is free today on Steam
4. Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons dated for PS4 and Xbox One
5. ZombiU is coming to PS4, Xbox One and PC in August
6. Rocket League reveals free and paid DLC
7. New World of Warcraft expansion to be revealed next week
8. A Total War: Warhammer battle - up close and personal
9. Broken Sword 5 puzzles PS4 and Xbox One in September
10. The Talos Principle out on PS4 this October
11. Tropico 5 rules Xbox One spring 2016
12. Looking to the Horizon: how Guerrilla moved on
13. Final Fantasy Explorers heads west in 2016
14. Capcom wants your "honest and frank" opinion about the Resident Evil 2 fan remake
15. Prison Architect set free October 2015
16. Inafune's Red Ash fully funded after Chinese company swoops in
17. Fallout 4 to receive a Limited Edition Loot Crate
18. One of F1's most exciting new talents has just signed up with a sim racing team
19. Video: The Swindle, Invisible, Inc. and the Need for Greed
20. PlayStation 4's stunning sales success continues
21. Double Fine Adventure is the best video game documentary to date
22. Nuclear Throne shifts over 100K units on Steam Early Access
July 29, 2015
1. Toy Soldiers: War Chest release date set in two weeks
2. The Witcher is getting a pen-and-paper RPG
3. Shadowrun Returns dev is rebooting BattleTech
4. Five Nights At Freddy's movie gets a director - report
5. Northern Ireland's government recreates its country in Minecraft
6. Just Dance 2016 demo out now on PS4, Xbox One and Wii U
7. August PlayStation Plus games revealed
8. PlayStation Store Summer Sale starts today
9. The gamer's guide to the Windows 10 launch
10. Now it's got Steam Workshop support, is Knights of the Old Republic 2 worth returning to?
11. Yager's segmented Dead Island 2 team files for insolvency
12. Wii U lifetime sales pass 10 million, Splatoon sells 1.62m
13. Feist review
14. Ouya isn't honouring its funding commitments following Razer's acquisition - report
July 28, 2015
1. Super Mega Baseball: Extra Innings dated for Xbox One and PC
2. King's Quest charms and delights in its episodic revival
3. 3DS NFC Reader/Writer dated for October in Europe
4. August Xbox Games with Gold includes Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes
5. Final Fantasy Type-0 HD hits Steam in August
6. OlliOlli2 drops in to PC next month
7. The Witcher 3 is getting a New Game Plus mode
8. Dragon Quest 11 coming to 3DS, PlayStation 4 - and the NX
9. Mafia 3 reveal set for Gamescom
10. Video: Urban exploration meets psychological horror in The Town of Light
11. Video: The first 16 minutes of Life is Strange episode 4
12. PS4 keyboard / mouse controller replicates PC FPS-style gaming
13. The Street Fighter 5 beta isn't working
14. Bethesda literally cannot produce any more Pip-Boys
15. CoD: Advanced Warfare's final DLC due next week on Xbox Live
July 27, 2015
1. Armello release date set for September on PC and PS4
2. Razer acquires Ouya's software assets
3. The Swindle review
4. Tembo the Badass Elephant review
5. Arnie as Terminator is a WWE 2K16 pre-order bonus
6. Skyforge giveaway two!
7. Splatoon's big August update raises level cap
8. The strange joy of failure in Pandemic
July 26, 2015
1. Night Trap fan is porting the FMV classic to a browser
2. Face-Off: Journey on PS4
3. Next-Gen Face-Off: Assassin's Creed 4
4. Video: The most Kojima moments in Metal Gear Solid 5
5. Devil's Canyon: Core i5 4690K and Core i7 4790K review
6. How the Commodore Amiga changed gaming - and my life
7. Black & White combined the sublime with the stupid
July 25, 2015
1. Video: The Swindle, fan remakes and Choice Chamber
2. The secret lives of games
July 24, 2015
1. Inafune's action-RPG Red Ash adds PS4 stretch goal
2. Open-ended puzzler Infinifactory is coming to PS4
3. Galak-Z lets you transform into a mech
4. Combat-free exploratory adventure Submerged due next week
5. Shadowrun: Hong Kong release date confirmed for August
6. Nintendo patents sleep monitor with ceiling projector
7. An hour with Randy Pitchford
8. London's last dedicated arcade calls for help after break-in
9. Face-Off: God of War 3 Remastered
10. EGX 2015: The Division playable, $100k CS: GO tournament
11. Nintendo's bright future with Splatoon
12. Crysis 2's hero in third-person is terrifying, hilarious
13. 10 minutes of Bombshell gameplay
14. Resident Evil Revelations 2 Vita release date unearthed
July 23, 2015
1. Surprise! Five Nights at Freddy's 4 is out now
2. Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers remake now on iOS and Android
3. Pro League of Legends player suspended for boosting other accounts for money
4. The Amiga 500 in pictures and videos
5. Fallout Anthology brings five classic RPGs to Europe in October
6. Puma is making official Metal Gear Solid 5 sneaking boots
7. ESL introduces eSports' first drugs tests
8. Rise of the Tomb Raider hits PS4 "holiday 2016"
9. Dark Souls 3 is familiar, and that's fine
10. Lords of the Fallen 2 loses exec producer Tomasz Gop, and changes direction
11. Life is Strange: Episode 4 launches next week, here's the trailer
12. Uncharted 2's PS4 teaser leaves us hungry for more
13. It sounds like Xbox One will get mouse support
14. H1Z1, PlanetSide boss steps down following online harassment
15. The Amiga is 30 years old today
16. Tower of Guns review
17. Hearthstone's next expansion is all about the Hero Power
July 22, 2015
1. Dishonored: Definitive Edition is half-off if you own the original
2. Nom Nom Galaxy emerges from Early Access in two weeks
3. Limited Edition Journey statue available for $150
4. CoD: Black Ops 3 multiplayer beta dated for Xbox One and PC
5. PS4's official universal remote is heading to Europe
6. Snoop Dogg really wants NCAA Football 14 to get Xbox One back compatibility
7. The Town of Light is a first-person asylum game without jump scares
8. 24 minutes of Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 gameplay
9. Video: We play Heat Signature with Tom Francis
10. Batman: Arkham Knight players are already discovering date-related surprises
11. You wore Fallout 3's Presidential Metro train on your head
12. Former BioWare devs preparing new RPG Mooncrest for Kickstarter
13. Looks like there's a Dead Island: Definitive Edition
14. eSports organisations promise tougher drugs rules after player admits doping
15. The Surge is the new game by Lords of the Fallen dev Deck13
16. The re-engineering of Ethan Carter
17. How's Xbox doing?
18. Guild of Dungeoneering: an RPG where you play as the difficulty curve
July 21, 2015
1. Ico's original script has been translated
2. Minecraft movie is being directed by Rob McElhenney
3. Shenmue fan recreates the Hazuki Residence in Unreal Engine 4
4. The Last of Us gets an extravagant $75 vinyl soundtrack
5. Corpse Party: Blood Drive dated for Halloween in Europe
6. Animal Crossing Amiibo cards launch 2nd October
7. Project Cars gets biggest update yet
8. Project Cars Wii U canned, "simply too much" for hardware
9. BlazBlue Chrono Phantasma Extend coming to Europe
10. Video: Journey - PS3 vs. PS4 gameplay and graphics comparison
11. WRC 5 gets a new trailer, and a new developer for the series
12. WipEout: The rise and fall of Sony Studio Liverpool
13. Camelot Unchained beta delayed, maybe until next year
14. Project Zomboid is getting co-op map making
15. Assassin's Creed creator's next game is episodic and open world
16. New GTA 5 PC patch fixes frame-rate issue
17. Jenova Chen: Journeyman
18. Oblivion in the Skyrim engine: new videos show good Skyblivion progress
19. Star Citizen, feature creep and money
20. Nintendo-published Devil's Third is coming to PC
21. The Magic Circle review
22. Zachtronics' programming puzzler TIS-100 now out of Early Access
23. Threes' free version doubled its dev's daily income
July 20, 2015
1. Watch 26 minutes of Monster Hunter X gameplay
2. Video: Five old WoW hands try to remember how to dungeon
3. MGS5: Ground Zeroes Easter egg suggests Kojima predicted his fallout with Konami
4. Odin Sphere is getting remastered on PS4, PS3 and Vita
5. A dramatic controller disconnect, shirtless shenanigans and one hell of an epic fail
6. Rory McIlroy PGA Tour review
7. Dariusburst Another Chronicle is still the ultimate trip
8. Tremor smashes into Mortal Kombat X tomorrow
9. Rory McIlroy PGA Tour takes UK chart top spot
10. Street Fighter V gets a brand new character
11. Batman: Arkham Knight PC "interim" patch planned for August
12. StarCraft 2's new prologue missions are another slice of gimmicky delight
July 19, 2015
1. Meet the man cleaning up after the Godus disaster
2. Video: These Xbox One horror games deserve your terrified attention
July 18, 2015
1. Should you install The Witcher 3 patch 1.07?
2. Deception 4: The Nightmare Princess review
3. Rich Stanton on: Playing human in Earthbound
4. How Sony Santa Monica mastered PlayStation 3
5. Video: How to make your own video game
July 17, 2015
1. Stephen Colbert promotes new show with a text adventure
2. Watch nearly an hour of Assassin's Creed Syndicate
3. Fans launch Kickstarter for unlicensed Zelda animated series
4. The Flock will only be playable for a limited time, ever
5. Thousands of Nintendo fans pay respects at Satoru Iwata funeral
6. Shenmue 3 breaks Kickstarter funding record
7. First in-engine Total War: Warhammer trailer released
8. Prototype's HD Biohazard Bundle is a big disappointment
9. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata passes away at 55
10. The Hearthstone hand that stops your opponent from playing a turn
11. Destiny's Gjallarhorn to be nerfed in huge balance-changing update
12. Godzilla review
13. Telltale trailer teases penultimate Game of Thrones episode
14. Never Alone expansion Foxtales coming this month
15. Video: An early look at YouTube Gaming
July 16, 2015
1. Uncharted 4 pushes PS4 tech to the next level
2. Video: What is YouTube Gaming?
3. Oculus snaps up hand sensing tech company
4. Batman: Arkham Knight PC will stay broken until this autumn - report
5. Inside Shanghai's hardcore gaming heartbeat
6. Video: SOMA PC gameplay and impressions - It's Amnesia in space, or is it?
7. 15 games later, Rovio announces Angry Birds 2
8. Faction-switching Mercenary Mode coming to World of Warcraft
9. You can play StarCraft 2: Legacy of the Void's prologue now
10. Take a look at Uncharted 2 remastered for PlayStation 4
11. Deadpool game returns to Steam
July 15, 2015
1. Goat Simulator screams onto PS3, PS4 in August
2. The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited Imperial City DLC detailed
3. This War of Mine available today on iPad, Android
4. Devil's Third is a shoddy game - but can it be so bad it's good?
5. Dead Island 2 is no longer being made by Yager
6. Batman: Arkham Knight's first major DLC falls short
7. Gearbox seeks dev collaboration for next Duke Nukem
8. There's a new Shenmue 3 trailer starring Ryo and Shenhua
9. Warcraft movie footage leaks from Comic-Con
10. You can now play hours of Dragon Age: Inquisition for free on PC
11. Neverending Nightmares dev launches Kickstarter for Devastated Dreams
12. Outer space is wild in Galak-Z
July 14, 2015
1. Sega adds Shia LeBeouf meme to Sonic marketing
2. Galak-Z is heading to PS4 in August, Vita version canned
3. N++ due this month on PS4
4. Surprise! Prototype game bundle released for Xbox One today
5. 1989 Batman movie skins coming to Arkham Knight
6. Video: Can Shenmue 3 live up to its legend?
7. Face-Off: F1 2015
8. Konami scrubs Kojima's name from Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain cover
9. Warhammer 40K: Deathwatch out this week
10. Satoru Iwata: a gentle revolutionary
11. Earthbound director Shigesato Itoi pays tribute to Satoru Iwata
July 13, 2015
1. Five Nights at Freddy's 4 arrives next month
2. Soar over Azeroth in the Warcraft movie's interactive VR trailer
3. Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation director cites Uncharted 3 as an inspiration
4. Card Hunter now has co-op and a new sci-fi expansion
5. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 reveals first gameplay trailer
6. Rocket League review
7. Jade Raymond joins EA to head new studio and work on Star Wars
8. Satoru Iwata: a career in pictures
9. Nintendo fans pay their respects to Satoru Iwata
10. Tributes pour in for Nintendo's Satoru Iwata
11. F1 2015 races to top spot in UK chart
12. Syndicate Wars-inspired Satellite Reign gets release date
13. Batman: Arkham Knight Batgirl DLC PC release on hold
July 12, 2015
1. Video: The least regrettable tattoos in videogames
2. The murky genius of Fallout: New Vegas
July 11, 2015
1. Performance Analysis: F1 2015
2. Video: Metal Gear Solid 5, Keiji Inafune & Rocket League
3. Genre blending, Hinglish, and The Flame in the Flood
July 10, 2015
1. Jordan Henderson is on the cover of FIFA 16
2. Ubisoft and Disney team up for Gravity Falls game on 3DS
3. Crypt of the NecroDancer to get jiggy on PS4 and Vita
4. F1 2015 review
5. Battletoads' infamous co-op glitch to be fixed in Rare Replay
6. Hatoful Boyfriend migrates to PS4 and Vita this month
7. Toy Soldiers: War Chest adds Assassin's Creed's Ezio
8. AMD's cut-down, air-cooled R9 Fury is a 4K contender
9. Tembo the Badass Elephant release date set this month
10. The latest Witcher 3 patch is... 1.07
11. Two Witcher 3 expansions combine to equal roughly The Witcher 2 in length
12. Overwatch's newest character is Soldier: 76
13. Lizard Squad attacks PlanetSide 2, H1Z1, more
14. Lizard Squad hacker who helped bring down PSN and Xbox Live at Christmas avoids jail
15. Canadian teen who harassed female League of Legend players jailed
16. Resident Evil 0, from N64 prototype to GameCube original to HD Remaster
17. There's a new Baldur's Gate expansion
18. Street Fighter 5 reveals Ken with a new 'do
19. Historical drama 1979 Revolution is coming along nicely in its latest trailer
July 9, 2015
1. CoD: Black Ops 3's Zombie Mode stars Jeff Goldblum and Ron Perlman
2. Anarchy reigns in this new Transformers Devastation trailer
3. CoD: Black Ops 3's Juggernog Edition includes a functioning mini-fridge
4. Video: It's a good time to get (back) into Elite: Dangerous
5. Mirror's Edge Catalyst's Collector's Edition is $200
6. Mirror's Edge Catalyst gets a February release date
7. Capcom will sell wearable Mega Man helmets
8. Heroes Reborn mini-series gets two video game prequels
9. Dirt Rally to get RX Supercars and tracks
10. Don't call the new Hitman an early access game
11. The next Company of Heroes 2 expansion stars the British
12. Ronin review
13. Grip looks a lot like a modern-day Rollcage
14. Valve to send actual Dota 2 The International trophies to Compendium ultra hardcore
15. All the Doctor Whos are in Lego Dimensions
16. Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 multiplayer beta begins in August
July 8, 2015
1. Peanuts platformer announced by Activision
2. Disney Infinity 3.0 release date set for August
3. The Escapists is getting a The Walking Dead-licensed spin-off
4. The Talos Principle's Road to Gehenna DLC due this month
5. Video: We play through a full level of Mighty No. 9
6. Microsoft to cut 7800 jobs as it restructures phone business
7. Batman: Arkham Knight Batgirl DLC dated, priced
8. Dragon Quest Builders looks a lot like Minecraft
9. There's a new FlatOut game in development
10. Riot says it's finally improving League of Legends player behaviour
11. Ayrton Senna joins the cast of Angry Birds Go!
12. Steam hit Ark: Survival Evolved has already sold 1m copies
13. Looks like Disney is actually trying with the new Star Wars: Uprising mobile game
14. PewDiePie talks money
15. Infinifactory review
16. MGS5: The Phantom Pain gets half an hour of new gameplay footage
July 7, 2015
1. Gauntlet: Slayer Edition coming to PS4 in August
2. Super Impossible Road is a racing game about cheating
3. Zeno Clash dev teases surreal survival sim The Endless Cylinder
4. Just Cause dev releases its first mobile game
5. New Rayman game by Ubisoft Montpellier announced
6. Mighty No. 9 is getting a live-action film
7. The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth due this month on Xbox One
8. Street Fighter 5's first beta is online versus only
9. 1TB PlayStation 4 out 15th July
10. Journey PS4 out later this month
11. Julian Gollop's Chaos Reborn now has a single-player quest mode
12. The BBC is giving a tiny computer to every year 7 child in the UK - for free
13. Here's Predator in Mortal Kombat X, in all his gory glory
14. 18 minutes of No Man's Sky footage shows off what you actually do
15. Dragon Age: Inquisition to ditch PS3, Xbox 360 for future DLC
16. Ultra Street Fighter 4 on PS4 continues to improve
17. 22 years on, Doom retains the ability to shock
July 6, 2015
1. Abstract musical shmup Myriad is coming to PS4 and Vita
2. Zero Escape 3 confirmed for Vita and 3DS
3. Brothers pledge $20K towards Shenmue 3 to spotlight underprivileged Chinese school
4. Google Japan celebrates Godzilla and Ultraman creator with Warioware-esque mini-game
5. Monster Hunter 4: Ultimate's free July DLC revealed
6. Bloodborne 1.05 patch matches player levels when using passwords
7. F-Zero fan cans his own ill-advised Kickstarter
8. Vanishing of Ethan Carter PS4 release date
9. Xbox Ultimate Game Sale prices now live
10. New PS4 hardware is more efficient with less fan noise
11. Former Valve economist Yanis Varoufakis quits as finance minister of Greece
12. Inafune teams up with old Mega Man Legends devs for Red Ash Kickstarter
13. Square Enix pulls Mac version of Final Fantasy 14 from sale
14. Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition beta announced, free to existing PC players
15. PlanetSide 2 review
July 5, 2015
1. Star Wars Battlefront on PS4 shows huge promise - but needs work
2. Video: The ridiculous game gimmicks too beautiful to live
3. A year on the Throne
4. What makes Shenmue 2's open world so special?
July 4, 2015
1. Telltale's Minecraft: Story Mode unveiled, stars Patton Oswalt
2. Can Halo 5 deliver on its 60fps promise?
3. Video: Star Wars Battlefront, Scrolls going offline and H1Z1 - The Eurogamer Show
4. Jon Blyth on: Fixing Her Story
July 3, 2015
1. Ultra-rare Sony PlayStation SNES console spotted, pictured
2. Video: The Final Fantasy VII scenes that probably won't reach the remake
3. Fallout 4's ?100 Pip-Boy Edition includes an actual Pip-Boy
4. Bungie hired Tobias from Arrested Development to write jokes for Destiny's script
5. Keiji Inafune: video gaming's harshest critic
6. Dodge bottles of bodily fluids in virtual reality festival sim Stage Presence
7. Reddit drama prompts gaming boards to shut themselves down
July 2, 2015
1. What does it take to run Arkham Knight smoothly on PC?
2. Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!! steams onto PC, PS4 next year
3. Project X Zone 2 UK release date kicked into 2016
4. Peter Moore recounts $1.15bn Xbox 360 Red Ring of Death saga
5. These are the sorts of questions Nintendo gets asked by shareholders
6. Gothic/Risen dev reveals "edgy" new post-apoc open-world RPG ELEX
7. Video: Games with awful product tie-ins
8. Star Wars Battlefront alpha leaked, mined for information
9. Formula E field coming to Forza Motorsport 6
10. Now there's a Splatoon mod for Team Fortress 2
11. Tales of Symphonia HD coming to PC next year
12. That Fallout 4 Xbox One plus free Fallout 3 deal needs a pre-order
13. Is DriveClub finally up to speed?
14. Warner Bros. allegedly knew about Arkham Knight PC's failures months ago - report
15. Metroid Prime: Federation Force dev explains decision to not focus on Samus
16. Watch Shuhei Yoshida brave Bloodborne's hardest challenges
17. Allison Road looks like the fan-made spiritual successor to P.T.
18. Zen Studios brings Paul Rudd to pinball in Ant-Man
July 1, 2015
1. Watch Uncharted 4's full 14-minute E3 gameplay demo
2. PlayStation Plus July Instant Game Collection revealed
3. Shenmue's english language voice actor reprises his role as Ryo
4. Sony: PS4 market share "frequently greater than 90 per cent in continental Europe"
5. There's a new London studio making an amazing looking racing game
6. A Cities: Skylines expansion will be unveiled at Gamescom
7. Dark Souls series sales surpass 8.5 million
8. There are official Thomas Was Alone action figures now
9. To the Batmobile? The trouble with Arkham Knight's biggest addition
10. The Taken King is the expansion Destiny has been waiting for
11. Miiverse getting redesign this summer
12. Video: We play The Swindle with Dan Marshall
13. Path of Exile expansion The Awakening launches 10th July
14. Microsoft dates Gamescom 2015 Xbox press conference
15. Games with Gold boosts Pool Nation FX downloads into the millions