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April 2016 Archive

April 30, 2016
1. Digital Foundry's top ten picks for PlayStation Neo upgrades
2. Watch: Our favourite video game movies
3. The Shared History of Tennis and PONG
April 29, 2016
1. The Walking Dead: Michonne review
2. John Romero and Adrian Carmack pause Blackroom Kickstarter to create a gameplay demo
3. Chronos VR: a single-player game that makes you feel like you're two people
4. Next week, Destiny's long-running melee issue gets a fix
5. Space Hulk: Deathwing actually looks really good
6. Fable developer Lionhead closes down today
7. Nioh on PS4: 1080p30 or 720p60 - you decide
8. Total War: Warhammer dev backtracks over controversial Chaos Warriors DLC
9. Supergirl spotted for Lego Dimensions
10. Why Hearthstone's Wild mode won't be a graveyard for excess
11. Hearthstone's Whispers of the Old Gods expansion due next week
12. Hearthstone changes hit many of the most popular classic cards
13. Blizzard has nerfed Hearthstone's "sorry" emote
14. Blizzard fixes Hearthstone glitch that gave your hero Taunt
15. Hearthstone's Whispers of the Old Gods rewrites the game with a single card
16. Elite Dangerous: Horizons hits Xbox One by June
17. Modders are already having fun with Sega Mega Drive classics on Steam
18. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided's six-minute trailer explains it all
April 28, 2016
1. YouTubers will soon receive money raised during Content ID disputes
2. Superhot blazes onto Xbox One next week
3. Watch: How Doom's campaign reveal restored Ian's faith
4. This Doom easter egg is a blast from the past
5. The PC version of Forza 6 goes into open beta next week
6. In praise of Gears of War's horrible shotgun
7. Take a look at Microsoft's special edition Iron Man Xbox One
8. The Warcraft movie's Goldshire Inn makes me nostalgic for WOW's Goldshire Inn
9. In Theory: Can next-gen Nvidia tech offer Titan X power for GTX 970 money?
10. It looks like this year's COD is named Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
11. Why insiders think we'll see a new Xbox One at E3
12. You can now buy Steam games with Bitcoin
13. Sony's PSN is making more money than all of Nintendo
14. Nintendo selling off majority stake in Seattle Mariners baseball team
15. Goofy slapstick replaces the run-and-gun action in the Ratchet & Clank movie
April 27, 2016
1. Here's what Doom's single-player campaign looks like
2. Oxenfree dated for PS4 with new endings, New Game Plus mode
3. Dark Souls dev begins work on new IP - report
4. PlayStation Plus May games include Tropico 5 and Table Top Racing
5. The Division PC would need "complete rewrite" to combat hacks
6. Free giveaway: 1000 Early Access keys for Epic's new shooter Paragon on PS4 or PC
7. Revealed: Dark Souls 3's special treat for series veterans
8. Telltale's The Walking Dead season three sees return of popular character
9. Darkest Dungeon delayed a bit on PS4 and Vita
10. Trials of the Blood Dragon trademark spotted
11. Sony: Uncharted 4 copies stolen while in transit - and now police are involved
12. Nintendo's NX console launches March 2017 globally
13. Apple iPhone sales fall for the first time ever
14. Nintendo bringing Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem to smartphones next
15. Cliff Bleszinski's return to video games
16. Fallout 4 mods come to Xbox One in May, PS4 in June
April 26, 2016
1. Watch: We hit the beach and tackle Hitman Episode 2: Sapienza
2. Five years ago today, Sony admitted the great PSN hack
3. How the Eve universe is changing
4. Peggle, Costume Quest 2 coming to Xbox Live Games with Gold in May
5. Minecraft maker releases a free new game on Steam
6. Watch: Crown and Council is really fun
7. Uncharted 4 pops up on eBay as shops break street date
8. Blizzard responds to WOW Nostalrius pirate/private server closure
9. Now you can play NES with a wireless controller
10. The Gears of War 4 season pass costs ?40
11. Elder Scrolls Online Dark Brotherhood DLC gets release date
12. Hunger Games, Saw, Twilight headed to Steam
13. Patrice Désilets gains 1666 Amsterdam rights, calls off Ubisoft lawsuit
14. Ubisoft's The Division glitches made the headlines on Fox News
15. Yo-Kai Watch review
April 25, 2016
1. John Romero and Adrian Carmack go to Kickstarter with new FPS Blackroom
2. Alienation review
3. Tales of Berseria confirmed for Europe in spring 2017
4. Watch: Lost Reavers is impressively bad
5. YouPorn-sponsored esports team banned from ESL
6. PS4 exclusive Ratchet & Clank tops UK chart
7. I don't accept the premise of the question
8. Ubisoft fixes big The Division exploit
9. There's life in Rock Band 4 yet
10. Double Fine, LucasArts audio legend Jory Prum dies, aged just 41
April 24, 2016
1. Apple iPhone SE review
2. Watch: Mafia 3 gameplay shows a 1960s open world that feels fresh
3. Fable Legends wasn't the Fable you were after, but it was far from a disaster
April 23, 2016
1. Watch: Let's Play Star Fox 64
2. Face-Off: Everybody's Gone to the Rapture on PC
3. Watch: My favourite typing games
4. Why is video game lore so awful?
April 22, 2016
1. Gearbox confirms that Borderlands 3 will be its next game
2. Lichdom is the worst-performing game Digital Foundry has ever tested
3. In Play: The best game of 2015 arrives on PS4 this week
4. Platinum president Tatsuya Minami departs company
5. Nintendo stock stolen at A14 services
6. New Witcher 3 Blood & Wine screenshots are vibrantly colourful
7. Titan MMO was an "utter failure" says Blizzard's Jeff Kaplan
8. Watch: The cops in Mirror's Edge are extremely bad at fighting crime
9. Watch: Johnny plays Shadow of the Colossus for the first time
10. Eurogamer is hiring again!
11. LawBreakers is Unreal Tournament for the Titanfall generation
12. AMD "design wins" suggest three upcoming console reveals
13. Amazon marks GTA5, FIFA 16, Minecraft and more as "exclusively for Prime members"
14. How Insomniac shifted from big blockbusters to eccentric experiments
April 21, 2016
1. Cross-platform play confirmed for virtual reality game Eve: Valkyrie
2. Eve Online set for big changes
3. Mirror's Edge: Catalyst release date slips to June
4. Here's new gameplay of the Shadow of the Beast remake
5. The Elder Scrolls: Legends resurfaces with a gameplay trailer and beta
6. One machine to rule them all: the triumph of Xbox 360
7. Ruiner looks like a cool cross between Bladerunner and Akira
8. There's a Welsh language cover of PES's Euro 2016 game
9. Watch: Ian plays Mirror's Edge Catalyst's closed beta
10. Rocket League's basketball-themed Dunk House debuts in April
11. Five years after the great PSN hack of 2011, Sony is adding 2-step verification
12. Budget Cuts is the future of VR right freakin' now
13. A closer look at Lego's new ?170 Minecraft set
14. Watch: How will Planet Coaster compare to Rollercoaster Tycoon 3?
15. Miitomo adds Splatoon items next week
16. Sega to support Mega Drive game mods via Steam
17. Ubisoft just implemented a smart fix for The Division's incursion exploits
18. Performance Analysis: Battleborn beta on PS4 and Xbox One
April 20, 2016
1. Performance Analysis: Doom beta on PS4 and Xbox One
2. Smite streamer leaves Hi-Rez after controversial comments about suicide
3. Microsoft discontinues Xbox 360
4. Star Fox Zero review
5. Shadow Complex Remastered out now on Xbox One
6. Metroid Prime: Federation Force to roll up in September
7. Watch: 18 minutes of Frozen Synapse 2
8. The Division players up in arms over bugs, exploits and glitches
9. PES's free Euro 2016 update is a bit of a disappointment
April 19, 2016
1. Final Fantasy 9 arrives on Steam with 'no encounter' mode
2. Sometimes Always Monsters announced, due this year
3. Noir adventure Blues and Bullets is coming to PS4 tomorrow
4. The Walking Dead: Michonne concludes next week
5. Aliens vs. Pinball is Zen Studios' next series
6. Batman Arkham HD Collection revealed via leak
7. Bastion and Transistor dev announces RPG Pyre
8. Overwatch closed beta is ending next week
9. Why I love Overwatch's Play of the Game
10. Guile is the next Street Fighter 5 DLC character
11. Here's a gameplay trailer for action RPG The Technomancer
12. The Banner Saga 2 Review
13. Mafia 3 out 7th October 2016
14. 15 years on, Runescape now has a new graphics engine
15. Watch: Table Top Racing: World Tour is Micro Machines for a new generation
16. Destiny players reckon they've discovered the release date for the game's next big expansion
17. Destiny's April update welcomes back lapsed players, for now
18. Here's a new trailer for Let it Die
19. The 64 is an unofficial reimagining of the Commodore 64
20. Digital Foundry: Hands-on with Gears of War 4's multiplayer beta
21. The new Doom is having a tough time with Steam user reviews
22. Dark Souls 3's multiplayer is a very different, absolutely brilliant take on online
April 18, 2016
1. Insomniac's metroidvania Song of the Deep gets a July release date
2. Slender: The Arrival studio announces sci-fi adventure Valley
3. Funcom's horror game The Park is coming to PS4 and Xbox One in May
4. Watch: DayZ creator's new VR game is brilliant fun
5. Play Fallout: New Vegas as a YouTube Choose-Your-Own-Adventure
6. World of Warcraft: Legion release date set
7. Life is Strange team talk fan theories, that season finale and more
8. Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter delayed until June
9. Castlevania developer MercurySteam announces new game
10. Surprise! Battlezone 98 Redux is out now
11. Capcom has come up with a solution for Street Fighter 5's rage quitting problem
12. Ken Levine making an interactive live-action film based on The Twilight Zone
13. Insomniac announces two new Oculus-exclusive games
14. Insomniac's The Unspoken re-invents fighting games for VR
15. Watch: Ian's playing the Gears of War 4 Beta live at 3:30pm
16. A year after Watchdog, how's Sony's digital refund policy working out?
17. There's a slightly fiddly way to re-download P.T.
18. Ubisoft threatens to "punish" The Division players who use a popular exploit
19. Halo 5's most annoying enemy nerfed
20. Dark Souls 3 launch sales up 61 per cent over Dark Souls 2 in UK
21. Digital Foundry vs Ratchet and Clank on PS4
April 17, 2016
1. Ratchet & Clank review
2. The strange joy of useless machines
3. How video games could save your life
4. Face-Off: Microsoft Xbox Elite controller vs Razer Wildcat
April 16, 2016
1. What does it take to run Dark Souls 3 at 1080p60?
2. Watch: Where did Resident Evil go wrong?
April 15, 2016
1. DayZ creator launches Vive-exclusive strategy shooter on Early Access
2. Here's the most streamed Spotify music on PlayStation
3. Watch: Why sieges are “remarkably different” in Total War: Warhammer
4. What does it take to run Fallout 4 at 1080p60?
5. Watch: Ian plays Dark Souls, Johnny tries not to murder Ian
6. The secrets of Dark Souls lore explained and explored
7. Is Battleborn any fun if you don't know what you're doing?
8. Some people are upset the new Mirror's Edge locks abilities behind XP upgrades
9. Elite Dangerous' long-awaited The Engineers expansion goes into beta next month
10. There's a way to play Oculus Rift exclusives on HTC Vive
11. Surprise! There's a Ghostbusters video game from Activision
12. Doom 3 BFG Edition and Monaco playable on Xbox One
13. Dark Souls 3 review
April 14, 2016
1. Why you should install Dark Souls 3 patch 1.03
2. How to bypass Dark Souls 3's game-breaking PC bug
3. Mirror's Edge Catalyst closed beta starts next weekend
4. The open world of Mirror's Edge Catalyst is barebones in a good way
5. Ambitious new Skyrim mod overhauls cities
6. Here's Fallout 4's Chryslus Rocket '69 car, in Forza 6
7. Gears of War 4 multiplayer changes things up in some cool ways
8. Dark Souls 3 - New Game Plus
9. Check out GoldenEye remade in Doom
10. Digital Foundry: Hands-on with PS4 Remote Play on PC
11. Blizzard games hit by DDoS attack, Lizard Squad claims responsibility
12. Star Wars Battlefront looks like it's getting more offline modes soon
April 13, 2016
1. Fable Legends bids farewell
2. The Eurogamer Podcast - Live from EGX Rezzed
3. The Division's big Incursion update has got off to a very rough start
4. Former Rockstar North boss is suing Take-Two for $150m
5. The end of Nintendo's weird GamePad era
6. The day the music died: When Bungie fired Marty O'Donnell
April 12, 2016
1. Humble Telltale Bundle offers 12 games for $12
2. Enter the Gungeon sells 200k copies in a week
3. "Amazing Katamari Damacy" trademarked in Europe
4. Watch: VR turned Chris into a Giant Cop
5. Beyond live TV - what the Xbox One user interface means for gamers
6. Total War: Warhammer future DLC plans include free new race
7. Automata Empires: An RTS based on Conway's Game of Life
8. Watch the final moments of packed pirate World of Warcraft servers Nostalrius
9. Rust and Garry's Mod studio releases Vive game Chunks
10. Oculus Rift customers face shipping delays, HTC Vive makes optimistic promises
11. Watch: 33 minutes of The Banner Saga 2
April 11, 2016
1. Papers, Please dev releases new demo for Return of the Obra Dinn
2. Watch 17 minutes of Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter gameplay
3. Suda 51's PS4-exclusive brawler Let it Die is coming this year
4. There's a Vita-exclusive game from the Guacamelee dev arriving this month
5. Titanfall 2 teaser trailer reveals mechs with swords
6. Rust now assigns gender permanently based on SteamID
7. Quantum Break UK's best-selling boxed game
8. Punch-Out!! player discovers cool Easter egg
9. Fallout 3 player completes the game and all DLC without healing
10. Codemasters picks up Driveclub developer Evolution Studios
11. My gruelling weekend at Witcher School
12. Texan gunmaker comes under fire for NES Glock
13. Gears of War 4 trailer channels daddy Fenix
14. Face-Off: Killer Instinct on PC
April 10, 2016
1. Digital Foundry: Hands-on with Star Fox Zero
2. We know PlayStation 4.5 is real - but why is Sony making it?
3. Watch: Games that saved the real ending for premium DLC
4. The Legacy of Rob Daviau, the man who helped flip boardgames on their head
5. Finding the humanity in Dark Souls 2
April 9, 2016
1. Watch: Our favourite games of EGX Rezzed
2. Watch today's EGX Rezzed developer sessions live!
3. Seven games you should check out at EGX Rezzed
4. The war on the floor
5. HTC Vive review
6. Catch up with yesterday's EGX Rezzed developer sessions
April 8, 2016
1. Don't Starve Together to graduate from Early Access in two weeks
2. David Hayter reprises Metal Gear Solid role in Ford commercials
3. Civ 4 lead designer's RTS Offworld Trading Company launches this month
4. Alan Wake's DLC now free on Xbox
5. Dark Souls is getting an official board game
6. Bandai Namco launches a Dark Souls clothing line, but...
7. Legacy of Kain spin-off Nosgoth cancelled
8. The Beavis and Butt-Head arcade game prototype - restored
9. In Play: Scratch that pitch
10. Digging into the exciting and unlikely fan-made KOTOR reboot Apeiron
11. A Game Boy fused with a Raspberry Pi
12. Watch: Chris faces the horror of tank controls in Silent Hill 2
13. We're doing a live Eurogamer podcast at 5PM BST
14. No Man's Sky's cool soundtrack comes out alongside the game
15. What went wrong with Quantum Break on PC?
16. Microsoft on cross-network play, Xbox One dev kits and more
17. One of Fallout 4's best features is now a mod for New Vegas
18. BAFTA's Game of the Year award goes to Fallout 4
19. Finally, HTC addresses Vive's messy European launch
20. The latest PS4 update does some cool, unannounced things
21. Enter the Gungeon review
22. Dark Souls' official Twitter account inserts Ben Affleck into From's latest
23. Deus Ex meets Die Hard in Consortium: The Tower, currently doing the business on Fig
April 7, 2016
1. Zelda's browser-based fan remake shut down by Nintendo
2. Attack on Titan game gets new title, August release date
3. Resident Evil spin-off Umbrella Corps delayed until June
4. Watch: Ian and Chris do battle in Worms WMD
5. New Fear Effect announced
6. 18 minutes of new Total War: Warhammer gameplay
7. Blizzard closes popular vanilla World of Warcraft pirate servers
8. Yoshinori Ono discusses Street Fighter 5's launch problems
9. Part twin-stick, part CCG, Forced Showdown is a cheery delight
10. Halo 5's beefy Ghosts of Meridian update goes live
11. First-person interactive story The Assembly out on Oculus Rift and Vive this summer
12. Hardcore Henry review
13. Overwatch beta adds new season-spanning Competitive Play mode
April 6, 2016
1. Baldur's Gate: SoD head of studio addresses political backlash
2. Solid Snake voice actor David Hayter to star in MGS fan tribute project
3. War Thunder dev's F2P car combat game Crossout enters closed beta
4. Rock Band 4's PC port falls short on crowdfunding site
5. Doom's open beta gets release date, Season pass detailed
6. Face-Off: Dirt Rally
7. Gears of War 4 gets global release date
8. Rocket League's physical edition gets release date
9. Watch: 20 minutes of Tooth and Tail gameplay
10. Sony hasn't forgotten about the Vita just yet
11. HTC Vive's European launch is a mess
12. Blizzard pulls Overwatch hero after latest patch turns him invisible
13. Quantum Break makes pirates wear an eye-patch
14. How bad exactly is Atari's Rollercoaster Tycoon World?
15. Pro-vaping congressman takes heat after spending $1300 of campaign funds on Steam
16. Dear Esther treks onto PlayStation 4, Xbox One this summer
17. Overwatch's Tracer has a new pose
18. The Division's huge new update detailed in full
19. Halo 5 to get Infection
April 5, 2016
1. Hand of Fate 2 announced for PC, Mac and Linux
2. Hitman episodes may fall behind their monthly schedule
3. Marvel at Dark Souls' Greatsword of Artorias made in real life
4. Coleco Chameleon boss: "I am officially tabling the console venture for good"
5. A glimpse at Dota 2's incredible virtual reality spectator mode
6. FIFA 16 heads to EA Access and Origin Access Vault
7. There's no need to worry about Star Fox Zero's strange controls
8. Eve: Valkyrie confirmed for Vive
9. Watch: We used a VR headset to cook meatballs in a virtual IKEA kitchen
10. Fallout 4 Wasteland Workshop DLC out next week
11. You can play PS4 games on your PC or Mac from tomorrow
12. Someone's trying to fund Life is Strange 2 via Kickstarter
13. Zelda: Ocarina of Time's Death Mountain re-created in Unreal Engine 4
14. New Baldur's Gate expansion Siege of Dragonspear off to a rough start
15. Why R. Mika is the most hated character in Street Fighter 5 right now
16. Face-Off: Resident Evil 6 Remastered
17. High-profile UK Street Fighter 5 tournament apologises for streaming issues
18. Massive God of War 4 leak points to Norse mythology setting
19. Stardew Valley update improves your marriage dialogue
20. Underworld Ascendant: The game that took 20 years to sign
21. Underworld Ascendant reveals a tabletop miniature-inspired new look
22. Don't expect The Last of Us or Uncharted movies any time soon
23. EA lambasts Donald Trump for using Mass Effect audio in campaign ad
24. Phil Spencer plays down "Xbox One and a half" rumours
April 4, 2016
1. Dead Space added to EA Access
2. Sunset Overdrive and Saints Row 4 headline April's Games With Gold
3. Here's a browser-based Zelda remake made with voxels
4. This is what a $4999 24-karat gold NES looks like
5. Final Fantasy 15 Ultimate Collector's Edition eBay scalpers criticised
6. Dark Souls 3 speedruns have already gotten under 90 minutes
7. Sound Shapes dev's Loud on Planet X due this month
8. Team Ninja's Nioh is getting an alpha demo this month
9. Uncharted 4 makes a move for the open, but at what cost?
10. Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness gets a release date
11. Vive and Oculus experience early processing hiccups
12. You can play Tracer in Heroes of the Storm before the Overwatch open beta
13. Quantum Break review
14. Years in the making, Starbound finally readies itself for v1.0
15. Tech Analysis: Final Fantasy 15 Platinum demo
16. Watch: How does Overwatch play on consoles?
17. Watch Overwatch's second animated short, Alive
18. Destiny's PlayStation-exclusive content deal is still a thing
19. Black Desert Online expands for free, future content plans revealed
20. Watch Overwatch's first animated short, Recall
21. PlayStation employee mods pad for gamer with cerebral palsy
22. Modder fixes Aliens: Colonial Marines
23. Miitomo: Nintendo's attempt to clean up social media
April 3, 2016
1. Watch: Doom brings old-school deathmatch to Xbox One
2. Samsung Galaxy S7 review
3. What would you uninvent about modern games?
April 2, 2016
1. Mass Effect: Andromeda early gameplay footage leaks
2. Tech Analysis: Quantum Break
3. Watch: Why does VR give some people motion sickness?
4. Why virtual reality is the future
April 1, 2016
1. Road Redemption slated for PC this summer
2. Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear is out now
3. Bandai Namco is making a VR installation to tackle fear of heights
4. The Chinese Room teases isometric RPG Total Dark
5. RollerCoaster Tycoon World is a bit of a mess
6. Layoffs at Guitar Hero Live developer
7. Griefers or saviours? The Elite Dangerous players causing a rift in space
8. Watch: Ian's streaming ninety minutes of the DOOM closed beta at 3:30pm
9. Everybody's Gone to the Rapture confirmed for PC
10. Adr1ft review
11. In Play: The new new thing
12. Dark Souls 3 speedrunner has already finished the game in 102 minutes
13. 28 hours with Dark Souls 3's Japanese PS4 import
14. Miitomo's best Miifoto pictures
15. Eve Online is playing host to "gaming's largest conflict ever"
16. The Division's first raid detailed
17. The soul-destroying grind to unlock Street Fighter 5 character colours
18. Quantum Break pre-order offer replaces Alan Wake's American Nightmare with Kameo
19. Call of Duty: Black Ops 3's next map pack remakes a World at War classic
20. Axiom Verge is coming to Vita next month