February 2015 Archive



InXile to give Wasteland 2 a graphical overhaul with Unity 5 engine28 February 2015
Elite: Dangerous to see new station orbiting planet Vulcan, named after the late Leonard Nimoy28 February 2015
Weekend Deal Dump: Maps, maps, maps27 February 2015
Remembering Leonard Nimoy in games27 February 2015
Mortal Kombat X story trailer introduces new fighters who have emerged from the loins of old ones27 February 2015
We Happy Few makes blissful ignorance seem a bit horrifying27 February 2015
Underworld Ascendant reaches its Kickstarter target; stretch goals include swampy fun27 February 2015
Nvidia just swiped a little chunk of AMD's market share27 February 2015
Take On Mars gets Gravity style space walks27 February 2015
Battlefield Hardline developer is reeeaaally excited about the PC version of Battlefield Hardline27 February 2015
Free to play Tera is getting flying guild fortresses27 February 2015
Latest Hearthstone patch hints at Molten Core expansion27 February 2015
Resident Evil: Revelations 2 may have offline co-op yet; Capcom looking into a solution26 February 2015
Final Fantasy XIV is celebrating reaching 4 million accounts with free time for lapsed subscribers26 February 2015
The FCC will vote on net neutrality today26 February 2015
Far Cry 4: Valley of the Yetis doesn't look abominable 26 February 2015
Elite: Dangerous 1.2 will let you take ship selfies26 February 2015
How good a job have Gearbox done in remastering Homeworld?26 February 2015
Nvidia are holding a Hearthstone tournament. Sign up for a chance to nab some of the $25,000 prize pool26 February 2015
Nosgoth’s new Vanguard class is available right now26 February 2015
Fable Legends will be free-to-play and cross-platform26 February 2015
Guild Wars 2 will stick a camera in your head for upcoming first person view26 February 2015
Toejam and Earl are Back in the Groove, provided they make some Kickstarter dollars26 February 2015
Frozen Cortex review26 February 2015
Evil Genius designer has created an AI that can play games and will doom us all 26 February 2015
Hotline Miami 2 release date announced - it'll be kicking down your door soon26 February 2015
Bellona is Smite's new ultimate warrior25 February 2015
Servo is a "new kind of RTS" from Age of Empires devs and Stardock25 February 2015
Resident Evil: Revelations 2's advertised offline co-op is non-existent 25 February 2015
How Josh Sawyer sold me on Pillars of Eternity's combat25 February 2015
World of Warcraft patch 6.1 is out today; here's all the best bits25 February 2015
Batman: Arkham Knight "Gotham is Mine" trailer reveals Scarecrow's true terror25 February 2015
Earthlight is a first-person exploration game set on the ISS using the Oculus Rift and Kinect 225 February 2015
Hands on with Zombie Army Trilogy25 February 2015
Why have Green Man Gaming started publishing games instead of just selling them?25 February 2015
Nvidia apologise for GTX 970 memory debacle; "we won't let this happen again"25 February 2015
Rumour: DirectX 12 will allow use of both GeForce and Radeon GPUs in SLI25 February 2015
Sid Meier's Starships release date set for T-minus March 12th25 February 2015
Worlds Adrift isn't like Bossa Studios' other games25 February 2015
League of Legends' newest champion is Bard, a cosmic spirit and roaming support24 February 2015
Telltale Games goes Hollywood with Lionsgate partnership and plans "Super Show"24 February 2015
Chocobo racing comes to Final Fantasy XIV with Gold Saucer update24 February 2015
ESL increases prize pool for ESL One Dota 2 series to a million dollars24 February 2015
What on earth is glNext?24 February 2015
Topic of the Week: Where do you play, and what do you play on?24 February 2015
GTA V PC release date pushed back (again)24 February 2015
Space Hulk: Ascension begins new fire-resistant chapter with Salamanders expansion24 February 2015
Introducing GameSessions: the Steam-integrated return of the demo24 February 2015
GamerGate figurehead turns out to be satirist, becomes harassment target24 February 2015
Steam racks up 125 million active accounts, with help from Dota 2 and Counter-Strike24 February 2015
League of Legends player behaviour at "record bests" despite missing Tribunal24 February 2015
Valve will be showing off SteamVR hardware at GDC23 February 2015
Star Citizen picks up speed: FPS module, social module and Arena Commander 1.1 coming soon23 February 2015
The Homeworld 2 Remastered trailer looks glorious23 February 2015
World of Tanks 9.6 Patch brings slew of new changes and new French armor23 February 2015
Interview — Resident Evil: Revelations 223 February 2015
Hearts of Iron 4 is shaping up to make "The Good War" a great one23 February 2015
Civilization: Beyond Earth is getting Starships integration soon23 February 2015
A group of GTX 970 owners are suing Nvidia for overstating the card’s performance23 February 2015
Making it in Unreal: climbing aboard the Titanic with Honor and Glory23 February 2015
In Kanye West’s game you’ll escort his mum through the pearly gates23 February 2015
Besiege Early Access review23 February 2015
Crypt of the Necrodancer’s new boss is an entire band of enemies. And a key tar23 February 2015
How one streamer managed to get in a fight with Azubu, Twitch, Riot Games, Marc Merrill, and most of the internet23 February 2015
The Windows Game Store is selling scam copies of Darkest Dungeon23 February 2015
To The Moon gets a second free mini expansion22 February 2015
Underworld Ascendant has been greenlit on Steam22 February 2015
Game:ref is a prototype anti-cheat system that uses hardware to weed out hackers22 February 2015
Diablo 3 could be getting microtransactions in non-US areas22 February 2015
Adventures in... Space Hulk - Jeremy and Julian cross claws on the Sin of Damnation22 February 2015
Kerbal Space Program soon to train lady astronauts 21 February 2015
Ex-Battlefield developers form new studio to make a PC RPG21 February 2015
Call of Combat asks you to answer the call of Kickstarter for a modern reboot21 February 2015
Evolve's monsters have won the most matches in the first week, but not by much20 February 2015
Old School Runescape starts its third year with free-to-play content20 February 2015
Weekend Deal Dump: Lord of the Bundles20 February 2015
Diablo 3 2.2.0 first look: more Rifts and more Legendary sets20 February 2015
ESL One Cologne will be "the world's largest" Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament20 February 2015
Minecraft 1.8.2 was released into the wild and quickly eaten by 1.8.320 February 2015
Dirty Bomb weekend stress test starts today; will include over 100,000 players20 February 2015
Versus Evil to publish Skyshine Game's Bedlam; "It really was a logical step"20 February 2015
World of Warplanes update 1.7 introduces new German planes and two new maps20 February 2015
League of Legends champion preview teases bard character with a stary campfire tale20 February 2015
Seaworthy is a 16bit pirate adventure roguelike inspired by FTL and Sid Meier's Pirates20 February 2015
Blizzard slow down Starcraft II combat pace as an experiment; more testing before "final call"20 February 2015
Shadow of Mordor's The Bright Lord DLC pits a living Celebrimbor against Sauron19 February 2015
Project CARS' sprawling career mode revealed in a new trailer19 February 2015
Hunting for gold in Europa Universalis IV: El Dorado19 February 2015
Not a Hero gets a release date and some political propaganda19 February 2015
Make a map with DICE in Battlefield 419 February 2015
Neverwinter is getting a visit from Minsc and Boo19 February 2015
Epic are firing free money at developers with promising Unreal Engine 4 prototypes19 February 2015
Frozen Cortex leaves Early Access, launches on Steam today19 February 2015
Guild Wars 2 introduces a new profession, reveals details of the revenant19 February 2015
EA rewards any Battlefield Hardline player who owns a previous Battlefield game19 February 2015
Tim Schafer defends Peter Molyneux, criticises "extremely rough treatment" by games press19 February 2015
From Crackdown 2 devs comes Hollowpoint, the most interesting side-scrolling shooter of 201518 February 2015
Assassin's Creed Unity companion app and Initiate rewards will be accessible to all18 February 2015
We’ve 500 Heroes of the Storm keys to give away. Want one?18 February 2015
Want one of the two Turtle Beach Heroes of the Storm headsets Blizzard sent us?18 February 2015
Project CARS' release date is being pushed back so it can get some fine-tuning18 February 2015
Magicka 2's next big idea is artefacts: like Halo's unlockable skulls18 February 2015
Eron is a 2D platformer in which the platforms are split between dimensions18 February 2015
Elite: Deadly trademarked by somebody quite likely to be Frontier Developments18 February 2015
Square Enix's second Humble Bundle is a silent celebration of stealth18 February 2015
Kitty Powers’ Matchmaker’s trailer is love at first sight18 February 2015
The Stomping Land's artist has abandoned the project18 February 2015
Shadowrun: Hong Kong finishes Kickstarter campaign $1.1m over target18 February 2015
Update: Steam chat was censoring any mention of one torrent website but it's fixed now18 February 2015
Total War: Attila’s highest graphics setting is made for graphics cards that don’t exist17 February 2015
This Sunset trailer teases Tale of Tales' game about a city on fire17 February 2015
Not everyone's a fan of Star Citizen’s ship rental system17 February 2015
The EVE Online Tiamat update adds a stonking great destroyer to the Minmater fleet17 February 2015
Creative Assembly: The Journey from Rome to Attila17 February 2015
Topic of the Week: What game series do you want to see brought back from the dead?17 February 2015
Here's why you should patch your games before playing competitively17 February 2015
Poisoning people in Cities: Skylines17 February 2015
System Shock’s Shodan voice actor is infecting Underworld Ascendant17 February 2015
Square Enix is looking for pitches for games set in Gex, Fear Effect, and Anachronox universes 17 February 2015
Riot is building a League of Legends-shaped artificial reef off Australia’s coast17 February 2015
World of Warcraft will provide colour blind options in next update17 February 2015
Paradox on Game of Thrones: “It would make a great franchise for us”17 February 2015
The Westport Independent lets you print falsehoods and fabrications in your own newspaper17 February 2015
A Diablo 3 player has reached paragon level 1,000 on hardcore mode16 February 2015
The Crew update stops cars from driving faster in reverse than forwards16 February 2015
This State of Decay: Survival Edition box art hints at the future of Xbox to PC ports16 February 2015
A Darksiders 2 remastered edition is in the works16 February 2015
PlayTech buys YoYo Games, owner of GameMaker: Studios, for $16.4m16 February 2015
Valve are going to talk about VR, physics engines, and OpenGL at GDC16 February 2015
Star Wars: The Force Awakens' speeder bike has been spotted in SWTOR’s beta server16 February 2015
Making it in Unreal: visiting the afterlife with the Oculus Rift and Xing: The Land Beyond16 February 2015
Deus Ex modded to within an inch of its life in GMDX16 February 2015
CCGee-up: Wargaming want your World of Tanks Generals closed beta applications16 February 2015
Thief voice actor will Russell something up for Underworld Ascendant16 February 2015
Doom modder adds a selfie stick to the seminal shooter: "Screw #nofilter"16 February 2015
Hotline Miami and Talos Principle join Counter-Strike: Global Offensive music kit hit list16 February 2015
Star Wars: The Old Republic beefs up pirate planet flashpoints for level 60 players16 February 2015
Dota 2 sees over one million players concurrently for New Bloom event; servers struggle with load14 February 2015
GTA IV iCEnhancer C preview video gives GTA V a run for its money14 February 2015
Diablo 3 Season 2 will begin as early as Feburary; patch 2.1.2 still in public testing14 February 2015
Bioware are inviting PC players to try the next Dragon Age Inquisition patch14 February 2015
Wasteland 2 patch 6 is the biggest yet. Plus, stops dead people caring about murder13 February 2015
Celebrate Valentine’s day in Heroes of the Storm with the Anub'arak love bug skin13 February 2015
We’ve two swag bags of Escapists loot to giveaway. NO PUSHING!13 February 2015
Blizzard to announce "bold new heroes, exciting new cards and epic new battlegrounds" at PAX East13 February 2015
Just Cause 3 trailer shows beautiful explosions in the eye of the beholder13 February 2015
Planetside 2’s creative director has resigned13 February 2015
Crusader Kings 2 most diligent player’s racked up 10,500 hours of play13 February 2015
This Space Hulk: Deathwing trailer has more mariachi bands then you’d expect13 February 2015
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is getting some new DLC13 February 2015
I Am Bread introduces new level, new bread, becomes I Am Baguette13 February 2015
Paranautical Activity atones for Gabe Newell death threats, is now back on Steam13 February 2015
Sword Coast Legends is a D&D RPG from the director of Dragon Age: Origins13 February 2015
Riot fine MeetYourMakers after manager threatened to take player's home12 February 2015
Ironcast trailer looks like Puzzle Quest by way of steampunk mechs12 February 2015
Ubisoft’s sold 7 million copies of Far Cry 412 February 2015
World of Warcraft graphics update coming in 6.1 patch12 February 2015
Bryan Henderson is God.12 February 2015
Cute World of Warcraft pet goat raises more than $1.9m for the Red Cross12 February 2015
Fight a giant, acid spitting worm in the Broforce: Alien Infestation update12 February 2015
Looking Back: what it's like to play Deus Ex: Human Revolution in 201512 February 2015
Brutal Doom v20 packs in even more gore12 February 2015
Missed the videogames episode of Law & Order? Here's what happened12 February 2015
Evolve PC review12 February 2015
Rise of the Tomb Raider will have sunnier locations than Siberia12 February 2015
Star Wars Battlefront rumours suggest huge campaign and saga-spanning multiplayer12 February 2015
Warframe adds Orbital Relays, a new hang-out for chatty players12 February 2015
Mass Effect 4 will have multiplayer. Probably. 12 February 2015
GOG needs help to stress-test its multiplayer servers12 February 2015
Daybreak Studios layoff Everquest Next leads11 February 2015
Firefall update 1.3 adds Hulkbuster-style mechs and new abilities11 February 2015
Cities: Skylines release date announced through snazzy new trailer11 February 2015
Asteroids is back as an open world survival game. Honestly, it is11 February 2015
Elite Dangerous 1.1 trailer shows off community goals and elderly space stations11 February 2015
The War Thunder team have put national flags behind a paywall to stop infighting11 February 2015
Prime Minister David Cameron spent the day playing Train Simulator11 February 2015
Dota 2 New Bloom festival to return; features new Winter Wyvern hero11 February 2015
League of Legends patch 5.3 continues to work on Deathfire Grasp item replacement11 February 2015
The Lost Vikings plunder Heroes of the Storm in new beta update11 February 2015
Resident Evil HD Remaster becomes Capcom's fastest selling digital title11 February 2015
Valve get mysterious with "Mystery Midweek" Steam sale11 February 2015
Bethesda announce debut E3 conference; "we're almost ready for our close up"11 February 2015
The Score sports website releases the first eSports mobile app10 February 2015
Topic of the Week: Do you care about review scores?10 February 2015
Besiege has the best/maddest tanks10 February 2015
Cities XXL review10 February 2015
Godus unlikely to deliver Kickstarted features; Molyneux admits "horrendous mistakes"10 February 2015
Act of Aggression is Command and Conquer: Generals' brother from another mother10 February 2015
Evolve launch trailer becomes necessary: Turtle Rock's baby grows legs today10 February 2015
a-caco-ppella: Doom mod replaces sound effects with human mouth-noise10 February 2015
ESL One Katowice qualifier begins Saturday; expect US Counter-Strike heavyweights10 February 2015
Shadow Realms is cancelled; BioWare Austin take a speeder back to The Old Republic10 February 2015
World of Warcraft 6.1 has a racing minigame in the trunk10 February 2015
The Long Dark gets bigger, again, and wolves can be scared off10 February 2015
Elite: Dangerous 1.1 goes live tomorrow with community goals and discovery tags9 February 2015
More allegations of match-fixing and illegal betting activity in pro StarCraft9 February 2015
LCS team MeetYourMakers in contract scandal after threatening to take a player's family home9 February 2015
Sunless Sea review9 February 2015
Impact Winter is a chilly survival game with a team of survivors trying to live for one more month9 February 2015
Hands on with Resident Evil: Revelations 29 February 2015
Making it in Unreal: crash-landing on a bad-tempered world with The Solus Project9 February 2015
Total War Attila: Everything We Know9 February 2015
Total War: Attila trailer shows why Attila was a terrible dinner host9 February 2015
Multiplay and Jagex partner up to raise money for GameBlast159 February 2015
Dying Light's Super Aggressive Zombies mod gives the undead a great sense of smell9 February 2015
Jonathan Blow says “The Braid income is not nearly enough” to fund The Witness9 February 2015
Battlefield Hardline’s interrogations are super effective (and other changes since the last beta)9 February 2015
Watch the Survivor GameZ V finals right now; first event within DayZ standalone8 February 2015
Evolve to see "big" day one patch at launch; balancing tweaks, bug fixes and more8 February 2015
Adventures in... Ultimate General: Gettysburg — civil war between Rob and Fraser8 February 2015
Steam Inventory is now available to all Steamworks developers; more hats inevitable 8 February 2015
Mortal Kombat X trailer demos new faction war system, and more7 February 2015
Survarium's freeplay mode detailed; will feature deadly weather storm events7 February 2015
Valve delivers ultimatum on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive insider betting7 February 2015
Homeworld Remastered is space ballet 6 February 2015
EA executive says games are too hard for the average player6 February 2015
Weekend Deal Dump: Adventures in a galaxy far, far away6 February 2015
Techland wants your Dying Light mod ideas6 February 2015
The trouble with rebuilding Homeworld: making a game better than the one you remember6 February 2015
Subnautica Early Access review6 February 2015
Gratuitous Space Battles 2 beta launches with plenty of explosions6 February 2015
If Gameforge build an eSport, will the players come?6 February 2015
Dead or Alive 5 director warns PC modders to behave: "play our game in good moral and manner"6 February 2015
Battlefield Hardline is a fine Battlefield, but not the game we want6 February 2015
Dragon Age: Inquisition wins DICE Game of the Year Award6 February 2015
Square Enix is having a ridiculously big Steam sale this weekend6 February 2015
World of Warcraft has more subscribers than it did two years ago, hits 10+ million subs6 February 2015
Republique gets a Unity 5 overhaul for PC5 February 2015
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare's sci-fi zombie add-on, Havoc, is due out soon5 February 2015
Grow Home review5 February 2015
Assassin's Creed: Rogue release date announced; includes eye-tracking wizardry 5 February 2015
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will feature permadeath with Dark difficulty mode5 February 2015
Steam beta update displays your DLC in a sensible and orderly fashion5 February 2015
Warhammer: The End Times - Vermintide is a co-op brawler between the Skaven and Empire5 February 2015
Penumbra: Necrologue releases on Steam as a free mod for Amnesia: The Dark Descent5 February 2015
Grow Home is about a little red robot that could, and it's out today on Steam5 February 2015
Mortal Kombat X system requirements might not prove to be fatal after all5 February 2015
Epic Games looks back at Fortnite's first alpha phase5 February 2015
The Sims 4's first expansion will put Sims to work4 February 2015
Game of Thrones PC review4 February 2015
League of Legends' DJ Sona skin turns every fight into a party4 February 2015
Sneaky Ninja is the sort of stealth platformer Nintendo might make4 February 2015
Underworld Ascendant Kickstarter launches today; help fund the Ultima successor 4 February 2015
Surgeon Simulator has sold 2 million; thankfully still not recommended playing for real A&E staff4 February 2015
Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin trailer hints at new enemy hideouts4 February 2015
Battlefield Hardline has been influenced by YouTubers and fans4 February 2015
Garena's "all-feminine" LoL tournament goes horribly wrong with bizarre LGBTQ restrictions4 February 2015
Minecraft name changes will be made possible on February 44 February 2015
White Night leaves you alone in the dark4 February 2015
Rise of the Tomb Raider will see Lara fight bears and a secret society in Siberia4 February 2015
Razer Blade upgrade has an absurdly high-res screen and Nvidia 970M GPU4 February 2015
Sunless Sea displays its secrets this week; get a taste with the launch trailer3 February 2015
The Star Wars Humble Bundle collects seven force-fueled classics. And Force Unleashed.3 February 2015
Heroes of Might and Magic 3 - HD Edition review3 February 2015
Topic of the Week: Are there too many games on Steam?3 February 2015
Don't Starve Together Early Access review3 February 2015
Looking Back: why it's still worth bracing against the cold in Icewind Dale3 February 2015
Mordheim recruits a fourth playable faction: a cult of Chaos nutters3 February 2015
The Escapists is Hitman crossed with Prison Break. And quite good3 February 2015
Battlefield Hardline PC requirements have been confirmed; no need to steal a new rig3 February 2015
Wildstar’s Protogames Initiative update is colossal; new missions for both low and high level players3 February 2015
Resident Evil 2 fan project lets two experience the terror in co-op3 February 2015
League of Legends exploit lets hackers spend player’s RP and IP3 February 2015
Ubisoft reactivates stolen PC keys for players affected by unauthorised retailer sales, advises gamers only buy from ‘trusted retailers’3 February 2015
Coach a virtual Counter-Strike team with CSManager3 February 2015
Mass Effect 4 will not draw inspiration from Dragon Age: Inquisition3 February 2015
The Condemned series could be licensed out to an indie developer3 February 2015
Minecon returns from its one year break this summer2 February 2015
Warhammer 40K: Regicide trailer shows Space Marines and Orks playing chess... sort of2 February 2015
Sony Online Entertainment, Planetside 2 and H1Z1 dev, declares independence, becomes Daybreak2 February 2015
Hearthstone World Championship 2015 announced; start earning points now2 February 2015
The Devil's Men proves classic-style adventures can still be exciting2 February 2015
Making it in Unreal: joining the boarding party for Battlefleet Gothic: Armada2 February 2015
SOE declare war on H1Z1’s flying bow and arrow cheaters2 February 2015
You can now build a Warcraft 3 remake in Starcraft 22 February 2015
The latest Frozen Cortex update adds full singleplayer campaign and robot hats2 February 2015
Raspberry Pi 2 will be six times more powerful, runs Minecraft, and comes with a free copy of Windows 102 February 2015
Bioware suspend players who took advantage of Star Wars: The Old Republic’s ravager exploit2 February 2015
Updated: Dying Light patch fixes bugs but breaks mods2 February 2015
These Just Cause 3 screenshots show Rico getting in touch with his softer side2 February 2015
Octodad year one statistics revealed; sold over 459,000 units1 February 2015
Portal Stories: Mel is a free Portal 2 mod with a lot of promise1 February 2015
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn is upgrading to DirectX 11 with Heavensward expansion1 February 2015