Category: Features
I'm So Glad Dragon's Dogma 2 Isn't Afraid To Be Janky
Capcom is maintaining the original's charm, warts and all.
I'm Living For The Rise Of The Official Lore Video
Tekken 8 in January, and now Metal Gear Solid and Dragon’s Dogma 2? Now I want lore breakdowns for every series I’ve ever missed...
PSA: Stick With Hi-Fi Rush Until You Get The Parry
Hi-Fi Rush’s combat doesn’t come into its own until you get an important ability.
Helldivers 2 Needs A Codex ASAP
Don't tell me to kill Devastators without telling me what they are first.
FF7 Rebirth's Iconic Character Death Was Mishandled
Final Fantasy VII is known for having one of the most iconic deaths of all time, but FF7 may not have given this moment the revere...
DnD 5e: Changeling Race, Abilities & Names, Explained
To hide from the dark forces who hunt them, D&D's Changelings can alter their physical appearance on a whim, disguising them compl...
New York Times Hot New Word Game Just Made Everyone Fre...
Strands is off to a great start, but a real stumper of a clue made puzzlers irate this week.
Are We Ready To Finally Give New Pokemon Snap The Respe...
The most stunning, fully revealed Pokemon game in years deserves more love from the fans.
Banning TikTok Would Be A Nightmare For Video Game Deve...
The social media platform being outlawed will have a massive impact on the medium.
Geoff Keighley Finally Acknowledged Game Industry Layof...
After months of silence, Geoff Keighley posted one line about layoffs. Then he announced Summer Game Fest 2024. Interesting.
Baldur's Gate 3's Corrupt Journalists Hit Too Close To ...
Freedom of the press should never be taken for granted
Critical Role's Daggerheart TTRPG Is Looking For Playte...
Matt Mercer's game is built on narrative, so there are no turns and no structure, just improv and chaos
There Is Nothing Classic About The Star Wars Battlefron...
Aspyr has really dropped the ball on this one.
After Jacob Geller's Book, More YouTube Creators Should...
How a Game Lives looks like a must-buy for Geller fans, but other YouTubers should embrace physical media, too.
The Next Mario Movie Should Do Paper Mario
Adapting Paper Mario for The Super Mario Bros. Movie 2 would give Illumination a chance to get experimental with its animation sty...
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Undercuts Its Most Heartfelt Mo...
Palmer's boss battle comes after a difficult scene for Barret, and takes away all the tension
Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League: Kevin Contoy's B...
By the time the Rocksteady game wraps, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leagues doesn't produce the sendoff fans wanted for Kevin C...
Baldur’s Gate 3: Is PS5 Or PC Better?
Baldur's Gate is traditionally a PC franchise, so adapting it to console has resulted in several notable changes. How do the two v...
Is Mewtwo The Strongest Pokémon?
Mewtwo was known for being Pokémon's strongest creature at the franchise's start, but can new Legendaries, such as Rayquaza, match...
Final Fantasy VII: 5 Weird Facts About Cloud's Body
Many people know Cloud for his spiky blonde hair and signature Buster Sword, but the Final Fantasy VII protagonist has even strang...
Final Fantasy VII: The Forgotten FF7 Book That's Better...
One of the lesser-known but more important pieces of the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII is the book Final Fantasy VII: On the Wa...
What to Know About ACNH's Seasons
Animal Crossing: New Horizons mostly follows the seasons in each hemisphere, but some changes occur on specific days, sometimes cr...
Tears Of The Kingdom: Where Does The Game Fit Into The ...
What happened in the 10,000 years between TOTK’s past and the events of BOTW, and where does Tears fit in the grander Legend of Ze...
Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League Sets Up For A Se...
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League ends on a macabre cliffhanger that paves the way for a sequel and DLC content filled with E...
Super Mario ISN'T Italian - He's Japanese
Mario's evolution through the decades has caused many to question his background, but one source confirms he's not Italian. Mario ...
Cloud & Sephiroth's Relationship in FF7, Explained
Forming the underlying conflict of most entries of the Final Fantasy VII sub-franchise, Cloud and Sephiroth's relationship is as w...
Podcast: Everything we know about guides
Welcome back to Inside Eurogamer, the podcast exclusively for Supporters, where we talk about the work we do on Eurogamer and why...
Game of the week: Getting to know the author in Llamaso...
This week's Game of the Week is Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story. It was not a difficult decision, and that's no slight to Penny'...
What we've been playing
Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've been playing over the past f...
Marvel's Spider-Man 2: what does the debug menu actuall...
It only lasted for a little while, but Insomniac Games gifted us a fascinating insight into the inner workings of Marvel's Spid...
Five of the Best: Summons
Five of the Best is a weekly series for supporters of Eurogamer. It's a series that highlights some of the features in games that...
How to build a white gaming PC 2024: part selection, de...
I've always wanted to build a white gaming PC, and over the Christmas '23 holidays I had the chance to do just that with a build ...
TikTok is getting excited about 30 Days on Ship, but sh...
Of all the games people on TikTok could get excited about, they've decided it's one about shipping containers - one about survivi...
Star Fox: Assault soared with its Arwing missions
Even the most diehard Star Fox fans will likely admit it's one of Nintendo's most mismanaged series. I could sing Star Fox 64's p...
Let's get evil in Baldur's Gate 3: Part 5 - A Thorm in ...
Welcome back! Let's Get Evil is a monthly series for Eurogamer Supporters in which Bertie rampages through games being as evil as...
Sea of Thieves devs discuss "surreal" PS5 launch and 20...
Sea of Thieves, you might have heard, is heading to PlayStation 5 next month. It's a significant moment for all sorts of reasons ...
Five of the Best: Fishing mini-games
Five of the Best is a weekly series for supporters of Eurogamer. It's a series that highlights some of the features in games that...
Game of the Week: Snufkin's adventures in Moonminvalley...
Odd as it sounds, part of me misses those old licensed games. Everyone who came up in games journalism in the early 2000s will ha...
What is going on with layoffs in the video games indust...
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom shipped 10m copies in a weekend. Hogwarts Legacy sold 24m units in a year. Palworld is on 25 million...
In Nightingale the fun is always just around the corner
Somehow, I've spent nearly 40 hours playing Nightingale, but I'm still searching for the fun. I've seen glimpses of the game I fe...
Five of the Best: Card games within games
Five of the Best is a weekly series for supporters of Eurogamer. It's a series that highlights some of the features in games that...
Cataclismo is a game of castle walls and terrible mista...
Cataclismo is the new game from Digital Sun, the team behind Moonlighter, so I was waiting for the twist from the moment I starte...
Who is qualified to make a world? In search of the magi...
Shortly after David Gaider was born, his parents bought a set of 1971 encyclopaedias to freeze-frame the world as it was when he ...
Upcoming Alan Wake 2 patch drastically improves GTX 10-...
Alan Wake 2 was one of the most visually stunning games of 2023 - but also one of the most demanding for older hardware. Owing ...
Game of the Week: Finally, a game with the guts to ask,...
In the Zone, causality goes into the blender. The past and the present and the future do not always follow in polite order. No wo...
How did Final Fantasy 7 capture so much humanity?
It's evident in one of the very early scenes, a flashback where two children (the central character, Cloud, and another main ch...
Kingmakers is the glorious embodiment of one of gaming'...
Hello. One of my favourite pieces of writing about games, not that anybody asked, is from Sid Meier. It's the fourth, I think, of...
Final Fantasy 7 was a different kind of blockbuster
Up front: I have never played Final Fantasy 7. I'm one of those unbearable hipsters who has only played 12, and won't shut up abo...
Five of the Best: Meals
Five of the Best is a weekly series for supporters of Eurogamer. It's a series that highlights some of the features in games that...
PlayStation cloud streaming vs Microsoft xCloud: image ...
Sony's PlayStation Plus Cloud Streaming service was introduced last October for PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers, offering 4K...
My special power in Arco is running away
I will always have a soft spot for simultaneous turn-based games. These are the games, taking a cue from the likes of Frozen Syna...
In Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor and Helldivers 2, the v...
There's a certain kind of game that has you running in circles. This isn't because it's poorly designed or lacking waypoints. It'...
Game of the Week: Helldivers 2 is a reminder to always ...
When my daughter was learning to write her own stories at school - learning composition, I guess, in the language of education - ...
Game of the Week: Star Wars: Dark Forces and the challe...
There's a lovely line in Rick Lane's review of Star Wars: Dark Forces. Actually, the piece has no shortage of lovely lines, but o...
Tales of Kenzera: Zau has the heart to heighten its spi...
"Baba…help me Baba…I need you Baba…." So says protagonist Zau at the start of Tales of Kenzera, his voice shaking. That's the voi...
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth tech review: an excellent but i...
The second part of the long-awaited Final Fantasy 7 remake trilogy is finally here. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth releases today, an ex...
Five of the Best: Arcade machines in games
Five of the Best is a weekly series for supporters of Eurogamer. It's a series that highlights some of the features in games that...
GTA 6 looks stellar - and it could be a huge moment for...
The greatest gaming event of 2023 was the GTA 6 reveal trailer. I am still thinking about it now. Rockstar has mastered the art o...
The best way to explore in Europa is by defying gravity
A little boy steps out into the world for the first time. The landscape is full of lush meadows, striking blue rivers, and wildli...
Inside the mind of New York Times Mini maker Joel Fagli...
Joel Fagliano has always thought about puzzles. His father was an avid solver of the famed New York Times Crossword and would pho...
Temporal anti-aliasing: a blessing or a curse?
For good or bad, temporal anti-aliasing - or TAA - has become a defining element of image quality in today's games, but is it a...
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth: accomplished and impressive bu...
The original Final Fantasy 7 pushed technical boundaries on the PS1 and set new standards for storytelling within gaming. Its l...
Let's get evil in Baldur's Gate 3: Part 4 - Hideous tra...
Welcome back! Let's Get Evil is a monthly series for Eurogamer Supporters in which Bertie rampages through games being as evil as...
Harold Halibut turns Starfield's best side quest into a...
I never love defining one game with another, and not least a game like Harold Halibut, which wears its influences openly - stop-m...
Game of the Week: Hauntii is a ghostly game that never ...
I love demos, so it's no surprise really that our game of the week is a Steam Next Fest demo. There are plenty I could have chose...
RTX HDR: Nvidia's AI video enhancement tool works for g...
Nvidia recently released a driver enabling RTX Video HDR - a driver side tool that automatically converts SDR video into HDR, w...
How can a picture of flowers make you see games differe...
A city tour demonstrating the architecture of New York usually doesn't need to specify that it's "pacifist." But when it takes ...
Star Trucker - who needs a mountain vista when you've g...
Look, I certainly wouldn't call myself a trucking nerd - I'm not even sure I could tell the difference between a carburettor and ...
Five of the Best: Shadow drops
Five of the Best is a weekly series for supporters of Eurogamer. It's a series that highlights some of the features in games that...
Flock feels like the video game equivalent of throwing ...
I've wondered for a while how best to explain my time with Flock's demo. The whole experience was a testament to the joy of fli...
Final Fantasy is a "toy box", says series producer Yosh...
"My take on Final Fantasy, and this is quite deliberate, is I don't restrict it to being any one thing," says series producer Y...
Narrative RPG Cabernet gives morality systems a vampiri...
I've always found the concept of immortality to be horrific. How, as the years churn by, new memories and experiences drown the o...
Infinite Craft is a powerful glimpse into other minds
Years back I knew someone who was really into lucid dreaming. They had never actually had a lucid dream, but that inevitably only...
Paper Trail capitalises on the magic of a single brilli...
Puzzles are a tricky thing to perfect in video games. They're present in so many different genres - typically giving us some smal...
From Daredevil Dennis to Die Hard Trilogy: Simon Pick h...
Imagine being the only person in the building allowed to go into a room because there's a top secret console inside. It's bizarre...
In Summerhouse, every home hides a story
This deceptively simple house-building game from Friedemann is surprisingly good at prompting stories. Once you enter a world, yo...
What to play this February 2024
We're back! And we're past the grimmest month of the year. That's right, it's time for lovely, sunny, er, February! Thankfully, t...
Helldivers 2's double-A energy is an antidote to video ...
Ragdoll physics! Friendly fire! Connectivity issues! On-the-nose satire! Bugs! Double-A gaming is back, baby. You could argue it ...
Five of the Best: Castles
Five of the Best is a weekly series for supporters of Eurogamer. It's a series that highlights some of the features in games that...
Nightingale is pretty fantasy survival with a BioWare p...
Palworld has its Pokémon (of the legally distinct variety); Ark has its dinosaurs; Enshrouded is like a third-person action-adven...
What might the ultimate character creator look like?
Have you spotted the Killmonger dreads? They're everywhere these days. What started in Marvel's Black Panther film is now ubiqu...
Skald: Against the Black Priory stirs the emotional mem...
When is the magical turning point in time that something considered old becomes cool again? I ask because I just enabled a CRT fi...
Game of the Week: Tekken and the pleasures of learning
Hello! Our game of the week is Tekken 8 - one of the easier choices, really, due to its glowing review from Lewis Parker, who gav...
The DeckHD is a thoughtful but flawed screen upgrade ve...
Valve's Steam Deck garnered almost universal acclaim when it launched in 2022. It offered a powerful handheld experience, with we...
Five of the Best: Personal gadgets
Five of the Best is a weekly series for supporters of Eurogamer. It's a series that highlights some of the features in games that...
Honkai Star Rail delights with a moreish Americana nigh...
Exploring Penacony in Honkai: Star Rail is like having the keys to Disneyland for a midnight soirée, but all the guests are sleaz...
Is Palworld actually any good? Of course not
You might have heard about it. Palworld is utterly gigantic, the first big mega-hit of 2024, and potentially the biggest game we'...
Silent Hill: The Short Message - an Unreal future for t...
Revealed during the latest PlayStation State of Play, Silent Hill: The Short Message is a new free-to-play horror game that steal...
What's next for OlliOlli and Rollerdrome developer Roll...
I've been thinking a lot about how to define Roll7 because actually, it's quite hard to do. You could call it the OlliOlli studio...
Children of the Sun is an engrossing indie sniper puzzl...
Through dense digital underbrush and up sloping inclines, each quick-fire level within Children of the Sun begins on foot, as The...
Game of the Week: Another Code and the pleasure of in-g...
Our Game of the Week is Another Code: Recollection. It's a lovely, generous reworking of two weird classics, and it's a perfect e...
Tested: the DLSS 3/FSR 3 mod that brings frame generati...
Frame generation went open source recently, as AMD added FSR 3 frame generation to its GPUOpen initiative, bringing competition...
Five of the Best: Secret levels
Five of the Best is a weekly series for supporters of Eurogamer. It's a series that highlights some of the features in games that...
Game of the Week: Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and true...
Our Game of the Week is Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. It's a game I enjoyed much more than I was expecting to. But I'm also deepl...
The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered delivers an accomplish...
The Last of Us Part 2 was a stunning game when it launched for PS4 in 2020, a visual tour de force that showcased the best of Son...
Why games need a thriving third-party accessibility sce...
As news broke that Microsoft would block an unspecified array of third-party devices from Xbox consoles in late 2023, it quickl...
Podcast: A new plan for Eurogamer features in 2024
It's time for another episode of Inside Eurogamer, the podcast that's exclusively for Supporters of Eurogamer. This is the show w...
What's going on in Avowed? We quiz Obsidian after the X...
Last week, we finally got a proper look at Obsidian's new role-playing game Avowed. It was one of the handful of exclusive Xbox g...
Game of the Week: Prince of Persia and the question of ...
I think I first heard the term memory tax when I was writing about chess. In chess, at the really great levels of play, memory ta...
For a survival game, Enshrouded feels too safe
From the Steam Store description alone, you can tell that there are rather a lot of ideas bouncing around inside Enshrouded. Desc...
