- The founders of Playdead are having a legal war over who made more of Limbo - 19 June 2025
Many moons ago, Danish developers Playdead released bleak platformer Limbo and proved beyond reasonable doubt that Gamez R Art, while also giving a bunch of witless scriveners massive arachnophobia. Today, we learn that one of the studio's co-founders, Arnt Jensen, is suing the other, Dino Patti, amid competing claims about the scale of his contribution to Limbo. Because of course all great things must end in calamity. Read more
- Experience Playdead's INSIDE - 13 September 2022
Discover Playdead’s award-winning indie adventure. Take full advantage of the notable 90% discount until September 18. https://store.steampowered.com/app/304430/INSIDE/
- As Dusk Falls, Inside, the best Watch Dogs game and more coming to Xbox Game Pass soon - 18 July 2022
It's the middle of the month, just about, which means a fresh wave of Xbox Game Pass games, this time around including the best Watch Dogs . A smaller crop than the batch of games that dropped on Game Pass in the first half of the month, but we've got a good mix of small and big titles to choose from (via Xbox Wire ). The first set of games for the latter half of July will arrive tomorrow, July 19, which is where you can get stuck in with some interactive drama, and some stylish hacking. First off is As Dusk Falls , which is a day one release on Game Pass. This one comes from developer Interior/ Night that "explores the entangled lives of two families across thirty years," and will be available on cloud, console, and PC. It got shown off at last month's Xbox Games Showcase , and in it you'll make choices that can have big impacts on the character's lives. Read more
- Today's free game from the Epic Store is an excuse to stay inside on Christmas Eve - 24 December 2020
Another day, another giveaway in Epic's holiday bonanza of free PC games . For Christmas Eve, you can really get into the festive spirit by getting extremely bummed out and slowly trudging to the right in the uber-grim puzzle-platformer, Inside. You've got 24 hours to grab Playdead's rather excellent sadness simulator before the giveaway runs out. Inside is now available to claim from the usual Epic Games Store promotion page , and will be until December 25 (that's Christmas) at 8:00 PST / 11:00 EST / 16:00 GMT. As ever, you'll 'purchase' the game at a zero-dollar price, and it'll remain in your library forever. The first free game you claim from Epic during the holiday promotion will also get you a $10 coupon to use until January 7 - and you get another coupon every time you use one. As for Inside itself, here's the official description: "Hunted and alone, a boy finds himself drawn int…
- Mac version of INSIDE is now available - 19 November 2020
- The Epic Games Store is having a grand old halloween sale - 22 October 2020
Is there anything scarier than buying products at below the recommended retail price? Almost certainly, which is why I’d hesitate to call the Epic Games Store Halloween Sale particularly spooky. It is, however, taking a massive knife to game prices across the platform, with some pretty hefty discounts of up to 80% going on a number of range of fantastic games until the sale wraps on November 3rd. (more…)
- Trading Cards are now available for INSIDE - 25 September 2020
- The best platform games on PC - 27 November 2019
The biggest names in platforming used to live only on console, but it’s on PC now that the genre is thriving. Indies have taken the simple ingredients and spun them off in umpteen directions (but still normally from left to right). Below you’ll find a collection of the very best platform games on PC – including puzzle platformers, physics platformers, platformers with roguelike elements, and platformers about absolutely nothing but pixel-perfect jumping. (more…)
- Developers and industry legends on the games that defined the last 20 years - 5 September 2019
As Eurogamer turns 20, we thought, you know what? It's not all about us. It's also about the developers, the people behind the virtual magic that inspired the creation of Eurogamer two decades ago. Without the developers, we wouldn't be here. And so, we thought we'd ask a few of them (20, in fact!) to pick the games that defined the last 20 years, and see what would come of it. We approached a broad range of people, from top executives and legendary talent to tiny indies. We asked them to pick a game that defined the last 20 years, but left it up to them to interpret the question. It could be a game that defined the industry, that meant a lot to them professionally or personally, or is just a favourite. We're delighted with the responses (thank you to everyone who contributed!). There's some fantastic insight here, super cool anecdotes and the odd surprising choice. We hope you enjoy it…
- Inside and Celeste are free on the Epic Games Store now - 30 August 2019
“Inside does insert some big ideas into its slender and sinister frame, but that’s not why I loved it it’s the execution of the big, broad, b-movie elements that I adored,” our former Adam (RPS in peace) said when we called Inside one of 2016’s best games . “It’s a tricky platform game, with a beautifully melancholy story, and enough creativity on show to give me strength even when the going got so tough I almost lost hope,” Adam (again) said in our Celeste review in 2018. Good pair of platformers, those, and quite different. Good news too: both are currently free for keepsies on the Epic Games Store. (more…)
- Fez is this week's free Epic Store game - 22 August 2019
If you're looking for more ways to expand that list of games that you really, really honestly will get round to playing eventually but probably not right now because you've still got a load of other ones to get through, then I'm pleased to inform you that Fez is currently free on the Epic Store. Oh, and that Inside and Celeste will be free next week too. Fez, for those yet to experience its multi-dimensional charms, is, at first glance, a sort of puzzle-y platformer in the retro, side-scrolling mould. Before too long, however, its 2D protagonist discovers that their world isn't quite as flat as they'd been led to believe, beginning a slightly brain-scrambling adventure that requires players to flip through the world's previously hidden sides. Really, it makes more sense if you see it in action. Eurogamer, it's fair to say, adored Fez when it released back in 2012. Oli Welsh gave it a Eu…
- Playdead's been hiding images of its next game in job listings - 7 July 2019
The studio behind WTF-y puzzle-platformers Inside and Limbo, Playdead, has been secreting screenshots of its next project within its job posting advertisements. While it may seem as though Playdead hasn't shared anything concrete beyond a solitary image shared on Twitter way back at the beginning of January 2017 - and then one more in March 2018 - turns out we might just have been looking in the wrong place. A number of screens from a game that we know don't come from either of Playdead's prior releases have been included inside online job listings, and while some were clocked by Resetera a few months back , a couple more have since popped up (thanks, PC Gamer ). Read more
- What developers think of Xbox Game Pass - 5 July 2019
Subscription gaming services such as Xbox Game Pass, EA Access and PlayStation Now have become a good deal for players - or at least, a good way of ensuring you never reach the bottom of your pile of shame. As this year's E3 festivities made plain, they are now central to platform holder strategy , with Microsoft releasing all its first-party titles on Game Pass, and Google Stadia to ship with its own, currently rather meagre subscription game service . But are they always a fair deal for developers? The details of these partnerships remain closely guarded, but in a panel discussion at Gamelab last week hosted by GamesIndustry.biz editor-in-chief Matt Handrahan, some of the people behind Crusader Kings, Rime, Q.U.B.E. and Inside offered broad thoughts on Xbox Game Pass in particular. "Consumers want as many games as possible, as free as possible, and you can't get anything for free, so…
- Plumbing Inside's dystopian depths - 1 August 2018
This article contains spoilers for the ending of Inside. Whether it's teens baying for each other's blood in The Hunger Games, Judge Dredd exploding hoodlums, or the jaunty nuked-out wastes of the Fallout series, dystopian worlds have long entertained us with doom-laden speculation and ultra-violent hijinks. They're becoming ever more popular too. Following the inauguration of US president Donald Trump last year, 1984 soared to the top of the bestsellers list. It would appear apocalyptic visions are trending, and our strange times provide ample nightmare fuel. Read more…
- Video: Great adventures for the time poor - 5 July 2018
I ve been playing the endless Assassin’s Creed Origins , a game so gargantuan that the time on my save file lasts longer than Ancient Egyptian civilization did. This is a revenge mission stripped of all urgency by the simple fact of being five million hours long. Whatever big bad awaits at the end can rest easy knowing there are 800 fortresses to clear out before I reach him. Fearing a loss of sanity, I needed to remind myself of what progress actually felt like, so here are ten games you can see from start to finish in a more reasonable three hours. (more…)
- Daily Deal - INSIDE 55% Off And LIMBO 80% Off - 23 March 2018
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- Playdead reveal art for their secretive Inside follow-up - 10 March 2018
Playdead is working on their follow-up to the bleak puzzle nightmare Inside, and while the wait will certainly be worth our time, the desire to know terrible delights are coming our way is certainly eating away at us. The team has released two images so far, giving us a glimpse at a snowy world that doesn’t have our best interests in mind. Also, maybe we’re not a little boy this time? Playdead is stepping way outside their comfort zone on this one. (more…)
- Special edition of Inside, complete with what is presumably a ball of gruesomely quivering limbs - 7 March 2018
Don’t tell John, but Playdead’s adventur-o-puzzle Inside , with its abyss-black humour and boundlessly wicked imagination, is quietly one of my favourite games of the past few years. So much so that I seriously flirted with the idea of ordering its $375 special edition , before remembering the physical possessions are a burden, unless of course they’re plastic robots. Much has been made of the fact that Playdead have partnered with Realdoll, purveyors of high-priced, dead-eyed, cold-fleshed silicon sex puppets, for the so-far mysterious contents of the box. I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that no orifices are involved – but an awful lot of, well, limbs are. (more…)
- Cyber Monday 2017: The best deals on PC games, graphics cards, monitors, SSDs and more - 27 November 2017
After a weekend of gorging yourself on turkey and elbowing people in the face to get that last discounted something or other in the shops, now it’s time to settle in and continue those deal hunts from the comfort of your own home. For today is Cyber Monday, the day that’s reserved for purely online-only deals following the shopping bonanza that was Black Friday . This year, we’ve done the hard work for you, as we’ve scoured the web for the best Cyber Monday deals money can buy. These aren’t just re-heated Black Friday deals, either, as most retailers usually have completely separate discounts running today, making it a great time to pick up another bargain if none of the deals last week took your fancy. As always, we’ll be updating this article throughout the day, so make sure to check back at regular intervals just in case something new appears. We&#…
- Black Friday 2017: The best deals on graphics cards, monitors, SSDs and more - 24 November 2017
The sale event to end all sale events is here. That’s right, folks, Black Friday 2017 is here, and this year’s sales frenzy is set to be bigger than ever as we head into the Christmas shopping period. In all honesty, they should just rename it Black November, as there have been deals going on throughout the month in preparation for the big day. To save you trawling through the web in search of a good bargain, we’ve created this handy guide containing everything you need to know about Black Friday 2017. If you’re on the hunt for a new graphics card , a bigger and better monitor , want to splash out on a fast SSD or upgrade your gaming headset and get a more reliable mouse and keyboard, this is the place to be. We’ll be updating this hub page on a regular basis as new deals get announced, too, so make sure to keep it in your bookmarks if you fancy grabbing yo…
