Yes! Magic: The Gathering Arena is coming to Android this month. No! My Pixel 1 won’t run it. Specifically, MTG Arena arrives in early access on Android on 28th January. Sadly, there doesn’t appear to be an equivalent iOS release. However, the game will eventually be released in full for …
Read More »Pokmon Go gets Gucci clothing, but UK players must be in London for it • Eurogamer.net
Pokémon Go has launched a new collaboration with Gucci and The North Face, featuring exclusive avatar clothing items available to unlock in-game at certain locations in London only. 100 PokéStops around the world have been chosen to feature the fashion brands’ T-shirts, hats and backpacks as virtual items for your …
Read More »Runescape is 20 years old today • Eurogamer.net
Raise a toast, Sandwich Lady. Long-lived online fantasy game Runescape celebrates its 20th birthday today. Developed by Jagex, the aging MMO first launched on 4th January 2001 – making it older than Neverwinter Nights, World of Warcraft (and indeed Wikipedia, where I’m now checking all of these dates). Jagex today said …
Read More »Diablo Immortal enters alpha testing
Two years after its unveiling at BlizzCon 2018 met a hostile reaction from fans, Diablo Immortal – the Diablo game that commits the terrible sins of not being Diablo 4, and being a mobile game – has broken a long, cowed silence. After that reception, Blizzard was unlikely to do …
Read More »Cristiano Ronaldo is now a cyberpunk character in a mobile battle royale • Eurogamer.net
Cristiano Ronaldo is now a cyberpunk character in a mobile battle royale. The Juventus forward – considered one of the greatest players the world has ever seen – plays a character called Chrono in a mobile battle royale game called Free Fire. Here’s how he looks in the game: “Cristiano …
Read More »In Pokmon Go, a corner of England is technically in France • Eurogamer.net
Look out from the south-east coast of England and you can see France in the distance on a clear day. And now, if you open Pokémon Go at the same time, you might see a France-exclusive Pokémon, too. Key worker. At a time when international travel is not high on …
Read More »Fortnite’s showstopping Marvel finale drops a huge cliffhanger • Eurogamer.net
UPDATE 2/12/20: Epic Games has announced a record-breaking 15.3 million concurrent players for its Marvel season finale event, the largest in-game total for Fortnite ever. A further 3.4 million people watched live via YouTube and Twitch, Epic said. You can catch up on everything that happened and watch the event …
Read More »Headsets, mice, keyboards and more • Eurogamer.net
Includes discounts on some of Digital Foundry’s favourite headsets and mice. Coinciding with Black Friday, Razer has their own Cyber Weekend on their store where you can find discounts of up to 50% off a range of their accessories, from headsets to keyboards, and even their uber-expensive laptops, though many you’ll …
Read More »Pokmon Go raises level cap in huge new Beyond update • Eurogamer.net
Pokémon Go maker Niantic has detailed how it will raise the game’s level cap for the first time since launch back in the summer of 2016. The change comes as part of Pokémon Go’s largest update yet – and the first one to be given a fancy name: “Go Beyond.” …
Read More »Ritual of the Night announced for iOS and Android • Eurogamer.net
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is coming to mobile soon as a premium title. NetEase Games and ArtPlay are co-developing the iOS and Android version of former Castlevania series producer Koji Igarashi’s Metroidvania. They’ve tweaked the game to work well on mobile: the user interface and the 108 different shard …
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