EGX Rezzed 2016: Snakes, Samurai and Soup
EGX Rezzed has come and gone, with indies from all four corners of the gaming world coming to show off their games to an eager audience. Here are three of our favourites from the EGX showfloor, which include happy go luck snakes, chefs burning soup in space and brightly coloured…
Weappy Releases New This Is The Police Trailer
Weappy Studio have released a brand new trailer for their police management sim This Is The Police, where players must balance being a morally upstanding chief of police, while also pocketing enough money to set you up for a cushy retirement. This can be from back-room deals with the Mafia,…
EGX Rezzed 2016: A Look At Bears Can’t Drift!?
Outside of the big franchise racers like Mario Kart and Sega All Stars Racing, it’s very rare that you will see a kart racer that does not have a licensed character slapped on the front to sell units. This is even the case in the indie sphere, where games like…
Look to A Dark Tomorrow with New Gears 4 Trailer
Off the back of the release date announcement for Gears of War 4 last week, Microsoft and the Coalition have released a new cinematic trailer for this new era of the Gears franchise. Set 25 years after the events of Gears 3 when the Locust horde was finally expunged from…
The eGames Launched as Part of London Games Festival
As part of the UK's commitment to support the burgeoning games industry, the eGames has been launched as a way to 'positively shape the future of competitive gaming' and establish a competition structure similar to that of the Olympics. With support from the UK Government, the eGames will begin with…
Hand of Fate 2 Announced for Early 2017
After seeing some great success after its launch on Kickstarter, Defiant Development are shuffling the deck and starting a brand new adventure with Hand of Fate 2, currently scheduled for release in Q1 of 2017 for PC, Mac and Linux. This sequel will follow the same structure of the first…
Amiibo Unlocks Detailed for Star Fox Zero
Ahead of the launch later this month, Nintendo have revealed the amiibo functionality which will be available in Star Fox Zero in a brand new trailer, showing the ace pilot team in action. Scanning the Falco amiibo will unlock the Black Arwing, a variant of the spaceship which has increased…
Nioh Coming to PS4 in 2016 with Demo In April
After announcing Nioh back at the PlayStation Experience, Koei Tecmo have revealed that an alpha demo of this dark samurai action-RPG will be coming to PS4 from April 26th to May 5th. Developed under the guidance of Kou Shibusawa, Hisashi Koinuma and Team Ninja, Nioh has you tasked as William,…
Enter the Gungeon Beginner’s Guide & Tips
With the released of gunfight dungeon crawler Enter the Gungeon, prospective Gungeoneers will soon be facing the terrors found within its many chambers. As someone who has been exploring the depths for a long while now, here are some useful tips, tricks and bits of information that should make your…
Enter the Gungeon Review
I’m mowing down hordes of cute, walking bullets with a gun that fires junk mail, while a turtle in a space helmet provides covering fire as I frantically roll from upturned table to stone pillar. I’ve only got a few seconds before the next torrent of bullets destroys my last…
Steamforged Games Is Kickstarting A Dark Souls Board Game
Just after a Bloodborne card game was revealed early in the month, Steamforged Games have announced via their Facebook page that they are planning to kickstart a Dark Souls board game. Like with the Bloodborne card game, this is officially licensed with Bandai Namco assisting with development of the board…
Gargos and Mira Are Coming to Killer Instinct Season 3
Killer Instinct Season 3 is finally here, with this new content update promising more characters, new single player modes and a whole host of other new features to Microsoft's flagship fighting game. Season 3 launches with Tusk, Kim Wu, Rash and Arbiter to kick off this new era for KI,…
The Absolute Starter Guide to Dark Souls
If the hundreds of news pieces haven’t given it away yet, a new Dark Souls game is on the horizon and we are quite excited to play it. Now most of us at VGU are seasoned Dark Souls fans, but many people will either be coming to Dark Souls III…
Arc System Works Show Off New Network Mode of Guilty Gear Xrd Revelator
With their updated version of Guilty Gear Xrd coming later this year, Arc System Works have decided to show off the revamped Network Mode for their fighter, which allows players to move a chibi avatar around a 3D world to look for matches. It's similar to the Lobby system found…
Alex Charges Into Street Fighter V on March 30th
After a long radio silence and fans getting ready to power bomb their way into Capcom HQ, it has been announced that the long awaited March update for Street Fighter V will be rolling out on the 28th and 30th of March. The 28th will see Challenge Mode be introduced,…
Prepare to Brew with Dark Souls Tea Charity Auction
It may not be an Estus Flask but it's the next best thing for a nation of tea drinkers. In a collaboration with Yorkshire Tea and Bandai Namco UK, a one of a kind box of Dark Souls Tea has been crafted from the finest Green Blossom of Darkroot Garden,…
The Escapists: The Walking Dead Gets Free Survival Mode Update
In a collaboration with Skybound Entertainment, Team17 have released a brand new and absolutely free Survival Mode update for The Escapists: The Walking Dead which will available on Xbox One and PC later today. The Survival Mode update adds an all new gameplay mode where you must take on a…
Xbox One Owners Can Access English Subtitles in Japanese Dark Souls III
With almost every moderately popular streamer getting very early access to Dark Souls III, many Souls fans are quite annoyed as to why Dark Souls III has a staggered worldwide release date. This irritation has only grown, with the discovery that if Xbox One owners buy a Japanese download copy…
Edmund McMillen Teases The Legend of Bum-bo
Edmund McMillen and co are working on a new project, titled The Legend of Bum-bo, a 'turn based puzzle RPG type thingy thats randomly generated' according to McMillen on the official Binding of Issac website. This game has apparently been in the works for a few months now and seems…
Hyper Light Drifter Launches for PC and Mac on March 31st
After a short setback at the end of last year, Heart Machine have finally announced that their beautiful glitchpunk action game, Hyper Light Drifter, is coming to PC and Mac on March 31st. Being successfully backed on Kickstarter in October 2013, Hyper Light Drifter has had a long but storied…
Dark Souls III PC Options Shown on IGN Livestream
Thanks to eagle eyed Redditor RedQ, PC users have finally got a glimpse at the graphical options for Dark Souls III. Captured while IGN were streaming the first three hours of From Software's soon to be released RPG, the options screen shows off the graphics options that players are able…