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- Once upon a time, Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap was my Zelda
- Free, Star Wars Battlefront 2's downloadable content will be
- EA Access, Origin Access, and various EA PlayStation 4 trials free for a week
- Early impressions of FIFA 18
- Need for Speed Payback is still trying to do story, still badly
- First trailer for BioWare's new IP Anthem
- Brothers director announces co-op prison break game A Way Out
- Madden 18 has its own FIFA Journey-style story mode
- Star Wars Battlefront 2 gameplay leak shows Darth Maul, Rey
- Assassin's Creed Origins leak reveals ridable camels
- EA Play 2017 live report
- Jelly Deals roundup: Doom, PS4 discounts, Dirt 4, and more
| Once upon a time, Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap was my Zelda Posted: 11 Jun 2017 12:00 AM PDT  West One still works with the new version of Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap. I was expecting as much, but it was a relief anyway. This most loving of remakes would not have felt entirely legitimate if West One had not worked. But here's something crazy: West111111 still works, too. And this is something I was not expecting. In my childish way, I had assumed that almost nobody else really knew about West111111. I had assumed it was my secret - a thing that I shared with the game itself and with an old friend I had when I was eleven. West One and West111111 are both codes. More accurately they are WE5T ONE and WE5T 111 111, since the alphabet The Dragon's Trap provides opts for a 5 that doubles as an S. At school - The Dragon's Trap was the great love of my first year of secondary school, which would make this 1990 - my friend Gareth and I had heard rumours about a code for the game's password screen which took you almost to the end of this huge, sprawling adventure. This code was weird, we had heard: there was something not quite right about it. After all, the third Wonder Boy outing is a game in which you rarely play as Wonder Boy himself. The dragon has cursed you and so you play as the various creatures Wonder Boy has been transformed into: a lizard, a mouse, a lion, a hawk, a...um...merman? This code, though, this magical code dropped you into the endgame and gave you a tonne of gold and gear, but it also made you play as Wonder Boy - at least until you found a transformer room. Like I said, the code was weird. |
| Free, Star Wars Battlefront 2's downloadable content will be Posted: 10 Jun 2017 01:26 PM PDT  Star Wars Battlefront 2 will have seasons of downloadable content and they will be free. Included will be new locations, characters, vehicles, modes, weapons, star cards, and more - in other words the kind of content Star Wars Battlefront 1 charged for. Star Wars film actor John Boyega announced that his character Finn will be part of The Last Jedi season of content coming to Star Wars Battlefront 2 in December. Captain Phasma and The Last Jedi planet Crait will be included too, as will a new space map above D'Qar, new events, rewards and more. |
| EA Access, Origin Access, and various EA PlayStation 4 trials free for a week Posted: 10 Jun 2017 01:22 PM PDT  You can now play games through EA Access, Origin Access, and various PS4 trials for free until June 18th. The move comes as a "thank you" to players who took part in the Play to Give in-game challenges that took place last week, as part of EA's big charitable push. The company donated $1 million to the charities HeForShe, the National Bullying Prevention Center, and Ditch the Label. |
| Posted: 10 Jun 2017 01:00 PM PDT  At a recent event in London, I had the chance to go hands-on with FIFA 18 for a few hours. My early impressions are that it looks better, has some useful gameplay improvements that make a lot of sense, and feels a tad weightier to play. EA Sports moved FIFA moved over to the Frostbite game engine for FIFA 17, and while it sparked a modest visual upgrade, I didn't feel like it made for a significant leap. FIFA 18 is the game's second effort on the engine, and you can tell. To illustrate the point, EA Sports reps showed Chelsea forward Eden Hazard's face in FIFA 17, and then his face in FIFA 18. It's a marked improvement, with more detail across the board. But I was impressed most by the stadiums, particularly when played during the day. The lighting makes everything look more real, and there's a lot more visual density. I played a few matches in Boca Juniors' stadium, La Bombonera, and it looks fantastic. You get a great sense of an Argentinian atmosphere, with ticker tape on the pitch, unique flags, banners and even a car on the track that wraps around the field. At the event, creative director Matt Prior said the developers have tried to recreate unique atmospheres at a number of big stadiums in the game - and this extends to how the crowds work. |
| Need for Speed Payback is still trying to do story, still badly Posted: 10 Jun 2017 12:48 PM PDT  EA has shown the first footage of the next Need for Speed at its EA Play event ahead of E3 2017 in Los Angeles. As previously revealed, Payback is set in a faux Vegas called Fortune Valley, and features a storyline with three drivers trying to get revenge against a cartel that runs the town. To illustrate how this fits into a racing game, developer Ghost Games showed a gameplay trailer, below, featuring a heist mission. Mac and Jess, two of the leads, team up to steal a Koenigsegg Regera supercar from the back of a truck, because reasons. |
| First trailer for BioWare's new IP Anthem Posted: 10 Jun 2017 12:45 PM PDT BioWare has finally shown off its new IP, named Anthem. A 45-second teaser showed sci-fi planet similar to that of Avatar, and humans fighting in mechanised suits. A huge wall divides civilisation from the wilderness. This is the project which has been in the works for years at BioWare's main studio in Edmonton, while satellite team Montreal worked on Mass Effect Andromeda. |
| Brothers director announces co-op prison break game A Way Out Posted: 10 Jun 2017 12:43 PM PDT  Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons writer and director Josef Fares revealed the new game he's helming. It's called A Way Out and it's a co-op game about two men breaking out of prison. Revealed at EA's E3 press conference, A Way Out is the debut of Fares' new Swedish studio Hazelight. Fares confirmed that A Way Out will only be playable in co-op. He noted that there will be an online option, but he strongly suggested playing it splitscreen in the same room. |
| Madden 18 has its own FIFA Journey-style story mode Posted: 10 Jun 2017 12:15 PM PDT Madden 18 is getting its own version of FIFA's Journey story mode, named Madden Long Shot. A teaser shown off in EA's press conference just now revealed what looks like House of Cards and Hunger Games actor Mahershala Ali will feature. It's clearly inspired by Journey, which is no bad thing - it was a surprisingly playable addition to last year's FIFA. |
| Star Wars Battlefront 2 gameplay leak shows Darth Maul, Rey Posted: 10 Jun 2017 06:51 AM PDT  We're not headed to EA's E3 press conference for a few more hours yet, but gameplay footage from Star Wars Battlefront 2 is already available to watch on YouTube, for some reason. More than 12 minutes of gameplay lies below, showing characters from a mix of Star Wars time periods. There's prequel-era villain Darth Maul, original trilogy bounty hunter Boba Fett and The Force Awakens' Rey, all fighting on the streets of Theed - that's the large city on Naboo, Phantom Menace fans. Oh, and lots of Battle Droids. |
| Assassin's Creed Origins leak reveals ridable camels Posted: 10 Jun 2017 06:17 AM PDT  The latest in a string of Assassin's Creed Origins leaks has revealed perhaps our biggest cache of information on the unannounced game yet, including the fact you'll be able to ride camels. A release date is also listed - 28th October 2017. Details come from the next issue of Game Informer, which has Assassin's Creed Origins as its cover story. Images of the magazine have now been posted to Imgur, Reddit and NeoGAF. |
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| Jelly Deals roundup: Doom, PS4 discounts, Dirt 4, and more Posted: 10 Jun 2017 04:00 AM PDT  A note from the editor: Jelly Deals is a deals site launched by our parent company, Gamer Network, with a mission to find the best bargains out there. Look out for the Jelly Deals roundup of reduced-price games and kit every Saturday on Eurogamer. Once more, we're here to take a look at the very best gaming and tech deals from the past week, from all the way across the vast stretches of the world wide web. E3 technically begins this weekend, too, so keep your eyes peeled from a whole bunch of new games to show up over the next week. I'm still hoping (in vain) for a new Jet Set Radio. As usual, we've got deals that'll work in the UK, deals that'll work in the US and some deals that will work in both the UK and US, as well as presumably many other places. Let's get started. |
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