#GamingFlips

A curated computer games & video gaming magazine of the best articles, including videos, audio and #GamingWednesday, from around the Web.

By Kol Tregaskes

Gaming
Borderlands 3 review - bigger, better and even more polarising than ever before
eurogamer.net - Vikki Blake
The humour is even more annoying, the guns even more amazing and Gearbox's shooter is more divisive than it's ever been. Borderlands 3 and I don't …
2 days ago
Sayonara Wild Hearts review - exuberance, precision and shattered love
eurogamer.net - Christian Donlan
Simogo shuffles through a stacked deck of rhythm-action delights, mastering yet another genre. A huge part of any creative endeavour, I suspect, is …
2 days ago
Konami
PES 2020 review - a brilliant, broken and bizarre game of football
eurogamer.net - Wesley Yin-Poole
PES 2020 is a patch or three away from being a very good game. As it stands, it's a weird mix of brilliant and broken. PES 2020 is a weird game. At …
4 days ago
Gears 5
Gears 5 Final Review - IGN
IGN - Ryan McCaffrey
To be clear, it’s not surprising at all that Gears 5 is an excellent third-person action game. This iconic series has never really had a misfire, …
4 days ago
Andrew Finch
Second Call of Duty player sentenced to prison following fatal swatting incident
eurogamer.net - Matt Wales
A second Call of Duty player has been sentenced to prison following an incident in 2017 in which an innocent bystander was shot and killed by police …
4 days ago
Apple Arcade
Mini Motorways is the new game from the maker of Mini Metro
eurogamer.net - Tom Phillips
Brilliant mobile phone game Mini Metro is getting a sequel of sorts. It's called Mini Motorways, and sees you laying down roads instead of metro …
4 days ago
Gaming
We played modern games on a CRT monitor - and the results are phenomenal
eurogamer.net - Richard Leadbetter
It's true. Running modern games on a vintage CRT monitor produces absolutely outstanding results - subjectively superior to anything from the LCD era, …
4 days ago
Opinion
The games industry shouldn’t be ripping off children
The Guardian - Geraldine Bedell
For an insecure child, a cosmetic item that represents social cachet matters that much more Last week, MPs called on the government to classify online loot boxes as gambling and in the process highlighted
6 days ago
PlayStation
We've all been calling the DualShock's X button the wrong name and PlayStation's had enough
eurogamer.net - Vikki Blake
That symbol in the southernmost position of the four buttons on your DualShock controller. What do you call it? If you're of rational mind, you'll …
September 11
Internet
Years after being taken down, PT still finds ways to terrify the internet
eurogamer.net - Imogen Beckhelling
Lance McDonald, the modder behind a number of cool hacks in Bloodborne and Dark Souls, has turned his expertise to Hideo Kojima's PT, discovering …
September 11
Borderlands 3
Borderlands 3 Review - IGN
IGN - James Duggan
You’ll arrive on the familiar planet of Pandora to find it overrun by bandits and on the verge of total collapse… so, normal. But this time around …
September 11
Geek
Borderlands 3's Review Situation Sure Is Strange
Kotaku - Jason Schreier
Borderlands 3 reviews hit the internet this morning, but only at a select few websites, thanks to a bizarre scenario that publisher 2K says is in …
September 11
Gears 5
Gears 5 review - a great campaign marred by painful progression
eurogamer.net - Wesley Yin-Poole
Mixed multiplayer and a depressing grind can't dim the light of a superb new Gears campaign. Gears 5 has a great campaign I'm happy to root for. On …
September 11
Cyberpunk 2077
Cyberpunk 2077 Multiplayer Is Now Confirmed to Be in Development - IGN
IGN - Alysia Judge
CD Projekt Red has confirmed that Cyberpunk 2077 will get a multiplayer mode sometime post-launch, putting to bed years of reports that it's been in …
September 7
Logos
20 years in 20 Eurogamer articles - as they appeared at the time
eurogamer.net - Oli Welsh
The first ever post on Eurogamer was made 20 years ago today, on 4th September, 1999. To celebrate our 20th anniversary, we've picked 20 articles - …
September 7
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
Night in the Woods developer Alec Holowka has died
eurogamer.net - Tom Phillips
Holowka's death was reported tonight on Twitter by a family member, who mentioned Holowka had suffered from mood and personality disorders. The news …
September 3
Mario Kart
The 20 best games of the past 20 years (that never get into top 20 lists)
eurogamer.net - Martin Robinson
As you might have noticed, this week marks 20 years since Eurogamer first sprung forth from boss-man Rupert Loman's loins (or something like that, I …
September 3
Cyberpunk 2077
The new Cyberpunk 2077 video looks great - but the Gamescom demo was even better
eurogamer.net - Alex Battaglia
A year after its initial gameplay debut, CD Projekt RED treated Gamescom 2019 attendees to a new slice of Cyberpunk 2077 action, with Digital Foundry …
September 3
Android News
Why game developers aren't more transparent about their projects
androidcentral.com - Jennifer Locke
Why aren't developers more transparent about the projects they're working on in the coming years? Why won't they just officially announce the game we …
August 31
Puzzles
Darq Review - IGN
IGN - Kyle Campbell
I'm a coward when it comes to nightmares, so Darq’s premise of a psychological horror game set in a lucid dream was enough to make me uncomfortably …
August 31
Sailing
Far: Lone Sails Review - IGN
IGN - Tom Marks
Far: Lone Sails came out on PC on May 17, 2018 and PS4 and Xbox One on April 2, 2019. We are using its release on Nintendo Switch on August 18, 2019 …
August 31
Ubisoft
Steam Is 'Unrealistic' For Developers, Says Ubisoft Executive - IGN
IGN - Alysia Judge
Ubisoft's vice president for partnerships and revenue, Chris Early, has said that Steam's business model is impractical in 2019. Speaking to the New …
August 31
Another SpatialOS game's been canned, making it the third this year
eurogamer.net - Emma Kent
Lightning-fast action, a "shared and persistent" open world, exciting tech and thousands of players. These were the things promised by Lazarus, an …
August 31
Why we now talk about politics in games so much
eurogamer.net - Malindy Hetfeld
Politics in video games can be a contentious thing. That's no surprise, seeing as politics are contentious by nature. Many of us would much rather …
August 31
What does it take to truly know a video game location?
eurogamer.net - Christian Donlan
I realised the other day that I had probably played through Gato Roboto about five times by now. This wonderfully compact Metroidvania has grabbed me …
August 31
Cyberpunk
Google reveals more games coming to Stadia, including Cyberpunk 2077
eurogamer.net - Matt Wales
With Stadia's non-specific November launch window steadily approaching, Google has unveiled a fresh batch of games coming to its streaming service on …
August 31
Cyberpunk 2077
Cyberpunk 2077's post-launch multiplayer still may not happen
eurogamer.net - Tom Phillips
When Cyberpunk 2077 arrives next year, it will be a single-player game - on that, developer CD Projekt Red has been clear. But what happens after …
August 31
Gaming
Quantum Break is Remedy's most fascinating work to date
eurogamer.net - Rick Lane
Quantum Break is at once simpler and more confounding than any Remedy game that preceded it. It's simultaneously a throwaway action shooter, a …
August 31
PlayStation 4
Control review: Mid-century postmodernism
eurogamer.net - Christian Donlan
Giddy action and astonishing art design combine in one of the great locations of modern video games. It spoils nothing, I hope, to reduce a game as …
August 31