Mexican farming communities accused German auto giant Volkswagen on Tuesday of "arbitrarily" provoking a drought in the central state of Puebla to protect its newly manufactured cars from hail. Volkswagen, which has a major plant in Puebla, has been using "hail cannons" – sonic devises that purport to disrupt the formation of hail in the atmosphere –…
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. While we’re all still reeling from the madness of that new…
Star Citizen is a bit like an Instagram account: what you see looks amazing but the reality is hollow. As it stands, at major milestone alpha 3.0, Star Citizen does not convince as a game. But as a picture-postcard-maker – as a demonstration of technology – it’s virtually peerless. Standing on top of a canyon…
France says its navy will intervene to avert a fresh “scallop war” between British and French fishermen, who have vowed to “launch another attack” if no deal is reached this week. Violent clashes erupted last Tuesday when the British accused the French of ramming their vessels, firing flares and hurling stones in a highly dangerous and…
Donald Trump has called on his Attorney General to uncover the identity of the writer behind a critical op-ed which claimed his own aides were working against him. Mr Trump has been furious over the anonymous piece apparently written by a member of his administration, which appeared in the New York Times on Wednesday, depicting…
A few weeks ago now, a company called Boss Level Labs contacted Eurogamer, claiming to have created the world’s first brain booster supplement for gamers. They called it GodMode. Now I felt that claim was a little generous, given I’d heard of an esports team in the States that were sponsored by a similar kind…
A man who was hit on the head by a 13lb cat that dropped from an eighth floor balcony in Turin in northern Italy is suing the pet’s owner for personal injury. The 56-year-old man was strolling along a street when the fat feline fell from the balcony of its owner’s apartment and landed on top…
It’s been six weeks since Nintendo launched Animal Crossing smartphone spin-off Pocket Camp worldwide and I wrote about everything the game lacked. It felt like there was something missing from Pocket Camp – a feeling the app had failed to replicate what had made Animal Crossing so good on GameCube, Wii and 3DS before. Pocket…
Emmanuel Macron, the French president, on Monday said preserving European Union unity was more important than forging a close relationship with post-Brexit Britain, and hit out at what he called US President Donald Trump’s "aggressive" isolationism. Mr Macron, who met Theresa May, the prime minister, for talks on Britain’s departure from the EU during the summer holiday, said he…
Driver San Francsico, one of the greatest racing games of all time, is now available to play on Xbox One via the system’s backwards compatibility service. It sounds like hyperbole, but I’ve never been able to play or enjoy another racing game quite as much, since. And, as Eurogamer petrolhead Martin Robinson just said to…