PlayStation maker Sony is currently in talks to acquire FromSoftware, the developer behind Elden Ring, Dark Souls and Bloodbourne, as part of a buyout of its owner, the Japanese publishing giant Kadokawa. Read more Read more ›
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Ahead of Elden Ring's highly-anticipated Elden Ring DLC expansion, FromSoftware boss Hidetaka Miyazaki has said he understands why many players use guides to help them with the studio's games, but doesn't want them to be a necessity.Speaking with PC Gamer, Miyazaki said the team expects players to consult guides when playing through its games. "There's going to be a wealth of information on the web and in their communities where... Read more ›
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A new, unofficial online database of game listings from the Epic Games Store has been launched and promptly rifled through - turning up mention of numerous unannounced PC game projects. EpicDB, similar to SteamDB, is now offline - after Epic Games itself realised its private store data was being probed. "We released an update tonight so third-party tools can't surface any new unpublished product titles from the Epic Games Store... Read more ›
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The Communications Workers of America (CWA), one of America's largest unions, has filed Unfair Labour Practice charges against Microsoft supplier Lionbridge Technologies. According to the CWA, Lionbridge laid off the entirety of an Idaho-based team, equating to 160 people, after they engaged in union-related activity. This team, the CWA said, provided QA testing for Activision. In addition, the CWA stated Lionbridge had offered workers a severance package which "required them... Read more ›
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Five of the Best is a weekly series for supporters of Eurogamer. It's a series that highlights some of the features in games that are often overlooked. It's also about having your say, so don't be shy, use the comments below and join in!Oh and if you want to read more, you can - you can find our entire Five of the Best archive elsewhere on the site.Wasn't that Perfect... Read more ›
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You know the fantasy already. An FBI agent calls their office to have someone run a check on a piece of information. It might be a person's name, a car licence plate, or some surveillance footage. Whatever it is, the person on the other end of the line has to do some invisible wizardry and then return the pertinent facts to the agent, fast. The agent then hangs up and... Read more ›
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Epic Games is readying a new update for Lego Fortnite, set to arrive on 13th June, this time expanding the brick-based survival mode with a range of new difficulty settings to suit more discerning tastes. First up is Lego Fortnite's new Cozy Mode, designed to offer an experience somewhere between the peril-free japes of Sandbox Mode and its standard-difficulty Survival Mode. Cozy Mode's default settings basically gives players a smattering... Read more ›
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It's important to understand that before I got my hands on Path of Exile 2 I had been travelling for 15 straight hours, including a long plane delay and then an aborted landing attempt that made me genuinely fear that I was going to feature in the next Boeing horror story. As a newcomer to what will soon be the Path of Exile series, I was already daunted by its... Read more ›
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Sumo Group, the parent company of Sackboy: A Big Adventure and Texas Chain Saw Massacre developer Sumo Digital, has announced plans to reduce its workforce by up to 15 percent, putting nearly 270 employees across the UK, Canada, Poland, Czech Republic, and India at risk. "Whilst Sumo has been able to manage through many of the recent difficulties the games industry has faced," the company wrote, "we have not been... Read more ›
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Microsoft's Xbox Summer Showcase was unexpectedly exciting, with a torrent of impressive-looking games from a range of well-loved franchises and some entirely fresh titles too. Despite some misgivings over the future of the Xbox brand and an underwhelming reveal of new hardware, the games themselves were enough to carry the day - and the Digital Foundry crew has convened to discuss the highlights and lowlights in a DF Direct special.... Read more ›
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You wait years for a new season of your favourite show, and then find out it's ending. In what looks like classic Netflix fashion, today's action-packed trailer for Arcane season two describes the show's long-awaited second run of episodes as "The Final Chapter". Which, for possibly the best video game adaptation of all time, and just an incredible TV show in general, is pretty bad news. Spoilers abound for the... Read more ›
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Elden Ring DLC Shadow of the Erdtree releases on 21st June - that's just 10 days away. Now is not the time to procrastinate, Tarnished! The Land of Shadow awaits, but it seems some players still haven't completed the necessary requirements. Indeed, a social post on X has gone viral for noting only 37.8 percent of Steam players have the achievement for defeating Mohg, a boss that must be beaten... Read more ›
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Right, let's get all the negative stuff out the way first. One: I'm not sure about the new name. Dragon Age: Dreadwolf was much cooler than Dragon Age: The Veilguard.Okay! Now we've got all those negatives out of the way, on to the positive. After an extended hands-off demonstration of Dragon Age: The Veilguard's first hour I can say, with some confidence, this video game looks fantastic. The combat looks... Read more ›
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard features a far more fleshed out romance and relationship system than in previous BioWare games, the developer has told Eurogamer - including the ability for party members to go off and find their own love interests, should you not be interested yourself. Speaking to Eurogamer's deputy editor Chris Tapsell at an event in LA this week, The Veilguard's creative director John Epler revealed more of the... Read more ›
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Nintendo has released an update for its Switch consoles, removing support for social media platform X in the process.We knew this day was coming, with the company previously announcing its plans to pull support for X last month.While the company has not provided a reason for this change, Nintendo follows both PlayStation and Xbox in removing integration with the social media network since X changed its API pricing in March... Read more ›
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Atlus has provided new details on the battle system of its forthcoming RPG Metaphor: ReFantazio, which includes over 40 archetypes to play as. As shown in the recent Atlus showcase for the game, archetypes are essentially a job system for characters to switch between, divided between 14 lineages. These archetypes can be managed in the Akademeia, a library-esque facility that works comparably to The Velvet Room from the Persona games.... Read more ›
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On its release, Avowed will include a third-person gameplay mode.Developer Obsidian confirmed this little nugget of information earlier this week, as part of an Xbox podcast. While debuting new footage from the studio's upcoming RPG, Avowed director Carrie Patel casually stated: "Yes, we do have third-person.""A lot of the footage we're going to see today is first-person, but we do have a third-person option for players who prefer it," Patel... Read more ›
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Caravan SandWitch is a game in which the qualifiers really matter. It's the post-apocalypse, but it's also gentle and dreamy and kind of lovely. You're looking for your missing sister, but in an unhurried, holidaying sort of way. The game's futuristic landscape is based on Provence, and maybe it's hard to get too serious about things in Provence. The rocks and mountains are the colour of milky coffee. The sky... Read more ›
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Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater's release date appears to have been leaked by GameStop. In a now-deleted social post, the US retailer listed the release date as 17th November, alongside a pre-order option. Fresh gameplay of the remake was shown at the Xbox Games Showcase on Sunday night, but no specific release date was provided - although it's expected in 2024 thanks to a PlayStation blog. Read more Read more ›
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Last year, we discovered that Dragon Age Inquisition's ability to make your horse "sprint" was just an illusion, a fact that surprised many fans of the near-decade old game. Now, there's perhaps even more surprising news: this wasn't even the first time BioWare had pulled off this same trick, and no one noticed. Believe it or not, Mass Effect 1 has the same faux-sprint effect in play - where your... Read more ›
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Activision has clarified Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 isn't 309GB after all - or at least, you can download the core of it for less.This is despite Xbox's store page for the game stating that Call of Duty: Black Ops 6's install size is a rather chunky 309.85 GB. This made many heads turn, because that seemed excessive.The Call of Duty team has now issued a correction with more... Read more ›
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