Apex Legends developer Respawn is recruiting a design director with "multiplayer FPS experience" to join its incubation game team.While there are no clues about whether the position will contribute to a new franchise or an existing one, the fact Respawn is applying its first-person shooter chops to an unannounced game is welcomed news for many shooter fans, particularly as the studio's Star Wars project - reported to be a Mandalorian... Read more ›
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Arrowhead's chaotic alien-shooter Helldivers 2 became PlayStation's fastest-selling game ever, but despite its initial success, player numbers have since declined.A look at the game's Steam charts shows a steady drop since February, when the game launched. According to SteamDB, at its peak in February shortly after launch, there were 458,709 concurrent players. In comparison, its peak over the last 30 days is 166,305. That's a drop of 64 percent.Looking by... Read more ›
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GTA 5 will no longer be part of the PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium games catalogue offering as of the middle of next month, as the countdown continues to GTA 6. Rockstar's hugely-popular open world is now listed among the games labelled as being your "Last chance to play", visible from your PlayStation console. Eurogamer has spotted a dozen games set to depart the service on 18th June, with other... Read more ›
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The developer of MultiVersus has gone "above and beyond" to ensure the game is protected from dataminers. The free-to-play fighter is out next week and includes villains like The Joker and Agent Smith from The Matrix, both of which were rumoured long before their reveals. Now, it seems the developer has put stronger defences in place to protect the game from future dataminers, though there's no guarantee there won't be... Read more ›
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Here it is, Guardians: our first look – well, hear, technically – at Keith David's Commander Zavala in Destiny 2: The Final Shape.We already knew that Bungie had no plans to remove Zavala from the Destiny 2 story given he was "central" to the upcoming The Final Shape expansion, but this is the first time we've heard Zavala voiced by David. Up until now, Zavala's voice work had been recorded... Read more ›
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The developer behind new gacha adventure Wuthering Waves has apologised for the number of bugs and lag issues at launch. The game launched worldwide yesterday (UK time) but has already seen multiple hotfixes, the latest of which forced an uninstall and reinstall of the game, Eurogamer can confirm. An English post on X from Chinese developer Kuro Games has acknowledged the situation and promised players compensation of ten Lustrous Tides... Read more ›
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Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've been playing over the past few days. This week, we lean on sailor superstition to scare a boat full of pirates, we voyage across space in vast gothic monasteries, and we learn a hard lesson about communication in an outrageous kitchen.What have you been playing?If you fancy catching up on some... Read more ›
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Infused with Mad Max-y vibes, Fortnite's new season is here - bringing with it the game's Fallout crossover. We knew to expect the Fallout T-60 Power Armour, and now know the iconic suit is its own skin in the game, not a power-up. Joining it are a range of other punky wasteland warriors, Magneto from the X-Men, and a character named Peabody that's a pod of... peas. Speaking of power-ups,... Read more ›
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If you're a fan of Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun's retro-inspired first-person shooting action - and you might well be given how positively it was received - you've got a fresh chunk of retro-inspired first-person shooting action in a few short weeks: Focus Entertainment has announced an expansion is launching on 18th June. Forges of Corruption, as the expansion is officially known, includes a brand-new campaign spanning five new environments. Three of... Read more ›
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With another week of 2024 now crossed off the calendar, Epic has delved deep into its big bag of treats to reveal the Epic Games Store's latest freebie - and this time it's Farming Simulator 22. This not-quite-latest instalment in developer Giants Software's long-running agricultural sim (and I'm about to paraphrase the official blurb here seeing as I'm not much of an expert on this one) gives wannabe farmers the... Read more ›
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The Sims 4 is getting on a bit, and, as regular players will know, the whole thing - which includes over 70s bits of DLC piled onto the base game over the last 10 years - is starting to get at little bit creaky. And that's something EA is finally acknowledging, and has now assembled a team specifically to tackle 'frustrating' technical issues the game has amassed over time. EA... Read more ›
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Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 is a carefully paced cinematic game - almost like the logical conclusion of those early 90s FMV experiments. I mean that in the best way and I'm fascinated by its existence - in an era where it feels as if publishers are pushing to fill their games with arguably too many features, Hellblade 2 is a tight, pure experience more so than a typical video game.... Read more ›
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There is another date to add to your diary for next month's showcase spectacular. On Satuday 8th June, at 1am UK time, indie publisher Devolver Digital will be hosting its summer showcase, wrapping the presentation up as a 15th birthday party for its tongue-in-cheek mascot Volvy. The showcase - sorry, birthday party - will last for around 20 minutes, and feature updates, release dates and all-new reveals the company has... Read more ›
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Listen carefully to the finale of last week's Assassin's Creed Shadows trailer, and a familiar musical theme can be heard. Originally titled 'Earth' but best known to fans of the franchise as 'Ezio's Family', you may as well at this point just call it The Assassin's Creed Series Theme. Unfortunately, when I speak to the brains behind it, veteran composer Jesper Kyd, he says he can't say more about Assassin's... Read more ›
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Atari has purchased the Intellivision brand, ending what Atari claims to be the "longest running console war in history". Atari's home consoles went head-to-head with Mattel's Intellivision in the late 1970s and 1980s, long before Nintendo and Sega competed in the 1990s. Intellivision even enlisted actor George Plimpton for an infamous series of adverts comparing the two consoles. Now Atari owns the rights to over 200 games from the Intellivision... Read more ›
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The Last of Us and Uncharted 4 creative director Neil Druckmann has said Naughty Dog's next game could "redefine mainstream perceptions of gaming".In an interview shared today to coincide with Sony's corporate strategy meeting, the studio head was asked about what dream project he would like to see realised. In response, Druckmann said he has been "lucky to work on several dream projects" already, before adding he is "currently excited... Read more ›
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This piece is a retrospective rather than a review and contains spoilers for Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door.Simply the thing I am? Oli Welsh, gone and much-missed (he didn't die), once made an excellent point to me about the Mario RPGs. There's this brilliant running joke in some of them that I had not spotted until he mentioned it. The joke's simple: nobody recognises Mario when he first arrives... Read more ›
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More than 10,000 people have been laid off from their jobs this year across the video game industry. That's according to an archive tallying layoffs across the industry, which has now hit an estimated total of 10,100 people. For comparison, 10,500 people were laid off in 2023, meaning almost as many have been impacted so far in 2024 in less than half the time. Read more Read more ›
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Nightingale now has an offline mode as part of its latest update. The early access survival crafting game's update 0.3 also introduces new quest NPCs Joan of Arc and Edgar Allan Poe among others, as well as new tiered creatures, Bound enemies, and questlines. Developer Inflexion stated earlier this year that offline play was a priority, despite the game's focus on co-operative exploration. Read more Read more ›
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An intrepid Super Mario 64 player with far more skill and patience than I can ever hope to obtain has done the once unthinkable. They have completed the game without pressing the A button - you know, the one that makes Mario jump and therefore is pretty darn useful when navigating the platform and enemy laden world - once. Not one single time. Really.While Super Mario 64 first released in... Read more ›
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