Blizzard is removing the Hero Mastery Gauntles PvE mode from Overwatch three months after it launched as "it hasn't resonated with players". The mode will no longer be available to play from Season 11 on 18th June, after it launched in March this year. Players therefore have until then, during Season 10, to complete the Lifetime Challenges for the mode and compete on its Top 500 leaderboards. Read more Read more ›
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Players of EA games such as Apex Legends, FC 24 and The Sims 4 have been greeted with warnings that their "games have been removed from your library". EA acknowledged the issue as a bug yesterday, and said that it had now been resolved. "We fixed the issue with EA services on PC. Log out and log back in to access your games. Thanks for sticking with us!" EA Help... Read more ›
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Sony has shared a video detailing the company's future plans for the next decade, including a look ahead at one possible concept for a futuristic PlayStation controller. "How far will imagination carry us?" the video asks, showing an artist's animated character coming to life before our eyes. But the controller is the video's most eye-grabbing detail, as we see it being used to pilot a character through space. The pad... Read more ›
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This year's just-about-still-under-wraps COD will be titled Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, according to newspaper advertising spotted by fans this morning. Copies of USA Today have been pictured featuring a promotional suppement for this year's upcoming shooter, showing the game's logo and title, and a range of in-universe news stories. Fictional news items detail the defacement of Mount Rushmore, as shown in the Call of Duty Black Ops 6... Read more ›
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Embracer's headcount has plummeted by 4532 employees over the past financial year, while 44 studios have been closed and 80 in-development projects have been dropped during this period. This news comes as part of Embracer's latest quarterly financial report, in which CEO Lars Wingefors states the company's restructuring programme is now "successfully finalised" and has "created a stronger foundation for improved profitability, cash flows and long-term value creation". The restructuring... 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.Apologies this arrives... Read more ›
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Sublime grid-filling puzzle series Picross is returning to Switch this month for another retro-themed collaboration, developer Jupiter this time teaming up with Bandai Namco to release Picross S: Namco Legendary Edition on 30th May. Much like 2021's Picross S: Mega Drive & Master System Edition, Namco Legendary Edition takes Picross' beloved puzzle action - in which players use number clues to correctly fill in squares on a grid and complete... Read more ›
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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League might not have done the numbers Warner Bros was expecting, but developer Rocksteady continues onward with its post-launch plans, with its imminent Season 1 - Episode 2 update introducing new enemies, new gears, and more. Season 1 - Episode 2 is a mid-season update for Kill the Justice League, and follows the arrival of The Joker as a playable character at the end of... Read more ›
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A new year means a new Call of Duty which means Activision Blizzard is going to need to get around to announcing it at some point. And that some point will almost certainly be during Microsoft's Xbox showcase this June. But not before some teasers - and it looks like the first has now been spotted in a corner of the internet. More specifically, what appears to be a new... Read more ›
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After a few set photo leaks earlier in the month, we now have an official first look at Liam Hemsworth as Geralt of Rivia in season four of Netflix's The Witcher series.A new image along with a short piece of 'first look' footage shows the former Hunger Games actor with Geralt's white locks and a suitably moody stare.First up, that footage, which you can see below. The Netflix team has... Read more ›
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Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has a new CEO. Earlier today, it was announced that Shams Jorjani - who was previously part of the team that published Arrowhead's game, Magicka - will take over the leadership role at the company, replacing founder Johan Pilestedt. Pilestedt will remain in a leadership position following this change, and will now serve as Arrowhead's chief creative officer and chairman. Read more Read more ›
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A beloved GameCube classic from 2004, Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door has been deemed worthy of a new release on Nintendo Switch a full 20 years later. Original developer Intelligent Systems is at the helm here, substantially reworking its visuals, rearranging its soundtrack and adding a suite of bonus extras via a new gallery section. It's a fittingly lavish upgrade for a game that still holds up today, with... Read more ›
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Fortnite's new season - which includes a Fallout collaboration - kicks off on Friday, and we've now gotten a glimpse of how the T-60 Power Armour will look in-game. A brief snippet of gameplay footage - our first from Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 3 - shows the iconic armour as seen in the Fallout games and recent TV series, stomping towards the camera. Fortnite fans may note this location is... Read more ›
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I struggled with V Rising to begin with. On a surface level, it sounded great: a vampire survival fantasy where you awaken after a centuries-long sleep to eat your way through a world. It has castle building, thematic survival systems like staying out of the sun and drinking people's blood, and you can transform into animals and wield magic. On top of that, it plays a bit like a Diablo... Read more ›
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Twitch will now let users filter out or blur unwanted content. Last year, Twitch introduced Content Classification Labels for streamers to tag their streams accordingly. Now these can be used to filter out streams that include mature content, sexual themes, gambling, drug use, and more. Further, there's now an option to blur stream thumbnails with sexual themes, so your homepage won't be filled with inappropriate imagery. Read more Read more ›
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Deadlock, the unannounced but previously-leaked hero shooter from Half-Life maker Valve, has been spotted again in a fresh leak. And, this time, we can now see gameplay footage of Deadlock in action. Leaked details of Deadlock sprung onto the internet last week via images posted to social media and a report from longterm Valve reporter Tyler McVicker, which claimed that Deadlock was currently in closed testing. It's from this ongoing... Read more ›
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Sony has shared a new job vacancy for a Mobile Platform Architect at PlayStation Global.The listing, which was spotted by TweakTown, shows the company is looking for an engineer to design a PlayStation platform which will focus on "developing, publishing, and operating free-to-play mobile games".Among the responsibilities, the successful candidate will be expected to assist the platform's engineering team with "technical leadership and guidance", contribute to the mobile platform's roadmap,... Read more ›
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MultiVersus beta players will be given a free premium battle pass for the fighting game's first season. Last year's open beta was shut down until the game's full launch, with no refunds given to players, although progress and content will carry over. Now, in a new blog post, developer Player First Games has revealed returning players from the beta will receive access to the season one premium battle pass for... Read more ›
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Smash Bros. fighters have an almost equal chance of winning a match, creator Masahiro Sakurai has said. Sakurai's YouTube series is still going strong, with his latest video discussing balance in fighting games - something the Smash Bros. games have seen their fair share of controversy around. The video includes win rate data from across the globe, revealing the highest win rate is 51.43 percent and the lowest win rate... Read more ›
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XDefiant, Ubisoft's free-to-play Call of Duty-like arena shooter, launched yesterday. However, the game has already faced its share of issues, with matchmaking being shot (pun not intended) leaving many unable to access it at all.As users reported being met with an "Unable to Find Match" alert, Ubisoft acknowledged players were struggling to join a game, stating: "Please bear with us while we look into servers and matchmaking!"Things got so bad,... Read more ›
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