The first thing you'll likely notice about Dread Delusion is that it's hideous, albeit artfully so; a queasy nightmare of blocky textures and shimmering, lurching geometry that builds its world around the low-poly constraints of 90s and early 2000s gaming - Bethesda's Morrowind being an obvious touchstone - to woozily disorientating effect. Its oppressive sky is the colour of a bruise, its grass the colour vomit, and its assorted flora,... Read more ›
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Bethesda is known for its glitchy releases. In fact, in the run up to Amazon's TV adaptation of Fallout, showrunner Graham Wagner even reminisced about a bug he came across while playing The Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall, stating that adding 'glitches' into a then-hypothetical second season of the show was "definitely on [his] mind as a concept".But, even the studio's less recent-releases are still faced with the age-old Bethesda bug... Read more ›
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Fortnite maker Epic Games has said it will fight back against a €1.1m (£968k) fine levied by the Dutch consumer regulator, which has accused the company of "unfair commercial practices aimed at children". An investigation by The Netherlands' Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) claims Epic Games "exploited the vulnerabilities of children" through "various design choices for its offerings in its Item Shop". This included, the ACM says, using ads... Read more ›
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Hellblade 2 leads the new games coming to Xbox Game Pass this month, alongside Soulslike Lords of the Fallen. The sequel to Senua's Sacrifice, Hellblade 2: Senua's Saga will be a nightmarish visual feast when it's added to Game Pass on day one, though it only runs at 30fps on Xbox consoles. PC specs have already been released. Lords of the Fallen released in October last year and has since... Read more ›
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The games industry is in a worrying state of flux right now. Beloved and storied studios are being shut down left, right and centre; others are having their teams gutted from the inside out. It's hard to know which games and teams will even still be around next month, let alone in a year's time, and it must be daunting in the extreme for new, independent developers trying to make... Read more ›
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Supergiant has discussed its first Hades 2 post-launch patch, which will be released at some point later this month.While the team delivered smaller hotfixes periodically since Hades 2 was released in early access, this patch will include some more meaty changes, including ones focused on resource gathering and getting around.In a post on Steam, Supergiant said it didn't want gathering resources to "feel too frustrating" for players, so this will... Read more ›
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A month on from a Nintendo game emulator topping the iPhone App Store charts, a newly-released PS1 emulator now looks set to do similar. Gamma, a free PS1 emulator for iPhone and iPad, was released this week. And, just as with the Delta emulator for Nintendo consoles and handhelds, it is taking advantage of Apple's recent change in App Store policy that officially greenlights game emulator apps for the first... Read more ›
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The hugely-popular Helldivers 2 has sold 12m copies on PC and PlayStation 5, enough to become Sony's fastest-selling PlayStation game of all time. Thanks in large part to its wild success on Steam, the PlayStation-published breakout hit shifted around 1m more than the previous record holder, 2022's God of War Ragnarök. Sony confirmed the sales record today in its just-published financial results, which also revealed a new running total for... Read more ›
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Sony has announced who will replace Jim Ryan as the company's CEO.In a change, the company will be led by two CEOs, with Hermen Hulst and Hideaki Nishino both stepping into new leadership positions.Hulst will serve as CEO of the new Studio Business Group, Sony announced in a message to staff from interim CEO Hiroki Totoki. Nishino will meanwhile be appointed CEO of the company's Platform Business Group. The two... Read more ›
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Customer service jobs in supermarkets feel like a rite of passage in the UK. They offer an instructive and character-shaping congregation of work-placed nightmares. Whether it's the repeat shoplifters with odd nicknames, chancers who believe the warehouse should have every out-of-stock item available within seconds, or just the complainers unhappy that you've had the audacity to run out of ready-peeled quail eggs (that actually happened) we all have retail horror... Read more ›
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Square Enix has been hit by a round of layoffs, impacting employees in its US and European offices as part of "structural reforms". It's unclear how many people are affected, but as VGC reports, staff were informed during an internal meeting on Monday. Eurogamer has contacted Square Enix for comment. The layoffs will happen over the next month, with employees in publishing, IT, and the indie games division Square Enix... Read more ›
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It's been a funny few weeks for Helldivers 2; one day it was riding high on its well-deserved success, the next it was being reviewed bombe into oblivion after Sony decided to foist mandatory PSN accounts on PC players; but now that drama is starting to subside following Sony's dramatic U-turn, all thoughts have turned to one thing: was the review bomb cape Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt previously appeared to... Read more ›
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Paradox Interactive has announced it's parting way with Prison Architect developer Double Eleven after nine years on the popular management series, saying it "could not find a commercial agreement that worked for both parties". Double Eleven first became involved with Prison Architect after it was hired to port the game to consoles, and it took full control of the series when original developer Introversion Software sold the rights to Paradox... Read more ›
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After nearly 14 years of waiting, PC players might soon have a version of Rockstar's original open-world cowboy caper Red Dead Redemption to call their own, if a new datamine of the developer's official PC launcher proves to be more than just . The original Red Dead Redemption - which follows the sharp-shooting adventures of former outlaw John Marston - has remained doggedly console-only since its PS4 and Xbox 360... Read more ›
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Bethesda has released its previously promised update for Fallout 4 across platforms.This update, Bethesda says, will allow players to "manage your control over the game's graphic fidelity or performance".It has additionally sorted out a few other issues that had been left in the game following its hefty 'next-gen' upgrade patch a few weeks ago. This includes stability and sorting out crashes that could occur when players on PS5 returned to... Read more ›
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Ubisoft's upcoming feudal Japan-set Assassin's Creed game now has a final name: Assassin's Creed Shadows. Previously, it was known only under its working title, Assassin's Creed: Codename Red. Shadows will get a full reveal later this week, on Wednesday 15th May at 5pm UK time. Read more Read more ›
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An unopenable door in Super Mario 64 - thought impossible to pass through without the use of mods - has finally been prised open. The door in question can be found within the game's infamous penguin level - you know, the one where you definitely didn't yeet the baby penguin off the mountain. There, a log cabin can be found with a door that opens outwards - but that's impossible... Read more ›
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FromSoftware has revealed a new enemy type from Elden Ring DLC Shadow of the Erdtree. "The abandoned and tragic who forage beneath the umbra pray for the embrace of a new master," reads a new social post promoting a pre-order of the game, along with an image of a new enemy with a glowing, bulbous head. Yes, it's a tiny snippet, but fans are already speculating on this new enemy... Read more ›
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Today I learned Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert is working on a new game, which he describes as "Classic Zelda meets Diablo meets Thimbleweed Park". Well, hello there!Work on this project actually started several months ago, but it only came to my attention this afternoon thanks to TimeExtension. I have since done more browsing, and come across some posts on Terrible Toybox, as well as Gilbert's own Mastodon page.Now, admittedly... Read more ›
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A number of "experimental" changes have been made to Manor Lords to tweak the balance, including reduced ale consumption. Ahead of the weekend, the game's solo developer Greg Styczeń released a Steam blog post detailing a tonne of changes, which are available now for open testing. The update fixes a number of commonly reported issues, including "None" people spawning and not working; the game being stuck at the summary screen... Read more ›
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