Valve has updated its refund policy on Steam, making a small but significant change in the process.This updated policy means players will no longer be able to exploit a loophole that allowed them to play an 'advanced access' game for more than two hours and still request a refund further down the line.Sharing news on its amended policy, Valve explained that "playtime acquired during the advanced access period will now... Read more ›
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Few games this year have looked as good in action as Harold Halibut, the stop-motion-style adventure game that looks like you're watching something physical, made by human hands. And you are watching something made by human hands, of course, though not quite how you'd expect. The models shown in-game are based on real clay props, the sets real weathered models. It all fits the rusty, rattly spaceship on which Harold... Read more ›
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Fallout 76 has just hit an impressive player milestone, almost six years after the game first released. According to Bethesda, over one million players were gallivanting around the MMO in a single day. Not bad for a game which, on its initial release in 2018, we called "a bizarre, boring, broken mess" in Eurogamer's Fallout 76 review. Resharing Bethesda's original post, Fallout 76 creative director Jonathan Rush said how "amazing"... Read more ›
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Nintendo's Switch Online service has today received two additions to its N64 catalogue. Extreme-G and Iggy's Reckin' Balls are both racing games originally released for Nintendo's 64-bit console, now available for Expansion Pack subscribers. Extreme-G is a high speed futuristic racer released in 1997. With its original trance soundtrack and various weapons, it was the N64's answer to PlayStation's WipEout series. This Switch version has local and online multiplayer. Read... Read more ›
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A recent patch for Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered appears to have removed a set of Lara Croft pin-up style posters in the game's Remastered graphical mode, despite them previously having been flagged by the official Tomb Raider website as a detail to go find. Fans spotted the posters' removal over the past week (thanks, Kotaku) when playing the game, and have expressed surprise at the change quietly occuring now, several... Read more ›
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Moon Studios CEO Thomas Mahler has defended the studio's decision to launch its latest game No Rest for the Wicked in early access. The dark fantasy game launched last week, but was criticised by players for its poor performance, which Moon Studios pledged to improve. In a lengthy statement on social media platform X, Mahler discussed the benefits of an early access launch and said he's "confident" more games will... Read more ›
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I both hate and love geolocation games. Take GeoGuessr. I hate to play it myself because I'm clueless at it. But I love to watch it being played by others. It suddenly opens up. It becomes something thrilling.GeoGuessr is a geolocation game that runs on a browser or on your phone. Load it up and it shows you a snapshot from a Google Street View camera or somesuch, taken from... Read more ›
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Lords of the Fallen has reached the final stage of its free content roadmap, as developer Hexworks acknowledges the technical difficulties that hampered the game's launch last year. Master of Fate, as the modifier is known, will allow players to randomise seven different aspects. Choosing to randomise enemy spawns and loot drops alongside permadeath, for instance, effectively turns the Soulslike into a rogue-lite. Since the launch of Lords of the... Read more ›
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Flaming Fowl, the developer behind card battler Fable Fortune and the acclaimed Gloomhaven video game adaptation, has unveiled its new game - but in an unusual move has announced its shelving development and confirmed layoffs at the studio all at the same time. Flaming Fowl, which was founded in 2016 by former members of original Fable developer Lionhead Studios, embarked on its rollercoaster of announcements in a post on Steam,... Read more ›
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Steven Ogg, who played Trevor Phillip in Grand Theft Auto 5, has revealed he "shot some stuff" for a DLC that would have continued the character's adventure, now working as an undercover agent for the FBI, but it "just disappeared and [Rockstar] never followed up on it." As those with long memories might recall, Rockstar announced it was working on "some very exciting" story DLC for Grand Theft Auto 5... Read more ›
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Amazon's Fallout adaptation was officially renewed for a second season last week, and now its showrunners have given us the briefest of teasers for what is in store next.Please note, there will be major spoilers for the first season of Fallout below. If you are yet to finish the show, and want to keep as much under wraps as possible, please head elsewhere now.Speaking with GQ, Fallout showrunners Graham Wagner... Read more ›
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A new hybrid AI licence for voice actors has been launched by a leading audio tool company, with the aim of providing an ethical approach for AI usage. The somewhat ironically-named Speechless is a Swedish-based voice actor database and asset tool for developers. Its new AI licence will allow actors to provide their voice and earn a commission when used by developers. Speechless hopes this approach will provide an ethical... Read more ›
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Rounding out the initial quartet of Xbox Studio titles announced for PlayStation 5, miniature survival game Grounded has arrived on Sony's machine - and Nintendo Switch too. Given that we last looked at Grounded in early access on Xbox One and PC way back in 2020, these two new releases give us a perfect opportunity to reappraise all platforms today. And so, here we've got PS5, Switch, Series X, Series... Read more ›
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This year's EGX - the UK's biggest gaming event run by Eurogamer's current owner Reedpop - will take place as a joint shindig with MCM Comic Con, with both expos co-habiting at ExCeL London from Friday 25th to Sunday 27th October. On the EGX side, you should expect the usual mix of upcoming and classic games to play, and developers to hear from. On the MCM side, it'll be a... Read more ›
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After almost two years of cooking in early access, the team behind turn-based strategy adventure game Songs of Conquest has announced its full-fat release date. Mark your calendars, as Songs of Conquest is set to release into 1.0 next month, on 20th May. Sharing the news, developer Lavapotion along with Coffee Stain Publishing said the game's full release will bring with it a number of general new features and improvements.... Read more ›
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The pre-release marketing for Lorelei and the Laser Eyes has suggested a particularly abstract experience. Strange trailers tease "unconventional concepts", "patterns, patterns, patterns", and "puzzles, puzzles, puzzles", hinting at an otherworldly concept and "maze of deceptions" all in eerie black and white. This was all intentional game director Simon Flesser told me last year. "We want to make viewers wonder, and think." After some hands-on time, though, Lorelei and the... Read more ›
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If you were a fan of both Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail and want more from their developers, you can now pre-register for miHoYo's next game Zenless Zone Zero.Pre-registration for Zenless Zone Zero is available now across all platforms. That's mobile, PC and PlayStation 5.In addition, the studio is hosting a pre-registration event via Zenless Zone Zero's site. Read more Read more ›
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Metaphor: ReFantazio, the next game from Persona developer Atlus, finally has a release date: 11th October 2024. We already knew Metaphor was destined for release this year, but in a new streamed showcase the game's exact date was confirmed along with an in-depth look at gameplay for the first time. Metaphor: ReFantazio is set to be a "culmination of our RPGs," said director Katsura Hashino, following the studio's work on... Read more ›
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Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark. And there were cocoons everywhere. Sadly, I had a swing at a few, and this turned out to be a mistake. Mothy, woven foes emerged and I was overwhelmed. I woke up, cursing, in a glade surrounded by standing stones. Ahead lay a sort of tented bedroom, and the whole thing promised to start over.Repetition is... 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.For many years,... Read more ›
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