We've seen some unique approaches to arachnophobia modes in video games as they've started to become more common in recent years, but nothing quite like Call of Duty: Black Ops 6's new approach. Activision's solution somehow makes everything even more horrifying, by robbing its zombie spiders of legs and turning them into something arguably worse. Read more Read more ›
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Destiny 2 developer Bungie has acknowledged it is "investigating a potential issue within [its] code for how RNG perks are generated" despite previously assuring players there was "no perk weighting active for any legendary weapon perks in Destiny 2". Read more Read more ›
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DayZ may have just turned a decade old, but it's seemingly more popular than ever, setting a new highest daily active user count of over 500,000 players. Read more Read more ›
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One thing I've always admired about football journalists is their ability to keep finding something new to say about what is, ultimately, the exact same game. In one sense that's just the nature of football, a sport which seems to defy all logic in its ability to create sparkling new drama from the same, enormously well-documented scenarios. But in this case I'm really talking quite specifically about a single club,... Read more ›
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DreadXP's second Indie Horror Showcase 2024 was broadcast last night, ushering in a flood of new spooky game announcements, including a new trailer for the upcoming remaster of 2002 third-person survival shooter The Thing. Read more Read more ›
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GAME customers are once again facing a familiar wait to play the latest big gaming launch - this time, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 - as the beleagured high street chain has failed, once again, to send out pre-order copies in a timely manner. Read more Read more ›
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After its joyful romp through the multiversal lens of its Night Springs DLC earlier in the year, Alan Wake 2 rounds out its pair of story expansions by going back to what it does best: dialling up the horror, switching off the lights, and having all manner of shadowy ghouls lurch out of the darkness to give you a good old scare. In The Lake House, FDC agent Kiran Estevez... Read more ›
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Microsoft boss Satya Nadella will earn a wallet-busting $79.1m (£60.9m) this financial year, up 63 percent on his compensation for 2023. Read more Read more ›
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Blizzard is selling a newly released mount in World of Warcraft that costs £60 (or $90), to a mixed response from players. Read more Read more ›
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Palworld's global community manager has written a heartfelt response to the "recent anti-Palworld wave", saying, "if you're hyping a building full of people losing their jobs then it's not an us problem, it's a you problem". Read more Read more ›
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With Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 almost upon us (or already upon us depending on your geographical location), analysts have been weighing in on the impact it's likely to have on Xbox Game Pass, with some reckoning it could bring as many as 4m new subscribers to the service. Read more Read more ›
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Remember Balatro's free Friends of Jimbo collaboration update back in August, which saw the acclaimed poker-themed rogue-like adding a bunch of card cosmetics inspired by popular video games? Well it turns out there was more where that came from, and players can now adorned their desks with cameos from the likes of Cyberpunk 2077 and Stardew Valley. Read more Read more ›
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Following Blizzard's announcement earlier this year it was considering bringing 6v6 matches to Overwatch 2, having ditched them when it transitioned from Overwatch 1 to its sequel, the studio has now made their reintroduction official: 6v6 will come to Overwatch 2 in the form of two test modes next season, and Blizzard says it'll be 'watching the results closely' Read more Read more ›
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Sony has announced a number of changes to its PlayStation Stars reward programme which, among other things, will see earned points expiring after a year instead of the 24 months they remained available previously. Read more Read more ›
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The next game from Surgent Studio, following this year's Tales of Kenzera: Zau, is planned to be an Afrofuturist gothic-horror RPG, Eurogamer can reveal. Read more Read more ›
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has already been released for those in New Zealand and other timezones a little ahead of us, however some players have noticed that their characters are blue. Read more Read more ›
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The second expansion for Alan Wake 2 released earlier this month, and fans think it hides a big clue for Remedy's upcoming Control sequel. Read more Read more ›
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To a casual observer, adapting Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio's swaggering action-RPG looks like a much more straightforward, greenscreen-free proposition. No need to build clanking mech armour or deploy CGI sleight-of-hand to convincingly remove your leading man's nose. The Yakuza brand started out as a contemporary street-level Tokyo crime saga, albeit one capable of reaching operatic heights of melodrama. Thanks to an obsessive amount of architectural and anthropological detail, its fictional... Read more ›
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This feels like a rebuilding year for Intel. With AMD's Ryzen processors going from strength to strength and thermal degradation issues dogging Intel's last desktop CPUs, Team Blue has unveiled a new tile-based architecture for both mobile CPUs (Lunar Lake) and desktop CPUs (Arrow Lake S). Lunar Lake arrived to generally positive reviews, with excellent power efficiency, AI hardware support and reasonable performance, so can the new Core Ultra 200S... Read more ›
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Developer Playtonic Games has announced the consoles its Yooka-Laylee remaster is heading to, and curiously rather than simply adding 'Switch' to the list, it has said the upcoming release will make its debut on "Nintendo Platforms". Read more Read more ›
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