Arc Raiders developer Embark Studios has outlined what's coming up in its next Expedition Window, launching on 28th April, revealing "we're doing things a little differently", changing up how players earn Skill Points. Read more Read more ›
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A new film chronicling the rise and fall of Clive Sinclair's "now legendary" ZX Spectrum is set to premiere in London on 3rd October, 2024.From Gracious Films, GEL, and MusicFilmNetwork, The Rubber Keyed Wonder "charts the development and creation of the ZX Spectrum from concept through to its first release, and the financial and reputational success it brought Clive Sinclair".It also examines the enduring impact of several Spectrum games, including... Read more ›
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Sony has announced a PlayStation 5 technical presentation.The presentation is set to last for nine minutes, and will be hosted by Mark Cerny. Cerny is the PlayStation 5's lead architect.Further details are still slim, with Sony merely stating the presentation will "focus on PS5 and innovations in gaming technology". Read more Read more ›
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Can't wait until 8th October to revisit Silent Hill? Here's a free visit to everyone's special place courtesy of a Japanese content creator who has streamed the first 90 minutes of Silent Hill 2 Remake to YouTube.The hugely popular 兄者弟者 (Siblings) YouTube channel has seemingly shared the footage by official sanction from Konami, which suggests this shouldn't get struck or pulled down by a pesky copyright notice. Which is just... Read more ›
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Embracer-owned studio Lost Boys Interactive is facing another round of layoffs.Writing on LinkedIn, the studio said it had "made the very difficult decision to reduce our overall headcount in accordance with local laws and consultation processes". It noted Lost Boys needed to "adapt to shifting market conditions" within the video game industry, which has seen multiple layoffs and studio closures in recent years.Lost Boys said it is "committed to supporting... Read more ›
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Sony has quietly increased the price of a DualSense controller for its PlayStation 5 console.As spotted by social media account Wario64, the price of various DualSense colour models has increased by $5 in multiple US retailers, but more importantly on Sony's official store PlayStation Direct.The basic white DualSense controller has increased from $69.99 to $74.99. Over on the UK PlayStation Direct site, the same controller costs £64.99 - up from... Read more ›
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Baldur's Gate 3's latest and much-anticipated seventh patch is here, and we're already making the most of it. As announced by Larian Studios' Swen Vincke, "modding is pretty big - we had more than a million mods installed in less than 24 hours".Fans have taken it even further, though, with one uploading a mod that "unlocks all the disabled features and enables writer permissions for the Baldur's Gate 3 toolkit",... Read more ›
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We all know The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was (and still is) called The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, but once upon a time Nintendo was thinking of a slightly different name for its Breath of the Wild follow-up.Please be aware of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom spoilers below.According to Tears of the Kingdom's producer Eiji Aonuma, the team was once thinking about calling the... Read more ›
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Every time I come to play Link's Awakening, there's one moment I always look forward to: getting Roc's Feather. That first dungeon treasure can never come soon enough, as it's the all-important item that lets Link jump about like he's suddenly grown a pair of kangaroo legs. It's oddly freeing in many ways - not just as a traversal tool, but the feel of it - the glide, the airtime,... Read more ›
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Amazon's Fallout adaptation now has two Emmy awards to its name.The show, which was released earlier this year on Amazon Prime, follows the story of Ella Purnell's Lucy, Walton Goggins' Ghoul and Aaron Moten's Brotherhood of Steel member Maximus as they each make their way through the post-apocalyptic wasteland with varying degrees of success.The series quickly became a hit for the streaming service, with scores of praise across the industry.... Read more ›
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You know how humans will sometimes say "Well, there's good news and there's bad news"? And you know how that clues you in on there being good news as well as bad news so that you wait until you have the whole picture before you start rending garments and gnashing teeth and shaking your fist at the skies? Well, that's not how Nintendo handles emails about ceasing support for its... Read more ›
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Astro Bot is set to receive DLC with more yet-to-be-revealed VIP bots, though the game's credits hint towards which characters we may see.The free DLC will arrive this year, confirmed Team Asobi's Nicolas Doucet in an interview with Quest Daily, but it will be "small" and focus on speedruns following its popularity in Astro's Playroom. Leaderboards will be included.What's more, "some characters that we didn't include yet will appear," said... Read more ›
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Two-thirds of female players still report being harassed when playing online.In a report entitled "Why gaming still has a women problem", Sky News reflected on the propensity of misogyny and hatred against women in gaming spaces, particularly on Discord and in multiplayer games.In primary research conducted for the report, tech journalist Mickey Carroll said she was harassed and called a host of slurs simply because her "profile picture showed that... Read more ›
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Director John Garvin says it's "kinda sad" that the leading man of his Days Gone game has been "reduced to a cartoon shill" by an image posted by his former studio, Bend.The picture - released to mark fellow Sony studio Team Asobi's hugely successful Astro Bot launch - shows a Bot dressed in Deacon's garb reclining on a beach.Garvin said, "[Deacon] has been reduced to promoting other games", adding: "Well... Read more ›
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Star Wars Outlaws director Julian Gerighty has confirmed a patch is coming "maybe in 10 days" to address the game's "unfair" and "incredibly punishing" insta-fail stealth sequences.In an interview with GamesRadar+, Gerighty admitted that whilst the team had intentionally designed the sequence to build "tension", it "just [didn't] want it to feel unfair. And today, I think it feels unfair"."This is more of something that crept in in the last... Read more ›
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Destiny 2's average 30-day player count on Steam has dropped to its lowest level in the series' history.Whilst participation in live-service games inevitably waxes and wanes - and these figures do not account for players on console - it's nonetheless an unwelcomed milestone for Bungie's beleaguered sci-fi shooter.Despite launching Episodes, the three-part, self-contained seasons that kicked off in The Final Shape's shadow back in June, Steam Charts suggests the game... Read more ›
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Lead singer and co-songwriter of Heaven 17 Martyn Ware has told Rockstar to "go fuck yourself" after being offered $7500 - that's around £5700 - to include their 1983 hit, Temptation, in Grand Theft Auto 6.In a candid explanation posted to X/Twitter, Ware did not play down his dismay at the offer and stressed that predecessor GTA 5 grossed $8.6bn."I was recently contacted by my publishers on behalf of Rockstar... Read more ›
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As a slight disclaimer before I kick off the kicking, these first impressions are based on 90 minutes of playing the retail version of Hitman 3 VR Reloaded on launch day. Apparently a big patch will be releasing on the 9th September that is said to address a lot of the issues that I had with the game. But I'll never know because I'll be damned if I ever put... Read more ›
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How many games feature an elderly protagonist? More often than not, we find ourselves playing as plucky and attractive youngsters, superpowered teens, or occasionally a gruff dad. But what about an old man with a walking stick?Well, that's who you play as in platformer adventure The Eternal Life of Goldman, from developer Weappy Studio and publisher THQ Nordic. And if an old man may seem like a slow, weak character... Read more ›
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Around the time Eurogamer launched, I was temping at an insurance office in Bournemouth, and I had a temping lunch break pal called Ken who I'm invoking now for two reasons. Firstly, Ken was the first person I spoke to who ever talked about "net anxiety" - the worry that one should be off making their fortune on the new frontiers of the internet. Secondly, he was the first person... Read more ›
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The developer behind NetEase's survival free-to-play horror, Once Human, says the feedback it's received about the game's second season has been "quite demoralising".In a statement posted to the team's Discord server, the team said that it "value[s players'] opinions" and hopes to "fulfil all [player] requests in future updates" but stopped short of detailing what these may be.The team did, however, address two immediate issues. Read more Read more ›
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