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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Sony has added another game to its ongoing trials catalogue over on PlayStation Plus Premium.Those subscribed to the service's Premium tier are now able to give The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered a whirl. This particular trial offers the chance for users to experience two hours of the game.Once those two hours are then up, those that wish to continue on with the story will need to fork out... Read more ›
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Pokémon Go developer Niantic has released a new mixed-reality experience, as the next step in its virtual pet franchise Peridot. Named as Hello, Dot, it's available to download now for free from the Meta Quest store, a year on from the launch of Niantic's Peridot game for smartphones. Hello, Dot is the speedy product of three months' work as the Peridot team shifts focus, following the launch of a recent... Read more ›
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Fans of EA Sports FC have responded angrily after EA altered a perceived issue with FUT rewards providing "unintended results". As part of the game's Weekend League, players have a chance to win special versions of certain players, which this past weekend included Kylian Mbappe who's considered the best player in the game. EA doesn't release the odds of receiving specific players, but Mbappe and other top players appeared to... Read more ›
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A trademark for what looks to be a new Doom game has resurfaced after originally being filed by Bethesda back in January, as the suggestion of a reveal in a few weeks' time now swirls. The pending trademark, filed in the US, is titled "IDKFA" - a well-known cheat code used in the Doom series. This isn't the first we've heard of a new Doom game being in development. A... Read more ›
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The release of Hades 2 in early access last week has given the original game a nice little player boost.Over the weekend, the first Hades game managed to beat its own concurrent player record on Steam, with 54,240 taking on the mythological rogue-like dungeon crawler over the last 24 hours. That's 16,491 more concurrent players than Hades' previous record of 37,749, which it set four years ago.Despite this boost, Hades... Read more ›
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Indika, unhelpfully for a desperately devout Orthodox nun in early 19th Century Russia, is in communion with the Devil. Or maybe she just isn't as piously pure of thought as she'd like to believe. In the slippery, shifting world of Indika (I'm talking about developer Odd Meter's wonderfully confounding platform adventure now, not the character - brace yourself for some back-and-forth there), disorientating, uneasy ambiguity reigns over all.Which isn't to... Read more ›
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Square Enix is "aggressively pursuing" a multiplatform strategy, including "Nintendo platforms, PlayStation, Xbox, and PCs". The company's new medium-term business plan was shared today alongside its latest financial report, and follows news of both a review of its development system and the abandonment of £112m of in-development projects. The multiplatform strategy is part of a move to "diversify earnings opportunities" and aims to allow more customers to "enjoy our titles... Read more ›
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