Last Flag, a third-person hero shooter that launched just two weeks ago, is halting production. Read more Read more ›
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The Episode Aigis expansion for Persona 3 Reload has been developed in response to fan feedback, though there's no chance of a female protagonist in the future. At last week's Xbox Partner Preview, Atlus announced an expansion pass for the remake, including the much-requested epilogue The Answer. Persona 3 Reload, released earlier this year, was criticised for not including all the extras from various past versions of the game to... Read more ›
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Building an ideal party is one of my favourite things to do in any roleplaying game where the cast size matches a Wes Anderson flick - purely because, in the good ones, there's no right answer. You can prioritise your most-loved companions over any real strategic logic. Heck, I sometimes just pick the characters who I think look cute together, regardless of whether they've spent any on-screen time together. Unicorn... Read more ›
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Capcom has shared a first trailer for Street Fighter 6's next playable fighter, Akuma, who'll be joining steadily expanding line-up sometime this "spring". Akuma will be Street Fighter 6's 22nd playable character, following the arrival of Ed last month, and gives the returning fighter - who made his series debut in 1994's Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo as a hidden boss - a striking new look. As with many other... Read more ›
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Capcom has announced its Monster Hunter Stories remaster will launch for Switch, PS4, and team on 14th June. Additionally, Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin - the acclaimed second game in Capcom's lovable RPG spin-off series - releases for PlayStation 4 on the same day. Capcom unveiled its Monster Hunter Stories remaster back in February, confirming it'll spruce up the original 2016 3DS release will HD visuals, new voice... Read more ›
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Describing games as "X meets Y" is often considered a little gauche. At its worst, it's a lazy and reductive habit - and one that can result in some truly awful headlines, in which two popular games with tenuous connections to the one actually being written about are unceremoniously smashed together.However, some games are so clearly built from bits of other games shoved together that it's impossible not to think... Read more ›
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Developer Turn 10 Studios' previously promised overhaul of Forza Motorsport's controversial car progression system launches today, 11th March, on Xbox Series X/S and PC. Turn 10 confirmed it would be revisiting Forza Motorsport's much-maligned car progression system back in January, as part of a conciliatory blog post that also promised improvements for a number of other key areas, including driver AI and race regulations. Driver AI was the focus of... Read more ›
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Fresh off its dalliance with Mass Effect, Destiny 2 is getting a Ghostbusters collaboration - which'll seemingly mostly manifest in the form of premium cosmetics - starting next Tuesday, 19th March. Developer Bungie revealed the incoming "Destiny 2 x Ghostbusters" collaboration on social media, with a post proclaiming, "There's something strange in our neighbourhood...". An accompanying image highlighted three Ghostbusters collaboration cosmetics, including a Ghost skin resembling iconic series nuisan Read more ›
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Embark Studios has announced Season 2 of The Finals will begin later this week, as well as details of the new 5v5 mode and more to be added to the game.In Season 2, players will continue to compete in the virtual game show while it's been hacked by the group known as CNS. The new Playstyle added to The Finals is called Hacker and will be able to use abilities... Read more ›
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The PC version of Final Fantasy 16 is in the "final stages of optimisation", game director Naoki Yoshida has said. Speaking with GameInformer, Yoshida stated the upcoming port is progressing well. However, he refrained from giving any further specifics, such as when it may be ready for release. "When we can release the PC version might be dependent on that - the system requirements and specifications for PC that players... Read more ›
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Genshin Impact is one of the most popular games in the world and perhaps China's chief video game export, but even knowing that I was surprised to learn that domestic compatriot OnePlus has created a special £699 Genshin Impact Edition of their (£649) 12R smartphone. Not only that, the phone is based around a single character from the game - the purple-haired Keqing - who I imagine must have been... Read more ›
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Supporters, I'll be recording a brand new episode of behind-the-scenes podcast Inside Eurogamer this week - you know, that podcast that's exclusively for you - and part of it will be given to answering your questions, so what would you like to know?This time, I'll be joined by guides editor Lottie Lynn and guides writer Marie Pritchard to talk about, you guessed it, guides. They are a fundamental part of... Read more ›
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Players have been experimenting with Dragon's Dogma 2's character creator and finding ways to make familiar faces such as Kratos and Shadowheart, or pushing it to its limits with some... unusual physique.Last week, Capcom released the character creator for Dragon's Dogma 2 at an opportune moment (just in time for the weekend), giving people plenty of days to create their Arisen and pawn before the game releases. Now it's time... Read more ›
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Of all the games people on TikTok could get excited about, they've decided it's one about shipping containers - one about surviving at sea on a pile of shipping containers for 30 days. It's called 30 Days on Ship, appropriately and somewhat bluntly, and it isn't out yet, but there's a trailer being shared that shows a character opening a never ending string of containers to find fridges, drones, motorbikes,... Read more ›
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Following the end of its open beta last year and a social media tease, the multi-franchise Warner Bros. fighter MultiVersus is back. Earlier today, Player First Games announced its free-to-play game is set to launch on 28th May. The studio has moved development to Unreal Engine 5, with director Tony Huynh stating Shaggy sandwiches "have never looked better". This was to rebuild MultiVersus "from the ground up", with the director... Read more ›
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Some ideas planned for Amazon's Fallout adaptation had to be nixed, because Bethesda has them earmarked for Fallout 5.In an interview with Den of Geek, Bethesda's Todd Howard - who is serving as an executive producer on the Amazon series - said on occasion he had to tell the show's team: "Don't do this because we are going to do that in Fallout 5."While it's a shame we don't know... Read more ›
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Members of actors' union SAG-AFTRA are likely to go on strike against game companies due to broken down negotiations on AI.Speaking during a Q&A session at SXSW in Austin, Texas, over the weekend, SAG-AFTRA national executive director and chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland said the probability a strike will go ahead in the next four to six weeks is "50-50, or more likely than that" (via Variety).SAG-AFTRA voted overwhelmingly in favour... Read more ›
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Former Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick has reportedly expressed an interest in buying social media platform TikTok.According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, the former CEO recently approached ByteDance co-founder Zhang Yiming to state his intent, should the company agree to sell the video sharing app.The publication stated Kotick is currently looking for partners to join in this potential acquisition, which WSJ said any price tag is "estimated... Read more ›
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Naoki Yoshida is keen to direct another major title for Square Enix. Yoshida led development on Final Fantasy 16 on top of his work as producer and director for MMORPG Final Fantasy 14, which will receive its next expansion Dawntrail later this year. Yet despite all that work, he told Famitsu (translation via Aitai Kimochi) he would like to direct a "next major title". Read more Read more ›
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Three more classic Mario Game Boy games are coming to Switch Online.As part of today's Mario Day celebrations, Nintendo has revealed that Dr Mario, Mario Golf, and Mario Tennis are all coming to its digital classics library next week, Tuesday 12th March.Dr Mario – which was originally a Game Boy title – and Mario Golf and Mario Tennis – which were released initially on Game Boy Color – were released... Read more ›
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Former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden has opened up on his thoughts about the modern games industry, stating that "exclusivity is the "Achilles' heel" of the modern development cycle.In a candid interview with VentureBeat, Layden detailed how he thinks the industry has changed since he joined Sony in the 1980s, working his way up to become president and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment America in 2014. Now an adviser to companies... Read more ›
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