EA has finally pulled back the cover on the details of next week's Battlefield 6 update, patch 1.3.1.0., revealing new content, improvements, a new map, weapons, Battle Pass, and ranked battle royale quads, too. Read more Read more ›
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Fortnite has begun teasing its next season - Chapter 5 Season 2 - in-game, with a series of intriguing changes. Meanwhile, fans peering inside of Fortnite's files have datamined some surprising map updates set to herald the start of an Ancient Greek mythology period. A new NPC character named Odyssey can be found just outside Risky Reels who you can chat to for an update on the current season's storyline... Read more ›
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Several months down the line from Spider-Man 2's launch, fans have been discussing the game's ending and whether elements should have played out differently.This discussion has been prompted by the apparent emergence of an early plan for Spider-Man 2's story shared on reddit, originating from the files stolen by hackers who targeted Insomniac Games. In that early draft, one particular plot element was different - sparking debate now on whether... Read more ›
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Riot Games has revealed the official title for its free-to-play, 2D fighter League of Legends spin-off: 2XKO.If you're in any doubt, it's pronounced how it's spelled, Riot said over on X. Previously it had been referred to as Project L.I'm going to assume the name is supposed to mean "two KOs", given 2XKO is a 2v2 tag-based fighting game. That also means my brain will call the game 2KO rather... Read more ›
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After what has seemed like forever since its initial announcement a year ago, on Wednesday we finally got a full trailer for Elden Ring DLC Shadow of the Erdtree. Eurogamer spoke to creator Hidetaka Miyazaki to gain some more details: it's FromSoftware's biggest DLC to date, is based on previous workings from George R. R. Martin, and has a developed world design that blurs the line between field areas and... Read more ›
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Warner Bros. Games has announced crossplay will be added to Mortal Kombat 1 in a patch next week, which is also when John Cena's Peacemaker will be available in early access.Crossplay, er I mean Krossplay, will be available for players on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC (Steam and Epic Games Store) from 28th February. Players of the heavily criticised Nintendo Switch version of Mortal Kombat 1 will miss... Read more ›
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Cult classic strategy game revival Solium Infernum is now available on Steam, as its developer League of Geeks continues to face an uncertain future. This new version of Solium Infernum - where you aim to claim the Infernal Throne of Hell by navigating political intrigue, military strategy and beytrayal - boasts an all-new single-player campaign and asynchronous multiplayer, alongside a visual refresh. But behind the scenes, its developer's fate seems... Read more ›
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Baldur's Gate 3 will be getting official mod support down the line, including cross-platform support for consoles. Larian's director of publishing Michael Douse described plans for this official support as "robust", but did not yet give an exact date for when it will arrive - other than to say it was planned for sometime this year. "We have a system but it needs to be tested and still requires work,"... Read more ›
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Palworld has reached an astonishing 25m players within its first month. The numbers, revealed by developer Pocketpair, also confirm 15m players jumped into the action-adventure, monster-taming, survival game on Steam. The other 10m have dived in on Xbox, though Pocketpair didn't specify how many of these were players who bought a copy of the game versus how many were playing via Xbox Game Pass. 15m copies of Palworld sold on... Read more ›
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The final rundown of wrestlers playable in WWE 2K24 has now confirmed the removal of Vince McMahon and Brock Lesnar, following allegations surrounding both men surfacing last month. Many fans had expected former WWE boss McMahon and frequent WWE champion Lesnar to be cut from the game's playable roster as a result, despite the title's focus on the past 40 years of Wrestlemania. Indeed, earlier this month, Lesnar was spotted... Read more ›
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Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've been playing over the past few days. This week: deliveries, hotlines, and awkwardly hung paintings.If you fancy catching up on some of the older editions of What We've Been Playing, here's our archive.I'm playing through Death Stranding at the moment, and it's the perfect drizzly game for February. Has there ever... Read more ›
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The upcoming Cate Blanchett-fronted Borderlands film is the start of a "Borderlands Cinematic Universe", according to Gearbox founder Randy Pitchford. Speaking with IGN about the recent Borderlands trailer, Pitchford discussed the film's place in the video game universe, saying it "lives side by side". "Of course, the characters are there and authentic in the themes and even some of the storylines. But they're independent storylines," Pitchford told the publication, stating... Read more ›
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In the Zone, causality goes into the blender. The past and the present and the future do not always follow in polite order. No wonder, then, that I knew Pacific Drive would one day be our Game of the Week when I played a demo build and almost died because I grabbed my car's windscreen wipers instead of the steering wheel. Sometimes you can stir things apart.We'll get back to... Read more ›
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Helldivers 2 has increased its player cap even further, ahead of what's expected to be another busy weekend for the game's servers. Game director Johan Pilestedt revealed the game's new concurrent user cap now stands at 700,000 players, via a post on X. Helldivers 2 is expected to hit this number, although he added: "We believe that the wait times will be much more bearable". Patch notes on Steam confirm... Read more ›
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This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss the reports that Nintendo Switch 2 will now launch in 2025, later than its previously-expected arrival towards the end of this year.Nintendo itself is yet to say anything certain about its inevitable Switch successor, but its steady path towards launch has been tracked by numerous reports. Now, we discuss how this latest news unfolded, why we believe it has happened, and what... Read more ›
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Behaviour Interactive has announced its latest Dead by Daylight collaboration, and it's none other than heavy metal band Iron Maiden. This team up will see the band's mascot Eddie arrive in the game as part of a new outfit collection, which has been inspired by various Eddie iterations over the years. These looks, which you can see in the trailer below, include The Dredge, The Doctor, The Deathslinger, and The... Read more ›
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To borrow from Game of Thrones, Minter is coming (please read that in Ned Stark's voice). Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story - an interactive documentary experience for PC, Xbox, PlayStation and Switch - will release next month, on 13th March. Coming from Digital Eclipse, this upcoming release invites us all to take a little trip back in time, to "an era of cassette tapes, photocopied zines, and README.TXT", as it... Read more ›
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Fallout: London - the upcoming fan made DLC-sized mod for Bethesda's Fallout 4 - has added Neil Newbon to its cast. The actor is known for many roles across the video game industry, including Karl Heisenberg in Resident Evil Village. More recently, he played Astarion in Baldur's Gate 3, for which he won the award for Best Performance at last year's Game Awards. Newbon's role in Fallout: London is still... Read more ›
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The original Final Fantasy 7 pushed technical boundaries on the PS1 and set new standards for storytelling within gaming. Its long-anticipated remake trilogy - starting with 2020's Final Fantasy 7 Remake - is similarly ambitious, seeking to flesh out and rework the RPG on modern hardware. Due on February 29th, the middle part of the trilogy, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, promises a much larger and more sophisticated entry exclusively on... Read more ›
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After a year on the market, Sony is now testing PS VR2 compatibility with PC. This news comes courtesy of a PlayStation blog, which highlights a selection of games coming to its VR platform. Along with details on titles such as Zombie Army VR and The Wizards - Dark Times: Brotherhood (which is out today), Sony said it is "currently testing the ability for PS VR2 players to access additional... Read more ›
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Remakes are a precarious proposition. Do too much and you risk losing a fanbase. Do too little and fans question if it was even worthwhile. With a game as iconic and beloved as Final Fantasy 7, the risks are gigantic. This new trilogy, based on the PlayStation classic, is proving to be less remake and more a re-imagining of the original, a reinterpretation - a rebirth, if you will. But... Read more ›
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