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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Tekken 8 is the latest installment in the long running Tekken franchise and - arguably - right up there with the very best. After finding success in its last series entry, the development team pushed harder than ever before, packing this new game full of every mode and option you could imagine. It's an absolute blast to play whether you're looking for competitive play or an over-the-top single-player experience. It's... Read more ›
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Reikon Games has reportedly laid off 60 to 70 people, equating to 56 percent of the company. According to Kotaku, layoffs at the Ruiner developer happened on 23rd January. These layoffs were to the surprise of its staff, who said they were "sudden" and "shocking". The Poland-based company was established in 2014. It went on to release Ruiner, a brutal action shooter, in 2017. In Eurogamer's Ruiner review, contributor Edwin... Read more ›
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Ubisoft has announced an open beta for Skull and Bones. The studio's long-in-the-works pirate game has had quite a troubled development, which has resulted in several delays over the last few years. However, it now seems like Skull and Bones is really, actually, finally going to happen. Following a closed beta last month, the studio has now announced an open beta, which will run between 8th and 12th February for... Read more ›
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Hello! Our game of the week is Tekken 8 - one of the easier choices, really, due to its glowing review from Lewis Parker, who gave it five stars.I was fascinated reading what Lewis had to say, and I was particularly struck by the emphasis on learning he put at the heart of the experience. Tekken can be complex, I gather - abstruse is the word Lewis uses. But this... Read more ›
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There are no current plans to bring Rec Room - the social VR app that's part meeting place, part mini-game hub featuring sporting events, fantastical quests and even games of Charades - to PlayStation VR2. This is because the studio behind it (also known as Rec Room) simply "can't justify the cost", despite its popularity. As spotted by UploadVR, Rec Room's CCO and co-founder Cameron Brown recently held an AMA... Read more ›
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Palworld has passed another impressive milestone, with more than two million concurrent players on Steam recorded. Palworld is only the second game to ever manage this. The other is PUBG, which boasts a concurrent player record of 3,257,248 on Valve's platform. While Pocketpair's breakout hit is yet to creep over the 3 million bar, it is still welcoming an enormous number of players, with 1,531,287 Pal tamers currently making their... Read more ›
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Microsoft's decision to cut 1900 staff members has reportedly seen the company's games retail teams reduced, prompting fresh questions over Xbox's future in the physical games business. Writing on X, Windows Central's Jez Corden said Microsoft had "shut down departments dedicated to bringing Xbox games to physical retail". Is this the end for boxed Xbox games? Perhaps not yet, Corden continued. Microsoft can outsource physical game production and may be... 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: vampire lords, Idris Elba, and playing with time.If you fancy catching up on some of the older editions of What We've Been Playing, here's our archive.Curse of Strahd is a really famous campaign in Dungeons & Dragons, but until the other day,... Read more ›
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Blizzard's cancelled survival game, codenamed Odyssey, had been in development for over six years. Yesterday, it was reported Microsoft was laying off 1900 employees from across its video game teams and that Blizzard's in-the-works survival game had been cancelled. This game was being helmed by ex-Far Cry boss Dan Hay, and would have transported players to a "whole new universe". A new report by Bloomberg has now shared further details... Read more ›
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Nintendo's Switch 2 will feature an eight-inch LCD screen, according to a new report. Bloomberg today said that Nintendo's next console will feature the company's largest screen size ever, according to an analyst with knowledge of the supply chain. But it will be LCD, rather than OLED - a decision which will help keep costs down. To compare, the Switch OLED features a seven-inch screen. The original Switch model features... Read more ›
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Fortnite maker Epic Games says it'll be launching a native iOS version of the Epic Games Store - and bringing Fortnite back to iOS devices - following today's announcement that Apple will soon allow sideloading and alternate marketplaces on its devices to comply with new EU rules. That's as Epic boss Tim Sweeney calls Apple's revised guidelines "hot garbage". The iPhone maker announced sweeping revisions to its App Store rules... Read more ›
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PC players who've been patiently awaiting the arrival of Horizon Forbidden West on their platform of choice now have a date to mark in the calendars: the action-adventure sequel is coming to Steam and the Epic Games Store in its Complete Edition guise on 21st March. Horizon Forbidden West - which continues the adventures of protagonist Aloy in an lush open world populated by majestic robot wildlife - originally launched... Read more ›
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With new EU rules against anti-competitive practices looming, Apple has announced it'll soon be permitting developers to release Game-Pass-style catalogue apps, containing multiple playable and streamable games and programmes, onto its official App Store. Apple announcement says these new catalogue-style apps can include "streaming games, mini-apps, mini-games, chatbots, and plug-ins", and notes developers "will be able to" incorporate its In-App Purchase system to offer users paid digital content or ser Read more ›
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This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss today's statement from The Pokémon Company that confirms it will investigate Palworld for possible intellectual property infringement. It's an unprecedented move by Pokémon to publicly call out Palworld as a game worthy of inspection - after 25 years of rip-offs and clones that have been quietly nuked or ignored. But it also feels inevitable, due to Palworld's enormous spike in interest -... Read more ›
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A new Five Nights at Freddy's game leaked online, but rather than getting upset about it, series creator Scott Cawthon has said we can all chat about it. The game is called Into the Pit, and is being developed by Mega Cat Studios. When the upcoming release first leaked, the Five Nights at Freddy's Reddit feed said it was going to remove any discussion on it. However, Cawthon himself piped... Read more ›
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An upcoming comic series will continue the story of The Witcher 3's Geralt. Please note, a small spoiler for The Witcher 3's Blood and Wine DLC expansion lies below. This upcoming Dark Horse comic series, made in collaboration with game developer CD Projekt Red, is known as The Witcher: Corvo Bianco - a name which will be familiar to those who have played Blood and Wine. Corvo Bianco is a... Read more ›
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Microsoft is laying off 1900 people across the video game teams, including Activision Blizzard, ZeniMax and Xbox, equating to approximately eight percent of its gaming workforce. In an internal email seen by The Verge, Microsoft's gaming head Phil Spencer called this a "painful decision". "It's been a little over three months since the Activision, Blizzard, and King teams joined Microsoft," Spencer wrote in his email to staff. "As we move... Read more ›
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A video that showed Legendary Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma standing alongside Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto in a very fetching high-vis vest and hard hat combo at Universal Studios Orlando has been pulled from the internet - prompting speculation he was there because a Legend of Zelda attraction is in the works. Aonuma could be seen in a behind-the-scenes video from Universal designed to show employee life at the park, and highlight... Read more ›
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Nintendo Switch Online game F-Zero 99 has a fresh update today that adds the ability to create private lobbies. The update also includes a number of mysterious "secret tracks", which Nintendo says will "occasionally appear in F-Zero 99" when playing. Intriguing! Private lobbies are now available as an option for any game mode. These let you set a four-digit passcode so you and your friends can join an individual lobby.... Read more ›
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Black Forest Games, the Embracer-owned studio behind Destroy All Humans! 1 and 2 remakes, has laid off around half of its staff. Kotaku reported the layoffs last night, and said the studio had 110 employees as of a headcount made public last year. Staff were told of the cuts yesterday, and have begun posting about them on social media. The next project from Black Forest Games is Teenage Mutant Ninja... Read more ›
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