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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BioWare and Mass Effect veteran Mac Walters has discussed his reasons for departing the studio after 19 years to begin work with a fresh team on a new sci-fi franchise. In an interview with MinnMax, Walters detailed the various factors involved in his departure, from the desire to work on something brand new and not feeling able to within BioWare or EA, to the positive experience of working on the... Read more ›
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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has received another delay, but only for the Epic Games Store version.Developer Rocksteady Studios announced the delay via the game's Discord, while confirming it's still set to launch on 2nd February 2024 on PlayStatiton 5, Xbox Series X/S and Steam.Rocksteady did not reveal why there's now a further wait for the Epic Game Store version of Suicide Squad, but stated any pre-orders on the... Read more ›
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Blizzard has laid out its 2024 roadmap for World of Warcraft, nailing down a launch window for upcoming expansion The War Within, plus other updates and seasonal content. The veteran MMO will receive three content updates between January and the launch of The War Within, which looks set to arrive around late summer/early autumn next year. These updates will tie up loose story threads from the game's previous expansion Dragonflight,... Read more ›
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We're doing things slightly differently today with Five of the Best. Instead of talking about a particular part of a game we like, we're going to talk about what we always talk about at this time of year it seems - the games we're going to play during the end of year break. And we're opening it up to everyone, not just Eurogamer Supporters.You know how it goes: you earmark... Read more ›
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Video game fundraising initiative Jingle Jam has now raised over £25m since it began in 2011.This year's event, which ran from 1st to 14th December, included collaborations with streaming partners and the annual Jingle Jam bundle.That bundle, which contained over 70 games, included some excellent indies such as A Short Hike, Paradise Marsh, and Arcade Spirits. Read more Read more ›
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As 2023 comes to a close, I think it's fair to say that the fighting game genre is in a great spot. Capcom and NetherRealm both launched stellar new entries in their respective franchises this year, with Street Fighter 6 in particular righting the wrongs of the previous numbered entry. In January of 2024, Bandi-Namco will unleash Tekken 8 - and I've played a near-final version of the game at... Read more ›
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We're doing another 'gaming memory' competition and this time we're theming it around the Christmas break. What are your favourite memories of gaming around Christmas? Share yours in the comments below and if we choose it as our favourite, you'll win a prize!The prize is a £70 voucher for your game platform of choice. But note that because we're buying the voucher from the UK, some platforms will restrict where... Read more ›
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EA is rebranding its in-house engine Frostbite to reflect its "renewed focus on partnership" with its studios, but also says its teams are "free to develop on any engine they choose".Frostbite was originally developed by DICE for use in its Battlefield series, and has since been adopted internally at other studios also owned by its parent company EA.Historically, the engine was used by BioWare to develop Mass Effect: Andromeda and... Read more ›
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Sony has privately described Microsoft's $68.7bn takeover of Activision Blizzard as a potential "leapfrog" moment for its long-term console rival to take the lead. Threats identified by Sony include Microsoft using Call of Duty to "disrupt and threaten console gaming and game subscription markets", with a potential "massive threat to PlayStation Plus". Sony has frequently expressed its concerns about Microsoft's Activision Blizzard takeover in public and in private. Today brings... Read more ›
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When you kill someone in The Finals, they explode in a shower of coins, their body scattering across the ground like a tub of popcorn dropped by King Midas. As with much else about the Finals, this wowed me when I first saw it. What an ingenious way to depict death in a multiplayer shooter, I thought. It's spectacular without being grisly, satisfying without being gross. Don't get me wrong,... Read more ›
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Developer Embark Studios is boosting in-game anti-cheat measures for The Finals following increasing reports of cheaters from its players.The multiplayer shooter shadow-dropped during The Game Awards at the beginning of the month and has proved popular. Unfortunately, popularity has brought in large numbers of cheater being discussed on the game's subreddit and official Discord server.Community lead Dusty Gustaffson shared an update with players on Discord yesterday, revealing Embark has "had... Read more ›
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Detailed plans revealing the future projects of PlayStation-owned Spider-Man developer Insomniac have been published online, stolen from the company by hackers. The files include a project roadmap for the next decade and beyond including an array of unannounced projects, plus production details, art assets and personal information on Insomniac employees. Insomniac suffered a data breach last week, with ransomware group Ryhsida demanding 50 bitcoins - the equivalent of $2m -... Read more ›
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Activision Blizzard is ending hybrid working for its QA testers in January, meaning employees are expected to work full-time in offices. The impact of this decision has been highlighted by the ABK Workers Alliance in a new statement shared with Eurogamer. QA employees in Minneapolis, Austin, and El Segundo are affected, with "many employees being forced out of the company in a soft layoff". Read more Read more ›
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Leaks for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League have moved on from a steady drip to become a flood. As I said earlier today, developer Rocksteady has been battling leaks for its upcoming game since its alpha test took place in November. However, the ferocity of these leaks has now increased ten-fold, and so this is another warning to mute social media and such if you want to keep the... Read more ›
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James McCaffrey, best known for his voice work as Max Payne, has passed away at the age of 65. McCaffrey leant his voice to several other games as well as the Max Payne series. He voiced Edward Carnby in 2008's Alone in the Dark, Zachariah Trench in Remedy's Control, and most recently provided the voice of Alex Casey in Alan Wake 2.McCaffrey also had a cameo role in the live-action... Read more ›
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Data scraped from the servers for Apple's TestFlight service circa 2012 to 2015 have been leaked, giving access to tens of thousands of iOS apps and games.The leak has been dubbed the "teraleak" due to its sheer size and seemingly as a nod to the Nintendo "gigaleak" from 2020 which included prototypes of Star Fox 2 and Yoshi's Island, cut content from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and... Read more ›
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Microsoft has announced a range of offers across a selection of Xbox games, as well as its Series X/S consoles and Elite controllers. If you head over to the Microsoft Store now, you will be able to save £100 on an Xbox Series X (although, while this is the official line from Microsoft, I am currently seeing a deal saving £110). This deal will run until 7th January. You can... Read more ›
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Sony has filed a patent which could see difficulty levels adapt and adjust as users play. The patent features algorithms that would be able to finely tune difficulty settings based on an individual's performance. It is interesting to see Sony patent such an idea, when similar processes are used in other games already. Regardless, this patent (which can be viewed via World Intellectual Property Organization), shows PlayStation has its eye... Read more ›
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Sabotage Studio, developer of indie RPG Sea of Stars, has removed the appearance of YouTuber Jirard "The Completionist" Khalil as a cameo in the game. The move follows the ongoing investigations into The Open Hand Foundation, a fundraising body created by Khalil's family.Sabotage and Khalil had a close working relationship, with Khalil consistently giving the studio a spot in IndieLand, an annual charity stream to support The Open Hand Foundation,... Read more ›
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The new TimeSplitters project recently in development at Free Radical Design was originally pitched as a battle royale game to rival Fortnite, a developer on the project has claimed. This year, however, the project then took a "massive 180" to become something else - something the studio reportedly much preferred: an expanded remake of TimeSplitters 2 with extra content and a few plot changes. "Originally it was a Fortnite clone.... Read more ›
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