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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Five of the Best is a weekly series for supporters of Eurogamer. It's a series that highlights some of the features in games that are often overlooked. It's also about having your say, so don't be shy, use the comments below and join in!Oh and you can find our entire Five of the Best archive elsewhere on the site.Which was the first game to use slow-mo - do you know?... Read more ›
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Ian Higton, your task is to write a news post about the announcement of Taskmaster VR. Your time starts... now!Popular comedy panel show Taskmaster has joined forces with Scallywag Arcade to bring a virtual reality version of the hit show to VR helmets worldwide.Launching in 2024 for Meta Quest 2 and 3 (the wacky physics-based action is too much for the Quest 1 to handle allegedly), Taskmaster VR will give... Read more ›
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Red Dead Redemption series writer Michael Unsworth has joined Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser's Absurd Ventures studio as head of story and creative management. Absurd Ventures was officially unveiled back in June, marking Houser's first high-profile video game project since departing Rockstar - following an "extended break" - in 2020. Absurd describes itself as a studio focused on "building narrative worlds, creating characters, and writing stories for a diverse variety of... Read more ›
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Embracer Group CEO Lars Wingefors has reportedly confirmed to staff that TimeSplitters studio Free Radical is facing closure next month as part of sweeping cuts that have already seen more than 900 layoffs at the company. Word that Free Radical - a studio resurrected in 2021 specifically to revive the beloved TimeSplitters franchise - was the latest developer to be impacted by parent company Embracer's brutally extensive restructuring programme first... Read more ›
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In news that'll surprise no-one who's been following the various leaks leading up to today's official announcement, Capcom has confirmed Dragon's Dogma 2 will launch for Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and PC on 22nd March next year. That date first emerged earlier this month, when it was spotted as part of a (quickly removed) listing on the PEGI ratings board website. It then prematurely resurfaced on Steam today, all... Read more ›
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CD Projekt has announced that Phantom Liberty, the first and only expansion for sci-fi RPG Cyberpunk 2077, has sold 4.3m copies since launching this September - and that over 330 developers at the company are now working on its next Witcher game. When last we heard from Phantom Liberty, it had sold 3m copies and that was in the first week of its release - news which was accompanied by... Read more ›
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Ubisoft's beleaguered pirate adventure Skull and Bones is - following yet another delay back in October - reportedly now targeting a 16th February release next year. Skull and Bones has, of course, been a very long time in the making, with development starting over a decade a go on in 2013. Since then it's suffered repeated delays (it was originally expected to arrive in 2018), most recently seeing its release... Read more ›
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Sony and Guild Wars publisher NCsoft have today announced a strategic partnership, which aims to "expand beyond console and broaden PlayStation's reach to a wider audience". NCsoft head Taekjin Kim and Sony's Jim Ryan signed this partnership, with the companies now set to "collaborate in various global business fields, including mobile" together. While no specifics were mentioned, the two companies stated they are "evaluating a range of potential opportunities with... Read more ›
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Take-Two Interactive and 2K Games are facing a class-action lawsuit over the removal of purchased in-game currencies from accounts when a game's online features are taken offline. The lawsuit was filed by J.A., a minor, and his mother, acting as his representative and next friend, to the federal court of Northern District of California on 17th November. In the lawsuit, Take-Two and 2K's annual sports franchises NBA 2K, WWE 2K,... Read more ›
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Fishlabs is the latest developer to see layoffs as part of the ongoing cuts at parent company Embracer, Eurogamer understands Sources close to the studio informed Eurogamer of the layoffs today, after team members were told this morning. Around 50 positions are thought to be affected. Eurogamer has contacted Embracer for comment. Read more Read more ›
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Ghoul Blimey! A new series of images have been released for Amazon Prime's Fallout series. The images, which were shared by Vanity Fair, give us a closer look at characters such as Ella Purnell's Lucy, as well as soldiers from The Brotherhood of Steel in their Power Armour Suits and Aaron Moten as Maximus. Maximus is the new squire for a Power Suit knight who has been dispatched on behalf... Read more ›
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AMD's current-generation Ryzen 7000 processors have proven to be some of the fastest gaming CPUs on the planet, but even the entry-level Ryzen 5 7600 and Ryzen 5 7600X CPUs are still a fairly big investment at $225/~£220 and $245/£240. Happily, there's now an even cheaper model - the Ryzen 5 7500F - which cuts frequencies by a fairly insignificant 100MHz and drops the integrated graphics in exchange for a... Read more ›
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A patent filed by EA reveals the company is looking into ways to implement player-voiced characters into its games. The patent, which was spotted by veryaligaming and reshared on social media by NextGenPlayer, aims to allow players to make their in-game characters communicate by using their own voices. The patent was submitted back in 2020, but recently made available to view publicaly. Read more Read more ›
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DF Direct Weekly typically focuses on the week's gaming and technology news, but the latest episode actually kicks off with a story we missed from seven days prior: the announcement of The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered. Rumours have circled this project for months now and we've often wondered why Sony and Naughty Dog would embark on a remaster for a game that doesn't need remastering - and already... Read more ›
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Some of the material which will feature in The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered's Lost Levels is also planned to appear in the second season of HBO's show, Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann has teased. Earlier this month, Naughty Dog announced a remastered and native PlayStation 5 version of The Last of Us Part 2. Along with souped up visuals for the base game, this upcoming release will also have... Read more ›
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There is a well-worn story about the late Iain Banks and his relationship to video games. In the 1990s, the puckish, prolific Scottish author - who cheerfully hopscotched between publishing mainstream literary best-sellers as Iain Banks and science fiction novels as Iain M Banks - became so addicted to Sid Meier's Civilization that it threatened to short-circuit his writing career. Ultimately, he deleted the game from his hard drive in... Read more ›
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Larian Studios says it's aiming to release Patch 5 for Baldur's Gate 3 later this week. The update will include a fix for performance issues in Act 3, Astarion's kisses, and more. Since Patch 4 was released at the beginning of the month, Baldur's Gate 3 players have experienced slowdown in Act 3. The performance issues were introduced in the patch, Larian stated on X (née Twitter), and resulted in... Read more ›
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Bethesda's customer support team has been responding to negative Starfield reviews on Steam. Starfield had a strong start, becoming the "biggest Bethesda game launch" of all time. Those numbers rose over the first few days of release, with Starfield's concurrent player count previously beating Skyrim's concurrent player record on Steam. But despite these initial player numbers, Starfield currently sits with a 'Mixed' review status on Steam. At the time of... Read more ›
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Bungie will now launch its climactic Destiny 2 expansion The Final Shape on 4th June 2024. The four-month delay was previously leaked following news of job cuts at the studio, and a sense that the game's big finale expansion needed more time. Bungie's other announced game project Marathon has also reportedly been delayed - and will now launch in 2025. In a blog post today, Bungie confirmed that The Final... Read more ›
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Hey everyone, I wanted to share a quick update about Eurogamer, and its future which now looks to lie outside the Reedpop business. If you've been reading for a while you may know Eurogamer has been around a few years (24!) and spent most of that time as part of the family-run Gamer Network. Five years ago, Gamer Network was bought by Reedpop, the pop culture-focused arm of events company... Read more ›
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