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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Lords of the Fallen developer Hexworks has laid out its 2023 roadmap for the Soulslike. A number of free content additions are in development, but perhaps most intriguing is a new questline event - presumably to extend the core storyline. The plan also includes ongoing weekly enhancements, including stability, performance, save game fixes, multiplayer improvements, balancing, increased boss difficulty, and other quality of life tweaks. Read more Read more ›
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The long-rumoured but unannounced Silent Hill: The Short Message has had its plot details leaked by the Australian government's rating body. The Short Message first popped up in September 2022, when it was rated in South Korea by The Game Rating and Administration Committee of Korea.Content warning - the rest of this article contains mentions of self-harm and suicide which some may find distressing. The following also contains spoilers for... Read more ›
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Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3's short campaign may be getting mixed feedback, but it does at least feature a cameo appearance from the series' best canine boy. Fans have found that there's a pettable dog (of course) featured during the game's Trojan Horse mission, which you are encouraged to go stroke while attempting to blend into the level's crowds. Linger on and continue looking at said dog after petting... Read more ›
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Stranger Things has returned to Dead by Daylight. The chapter, based on the Netflix series, includes The Demogorgon as a Killer, Nancy and Steve as Survivors, and the Underground Complex Map. The game's developer Behaviour Interactive pulled this content from the game back in November 2021 due to an expiration of its licensing agreement with Netflix. Read more Read more ›
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Square Enix has reported a drop in profits, despite a boost from sales of its most recent Final Fantasy games. However, 2024 is likely to be a stronger year by comparison. According to its latest financial report from April to September 2023, company operating income has dropped by 33 percent and ordinary income by 42 percent. That's despite an increase in sales for its HD Games, owing to the releases... Read more ›
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Baldur's Gate 3 looks set to receive a new difficulty mode which will restrict players to one save file and permadeath.A new achievement for the game called Foehammer, which references an Honour mode, has been spotted on the GOG launcher and shared on the game's subreddit. Fans of developer Larian Studios have recognised Honour mode from its previous appearances in Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition and Divinity: Original Sin 2.... Read more ›
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Ubisoft has finally allowed you to explore Assassin's Creed Mirage without its chromatic aberration visual effect permanently switched on. An update for Mirage launches today for PC, PlayStation and Xbox which adds a toggle for the visual effect. There had been numerous fan complaints that it was simply too distracting, and many requests for it to be switched off or toned down. You can download the update (version 1.0.5) from... Read more ›
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The open beta for The Finals - the upcoming destruction-heavy PvP FPS from Ex-EA and DICE exec Patrick Söderlund's Embark Studios - is now over, and it seems to have been remarkably successful. Following its conclusion, Embark announced that a whopping 7.5 million players joined the beta to battle it out among the masses. "It's been a thrilling week for the entire team, one that we'll never forget. We're utterly... Read more ›
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A group of former BioWare testers plan to protest outside the company's Edmonton headquarters today, after being laid off from contract studio Keywords last month. The group has chosen today - 7th November - as it is BioWare's N7 Day, an annual celebration of the developer's Mass Effect franchise. 13 former testers were employed by Keywords Studios but seconded to BioWare to work on 2021's brilliant Mass Effect Legendary Edition... Read more ›
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What makes a rally game? Speed helps, as do puddles, and patches of muddy track. Long drifts are essential, and the thing has to look right. You want to thunder into woodland and over ice. The cars, with their glaring sponsorships, should resemble sculpted dollops of Colgate wrapped in Christmas lights – or futuristic toys. Oh, and those racks of headlamps, as if a vampire hunter were competing, are a... Read more ›
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The Epic Games Store still isn't profitable. That's according to Epic Games Store boss Steve Allison, who was speaking during a court hearing on Monday. As reported by The Verge, the exec was talking during the current Epic vs Google court case. Here, Allison said while the Epic Games Store still isn't profitable, the company's focus remains on "growth". Additionally, according to emails shared during the trial, Epic had hoped... Read more ›
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Nintendo's Switch console has now passed 132m units sold, but the company is remaining silent on its successor. According to Nintendo's latest report detailing sales over the last financial quarter, Switch sales are still going strong. Unit sales for the Switch family of consoles rose 2.4 percent year-on-year, with the OLED model the most popular. A further 4.69m Switch OLEDs were sold, as clearly players are willing to spend extra... Read more ›
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Sony is dropping Twitter integration from its PlayStation consoles starting next Monday, 13th November, mirroring similar decisions made by Blizzard and Xbox earlier this year. Twitter (or X, if you must) integration has long been a part of PlayStation's operating system, giving users a quick and convenient way to share screenshots, videos, Trophy achievements, and more to social media. Unfortunately, all that's about to end. "As of November 13, 2023,"... Read more ›
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Cities: Skylines 2 studio Colossal Order has pledged not to release paid DLC for its city building sequel until its heavily criticised performance issues have been "fixed to our standards". Performance concerns have, of course, dogged Cities: Skylines 2 even before its release, with Colossal Order and publisher Paradox Interactive taking the unprecedented step of warning potential buyers that it had "not achieved the benchmark we targeted" prior to launch,... Read more ›
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Microsoft and AI company Inworld AI have announced a "multi-year co-development partnership", which will see the companies work to develop a range of AI tools for Xbox's studios.These tools include an "AI design copilot" and an "AI character runtime engine".The design copilot will be able to take prompts and turn them into "detailed scripts, dialogue trees, quests and more", the companies said. The character runtime will enable "entirely new narratives... Read more ›
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Burnout is now available on Nintendo Switch, but it's not the Burnout you think it is. EA's Burnout Paradise Remastered has been on the eShop since June 2020. But now there's another Burnout game that's been added to the store not made by EA, but from publisher GameToTop Corp. Burnout is, of course, a car racing game where players must "prove [their] mettle and rise through the ranks to become... Read more ›
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There's an embarrassment of riches in the 136th edition of DF Direct Weekly, spread across almost two hours of 'content'. We discuss the good and the bad points of the Modern Warfare 3 campaign and EA's WRC, we spend time talking about how impressive the Switch port of Super Mario RPG is and share impressions on Apple's newly announced M3 processor line-up. However, for this Eurogamer blog, I'm going to... Read more ›
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Fortnite has made a sudden return to its long-lost original map for a month-long mini-season fuelled by nostalgia, and its sudden spike in popularity has blown past everyone's expectations. It's a stunning moment for Epic Games' ever-changing battle royale - even by Fortnite's own stratospheric standards - and yet I can't help but feel a tinge of sadness that this is the version of Fortnite all 44 million players picked... Read more ›
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The Invincible is my kind of science fiction. When I look up at the stars, I feel wonder and mystery, and romance, even. I believe anything is possible out there and that we only have to find it. And when I look at The Invincible, it makes me feel that way too. You can see it in the screenshots. In hues that are almost gaudy, there are sweeping desert landscapes... Read more ›
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Retro Studios was once working on a Portal-esque first-person puzzle game called Adept for the GameCube. The studio began work on the game after Metroid Prime 3 and had a working prototype built in that game's engine, but Nintendo said no. Until now, footage of the prototype hadn't been made public, but a new video from YouTube channel DidYouKnowGaming has revealed Adept - as well as fresh details on other... Read more ›
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