PlayStation maker Sony doesn't have enough original franchises which it has "fostered from the beginning".That's according to Sony chief financial officer Hiroki Totoki, who in the same week PlayStation announced it was pulling Concord from sale told the Financial Times: "We're lacking the early phase (of IP) and that's an issue for us.""One thing that you need is IP, that is step one," Jefferies analyst Atul Goyal added in the... Read more ›
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Welcome back to Eurogamer's 25th birthday week - this time, for something of a more personal piece from the team. We've already introduced The Eurogamer 100 - the games we recommend you play right now. Well, here's something different: the games we feel have helped form Eurogamer's identity over the past quarter century.Many of these inclusions come from the memories we've made working together over the years. It's telling, perhaps,... Read more ›
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Helldiver 2's long-awaited third enemy faction, the Illuminate - previously seen in Helldivers 1, but still conspicuously absent from its sequel - has briefly appeared in-game. Which hasn't stopped developer Arrowhead Game Studios from declaring the incident to be "fake news". Players began reporting strange sightings across Helldivers 2's Galactic War map (thanks PC Gamer) earlier today, beginning with a mysterious cluster of purple sectors where players had previously only... Read more ›
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Flaming Fowl Studios - the developer that announced then shelved a game on the same day back in April amid financial difficulties - has unveiled its latest project, a comedic sci-fi auto battler called Konfronto that's due to release on PC later this year. Flaming Fowl, which was founded in 2016 by former members of original Fable developer Lionhead Studios, first made a name for itself with the release of... Read more ›
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With Dragon Age: The Veilguard's October release looming, BioWare is starting to discuss the finer details of its latest fantasy RPG. And its newest deep-dive provides a look at how progression will work for protagonist Rook and the companions they'll meet along the way. Rook's progression systems won't, it has to be said, be much of a surprise to anyone that's had even the faintest brush with a video game... Read more ›
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I've always been wary of people who say about a game "It's better when you play it in co-op" because virtually every activity is improved by the presence of friends. Cleaning the sink is more fun when you've got one to three pals monkeying around in the kitchen with you, tossing you extra sponge-scourers and reviving you when you faint because of the thing you just pulled out of the... Read more ›
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Acer announced a raft of new devices at its NextAtAcer event in Berlin today, including a bunch of AI laptops powered by Intel Lunar Lake, AMD Strix Point and Qualcomm Snapdragon X processors, but I want to focus on the gaming stuff. There's a protoype gaming laptop with built-in gamepad, the Predator Project DualPlay, an AMD-powered gaming handheld, the Nitro Blaze 7, and a 600Hz gaming monitor, the Nitro XV240... Read more ›
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UK high street chain GAME has acknowledged customers awaiting pre-orders are currently facing "issues" accessing their accounts online, as they wait for delayed deliveries to arrive. GAME customers with items they had pre-ordered and already paid for told Eurogamer they had received no advance notice of any issue, and have been unable to check the status of their orders online. The issues follow Eurogamer's reporting that GAME was ending in-store... Read more ›
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Starfield's 30fps frame-rate target on consoles proved controversial at the game's launch, despite the game's impressive world complexity. That all changed in May of this year when the game was updated with support for 40fps, 60fps, and unlocked modes on Series X, though the performance level was understandably a little bit variable. Series S was left out in the cold, with players on Microsoft's pint-sized console still left with a... Read more ›
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If you, like me, have been wondering just how Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures were going to approach a live-action Minecraft movie, I have good news for you. We now have our first good look at the upcoming adaptation, known simply as A Minecraft Movie, thanks to a new trailer.The trailer, which you can see below, introduces us to Jason Momoa's Garrett "The Garbage Man" Garrison and Jack Black's... Read more ›
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By now, I should really should know better than to expect the obvious where No Man's Sky is concerned. And here we are again with a brand-new update, titled Aquarius, which this time adds - of all things - fishing to developer Hello Games' wonderful exploratory space sim. Aquarius follows on July's behemoth Worlds Part 1 update, which introduced a significant planetary refresh for No Man's Sky's vast universe. That... Read more ›
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More than 35 years after the first Legend of Zelda, one of video gaming's most recognisable names will finally front an adventure of her own. Fans have clamoured to play as Zelda for years, of course, and yet Nintendo has previously resisted, keeping Link as the silent avatar of players' adventures.That all changes in the upcoming The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom - the reveal of which this year... Read more ›
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Cyberpunk 2077 fans have pledged more than $2m to ensure a new, official board game version of CD Projekt Red's role-playing game is made. The crowdfunding campaign for Cyberpunk 2077 - The Board Game on GameFound obliterated its initial $100k goal in just 10 minutes and four seconds. As of writing, almost £2.1m has been pledged, and counting. 16 days of the campaign remain. This tabletop version of Cyberpunk 2077... Read more ›
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The Humble team has detailed its September Choice bundle.Humble Choice is a subscription service which offers a monthly set of PC games for its members to own forever.This month, you can get you hands on the following titles as part of you Humble membership: Read more Read more ›
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Nintendo has revealed fresh details of its forthcoming RPG Mario & Luigi: Brothership, including its setting: Concordia.The game was announced at Nintendo's Direct in June, marking the series' debut on Switch and latest game since Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam on the 3DS in 2015. It could potentially be the final Mario game on the console before the release of Switch 2.Yesterday, Nintendo Japan shared a blog post with new... Read more ›
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After PlayStation and Firewalk made the decision to pull Concord from sale two weeks after the hero-shooter made its debut, industry members have started to share their sympathies with the team involved.Gears of War's Cliff "CliffyB" Bleszinski shared a short post on social media, reading: "Concord, I feel your pain."Bleszinski previously set up Boss Key Productions, a now defunct studio, which released its own hero shooter, LawBreakers. Despite a big... Read more ›
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PlayStation's shock decision to shut down its live-service flop Concord just a fortnight after launch has spurred players who did buy the game to try and reach its max level via an unusual method - before it all disappears. Players are now leaping off cliffs to end matches and earn XP at rapid pace, with a healthy chunk of XP awarded whether a team wins or loses. If Concord was... Read more ›
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Microsoft has again confirmed the delay to the Xbox release of Black Myth: Wukong is not due to "platform limitations".Game Science's action-RPG was released last month on PC and PS5, but the Xbox version was delayed for an unknown reason. Speculation grew the developer was struggling to run the game on the Series S console, while other rumours suggested the game was in fact a PlayStation console exclusive.A representative from... Read more ›
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How long have you been a Eurogamer reader for? Let me put that another way: how many different Eurogamer editors do you remember? The site has been around for a long time now - 25 years this week - so there have been a few different sets of hands at the tiller. I ask because, well, I've gathered those editors together again for a very special anniversary podcast, which you... Read more ›
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Battletech, Shadowrun, and The Lamplighters League developer Harebrained Schemes has announced its first project since parting ways with Paradox Interactive last year. It's a "post-cyberpunk survival horror RPG" called Graft and it's heading to PC. Graft's story unfolds in the depths of a decaying continent-sized space station known as the Arc, home to forgotten technologies and unsettling wonders. Players must brave its horrors as they traverse "massive chasms, labyrinthine techno-catacombs,... Read more ›
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