Last month's Game Awards ceremony had its highs and lows, but everyone keeps talking about the strange decision to end with a new live-service hero shooter that wasn't looking exactly fresh in its big debut trailer. Former Titanfall and Apex Legends devs deserve the benefit of the doubt, however, which is why we're keeping tabs on what's going on with Highguard ahead of its 26th January launch. Read more Read more ›
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Nintendo has announced a free update for Donkey Kong Country Returns HD on Switch and Switch 2. Read more Read more ›
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EA and BioWare's failed action-RPG shooter Anthem was put down on 12th January. No offline or P2P alternative for this one, at least officially. It was gone for good, with both the publisher and the studio seemingly eager to move on. However, fans aren't ready to let go. Read more Read more ›
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Bethesda has released another sizable update for Fallout 76, which is available now. Read more Read more ›
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The next entry in the Life is Strange series has been announced, and it stars fan favourites Max Caulfield and Chloe Price as co-leads. Read more Read more ›
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Hytale boss Simon Collins-Laflamme has called the Minecraft-like's recent early access launch "the most challenging but rewarding experience" of his life. Read more Read more ›
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Raymond Bartos, producer on the World of Warcraft team, has announced his new role at a rival studio. He'll now be working on a whole new MMO, the much-anticipated and very mysterious Riot Games MMO no less. Read more Read more ›
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Kenny Sun and Friends' Ball x Pit was among Eurogamer's favourite games of 2025, so imagine our excitement when it was confirmed free content drops were set to arrive this year. Now, the wait for the first major update is almost over. Read more Read more ›
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A League of Legends fighting game is the sort of idea only the most stoned bozo, most gormless ruffian, could have dreamt up a decade or so ago. It stands in the day-dream pantheon of a Riot Games MMO (wait a minute), or some kind of League of Legends trading card game (hang on a second). Yet, despite the odds not only does such a game exist, but it's class... Read more ›
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Developer 1047 Games will add an Arena Royale mode to Splitgate Arena Reloaded later this week. Read more Read more ›
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As we prepare for IO Interactive's 007 First Light, set to finally launch in May, and celebrate Hitman 3's five-year anniversary, we've received news Hitman: World of Assassination is, at long last, getting cross-progression support. Read more Read more ›
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Microsoft has revealed the next batch of games coming to its Xbox Game Pass subscription service this January, and into next month. Read more Read more ›
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Larian Studios' new Divinity game has been the talk of town since it was revealed at The Game Awards 2025. Even the comments on potential gen-AI use, ensuing backlash, and course-correction haven't sunk the excitement around the next RPG from the developers behind Baldur's Gate 3. In fact, the 2023 CRPG and the studio's previous game, Divinity: Original Sin 2, have seen a surge in popularity. Read more Read more ›
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Following last week's announcement that long-running MMO The Elder Scrolls Online would be moving away from traditional major expansions to focus on smaller seasonal updates, developer ZeniMax Online has insisted the big shake-up is in no way related to last year's sweeping layoffs at parent company Microsoft, which heavily impacted the studio. Read more Read more ›
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Pokémon is celebrating its 30th anniversary on 27th February, and we're collectively dying to see what might be revealed about the long-rumoured next mainline game and other projects. Moreover, Pokopia aims to shake things up with a new take on town life sims in early March. In its beginnings, however, the series took a long time to figure out. Read more Read more ›
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I can still very clearly remember the first time I was told anything about 2016's Hitman, the soft reboot of the adventures of gaming's most-beloved slaphead. It was at an industry event, several months before the game was due to be announced at E3 2015. It was the usual sort of 'told about a game early' affair. Someone from Square Enix gushed over a pint. Read more Read more ›
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One of the original Tomb Raider creators has shared some details on a previous request from a Japanese publisher, which asked the team to give Lara Croft an anime-style redesign to make her more widely appealing. Read more Read more ›
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A top-to-bottom Atari-themed hotel is increasingly close to becoming a reality. A location has been found - in the centre of Phoenix, Arizona - and the company responsible, Intersection Development, says construction will begin late 2026 with a prospective opening date of late 2028. Read more Read more ›
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Marathon has swiftly climbed Steam's Top Sellers list following the reveal of its 5th March release date. Read more Read more ›
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With the menace of price hikes looming over every piece of gaming hardware and early 2026 reports that Nintendo Switch 2 was below Switch 1's sales curve over its first December period in the US and Europe, many have started to wonder if we were looking at a strong start with bad legs for the newest hybrod console. But, in Japan at least, that doesn't seem to be the case.... Read more ›
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