How far is too far for a remake - and how safe is too safe? For Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, a sumptuous Unreal Engine 5 remake of a 2004 classic, finding a winning answer to this question has led to a great many careful choices at Konami. The combat and camera are updated, the visuals are starkly improved, and yet the original's DNA still courses through the experience.... Read more ›
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Against the Storm - the critically acclaimed city building rogue-like from Eremite Games - is set to get its first major expansion, titled Keepers of the Stone, on 26th September this year. Against the Storm, if you're unfamiliar, challenges players to survive the apocalyptic Blightstorm ravaging the kingdom by gradually upgrading the Smoldering City at its heart. That requires setting out across multiple biomes and establishing a series of settlements,... Read more ›
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Remedy Entertainment has announced a new partnership that'll see Annapurna Pictures financing half of Control 2 in exchange for the film and television rights to Control and Alan Wake. Control 2 - the sequel to Remedy's acclaimed 2019 paranormal shooter - was officially announced back in 2022. Earlier this month, the studio announced the project had now entered full production, and that the Control 2 team was currently "working towards... Read more ›
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Jackbox has confirmed its forthcoming Naughty Pack is suitable for Twitch streaming, though it's up to streamers to moderate content for their audience using in-game options. Speaking to Eurogamer at Gamescom, Jackbox stated Twitch representatives have played the game and nothing in it is inherently against Twitch guidelines. The Jackbox Party Packs contain multiple party games that are all innocent enough, though it can all descend into filth depending on... Read more ›
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Square Enix has announced its free-to-play mobile game Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius will end global service on 30th October. The game was released worldwide in 2016, following its Japanese launch in 2015. The Japanese version will remain in service. Brave Exvius included cute pixel art and gacha mechanics along with turn-based battles, though was perhaps best known for including Ariana Grande as her third album's Dangerous Woman alter-ego. Read more Read more ›
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Impossible ports. That phrase is our shorthand for the conversion of console and PC titles to the Switch that seem almost inconceivable, pushing the aging Tegra X1 hardware in the seven-year-old Nintendo handheld to its absolute limits. That's what we're focusing on today as we round up the best-looking and most technically accomplished third-party releases on Switch, following on from our retrospective of the best-looking first-party Nintendo releases last month.... Read more ›
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Doom has been ported to dozens of devices, but it's never been playable quite like this. Google researchers have now generated an AI version of the retro first-person shooter classic entirely via neural network, based on ingested video clips of gameplay. It's a milestone, if a grim one, recorded in a paper published this week entitled "Diffusion models are real-time game engines" (thanks, VentureBeat). This documents how a small team... Read more ›
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Those looking forward to popping off a few unsuspecting targets as Agent 47 in Hitman 3 VR: Reloaded don't have too much longer to wait.Today, virtual reality game development studio XR games announced the game is set to make its debut on Meta Quest 3 on 5th September. That's just one week from today!"It's finally time for players to play an untethered Hitman experience," said Bobby Thandi, founder and CEO... Read more ›
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Stardew Valley creator Eric 'ConcernedApe' Barone has been so "committed to finalising Stardew 1.6 first", he hasn't actually touched Haunted Chocolatier "in a long time".Barone shared a post on social media platform X earlier today addressing the highly-anticipated console and mobile ports of the Stardew Valley 1.6 update. The developer assured his followers that these ports are still in the works, but things are taking a while."They have been our... Read more ›
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I'm standing in the dark streets of Gotham, as I have done countless times over the years, but now I'm physically craning my neck up to look at its street signs, the names of boarded up shops, the police helicopters buzzing overhead. I'm near the end of an hour-long look at the upcoming Meta Quest 3 exclusive Batman Arkham Shadow, and have finally emerged above ground. It's my first proper... Read more ›
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Konami has finally acknowledged the possibility of Metal Gear Solid 4 being part of an expected Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2. Last year, the company released Master Collection Vol. 1, which includes the first three Metal Gear Solid games plus some extra classics. However, a second volume is widely expected to continue the story with Metal Gear Solid 4, 5, and Peace Walker, with fans digging around on... Read more ›
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The classic Verdansk map will return to Call of Duty Warzone next year. Verdansk is the battle royale's original map that's no longer playable. But, following in the footsteps of Fortnite's own OG map return, it will be back in spring 2025. The return of the map has been rumoured for some time, but Activision officially confirmed the news in last night's Call of Duty: Next livestream. Read more Read more ›
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Ubisoft has offered PS5 players who were advised to restart Star Wars Outlaws in order to avoid progression-breaking bugs a peace offering in the form of... a trinket and some Ubisoft Connect currency.As we reported yesterday, Ubisoft recently emailed some PlayStation 5 players asking them to update their copy of Outlaws to the latest version, following a chunky bug-busting patch. Players should then start a completely new save, Ubisoft said,... Read more ›
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The design of Sony's under-wraps but much-discussed PlayStation 5 Pro model has reportedly been posted online. Prolific leaker bilbil-kun today posted an illustration showing the console model - which looks very similar to that of the base PS5 - and provided a few more details on its reveal. White in colour, with two USB-C ports and a power button on the console's front, the only major difference is the three... Read more ›
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Shinji Mikami and Goichi Suda are two titans of Japanese game development with some incredible games between them, including the likes of Resident Evil, Dino Crisis, and Killer 7. Known for their somewhat punk attitude, the pair joined forces on Shadows of the Damned, released on PS3 and Xbox 360 back in 2011. Now it's getting re-released as Shadows of the Damned: Hella Remastered. That afforded me some time at... Read more ›
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Resident Evil and Dino Crisis creator Shinji Mikami said he doesn't "feel like there's a whole lot of space" for a new Dino Crisis game thanks to the success of Capcom's Monster Hunter series. Speaking to Eurogamer at Gamescom with regards to the forthcoming Shadows of the Damned remaster, Mikami discussed the topic of a new Dino Crisis game - it's the series most Capcom fans want to see make... Read more ›
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Two and a half years after announcing The Witcher 4 - or rather the "the first instalment in the new Witcher saga", as it's now more officially known - CD Projekt has confirmed pre-production is almost over and that full production on the game will begin "soon". CD Projekt's joint CEO Michał Nowakowski shared the news in a press release outlining the studio's work so far in 2024, explaining development... Read more ›
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Beloved 1997 3D platformer Croc: Legend of the Gobbos is being remastered for PC and consoles, and it's coming from a newly revived version of originaly developer Argonaut Games. Argonaut was founded by Jez San in 1982 and would go on to release the likes of Starglider and Birds of Prey before teaming up with Nintendo to create 1993's classic on-rails space shooter Star Fox. A second Nintendo partnership resulted... Read more ›
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Earlier this year, Chris Barrett, a senior figure at Bungie and the project lead on its Marathon reboot, was reported to have left the studio - and a new report has shed fresh light on his departure, claiming he was ousted amid an internal investigation into inappropriate behaviour. Back in March, IGN reported former Valorant game director Joe Ziegler had taken over Barrett's role on the Marathon reboot as part... Read more ›
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As another month rolls around and the nights start creeping ever so slightly in, Sony has revealed its monthly PlayStation Plus games for September.From 3rd September, all PS Plus members will be able to get their hands on the following titles:In Quidditch Champions, as you may have surmised, players will be able to hop onto a broom and take to the skies to play a match or two with their... Read more ›
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