Robert Prince III – best known as Bobby Prince, the man behind the iconic score of the original Doom game – has died aged 81. Read more Read more ›
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The Horizon Forbidden West team considered cutting flying from the game, because it wasn't sure the PlayStation 4 hardware could support it. Chatting at Develop:Brighton earlier today, studio director Jan-Bart van Beek said Guerrilla faced technical challenges when developing the Zero Dawn sequel, as it was releasing across two generations of consoles. "It was almost up until the last moment that we didn't know whether we could support the flying... Read more ›
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Xbox has today released a new voice reporting feature to combat toxicity in in-game voice chats while playing online. The feature, available to Xbox Insiders for now, will allow players to capture a 60-second video clip of an in-game voice chat and submit to the Xbox Safety Team for review. The safety team will then evaluate the user report to determine if a policy violation has taken place, with an... Read more ›
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Behaviour Interactive, the developer behind Dead By Daylight, has opened a UK studio in Truro, Cornwall. The studio is known as Behaviour UK - South and comprises the majority of staff from AntiMatter Games, a local developer whose parent company announced its intention to close. This marks the second UK studio for Behaviour, following the acquisition of SockMonkey Studios in Middlesbrough earlier this year, which was subsequently renamed Behaviour UK... Read more ›
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This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we react to this week's milestone court decision which clears the way for Microsoft's $68.7bn Activision Blizzard deal in the US, and potentially in the UK as well. We discuss why the court sided with Microsoft and what is likely to happen next, including what remedies Microsoft may be considering to get the deal over the line with the UK as well. Could we... Read more ›
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The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has suggested a "new merger investigation" into Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard is not out of the question, following Microsoft's court case win against the US Federal Trade Commission yesterday. The CMA has remained an outlier in Microsoft's ongoing bid to buy Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard, being one of the only bodies to oppose the deal. In April, the CMA... Read more ›
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There's currently a question mark hanging over the Xbox versions of Baldur's Gate 3. They are happening but they're held up by Xbox Series S, which is struggling to run split-screen co-op at an acceptable performance standard.An added complication is that Microsoft wants feature parity across the Series X and S versions of the games - so much so there's a suggestion Larian would not be able to release one... Read more ›
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PlayStation owners can claim a free trial of Apple TV+. As spotted by Push Square, PS5 owners are able to claim six-months of access to Apple TV+ until 31st July. If you have a current Apple TV+ free trial or are already subscribed, you can redeem this offer. However, Sony notes that if you've subscribed to Apple TV+ through a bundle offer such as Apple One, then you will not... Read more ›
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The Federal Trade Commission is reportedly "leaning toward" an appeal of yesterday's decisive court verdict that cleared the way for Microsoft to complete its Activision Blizzard acquisition in the US. A Bloomberg report states that the FTC currently favours launching an appeal, but has just days to do so. Microsoft cannot close the deal in the US before Friday this week, while the deal itself is set to expire next... Read more ›
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After 25 years with the studio, Naughty Dog co-president Evan Wells is retiring from Naughty Dog. The decision was full of "overwhelming and conflicting emotions", Wells said, but added he was "content" with his time at Naughty Dog and everything the team had accomplished during his tenure. "There's never a perfect time to step away, but I'm incredibly confident that I'll be leaving the studio in the best hands," Wells... Read more ›
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Five of the Best is a weekly series for supporters of Eurogamer. And if you didn't know, there's a free trial currently running, so that can be you too! FOTB is a series about highlighting some of the features in games that are often overlooked. It's also a series about you having your say, so don't be shy, use the comments below and join in!Oh and you can find our... Read more ›
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MythForce, Beamdog's cartoon roguelike, now has an official release date. The game has been available to play in Early Access on the Epic Games Store since last year, but now will release officially on 12th September across PlayStation and Xbox consoles, Switch, and PC (Steam, Epic). The announcement comes alongside a new trailer for the game you can watch below. Read more Read more ›
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Assassin's Creed Codename Red, the upcoming Japan-set entry in Ubisoft's historical stabathon series, appears scheduled to launch in 2024. A LinkedIn post by a Ubisoft marketing employee described the game - which does not yet have an official release date - as "the biggest blockbuster for 2024". That's according to reliable Assassin's Creed fan resource Access The Animus, which spotted the post. Tellingly, said post has subsequently been edited to... Read more ›
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If I remember this correctly, the movie American Graffiti starts with a close-up of a car radio frequency display. American Graffiti is about a group of young people wandering around on a special night. George Lucas' next film would be the one to take us out to a galaxy far, far away, but, even back in the day, on a crackly fourteen-inch TV screen, that radio shot in American Graffiti... Read more ›
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Craig Mazin, writer and showrunner on HBO's smash hit The Last of Us TV adaptation (and creator of HBO and Sky Atlantic's acclaimed prestige drama Chernobyl), has removed his name from Gearbox's long-in-the-works Borderlands movie amid what appears to be an increasingly tumultuous post-production period for the project. A Borderlands movie was first announced back in 2015, but it wasn't until five years later, when Gearbox announced Hostel director Eli... Read more ›
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Digital Eclipse, the studio behind last year's acclaimed Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration, has announced it's giving a similar "interactive documentary" treatment to Prince of Persia designer Jordan Mechner's 1984 classic Karateka later this year on Xbox and PC - as part of a new series of releases, each one focusing on a different seminal game. Things kick off with The Making of Karateka, a historical delve into Mechner's noted... Read more ›
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Two years (well, one year and 11 months to be more precise) after its debut on Switch, PlayStation and PC, Axiom Verge 2 - the sequel to developer Thomas Happ's acclaimed retro-styled Metroid-a-like - is finally available for Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S. Axiom Verge 2 builds on its 2015 predecessor's exploratory action with a quest to "discover the origins of the Axiom Verge universe", beginning as new protagonist... Read more ›
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West of Dead studio Upstream Arcade and publisher Good Shepherd Entertainment have given a first proper taste of Hellboy Web of Wyrd's gameplay in a brisk new trailer as the "roguelite action brawler" continues its journey toward a release on Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, and PC. Hellboy Web of Wyrd was formally announced last December, teasing an original storyline crafted in collaboration with series creator Mike Mignola, as well as a... Read more ›
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If you're a try-before-you-buy sort with access to an Xbox One or Xbox Series X/S, then today's your day, as Microsoft's latest ID@Xbox Demo Fest event officially begins. This year's ID@Xbox Demo Fest runs from today, 11th July, to next Monday, 17th July, across the Xbox Store online and consoles, and features a total of 47 playable demos. It's a diverse selection ranging from a rotoscoped "modern gothic fable" in... Read more ›
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Bulkhead, the Derby-based developer of old-school WW2 shooter Battalion 1944 (also known as Battalion: Legacy), is providing refunds to its Kickstarter backers, with no questions asked. In a joint statement with studio owner Splash Damage, the developer stated this decision had been prompted by the fact it "couldn't fully deliver on all that [it] set out to do" with the game. These refunds are eligible to all of the Battalion... Read more ›
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Microsoft has won its crucial court case against the US Federal Trade Commission, clearing its way to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7bn. More to follow. Read more Read more ›
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