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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Hello! Eurogamer's latest week of features celebrating the intersection of LGBTQ+ culture and gaming is near its end, but we're not quite done yet! Wrapping things up in style, we've canvassed some of our favourite creators, passed notes among the team, and even delved into the Eurogamer archive to spotlight just a few of our favourite queer and queer-positive games. Some are joyous, others are intended to disturb and challenge,... Read more ›
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Two years after its debut, Naraka: Bladepoint is going free-to-play. From 13th July, the "up to 60-player PVP mythical melee battle royale game" – which crossed 20 million unique players just ahead of its second anniversary – will be free to download not only PC and Xbox consoles, but PS5, too. To celebrate, "new content, features and updates" are on the way, including a new 12v12 mode called Capture The... Read more ›
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Maggie Robertson, the actor who played the iconic Lady Dimitrescu in Resident Evil Village, is set to play another memorable villain, this time in Baldur's Gate 3. Larian confirmed this to me at an event I went to this week, where I played the launch version of the game. Orin the Red, as the character is known, is a magical, shape-shifting menace. A sexy but sadistic presence who will appear... Read more ›
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Hello everybody! Christian Donlan is away for this week's Game of the Week, so I'm afraid you all get a sorry consolation prize in the shape of me waffling about poltergeists. Why poltergeists? Because of Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, of course. The current gen remaster has just launched and our Henry Stockdale was tickled pink, hailing it as a "brilliant mystery" and a work of "comedic absurdity" in his review,... Read more ›
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What's your morning phone routine? After your alarm sounds but before you get out of bed, do you scroll through your mobile? Half asleep, I clear notifications, read BBC News, do the Wordle. This week, that changed - I checked in with Snorlax first instead. Pokémon Sleep is the franchise's big play to dominate the one part of my life previously free from Pokémon gaming - the six to eight... Read more ›
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Street Fighter 6 has sold 2m units since its release at the start of last month. That's an additional 1m sales for the game over the last five weeks, with earlier figures revealing Street Fighter 6 clocked up a million players over its launch weekend. In celebration of these latest sales figures, Capcom has gifted its players with some rewards, or "a small token of our appreciation", in its words.... Read more ›
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Sega will keep its biggest franchises free from third-party blockchain gaming projects, but won't keep its smaller series away fron the technology. The company also remains committed to investing in blockchain and Web3, but is shelving plans for internal development on blockchain games. Sega co-chief operating officer Shuji Utsumi revealed the company's strategy in an interview with Bloomberg. Read more Read more ›
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Nintendo has released a new trailer for Pikmin 4, ahead of its release in a couple of weeks. The video is a short primer on what the titular Pikmin are and how they can be used in-game. The overview follows a new traveller as they meet the Pikmin and learn how to work with them. The traveller looks on in confusion at various points, before a Pikmin confidently approaches them... Read more ›
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Yuji Naka, Sonic's co-creator and the man behind ill-fated platformer Balan Wonderworld, has been found guilty of insider trading, but will avoid prison for now. Naka was first arrested back in November 2022 following reports of alleged insider trading at Square Enix. He pleaded guilty in March, and then, in June, the developer was sentenced to serve two and a half years in jail, with a final judgement in July.... Read more ›
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Diablo 4's first season will go live on 20th July, with the promise of a new boss battle, questline and gear to get your hands on. Known as Season of the Malignant, this season will introduce the fittingly named Malignant Monsters. These monsters are described by Blizzard as "decaying abominations" that roam through Sanctuary in a frenzy. They will not hesitate to attack anyone or anything that gets in their... Read more ›
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Hello! Eurogamer is once again marking Pride Month with another week of features celebrating the intersection of queer culture and gaming. Today, Eli Cugini celebrates the clumsier side of LGBTQ+ representation and the strange, raw beauty that sometimes lies within. My favourite rhythm game, which I won't name because I pay it £10 every month and I want you to make better life decisions than I do, recently tweeted that... Read more ›
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Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've found ourselves playing over the last few days. This time: second impressions, profound truths, and literal-mindedness.If you fancy catching up on some of the older editions of What We've Been Playing, here's our archive. I reinstalled Baldur's Gate 3 at the weekend, and it made me think a bit about second... Read more ›
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The steady drip of Mortal Kombat 1 info continues in the run-up to the sort-of-rebooted fighter's 19th September launch, with developer NetherRealm having now confirmed Smoke and Rain as playable characters joining the roster, alongside some familiar faces returning as assistive Kameos. Not including today's announcements, NetherRealm has so-far confirmed a total of 10 playable characters for Mortal Kombat 1: Johnny Cage, Kenshi, Kitana, Kung Lao, Liu Kang, Mileena, Raiden,... Read more ›
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A new trailer for EA's magic FPS Immortals of Aveum has been released, sharing details on its tri-magic system and story. The world of Aveum is at war, with five kingdoms battling over control of magic. As Jak, players will manipulate all three colours of magic - he's what's known as a Triarch. Using a sigil to augment magical powers, players must switch between red, blue and green magic to... Read more ›
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Legendary game developer - and game development tease - Peter Molyneux has discussed his next project, and talked up its gameplay as featuring a mechanic that's never been seen before. Speaking to GameReactor at the recent Gamelab conference in Barcelona, Molyneux was reluctant to give many firm details of the game or this idea to avoid - in his words - people subsequently getting "very annoyed and angry" when their... Read more ›
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Return to Monkey Island will be making its mobile and tablet debut on 27 July. Guybrush Threepwood's latest outing will be available on the App Store and Google Play, with pre registrations open now. You can see a little trailer for Return to Monkey Island in the video below. Read more Read more ›
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It's unlikely we'll see a follow-up to Kid Icarus: Uprising, director and writer Masahiro Sakurai has said.Sakurai made the comments in the latest episode of Game Concepts, a series on his YouTube channel in which he discusses the development of various games.Uprising released in 2012 for the 3DS and is the third game in the Kid Icarus series, released 21 years after the previous title Kid Icarus: Of Myths and... Read more ›
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IO Interactive, the developer behind the Hitman series and the upcoming James Bond game, has announced the opening of a new studio in sunny Brighton. The studio marks the fifth for IO, which already has offices in Copenhagen, Malmö, Barcelona, and Istanbul. All five studios are working on the next James Bond game, codename Project 007, which was first announced in 2021 and will be a "wholly original" origin story,... Read more ›
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Final Fantasy games are well-known for their elaborate CGI movies - pre-rendered sequences which have traditionally highlighted key in-game moments where real-time rendering might prove insufficient. Final Fantasy 16 uses the technique rarely though, with a mix of real-time and pre-rendered in-engine footage largely used instead. With that in mind, I thought it would be interesting to investigate how FF16's in-game or in-engine sequences compare to the last mainline Final... Read more ›
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The next wave of courses is set to arrive in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe next week, for those with the Booster Course Pass. On 12th July a further eight courses will be added to the game, as well as four new characters: Birdo, Petey Piranha, Wiggler and Kamek. Read more Read more ›
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