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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I grew up in the countryside. My home was surrounded by fields of sheep, cows and mud (so much mud). I would often spend my days running over to the various farms nearby to greet the animals behind the fences, feeding them with grass and leaves from my hands. I would get myself in a bit of a mess doing this, coming home with my once-bright outfits and shoes a... Read more ›
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The Callisto Protocol has joined PlayStation Plus Premium's ever-expanding trials programme - good news indeed for those yet to try the space horror game. You can now play the game for one hour, which will give you a little taster of what's in store for protagonist Jacob Lee as he negotiates the perils of the galactic prison facility he finds himself in on Jovian moon Callisto. It is a shorter... Read more ›
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The first episode of Sonic Prime season two is now available to watch ahead of the full series release. That will be on Netflix on 13th July. Until then, episode one is available to watch now on YouTube as a teaser. It's titled Avoid the Void. Read more Read more ›
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Capcom has announced Rashid, who previously appeared in Street Fighter 5, will join the roster of Street Fighter 6 later this month. Rashid will be the first fighter added to the game post-launch.Rashid can be encountered across all three game modes. In World Tour, players will be able to apply his moves to their own avatar, whilst he'll be available to play as in Fighting Ground. This month's battle pass... Read more ›
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Pokémon Go celebrates its seventh anniversary this week with the rollout of a fresh new feature: contest-like Showcases. Hosted at specific PokéStops, Showcases act as local leaderboards for Pokémon with particularly impressive stats. First up will be a contest to find and show off your biggest sized Squirtle. Up to 200 Pokémon can be entered into any PokéStop Showcase, with in-game prizes offered for those who rank highly - including... Read more ›
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Ubisoft veteran Emile Morel has died at the age of 40. Morel most recently served as creative director on the upcoming and long-awaited Beyond Good and Evil 2, though had worked at Ubisoft's Montpellier studio since 2009. It was there, alongside Rayman creator Michel Ancel, that Morel helped crafted the brilliant Rayman Legends as its lead game designer. Read more Read more ›
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This is a quick public service announcement, to remind you that Microsoft will be increasing its Xbox Game Pass prices later today. At the time of writing, you can still pick up Game Pass Ultimate (which gives you access to games on console, cloud and PC) for £10.99/ month, or its console only offering for £7.99/month. These prices will increase to £12.99/€14.99/$16.99/month for Ultimate and £8.99/€10.99/$10.99 for Console later today,... Read more ›
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An update released today for Final Fantasy 16 adds a new option for players to adjust the strength of motion blur. Many players have complained of nausea while playing the game, making this option a much requested feature. As explained in the patch notes, the default setting for motion blur is the maximum of five - this can now be reduced or completely switched off. Read more Read more ›
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Hello! All this week, Eurogamer is marking Pride with a week of features celebrating the intersection of LGBTQ+ culture and gaming. Today, Sharing Biswas takes us on a tour of bodily pleasures, exploring the perhaps surprising connection between pornography and analogue gaming - and highlighting the creators designing in the spaces beween intimacy and play. At the 2020 San Francisco Porn Film Festival, I watched a pretty arresting piece named... Read more ›
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Flashback, the classic 16-bit sci-fi platformer from Delphine Software, is, as you probably already know, getting a sequel some 31 years after its original release. And new developer Microids has now offered another look at Flashback 2's action in a new trailer as it prepares for a November release. The original Flashback, which arrived in 1992, followed the far-flung future adventures of agent Conrad B. Hart on the trail of... Read more ›
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Friday the 13th: The Game's days are regrettably numbered, but developer Gun Interactive is bidding it farewell in something like celebratory style, bestowing maximum power on all players for their maximum enjoyment (but also to alleviate some pressure on servers) as the game's doom's day clock ticks down toward its closure at the end of next year. Gun announced an end for Friday the 13th: The Game back in June,... Read more ›
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It's all change this year in the world of video game football, as EA readies - after some seriously big-money tussling - what will be its first major football game not to carry the FIFA branding in nearly 30 years. And now, thanks to a new leak, we've got a pretty good idea of when EA Sports FC will be showing up - which, unsurprisingly, is pretty much slap bang... Read more ›
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Assassin's Creed Mirage will include an interactive history feature available in the game at launch, allowing you to delve deeper into the real world version of the game's Baghdad setting. This option appears to be an alternative to the more involved Discovery Tour mode that popped up some time post-launch in Assassin's Creed Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla. Perhaps befitting Mirage's more condensed nature, this option too sounds less involved. Appropriately... Read more ›
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From today, fans can now play as iconic actor Nicolas Cage in Dead by Daylight. Cage is available in the Public Test Build (Steam only), with the full Nicolas Cage Chapter available to purchase from 25th July across all platforms. Cage is a Survivor and plays himself, with an actor-like moveset meant to reflect that. Check out the new trailer below. Read more Read more ›
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Tencent has made an investment into Lighthouse Games, a new studio founded by Playground Games co-founder and studio director Gavin Raeburn. Raeburn left Playground Games last year, where he worked on several titles in the Forza Horizon series. In late 2022, Raebun founded Lighthouse Games. The studio aims to create a "new, genre-defining franchise", it says on its official website. Read more Read more ›
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Grand Theft Auto 5 headlines the next wave of games arriving on Xbox Game Pass this month. The blockbuster game will be available on both console and cloud, with both Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S versions available. It's out today. Exoprimal, Capcom's online dino shooter, is the other major release this month and will be available on day one from 14th July across cloud, console and PC. Read more Read more ›
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As Destiny hurtles towards the conclusion of its decade-long storyline, Bungie has discussed how it all might end - and addressed some recent criticism of how big story revelations have been handled. Speaking out just a couple of weeks after the origins of Destiny's space golf ball The Traveller were finally revealed - to a somewhat mixed response - Bungie staff have defended Destiny's storytelling techniques, and said players should... Read more ›
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Last year, we saw a God of War rip-off turn up on Xbox. Now, we have another PlayStation rip-off turning up on another console. In this case, it is Naughty Dog's The Last of Us on Nintendo Switch. Yes, that's right. If you head over to the eShop right now, you can get your hands on The Last Hope - Dead Zone Survival, an "intense storyline game set in an... Read more ›
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The latest 1.2.0 patch for Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has removed item duplication glitches previously discovered by the community. The update, which became available yesterday, fixes issues relating to certain quests and various other bugs but unfortunately also prevents players from being able to make money quickly. The methods previously reported on Eurogamer, one using thrown weapons and another using frozen meat, now do not work in version 1.2.0... Read more ›
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A Diablo 4 player has found what appeared to be - initially at least - a giant version of the game's terrifying Butcher enemy. The Butcher, an infamous enemy from the first game, can randomly spawn in any dungeon, at any level, and is a particularly nasty foe to defeat. Reddit user IronHeart_777 discovered a giant "beast of a Butcher" while running nightmare dungeons with friends, but don't worry -... Read more ›
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