Sony has written to PlayStation customers to advise that hundreds of "previously purchased" digital movies previously available via its online store will "be removed" from video libraries later this year. Read more Read more ›
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Pokémon Go maker Niantic will lay off 230 staff - around a quarter of the company - and has cancelled a major upcoming project developed in conjunction with Marvel. The company will close its recently-released NBA All-World game, end development of its upcoming Marvel World of Heroes project, and shut down its Los Angeles development studio, Kotaku reported today after seeing an internal email sent by company founder John Hanke.... Read more ›
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Xbox has revealed its Games with Gold titles for July. A big draw this month is Darkwood, the nightmarish survival horror game from Acid Wizard Studio, which will be available between 1st July until 31st July. Darkwood, which originally released on PC in 2017, is a frightening horror experience that combines exploration, combat, scavenging, crafting and survival into an extremely unusual whole. Our Donlan called it "a masterclass in how... Read more ›
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This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we look back at a week of headlines from Microsoft's time in court arguing its case to buy Activision Blizzard with the FTC. In the video game industry, courtroom drama does not get much bigger than this. Microsoft's Phil Spencer and Satya Nadella, Sony's Jim Ryan and Activision boss Bobby Kotick have all given evidence as the US weighs up whether to allow Xbox's... Read more ›
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Amazon has announced the line-up of games for Prime Gaming members in July. As a reminder, Prime Gaming members can claim four bonus games, including Prey (2017) and Baldur's Gate 2: Enhanced Edition, until 11th July as part of Amazon Prime Day celebrations.The regular Prime Gaming monthly freebies for July includes four games, with the first available from 6th July. Read more Read more ›
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Regularly topping the Steam hardware survey as the most popular graphics cards, Nvidia's 60-class products are often the 'go to' product for the mainstream gamer, with the green team usually dominating, even when rival products can be just as good or even better. With 60-class, the power of the GeForce brand comes into its own and to be fair, Nvidia has delivered some excellent GPUs. The GTX 1060 is still... Read more ›
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It starts with a squeeze of the trigger and a flick of my left wrist. Where once stood an enemy, gun raised and pointed in my direction, there's now an empty space. Looking up I follow the body as it arcs through the air, and there I catch it with my telekinesis powers and slam it into the ground below where it smashes into digital shards on jagged, monochromatic rocks.... Read more ›
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Mojang is ending official support for the Minecraft subreddit, due to current issues with reddit. The subreddit, at the time of writing, has 7.4m subscribers making it one of the largest on the platform. However, a post from Mojang developer Mikael Hedberg stated that official support will now cease, though it will remain a place of unofficial discussion. Read more Read more ›
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Emma's Adventures is a monthly column exclusively for Eurogamer supporters, written by Emma Kent, who has an uncanny knack for finding strange adventures in games. You can support Eurogamer for £3/€3/$3 a month and gain access to a whole variety of things. Better yet, we're currently offering a free trial so you can get a month's subscription for nothing!We're also doing something slightly different with this instalment. This adventure took... Read more ›
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Pikmin 4's time rewind feature is a big addition to the series, though I admit being apprehensive at first around how it might be deployed. After a week with the game - and you can read some of my early thoughts here - I've come to use it sparingly, but appreciate its existence. As its name suggests, the feature allows you to skip backwards and undo any sudden calamity. Though... Read more ›
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Among the many, many claims and discoveries flying around in the wake of Microsoft's ongoing FTC lawsuit over the attempted purchase of Activision Blizzard, one particular quote stands out: PlayStation boss Jim Ryan's accusation that Xbox Game Pass and other subscription-based services are "value destructive" to video games.Ryan, speaking in pre-recorded video testimony, also claimed other publishers "unanimously do not like Game Pass" for that reason. When pressed by Microsoft's... Read more ›
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Ubisoft has announced its first ever Web3 game, Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles, which will launch on the Oasys blockchain. Oasys is a blockchain which was established in February 2022 and is backed by multiple companies, including Bandai Namco, Sega, Ubisoft, and Square Enix. It is marketed as a specialist blockchain for games. Ubisoft describes Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles is a "PvP tactical RPG experimental game" and is currently in development... Read more ›
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Baldur's Gate 3 will now be released on 3rd August for PC, almost a month earlier than previously planned. Meanwhile, the game's PlayStation 5 version will launch slightly later - directly up against Starfield on 6th September. Discussing this release reshuffle, Larian Studios exec Michael Douse explained that while the PC version was ready to go, the PS5 edition needed slightly more time, and it did not make sense to... Read more ›
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The Sims 5 looks set to be free-to-play, going by a description of the game as "free to enter" by EA spotted on a job listing seen on the publisher's careers website. EA has since removed the advert from its website - though not before it was spotted by Sims fans. (You can still see it now thanks to the Wayback Machine.) The listing, first spotted by fans on Sims... Read more ›
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Sports Interactive boss Miles Jacobson has announced a range of major shifts coming to the Football Manager series, dubbed "one of the biggest changes in our history." In an extensive developer blog, Jacobson apologised for the relative lack of new features in FM23, announced save game transfers coming in FM24, and the long-awaited arrival of women's football in FM25 - first announced back in 2021. Alongside all that is a... Read more ›
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Bloober Team is moving on from the psychological horror games it is known for, with the recent Layers of Fear remaster being its last game of the genre. That said, it's still sticking with horror. Instead, Bloober is now making "mass-market horror". What does that mean? Bloober says it will result in a renewed focus on gameplay over atmosphere, owing to its games being described as "walking simulators". Read more Read more ›
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Cassette Beasts developer Bytten Studios held a showcase yesterday discuss the future of its spin on the Pokémon-like monster battler formula. As well as sharing details on update 1.2, which is now live, Bytten also announced features in development and new merchandise, including a multiplayer offering, an expansion DLC, and plushies. Update 1.2, called Catacombs, adds a new hidden location, three alternate remastered forms of existing monsters, four brand new... Read more ›
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I've got good news! We're letting everyone have a month of being a Eurogamer Supporter for free. Think of it as a free trial, if you like. And it can start today, if you want it to.We're doing it because we want to show off what we offer. We want you to experience the site without adverts and all that peaceful white space you'll suddenly see. We want you to... Read more ›
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Sony has had its exhibits pulled from court after failing to properly redact financial information. As part of the ongoing Microsoft vs FTC court case, Sony provided documentation detailing confidential information about its PlayStation business. As is custom, key details in this documentation were redacted. At least, they were meant to be. Thanks to the retrospectively poor choice of using a Sharpie marker to redact the key information, it's easy... Read more ›
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has said he'd love to get rid of console exclusives. Nadella took to the witness stand during yesterday's court proceedings for the Xbox FTC hearing, and stated he has "no love" for the world of exclusives, reported IGN. "If it was up to me, I would love to get rid of the entire sort of exclusives on consoles, but that's not up to me to define,"... Read more ›
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Yager, the developer behind the likes of Spec Ops: The Line and Dreadnought, has announced its free-to-play PvPvE extraction shooter The Cycle: Frontier will be shutting down in September, as the game is not "financially viable". The Cycle: Frontier, which arrived on PC in June last year, saw teams of players - in the role of Prospectors - airdropping onto a hostile alien planet in order to gather resources, fending... Read more ›
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