Following its half-hearted, widely derided stab at an esports event in 2023, the International Olympic Committee has announced the inaugural Olympic Esports Games in partnership with the Saudi Arabian Olympic & Paralympic Committee, to be held in Saudi Arabia next year. Tethering its future esports success to a regime that's been widely criticised for its poor human rights record - which includes the criminalisation of homosexuality, fewer rights for women,... Read more ›
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80s movie favourite The Karate Kid is being turned into a 16-bit style side-scrolling beat-'em-up, and it's heading to PlayStation, Xbox, Switch and PC on 20th September this year. The Karate Kid: Street Rumble comes from GameMill Entertainment, the publisher behind Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, and is firmly setting its sights on the 80s era of Karate Kid rather than Netflix's Cobra Kai continuation - which has already spawned two games... Read more ›
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As an old person who's still not over the novelty of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles being allowed to be called the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the UK without anyone getting funny about the word "ninja", it'd be fair to say I'm a little behind on the franchise. So the news there's a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game out this October based on a movie I didn't know existed... Read more ›
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Following the recent release of AMD's FSR 3.1 image reconstruction and frame generation technology, developer Nixxes has updated its recent Sony PC ports to add support for the new version. We've tested it to discover what improvements it offers over the initial offering and how FSR 3.1 compares to other image reconstruction techniques from Intel and Nvidia. Has the gulf in quality between machine learning-based solutions and the compute-driven FSR... Read more ›
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Translators contracted from firms outside of Nintendo have complained about not being credited for their work on high-profile games from the Mario maker, including The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Super Mario RPG.Speaking with Game Developer, anonymous sources who worked for external translator agencies on Nintendo's projects said they had been left off credits. In addition, sources said they had been asked to... Read more ›
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Indika publisher 11 Bit Studios is donating $50k to support Ukrainian children impacted by Russia's devastating attack on Kyiv's Ohmatdyt Children's Hospital.The Polish studio said it was making the donation as "mere words would be empty without a meaningful act". Read more Read more ›
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Red Barrels has a new villain, map, trials, and rig for players brave enough to re-enrol in The Outlast Trials.As part of the first major update to the chaotic cooperative horror since it released in full earlier this year, new enemy Franco "II Bambino" Barbi is "the perverse son of New Orleans mafia don Salvatore Barbi, driven by craven entitlement, greed, and psychosexual violence fueled by his impotence and insecurities"... Read more ›
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A sequel to Journey to the Savage Planet is seemingly in development.While Journey to the Savage Planet's original developer Typhoon Studios was shut down back in 2021, it was reformed to become Racoon Logic that same year.At this time, the studio's head Reid Schneider said Raccoon plans to "build upon the Journey to the Savage Planet franchise in the future". And, it now seems that more word on the series'... Read more ›
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Nexon has responded to claims the iconography of The First Descendant is strikingly similar to icons found in Destiny 2.Earlier this week, players identified a surprising number of similarities between the icons and weapons used in the new free-to-play sci-fi shooter The First Descendant and Destiny 2.Responding to Forbes, which initially raised the issue, publisher Nexon said it is "taking the concerns raised seriously" and will "ensure that the imagery... Read more ›
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Three Starfy games previously only available in Japan have been added to Nintendo Switch Online for Expansion members. Densetsu no Starfy 1, 2 and 3 were all released on the Game Boy Advance between 2002 and 2004, but are now available globally on Switch. A fourth game came to Nintendo DS in 2006, which was followed by The Legendary Starfy on the same console - the only game in the... 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 been playing over the past few days. This week we've been revisiting games we thought we never would, because now we know the ending; we've been tip-toeing around on cursed oil rigs, enjoying the details but not the horrific monster that lurks there; and we've been kicking down doors. We've had... Read more ›
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If you just can't get enough of those Epic Games Store freebies, here're some more for your list; Epic has revealed an upcoming twosome of arcade management action and Welsh folklore horror when its latest batch of free titles arrives next week. And, before that, grid-based, turn-based deckbuilder Floppy Knights is currently available to download and keep for zero pee. Starting in the present, Rose City Games' Floppy Knights casts... Read more ›
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GreedFall 2: The Dying World, the sequel to 2019's scrappy but enjoyable historical fantasy RPG GreedFall, will launch into Steam early access on 24th September this year. The original GreedFall was, despite its rough edges, a bit of a surprise hit, its blend of RPG action and BioWare-style player choice striking enough of a chord among players that it went onto sell 2m copies. So it wasn't a complete surprise... Read more ›
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If you're hankering for some freebie action to see you into the weekend, you might want to point yourself toward the Epic Games Store, where you can procure a helping of arcade management and grid-based, turn-based deck building for the sum of zero pee. More specifically, from 11th July (that's today, unless you're reading it in the future, in which case apologies for the confusion) until next Thursday, 18th July,... Read more ›
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In a talk at Brighton's Develop conference this week, former Larian writer Baudelaire Welch declared the bear romance scene in Baldur's Gate 3 "a watershed moment in game history". They said it was an unprecedented example of a developer recognising and validating the fanfiction community surrounding a game by realising something they wanted in it.Welch was responsible for overseeing the companion romances in the game, and wrote the Dark Urge... Read more ›
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This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss Microsoft's big changes to Xbox Game Pass. Xbox Game Pass for console is gone, unless you subscribe already. In its place: Xbox Game Pass Standard, which will no longer include new day one games from Microsoft, Activision, Blizzard and Bethesda. Oh, and everything's going up in price.Do these changes mark the end of Game Pass being a must-have subscription for Xbox owners?... Read more ›
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Frontier has officially announced Planet Coaster 2, the sequel to its popular theme park management game. The studio has been teasing news for the past couple of days on its Twitch channel, with an ongoing stream of park noises. Now it's shown a short in-engine teaser and revealed water parks will be a major new inclusion. The game will be released this autumn, with a full gameplay reveal set for... Read more ›
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Sony has opened up the early access beta for its upcoming 5v5 sci-fi shooter Concord to all PlayStation Plus users.Initially, this beta access was only going to be available to those who had already pre-ordered the game (you can find out more about the editions available and pricing in Matt's story here).Those in the UK interested in trying out the early access beta can get it pre-downloaded from 6pm this... Read more ›
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GAME will no longer accept in-store pre-orders for upcoming games, Eurogamer can confirm. The latest change to hit the brand will see GAME end in-store pre-orders in a matter of weeks. As of 1st August, no new in-store pre-orders will be accepted and all existing pre-orders will be refunded for products set to be released after 31st January 2025. Any existing pre-order or deposit for a product set to be... Read more ›
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An unofficial Elden Ring lore book is on the way courtesy of a YouTuber expert. Grace Given: The Mythology of Elden Ring will be a 500+ page book from Geoff "SmoughTown" Truscott, and will include beautiful artwork from fans of the game. While not an official product - the description notes it's not endorsed by FromSoftware or Bandai Namco - it's certainly a lavishly created book. But, at £215.00, you'd... Read more ›
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