PlayStation maker Sony is currently in talks to acquire FromSoftware, the developer behind Elden Ring, Dark Souls and Bloodbourne, as part of a buyout of its owner, the Japanese publishing giant Kadokawa. Read more Read more ›
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Zenless Zone Zero can't decide if it wants to wow you with chaotic action, or let you kick back and explore its comic-book-styled urban streets. One mission could be packed with frantic dodges and chain attacks as you mow down monsters in dangerous 'Hollow' areas, whereas the next might be just grabbing coffee with a bud, or teaching a cute bunny-robot-thing Bangboo to play football. So instead of committing to... Read more ›
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ack in March, Diablo 4 became the first Activision Blizzard title to join Xbox Game Pass post-Microsoft's acquisition of the publisher, and it looks like the floodgates are finally starting to open; Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy is reportedly set to hit the subscription service this August, with more Activision games coming "very soon". That's according to reliable leaker eXtas1s who, writing on eXputer, claims to have spoken to sources... Read more ›
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EA has announced it'll be removing three more older Battlefield games from sale later this month, with their online services shutting down this November. Specifically, the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, and Battlefield: Hardline (released in 2011, 2013, and 2015 respectively) will all be delisted from digital storefronts on Wednesday, 31st July. From this point onward, it'll no longer be possible to purchase the... Read more ›
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A fun-looking farming sim known as Tiny Garden has cropped up on Kickstarter. Tiny Garden is described as a "tiny farming and easy-going strategy game inside a tiny toy from the 90s". While developer Ao Norte doesn't specify further, it is immediately apparent Tiny Garden's quaint toy-aesthetic has been inspired by Polly Pocket, with its clam shell opening, dolls house-like levels and - of course - its tiny garden.Other video... Read more ›
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Hello! Eurogamer is once again marking Pride with another week of features celebrating the intersection of LGBTQIA+ culture and gaming in all its guises. Today, Florence Smith Nicholls explores experimental escape room Memoirscape and its tale of queer love in the 80s. "This room is very gender."We're in a teen bedroom - the exact location and date is a little hazy, but it's somewhere in Queens, New York City, in... Read more ›
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The bundle building team at Humble has detailed the games included in July's Choice bundle, with A Plague Tale: Requiem being a highlight.Humble Choice is a subscription service which offers a monthly set of PC games for its members to own forever.This month's selection of eight games are as follows: Read more Read more ›
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Elden Ring DLC Shadow of the Erdtree introduced Thrusting Shields as a new weapon type, but some players believe they're overpowered to the point of being "absolutely busted". You may have spotted in the DLC's gameplay trailer the player character leaping through the air with a spiked shield. This is one of many new weapon types, with two shields to choose from: the Dueling Shield and Carian Thrusting Shield. Both... Read more ›
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Three years ago, everything was about to change for tiny Australian studio Witch Beam. It was gearing up to launch its second game - a game about unpacking boxes and finding a space for your things. Unpacking, it was called. And the hope was it would build on the success of the studio's first game, Assault Android Cactus, an energetic twin-stick shooter which did relatively well. But there was trepidation,... Read more ›
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard will let you escape death entirely as part of its extensive difficulty customisation options, which will also let you manually adjust player and enemy health. As detailed to Game Informer, BioWare has included a range of set difficulty levels and a further option that offers more granular customisation of your play experience. The Veilguard's base levels are named Storyteller, Adventurer and Nightmare - the latter of... Read more ›
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A Legend of Zelda fan has been sentenced to four months in prison, after being found in possession of a small replica of the series' Master Sword whilst out in public.In June, Nuneaton resident Anthony Bray was arrested for "carrying a bladed article". CCTV operators noticed Bray with the Master Sword replica, which had a total blade length of six inches (see images below)."The blade was inside a sheath and... Read more ›
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Somehow I'd missed hit horror movie franchise A Quiet Place was getting a video game adaptation (it turns out I'm just deeply inattentive), but barely a month after its re-reveal, a fresh look at its alien-evading action has come our way - and it definitely shows potential, assuming you've got the constitution for a game of near-silent sneakery and one-wrong-move tension. A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead was actually announced... Read more ›
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Dragon's Dogma 2 is a beautiful title that may go down as one of the best looking games of the year. Capcom's open-world epic features some outstanding lighting technology, with detailed ray-traced global illumination (RTGI) giving the title a very refined appearance. Despite this technical achievement, the game shipped with substantial performance and visual faults, with broken image reconstruction on Xbox Series machines and frame-rate issues in dense city areas,... Read more ›
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Several members at Tales of Kenzera: Zau developer Surgent Studios have been laid off.Game Developer reports that at least three employees at the studio are now looking for work. Level designer Peter Brisbourne wrote on LinkedIn: "The chapter entitled 'Pete Works At Surgent Studios' is coming to a close at the end of the month", adding he is available for work.Surgent technical artist Jordan Smee shared a similar post on... Read more ›
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Microsoft has announced the next selection of titles headed to Xbox Game Pass over the coming weeks. Included in the lineup are sci-fi adventure Journey to the Savage Planet, Neon White, and Tchia. Originally launched as a Stadia exclusive, Journey to the Savage Planet was the debut game from Typhoon Studios - a company set up by Assassin's Creed 3 creative director Alex Hutchinson. It later arrived for other platforms,... Read more ›
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The latest round of rule changes coming to Dungeons & Dragons were partly inspired by the experience of playing Baldur's Gate 3, the game's creator Wizards of the Coast has revealed. If you're a D&D player like me, you'll likely find the new 25-minute video on changes made within the game's 2024 Player's Handbook an interesting watch, as the game's lead designer Jeremy Crawford sets out some impactful tweaks to... Read more ›
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It's the early 00s. I've finally got myself a copy of Sonic Adventure 2 Battle on GameCube, having previously done an all-nighter with friends to collectively complete the first game in one sitting. I'm wearing my emo baggy jeans. Linkin Park plays in the background. Except I'm actually sat playing Sonic X Shadow Generations in the year 2024, a re-release of an anniversary celebration that was all about nostalgia to... Read more ›
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Those interested in Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess can give the game a go now, thanks to its free demo.The demo for Capcom's upcoming Japanese folklore action tower defence game is available across PC via Steam and Windows, PlayStation 4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S."This demo allows you to play some of the stages of the main game as many times as you like without a time limit,"... Read more ›
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After putting Switch pirate Gary Bowser behind bars and targeting emulator software Yuzu, Nintendo is continuing its fight against the lucrative modded console business with a pair of fresh lawsuits. James "Archbox" Williams, the main moderator behind r/SwitchPirates, a subreddit with nearly 200,000 members, faces paying potentially millions of dollars in fines after being named by Nintendo in a new case filed last week, TorrentFreak reports. Nintendo's interest in Williams... Read more ›
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Capcom has announced the next (and long-rumoured) entry in the Resident Evil franchise is now in development.The news was shared during Capcom's NEXT broadcast last night, in an oh so casual way. "We're making a new Resident Evil," said Resident Evil 7: Biohazard director Koshi Nakanishi, essentially confirming he will be helming development on the next game."It was really difficult to figure out what to do after [Resident Evil] 7.... Read more ›
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Hello! Eurogamer is once again marking Pride with another week of features celebrating the intersection of LGBTQIA+ culture and gaming. Today, Caelyn Ellis explores Obisdian's The Outer Worlds and its stand-out portrayal of asexuality in a medium where ace and aromantic identities are rarely seen. LGBTQIA+ representation in mainstream video games has gone from strength to strength over the past couple of decades, both in terms of NPCs and the... Read more ›
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