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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Parkitect is an absolute treat, a theme park management sim in the classic Rollercoaster Tycoon mould, but with more than a few fresh ideas of its own. It was a joy on PC, and it's finally console-bound, heading to Xbox and PlayStation this Wednesday, 3rd July. Parkitect is the work of developer Texel Raptor, and originally launched into Steam early access back in 2016. Two years later, it got a... Read more ›
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Following last week's briskest of teases, Capcom has properly unveiled Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster - which is bringing its spruced up zombies-in-a-mall action to Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and PC on 19th September, with a physical release to follow. Capcom's Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster revisits the original 2006 game - in which players, as photojournalist Frank West, have three in-game days to investigate Colorado's sprawling, zombie-infested Willamette Parkview Mall... Read more ›
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When will Beyond Good & Evil 2 be released? More than two decades on from the launch of Ubisoft's original game, we still don't know - but Beyond Good & Evil's 20th Anniversary Edition now demands that its succesor does arrive, and sooner rather than later. As well as technical upgrades and a deep, fascinating behind-the-scenes developer archive, Ubisoft's new version of Beyond Good & Evil includes fresh story and... Read more ›
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A Top Gear segment about vehicle manufacturer Rimac may have unwittingly leaked a new mobile Xbox dashboard.As spotted and uploaded to social media by XboxCore, the reveal came in a recent Top Gear segment about the Robotaxi.It features a dash that is considerably different to the current iteration most Xbox fans would recognise, its signature "blades" reimagined to better suit a handheld device. Read more Read more ›
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Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games (CIG) must pay more than £27k to a disabled former employee who brought a discrimination claim against the company. The case, filed by Star Citizen senior programmer Paul Ah-Thion, revolves around a return-to-work policy that also involved work from the company's new central Manchester office location - some 15 miles from its previous Wilmslow location. Ah-Thion, who previously worked in-office at Wilmslow, brought the... Read more ›
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On paper, the Xbox Series X is a considerably more powerful piece of hardware than PlayStation 5, so why are we looking at a console generation where the Sony and Microsoft machines often deliver like-for-like results? It's a puzzle that has confounded many over the last few years and after discussions with multiple sources, including some of the highest profile triple-A developers in the business, we finally have some answers... Read more ›
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Xbox owners will soon be able to get their hands on Poppy Playtime Chapter 1: A Tight Squeeze."Chapter 1 brings players into the abandoned Playtime Co. Factory as a former employee returning to find out what happened to the employees who vanished," reads the official blurb. "With GrabPack in hand, explore the factory to solve puzzles, follow the clues to help you get closer to the truth and fight for... Read more ›
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Dataminers have recovered a deleted cutscene from Elden Ring DLC Shadow of the Erdtree.As you may well expect given we're about to talk about cutscenes, this way be spoilers, so if you'd rather not know more until you've completed the DLC yourself, head back to the safety of Eurogamer's homepage now.For those who have already completed the DLC (or simply don't mind spoilers, of course), the additional scene was uncovered... Read more ›
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Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree DLC fans have elevated its once "Mixed" Steam user score, moving into the the "Mostly Positive" category once more.The DLC initially fell to a "mixed" user rating on Steam after thousands of players logged their disappointment with difficulty and the PC version's performance issues."Definitely harder than the base game, but not ridiculously so," opined one happy reviewer. "You losers just have to get good... Read more ›
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The big budget upcoming return of Crazy Taxi will be an open-world, massively-multiplayer game, Sega has said. A new developer interview video published today includes quotes from Sega's team behind the upcoming reboot, as well as brief flashes of in-game footage. There are clips of multiple yellow taxis racing each other - and police cars in pursuit. Job adverts on Sega's recruitment page note that the game is being developed... Read more ›
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One of Elden Ring's most popular mods has now been extended to support the recently-released Shadow of the Erdtree DLC.The mod in question is the 'Seamless Co-op' mod by LukeYui, which was first released back in 2022 for the base game. LukeYui has since been hard at work extending the mod to also work with Elden Ring's DLC - which it now does.A fresh mod update yesterday now includes working... Read more ›
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Hello! Eurogamer is once again marking Pride with a week of features celebrating the intersection of queer culture and gaming in all its guises. Things get underway today as James Croft ponders the particular magic of LGBTQIA+ gaming groups. Reh is slaughtering Cabal as he battles Destiny 2's Emperor Calus in the heart of the Leviathan. He's throwing grenades at packs of space dogs, headshotting Psions, and double-jumping over flames... Read more ›
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Up until recently, I had a dear friend named Ray who was really into jazz. Ray was in his 80s when I knew him, and as a result, he was a bit of a gateway to Brighton in the 1950s. 1950s Ray really loved jazz, and 2023 Ray was there to tell me about what it was like to love jazz in Brighton back then. It was a town of... Read more ›
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Listen up, Tarnished - Elden Ring worldbuilding writer George R. R. Martin has given his strongest hint yet that the critically acclaimed game may be getting its own "feature film or TV" spin-off.Whilst Hidetaka Miyazaki has only teased that he and FromSoftware would be open to a live-action adaptation, Martin goes just that little bit further courtesy of his the-lady-doth-protest-too-much-me-thinks protestations he recently shared on his personal blog."Oh, and about... Read more ›
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Arrowhead's fantastic alien-shooter Helldivers 2 is PlayStation's fastest-selling game ever, but despite its initial success, Steam numbers continue to dwindle, plummeting to around 10 per cent of its all-time concurrent Steam peak of 458,709 players.As Victoria reported at the end of May, SteamDB showed Helldivers 2's peak at that time had dropped 64 percent to 166,305.Today, that has dropped to 35 percent again, falling to a 30-day average of 41,860... Read more ›
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Scadutree Fragments are critical for levelling in Elden Ring DLC, but one savvy player believes they've found a way to find enough fragments to reach level 14 without taking on a single boss.Redditor Galdiuz2 posted their method to the Elden Ring subreddit earlier this week, including an image depicting where, exactly, Tarnished can locate Scadutree Fragments without encountering any bosses.Interestingly, u/Galdiuz2's post says you could use this map to get... Read more ›
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Final Fantasy 14 director Naoki "Youshi P" Yoshida offered his "sincere apologies" for "issues" identified in the early access build of its highly-anticipated expansion, Dawntrail.In a blog post published on the official website, Yoshida thanked players for playing and assured them that the team was "investigating" the causes of the most pressing issues, including transition freezes on Xbox, and broken animations across all platforms."We have confirmed an issue in the... Read more ›
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Velan Studios may have shuttered its competitive "dodgebrawl" game, Knockout City, a year ago, but it still "loves that world and can't imagine not going back to it at some point".In an update primarily focussed on the reveal of Midnight Murder Club – described as a blend of "hide-and-seek in the dark with shooter gameplay to make a truly thrilling playground" – and new VR pinball game Bounce Arcade, Velan... Read more ›
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Steam users have collectively amassed £14bn ($19bn) worth of unplayed games.That's according to new research from PCGN and SteamIDFinder, which has put the full cost of the number of unplayed games sitting in our Steam libraries as "about the same as the gross domestic product of Nicaragua". Read more Read more ›
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Praydog's UEVR mod is absolutely astonishing. The fact that I could use it to instantly give current internet darling Chained Together a fully playable VR mode just blows my mind. This incredible mod injector doesn't work perfectly for every Unreal Engine 4/5 game (I wanted to do Still Wakes the Deep this week but it's a bit flakey for me) but, as you'll see in this week's VR Corner, Chained... Read more ›
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