Category: Gaming

This is the second time I’ve written this week’s Game of the Week. The game has remained the same, though. That’s the first part of the trick. Our game this week is, of course, Timemelters, by Autoexec. It’s the spiritual sequel to one of my all time favourites, Sang-Froid: Tales of Werewolves. In both games […]

Earlier this month I reviewed the Asus ROG Swift PG32UCDM, a 32-inch QD-OLED gaming monitor that combines a 4K resolution with 240Hz refresh rate, impressive HDR and fewer downsides than your typical OLED panel – albeit at an eye-watering £1350 asking price. I noted that while the Asus monitor was a technical tour de force […]

TimeSplitters Rewind – the fan-made recreation of TimeSplitters 1, 2 and 3’s multiplayer, which has been in development since 2013 – has reemerged with its first update video in over the year, offering a fresh look at the project and an urgent call for assistance as its developers find themselves in an “incredibly challenging […]

Another entry in the Spyro series is reportedly in development with Toys for Bob. In a new video posted by Canadian Guy Eh – an insider known for their coverage of Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon – the YouTuber said he’d heard from multiple sources at PAX East that Toys for Bob is working […]

Images allegedly showing the white, digital-only Xbox Series X reported to be in the works earlier this year have leaked online. An “adorably all-digital” Xbox Series X refresh, planned for a 2024 release, first surfaced as part of a mammoth leak of official Microsoft documentation during last year’s court battle with the FTC. […]

Microsoft is adding the ability to use a mouse and keyboard to its suite of games available through Xbox Cloud Gaming via browser, or the Xbox App on Windows PCs. For now, only a small number of games offer mouse and keyboard support, and only for Xbox Insider members testing new features via […]

It’s been 10 years since BioShock Infinite, and creator Ken Levine is still not done with follow-up project Judas. But the game is inching closer, evidenced recently by its appearance in trailers and now, a marketing beat where select people such as Game Awards host Geoff Keighley have now played it for several hours. […]

A gentle and unusual building game that’s memorable but missing some purpose. Bulwark is a city-building game that works differently to any city-building game I’ve ever played. Faced with the barren rocky outcrops of a stormy archipelago, and a handful of buildings to place on them, I thought I knew what to do. In a […]

Dragon’s Dogma 2 is full of surprises, and players are still working to discover all of them. Chief of interest at the moment is the curious Dragonsplague affliction that can be acquired by Pawns. Players believe Dragonsplague can be contracted by Pawns after they fight against a dragon – but the condition can also be […]

If you have been following the Dragon’s Dogma 2 discourse over the last few days, you will be aware of the game’s paid DLC. On release, developer Capcom introduced a number of items that players could purchase with real-world money, such as the Art of Metamorphosis – Character Editor DLC, which costs £1.69. While many […]

Yes, there are a lot of references to Final Fantasy 9 in Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail’s collector’s edition… and no, that’s not a coincidence. “You may have noticed a lot of Final Fantasy 9 references here… And the reason is a secret,” producer/director Naoki “Yoshi-P” Yoshida said via translator during his PAX East panel. He […]

Let’s start this week’s VR Corner on a positive note shall we? Whoever was behind the art and level design of HappyFunland VR absolutely smashed it out of the (theme)park! The detail to the world and its props is top notch, the environmental storytelling is excellent and it often had me laughing out loud and […]

Overwatch 2’s beleaguered PvE content has reportedly been scrapped. That’s according to Bloomberg, which reported yesterday that following “poor” sales of its prior PvE missions, the company “does not plan to finish” any PvE content currently in development, and will instead “double down” on PvP gameplay. Newscast: Why are there so many games industry layoffs? […]

GTA 6’s development has reportedly fallen so far behind, the eagerly-anticipated game may miss its 2025 release window. Anonymous sources have told Kotaku that development on GTA 6 has “fallen behind”, which is allegedly why management has asked developers to return to the office full-time as leadership is worried the game may slip to 2026. […]

You might have heard: while Larian isn’t done with updating Baldur’s Gate 3, the studio’s next game won’t be Baldur’s Gate 4 or anything to do with D&D. But while studio founder and head Swen Vincke mentioned the team was working on “a new thing” in his enjoyably open talk at GDC, it wasn’t […]

Path of Exile 2 will no longer have its beta release this summer. The beta’s delay was one of several announcements developer Grinding Gear Games made during its three-and-a-half-hour-long showcase yesterday. The showcase included a reveal of the ranger class from Path of Exile 1 which will be available in the sequel, and details on […]

Surprising the audience at his GDC talk today, Larian’s founder and CEO Swen Vincke announced the Baldur’s Gate 3 and Divinity: Original Sin developer won’t be making any DLC or expansions for the game, and in fact will be leaving the Dungeons & Dragons world behind entirely. Finishing up his talk, Vincke said: […]

Dreams developer Media Molecule has laid out new plans for its curation and community support, following layoffs at the studio. In a blog post, Media Molecule said it would be saying goodbye to its curation team in the spring, following last year’s news of a ‘consultation process’ at the studio. “We want to be as […]

Epic Games has discussed the future of Fall Guys, following today’s announcement that its game assets, animations and characters are coming to Fortnite’s UEFN creative mode. Players will be able to make and play their own custom Fall Guys levels in Fortnite from May, Epic Games announced today during its State of […]

Bungie is reportedly in the midst of a creative leadership shakeup that has resulted in the studio replacing game directors on its PvP reimagining of classic 90s shooter series Marathon, with former Valorant game director Joe Ziegler now confirmed to be in the role. Bungie designer Christopher Barrett was previously leading the project […]

On Xbox, Final Fantasy 14 will have its own currency for service fees and optional item purchases. The MMORPG will arrive on Xbox consoles on 21st March following its open beta, with Square Enix releasing further details on the launch in a new Lodestone blog post. Not only is Game Pass required […]

Sand Land, the video game adaptation of Akira Toriyama’s beloved manga series, now has a demo on Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, PS4, and Steam, ahead of it full launch in April. Sand Land unfolds in a post-apocalyptic desert world where water is in short supply. Players guide Beelzebub, also known as the […]

LinkedIn is planning to add a games section to its social media platform. Evidence of the planned feature was first found by app researchers, with images shared by Nima Owji revealing in-app titles named Blueprint, Crossclimb, and Queens. The idea is that companies will be ranked on leaderboards based on their collective employees’ scores. LinkedIn’s […]

Oh, look – Steam’s gone and broken its own concurrent record. Again. Just a fortnight ago, the PC client secured a new record of 34,649,583 players, but earlier today (Sunday, 17th March), Steam has once again set a new simultaneous user record of 36.3m players. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie […]

Persona 6 will be coming to “multiple platforms”, including Xbox and Switch / Switch 2. That’s according to industry insiders Nate the Hate and Midori, who have each now asserted that the next instalment of Atlus’ fan-favourite RPG series will be coming to more platforms. Persona 4 Arena Ultimax Taught Us How To Fight In […]

Valve has revealed that of the 100 most-played games on Steam Deck over the last 12 months, Larian Studios’ Baldur’s Gate 3 tops the chart. Between March 2023 and March 2024, Baldur’s Gate 3 clocked the highest numbers when it came to daily active player count, with Vampire Survivors and Dave the Diver taking second […]

Wake up, nerds – new gaming monitors are here. Five years after the advent of 27-inch Fast IPS 1440p 144Hz monitors, which earned hearty DF recommendations for hitting the sweet spot for gaming and content creation alike, we have a new wave of ultra high-end models that offer a similar leap in fidelity and motion. […]

Ninja Theory has confirmed Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 will – like its predecessor, so not exactly a massive surprise – have a photo mode on release, meaning you can go wild recording its striking visuals for posterity when it launches for Xbox Series X/S and PC on 21st May. Confirmation of a photo […]

Palworld developer Pocketpair will remain a small studio, despite the success of its “Pokémon with guns” survival game. Speaking to Bloomberg, Pocketpair founder and exec Takuro Mizobe said the developer “[is] and will remain a small studio”. “I want to make multiple small games,” he added, “big budget triple-A games are not for us.” The […]

Paradox Interactive has unveiled The Machine Age, the next major expansion for its space-faring 4X strategy game Stellaris, which will focus on “cybernetic, synthetic, and machine themes” when it launches for PC in the second quarter of 2024. “Scientists have discovered advanced means to commune with the machine, enabling life to overcome the […]

The creator of poker-themed rogue-like Balatro has spoken out about the game’s rating drama, stating “it is what it is”. In an AMA session on reddit, developer and artist localthunk was asked for comment on how PEGI mishandled the game’s rating after it was pulled from sale in some countries due to a […]

RimWorld, the acclaimed sci-fi colony sim from Ludeon Studios, will soon be besieged by “monstrous creatures, mind-bending mysteries, infiltrating parasites, and sanity-shredding phenomena” when its new horror-themed expansion, Anomaly, arrives on Steam next month. Anomaly – RimWorld’s fourth paid expansion after Biotech, Royalty, and Ideology – begins as colonists accidentally provoke a mad […]

If you were hoping for more of a classic experience in Resident Evil 2 Remake, then here’s the mod for you. Created by alphaZomega and uploaded to NexusMods, the RE2R Classic mod allows fans to play the game with fixed camera angles and tank controls like it’s 1998 but prettier. The remake […]

Footage of a purportedly cancelled co-operative live-service Spider-Man game from developer Insomniac – titled Spider-Man: The Great Web – has appeared online following last year’s ransomware attack targeting the developer and its employees. The trailer (narrated by Yuri Lowenthal, the voice of Insomniac’s Peter Parker) points to a five-player co-op Spider-Man game featuring […]

Elden Ring originally had a different starting point that had players washing up on a beach in Limgrave. At the beginning of FromSoftware’s epic, players battle the Grafted Scion and, whether they win or lose, then fall to their death before waking up in the Stranded Graveyard and exploring the Cave of Knowledge. […]

Capcom has shared a first trailer for Street Fighter 6’s next playable fighter, Akuma, who’ll be joining the game’s steadily expanding line-up sometime this “spring”. Akuma will be Street Fighter 6’s 22nd playable character, following the arrival of Ed last month, and gives the returning fighter – who made his series debut in […]

Former Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick has reportedly expressed an interest in buying social media platform TikTok. According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, the former CEO recently approached ByteDance co-founder Zhang Yiming to state his intent, should the company agree to sell the video sharing app. The publication stated Kotick is currently […]

Three more classic Mario Game Boy games are coming to Switch Online. As part of today’s Mario Day celebrations, Nintendo has revealed that Dr Mario, Mario Golf, and Mario Tennis are all coming to its digital classics library next week, Tuesday 12th March. MAR10 Day 2024 MAR10 Day 2024. Dr Mario – which was originally […]

Even the most diehard Star Fox fans will likely admit it’s one of Nintendo’s most mismanaged series. I could sing Star Fox 64’s praises all day; those fantastic space battles in the Arwing mean it’s one of the few games I continue revisiting. However, later entries left the series struggling to establish a cohesive direction. […]

Former EA and Microsoft exec, Peter Moore, says there are “serious questions” to be asked about video game hardware and whether or not there’s a future for the traditional home console system. Moore – who held senior positions at EA, Microsoft, and Sega before leaving gaming altogether to join Liverpool FC in 2017 – reflected […]

Welcome back! Let’s Get Evil is a monthly series for Eurogamer Supporters in which Bertie rampages through games being as evil as he can. It sounds easy, but is it? And how much freedom does each game afford in this area? There’s only one way to find out. Note, spoilers will naturally occur here as […]

Following the launch of Sea of Thieves’ radical structural overhaul last month, Rare is readying to release a new mid-season update next week that’ll add anti-cheat and subscription-free solo play to its swashbuckling pirate adventure. Plus, a big 2024 content preview is on the way as part of Sea of Thieves’ sixth anniversary celebrations. […]

Valiant Hearts: Coming Home is now available across consoles and PC, following its previous launch for smartphones via Netflix. The game is now available on PC, PlayStation, Switch and Xbox consoles as part of a new collection, suitably titled Valiant Hearts: The Collection, which packages together Coming Home and its predecessor The Great War. For […]

Even to this day, developer Starbreeze Studios’ 2013 classic Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is fondly remembered. This adventure puzzler was released on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 just months before the next console generation, and packed a real emotional punch for those that caught it. Jump forward eleven years and we have a […]

Nintendo has released a free demo for Princess Peach: Showtime! ahead of its full release later this month. The demo can be downloaded now on Switch. It begins at the start of the game and offers two levels to play, featuring Swordfighter Peach and Patisserie Peach. If you’ve missed it so far, […]

Developer LocalThunk’s Balatro might have hit a bit of a bump last week after an unexpected ratings change, but that hasn’t stopped the acclaimed poker-inspired rogue-like deckbuilder from selling over half a million copies in ten days, according to publisher Playstack. That’s an impressive figure for what’s a fairly unassuming card game at […]

Five of the Best is a weekly series for supporters of Eurogamer. It’s a series that highlights some of the features in games that are often overlooked. It’s also about having your say, so don’t be shy, use the comments below and join in! Oh and if you want to read more, you can – […]

The original Dragon’s Dogma is one of my personal favourite games – but I can’t deny it has a few shortcomings. What’s surprising is in the brief time I got to speak with him I learned Hideaki Itsuno, Dragon’s Dogma 2’s director, felt exactly the same way. To him the original game is a flawed […]

Capcom has announced two showcases over the next week detailing its upcoming games. Capcom Highlights, as they’re known, will begin on Thursday 7th March at 11pm UK time with a look at Dragon’s Dogma 2 and Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess. Then, on Monday 11th March at 10pm UK time, we’ll get […]

Behold the ultimate form of the Xbox Series X; Microsoft has unveiled an official SpongeBob SquarePants special editon of the console that makes the best, most glorious use of its oblong shape yet. Unfortunately, it’s US-only at present, so boo. Microsoft’s new ‘Xbox Series X – Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 Special Edition Bundle’ […]

Square Enix’s RPG Octopath Traveler has been delisted – temporarily, at least – from the Nintendo eShop. The game’s disappearance was noticed at the end of last week, though it’s still available on Steam and the Microsoft Store. Some fans have linked Octopath Traveler’s delisting due to an apparent change in publisher. Archived versions of […]

Steam’s done it again: another weekend, another concurrent user record broken and a new one set. According to SteamDB, over 34.5 million of us were simultaneously online earlier today, setting an all-new concurrent user record of 34,649,583 players. And of those players, 11,146,564 users weren’t just idling, but actively playing a game when the record […]

It’s evident in one of the very early scenes, a flashback where two children (the central character, Cloud, and another main character, Tifa) sit by their village well at night and make a promise together as stars shine overhead. A woman named Elmyra cries at her kitchen table, reading a letter that tells her […]

The Gauntlet is coming to Diablo 4 next week. As revealed by the team at yesterday’s Campfire Chat, The Gauntlet – which goes live on Tuesday 5th March – is a fixed, non-linear dungeon that “will pit players of the same class against each other for top rank”. The Gauntlet will reset at 4pm UK […]

Up front: I have never played Final Fantasy 7. I’m one of those unbearable hipsters who has only played 12, and won’t shut up about it. But with the new game out, I’ve discovered that I have fond memories of FF7, this massive game that I have never played. Also: although I didn’t play it, […]

Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley, the lovely looking musical adventure based on Tove Jansson’s classic series of children’s stories, finally has a released date and will be launching for Switch and PC via Steam on Tuesday, 7th March. Melody of Moominvalley sees players slipping into the oversized green hat of the wanderer Snufkin, as […]

Another Thursday, another Epic Games Store freebie to add to your ever-growing backlog, this time in the form of stylish 3D side-scroller Never Yield. Never Yield – also known as Aerial_Knight’s Never Yield to ensure you don’t forget who developed it – released back in 2021, offering up an experience something like a […]

Toys for Bob – the Activision Blizzard studio behind the likes of Skylanders, Crash Bandicoot 4, and the Spyro remasters – has announced it’s parting ways with Activision to become an independent company once more. It also says it’s “exploring a possible partnership” with Microsoft as development on its new game gets underway. […]

Poker goes into the blender and emerges in fine form. A week into Balatro – Balatro were jesters and fools in ancient Rome; I googled it – I’d say that this is the Goldberg Variations of Poker. It’s Poker: Possibility Space Edition. It’s a roguelike deckbuilder that starts with the basic poker hands and then […]

Paranormal Activity – the found-footage horror series that’s spawned seven movies since its debut instalment blew up the box office in 2009 – is being turned into a game by The Mortuary Assistant developer DarkStone Digital horror and renowned indie horror publisher DreadXP. DreadXP’s newly announced Paranormal Activity project, which follows the launch […]

The greatest gaming event of 2023 was the GTA 6 reveal trailer. I am still thinking about it now. Rockstar has mastered the art of making the gaming world pause for a few minutes to experience something lavish and mind-blowing. Their games encourage grandiose thinking. I want this new version of Vice City’s map to […]

Skull and Bones, the oft-delayed pirate game from Ubisoft that finally arrived earlier this month following almost a decade of development, has released its first season of post-launch content on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC – introducing, among other things, new world events, new contracts and bounties, plus a battle-pass-style progression track. Raging Tides, […]

Ark: Survival Ascended developer Studio Wildcard has announced it’s indefinitely delaying the release of the dinosaur survival remaster’s enhanced The Center expansion, just days before its planned 28th February release. Ark: Survival Ascended – the controversial full-price Unreal Engine 5 remaster of 2015’s Ark: Survival Evolved – has been plagued with delays since […]

Stardew Valley is celebrating its eighth anniversary today (yes, I couldn’t believe it either) and developer Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone has marked the occasion by announcing a release date for his beloved farm-life sim’s eagerly awaited 1.6 update – which is coming to PC on 19th March, with a console and mobile release to follow […]

Footage of what’s claimed to be an “internal demo” of LittleBigPlanet Hub – the free-to-play PS3 exclusive announced initially, and expected to be released, in 2013 – has popped up online. Whilst the game was never formally cancelled, it was never released, either, which makes the footage – which is complete with voicework from series […]

Tomorrow marks Bravely Default 2’s third anniversary, and Tomoya Asano has the best gift of all for fans: a tease that the team will be able to tell us more about what’s happening with the franchise “later this year”. Marking the event with celebratory art posted to X/Twitter, producer Asano thanked fans for their support […]

Halo co-creator and Battlefield game director Marcus Letho has left EA. Letho – who had been heading up Seattle-based Ridgeline Games, an EA studio dedicated to the Battlefield franchise – has seemingly scrubbed all mentions of Battlefield and EA from their social media bio, as well as updated their LinkedIn to state they’ve now left […]

Ubisoft has teased its future plans for Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, saying the acclaimed Metroidvania will be getting new content and modes in free updates starting “soon”. Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown enjoyed significant critical acclaim when it launched back in January – Eurogamer’s Christian Donlan called it a “real […]

Microsoft is reportedly preparing to launch a new white, digital-only version of its top-end Xbox Series X console in “June or July” this year. An “adorably all-digital” Xbox Series X refresh, planned for a 2024 release, first surfaced as part of a mammoth leak of official Microsoft documentation during last year’s court battle […]

Behaviour Interactive has announced its latest Dead by Daylight collaboration, and it’s none other than heavy metal band Iron Maiden. This team up will see the band’s mascot Eddie arrive in the game as part of a new outfit collection, which has been inspired by various Eddie iterations over the years. These […]

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss the reports that Nintendo Switch 2 will now launch in 2025, later than its previously-expected arrival towards the end of this year. Nintendo itself is yet to say anything certain about its inevitable Switch successor, but its steady path towards launch has been tracked by numerous […]

A PlayStation 5 release date for the currently-Xbox console exclusive Hi-Fi Rush has found its way onto the internet. The Hi-Fi Rush PS5 launch date was today revealed to be 18th March, courtesy of a new trailer for the rhythm action game posted to Bethesda’s Latin American YouTube channel [UPDATE: And has now […]

Xbox has announced a PlayStation release date for Sea of Thieves, its popular pirate live service game from British studio Rare. PlayStation 5 players will be able to wishlist the game beginning tomorrow, 22nd February, ahead of its launch on Sony’s console on 30th April. A blog post from Microsoft […]

Two new photos from the upcoming Borderlands film have been released. The photos, shared by People, both feature the Academy Award-winning Cate Blanchett – with some very enviable red hair – as infamous outlaw Lilith. The first photo shows Lilith on her own, looking pretty close to her in-game character. To see this content please […]

Lady Gaga is coming to Fortnite, having famously once asked what “Fortnight” was all about. Her arrival in the game marks something of a full-circle moment for the global music megastar, after her social media post in October 2019 simply asking “What’s Fortnite” went viral. Five years on, Lady Gaga’s account reposted […]

Baldur’s Gate 3 won Game of the Year at the DICE Awards last week, and unlike at The Game Awards, the developers were actually allowed to take some time with their acceptance speech. And let it be known, Larian used that time wisely, addressing both the current state of the industry and the importance […]

In this week’s DF Direct Weekly, the Digital Foundry Team shares their thoughts on the Xbox business update podcast and attempts to fathom strategy from the PlayStation team in the wake of some ominous announcements that resulted in a 10 percentage point dip in Sony’s share price. The bottom line looks stark and very straightforward: […]

Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead says it has had to “cap” concurrent players to around 450,000 to “further improve server stability”. In a message posted to the game’s Discord community, the team said it was “working around the clock to solve” the issue, and whilst it’s been able to “mitigate” some of the causes, it was […]

Despite claims it is a “quadruple-A” live-service experience, Skull and Bones’s user Metacritic score has taken a pummelling since the pirate ship game was released on Friday, 16th February. Based on the 222 user scores recorded to date, Skull and Bones’ user score is sitting at just 2.8 out of 10, making it the lowest-rated […]

Digital Extremes’ fan-favourite sci-fi RPG, Warframe, is coming to iOS later this month. Courtesy of the game’s recently-launched cross-play and cross-save systems, players will be able to use – and switch between – platforms, which DE says offers the “same expansive, high-quality” experience on Apple devices as it does on PC and consoles. Players can […]

Journey developer ThatGameCompany has announced a “beautifully curated” book to celebrate the art of its 2019 “social adventure game”, Sky: Children of the Light. Set to launch on 22nd April, The Art of Sky will be an “extraordinary visual odyssey” and feature over 250 pages of ThatGameCompany’s “trademark artistic excellence”. STAR Feature Reveal! The Art […]

A report claiming Nintendo Switch 2 will now launch in Q1 2025 is spreading online. Brazilian games journalist Pedro Henrique Lutti Lippe has stated Nintendo is now looking to release its next console in early 2025, though still within the 2024 financial year. The report is based on development sources now targeting […]

Microsoft has shared updated Game Pass membership figures for the first time since January 2022, saying the on-demand gaming service now has 34m “fully paid” subscribers, with “significant growth” coming from PC and cloud. That update comes via Microsoft gaming boss Phil Spencer, speaking to journalist Stephen Totilo for his Game File newsletter […]

A quarter of Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM’s total workforce – approximately 24 employees – is reportedly facing redundancy following the cancellation of a standalone expansion for acclaimed RPG Disco Elysium, said to be “one to two years away from completion”. That’s according to Swedish gaming content agency GLHF, which claims the cancelled expansion […]

Sony president and PlayStation chairman Hiroki Totoki has spoken of the opportunities available in its approach to releasing first-party games on PC, saying it’s “proactively [working] on” bringing more titles to other platforms as part of an “aggressive” profit margin growth plan. Totoki made the comments during an investor Q&A coinciding with […]

Sony has unveiled its PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium game catalogue additions for February, which this month include Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Need for Speed Unbound, The Outer Worlds, Tales of Arise, and more. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is arguably the biggest biggie in there, whisking players away for a Viking adventure set against an […]

There was a time when Tomb Raider stood as one of the most recognisable game series in the world, but decades later the original entries are largely unknown to those that didn’t grow up with them. That’s where Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered comes into play, a collection of brand-new versions of the first three titles […]

These classic games remain as ingenious, memorable and frustrating as ever. Games can be beautiful because they are timeless, but they can also be beautiful because they are timely. When it comes to timelessness, you’re going to struggle to beat Tetris. Its stark and nested blocks face every age with the same eternal silence, while […]

Microsoft’s gaming top brass are expected to lay out their plans to publish some Xbox games on PlayStation and Nintendo platforms via a business update released this week as a podcast. The podcast episode will be made available this Thursday, 15th February at 8pm UK time – that’s 3pm Eastern or noon […]

The Thaumaturge will now launch slightly later than planned, on 4th March, despite work on the game being complete. Writing on social media today, publisher 11 Bit Studios said it had actively chosen to delay the game due to “February’s busy launch period”. This month’s releases include Ubisoft’s Skull and Bones (on […]

Helldivers 2 creative director and Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt believes games should “earn the right to monetise”, adding that whilst players are welcome to “support this title” by buying microtransactions, Arrowhead is “never forcing anyone to do so”. The comments come in an X/Twitter thread in which Pilestedt responded to a tweet in which a […]

Viral co-op horror Lethal Company may only have released in early access in late October 2023, but it’s already received almost 50 updates. Perhaps unsurprisingly, then, developer Zeekerss says it is thinking of slowing down the rate and scope of updates in order to make them “really substantial” and “bigger and less frequent”. Let’s Play […]

Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Game Studios has confirmed that the “rapid patch” the team deployed to Steam yesterday is “now on PS5 as well”. The update comes after players lamented issues with matchmaking, as well as persistent crashes. There’s also been criticism of the game’s PC optimisation and its kernel-level GameGuard anti-cheat software, whilst others […]

Palworld creator Pocketpair has acknowledged it is “overwhelmingly short” of developers to help the viral hit maintain momentum. In a tweet posted to the company’s Japanese-language X/Twitter account, the studio said it “still has a lot to do” and is looking for “people in all positions” who have experience in “any type of engine”. Specifically, […]

Hideo Kojima dropped a bombshell at the end of January, announcing that – alongside development of Death Stranding 2 – he would also be returning to the action-espionage genre that put him on the map with the Metal Gear series, in the form of Physint for PlayStation 5. And now, in a new episode […]

A fresh set of weekly freebies has now arrived on the Epic Games Store, this time in the form of acclaimed visual novel Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! and rogue-like brawling RPG Lost Castle – with Dakar Desert Racing to follow next week. Starting with Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!, it’s the enhanced […]

Assassin’s Creed: Codename Red – which takes the long-running series to feudal Japan – will launch before the end of Ubisoft’s current financial year next March, CEO Yves Guillemot has confirmed, with the publisher’s open-world Star Wars Outlaws still targeting a release in 2024. Guillemot shared the news as part of Ubisoft’s latest […]

The Walt Disney Company has announced it’s acquiring a $1.5bn USD stake in Epic Games as it launches a multi-year partnership to create an “expansive and open games and entertainment universe connected to Fortnite”. This new Unreal Engine-powered “persistent universe” will “interoperate” with Fortnite to offer a “multitude of opportunities for consumers to […]

In parallel with development of a stunning-looking sequel, Kojima Productions has continued to work on the original Death Stranding, delivering a series of ports – and the latest is exceptionally intriguing, targeting MacOS and selected iOS devices. A single purchase gets you access to a game that runs on Apple Silicon Macs and iPads […]

If your nights spent kingly (or queenly) crusading have been growing a little stale of late, Paradox Interactive would like you to know there’s a busy year ahead for its acclaimed medieval grand strategy game, with its newly revealed 2024 Crusader Kings 3 roadmap promising two new large-scale expansions and more to freshen up […]

Anna Megill has joined CD Projekt Red as lead writer on the studio’s upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 sequel, codenamed Project Orion. Megill has over 20 years of experience in the industry, and has previously worked on games such as Control and the upcoming Fable reboot. She will be joined on the narrative team by […]

If it’s demos you want, today’s your lucky day; Valve’s thrice-yearly Steam Next Fest event is back for another outing, this time featuring “hundreds” of demos across its seven-day duration. Valve’s latest Steam Next Fest is already underway and runs until Monday, 12th February. That means you’ve got approximately 160 hours to piledrive […]

Apex Legends: Breakout, the 20th season of the fast-paced battle royale is due to launch on Tuesday, 13th February and there are a few big changes coming including a new Legend Upgrade system, Shields being removed from ground loot and a ranked reset. To celebrate the game’s fifth anniversary, maps will be strewn with celebratory […]

The Last of Us Part 2 was originally designed as an open-world action game that was heavily inspired by Bloodborne. Confirmation came via co-game director Anthony Newman, who revealed during in the fantastic behind-the-scenes documentary, Grounded 2: Making The Last of Us Part 2, that for the first four or five months of development, The […]

There are “five Resident Evil games in dev[elopment] right now, including Resident Evil 9”. That’s according to notable leaker Dusk Golem, who – whilst not without a couple of misses – has previously accurately leaked insider information about several then-unannounced horror games, including Resident Evil 8, the Silent Hill 2 Remake, and Silent Hill: The […]

EA has apologised to FC 24 fans after a bugged challenge accidentally awarded thousands of players an incredibly expensive and hard-to-get TOTY player. According to a blog posted on the official website, it seems that for 24 minutes on 30th January, players partaking in the new Squad Builder Challenges (SBC) had a spectacularly high chance […]

Microsoft’s next console release may lag behind Sony’s due to a delay in signing contracts with technology partner AMD. That’s according to podcaster Moore’s Law is Dead, who stated earlier this week that Microsoft was “seriously, seriously shopping around with Intel and even NVIDIA apparently for their next-gen console”. Intel bidding for Next Gen XBOX, […]

There’s a bit of bad news if, like us, you were quietly hoping Citizen Sleeper 2 might just squeak out before the end of 2024; developer Jump Over The Age has confirmed there’s still “around a year left of development” on its eagerly anticipated narrative sci-fi RPG sequel. Jump Over The Age […]

A new report on the development of The Day Before alleges Fntastic employees and “volunteers” were subject to mistreatment. The report was published by German PC gaming outlet GameStar and YouTube channel Game Two earlier this week, and is based on testimonies from 16 former Fntastic employees, one volunteer, and seven employees at publisher Mytona. […]

Last week, developer Tango Gameworks distributed a relatively minor Hi-Fi Rush update to celebrate the first anniversary of the acclaimed rhythm-brawler’s release; however, dataminers poking around the update’s innards are now claiming to have found further evidence – in the form of unique t-shirt designs – that a PlayStation and Switch launch is on […]

There’s now a short demo available for the upcoming Switch remake of puzzle platformer Mario vs. Donkey Kong on the Nintendo eShop, ahead of its release later this month. The demo lets you play through four levels from the first world – three in which Mario collects the toys, and one where you get to […]

It’s been a good long while since we’ve seen anything concrete from Konami and developer Bloober Team’s Silent Hill 2 remake, but the project has now received a fresh airing as part of Sony’s latest PlayStation State of Play showcase, this time with a trailer focusing on the game’s “improved and modernised” combat. […]

A truly excellent combat system and neat character-centric episodes complement a compelling tale, but weak side activities and some turgid grinding hold it back. At a glance, Granblue Fantasy: Relink, Cygames’ action-RPG follow-up to the 2014 original, has all the key ingredients of something easily-dismissible, including all the typical genre stereotypes like impractical fashion sense […]

Microsoft has shared its Q2 2024 financial results, reporting significant revenue gains across its gaming division – including a massive 61 percent increase in Xbox content and services revenue – following its $69bn acquisition of Activision Blizzard. As per its Q2 earnings release, Microsoft’s gaming revenue increased by 49 percent compared to the […]

Frontier has announced a console version of Planet Zoo, its spiritual successor to Zoo Tycoon. The zoo management simulator released in 2019 on PC and has since seen regular free updates and DLC packs adding new animals, items, and campaign scenarios to play through. Planet Zoo: Console Edition will bring the animal antics to PlayStation […]

Hello! It’s that time again – I promise to keep it brief. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s servers are now live for early access players here in the UK, but we won’t have a review for you here on the site today – or indeed on the game’s full launch this coming Friday 2nd […]

AMD’s first Ryzen 8000 desktop processors are here: the $329 8700G, $229 8600G, $176 8500G and OEM-only 8300G. These 4nm APUs look to be adaptations of the Ryzen 7040 laptop processors we tested late last year, with current-gen Zen 4 CPU cores and powerful RDNA 3 graphics capabilities. AMD sent us the top two chips, […]

Nexon has announced it is pulling the plug on its free-to-play PvP medieval fantasy game Warhaven just four months after it launched in early access. Despite initial plans to launch the game in full later this year, Nexon has now revealed that rather than launching the game in early 2024, it’s shutting down on 5th […]

If you’re encountering an infinite loading screen when trying to connect to Palworld servers this weekend, you are not alone. The official Palworld X/Twitter account acknowledged that, further to the patch that deployed earlier in the week, some players may be experiencing “congested access”. PALWORLD Early Access Review: Is It Worth It? PALWORLD Early Access […]

Palworld developer Pocketpair has dropped a new Steam demo for its upcoming Metroidvania, Never Grave: The Witch and The Curse. The upcoming game – which, like Pocketpair’s predecessor, is fielding accusations of alleged plagiarism given its striking similarity to another fan-favourite Metroidvania game – doesn’t yet have a release date, but is expected to release […]

Crash Bandicoot developer Toys for Bob and Call of Duty studio Sledgehammer Games have reportedly lost around 40 per cent and 30 per cent of their staff, respectively. The layoffs are part of Microsoft’s decision to lay off 1900 employees across its video game teams. In an email sent to employees, Xbox boss Phil Spencer […]

Stardew Valley creator Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone has shared an update on the farm-life sim’s highly anticipated – and long-in-the-works – 1.6 update, saying he’s now “done adding major new content” and that it’ll “definitely” be out this year. Barone revealed he was working on a 1.6 update for Stardew Valley back in June […]

Hello! Our game of the week is Tekken 8 – one of the easier choices, really, due to its glowing review from Lewis Parker, who gave it five stars. I was fascinated reading what Lewis had to say, and I was particularly struck by the emphasis on learning he put at the heart of the […]

Fortnite developer Epic Games says it’ll be launching a native iOS version of the Epic Games Store – and bringing Fortnite back to iOS devices – following today’s announcement that Apple will soon allow sideloading and alternate marketplaces on its devices to comply with new EU rules. That’s as Epic boss Tim Sweeney calls […]

A video that showed Legendary Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma standing alongside Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto in a very fetching high-vis vest and hard hat combo at Universal Studios Orlando has been pulled from the internet – prompting speculation he was there because a Legend of Zelda attraction is in the works. Aonuma could […]

Ever since Netflix took its first tentative steps into video games back in 2021, the company has reported a relatively modest response from subscribers, but new figures suggest its recent partnership with Rockstar to bring GTA to the streaming service has paid dividends, with monthly mobile game downloads nearly tripling to 28m in December […]

Following the end of Overwatch League, Blizzard has unveiled new plans for its competitive Overwatch esports circuit. The company sunsetted Overwatch League at the end of its 2023 season. “We will be focusing on building our vision of a revitalised esports program,” the Overwatch esports social media team said at the time. […]

Acclaimed management game Arcade Paradise is getting the VR treatment, and in the run-up to its release on Meta Quest, developer Nosebleed Interactive has shared a closer look at how the whole thing will play once you’ve shoved your head into its lovingly grimy recreation of 1993. As in the 2022 original, Arcade […]

Developer Teyon has released a major update for RoboCop: Rogue City, adding New Game Plus and more. New Game Plus will allow players to redo their RoboCop shenanigans, but this time with all of those hard earned skills and Auto-9 upgrades from the first time around. This will provide the “full ‘invincible robotic […]

League of Legends developer Riot Games has announced it’s laying off 530 employees – roughly 11 percent of its total global workforce – saying it’s making the decision as it refocusses on “fewer, high-impact projects to move us toward a more sustainable future.” In a statement addressing players on its website, Riot – […]

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director Naoki Hamaguchi reckons chocobo smell like horses. Chocobo are the giant yellow birds seen across the Final Fantasy series as steeds for various characters. So when Hamaguchi was asked by Game Informer if they smell bad, he replied: “It might be similar to a horse”. To be honest, […]

Palworld is now the sixth game to ever hit more than a million concurrent players on Steam. Palworld – described as “Pokémon with guns” – has been breaking records left and right all weekend, and it has now sold more than four million copies since it released in early access on Friday on Steam and […]

I wish Hotel Dusk: Room 215 was more accessible than it is. It has all the requisite ingredients to become a giant hit. It’s a Japanese adventure game with a fantastic localisation, it was released on the Nintendo DS in 2007, at the height of its popularity, and it has a restless sketch-based visual […]

I’ve always been fascinated by 3D printers but I’ve never known what I would do with one. When Shenzhen-based firm Elegoo offered to send their $350/£300 Neptune 4 Plus for review, I figured I’d better take them up on their offer and find out just what’s possible with a modern 3D printer – and what […]

Sony has revealed the next batch of titles bidding a fond farewell to its PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium subscription tiers in February, which this time include the likes of Resident Evil 7, Tekken 7, and Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown. Thankfully, that’s where the curse of the video game sevens ends, with […]

A growing number of video game developers are now quietly working on projects for Nintendo’s unannounced Switch 2. Eight percent of respondees to GDC’s newly-published 2024 State of the Game Industry report say they are developing their current project for Nintendo Switch 2. Out of 3000 people polled, that accounts for 240 […]

Microsoft’s January Xbox Developer Direct has been and gone, bringing first looks and long-awaited release news for some of the company’s most highly anticipated titles. MachineGames’ Indiana Jones was the biggie of course, showcasing first gameplay and featuring confirmation of a 2024 release, but there was more besides, with Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2, Avowed, […]

Sefton Hill and Jamie Walker, the duo that co-founded acclaimed Batman Arkham studio Rocksteady before departing to “start a new adventure together in games” in 2022, have set up a new AAA London development studio, Hundred Star Games. Hundred Star Games’ existence certainly isn’t a secret – it already has a website and […]

Developer Supermassive’s acclaimed PS4 cinematic horror game Until Dawn is being turned into a movie by the writer and director of 2017 horror hit Annabelle: Creation. Until Dawn, if you’re unfamiliar, released for PS4 back in 2015, delivering an interactive spin on the teen slasher genre – with a cast including Rami Malek […]

Wakerunners is the next game from Mintrocket, the studio behind Dave the Diver. The game is described as a team battle game with a top-down perspective set in a dystopian sci-fi future. So, quite the change from catching fish under the sea. If you’re keen to check it out, a demo will […]

It looks like the wait for Final Fantasy 14 Online on Xbox Series X/S could be ending very soon; Microsoft today announced that an open beta for the acclaimed MMORPG was now “officially available” before yanking the post and tweeting to say it had “incorrectly” shared the news. Final Fantasy 14 has been […]

Raven Software was at one time working on a standalone live-service version of Call of Duty’s popular Zombies mode, ex-Raven Software lead designer Michael Gummelt has revealed, but it was cancelled after its IP originator – presumably Treyarch – “wanted it back”. That small revelation comes via Gummelt’s LinkedIn page (as spotted by […]

Rebel Wolves – the studio formed by a number of ex-CD Projekt staff, including Witcher 3 game director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz – has confirmed its first project will be dark fantasy RPG Dawnwalker, after the title was reported online toward the end of last year. When Rebel Wolves announced its existence in 2022, the […]

For years, I was aware of Prince of Persia without playing it. I loved platform games, but Prince of Persia didn’t feel like it was just a platform game. I detected something else in it, something too smart for me, too challenging, too close – and slightly creepy – in its approximation of real human […]

It’s been a long time coming but solo developer Zach Tsiakalis-Brown’s sci-fi spectacular Vertigo 2 is finally hitting PSVR2 next week! That’s right, on January 15th, PSVR2 owners will finally get the chance to try out this besoke VR adventure for themselves. Vertigo 2 has already received overwhelmingly positive reviews from players on Steam so […]

The most refined, purebred 2D shooter there is returns, perfectly preserved and bolstered by a range of alternate versions old and new, and a bounty of customisation options. It absolutely feels that M2’s ShotTriggers series has been building up to this moment. The Japanese developer and publishing house has, over its long history, […]

As a new Unreal Engine 5 FPS developed for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series consoles and PC, The Finals released quite suddenly in late 2023. After a smattering of previews and an open beta, the complete game stealth-launched to the public in free-to-play form – and it’s surprisingly great, with an emphasis on physicalised destruction that […]

We’re just a week away from the launch of Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered for PlayStation 5, and the studio has now announced it’ll be marking its arrival with Grounded 2 – an official making-of documentary that’ll be free to watch on YouTube. Grounded 2: Making The Last of […]

American Truck Simulator’s list of confirmed future stops is beginning to stack up; not only has developer SCS Software revealed trips to Nebraska and Arkansas are on the way, it’s announced it’ll be pulling into Missouri when those two expansions are done. News that development on Missouri is now underway brings the total […]

In a move that feels a little like being catapulted back in time several decades, Ubisoft has released a free playable Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown demo – for Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, and PC – ahead of the game’s full launch next week. Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown revives Ubisoft’s shamefully […]

If you’re big of years but small of shelf space, you might be interested in the newly announced 400 Mini, an officially licensed scaled-down version of Atari’s four-and-a-half decade old home computer, the Atari 400, which launches on 28th March this year. Created by Retro Games Ltd – the company previously responsible for […]

Nintendo’s shares have hit a record high as expectations around Switch 2 continue to grow, and amid speculation Saudi Arabia is set to further invest in Japanese video game stock. That’s according to Nikkei Asia (thanks VGC), which reports shares of Nintendo temporarily hit a record 7,902 today on Japan’s Nikkei stock index […]

Young Mazino has joined the cast for the second season of HBO’s The Last of Us adaptation. The actor, known for his role as Paul Cho in Netflix series Beef, will play Jesse. In the game, Jesse is a Jackson resident and a friend of Ellie’s. The show’s description calls Jesse […]

Just a day after Unity announced it would be laying off 1,800 employees as part of an ongoing “company reset”, it’s being reported that live-streaming site Twitch is now poised to cut 35 percent of its workforce – equalling around 500 jobs – later this week. That’s according to Bloomberg’s Cecilia D’Anastasio, who, […]

Baldur’s Gate 3 includes an incredibly touching tribute to a player’s father living with Alzheimer’s. To fully appreciate this tribute, we need to go back a few years. When Baldur’s Gate 3 was still in early access, forum user Solfalia messaged Larian to thank the studio for releasing Act I, despite the game […]

Epic’s Unreal Engine 5 is swiftly becoming the engine of choice for current generation gaming. It’s not hard to see why: it combines ease of use and flexibility with some of the most advanced rendering tech in the industry, especially with its Lumen and Nanite systems. At the same time, that sophistication poses a […]

Nintendo hacker Gary Bowser has denied being involved in a new flash cart project claimed to allow Switch users to play back-ups of their owned games. The MIG-Switch flash cart, officially, is a “third party back-up and development device for the Nintendo Switch” according to the device website, that’s not endorsed nor licenced by Nintendo […]

So, what did you get up to on the holiday break? I was intending to spend a bit of time catching up on my horribly late slate of projects, but I ended up going down yet another rabbit hole – and this one’s quite intriguing. Cyberpunk 2077 on PC ships with a range of […]

Stray Souls developer Jukai Studio is shutting down. The decision to close was in light of its publisher Versus Evil also shutting down, but the studio additionally cited cyberbullying, Stray Souls’ poor reception and bad sales as contributing factors. The studio announced it was closing in December, the same day Versus Evil […]

Twitch has updated its attire policy to prohibit implied nudity on the streaming platform, which goes into effect today. The update is in response to a recent wave of streamers using black censor bars or items to block their bodies, implying full or partial nudity. Twitch notes, in a new blog post […]

Resident Evil 4 was one of the most accomplished remakes of 2023, a modernised, bold reinterpretation of Capcom’s 2005 action-horror classic. It looked great too across current-gen platforms as well as PS4, with great lighting detail and excellent art design. As the year closed out, Capcom delivered RE4’s first mobile port. As a part […]

Ubisoft’s upcoming open world Star Wars game Outlaws looks to be set for a “late” 2024 release. Until today, the Ubisoft game held a much wider ranging 2024 release window. However, a Disney Parks blog post promoting a variety of events and such for the next 12 months has Star Wars Outlaws […]

More details about an MMO based on Guerrilla’s Horizon franchise have popped up online via two new job listings. Video game researcher Kurakasis took to Twitter/X earlier today to detail “everything” they know to date about the upcoming game, including a rumour that it will be an “MMORPG to be precise”. They also shared details […]

The ESRB has rated Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door remake. As spotted by the Gaming Leaks and Rumours subreddit community, the RPG has secured an E for Everyone rating from the North American rating board for its mild fantasy violence and mild suggestive themes, and there are “no interactive elements”. Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door […]

Fans and accessibility advocates alike have reached out to Tekken 8 director Katsuhiro Harada in a bid to have its colourblind options revised ahead of the game’s release next month. After videos and screenshots showcasing the fighting game’s accessibility modes went viral over the festive period, colourblind players and accessibility advisers reached out to the […]

2023 is done! And we’re ending it in the traditional manner, with the top 50 games of the last twelve months, as chosen by you. Enjoy, and we’ll see you in 2024! Happy new year! 50. Jagged Alliance 3 Developer: Haemimont Games What we said: We didn’t review it! “The return of the classic,” says […]

Ho ho hello! Christmas may already seem a distant memory, but we have gathered in our finest festive gear for one final treat – the Eurogamer Newscast News Quiz of the Year 2023. A now annual tradition, the news quiz sees us look back at some of the year’s more oddball news headlines […]

From Software has released a new ranked online matchmaking mode for Armored Core 6 Fires of Rubicon. Players can now battle alongside similarly ranked players in 1v1 and 3v3 matches and climb the ladder from Unranked status all the way to S rank, with 1v1 and 3v3 player battles boasting separate ranking systems. ARMORED CORE […]

You’ve probably already seen Eurogamer’s top 50 games of 2023, but we didn’t leave our end of year thoughts there. Big lists can sometimes feel impersonal, and as you know, individual tastes in games are anything but. So, we wanted to cobble together our collected thoughts on the games we felt shaped 2023. This brief […]

Listen. There have been a lot of great games this year. Maybe more than in any year we can easily remember. Because of this we’ve handled our top 50 list of our best games a little differently. Below you’ll find two groups of games from 2023. Going backwards, at the bottom you’ll find […]

You’ve probably already seen Eurogamer’s top 50 games of 2023, but we didn’t leave our end of year thoughts there. Big lists can sometimes feel impersonal, and as you know, individual tastes in games are anything but. So, we wanted to cobble together our collected thoughts on the games we felt shaped 2023. This brief […]

You’ve probably already seen Eurogamer’s top 50 games of 2023, but we didn’t want to leave our end of year thoughts there. Big lists can sometimes feel impersonal, and as you know, tastes in games can be very personal. So we wanted to put together another kind of list, something that would show you – […]

The original God of War trilogy could be getting the remaster treatment. That’s according to XboxEra’s Nick Baker, who announced on “The 4th Annual Grubbsmas Shpeshaltacular” that he’d heard a remaster of the first three God of War games “might be happening”. The XboxEra Podcast | LIVE | Episode 191 – “The 4th Annual Grubbsmas […]

You’ve probably already seen Eurogamer’s top 50 games of 2023, but we didn’t want to leave our end of year thoughts there. Big lists can sometimes feel impersonal, and as you know, tastes in games can be very personal. So we wanted to put together another kind of list, something that would show you – […]

Fallout London – the highly-anticipated independent mod for Fallout 4 – is set to release on St. George’s Day, April 23 2024. Despite being “content-complete”, the team says that as some members “come from a region affected by conflict”, timescales have slipped and the mod has not been tested as thoroughly as hoped. Consequently, the […]

Cocoon. Of course it’s our game of the year. Cocoon is ingenious, elegant, and thought-provoking. It’s precise, expressive, and generous. It takes game design forward even as it seems to emerge from its deep history. But more than anything, Cocoon is playful. Its puzzles, its tricks, all yield to playfulness. Hopefully you’ve […]

Behaviour Interactive wants your views on its tentpole asymmetric horror game, Dead by Daylight. The team says it “encourage[s] you to be as honest as possible” about the game in a new survey, which is why all responses to the survey will be anonymous. That said, your answers may be “paired with your in-game data”, […]

TinyBuild has shut down indie publisher Versus Evil. According to employees affected by the layoffs, staff were notified of the redundancies “at the start of [their] Christmas break”. Newscast: Why are there so many games industry layoffs? “Welp. That was a fun 10-year ride. The entire Versus Evil team has just been laid off,” tweeted […]

Dungeon crawler Torchlight: Infinite’s all-new expansion, Twinightmare, will release on 28th December, 2023. Headlined by tenth playable hero Rosa the High Court Chariot, the expansion also introduces a “host of challenges, quality-of-life improvements, limited-time festive events, and much more”. [Twinightmare] Lightbringer·Rosa「The Holy Spirit Awaits in Hell」. Rosa can be unlocked by those willing to shell […]

Sega has detailed more of its plans to revive a swathe of classic game franchises, including Jet Set Radio, Crazy Taxi, Golden Axe, Shinobi and Steets of Rage. The announcement that Sega was working on new entries in the above series came as something of a suprise this month, and with few other […]

Game development disaster The Day Before will go dark forever on 22nd January 2024. A statement posted this morning to X, formerly Twitter, gave remaining players a month’s notice that the game – once Steam’s most-wishlisted title – would close down in just over 30 days. As a reminder, The Day Before […]

Death Stranding’s iPhone, iPad and Mac release has been delayed. Originally set to arrive on an unspecified date this year, publisher 505 Games said that it and Kojima Productions had now decided to move the release into 2024. “We just need a little more time,” 505 wrote in a post on […]

If there are some games you would rather your friends and family didn’t know you were playing, for whatever reason that may be, Steam has your back. As part of its recent Steam Client Beta update, Valve has added the ability for players to mark certain games as private. How handy! “Starting […]

Controversial Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick will depart the company on 29th December, it’s been announced. Kotick’s reign lasted 32 years, during which time the company became one of the biggest and most influential video games publishers on the planet. His departure this month is not unexpected – Activision Blizzard […]

We’re doing another ‘gaming memory’ competition and this time we’re theming it around the Christmas break. What are your favourite memories of gaming around Christmas? Share yours in the comments below and if we choose it as our favourite, you’ll win a prize! The prize is a £70 voucher for your game platform of choice. […]

As 2023 comes to a close, I think it’s fair to say that the fighting game genre is in a great spot. Capcom and NetherRealm both launched stellar new entries in their respective franchises this year, with Street Fighter 6 in particular righting the wrongs of the previous numbered entry. In January of 2024, Bandi-Namco […]

Activision Blizzard is ending hybrid working for its QA testers in January, meaning employees are expected to work full-time in offices. The impact of this decision has been highlighted by the ABK Workers Alliance in a new statement shared with Eurogamer. QA employees in Minneapolis, Austin, and El Segundo are affected, with […]

How is it that 2023 can have been one of the best years in memory for games but also one of the worst years in memory for games, and for the gaming industry. I can’t balance this equation – I’ve been trying all year and it gives me a headache. We should be talking about […]