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28  mars     17h05
If Larian’s not making Baldur’s Gate 4, which developer might?
   This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss who might pick up the baton and develop a potential Baldur’s Gate now that BG studio Larian has confirmed it is leaving the franchise behind. The rights to Baldur’s Gate of course belong to Wizards of the Coast, who are free to enlist another...
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Valheim publisher Coffee Stain announces new deckbuilding roguelike As We Descend
   Valheim publisher Coffee Stain has announced a deck building roguelike from a couple of developers previously at Stunlock Studios, the outfit best known for V Rising. Box Dragon was set up by Kevin Chang and Karl Bergström two years ago; today they announce details of the studio’s debut game As...
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Celeste developer’s next game won’t be out this year
   Earthblade, the next project from Celeste developer Extremely OK Games, won’t be out in , but progress is being made. The studio’s director Maddy Thorson shared a new update and while this game ain’t coming out in , progress is not stagnant and the team is still excited to work on...
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Spyro 4 reportedly in early development at Toys for Bob
   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 on a...
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Visions of Mana returns to series roots, but is yet to flower into a truly original experience
   I have quite distinct memories of SNES classic Secret of Mana, despite not playing it too much. It’s the visuals that stick in my mind: the bright greens of its forest environments, the electric yellows and pinks of its cute plant and bug enemies, and of course the colossal tree and its tangled...
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Twitch once again updates community guidelines prohibiting sexualised content
   Twitch has once again updated its community guidelines to prohibit sexualised content, this time preventing streamers using their bodies as a green screen. From th March, content that focuses on intimate body parts for a prolonged period of time won’t be allowed, defined as buttocks, groin...
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Judge rules in Sony’s favour in 500m controller lawsuit
   Sony has successfully won a patent infringement lawsuit in which it was being sued for m, after a US District Court judge ruled in the PlayStation company’s favour. The lawsuit was based on Sony’s controller to console communication method, with Genuine Enabling Technology a company with a...
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Capcom polls fans on further Dragon’s Dogma 2 DLC
   Dragon’s Dogma developer Capcom has begun quizzing fans on what they’d like to see in future DLC for the game. A public user survey is now available to complete, and asks whether you would be interested in purchasing extra content for Dragon’s Dogma if it was released. A follow up question...
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The beauty and drama of video games and their clouds
   Occasionally in a game I’ll look up and I’ll notice the clouds. I’ll be shooting someone, or collecting something, or just walking over the crest of a hill as I follow a waypoint marker, and my gaze will drift upwards, entirely unmotivated, and And suddenly I’ll see the huge bowl of the sky...
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Sega layoffs hit 240 staff, including at Total War studio Creative Assembly
   Sega will shed staff across its European studios, and sell off Company of Heroes developer Relic Entertainment as part of a cost cutting drive. The majority of job losses will be at Total War developer Creative Assembly and at the publisher’s Sega Europe office. These follow earlier cuts to...
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Take-Two acquires Borderlands studio Gearbox from Embracer for 460m
   Embracer has entered an agreement to sell Gearbox Interactive to Take Two for m.When this transaction is complete, Take Two will acquire the Borderlands and Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands franchises, as well as Homeworld, Risk of Rain, Brothers in Arms and Duke Nukem. Closing is expected to be...
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How Super Mario Bros. Wonder’s devs narrowed down 2000 ideas for its effects
   It’s not often we get to hear a senior developer of a Super Mario Bros. game philosophise about game design. At gamescom last year, Takashi Tezuka, executive officer at Nintendo and producer on Super Mario Bros. Wonder, and Shiro Mouri, the game’s director, gave us a glimpse, as they spoke with...
27  mars     23h19
Digital-only Xbox Series X images reportedly leak online
   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 release, first surfaced as part of a mammoth leak of official Microsoft documentation during last...
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Gorgeous Ghibli-esque exploration adventure Europa delayed to summer
   Europa, the absolutely lovely looking Ghibli inspired exploration adventure from developer Helder Pinto, has been delayed and will now likely launch for PC this summer . Europa a peaceful game of adventure, exploration, and meditation set on a terraformed moon in Jupiter’s shadow has...
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Nintendo confirms contractor layoffs amid claims of testing lull ahead of Switch 2
   Nintendo has reportedly cut contractor testing roles at its North American operation with an unspecified number said to have been converted to full time positions as part of a major restructuring effort that comes amid claims of a testing lull ahead of Switch ’s arrival. That’s...
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Castlevania’s coming to vampire survival game V Rising in May
   Vampire survival game V Rising is getting an official Castlevania collaboration, introducing vampire hunter Simon Belmont and a range of series inspired cosmetics, in May. V Rising’s Castlevania collaboration consists of two parts; legendary vampire hunter Simon Belmont will be available as a...
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PlayStation Plus April games announced
   Sony has announced its PlayStation Plus games for April.The following titles will be available to PlayStation Plus subscribers from nd April until Monday, th May:In addition, subscribers can also get their hands on The Overwatch Mega Bundle. Read more
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Open Roads review - a pleasant road trip that doesn’t go anywhere particularly memorable
   A gentle adventure into a family’s secrets that’s nicely crafted but over before it really begins.I had some concerns about Open Roads when I saw a demo of it earlier this year, mostly because in what I saw, nothing much seemed to happen. A teenage girl walked around a house looking at objects and...
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Former Dragon Age boss’ ambitious new action RPG gets first teaser trailer
   Yellow Brick Games, the studio founded by former Dragon Age creative director Mike Laidlaw, has released a teaser trailer for its ambitious new action RPG , ahead of a full reveal in April. Laidlaw announced the formation of Yellow Brick Games at the tail end of , following a brief stint at...
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It Takes Two celebrates third anniversary with new sales milestone
   It Takes Two the co op platformer from Hazelight and Josef Fares yes, of that Oscars rant celebrated its third anniversary earlier this week.To commemorate the occasion, Hazelight shared a new piece of artwork and the news It Takes Two had now sold m copies. This is an increase of six...
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Marvel Rivals is a free-to-play PVP shooter where heroes and villains fight together and against each other
   Marvel Rivals is an upcoming free to play, team based PVP shooter for PC with the backing of Chinese publishing giant NetEase. Described as a thrilling, fast paced, cooperative gameplay experience , Marvel Rivals will pit teams of six against each other as they fight it out over a variety of...
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Xbox Cloud Gaming adding mouse and keyboard support
   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...
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No Man’s Sky Orbital update overhauls space stations today
   Orbital, the th major update to No Man’s Sky, will arrive today and revamp the game’s space stations. These deep space locations can now be vast, procedurally generated, and incredibly diverse , developer Hello Games said today, announcing the update. The aim is for space stations to feel...
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Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles is second game in now-confirmed trilogy
   Tomas Sala’s Falconeer series will be a trilogy, the developer has announced. In a press release to coincide with the launch of Bulwark: The Falconeer Chronicles across PC, PlayStation and Xbox, Sala and publisher Wired Productions revealed work on a third instalment had already begun. For...
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400k worth of Playdate game consoles have gone missing in Vegas
   k worth of Playdate game consoles have disappeared in Las Vegas. That’s according to Panic, the hardware maker behind the palm sized, crank operated console, with company co founder Cabel Sasser calling it a bit of a true crime drama thanks, Game File . Sasser spoke at GDC last week,...
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Mass Effect 5 developer BioWare highlights crack team of trilogy veterans
   Reviving the beloved Mass Effect series again may be a tough mission, but the veteran crew behind the upcoming Mass Effect know a little something about assembling a squad to take on impossible odds. Writing on social media platform X this week, Mass Effect executive producer Mike...
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Cassette Beasts gets multiplayer update and mobile release
   Creature collecting RPG Cassette Beasts will receive a multiplayer update in May, plus it’s heading to mobile devices this year. Publisher Raw Fury held a Cassette Beasts showcase below detailing a number of new features coming to the game. The big addition is multiplayer, coming to all...
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Another F-Zero game speeds on to Switch this week at maximum velocity
   Another F Zero game is on the way to Switch. F Zero: Maximum Velocity will join Nintendo Switch Online for Expansion Pack subscribers on th March. The high speed racer was a launch game for the Game Boy Advance and took its cue from the SNES original with its flat, twisting tracks and pixel...
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Phil Spencer wants more digital storefronts on Xbox
   Xbox head Phil Spencer wants to see more digital storefronts such as Epic and Itch.io on Microsoft’s consoles. Speaking with Polygon, Spencer said he would like to break down the ’walled gardens’ that limit players to buying games on a particular platform’s official digital store. ...
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Xbox boss Phil Spencer concerned over layoffs due to lack of industry growth
   Phil Spencer has discussed the devastating wave of layoffs that has impacted the video games industry, and said he was most concerned about the overall lack of growth . The Xbox boss presided over the departure of people across Xbox and Activision Blizzard in January of this year, a...
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Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail pre-orders beset with issues
   The next expansion for MMORPG Final Fantasy , Dawntrail, is up for pre order, but the process has been beset with issues. It began with failed card payments when pre ordering on the Square Enix Store, which Square Enix acknowledged. In a post on X, it suggested using PayPal instead and then...
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Five of the Best: Time manipulations
   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 you can find our...
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Exploring the new world of Chinese FMV games
   In January , The Invisible Guardian or és è in Chinese , a story rich historical full motion video game, or FMV, was published on the Chinese, Hong Kong, and Taiwanese Steam pages, as well as WeGame. It became a great hit, despite not receiving much advertising. It maintained a...
26  mars     18h13
BioShock creator Ken Levine finally explains Judas narrative Lego concept
   It’s been 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...
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Diablo 4 PC Game Pass users need Battle.net to play
   Diablo is set to make its Game Pass debut this Thursday, th March.Ahead of this, Microsoft has laid out a step by step guide explaining how PC players can get it all set up, because there are more steps than you may have perhaps expected.PC players looking to dive into Sanctuary later this...
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We’ve ranked all of Dragon’s Dogma 2’s meat grilling videos from worst to best
   I’ve been very much enjoying my time in Dragon’s Dogma so far. Bumbling around, getting into emergent scrapes with giant enemies one minute and then tossing my more aggravating pawns off of cliff tops the next. But there’s nothing that I like doing more in this game than watching the live action...
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The Crew Motorfest pulls onto Steam next month
   Ubisoft’s Hawaii based, open world racing game The Crew Motorfest will arrive on Steam next month. The game’s sales page is now live on Valve’s storefront, touting a release date of th April. As well as this date, Ubisoft has said those interested can enjoy the game for free for five hours...
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PS5 update to add Game Help created by user-generated content
   Sony is introducing a new Community Game Help feature on PlayStation .This opt in feature, which is an evolution of the console’s Game Help function, will create gameplay clips automatically, which will in turn help other players with their own gaming endeavours.If users choose to contribute to...
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Rise of the Ronin PS5 tech review: a good game marred by technical challenges
   Rise of the Ronin is an open world samurai action RPG, and perhaps developer Team Ninja’s most ambitious project to date. Building on the same in house technology that powered Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty and Stranger of Paradise, the pure focus on PlayStation development makes the project...
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Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom devs explain why it was a much bigger overhaul than you’d think
   For many, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is still seen as a kind of Breath of the Wild . a half sequel that builds on ’s revolutionary hit but, in using the same Hyrule as its overworld, doesn’t fully transform it into something new.The Zelda developers at Nintendo would probably...
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Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles review - meditative city building on a stormy archipelago
   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...
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Stellar Blade demo officially announced, after earlier slip-up
   There is a Stellar Blade demo coming to PlayStation .It will arrive this Friday, th March, and be available from pm UK time.Stellar Blade’s demo will take place at the very beginning of the game when Eve, a member of the th Airborne Squad is sent to Earth on a mission to reclaim the planet...
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Lego Fortnite adds vehicles to drive and build
   Lego Fortnite gets its second major update today, with the arrival of vehicles to build and drive around. The survival crafting game, playable within Fortnite, now lets you zoom about its world in a variety of vehicles you can build and customise. These range from the single seat Speeder quad...
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Remedy details Control live-service multiplayer spin-off
   Alan Wake developer Remedy has shared more details on its upcoming live service multiplayer game, currently known as Condor. As shared in the company’s annual report, the Control spin off has an initial development budget of euro; m and is being built on Remedy’s own engine, Northlight. ...
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Baldur’s Gate 3 would have originally let you recruit a major villain
   Baldur’s Gate boss Swen Vincke has revealed a number of ideas cut from the game during its development including the ability to recruit a major antagonist as a companion character. Speaking to IGN, Vincke also mentioned plans to feature a wider range of locations in the game including...
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Majority of Xbox games will come to PS5 at some point, it’s claimed
   It is understood the majority of Xbox games will eventually be coming to PlayStation. That’s according to Chris Dring from Eurogamer’s sister site GamesIndustry.biz. Speaking on the GI Microcast, Dring said his takeaway from GDC was that Xbox is in real trouble as a hardware manufacturer ....
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Phil Spencer discusses potential Xbox handheld plans
   Xbox gaming boss Phil Spencer has discussed the idea of a Microsoft handheld games device, and how Xbox games should play on third party handheld hardware. Spencer, a keen handheld PC enthusiast, told Polygon that Microsoft was discussing different hardware form factors and things that they ...
25  mars     17h32
Dragon’s Dogma 2’s Dragonsplague Pawn affliction has devastating consequences
   Dragon’s Dogma 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...
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Behind the headlines of GDC, a cautious sense of hope
   This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we digest the last seven days of headlines from GDC a conference that was unsurprisingly coloured by the past months of industry turmoil. Eurogamer’s Chris Tapsell was there, and joins us today to report back on what was being said on the ground. From...
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Cyberpunk 2077 playable for free this weekend on PS5, Xbox Series X S
   CD Projekt’s patched up Cyberpunk will be free to play on PlayStation and Xbox Series X S this weekend perfect for the Easter bank holiday. Cyberpunk will be available free from this Thursday th March at pm UK time, until Monday st April at . am. No subscription is...