Bungie has announced it will remove all power limits from legacy gear in Destiny, a major decision for fans and the final step in a now complete U turn on the controversial decision made four years ago. The decision to cap the power of Destiny weapons prodding players into the pursuit of...

   Capcom is discontinuing its Ace Attorney Turnabout Collection, which combines the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy and The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles. The bundle will no longer be available to purchase on Steam from st May , though existing owners will still be able to continue...

   Some weeks picking a favourite game is pretty easy, but there’s been a lot of lovely stuff in the mix of late. Stellar Blade brings a surprisingly pleasant sense of PS focus to proceedings, while Manor Lords and No Rest for the Wicked are both much wanted early access games that promise to blossom...

   Legendary Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama has posthumously praised new release Sand Land, a month after he passed away. Sand Land, from Bandai Namco, released this week and is based on Toriyama’s manga series that debuted in . In celebration of the release, a statement from Toriyama...

   Hello Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we’ve been playing over the past few days. This week: good manors and finger patterns.If you fancy catching up on some of the older editions of What We’ve Been Playing, here’s our archive.I’ve been...

   Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard has contributed to a boost in gaming revenue, but Xbox console sales have taken another massive hit. In its latest earnings report, Microsoft stated gaming revenue has increased by . bn, or percent year on year, while Xbox content and services...

   Yesterday’s long awaited Fallout next gen update is now available to download on PC, PlayStation and Xbox Series X S but has so far received a mixed response from fans. It was sadly to be expected that the update would break compatibility with a large number of Fallout mods and...

   Bulletstorm and Outriders studio People Can Fly has brought development of its struggling Project Dagger to a close after concluding its commercial potential was unsatisfactory . Project Dagger, which People Can Fly previously described as a new action adventure IP, had been in development for...

   Blizzard has revealed it won’t be hosting its annual BlizzCon fan convention in , but says the long running event first seen in may return in future years . BlizzCon has, of course, had a bit of a bumpy ride in recent times, taking an extended hiatus as Blizzard navigated health...

   UPDATE . pm: Bethesda has taken to social media to address what it calls confusion around which versions of Fallout on PlayStation are eligible for the free PS upgrade. We’ve seen some confusion regarding the free Fallout next gen update for PlayStation Plus Extra members, the...

   An official life sized replica of Malenia’s arm, the notorious Elden Ring nemesis, is now available to pre order. Bandai Namco has paired with high end collectible company PureArts to create the model, which will cost around and features high detail, an articulated wrist, and two...

   With more than seven years’ worth of games to pick from, there’s never been a better time to delve into the best Nintendo Switch games. The line up of games for Nintendo’s handheld home console hybrid is arguably the strongest it’s ever been, because in case you didn’t notice, the Switch continued...

   Pokémon Go has quietly added Wigglet, the white coloured and suspiciously shaped species similar to Digglet that debuted in Nintendo Switch games Pokémon Scarlet and Violet and raised a lot of eyebrows. Wigglet’s introduction to Pokémon Go has been unusually low key, with no official...

   It’s time to take another look at a range of Windows based handhelds and this time, we’re testing the most advanced, most powerful hardware on the market right now the actual big boys of the handheld range stacking them up against the established frontrunners: Steam Deck in both LCD and OLED...

   I’ve watched the Fallout Prime series and, like so many others, I have been dragged back into Fallout . The only problem is, I’ve done three playthroughs now and this makes it hard to enjoy the game when I know how all the quests turn out. Or do I Unbeknownst to me there were still some I...

   No Rest for the Wicked feels like a bit of a missing link. In the same way that Salt and Sanctuary bridged a gap between Metroidvanias and the Souls series, No Rest exists as a stop on an imaginary evolutionary journey from Diablo style action RPGs and the aforementioned Souls both Demonic and Dark...

   It’s unlikely we’ll see widespread emulation of GameCube or Wii games via emulators on the iPhone App Store, a new report suggests, despite Apple giving the green light to emulation for games from earlier Nintendo consoles. This isn’t because these games are free from copyright, or because of...

   As reported last year, the enjoyable Assassin’s Creed Mirage features a seemingly cut post credits scene that boasts a huge twist to the franchise’s lore. Dataminers discovered the unfinished scene several months ago and pieced what they could together from various files. We’ll remind of you...

   Capcom has revised its full year earnings forecast after the success of Dragon’s Dogma and its other popular releases over the last year. In a statement released today, the company has raised its net sales forecast by . percent to . m yen m , and its net income by . percent to ...

   Every Final Fantasy fan knows, there’s nothing scarier than a Tonberry. Sure, the little green guys look sweet enough with their big shoes and bulging eyes. But let them get close and their knife attack means instant death. In Final Fantasy ’s The Rising Tide DLC, though, Tonberries look more...

   Manor Lords releases on Steam in early access tomorrow, but pricing is still yet to be revealed. Tim Bender, CEO of the game’s publisher Hooded Horse, took to reddit to defend the decision and explain further why the pricing will only be shared at launch. Bender explained the game will have...

   Garry’s Mod developer Facepunch Studios has been ordered to remove all Nintendo related items from the Steam Workshop. In a statement on Steam, the developer confirmed the takedown notice is not a mistake and came from Nintendo, seemingly referencing fraudulent claims from back in February. ...

   I read a horrible theory recently that nature wants to turn lots of things into crabs. I think the theory was basically talking about crustaceans, but the gist of it was, regardless of the evolutionary challenges crustaceans faced, crabbiness seemed to be a preferred answer. The raised body and...

   Disney Dreamlight Valley is stuffing the glitter cannons and oiling its gates as it readies to welcome two new guests, with Daisy Duck and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit both now confirmed to be joining the exuberant village life sim next Wednesday, st May. Daisy arrives as part of the free Thrills...

   The man arrested for sending death threats to Nintendo which resulted in the cancellation of Nintendo Live Tokyo earlier this year has reportedly been charged by Japanese police. As reported by Japanese newspaper Kyoto Shimbun thanks VGC , the year old man, a resident of Hitachi city in...

   I don’t know if there’s a universal winning formula for a great action game out there, but Stellar Blade sure has tried its hardest to reverse engineer one. Like Bayonetta Here, take an English lady zipping about in heels, annihilating monsters to a delectable soundtrack. Dark Souls fan Rest at...

   Yesterday, in between bouts of Manor Lords, I popped down the road to do some food shopping, and bought bread, milk, vegetables, and some other things, then walked home. It took me about minutes all in all, and the whole time I never questioned whether there’d actually be food in the shop when I...

   The boss of embattled video games publisher Embracer has reflected on a turbulent year for his company which has seen it shed thousands of jobs, shutter numerous development studios, and now as of this week ultimately split into three smaller parts. Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz, Embracer...

   First shown nearly three years ago under the name Project Eve, the Korean developed Stellar Blade has finally arrived and for me delivers an experience that feels like a proper, complete, polished console game. You see, in this age of incomplete games, buggy launches, and countless promises buried...

   The original PUBG battle royale map Erangel is returning for a limited time blast of nostalgia. Seven years on from the game’s March debut, the return of Erangel complete with classic weapon balancing and visuals follows the temporary return of Fortnite’s original island map at the end...

   Valve has updated its refund policy on Steam, making a small but significant change in the process.This updated policy means players will no longer be able to exploit a loophole that allowed them to play an ’advanced access’ game for more than two hours and still request a refund further down the...

   Few games this year have looked as good in action as Harold Halibut, the stop motion style adventure game that looks like you’re watching something physical, made by human hands. And you are watching something made by human hands, of course, though not quite how you’d expect. The models shown...

   Fallout has just hit an impressive player milestone, almost six years after the game first released. According to Bethesda, over one million players were gallivanting around the MMO in a single day. Not bad for a game which, on its initial release in , we called a bizarre, boring, broken...

   Nintendo’s Switch Online service has today received two additions to its N catalogue. Extreme G and Iggy’s Reckin’ Balls are both racing games originally released for Nintendo’s bit console, now available for Expansion Pack subscribers. Extreme G is a high speed futuristic racer released...

   A recent patch for Tomb Raider Remastered appears to have removed a set of Lara Croft pin up style posters in the game’s Remastered graphical mode, despite them previously having been flagged by the official Tomb Raider website as a detail to go find. Fans spotted the posters’ removal over...

   Moon Studios CEO Thomas Mahler has defended the studio’s decision to launch its latest game No Rest for the Wicked in early access. The dark fantasy game launched last week, but was criticised by players for its poor performance, which Moon Studios pledged to improve. In a lengthy statement...

   I both hate and love geolocation games. Take GeoGuessr. I hate to play it myself because I’m clueless at it. But I love to watch it being played by others. It suddenly opens up. It becomes something thrilling.GeoGuessr is a geolocation game that runs on a browser or on your phone. Load it up and it...

   Lords of the Fallen has reached the final stage of its free content roadmap, as developer Hexworks acknowledges the technical difficulties that hampered the game’s launch last year. Master of Fate, as the modifier is known, will allow players to randomise seven different aspects. Choosing to...

   Flaming Fowl, the developer behind card battler Fable Fortune and the acclaimed Gloomhaven video game adaptation, has unveiled its new project but, in an unusual move, has also announced it’s shelving development and confirmed layoffs at the studio all at the same time. Flaming Fowl, which was...

   Steven Ogg, who played Trevor Philips in Grand Theft Auto, has revealed he shot some stuff for a DLC that would have continued the character’s adventures, now working as an undercover agent for the FBI, but it just disappeared and Rockstar never followed up on it. As those with long...

   Amazon’s Fallout adaptation was officially renewed for a second season last week, and now its showrunners have given us the briefest of teasers for what is in store next.Please note, there will be major spoilers for the first season of Fallout below. If you are yet to finish the show, and want to...

   A new hybrid AI licence for voice actors has been launched by a leading audio tool company, with the aim of providing an ethical approach for AI usage. The somewhat ironically named Speechless is a Swedish based voice actor database and asset tool for developers. Its new AI licence will allow...

   This year’s EGX the UK’s biggest gaming event run by Eurogamer’s current owner Reedpop will take place as a joint shindig with MCM Comic Con, with both expos co habiting at ExCeL London from Friday th to Sunday th October. On the EGX side, you should expect the usual mix of upcoming and...

   Rounding out the initial quartet of Xbox Studio titles announced for PlayStation, miniature survival game Grounded has arrived on Sony’s machine and Nintendo Switch too. Given that we last looked at Grounded in early access on Xbox One and PC way back in , these two new releases give us a...

   After almost two years of cooking in early access, the team behind turn based strategy adventure game Songs of Conquest has announced its full fat release date. Mark your calendars, as Songs of Conquest is set to release into . next month, on th May. Sharing the news, developer...

   The pre release marketing for Lorelei and the Laser Eyes has suggested a particularly abstract experience. Strange trailers tease unconventional concepts , patterns, patterns, patterns , and puzzles, puzzles, puzzles , hinting at an otherworldly concept and maze of deceptions all in eerie...

   If you were a fan of both Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail and want more from their developers, you can now pre register for miHoYo’s next game Zenless Zone Zero.Pre registration for Zenless Zone Zero is available now across all platforms. That’s mobile, PC and PlayStation .In addition, the...

   Metaphor: ReFantazio, the next game from Persona developer Atlus, finally has a release date: th October . We already knew Metaphor was destined for release this year, but in a new streamed showcase the game’s exact date was confirmed along with an in depth look at gameplay for the first...

   Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark. And there were cocoons everywhere. Sadly, I had a swing at a few, and this turned out to be a mistake. Mothy, woven foes emerged and I was overwhelmed. I woke up, cursing, in a glade surrounded by standing stones. Ahead lay a...

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