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22  mars     21h57
Larian’s next game will have different tone, style, way of doing it to Baldur’s Gate 3, but won’t dwarf it
   You might have heard: while Larian isn’t done with updating Baldur’s Gate, the studio’s next game won’t be Baldur’s Gate 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 exactly...
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Final Fantasy 16: The Rising Tide DLC makes a splash this April
   Following the release of Echoes of the Fallen in December, Final Fantasy is set to get its next slice of DLC as soon as April. Final Fantasy : The Rising Tide which takes place before the ending of the main game is set to release in just under a month, on th April. This expansion will...
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Dragon’s Dogma 2: a brilliant game in need of technical improvements
   Dragon’s Dogma is a highly anticipated open world RPG and the most advanced RE Engine title we’ve seen to date. Beyond the excellent gameplay and concept, this game undeniably looks good, combining high detail assets with beautiful lighting, but performance concerns are also widespread amongst...
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Pokémon fan game site shuts down after nearly a decade, following takedown notice
   A long running website for Pokémon fan game enthusiasts has shut down after being served a DMCA takedown notice.Relic Castle was a repository and forum for makers and players of Pokémon fan games, and had gained over , members in almost years. In a statement posted to X, the Relic Castle...
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Italian Soulslike Enotria: The Last Song delayed, avoiding Elden Ring DLC
   Enotria: The Last Song was initially set to release in June, but its launch date is being pushed back by developer Jyamma Games, ensuring it avoids a certain Elden Ring DLC. The Italian Soulslike will now release on st August, well clear of a clash with the much anticipated Elden Ring...
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Resident Evil director Shinji Mikami founds new company
   Shinji Mikami, the legendary developer behind Resident Evil and a string of other classics, has founded a new company. Titled as KAMUY Inc., the new company was spotted in a biography for Mikami listed on the official Shadows of the Damned: Hella Remastered website thanks, Gematsu . Mikami...
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Path of Exile 2 beta delayed to end of 2024
   Path of Exile 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 which will be...
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Star Wars Outlaws rated 19 in South Korea
   Ubisoft’s open world RPG Star Wars Outlaws has been rated in South Korea as adults only due to its inclusion of in game gambling elements.The game’s rating was published yesterday on the website for the Game Rating and Administration Committee, the South Korean games rating board, as spotted by...
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Stop-motion-style narrative game Harold Halibut lands April release date
   The rather charming looking Harold Halibut has landed itself a release date. The stop motion style narrative game will arrive across PC, PlayStation and Xbox Series X S on th April. It will also be available on Game Pass. Having a release date is incredible and surreal to us It...
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Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile: the series survives the transition between platforms
   Oh, and we’re off into the hot zone, and with a hot phone. There’s snow on the ground in Verdansk, but after five minutes of playing the mobile version of Call of Duty Warzone this morning, my aging iPhone was getting pleasantly warm. Warzone’s a beast on phones, actually: even before the game...
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The big Horizon Forbidden West PC tech interview with Nixxes and Guerrilla Games
   ’s Horizon Forbidden West is one of the most technically accomplished games produced for PS , and today it gets a full release on PC with the Complete Edition that aims to add in new features and scale gracefully across a wide range of CPU and GPU hardware. Porting specialists Nixxes created...
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Game of the week: Dragon’s Dogma 2 and the power of five-star excitement
   Game of the Week is a column exclusive to Supporters of Eurogamer. If you’d like to become one, it’s euro; a month, or euro; a year, and for that you get an advert free website, access to exclusive articles and podcasts, and more.I love an exciting moment in games, and there are...
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Unexpected Dragon’s Dogma 2 microtransactions leave sour taste in players’ mouths
   UPDATE . am: As I was writing this morning’s story, Capcom released a blog post regarding Dragon’s Dogma .Here, the developer acknowledged the game’s performance issues further, stating it will be addressing crashes and bug fixes in a future patch. It once again affirmed it is also looking at a...
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Larian not done with updating Baldur’s Gate 3
   Larian Studios won’t be making any expansions for Baldur’s Gate, but the developer isn’t quite done with the game yet.Following Larian founder Swen Vincke’s GDC talk yesterday, in which he confirmed the company would not make Baldur’s Gate or any BG expansions, Vincke took to social media...
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Mario Kart Live developer says third of staff at risk of redundancy
   A third of staff are at risk of losing their jobs at Velan Studios, the company behind Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit and shutdown dodgeball game Knockout City. Velan Studios announced the likelihood of layoffs in a statement from the company’s founders, Guha and Karthik Bala, who said that ...
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What we’ve been playing - zombies, schools, and erased names
   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: zombies, personas, and erased names.If you fancy catching up on some of the older editions of What We’ve Been Playing, here’s our archive.It seems...
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Larian’s next game won’t be Baldur’s Gate 4, DLC, or anything with Dungeons & Dragons
   Surprising the audience at his GDC talk today, Larian’s founder and CEO Swen Vincke announced the Baldur’s Gate 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...
21  mars     22h00
Stellaris spin-off ditches title, becomes Nexus 5X
   Despite months in Steam Early Access and hundreds of positive player reviews, Stellaris Nexus is no more. Instead, the spin off is taking the rare step of rebranding itself dropping its Stellaris branding entirely to launch with a new name. Announced last year as a speedier version of the...
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Oil rig horror Still Wakes the Deep gets release date
   Still Wakes the Deep, the promising looking narrative horror game set on an oil rig, will launch for PC, PlayStation and Xbox Series X S on th June. This is the much anticipated next project from British studio The Chinese Room, which previously made Dear Esther, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs,...
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Apple facing major antitrust lawsuit from US government
   Apple is facing another antitrust lawsuit this time from the US government.Earlier today, the US Department of Justice announced it is suing Apple for monopolising the smartphone market. The lawsuit has been filed by the Department of Justice, other state and district attorneys general, and...
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Dragon’s Dogma 2 PC frame rate issues acknowledged by Capcom
   Capcom has confirmed it is aware of frame rate issues in Dragon’s Dogma on PC and is looking to improve performance in the future. The open world RPG is released tomorrow, nd March, but does suffer from an inconsistent frame rate when playing on PC. In Dragon’s Dogma, a large amount of...
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World of Warcraft Plunderstorm gameplay footage
   If you’ve always wanted World of Warcraft to run a limited time Battle Royale inspired event, you’re in luck. Plunderstorm is exactly that, and we’ve got minutes of gameplay of the mode in action. Be the last pirate standing, find new abilities, get new upgrades, and loot in order to...
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Princess Peach: Showtime credits shine spotlight on game’s developer
   Nintendo has been keeping a tight lid on the developer behind Princess Peach: Showtime since it was announced last year.However, the credits are now out there, and we can confirm it was developed by the team at Good Feel, and directed by Etsunobu Ebisu. This marks Ebisu’s first directorial work...
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Stardew Valley 1.6 punishes players for cheating
   A new Easter egg in Stardew Valley’s . update punishes players who make their way to a particular area earlier than they’re supposed to.It’s possible to get to the Summit, which is shut off until the player managers to receive a perfection score of percent, without reaching the mentioned...
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Assassin’s Creed Jade likely delayed to 2025 - report
   Assassin’s Creed Jade, the upcoming major open world mobile game set in Ancient China, will now likely arrive in . That’s according to a Reuters report detailing a change of focus within Tencent, the Chinese publishing giant which is handling development duties on the project. Tencent...
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Seven-year-old video showing Pokémon Call of Duty mod pulled from YouTube
   YouTube has removed a seven year old YouTube video that featured Pok eacute;mon modded into Call of Duty: Zombies, at the request of The Pok eacute;mon Company.As spotted by IGN, content creator NoahJ revealed they had received a takedown notice from YouTube, due to the modded content. WARNING...
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Ark: The Animated Series surprise releases in US and Canada, ahead of April debut elsewhere
   The dino loaded Ark: The Animated Series has secured a release date, and if you are over the pond, it’s now. The first six episodes of the series, which is based upon the video game Ark: Survival Evolved, has made a surprise debut on Paramount in both the US and Canada today. According to...
    12h44
Live Curation support for Dreams ending, after layoffs
   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...
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Baldur’s Gate 3 boss blasts publisher greed behind layoffs
   The director of Baldur’s Gate, Swen Vincke, was one of many to speak out on the recent mass layoffs within the video games industry at an industry awards show last night, blaming the job losses on corporate greed that had been fucking this whole thing up for so long . Held as part of the...
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Arkane co-founder teases sci-fi RPG as next game
   Arkane Studios co founder Raphaël Colantonio has teased his next game at Wolfeye Studios.Currently, Colantonio is pitching the game at GDC alongside Wolfeye producer Julien Roby. Yesterday, Colantonio shared a sneak peek from Wolfeye’s office in Austin, showing planning for the next game. Read more
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Palworld propels Xbox to best ever month of console playtime
   PocketPair’s Palworld a game that the internet dubbed ’Pokemon with guns’ ahead of its early access release in January has been a huge success for both the developer and Xbox.Xbox has celebrated a fast start to , revealing that January was actually its biggest month ever on console in...
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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth gets new patch to fix performance mode
   Today, Final Fantasy Rebirth receives a new patch that promises to fix issues with its performance mode. Just ahead of release, an update aimed to improve the visual quality of performance mode, which was criticised for its blurry image. Now it’s been improved further, along with other fixes. ...
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Apex Legends tournament hacker says he did it for fun
   The hacker who disrupted the North American Apex Legends Global Series finals has said he did it just for fun .The Apex Legends esport finals took place earlier this week, during which two players were hacked, and given cheat based abililties. EA and Respawn abandoned the finals, with the Apex...
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Diablo 4 Season 4 delayed, major crafting changes incoming
   Blizzard has delayed the fourth season of Diablo by a month, to a new release date of th May. The game’s third season, Season of the Construct, will be extended for an extra month, as announced in the developer’s latest Campfire Chat stream. The reason for the delay is to allow the team to...
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Princess Peach: Showtime review - the damsel in distress becomes an RPG queen
   Princess Peach: Showtime is unlike anything else. It shouldn’t be like anything else the action adventure game is only the second installment in Super Mario’s year old history to make Princess Peach its primary protagonist, and it treats her like a proper, petticoated hero. Usually, Mario...
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Rise of the Ronin review - samurai action that’s as grounded as it is approachable
   Games set in the Bakumatsu period must feel like buses. You wait almost a decade for one to be made, and then two come along in successive years. After last year’s Like A Dragon: Ishin took us to late th century Japan, Rise of the Ronin feels like a trip into familiar territory. It’s perhaps even...
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Barbie’s Margot Robbie to produce The Sims movie adaptation
   A Sims movie adaptation is in the works from Margot Robbie’s production company, to be helmed and co written by Loki director Kate Herron. According to The Hollywood reporter, Robbie’s production company LuckyChap will produce alongside Vertigo Entertainment. The Sims publisher EA is also...
20  mars     22h30
Fall Guys support to continue, despite game assets and characters coming to Fortnite
   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...
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Horizon Forbidden West: hands-on with the eagerly anticipated PC port
   One of the most technologically advanced games on PlayStation is coming imminently to PC. Horizon Forbidden West is acclaimed for its beautiful rendering and smooth performance on PS , and we were fascinated to see how porting specialists Nixxes have adapted it to PC and to see how accurate its...
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Sea of Thieves’ bumper 2024 bringing windy horns, grapple guns, a roaming warship, and loads more
   Sea of Thieves is celebrating its sixth anniversary today, th March, and to celebrate, Rare has given an unprecedented look at the year ahead for its multiplayer pirate game, with bringing the likes of windy horns, roaming warships, and portable grappling guns that let you whizz around the...
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State of Unreal: Everything announced for Unreal Engine, Fortnite
   Epic Games has shown off the future of its powerful Unreal Engine, including a first glimpse at Amy Hennig’s Captain America and Black Panther game, and closer integration of the eye catching MetaHumans tech into UEN, during this year’s annual State of Unreal broadcast by the company. The show...
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Here’s a jaw-dropping look at Amy Hennig’s new Captain America and Black Panther game
   At today’s State of Unreal livestream, we were given a look at the upcoming Captain America and Black Panther game from Amy Hennig, or to give its official, newly announced name, Marvel : Rise of Hydra. The trailer itself is quite the spectacle, something Hennig said was all possible thanks...
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Remedy blames profit drop on 7.2m cost to reboot Project Vanguard
   Alan Wake and Control developer Remedy Entertainment has seen its revenue drop by . percent for the year.In the studio’s recently published financial results, Remedy said its revenue fell to euro; . m, posting an operating loss of euro; . m. This is even with the launch of Alan Wake in...
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Dragon’s Dogma 2 review - endless discoveries paired with limitless potential
   As I launched Dragon’s Dogma for the first time, I told myself that I should go into it with a more critical eye than I usually would. I think I was afraid that my overzealous love for the original might cloud my judgement. Then I blinked, and hours had flown by. It was suddenly a.m. on a...
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The Callisto Protocol gets a roguelike spin-off
   The Callisto Protocol developer Striking Distance Studios has announced a spin off to its sci fi horror game is in the works.Currently codenamed Project Birdseye, the game is a fast action roguelike experience set within the same universe as The Callisto Protocol.Specifically, it’s set in Black...
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Obsidian espionage RPG Alpha Protocol returns to PC, following 2019 licensing drama
   Obsidian’s espionage RPG Alpha Protocol is today making a grand return to PC on the GOG store, years after its debut. The re release is a collaboration between Obsidian, GOG and Sega, after the game was pulled from Steam in due to expired music rights. Now the game will return DRM...
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Red Dead Redemption 2 gets first proper update in 18 months
   Rockstar Games has issued a fresh update for Red Dead Redemption the game’s first meaningful patch in months. But, to the disappointment of fans, there’s sadly no new content and no sign of any visual upgrades for players on newer console hardware. Title Update . is available to...
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EA, Jagex, and Miniclip broke loot box advertising rules
   The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority has upheld complaints against EA, Jagex, and Miniclip for failing to disclose the presence of loot boxes in their adverts.The complaints were filed to the ASA by researcher Leon Y. Xiao, who has previously conducted studies on the effectiveness of Belgium’s...
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Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection gets first patch following troubled launch
   Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection did not have a good debut. On its release, players were met with a myriad of bugs and limited servers for each platform, resulting in many asking for a refund. The collection currently sits with an Overwhelmingly Negative review average on Steam.Aspyr...
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Destiny 2 reveals a horde mode
   Destiny developer Bungie has announced Onslaught, a new horde mode for the game. The offering is set to arrive for all players on th April, as a core component of Destiny ’s upcoming Into the Light update. Onslaught is a three person wave based activity set on a selection of familiar but...