Unmasking Truths Unraveling Stories
Unmasking Truths Unraveling Stories
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 […]
China has announced new rules to limit the encouragement of spending in online video games, spooking investors in two of the world’s biggest publishers. News of the limits wiped a combined ~$80bn from the value of Tencent and NetEase, China’s two main games publishers that now support or part-own many of the world’s […]
Super Mario Run, Nintendo’s first mobile game to feature its moustachioed mascot, has been updated with a tie-in to recent Switch game Super Bros. Mario Wonder. The smartphone app now lets you activate Wonder Flowers during levels in the game’s Toad Rally mode, as part of a special event that runs until 14th […]
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 […]
BioWare and Mass Effect veteran Mac Walters has discussed his reasons for departing the studio after 19 years to begin work with a fresh team on a new sci-fi franchise. In an interview with MinnMax, Walters detailed the various factors involved in his departure, from the desire to work on something brand new […]
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 […]
Embark Studios’ multiplayer shooter dazzles in the moment, but its AI voices are symptomatic of a broader issue with artistic vision. When you kill someone in The Finals, they explode in a shower of coins, their body scattering across the ground like a tub of popcorn dropped by King Midas. As with much else […]
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 […]
Sony has filed a patent which could see difficulty levels adapt and adjust as users play. The patent features algorithms that would be able to finely tune difficulty settings based on an individual’s performance. It is interesting to see Sony patent such an idea, when similar processes are used in other games […]
Rare footage of Super Mario 64’s multiplayer mode has seemingly popped up online. Following a 1996 interview with Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto, we at least knew that there had been plans to make Luigi a playable character. A stunning leak in 2020 later confirmed it, showing that Super Mario 64 included character models for both […]
Hideo Kojima says that when he parted ways with Konami, he was “opposed” by peers, colleagues, and relatives” who told him that going independent would “never work”. In a statement shared to X/Twitter overnight, Kojima also reflected on why he continues to make games, saying that one of the reasons he became an independent developer […]
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The Game Awards 2023 has broken its own viewership record, clocking up around 118 million livestreams. Host and producer Geoff Keighley confirmed the numbers on X/Twitter, revealing that the 2023 awards were streamed live across 17,000+ channels and 30 platforms, including Twitch, YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, and X/Twitter. With 103m global livestreams in 2022, that’s […]
There’s something missing from Zenless Zone Zero. Armed with a deep combat system, new urban setting, and roster of characters easy to love, it seemed like developer miHoYo was teed up for another win after recent successes Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. Having spent countless hours immersed in both of these worlds, I’m […]
Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew is one of the year’s best releases as far as I’m concerned, but its arrival was bittersweet, given developer Mimimi Games announced it was shutting up shop shortly after. Since then, the team has wrapped up work on two final DLC drops introducing new characters, islands, and more – […]
15th December, 2023 Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we’ve found ourselves playing over the last few days. This time: spaceship battles, space, and classic Final Fantasy. If you fancy catching up on some of the older editions of What We’ve Been Playing, […]
Netflix head of gaming Mike Verdu has revealed the company has more than 10 games in development at its in-house studios. Netflix formed its own studios in Helsinki and California last year, and acquired four other studios, including Oxenfree developer Night School Studio and Cozy Grove developer Spry Fox. Verdu said the six studios are […]
If you have played Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, you will know Hailey Cooper. She was first introduced in the Spider-Man spin-off Miles Morales, before her role was expanded for Insomniac’s recent sequel. Hailey is, quite simply, a brilliant character, and one that actress Natasha Ofili brings an incredible warmth and humanity to. Hailey […]
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 fans itching to return to New York for some New Game Plus action will need to wait just a little while longer; developer Insomniac Games has announced it’s delaying the previously promised mode – alongside a number of other features – into “early” 2024 for some additional testing ahead of release. […]
It’s looking increasingly unlikely Starfield will have the quite same kind of longevity as its Bethesda RPG stablemates, but that isn’t discouraging the studio from continuing to tinker with the space adventure’s core – and one intriguing addition Bethesda has now confirmed is that “new ways of traveling” are coming at some point in […]
It’s been five years since David Szymanski and New Blood Interactive’s critically acclaimed retro FPS Dusk first emerged – effectively heralding start of the ‘boomer shooter’ resurgence as it did so – and to celebrate the occasion, a special “HD remaster” has been released as free DLC. Dusk, with its furiously paced action […]
Hello! It’s time to vote for your favourite games of 2023. Here’s the form for your choices, and if you leave your Eurogamer username we can properly attribute your comments when we run the piece, otherwise we’ll have to pretend Bertie wrote everything. (Joke.) It’s hard to think of another year in games […]
Fntastic, the developer behind controversial Steam Early Access launch The Day Before, has shut down with immediate effect. A statement posted to X, formerly Twitter, announced the company’s closure this evening – just days after The Day Before launched to overwhelmingly negative response last week. In its statement, Fntastic said […]
There’s a new update for footie fans checking into eFootball 2024 this week. Season 3 of the free-to-play football game is “Unite on the Pitch”, and introduces a range of new features, including casual co-op PvP events which can be played solo or by a maximum of 3v3 players. There’s also the new My […]
Treyarch’s upcoming Call of Duty game, set to release in 2024, will reportedly bring the return of Warzone’s original map, Verdansk. While it admits that details remain a little hazy, Insider Gaming reckons “the current plan is to follow the traditional Warzone ‘main map’ release schedule and have Verdansk return as a part of Black […]
Metal: Hellsinger’s Purgatory DLC and free Horde Mode Update are available right now on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S. “Featuring a new weapon, cosmetics, and new songs from Trivium, Ad Infinitum, and Fit For An Autopsy, there’s plenty for Metal: Hellsinger fans to get stuck into in Purgatory,” the team explains. “On top […]
Zombie MMO The Day Before has seemingly lost three-quarters of its player base since it release to overwhelmingly bad reviews just two days ago. As spotted by PCGN, whilst the game hit a concurrent peak of 38,104 players on release day, 7th December, right now, less than ten thousand players are currently in-game. According to […]
As is now something of an end-of-year tradition, Hello Games has announced it’s re-running all this year’s No Man’s Sky limited-time Expeditions (plus a bonus one from 2021) throughout the festive period for those that missed them – and their associated rewards – first time around. Expeditions, if you’re unfamiliar, are essentially curated […]
Ready for another new Fortnite game mode? After yesterday’s big launch of Lego Fortnite, today brings Rocket Racing – and, again, you can play it for free right now. Developed by Rocket League studio Psyonix, Rocket Racing is an arcade racer with shades of Mario Kart and Burnout, blended with some of Rocket […]
The Lamplighters League might have officially flopped according to publisher Paradox Interactive, but that hasn’t stopped developer Harebrained Schemes from making improvements to its pulp strategy adventure since its arrival – and its latest free update is perhaps its biggest yet, adding a new playable character and new events system. The Lamplighters League, […]
This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss the first ever trailer for GTA 6 which was finally released following a tease from Rockstar, after the trailer leaked online ahead of schedule. That means we’ve got a look at the game’s two protagonists, its modern day Vice City setting, and the general vibe of […]
As Chris Tapsell pointed out a while back, every GTA game is love wrapped in satire. The series seems edgy because the satire is very broad, and often fairly misdirected. But the series sells – and the individual games stick around for so long – because after thirty hours of playing, you’re responding purely […]
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