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X-COM’s original creator keen on a return to the series, if Firaxis was ever to ask him

Julian Gollop, creator of the original X-COM game – known as UFO: Enemy Unknown here in the UK, and

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Tony Hawks Pro Skater announcement teased in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6’s latest map

There’ve been strong hints a new Tony Hawk project is in the works for some time now, but it

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is an old-school technical success on PC

Unlike the majority of its peers, Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 launched as a complete, polished game – one that’s old-school

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Sony responds to Marathon reboot director’s $200m wrongful dismissal lawsuit, alleges ‘disturbing communications’ with female employees

Sony has responded to former Destiny 2 and Marathon reboot director Christopher Barrett’s $200m USD wrongful dismissal lawsuit, detailing

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The next surreal dice-rolling RPG from Cosmo D is a terrific follow-up to Betrayal at Club Low

Rejoice, dear readers, for today heralds the arrival of a new Cosmo D game. Technically, it’s episode 1 of a

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Marvel Rivals team hit by layoffs despite major launch success

Free-to-play hero shooter Marvel Rivals has been a huge success for publisher NetEase, smashing through the 20m player barrier

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Astro Bot gets a PS5 Pro update bringing PSSR, new levels and some subtle tweaks

Astro Bot has received a patch for PS5 Pro, version 1.012, promising “an improved version” of the game on the

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Street Fighter vs Mortal Kombat will finally be possible, in Fortnite

Characters from Mortal Kombat will finally be able to square up against Street Fighter legends such as Ryu, Chun-Li

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Sea of Thieves Season 15, Wild Things, is almost here – here’s what you can expect

Get ready to go on the hunt – Sea of Thieves Season 15, Wild Things, is almost here. Setting out

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10:10 Games cuts 20 jobs after “complete commercial and critical failure” of debut game, Funko Fusion

10:10 Games has initiated redundancies following the “complete commercial and critical failure” of Funko Fusion. According to a report by

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Yes, Rare’s Everwild is still in development, and Xbox is committed to giving the team the “time” it needs

Almost six years on from its debut, Xbox CEO of Gaming Phil Spencer has confirmed that Rare’s mysterious fantasy deer

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Sony’s live-service shooter Fairgame$ has been delayed to next year, insider suggests

Fairgame$ – the heist shooter from Jade Raymond’s new studio, Haven – has allegedly been delayed. Whilst we don’t know

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Infinity Nikki studio Papergames generates almost $1 billion in 2024

Infinity Nikki developer Papergames earned almost $1 billion in 2024. As spotted by director of research and insights at Niko

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Epic Games Store has more PC players than ever – 295 million, in fact

295 million PC players have used Epic Games Store in the last year, up 25 million from 2023, and 898

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is calling on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

With Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 now awash with creepy dolls and luridly magenta jumpsuits courtesy of its

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Sunless Sea studio’s Fallen London tabletop RPG smashes crowdfunding goal, with £500K raised in two days

Just days into its Kickstarter campaign, Sunless Sea developer Failbetter’s Fallen London tabletop RPG adaptation has smashed its crowdfunding

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Pokémon Go developer donates $1m to LA wildfire relief, asks players to bring soup

Pokémon fans attending this month’s big meetup in Los Angeles are being encouraged to bring a can of soup

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PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium games for February revealed

Sony has revealed the latest additions coming to its PlayStation Plus Premium and Extra catalogue this month, with February

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Clear your name or pin the blame in 80 Days studio Inkle’s 1920s boarding school mystery Expelled

Inkle – the studio behind Eurogamer favourites including Heaven’s Vault, A Highland Story, and 80 Days – has unveiled

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Tencent Call of Duty challenger Delta Force’s delayed single-player campaign out next week

Following its multiplayer launch at the end of last year, free-to-play tactical FPS Delta Force will get its delayed

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Royal Shakespeare Company collaborating on first-ever video game adaptation with former GTA developer

The Royal Shakespeare Company is working on its first-ever video game, an adaptation of Macbeth – but it doesn’t play

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DF Direct: our weekly show celebrates 200 episodes

DF Direct, our weekly news and Q+A show, recently celebrated its bicentennial – in the sense of reaching 200 episodes,

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Ex-Sega studio Relic outlines future plans following last year’s split

Relic Entertainment, the studio behind the likes of Company of Heroes and Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War, has outlined

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Disney x Fortnite collab moves into “stable” branch exactly a year after Disney invested $1.5bn in Epic Games

Exactly a year after the Walt Disney Company announced it was acquiring a $1.5bn USD stake in Epic Games and

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Monster Hunter Wilds beta set to get additional day following global PSN outage

Following the lengthy PSN outage this weekend, Capcom has assured PS5 players that it will hold an additional Monster Hunters

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Netflix celebrates its biggest quarter yet by putting UK prices up again

Remember when we reported that Netflix was hiking prices again, but most of Europe had escaped? Well, not anymore. As

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Demand for Warframe’s 10th fan convention, TennoCon 2025, was so high it sold out in less than 35 minutes

Tickets for Warframe’s annual convention, TennoCon 2025, sold out in less than an hour. Tickets went on sale at 7pm

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Insomniac Games pitched a “wonderful concept” for Resistance 4, but Sony said no

It’s been over 14 years since developer Insomniac Games’ fondly remembered alternate history shooter series drew to a close

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New Batman game from Rocksteady in development, report suggests

Rocksteady has a new Batman game in development. Right at the end of a lengthy report by Bloomberg detailing the

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Football Manager 25 cancelled, as Sega shifts focus to FM26

Sega and Sports Interactive have scrapped Football Manager 25, and will now refocus on getting ready for the series’

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The Sims 4’s next expansion lets you run your own pet cafe, laundrette, or tattoo parlour

Entrepreneurially minded The Sims 4 players are about to get a whole new set of options, courtesy of the

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Call of Duty veteran reportedly fired by 2K following muted response to “roguelike hero shooter” Project Ethos

Call of Duty veteran Michael Condrey has reportedly been fired as the head of 2K Games studio 31st Union

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With GTA 6 looming, EA says it’s willing to delay its “biggest ever Battlefield” to make its launch ‘all it needs to be’

EA CEO Andrew Wilson had confirmed the publisher would be willing to delay its next Battlefield – currently expected

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EA says next Battlefield “expected” to release before April 2026

We might not have seen a whole lot of EA’s next Battlefield game beyond the few seconds of pre-alpha

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Demolition derby racer Wreckfest 2 starts PC early access in March

We were big fans of developer Bugbear Entertainment’s demolition derby racer Wreckfest when it launched back in 2018, so

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Treyarch co-founder pleads guilty to flying drone that crashed into firefighting plane during LA wildfires

Treyarch co-founder Peter Akemann – who more recently served as president of Skydance Interactive – has pleaded guilty to

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Minecraft now has new cow variants, shrubbery fireflies, and “bush” for public testing

If you could barely contain yourself when Minecraft added a bunch of new pig variants last month, you might

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Pokémon TCG Pocket admits restrictive trading system stops players “enjoying the feature as intended”

Within days of launching a controversial new update that added the ability to trade cards, Pokémon TCG Pocket has acknowledged

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Roll7’s critically acclaimed skating games OlliOlliWorld and Rollerdrome mysteriously yanked from Steam

Roll7’s award-winning Rollerdrome and OlliOlli World have been mysteriously delisted on Steam. Whilst there’s been no formal word on why

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MultiVersus players who bought $100 Founder’s Pack feel “scammed” by game’s closure

MultiVersus players who bought the premium Founder’s Pack have hit out at Warner Bros. Games for cancelling its free-to-play live-service

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BioWare staff “loaned” to other EA studios may not be returning, new report suggests

A new report now suggests that some BioWare staff “loaned” to other EA studios will not be returning. Earlier this

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Fallout: New Vegas and Horizon: Zero Dawn lead writer John Gonzalez returns to Obsidian

John Gonzalez, lead writer on Fallout: New Vegas and Horizon: Zero Dawn, has announced his return to Obsidian Entertainment

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 movie underway before the game’s even out

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 isn’t even out, but a movie adaptation is already in the works. Developer Sandfall Interactive is

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DrDisrespect studio Midnight Society announces closure four months after “significant” layoffs

Midnight Society, the studio co-founded by controversial streamer Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm, is shutting its doors, four months after

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Date Everything! pushed to later date

Amibitious romance sim Date Everything! will no longer launch on the romantic release date of 14th February, its developer

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Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 recommended specs and PC features detailed

With just a day to go until Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 swings onto PC, Sony has shared details of its

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PlayStation Plus February games revealed

With February fast approaching, Sony has announced the next batch of monthly titles coming to its PlayStation Plus subscription

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Baldur’s Gate 3’s Patch 8 adds long-awaited split-screen co-op for Xbox Series S

Following a bit of a false start yesterday, Baldur’s Gate 3’s Patch 8 stress test is now officially underway

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The Stone of Madness review – 18th century stealth ’em up with a devilish psychological twist

Isometric real-time stealth elevated by a unique approach to time, mental health, and a resplendent monastic setting. Stop me if

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Dauntless and Fae Farm studio Phoenix Labs lays off “majority” of employees

Dauntless and Fae Farm developer Phoenix Labs has announced another round of layoffs – its fourth since May 2023

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Gears of War: E-Day dev The Coalition drafts in People Can Fly as partner studio

People Can Fly is working with The Coalition on the next Gears of War game, Gears of War: E-Day. In

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Fanta partners with Xbox to give away some very, very bright hardware

Coca-Cola has partnered with Xbox to give away a selection of super bright controllers “representing the most popular flavours in

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This classic 35-year-old point and click horror is back from the dead, remade by the same solo dev that created it

35 years after point and click horror game Last Half of Darkness first released it’s coming back, remade from the

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Avowed shows off its character creator and the backgrounds that “will shape how the world responds to you”

Avowed will not only let you customise your character’s appearance but also the background “that will shape how the world

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Nvidia DLSS 4 tested: ray reconstruction upgrades deliver radical enhancements

With the arrival of the new RTX 50-series line of graphics cards, Nvidia has released DLSS 4. While multi frame

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Stardew Valley creator says he doesn’t want to ‘definitively close the book’ on its development, even 12 years on

There was a brief moment back in 2021 when it seemed like Stardew Valley creator Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone might

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Xbox Developer Direct – four promising games also coming to PlayStation

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss the January 2025 Xbox Developer Direct, and its various games coming

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Cyberpunk 2077’s latest patch includes DLSS 4 support ahead of next week’s RTX 50 Series arrival

Well here we are again, with yet another Cyberpunk 2077 patch, despite CD Projekt having officially wrapped up development

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What changed – and what didn’t – during Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ four-month delay

Ubisoft has detailed the various steps it took to improve Assassin’s Creed Shadows during the game’s high-profile four-month delay

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Celeste studio cancels “2D explor-action game” Earthblade nearly four years after its announcement

Extremely OK Games – the studio behind beloved 2018 platformer Celeste – has announced the cancellation of its “2D

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Marvel’s Spider-Man studio boss Ted Price announces retirement from games industry

Ted Price, the founder and CEO of Ratchet & Clank and Marvel’s Spider-Man developer Insomniac Games, has announced his

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Netflix is hiking prices again, but most of Europe has escaped for now

Netflix has announced another wave of price hikes across its various membership tiers – including a Premium subscription bump to

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Unknown 9 franchise cancelled as developer admits game “didn’t come near” expectations, series “didn’t warrant any further exploration”

The studio behind bold Assassin’s Creed-meets-Tomb Raider transmedia attempt Unknown 9 has signalled an end to the franchise, following

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Capcom updates on Monster Hunter Wilds performance improvements, says it’s aiming to lower PC GPU requirements

Excitement continues to mount ahead of Monster Hunter Wilds’ release next month, but if there’s one big question mark

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Sonic the Hedgehog 3 film concept art reveals cut content and secret characters

Concept art for the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 film has been released, revealing cut content and a look at secret

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Unannounced MySims games mysteriously pop up and disappear from EA app

A Sims fan reckons they’ve stumbled upon evidence of unannounced MySims games. According to redditor OyeDiego, pages for the MySims

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Marvel Snap gets surprise US suspension as stateside TikTok ban takes effect

Marvel Snap has been banned in the US. Whilst 170m American TikTokers were anticipating the app’s suspension after the US

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Star Wars Jedi: Survivor gets a PSSR upgrade on PS5 Pro – and image quality is much improved

After some impressive upgrades to PS5 Pro games with the implementation of PSSR machine learning-based upscaling, post-launch issues started to

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Poppy Playtime’s going after Google

Poppy Playtime developer Mob Entertainment is suing Google for failing to remove “scam” apps from the Google Play store. In

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Ubisoft says Assassin’s Creed Shadows will have less map icon ‘hand-holding’, more player-driven exploration

Assassin’s Creed Shadows is – assuming it doesn’t get delayed for a third time – almost upon us, and in

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Switch 2’s reveal: what have we learned about its next-gen potential?

DF Direct Weekly arrives early – but with good cause. With Nintendo finally revealing the Switch 2, the Digital Foundry

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Games Done Quick unveils full charity speedrunning schedule for this year’s Frost Fatales event

With this year’s Awesome Games Done Quick (and its impressive Elden Ring sax attacks) officially over, preparations are well

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Full Until Dawn film trailer shows plenty of gruesome deaths

Sony Pictures has released the first full trailer for its Until Dawn horror film. Earlier this week a teaser was

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Rockstar shuts down ambitious mod that put GTA 4’s Liberty City in GTA 5

Just weeks after publicly releasing the Liberty City Preservation Project – an ambitious mod adding a playable version of

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GOG joins Europe’s largest organisation dedicated to game preservation

GOG has joined the European Federation of Game Archives, Museums and Preservation Projects (EFGAMP) as it continues to push for

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Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror remaster teased following last year’s “reforged” original

Following the launch of last year’s well-received Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars remaster, developer Revolution Software has teased

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Planet Coaster 2 roadmap outlined, bringing more rides and continued performance improvements

Frontier has detailed its update roadmap for Planet Coaster 2, with new features on the way from February until May.

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Witcher 3 director’s vampiric dark fantasy action-RPG The Blood of the Dawnwalker gets first trailer

It’s been almost exactly a year since the unveiling of Dawnwalker – the new dark fantasy action-RPG from Rebel

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Nintendo Switch 2 reveal imminent, reports suggest

Nintendo is expected to finally unveil Switch 2 in just a matter of days. Industry whispers Eurogamer

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Skate is finally ready for playtesting – here’s how to get involved

Four and a half years after it was announced, EA’s free-to-play skate sim, Skate, is finally ready for playtesting on

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Marvel Rivals already has a higher Steam concurrent player count than GTA 5

We already knew that Marvel Rivals has proven incredibly popular since its launch last month – 10 million players joined

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Lords of the Fallen publisher CI Games publicly shuns “DEI”, says it won’t “embed social or political agendas”

Lords of the Fallen publisher CI Games confirmed it would not “embed social or political agendas” in its games due

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Infinity Nikki studio details upcoming optimisations and improvements for gacha hit

Infinity Nikki developer Papergames has ushered in the new year with word on a range of improvements and optimisations it’s

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The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered is the latest PlayStation game to require a PSN account on PC

It’s probably not a huge surprise to hear at this point, but Sony has confirmed The Last of Us

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Nvidia CEO would be “delighted” to meet president-elect Trump but hasn’t been invited

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said he would be “delighted” to visit president-elect Donald Trump and “do everything we can” to

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Activision files lengthy defence in Call of Duty lawsuit that accused it of “grooming” Uvalde school shooter

Activision Blizzard has submitted a lengthy defence in response to lawsuits filed last year in which the families of those

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Arcane’s story continues in this five-minute League of Legends animated cinematic

Arcane fans have a five-minute animated treat to enjoy today, in the shape of a new story cinematic released

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Halo Infinite head of design’s NetEase studio “halting work” on first game as it searches for new publisher

Jar of Sparks, the Seattle-based “AAA” studio established by Halo Infinite head of design Jerry Hook back in 2022,

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Hands-on with DLSS 4 on Nvidia’s new GeForce RTX 5080

Last night, Nvidia finally unveiled the RTX 50-generation graphics cards – but over the holiday period, I had the opportunity

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Acer unveils dubiously portable Nitro Blaze 11 handheld gaming PC with 10.95-inch screen

Steam Deck too dinky for you? Always wished you could purchase a handheld gaming PC capable of obscuring your

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DF Weekly: What does the Switch 2 motherboard leak say about system performance?

After a one week hiatus, Digital Foundry Direct Weekly returns! The truth is, we were hoping to rest the show

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New Switch 2 leak appears to show off improved Joy-Con design

Another day, another Nintendo Switch 2 leak – this time pertaining to images that purport to be of a Joy-Con

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Games will continue to “default” to violence if we keep buying them, says Fallout co-creator

As Amazon’s phenomenal TV adaptation of Fallout begins filming its second series, Fallout co-creator Tim Cain has opened up on

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Mass Effect fans think this official image hints that Paragon/Renegade system is “absolutely returning”

Mass Effect fans think they’ve spotted a clue that the series’ signature morality system may be making a comeback in

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Notch has “basically announced” Minecraft 2

Markus “Notch” Persson has “basically announced” Minecraft 2. In an X exchange over the New Year, Persson invited his millions

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Pokémon Go’s monthly Community Day ticket doubles in price

Pokémon Go begins 2025 with a January Community Day for grass cat creature Sprigatito, and a price hike for the

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New Year’s gaming resolutions we’re definitely going to stick to

Like the frost on the cars and ground this morning – and the inside of my single-glazed windows in my

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Bizarre GTA 6 leak appears to come from inside Rockstar’s own office

Images that look to have been taken inside Rockstar’s San Diego office have been posted online, showing a computer

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A new year treat: Snowfall in Los Santos

Somewhere along the line my family got into the habit of a New Year’s Day wander. Generally we’d set off

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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is Eurogamer’s Game of 2024

It’s rare that a game released in the last gasp of December manages to not just make a lasting impression

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The 50 best games of 2024, ranked

What a year, huh? 2024 has been brutal for video games, a medium which has taken a bludgeoning from seemingly

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Eurogamer readers’ top 50 games of 2024

2024 is done – and you have made your choices. The branching narrative of this year has been decided, your

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6’s PS5 Pro upgrades are more substantial than you may think

Releasing just prior to the PlayStation 5 Pro hardware launch, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 features a set of

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Newscast: Eurogamer News Quiz of the Year 2024

Ho-ho-hello! And welcome to our annual Newscast quiz for the festive season: Eurogamer’s big News Quiz of the Year 2024.

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Indiana Jones, Hellblade 2 and Star Wars Outlaws compete for DF’s ‘best graphics of the year’ award

Every year, the Digital Foundry team share their notes about the most technologically impressive games of the year – and

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Games of 2024: Astro Bot made the best play for nostalgia this year, and I don’t care if you think it’s a big advert

As we’re talking about games from 2024 that did something really well, for me, one game stood high above the

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Games of 2024: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle had this year’s most approachable, high-stakes stealth

When you think back to every Indiana Jones movie, at one point or another Indy has had to be stealthy.

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Games of 2024: Grunn was the best vehicle for reliving childhood fears

Growing up I was afraid there was something living in our garage. I can’t tell where this fear came from.

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Black Myth: Wukong gets a PS5 Pro patch – and the base console code is improved too

Black Myth Wukong was a phenomenon. The UE5-powered action epic sold millions of copies when it launched earlier this year,

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What we’ve been unwrapping – Christmas Day edition

25th December Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games

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Eurogamer’s headed off for Christmas

Phew. You know how people say ‘I can’t believe it’s been a year since…’ Well, this year it really

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MultiVersus pulls tweet after Charlie the Unicorn creator says it used his work “without permission”

Charlie the Unicorn creator Jason Steele has hit out at Warner Bros. for allegedly using audio from his viral internet

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What’s next for the Sonic films after Sonic the Hedgehog 3’s post-credits scene?

This article heavily spoils the plot of Sonic 3 and its post-credits scene, read at your peril! With each Sonic

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The year’s Steam Replay reveals 85% of Steam users in 2024 spent time playing games released in 2023 or earlier

Just 15 percent of Steam players spent time with new releases – defined as games released in 2024 – this

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Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl dev is working on a “next-gen patch” for Stalker: Legends of the Zone Trilogy

As Stalker 2 developer GSC Game World marks the close of 2024 with patch 1.1, the studio confirmed it is

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Once Human’s mobile pre-registrations top 26m as April release window now confirmed

NetEase’s PvPvE sandbox action horror, Once Human, started testing its mobile port back in September, and now we finally have

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What we’ve been playing – Open-world dress up, plant puzzles, and festive levels

21st December Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games

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The winter mechanical keyboard shootout: four tiny options put to the test

Well, we’re into the month of December, and temperatures are beginning to get close to freezing here in old England-land.

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Frostpunk dev 11 Bit cancels project as it was conceived when “story-rich games held stronger appeal”

Frostpunk developer 11 Bit Studios has laid off an unknown number of staff following the cancellation of its console game

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Audeze MM-500 review: planar magnetic comes at a premium

Audeze is an American brand best known for making everything from some serious audiophile grade headphones to some of the

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Stalker 2 receives first major patch, including A-Life fixes

GSC Game World has released the first major patch for Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl, which addresses over 1800 issues

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Sihoo Doro S300 review: A space-age office chair

The Sihoo Doro S300 has to be one of the most interesting, if futuristic, looking chairs I’ve seen in a

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Sonic the Hedgehog 3 film review – a fitting finale for the Year of Shadow

Sega and Paramount more closely align game and film worlds for an authentic Sonic romp with added Keanu cool. Back

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Cambridge Audio Melomania P100 review: A genuine disruptor

I don’t think there’s much of a finer example of a ‘heritage brand’ than Cambridge Audio. Founded in 1968, they’ve

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The Horizon games on PS5 Pro feature some of the best upscaling technology we’ve seen

Horizon Forbidden West has received a PS5 Pro patch and the game represents one of the best-looking and most interesting

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Beneath A Steel Sky at 30: how Terry Gilliam’s Brazil and a week in Wales sowed the seeds of this classic adventure game

Founded in 1989, Yorkshire-based Revolution Software hit the ground running with Lure of the Temptress, an advanced 3D point-and-click adventure

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Unpacking developer calls out Nintendo after reporting “cheap fakes” on its eShop

The creative director of indie hit Unpacking, Wren Brier, has called out Nintendo due to the prominence of copycat games

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Yes, The Witcher 4’s Ciri has been recast

Yes, the rumours are true – CD Projekt Red has indeed recast The Witcher 4’s Ciri. Whilst originally it only

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Finally, an awards show gives Silent Hill 2 Remake and other horror games the love they deserve

Silent Hill 2 Remake may have been robbed of the awards it was nominated for at The Game Awards, but

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Greedfall 2’s improvements will come “gradually” with Update 0.2 “only the first step”

Greedfall 2 developer Spiders is taking the end of the year as an opportunity to “reflect on our journey so

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What we’ve been playing – advent calendars, tricksy trials, and ages of dragons

13th December Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games

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Five Resident Evil games tested on PS5 Pro – and the upgrades are substantial

Between all of the PS5 Pro upgrades we’ve tested to date, the Resident Evil series enjoys some of the greatest

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Elder Scrolls Online developer votes to unionise

Workers at ZeniMax Online Studios have voted to unionise. The ZOS United-CWA union, as part of the Communications Workers of

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Snowy survival game The Long Dark is heading to the city in sequel Blackfrost

Nearly a year after teasing an ‘unannounced survival game’ that looked suspiciously like The Long Dark 2, developer Hinterland’s

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Cattle Country could be my new cosy comfort

Imagine this – rain is lashing against the window, the outside world is murky, grey and cold – you’ve just

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Xbox Insiders can now use cloud streaming on their consoles to play “select” owned games

Microsoft is expanding its suite of cloud gaming features by introducing the ability for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers

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Italian Soulslike Enotria: The Last Song finally secures itself an Xbox release date

The team behind Italian Soulslike Enotria: The Last Song has finally found some resolution to the game’s Xbox absence. As

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Black Myth: Wukong’s big new patch adds shrine challenges, a ‘chart to chart the journeyer’s journey’

We already knew Black Myth: Wukong was set to receive a couple of “surprises” before the end of the

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Is this Switch 2? Accessory maker pulls trailer showing blurry mockup of Nintendo’s next console design

A maker of gaming hardware accessories has removed a trailer that showed the blurry outline of what was clearly

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Borderlands 4, Mafia: The Old Country lead the charge as more Game Awards showings confirmed

With just days to go until The Game Awards 2024, developers are taking the opportunity to whip fans into

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Bandai Namco’s cancelled MMORPG Blue Protocol is coming back as Star Resonance

Bandai Namco’s shuttered MMORPG Blue Protocol project has been extended a new lifeline courtesy of Tencent-funded developer Bokura. At the

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Call of Duty: Block Ops 6 players accuse Activision of using “AI slop”

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 players have hit out at “AI slop” they believe has been used within the

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PlayStation 30th anniversary: what if Digital Foundry existed in 1990s?

Digital Foundry first manifested on the pages of Eurogamer way back in 2007, looking at the differences between Xbox 360

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Ubisoft revises loyalty program to allow discounts on pre-orders and new games, too

Ubisoft has revised its loyalty program, allowing players to “exchange units on a wider selection of products”. In an email

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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle PC: impressive performance – but care is needed with 8GB graphics cards

On first boot, the PC version of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle presents as a simply great PC release.

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90s platformer remaster Croc: Legend of the Gobbos delayed into next year

If you’d been hoping to round out your 2024 with a solid blast of 90s nostalgia, there’s some bad

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Grand Theft Hamlet is a luminous documentary about staging Shakespeare inside GTA Online that brings fresh nuance to the game and bard alike

Spoiler warning: this piece explores some powerful moments in Grand Theft Hamlet that you might want to discover for yourself.

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Former Dragon Age boss Mike Laidlaw’s action-RPG Eternal Strands gets early 2025 release date

Eternal Strands, the fantasy action-RPG from former Dragon Age creative director Mike Laidlaw’s Yellow Brick Games studio, has a

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Hitman’s next Elusive Target is Jean-Claude ‘The Splitter’ Van Damme

Players will soon be able to have Agent 47 take a few pot shots (other methods are available) at none

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Citizen Sleeper, Two Point Campus, Frostpunk and more up for grabs in Jingle Jam’s stellar 2024 charity bundle

With the season of giving now officially upon us, Jingle Jam has unveiled its latest PC charity bundle –

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How Blockbuster and a mail order catalogue helped PlayStation defeat the SEGA Saturn

The weather was typically unsettled in May 1994. Midway through my year-six school trip to the Isle of Wight we’d

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Ubisoft shutting studios, laying off 277 employees as it pulls plug on live-service shooter XDefiant

A month and a half after denying reports it was poised to pull the plug on its free-to-play live-service

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Intel announces Arc B580 and B570 “Battlemage” graphics cards with XeSS 2 frame generation

Intel has announced its first “Battlemage” discrete graphics cards, the Arc B580 and B570. As well as being the fastest

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Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled is heading to Game Pass this week

Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled – the spruce-up of the racer once referred to as “objectively loads better” than Mario Kart

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Triangle Strategy pulled from Nintendo eShop

Switch strategy RPG Triangle Strategy has been removed from the Nintendo eShop for unknown reasons. Although the 2022 game is

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UK counter-terrorism unit demands Steam withdraw controversial shooter from sale

Valve has removed a game from its British Steam storefront following a request from the UK’s counter-terrorism unit. The FPS/TPS

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Here’s a minute-long tease of the Lego James Bond game we never had

A teaser for an unreleased Lego James Bond game has leaked online. Whilst there’s very little information accompanying the leak

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Fortnite Remix Finale event smashes 14m all-time concert record

Fortnite has finally done it. Tonight’s Remix Finale event has at last beaten the game’s long-standing concurrent player record for

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What we’ve been playing – sequel prep, nostalgic horror, and birds

30th November Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games

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Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl’s first patch is here, featuring over 650 fixes

A little over week after Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl’s launch, developer GSC Game World is back with the

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Technical ambition, optimism, and timeframes: what we learned about The Witcher 4 from speaking to CD Projekt Red

Earlier this week, CD Projekt joint CEO Michał Nowakowski announced the next game in The Witcher franchise – otherwise known

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No Man’s Sky’s limited-time Expeditions are returning over the next two months

With the end of the year looming, Hello Games’ exploratory space sim No Man’s Sky is – in an

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Palworld announces major update, Terraria crossover despite ongoing legal issues

Open world pocket monster survival game Palworld will gain a major new update in December, that adds its largest

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Eight years after its rocky launch, No Man’s Sky finally hits “Very Positive” reviews threshold on Steam

No Man’s Sky didn’t get off to the smoothest of starts, but eight years after its controversial launch, Hello Games’

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Sniper Elite battle royale reportedly canned as Concord flop rattles industry nerves over live-service games

A Sniper Elite battle royale spin-off has reportedly been cancelled, after Chinese gaming giant Tencent pulled funding. That’s

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PS2 officially surpasses 160m sales, retaining its best-selling console crown

Nintendo’s Switch might be nipping at its heels, but PlayStation 2 continues to hold the record as the best-selling

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Pokémon Go’s next season has a Black and White theme, leading into next year’s Go Tour

Pokémon Go’s next season is named Dual Destiny, and will kick off next week on Tuesday 3rd December.

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Mass Effect director Casey Hudson’s “AAA” sci-fi game cancelled, studio closing

Humanoid Origin, the studio founded by former Mass Effect director Casey Hudson in 2021, is ending development of its

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Darkest Dungeon 2’s free Kingdoms mode gets release date alongside next paid DLC

Darkest Dungeon 2 will receive a major free update in January, alongside its next paid DLC. Both the new Kingdoms

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The Invincible developer Starward Industries announces new “anti-combat” RPG Dante’s Ring

The Invincible developer Starward Industries has announced its next project: action-adventure anti-combat RPG, Dante’s Ring. With survival and arcade elements,

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Stalker 2’s first patch is coming next week – here’s what it will include

Developer GSC Game World said Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl’s first patch will respond directly to feedback from players. In

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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 deploys new patch, offers advice for players experiencing “stability issues”

Developer Asobo has advised Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 players to “move your community packages” if they experience persistent stability issues

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What we’ve been playing – music videos, gaudy zombies and camo grinds

23rd November Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games

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Planet Coaster 2 review – buckled potential

Planet Coaster 2’s flexible creation tools are as compulsive as ever, but the fun butts up against an exhausting UI,

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard patch adds a hefty number of improvements and bug fixes

BioWare has released a rather hefty patch for Dragon Age: The Veilguard, which among a myriad of bug fixes, also

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Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 banning mods in public online sessions due to “non-negligible” server instability

Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 developer Saber Interactive has announced it’s banning mods from public online sessions, blaming them

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BioWare once planned to let you import your Grey Warden hero from Origins into Dragon Age: Inquisition

There’s been a question mark over this one for years, but it seems BioWare did once plan to let you

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Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers can now stream “select” games from their own library via Cloud Gaming

Five years after announcing the feature was on the way, Microsoft has finally launched the ability for Xbox Game

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 owners get Warzone XP boost

Activision has confirmed that players who own Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 get a 30 percent XP boost in

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PlayStation Portal update adds cloud gaming support in beta, no PS5 required

It’s update time for the PlayStation Portal, and Sony’s latest release offers something markedly more exciting than usual: cloud

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Pokémon TCG Pocket has already surpassed $120m since release

Pokémon TCG Pocket has now surpassed $120m in total earnings since its release three weeks ago. The mobile game reached

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Astro Bot, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth lead this year’s The Game Awards nominations

The panel has voted and this year’s Game Awards nominations have been announced – with Astro Bot, Final Fantasy