Robert Purchese
Senior Staff Writer
Bertie is senior staff writer and Eurogamer's Poland-and-dragons correspondent. He's part of the furniture here, a friendly chair, and reports on all kinds of things, the stranger the better.
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FeatureFive of the Best: Blocks
Pick a side.
FeatureThe amazing stories of a man you've never heard of
Brando, Bowie, and everything in between.
Informer.
FeatureFive of the Best: Caves
Descent bunch.
FeatureWe talk to Amazon about its New World MMO and the problematic associations
"The colonialism stuff: there's no way to tell that story in a good way."
D&D hack-and-slash series Dark Alliance is making a comeback
Drizzt in time for new consoles.
FeatureFive of the Best: Hats
Fascinators.
FeatureGames of the Decade: The refreshingly unfiltered Witcher 3
"You're grey like my grandma!"
FeatureFive of the Best: Horizons
Zero yawn.
FeatureFive of the Best: Zip wires
It's all downhill from here.
FeatureVisiting post-acquisition Obsidian to see how much has changed
"After your 47th Mai Tai..."
FeatureBlizzard explains the World of Warcraft level squash
And guess what? Paladins are getting auras back.
FeatureEverything we learned about Overwatch 2 at this year's BlizzCon
Story missions, character talents, Overwatch 1 compatibility, hands-on and more.
FeatureEverything we learned about Diablo 4 at this year's Blizzcon
Always online, open world and grimdark art - hands-on and more.
Why it took this long to add ethnically diverse player characters to World of Warcraft
"We wanted to do it right."
Blizzard apology does not silence protestors at BlizzCon 2019
"It seems like they've forgotten their values."
EGXSnow is a Nordic narrative thriller with style and potential
Chances of completion are flakier.
FeatureFive of the Best: Bags
Totes amaze.
FeatureSomeone should make a game about: Puppets
And Kermit to it.
FeatureBaldur's Gate and Planescape Torment on console: let a legend lie
Infinity and beyond.
Crossroads Inn, a fantasy pub sim, comes out in a couple of weeks
Be a shame if you missed stout.
FeatureFive of the Best: Mountains
Everest and read this.
FeatureKind Words is a beautiful game about helping real people by writing letters
I'm PnP, I'm dynamite.
FeatureFive of the Best: Crowds
Throng song.
FeatureThe Double-A Team: how to not take yourself too seriously with Alpha Protocol
Something I have Thorton.
The free Magic: The Gathering game has just launched and it's quite good
Does the card work for you.
Slight delay in console release of Baldur's Gate pack, Planescape: Torment and Icewind Dale
No need to go Bhaalistic.
I want to play your game but I can't: Overland and its journey with dyslexia
"The way our brains process letters shouldn't be what we are failing at."
FeatureFive of the Best: Hubs
Addicted to base.
Overland review - a road trip with a few too many bumps
Fuel be up for the challenge.
FeatureFive of the Best: Maps
Never eat shredded wheat.
Steam should now recommend a better spread of games to you
Like Shark Dating Simulator XL.
This year's Game Awards dated, and it's a wee bit later than usual
I'm Keighley excited.
There's a new System Shock 3 gameplay trailer and it's starting to look quite good
Shodan have doubted it.
FeatureFive of the Best: Health pick-ups
HP source.
FeatureFive of the Best: Shops
Retail row.
FeatureFive of the Best: Dinosaurs
Jurassic Five.
FeatureFive of the Best: Hands
Palmed awe.
FeatureI like bad luck and I cannot lie
Misfortune and glory, kid.
FeatureFive of the Best: Potions
A new series celebrating the little things that make games great.
Discord now lets you stream gameplay to people
So you can share river friend.
FeatureThe upcoming RPG Warsaw taught me an important piece of Polish history
How much do you know about the Warsaw Uprising?
FeatureThe big WoW Classic interview
"What if we spawned Ragnaros in Stormwind and Orgrimmar?"
FeatureGoodbye Rutger Hauer, it's such a shame you were only in two games
You could have helped us see things we wouldn't believe.
Media Molecule wants to pay small teams to make games for Dreams
Big friendly gamedev.
Epic Store's Tetris Effect and SteamVR [UPDATED]
The inescapable reality.
Tim Willits will leave id Software this month after 24 years there
"After QuakeCon I will announce my future plans..."
FeatureI've tried Lust, now I'm doing War: exploring Godhood
Seizing the deity.
FeatureWhy merely Attack when you can Riddle with Holes?
Flavour text, I love you.
FeatureTake a knight for a hop in Hoppenhelm
Prance a lot.
It sounds like People Can Fly would love to do Bulletstorm 2
"We want this IP to have its second life."
Henry Cavill flaunts his Witcher's bottom, and other photos from Netflix's new show
Yennefer unsee it now.
FeatureFive Polish indie games (and one from the Czech Republic) to keep an eye on
Hungry babies! Counter-terrorism! Competitive book fights! Genetics altering!
It sounds like Tequila Works' new Stadia game Gylt will come to other platforms too
"Rest assured, everyone will be able to play the game."
Why Minecraft: Story Mode episodes are a ridiculous $100 each on Xbox 360
"Please do not buy the content."
The Star Control feud is over and bees have a lot to do with it
Yep, you read that right.
Netflix is making a Pokemon Go-style Stranger Things game
Will wait for the Demogorgon.
Konami unveils a mini TurboGrafx-16 console
Ys a bit ugly.
Clarification amid backlash: Shenmue 3 will come to Steam
But it could be a year's wait.
Xbox Gamertags updated to support duplicate tags and more alphabets
Don't worry, no one can steal your name.
Ubisoft announces PC game subscription service Uplay+
Includes newest releases, DLC, betas and premium content.
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is getting a PvP Versus mode
Get a squeak peak.
Chivalry 2 lets you keep fighting with missing limbs
It's just a flesh wound!
League of Legends reveals Teamfight Tactics, its new Auto Chess mode
In testing from tomorrow.
Devolver's bootlegging its own games and making a $5k arcade light gun machine
The zaniest E3 conference returns in full force.
Dishonored studio Arkane Lyon announces new game Deathloop
Time repeats itself for two rival assassins.
The Elder Scrolls: Blades, the mobile game, is coming to Switch
With cross-play and cross-progression.
Microsoft's Xbox game-streaming xCloud service hits preview programme in October
A month before Stadia and free.
There's a brand new, redesigned Xbox Elite Wireless Controller coming this November
Bluetooth! Up to 40 hours of rechargeable battery life!
Finally, the campaign for They Are Billions
UPDATE: It's coming to PS4!
A separate Vampire: The Masquerade single-player narrative experience announced
I'll get my Coterie.
FeatureWhat's next for the Frostpunk studio
"This one is not sad and depressing..."
Beheady French courtroom drama We. The Revolution gets a console release date
Guillotine or not guillotine?
THQ Nordic acquires... Gothic creator Piranha Bytes
Sounds like Elex 2 is in the works.
Lords of the Fallen 2 ditches developer and hits the ropes again
CI Games and Defiant Studios at loggerheads.
World of Warcraft Classic gets a release date, and a beta tomorrow
And Blizzard is doing a Ragnaros statue!
Fantastic Fetus is a Tamagotchi-style pregnancy simulator and a protest
Against Polish anti-abortion laws.
FeatureOddworld: Soulstorm - the quintology is back on
"Today, there are more slaves on planet Earth than there ever were..."