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The unlikely origin of StreetPass and a Mario DS game you never knew about
"This is something CEO Iwata wants to tell you personally..."
Housemarque's new multiplayer game Stormdivers sounds like a battle royale
"That's a very good assumption."
Hey Nintendo, PlatinumGames wants The Wonderful 101 on Switch
And no, it didn't nearly close after Scalebound was cancelled.
Patrice Desilets shows pre-alpha Ancestors: A Humankind Odyssey footage
It's a snake eats big cat eats croc eats ape world.
Croteam announces Serious Sam 4: Planet Badass
Motorbikes! Sunshine! Enemies galore!
Serious Sam 4: Planet Badass has been announced. Croatian developer Croteam revealed the new game on home soil this morning during the opening Reboot Develop 2018 keynote, where Eurogamer was in attendance.
Playing Not Tonight, a post-Brexit thriller
IDs, please.
Not Tonight starts at the end, with the London Eye snapped and bobbing in the Thames, and political party Albion First in control. You are a bouncer taking tickets at the British Museum of History celebration party until - suddenly - it blows up. This is dystopian Britain; this is Brexit.
Introversion's new game Order of Magnitude is sociology in space
Lunar love: good.
Prison Architect studio Introversion has unveiled a new game called Order of Magnitude, and I played it at EGX Rezzed today.
The ambitious new multiplayer sky-ships game Worlds Adrift, from Surgeon Simulator developer Bossa Studios, will launch in Steam Early Access 17th May, and cost £19.50/€23/$25.
PlayStation Plus members get money off Spotify subscriptions
Streamly kind.
Do you subscribe to Spotify? Do you also subscribe to PlayStation Plus? If you do, and there's a good chance you do given their relevant popularities, you could save some money.
The new game by LawBreakers studio Boss Key is a 1980s battle royale
Out in "X-Treme Early Access" tomorrow.
Cliff Bleszinski's studio Boss Key is launching a new game on Steam Early Access tomorrow and, surprise surprise, it's a free battle royale shooter.
Disciplinary actions continue to taint pro scene.
Professional Overwatch League player Jonathan "DreamKazper" Sanchez has been indefinitely suspended following allegations of sexual misconduct with a 14-year-old girl.
Razer launches a new PC game store with a few good deals
Shavings to be made.
Razer, the company that makes over-the-top gaming mice and laptops and keyboards and so on, has launched a digital PC game shop.
Clear your weekend, Crusader Kings 2 is free
Play it, I incest.
What are you doing this weekend? Forget about it; Crusader Kings 2 is free on Steam!
Retro beat-em-up Raging Justice coming out very soon
Wonder if it will have seething issues.
Remember Streets of Rage, Two Crude Dudes, Final Fight? Those were the days, weren't they? Innocently beating the dirty streets of the '80s clean, screen by scrolling screen.
Heavens! Divinity: Original Sin 2 is coming to console
Eve been waiting for this.
Last year's heavenly role-playing game Divinity: Original Sin 2 is officially coming to console! It's heading to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in August.
Seventh World of Warcraft expansion, Battle for Azeroth, will be released 14th August 2018.
The new Vive Pro Starter Kit is only £1048
What are you waiting for?
Easter can be an expensive time so thank goodness for the new Vive Pro Starter Kit - to go on sale 5th April for Vive's second birthday - which is a steal at only £1048/$1100. And people thought PlayStation 3 was expensive...
Grainger Games boss's rushed farewell to staff as administrators take over
"We gave the big boys a run for their money."
Grainger Games' founder and managing director Stephen Bowyer sent a rushed and emotional note to stores over Easter weekend ahead of administrators taking control of the business, which I've been told by reliable sources will happen today.
Middle-earth: Shadow of War ripping out microtransactions and loot boxes
The turn of the tide.
Loot boxes (War Chests) and nearly everything associated with them are being ripped from Middle-earth: Shadow of War.
Yet more free content for old Dying Light in new mode Prison Heist
Still coffin up the goods.
Now that's how you support your community: three-year-old zombie game Dying Light just got an entire new prison break-in mode and level - for free!
Grainger Games tells shops not to open, they are being closed
UPDATE: All remaining stores told to close.
UPDATE 29TH MARCH: Eurogamer has been reliably informed all Grainger Games' remaining 46 shops have been told, this morning, to close. They received the same closure email sent out yesterday.
Rare's jolly old pirate game Sea of Thieves has become Microsoft's fastest-selling new IP of the Xbox One generation, and is already the best-selling Microsoft Studios game on Windows 10. More than a million people played on launch day, and more than 2 million in launch week.
Microsoft to clamp down on offensive language across Xbox Live, Skype, Office, everything
UPDATE: "There is no policy change for Xbox Live."
UPDATE 28TH MARCH: Xbox VIP Mike Ybarra clarified overnight there will be no policy change for Xbox Live, so the rules already in place there will remain the rules come 1st May.
Overwatch's new tool for fighting toxicity is Avoid as Teammate
Mei cause longer queue times.
A new Avoid as Teammate option is coming to Overwatch "as soon as possible", finally giving us some immediate power to prevent other people ruining our fun.
Hellblade coming out very soon on Xbox One, and enhanced for X
I'll Senua a heads up.
Ninja Theory's critically acclaimed action game and study of psychosis, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, is heading to Xbox. It had only previously been available on PC and PS4. And there isn't long to wait: Hellblade will be released on Xbox 11th April.
Brilliant! There's a pub in Huddersfield which offers a £30 bar tab to anyone who can get a Victory Royale in Fortnite, there and then. Reckon you could do it on a projected screen with everybody watching?
Theme Hospital was brilliant - iconic, even - so it's understandable there's lots of excitement surrounding Two Point Hospital, a spiritual successor so like the original we're getting third degree sideburns just thinking about it.
Sounds like Cyberpunk 2077 decided against multiplayer
Witcher encouraging words to hear.
There's been the suggestion of multiplayer in CD Projekt Red's new game Cyberpunk 2077 for a while. In 2013, studio head Adam Badowski even told me "we're going to add multiplayer features", although he also said "it will be a story-based RPG experience with amazing single-player playthroughs". Regardless, that was five years ago, and a lot has happened since then.
Daydream a moment. Pause those critical voices in your head - we'll listen to them in a minute - and watch renowned actor Andy Serkis show us a character performance from a video game of the future.
