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.
Crossroads Inn, a fantasy pub sim, comes out in a couple of weeks
Be a shame if you missed stout.
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."
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.
Discord now lets you stream gameplay to people
So you can share river friend.
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..."
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.
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.
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.
You should give the Heaven's Vault demo a go this weekend
I beseech thee.
Free, simultaneous QuakeCon event heading to UK this summer
Doom come along.
BlizzCon 2019 dates and collectibles announced
Won't be able to get there on footman.
Guild Wars 2 reveals a second flying mount: a dragon, the Skyscale
"The really cool feature that surprised us all was wall jumping."
John and Brenda Romero working with Paradox on new strategy IP
Doom doom doom!
Playable female characters finally come to Star Citizen
And cities the size of planets.
Warcraft 1 and 2 are on GOG today
Orcellent!
New XCOM-y Divinity: Original Sin game announced
Co-development with an external team.
Finally, a video game with an Arachnophobia Mode!
Very Satisfactory.
New Overwatch hero Baptiste goes live next week
Haitian to add.
Divinity: Original Sin 2 is getting gift bags
They aren't loot boxes.
GOG and Blizzard bring Diablo 1 back from the dead
Warcraft 1 and 2 to follow!
Goat Simulator dev's promising new game Satisfactory hits early access very soon
Think No Man's Sky crossed with Factorio.
Dying Light 2 unaffected by Techland closing old distribution business
Insists everything else is absolutely fine.
Confirmed: the next Overwatch hero will be Baptiste
Some kind of combat medic.
Obsidian's The Outer Worlds explored in new videos
It looks like BioShock meets New Vegas in space.
Devolver delays Ape Out but only to the end of Feb
Think Hotline Miami meets Jazz meets gorilla.
Ubisoft sorry for "offensive" Division 2 marketing email flaunting "a real government shutdown"
"This was a grave breakdown in process."
Another central Overwatch character has an LGBT backstory
UDPATE: Ana's short-story skin released as part of special new challenge.
How a random indie game came out of nowhere to post the 10th highest Steam player count ever
Ever heard of Geneshift?
Sony's just released a new Lemmings game for mobile
And it's okay!
That's it for Minecraft updates on Xbox 360, PS3, Vita and Wii U
Ore on your own now.
Floss dance creator Backpack Kid suing Fortnite now too
Well, his mum is.
Nintendo Switch the fastest-selling US console this generation
But no longer the fastest-selling ever.
BioShocky horror Close to the Sun attracts a publisher
A potential scorcher?
After all these years, World of Warcraft adds a potion to understand your enemy with
Apparently it's been lurking in the game since launch!
Pillars of Eternity 2 will still come to consoles, including Switch, in 2019
Better tell Magran.
Rage 2 gets a May 2019 release date
Aaaarrrggghh!
A first look at Obsidian's new sci-fi RPG The Outer Worlds
Fallout in space.
Yes! Quake Champions is ditching loot boxes for a battle pass
Just quad we wanted.
French Revolution courtroom drama We. The Revolution gets a release date
Beheading for March.
The Battle of Geonosis in Star Wars Battlefront 2 looks better than in the film!
You Kenobi serious.
Bard's Tale 4 whopper-patch addresses some of our biggest concerns
I amb excited about it.
Frostpunk's much-longed-for Endless mode is imminent
UPDATE: It's live! Snow joke!
Third and final paid expansion for Pillars of Eternity 2 gets a release date
There's Aloth in it.
Enter the Gungeon dev cancels expansion to work on new game
"We need to move on."
Seven-day free Overwatch trial next week
Ashe hit you not.
PlayStation 4 worldwide sales reach 86.1 million
The most popular controller colour REVEALED!
Witcher author Andrzej Sapkowski unsuccessfully demands more money from CD Projekt
UPDATE: "The issue is an open one," adds CDP.
Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales hasn't done as well as CD Projekt hoped
GOG exclusivity didn't really work.
New Overwatch hero Ashe playable on Public Test Region now
UPDATE: Ashe is now live.