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Looks like Spelunky 1 and 2 launch on Nintendo Switch this month

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2 weeks ago

@X I think it's because it's not Spelunky 1. The first was the ultimate example of great design and simplicity while also getting very deep, the second one is far more convuluted
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2 weeks ago

@fabio78 I am a massive fan of spelunky, its in my top five games of all time, spelunky 2 I just don't like.
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Tetris Effect: Connected is heading to Switch in October

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3 weeks ago

@Tufo As a big Tetris fan and a vr owner I bought the game for the VR experience which is excellent... Once or twice. Once you've plated through the journey bit once in VR you'll likely never bother with VR again, it's a hell of a journey but it's easier to play out of VR. I have it on PC and Quest 2 and I never play it on Quest.

All that being said if you're a 'serious' Tetris player tetr.io is still the best for my money, and it's free!
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Pistol Whip's free Wild-West-themed story campaign Smoke & Thunder arrives next week

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3 weeks ago

Great game, never before have I felt more like John Wick whilst also looking, in reality, like a complete twat.
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E3 2021: Nintendo Direct live report

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3 months ago

Every once in a while I think Nintendo are just professional trolls
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3 months ago

Nintendo just almost won e3, then it turned out to be a rehash
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3 months ago

I love fatal frame, but this one was shite.
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3 months ago

Love me a bit of warioware.
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3 months ago

Damn, those amiibos just sold out
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3 months ago

They really really need Glados to voice those creatures.
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3 months ago

Metroid.... 5....?!
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3 months ago

Mario party rehash. Now with added lag!
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3 months ago

Come on Nintendo, make me happy with... Something...
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E3 2021: Xbox and Bethesda Showcase live report

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3 months ago

It doesn't feel the same if it's not on at 3am and completely shite.
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E3 2021: Ubisoft E3 2021

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3 months ago

Nodlbody is probably good as well.
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3 months ago

*Nobody
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3 months ago

I just watched 'Nodlbody' and it's basically John Air Wick. John Wick meets the A Team. It's pretty pretty good.
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3 months ago

I've finally arrived!
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Bringing the arcade home with Arcade Paradise

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4 months ago

@dadrester Drop 7 is also my most played game of all time. Criminally underrated
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There's a secret co-op mode hidden in The Binding Of Isaac: Repentance

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5 months ago

I've put hundreds and hundreds of hours into isaac on various platforms and I didn't even know this was out, had been waiting for it.
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The LG BX OLED is £894 at Argos, an incredible price for DF's top gaming TV pick

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6 months ago

@space_ace I've got the cc and this is the one down with it. The lack of any coating to alleviate screen glare is pretty bad.
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The coded gay jargon in Dragon Quest Builders 2

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7 months ago

@ShiftyGeezer I have no idea, much like other forms of slang I expect, hanging around with people of a similar ilk, there may have been illicit books as well. I think Kenneth Williams and Hugh Paddick that really propelled it into more common usage.

https://www.keele.ac.uk/media/keeleuniversity/equaldiversity/polari.pdf
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7 months ago

It's hard to believe you didn't mention Kenneth Williams in this article.
And this is worth a watch, it's quite incredible how little of it you can actually understand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8yEH8TZUsk&ab_channel=BrianandKarl
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Hitman 3 tech review: the Glacier Engine shines on next-gen consoles

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7 months ago

@Gamer_cool123 it's does it on PC as well.
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Microsoft announces Xbox Live Gold price hike

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7 months ago

@Miyamotosan I'm primarily a pc gamer (and switch) and saw the last generation of consoles as underpowered tat (owned both xbox one and ps4 and gave them to my nephew) but the latest gen I feel is going the right way, 60fps gaming so I've bought all the good PlayStation exclusives that have been upgraded or are playable at 60fps on PS5 and now I'm just waiting for the actual console to be available. Getting stuff like God of war for £8 is well worth the wait.
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Hitman 3 importing levels and progression explained: How to import Hitman 1 and 2 levels into Hitman 3

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7 months ago

@DaWizeGuy I tell a lie. It crashed.
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7 months ago

The transfer process now appears to be working on pc. (for hitman 1 anyway). I just transferred my saves. Ten hours after the game launched...
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Hitman 3 review - a satisfying end to a beautiful stealth trilogy

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7 months ago

@ozyous Hitman GOTY will be integrated straight away, it's just 2 they're working on.
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The best gaming laptops of CES 2021: Asus, Lenovo, MSI and more

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7 months ago

@StooMonster I can't understand why anyone would buy a gaming laptop without gsync, but that's just me. I bought a lenovo 7i 2070super about four months ago because it was one of the very few to have gsync. Thinking of getting a second with a 3070 if the performance gain is big enough and if it still has a gsync screen, as they all seem to be shifting to 1440p
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Unlike console players, PC players have to buy Hitman 2 again to unlock its levels in Hitman 3

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8 months ago

It wouldn't be so farcical if they hadn't waited until four days before launch to reveal this little nugget at the very bottom of a massive set of launch instructions, given us no indication of how much it'll cost, and if it wasn't for the fact Hitman 3 is essentially all three games anyway, the first two are just locked behind a paywall if you didn't own them before, they're still on your harddrive. What you are essentially paying for is to use their website to transfer your save game from Steam to Epic, and for that they can go fuck themselves.
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Super Nintendo World opening postponed again

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8 months ago

I can't believe they are going ahead with the Olympics. Madness.
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Super Monkey Ball and Wolfenstein 3D collide in this fan game

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8 months ago

Small indie game appears on Kotaku, then shows up on Eurogamer some hours later... Colour me shocked!
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PC ray tracing deep dive: Radeon RX 6800 XT vs GeForce RTX 3080

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8 months ago

Every single cycle AMD are supposedly going to release an Nvidia killer. I'm still waiting for it.
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Tributes pour in for Jonas Neubauer, legendary Tetris player who has died aged 39

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8 months ago

Bloody tragedy. Really helped put Tetris competition on the map and was an all round nice guy by all accounts. My thoughts go out to his wife.
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Download a copy of Alba and Monument Valley dev Ustwo will plant a tree

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8 months ago

reccomended?
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The PSVR Mega Pack Bundle is on sale

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8 months ago

£13 on Fleabay for the game bundle
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Looks like Epic Games Stores' free Holiday Sale 2020 games list has leaked

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8 months ago

@supercapon They are consistently at least three hours, sometimes up to a day behind other sites with their news so I don't think at that point it makes any difference.
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8 months ago

Darkest dungeon is an excellent game if you love misery and being soundly beaten. Looking forward to the sequel.
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GOG advises Cyberpunk 2077 players to "keep a lower amount of items" to avoid corrupting save files

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8 months ago

@Houchou yes, I too know the life story of Donald Trump.
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8 months ago

The omnishambles continues. Doesn't need me to say it, but what a colossal fuck up,and one born of pure financial greed. They knew what they had and what state it was in and they deliberately hid it from reviewers and the public. They deserve the financial hit this is going to give them. I do have sympathy for the devs who must have surely pointed out that they were churning out an utter turkey. Money talks. The people at the top who allowed this to happen need to be looking for new jobs.
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Epic Games Store Holiday sale is now live

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8 months ago

My god, not a single 'Epic Store = the scourge of humanity' comment. Times have changed. Anyway, I got Disco Elysium.
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Sony pulls Cyberpunk 2077 from the PlayStation Store, offers refunds

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8 months ago

The BBC reported an hour ago that Microsoft are now offering refunds, with a statement by them. There's nothing as of yet on here, and you're asking us if we want to pay for a subscription!
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Please fill in this survey about Eurogamer - and subscriptions

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9 months ago

@super-eve I'm not sure how much more low effort you get than reading Reddit and Kotaku and then posting those stories on this sites hours later, which is what Eurogamer has been doing for quite some time. I've been coming here daily for years but I read less and less of the articles these days. There is still some good, well written perspectives but they are becoming more and more sparse. As someone else rightfully pointed out in another comment half the reviews these days are the ramblings of some talking about their own psyche with very little substance regarding the actual game. If I want to be mildly entertained for five minutes I'll read a Eurogamer review, if I want to actually find out about the mechanics, faults or intricacies of a game I'll go elsewhere.
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9 months ago

Given the slow decline (imo) of the writing on the site over the years (the recent Empire Of Sin review is a perfect example of a lazy, half baked review) and the general low effort, low quality of the video content (Digital Foundry and Ians VR corner being an exception) I personally would not want to pay to see extra content. If that extra content was of a higher standard than what you are currently churning out then I would suggest you have a problem, if it isn't then you have a real problem.
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Spelunky 1 & 2 are heading to Switch next summer

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9 months ago

@Tumbletwit The vita has the best dpad I've ever used so that definitely helps
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Cyberpunk 2077 review - intoxicating potential, half undermined, half met

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9 months ago

@Naetharu I can categorically state that they have not delivered on what they promised. Google their road map statement from 2012, most of that stuff is not in the game, just purely on npcs they talked about how they'd be 'groundbreaking' with full cycles. The npcs in the game are a joke. They are like something from GTA 3.You throw a grenade on a motorway and every single npc gets out of their car at the same time and ducks, holding their heads. I could go on and on and on about just how bad this game really is, the enemies that just run straight at you, or suddenly get bored and go into a passive mode in the middle of a fight. Don't even get me started on the dialogue choices that are all variations on the same yes or no, there's no real choice. The whole game is pointing towards a couple of endings and from what I've read all three classes converge into the same story after a couple of hours. As I say I could keep going on (the police spawning immediately behind you when you commit a crime, even if you're on a roof) etc etc. It's a piece of shit game and they should be ashamed they churned it out.
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The Oculus Rift S is now the cheapest it's ever been

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9 months ago

@GamesConnoisseur You can use virtual desktop and play wirelessly and it works excellently if you set your wifi to 5ghz
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Cyberpunk 2077 PC tech analysis: a closer look at the ultra high-end experience

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9 months ago

My laptop has a 2070 super Max Q and it's running on Ultra settings including RTX at 60-75fps using ultra performance DLSS at 1080p. The trouble is Ultra performance isnt designed for 1080p so it looks like the game is running at 720p, I turned shadow mapping down to medium from Ultra and I now get 60fps pretty solidly on performance mode which looks a hell of a lot better, theres occasional drops down to 57fps but I have Gsync so it's not a massive issue.
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The Game Awards 2020 live report

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9 months ago

It's been an emotional rollercoaster. Good day AND Good night.
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9 months ago

Animal crossing, while great, has barely any innovation. Doesnt deserve an award thats for sure.
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