| It might not have been the best but I really enjoyed Zool back when, happy to see this |
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Farewell, Emma!
Sumo Digital is bringing 90s Amiga mascot Zool out of retirement later this month
Everything announced during EA Play Live 2021
| Lost in Random is reminding me of McGee's Alice games, which I quite enjoyed. Hope it turns out well |
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PES renamed eFootball, goes free-to-play, digital-only
| Sad |
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Whatever happened to City of Metronome, the missing game by Little Nightmares developer Tarsier?
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I absolutely adore Tarsier's work with Little Nightmares, but didn't know much of their past so this was an interesting read, thanks I suppose you do see hints of Metronome in their other work. One thing they absolutely nail is atmosphere and tone in their games. I hope they continue making good stuff despite the buyout, though it does pain me they'll no longer work on Little Nightmares. |
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PS5 timed console exclusive Deathloop won't hit Xbox until at least September 2022
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@minmax Yeah. For me focusing on the platform wars here is incredibly short sighted. It's not about Xbox or Playstation, it's devs just being shoved under a collective banner and depriving others of content. Tencent is another one that has a large stake in a number of game devs and even publishers. It's hard to see it ending well. |
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Sony has been working with Deviation Games on its new PlayStation-exclusive IP for over a year already
| @BlueLiving To an extent. Competition is good, but not when one side can simply outspend the other. I don't give a toss about console wars, but MS just buying Publishers outright and consolidating them into Game Pass is hardly a good sign for the industry long term. |
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Twice-delayed Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake now arriving next year
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Not sure what to make of this I want to see Prince of Persia back but this has looked like trouble since the moment we saw it |
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My favourite planet: The fragile tranquillity of Hillys, from Beyond Good & Evil
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The atmosphere in BG&E was absolutely on point. Every area you went to felt carefully crafted and the writing only added to that. It had a small, comforting world and seeing little moments with your camera or otherwise was pretty rewarding. It's why it pains me to look at the "sequel", because they seem to have missed the mark on all fronts. It's really not BG&E in anything but name |
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Ubisoft will now brand all its own games as "Ubisoft Originals"
| @MatMan562 This, really. Ubisoft play it quite safe these days, I miss when they'd publish smaller titles like them. It's like they all but abandoned anything but AAA |
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Activision puts Crash Bandicoot 4 dev Toys for Bob on Call of Duty: Warzone development duty
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Genuinely awful news. Absolutely gutted to hear this. I'm equally worried Beenox will follow the same route doing nothing but CoD, which would really irk me because the Crash Team Racing remake they developed is one of my favourite games of the entire gen. I don't even play it and Warzone manages to piss me off. |
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PlayStation U-turns on PS3 and Vita store shutdowns
| Good news, nice to see |
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Call of Duty: Warzone just got a new "broken" pistol - and it's wreaking havoc
| @JSF_Phantom I think Raven probably do it because they know they can at least get an EG article a week for it |
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Naughty Dog reportedly working on The Last of Us remake for PS5
| Does seem strange Sony are throwing away a lot of what brought them success during the PS4 reign. Especially with MS's recent spending on a wide range of studios |
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Sony quietly kills old web version of the PlayStation Store that let people access PS3, Vita and PSP games
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Not only shit for game preservation, but I found the old web store actually worked better so this is shit news on both fronts Sony need a kick up the arse |
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Buy Resident Evil Village on Stadia and get a free Stadia, while stocks last
| @the_ewan Ah, for some reason I thought the new Chromecast couldn't do 4K. Thanks for the info, good to know |
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@the_ewan Is it obsolete? I thought it was the only Chromecast that could do 4K? Curious because I was actually considering getting one |
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Little Nightmares 2 sales hit a million in a month
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Really glad to see this is doing well. It's a crying shame the developers, Tarser Studios, were acquired and will no longer be working on the series. Hopefully it retains the quality as Bandai Namco look to continue the IP |
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FIFA 21 rocked by "EAGate" scandal after company employee is alleged to have sold coveted Ultimate Team cards for thousands of pounds
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Corrupt system is rife with corruption Who'd have guessed? |
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Marvel's Avengers developer seeks to better explain why it's increasing XP grind
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@darkstar2017 It's hard to say really. I've read that the single player campaign of Avengers is actually decent, so it's possible they were interested in making an Avengers game and pitched it as a solo title. Then as is customary, the demands for Multiplayer, GaaS, loot, grind and all the rest of it came in, and it lost its appeal. But it's all pure speculation really. The Avengers franchise is pretty massive, you'd think with its popularity it'd be hard to fail. But there's just been constant missteps and I don't really understand how we've ended up here. From having Crystal Dynamics developing it, to leaving Squeenix to market it and also not being able to get any of the movie VA's, but still basing the character likeness on the movies. |
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I really don't know how Crystal Dynamics wound up making this title but I hope they come through OK because it's not looking good. They did solid work with Tomb Raider, I've no idea who decided they should go from that to a GaaS superhero game. Everything I read about it sounds so baffling too. |
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Microsoft confirms "some" Bethesda games will be full Xbox and PC exclusive
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Baffles me the short sightedness of all these people looking at it purely in the context of console wars and whether Sony have done the same thing or not. I don't see how MS buying Bethesda benefits anyone but MS, so I can't see why so many are keen to defend it. Consolidation isn't a good thing for consumers, no matter who's doing it. |
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Epic acquires Fall Guys developer Mediatonic
| Must everything be acquired these days? Feels like we're just going to have a bunch of gaming companies locked under a handful of huge corporate banners |
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PlayStation reportedly winding down development at Sony Japan Studio
| @Rosetico The statement about game diversity wasn't directed at games just from studio Japan. Read into the bit about Playstation wanting global hits with their titles. |
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Shit news this Everything doesn't have to have mainstream appeal, it's how you end up with a bunch of generic titles with the same notes The diversity of some of the exclusive games on PS4 was one of its biggest strengths, even if they didn't all do record numbers |
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Destruction AllStars will cost $20 when it leaves PlayStation Plus
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This article made me realise I never added this to my PS+ library since I'm on PS4 Went and did it from the browser. Also realised I missed out on Maneater last month because of the same thing. What a dolt |
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Arma and DayZ dev Bohemia insists it will continue to operate independently after Tencent investment
| It's becoming worrying just how much Tencent now have a stake in |
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Five years later, Warner Bros gets its Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor Nemesis system patent
| Load of shithousery. Doesn't benefit anyone but WB, selfish and short sighted |
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Xbox Game Pass grows to 18 million members
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@Schiehallion I'm very much the same. I couldn't give a toss about the console war, but Game Pass and MS's strategy is increasingly worrying when MS have also shown they're happy to use their copious amounts of cash to acquire large 3rd party developers who they don't have an established rapport with. It just creates another limitation of choice for the consumer. The end goal is not really going to be something to celebrate, consolidation rarely is. I also think if Game Pass really kicks off, we'd see a change to how games are developed. The poor state of Halo Infinite might be indicative of that, in that MS don't really need to ship a really high quality game if it's just on Game Pass anyway. They'll have 18 million players ready to give it a shot as long as they market it enough. |
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Is Super Mario 64's movement STILL the best in gaming?
| @wez_316 A rhythm platformer actually did release recently, called Mad Rat Dead. I hadn't heard about it at all but there was a demo up on the PS Store. |
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FIFA 21 players are using their own Golden Goal rule to beat the Ultimate Team grind
| Ah yes, buying games to purposefully not play them |
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CD Projekt vows to "rebuild trust" after Cyberpunk 2077 Xbox One and PS4 launch woes
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What gets me is they keep acting as if they didn't know just how bad the game ran. As if to say at no point in the 7+ years of development did someone test it on the 2 consoles with the biggest userbase. Despite having entire segments during Console presentations. And on top of that deliberately hiding console footage from what I've read. These were all intentional decisions, it's not just a little slip up is it. DF showed the game hanging for a full minute ffs |
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EA overtakes Take-Two with $1.2bn offer for Codemasters
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Looks like Ubisoft has delayed its Prince of Persia remake
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Not enough time to give it the rehaul it probably needs. Shame. |
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Here's everything new for FIFA 21 on PS5 and Xbox Series X and S
we saw Liverpool forward Sadio Mane blow his nose off the ball.Well it doesn't get better than this. Truly next gen. |
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Fortnite launches Ł10 monthly subscription offer in December
| Between this, the game becoming a vehicle for brand advertisements, and that whole Free Fortnite thing, they're really capitalising hard on their fanbase now. |
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Xbox Series S review: next-gen gaming on a budget - and in style
| @DirtyDubs Same thing. I have a load of 360 titles that'd be fantastic to play through on this kind of machine. An extra peripheral that would allow it would be nice and worthwhile |
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Fall Guys' mid-season update is live with remixed challenges and a brand-new stage
| Nice update this! The game did feel a bit less responsive to me on my base PS4 though |
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GTA publisher Take-Two confirms purchase of Codemasters in deal worth nearly $1bn
| Shit |
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Microsoft is seeking acquisitions of "small to big" Japanese development studios
| This sort of consolidation and forced acquisitions with little relationship isn't healthy for the industry at all. Piss off. |
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It looks like Marvel's Avengers failed to do the business for Square Enix
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@Psyk Yeah I don't really understand how Crystal Dynamics, who have predominantly been making Single Player games, wounded up making an Avengers GaaS title with multiple characters trying to compete with the big boys. It confused me from the getgo. I've liked their work so as you, I hope they don't suffer from this.. Honestly even Squeenix having the license is a bit of an odd choice, they've never had the kind of marketing power in the west that some of the other big studios do. |
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Take-Two is in talks to buy Codemasters
| Take Two's name doesn't inspire confidence. I'd rather they stay away from tarnishing any other studios. |
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PlayStation 5 review: welcome to the next generation
| @the_ewan Let's hope enough people raise the issue for them to introduce it in a not so distant update |
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The key point is that the days of jet engine acoustics emanating from your Sony console are a thing of the past Do you think there's a possibility that this changes over time? My PS4 wasn't loud at launch, and when I replaced the thermal paste it once again got quieter, but before long it was back to jet engine sounds. It's really unbearable |
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PlayStation 5 backwards compatibility tested - and it's fantastic
| @stephenfinn Does it perform quite poorly? I don't remember seeing much about performance at launch, I've been meaning to play it |
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| Honestly if this is the case I don't see why Sony seemed so hesitant to talk about it! Some great news here, happy to see this. Thanks for the write up |
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Sony re-confirms PS5 won't support SSD storage expansion at launch
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Seems a bit odd to have the slot completely disabled I don't see why it couldn't be used and let the user have, for instance, their PS4 games on there, while we wait for PS5 compatible drives |
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Tetris Effect: Connected is the multiplayer I need right now
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I think I'm finally going to get stuck into this. Bought it a while back but never ended up doing so. The whole multiplayer stuff sounds fun too, great that it's a free update. |
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Dear Esther, Rime, Gris in $5 mental health bundle
A word about autoplay videos on Eurogamer
| @Oli Thanks for continuing to look into this. I'm using Chromium 86.0.4240.75, Windows 19041 |
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theguy
2 weeks ago
I quite liked her work here at EG, thought she was a great addition to the team and had some quality stuff I enjoyed reading. Good luck Emma