Author: Tom Phillips
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Fortnite’s new season adds Fallout Nuka-Cola, as files point to upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean crossover
Infused with Mad Max-y vibes, Fortnite’s new season is here – bringing with it the game’s Fallout crossover. We knew to expect the Fallout T-60 Power Armour, and now know the iconic suit is its own skin in the game, not a power-up. Joining it are a range of other punky wasteland…
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GTA 5 leaves PlayStation Plus next month
GTA 5 will no longer be part of the PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium games catalogue offering as of the middle of next month, as the countdown continues to GTA 6. Rockstar’s hugely-popular open world is now listed among the games labelled as being your “Last chance to play”, visible from your…
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Assassin’s Creed composer on the franchise’s evolution, and scoring larger, more adventurous worlds
Listen carefully to the finale of last week’s Assassin’s Creed Shadows trailer, and a familiar musical theme can be heard. Originally titled ‘Earth’ but best known to fans of the franchise as ‘Ezio’s Family’, you may as well at this point just call it The Assassin’s Creed Series Theme. Unfortunately, when I…
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EA bug telling players “games have been removed” from their libraries
Players of EA games such as Apex Legends, FC 24 and The Sims 4 have been greeted with warnings that their “games have been removed from your library”. EA acknowledged the issue as a bug yesterday, and said that it had now been resolved. “We fixed the issue with EA services on…
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Looks like COD 2024 is named Call of Duty Black Ops 6
This year’s just-about-still-under-wraps COD will be titled Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, according to newspaper advertising spotted by fans this morning. Copies of USA Today have been pictured featuring a promotional suppement for this year’s upcoming shooter, showing the game’s logo and title, and a range of in-universe news stories. …
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Eurogamer has a new parent company
Hey everyone. At 5pm yesterday, it was announced that the Gamer Network family of websites – Eurogamer, GamesIndustry.biz, VG247, Rock Paper Shotgun and Dicebreaker – had been acquired by a new owner, IGN Entertainment. This was not unexpected. Gamer Network had been publicly up for sale for a few months, as you…
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Now there’s leaked footage of Valve’s new game Deadlock
Deadlock, the unannounced but previously-leaked hero shooter from Half-Life maker Valve, has been spotted again in a fresh leak. And, this time, we can now see gameplay footage of Deadlock in action. Leaked details of Deadlock sprung onto the internet last week via images posted to social media and a report from longterm…
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Here’s our first look at Fallout’s power armour in Fortnite
Fortnite’s new season – which includes a Fallout collaboration – kicks off on Friday, and we’ve now gotten a glimpse of how the T-60 Power Armour will look in-game. A brief snippet of gameplay footage – our first from Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 3 – shows the iconic armour as seen in…
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Wordle now has an in-app bot to analyse how good your guesses are
After completing this morning’s Wordle I found myself drawn to a “New!” link advertising WordleBot, a smart-sounding addition to The New York Times app which promised to analyse my puzzle solution and compare it with others. (I got today’s word in six, for which I’m still feeling a little shameful.) Scrolling through its…
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Pokémon Go plans to introduce item sharing within Parties
Pokémon Go is set to introduce a form of item sharing when playing within Parties, according to a fresh datamine of the game’s files. This looks set to allow players to share the effects of active items such as Lucky Eggs, Star Pieces and Incenses with other players – though the feature…