Author: Tom Phillips

Geralt’s dwarf friend Zoltan Chivay will appear in the next season of Netflix’s The Witcher, played by actor Danny Woodburn. A long-term ally of Geralt throughout CD Projekt’s Witcher trilogy, Zoltan will make his debut in the TV series’ upcoming fourth season, Variety reported, as Liam Hemsworth takes on the title role.…

This week’s shutdown of Ubisoft racing game The Crew has prompted the launch of a concerted effort to mount political and legal challenges to the increasingly common occurence of games you’ve bought becoming unplayable. The Stop Killing Games initiative is the work of YouTuber Ross Scott, better known for his work running…

High street second hand games giant CEX is launching a console repair service, in partnership with established company Tech Centre. The idea is you’ll be able to leave your broken Xbox or smashed-up Switch at any of CEX’s 380 UK stores, with the aim of it being returned to you, all fixed…

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss the unannounced but widely-expected PlayStation 5 Pro, which looks set to launch later this year. With the PS5 Pro technical specs now out in the wild, there’s been plenty of discussion around what these might mean for PlayStation games running on Sony’s cutting-edge hardware. But even…

Rockstar classics Bully and LA Noire will join the GTA+ subscription service later this year, the Grand Theft Auto developer has confirmed. Both games will become part of the rotating catalogue of past Rockstar hits available to subscribers who pay the £5/$6 monthly fee. GTA+ currently grants members $1m of…

Video game publisher Atari has bought the rights to Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 from developer Frontier for $7m. (To be clear, Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 itself is worth much less – around a fiver on Steam.) The deal means Atari will be considered the game’s publisher going forward, and is now the sole…

Mattel is launching a cute Xbox 360 block building kit – but its price tag is more than double what you’d spend on an actual Xbox 360. The 1342-piece set is part of the Mega range (think Mega Blocks, or fake Lego), and lets you build a classic white Xbox 360 and controller…

Microsoft recently held a virtual press showcase to flaunt four intriguing indie games coming to Xbox (and in several cases, other platforms too) in the near future, including Still Wakes the Deep, the long-awaited next project from Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture developer The Chinese Room. It was a little unclear whether…

Gearbox Entertainment has confirmed layoffs at the company, following the announcement of its sale by Embracer. Staff impacted by the cuts took to social media last week to reveal they had been laid off, just hours after it was announced that Embracer had agreed to sell Gearbox to Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two…