Author: Tom Phillips

Loud disapproval for Sonic’s original film design has prompted far greater scrutiny within Hollywood for getting video game adaptations right. That’s according to the company behind the now-very-successful Sonic the Hedgehog film franchise itself, Paramount Pictures. “Every design now is vetted within an inch of its life,” marketing president Marc Weinstock…

How much does someone who built the foundations of Pokémon Go still play the game, eight years on? It’s the first question I ask Ed Wu, senior vice president of Pokémon Go, as we set off on a walk together around a leafy London park – our phones in hand, Pokémon Go open. “I…

Dragon’s Dogma 2 developer Capcom has begun quizzing fans on what they’d like to see in future DLC for the game. A public user survey is now available to complete, and asks whether you would be interested in purchasing extra content for Dragon’s Dogma 2 if it was released. A follow-up question then…

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss who might pick up the baton and develop a potential Baldur’s Gate 4 – now that BG3 studio Larian has confirmed it is leaving the franchise behind. The rights to Baldur’s Gate of course belong to Wizards of the Coast, who are free to enlist another…

Sega will shed 240 staff across its European studios, and sell off Company of Heroes developer Relic Entertainment as part of a cost-cutting drive. The majority of job losses will be at Total War developer Creative Assembly and at the publisher’s Sega Europe office. These follow earlier cuts to the UK-based Creative Assembly…

Phil Spencer has discussed the devastating wave of layoffs that has impacted the video games industry, and said he was “most concerned” about the overall “lack of growth”. The Xbox boss presided over the departure of 1900 people across Xbox and Activision Blizzard in January of this year, a decision he described…

Reviving the beloved Mass Effect series – again! – may be a tough mission, but the veteran crew behind the upcoming Mass Effect 5 know a little something about assembling a squad to take on impossible odds. Writing on social media platform X this week, Mass Effect 5 executive producer Mike Gamble…

Orbital, the 27th major update to No Man’s Sky, will arrive today and revamp the game’s space stations. These deep space locations can now be “vast, procedurally generated, and incredibly diverse”, developer Hello Games said today, announcing the update. The aim is for space stations to feel bigger, more individual, and offer…

Xbox gaming boss Phil Spencer has discussed the idea of a Microsoft handheld games device, and how Xbox games should play on third-party handheld hardware. Spencer, a keen handheld PC enthusiast, told Polygon that Microsoft was discussing “different hardware form factors and things that [they] could go do” to grow the Xbox audience…