Author: Tom Phillips
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Titanfall director reportedly making new Titanfall game that’s not Titanfall 3
A small team within Respawn are making a fresh game set in the Titanfall universe, it’s been reported – but this project won’t be Titanfall 3. We knew of this team already – and the fact it is being led by Titanfall and Titanfall 2 director Steve Fukuda – via an Axios…
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TimeSplitters Next cancelled gameplay footage appears online
Footage showing Free Radical Design’s sadly-cancelled TimeSplitters project has surfaced online, revealing five minutes of gameplay. The video, posted to LinkedIn by a former Free Radical Design staff member, shows a version of the game from July 2023 – roughly five months before the project was cancelled and the studio shut down by…
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Fortnite’s giant hand event was a return to the game’s uniqueness of old
This weekend, Fortnite simultaneously did something it had never done before, and something it hadn’t done in ages. On the game’s storied battle royale Island, players looked on as a giant hand made out of rapidly-cooling lava burst out of the ground, clasping an enormous treasure box that then lay, danging, high up in…
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Halo composer Marty O’Donnell announces Republican bid for Congress
Marty O’Donnell, the former Bungie composer best known for his Halo and Destiny soundtracks, has announced his intention to run for US Congress as a Republican candidate. In a lengthy post on social media platform X, O’Donnell said he “never wanted to be a politician and I still don’t” but felt he…
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Destiny 2 gets hoverboards next week
Destiny 2 is adding a new kind of vehicle – the hoverboard-esque Skimmer – in its next update due on Tuesday, 5th March. Skimmers will let players zoom around looking cool, pull off tricks and even grind on rails. They’ll live alongside Sparrows – the game’s traditional Star Wars speeder bikes –…
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Battlefield studio closure a “gut punch”, Marcus Lehto says
EA’s closure of Ridgeline Games last night was a “gut punch”, the company’s former boss Marcus Lehto has now said. Ridgeline – previously led by ex-Halo co-creator Lehto – had been working on a narrative-led Battlefield campaign. The project will now be completed by Need for Speed studio Criterion Games. Writing…
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Ransomware group claims Epic Games hack
UPDATE 1.20pm UK: Epic Games has moved quickly to calm fears of a potential ransomware attack, after a group claimed to have breach the company’s servers and stolen data. “We are investigating but there is currently zero evidence that these claims are legitimate,” an Epic Games spokesperson told Eurogamer this morning. “[Ransomware group] Mogilievich…
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Call of Duty veteran announces new studio BulletFarm
Former Call of Duty: Black Ops design director David Vonderhaar has established BulletFarm, a new AAA game studio, following his departure from Treyarch last summer. BulletFarm will be remote-first with an office in Los Angeles, and is another game studio to be funded by Chinese gaming firm NetEase. The studio’s first…
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Jar-Jar Binks actor sets tongues wagging with Activision tease
Ahmed Best, who’s best known for his performance as Jar-Jar Binks in the Star Wars prequels, has issued a cryptic tease that has set Star Wars fans’ tongues wagging. “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in,” Best posted on Instagram, alongside a photo of himself clad in a…
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Newscast: Will Pokémon Legends: Z-A be a Switch 2 launch title?
This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss the shocking news that the next big Pokémon game is mysteriously set to arrive in 2025. Hey, that sounds a lot like the intro to last week’s episode, when we were discussing Switch 2! Say, could Pokémon Legends: Z-A also be set to arrive on Nintendo’s…