Author: Tom Phillips
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Nintendo says current hardware is “main business” heading into 2024, as Switch 2 reports swirl
Nintendo remains tight-lipped on the widely-expected launch of Switch 2 this year – except to say that its current Switch hardware would remain its “main business” heading into the year. In an investor call today, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa said the company would lay out its plan for the coming financial year…
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Take-Two and 2K say virtual currency is “fiction”, as in-game currency lawsuit continues
Take-Two Interactive and 2K Games have said that virtual currencies within games are “fictions created by game publishers” during a lawsuit which alleges that money is effectively stolen from players when games are shut down. The lawsuit, originally filed in November by a Californian minor and his mother, alleges that Take-Two is…
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Children of the Sun is an engrossing indie sniper puzzler that hits the spot
Through dense digital underbrush and up sloping inclines, each quick-fire level within Children of the Sun begins on foot, as The Girl, its unnamed protagonist, runs in a distant arc around her cultist prey. Long hair covering her face, gun slung across her back, head turned down to the dirt – the sense is less…
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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League calendar Easter egg teases more Batman
A series of Easter eggs point to us seeing more of Batman in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, presumably as part of a forthcoming post-launch update. In-game calendar pages posted around the game’s Metropolis map have been spotted by Batman Arkham Videos, and verified by Eurogamer. Each features a circled date,…
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Baldur’s Gate 3 update improves snogging next week
The brilliant Baldur’s Gate 3 will let you lock lips with your love interest better than ever before as part of its big Patch 6 update, due next week. Just in time for Valentine’s Day, your hero’s affection for their romance option now includes more realistic smooching and a soft forehead kiss,…
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GTA 5 closes in on 200m copies sold
GTA 5 will soon pass the astonishing milestone of having sold 200m copies. The game currently sits on 195m copies sold to date, with more than five million copies shifted over the past three months, publisher Take-Two revealed in its latest financial results. If its current momentum continues, GTA 5 will…
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Ubisoft boss says £70 Skull and Bones is a “quadruple-A” live-service game
Ubisoft’s live-service pirate ship game Skull and Bones is a “quadruple-A” project, Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot has said. Discussing the long-awaited project with investors last night, Guillemot justified the live service game launching with a £70 price tag as it being a fully-formed experience that was also supported by a battle pass,…
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Activision reportedly told Infinity Ward staff to “take the money and get over it” after West and Zampella firing
Activision execs offered Infinity Ward staff a 50 percent pay increase and told staff to “take the money and get over it” after the publisher dramatically fired the developer’s founders Jason West and Vince Zampella in 2010. That’s according to a fresh account with further details on the fallout from Activision’s now-legendary ousting…
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Why is Microsoft set to launch Xbox games on PlayStation?
This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss the bombshell news that some of Xbox’s biggest exclusives are being mulled by Microsoft for release on PlaySation. Blockbuster games such as Starfield and the upcoming Indiana Jones title could no longer be Xbox exclusives, reports now claim, following whispers that smaller titles such as Hi-Fi…
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WWE 2K24 scrubs Brock Lesnar from special edition cover
High-profile wrestler Brock Lesnar has been removed from WWE 2K24’s special edition box art, following the publication of a lawsuit regarding disgraced former WWE boss Vince McMahon. The lawsuit alleges McMahon sexually assaulted and sex trafficked an employee while running WWE, and claims an unnamed wrestler then requested an explicit video of the…