Author: Tom Phillips
-
Frontier developer showcase announced for next week
Planet Coaster studio Frontier Developments will host a new monthly showcase beginning next week, on 31st January at 6pm UK time, with updates on the what’s next from the company. Frontier Unlocked, as the showcase will be known, will look ahead at the coming year for the studio – so expect to…
-
Rock Band 4 DLC support ends next week, after eight years
After eight years of weekly releases, Rock Band 4’s last dollop of song DLC will arrive next Thursday, 25th January, developer Harmonix has announced. The move follows Harmonix’s launch of Fortnite Festival, a Rock Band-like mode playable within Fortnite, at the end of last year – and the beginning of weekly track…
-
British Army recruitment campaign in Fortnite looks to have been pulled offline
A marketing campaign designed to promote recruitment in the British Army using a custom-made Fortnite map looks to have been taken offline. Social media posts and a slickly-produced trailer for the British Army recruitment drive have now been removed, Eurogamer has spotted. Their so-far unexplained disappearance follows a backlash to the…
-
Palworld developer accused of copying Pokémon says it has “no intention of infringing” intellectual property
Palworld developer PocketPair has said it has “no intention” of being found legally at fault for any similarity between it and any other popular pocket monster franchise. Speaking to Automaton, PocketPair boss Takuro Mizobe said the game had cleared legal reviews and no action had been taken against the project (thus far). …
-
Palworld passes 5m copies sold in three days
“Pokémon with guns” game Palworld has just blasted through yet another sales milestone – of 5m copies sold in three days. The extraordinary launch and success of Palworld comes on top of the game’s arrival for Xbox, including via Game Pass. There’s no word yet on how many more players have also…
-
The best bits from last night’s Xbox Developer Direct
This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss Microsoft’s Xbox Developer Direct 2024, our first look ahead at the year to come from one of the big three console makers. The big draw was Indiana Jones and The Great Circle from Wolfenstein maker MachineGames, a blockbuster action adventure clearly set up to be Microsoft’s…
-
A decade later, Destiny will finally let you change your face
The original Destiny arrived 10 years ago this year – and finally, Bungie will let players modify their character’s face. To be clear, if you have been playing as the same character since Destiny 1, this will be the first time in a decade that you will have been able to update…
-
Hundreds of developers say they’re working on Nintendo Switch 2
A growing number of video game developers are now quietly working on projects for Nintendo’s unannounced Switch 2. Eight percent of respondees to GDC’s newly-published 2024 State of the Game Industry report say they are developing their current project for Nintendo Switch 2. Out of 3000 people polled, that accounts for 240…
-
Ara: History Untold arrives autumn 2024
Alternate history strategy title Ara: History Untold will launch for PC in autumn 2024, developer Oxide Games announced tonight during the Xbox Developer Direct presentation. Via a deeper dive into the game, Oxide showed some of its world leaders and infamous players in history whose skills you’ll be able to use as…
-
Can game design help you beat The Traitors?
Could a strong knowledge of game design help you win The Traitors? This was the question UK series one contestant Ivan Brett had in mind when he joined the show last year, keen to beat the odds for as long as he could while playing as one of the game’s Faithful. The author of The…