Author: Tom Phillips

An unopenable door in Super Mario 64 – thought impossible to pass through without the use of mods – has finally been prised open. The door in question can be found within the game’s infamous penguin level – you know, the one where you definitely didn’t yeet the baby penguin off the mountain.…

Ubisoft’s upcoming feudal Japan-set Assassin’s Creed game now has a final name: Assassin’s Creed Shadows. Previously, it was known only under its working title, Assassin’s Creed: Codename Red. Shadows will get a full reveal later this week, on Wednesday 15th May at 5pm UK time. It’s then we’ll get a full…

A trademark for what looks to be a new Doom game has resurfaced after originally being filed by Bethesda back in January, as the suggestion of a reveal in a few weeks’ time now swirls. The pending trademark, filed in the US, is titled “IDKFA” – a well-known cheat code used in the…

Seven years on from the launch of the first Hellblade game, Ninja Theory’s long-awaited Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 launches this month – in just two weeks’ time, on 21st May. It’s one of only a handful of games from Xbox Game Studios to arrive in 2024 – and yet fans have commented that Microsoft…

Nintendo Switch owners will no longer be able to upload images and videos directly to social media platform X, formerly Twitter, as of 10th June. The removal of posting to X was detailed by Nintendo today, in a blog post on the changes. You’ll also no longer be able to find friend…

Mega publisher EA has laid out its slate of games set to launch between now and the end of the financial year – 31st March 2025. It’s a pretty thin slate, outside of the usual sports titles, albeit with two mysterious ‘unannounced’ games still to be named. One of these is Dragon Age:…

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss the future of Xbox after the announcement Microsoft is shutting a swathe of Bethesda game studios. Hi-Fi Rush and Redfall once seemed primed to benefit from being available via Xbox Game Pass, Microsoft’s much-touted subscription service often seen as the best reason to own the company’s…

Xbox has today announced stunning cuts and studio closures affecting a slew of development houses under the Bethesda banner. Redfall developer Arkane Austin will close, and its online co-op vampire game will not be updated further. Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks will close. Mighty Doom studio Alpha Dog Studios will…

Nintendo expects Switch to sell another 13.5m units during the coming financial year – enough that it will overtake Nintendo DS to become the company’s best-selling platform. In total, Switch is now on 141.32m units sold. In financial results published today – alongside which Nintendo mentioned Switch 2 for the first time –…