Author: Tom Phillips

[ad_1] There’s a talented new D&D group on the horizon – including Eurogamer’s very own Aoife Wilson! – who are set to begin their adventures this very week. Natural Six will introduce themselves via a live show on Friday at EGX 2023 – the UK games event run by Eurogamer’s parent company Reedpop.…

[ad_1] Ubisoft’s new Assassin’s Creed entry is all about stealth and subtlety, but main character Basim still gets a ridiculous special move. It’s called Assassin’s Focus, and it allows you to freeze time and paint a reticule over multiple enemies to teleport between them all and murder them in quick succession. It’s…

[ad_1] Assassin’s Creed Mirage might take Ubisoft’s historical stabathon series back to basics, but there’s a newer visual effect which players want rid of. The game’s visual chromatic aberration effect is switched on by default and there’s no way to turn it off – despite it being pronounced and sometimes quite distracting…

[ad_1] UPDATE 3/10/23 11am UK: Team17’s company restructure is expected to see layoffs across the business, Eurogamer now understands – on top of the deep cuts to the company’s QA department reported yesterday. The developer’s usability team is another set to see job losses, sources close to the company say, with further cuts expected in…

[ad_1] EA Sports FC 24 is the second-biggest boxed game launch of 2023 here in the UK, though physical sales are down by 30 percent on last year’s FIFA 23. The rebranded FIFA bumped boxed game juggernaut Hogwarts Legacy into third place in terms of the biggest 2023 UK physical game launches. Only…

[ad_1] This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss the topic of video game industry layoffs, something that seems to be rarely out of the headlines over the past few weeks and months. Layoffs are nothing new, of course, but this year in particular feels like a particularly tough time, at companies big and…

[ad_1] Microsoft plans to finally buy Activision Blizzard for $68.7bn next Friday, 13th October, according to a fresh report from The Verge. That date is still contingent on the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority giving the deal an official green light – though the regulator has already signalled it is likely to do…

[ad_1] Sunless Sea developer Failbetter Games has reached a “mutually agreeable settlement” with Alexis Kennedy, the company’s founder and former creative director, following years of public feuding and legal threats. There’s little detail on what exactly has been agreed between the two parties – though the statement claims this settlement covers “all their…

[ad_1] The team of bug-fixing quality assurance (QA) staff who unionised while working on Dragon Age: Dreadwolf have all been laid off. That’s according to a Polygon report which states that the 13 staff are no longer working on BioWare’s long-awaited RPG project. These staff were formally employed by QA…

[ad_1] The UK competition regulator will launch a fresh investigation into cloud services, with Microsoft once again in its sights. The Competition and Markets Authority is still wrapping up its original extended investigation into Microsoft over its proposed $68.7bn Activision Blizzard acquisition, with concerns over the deal’s impact on cloud gaming proving a…