Author: Tom Phillips
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Lego 2K Drive has a £100 special edition
[ad_1] Lego 2K Drive has now been officially announced, and Eurogamer has gone hands-on with the colourful kid-friendly mix of Forza Horizon and Mario Kart. Publisher 2K has also now unveiled the game’s three editions, including the eye-popping £100 Lego 2K Drive Awesome Rivals Edition, which costs $120/€120 elsewhere. This version includes…
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Newscast: Are Unreal Engine’s procedural generation and Ubisoft’s Ghostwriter the future of game development?
[ad_1] This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss the bleeding-edge technologies on show this week at GDC 2023 – from Epic Games’ eye-popping Unreal Engine to Ubisoft’s intriguing new Ghostwriter dialogue tool. Last night’s startling State of Unreal presentation by Epic revealed a swathe of new features coming to the company’s suite of…
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TMNT graphic novel The Last Ronin will become a dark God of War-style video game
[ad_1] Prepare for a darker take on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, in a video game version of well-regarded comic book The Last Ronin. As reported by Polygon, this game will be a third-person action role-playing game in the style of God of War, with the last surviving Turtles member as its…
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GTA producer’s not-crypto project Everywhere is part episodic blockbuster, part Roblox rival
[ad_1] In a former casino on the outskirts of Edinburgh, ex-Grand Theft Auto producer Leslie Benzies is readying his next big gamble: a creation-fuelled game platform with blockbuster experiences built in. It’s called Everywhere, and seems almost too ambitious; a constructed attempt to beat the likes of Fortnite and Roblox at their own game,…
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Small band of gamers fail to block Microsoft Activision Blizzard bid
[ad_1] A group of gamers have failed in their attempt to sue Microsoft over its impending $68.7bn Activision Blizzard acquisition. The 10-strong party lawyered up late last year to launch a lawsuit which claimed Microsoft’s buyout would give the Xbox owner too much influence over the games industry “to foreclose rivals, limit…
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EA loot box lawsuit fails in bid to brand games as gambling
[ad_1] A judge has ruled against a class-action lawsuit which aimed to brand loot boxes in EA games like FIFA as “unlawful gambling”. However, the judge has allowed a separate part of the lawsuit to go ahead – one which seeks to claim that EA games adopted “deceptive and unconsionable acts or…
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Harvey Smith on the politics of Redfall, and how its undead were born from real-life bloodsuckers
[ad_1] Redfall is a silly game about shooting vampires, but also not. Yes, it’s about clearing a town of a supernatural nuisance using flashy powers and souped up weaponry – and there’s much more on how it plays in Aoife’s video below – but, just as with Arkane’s previous series Dishonored, there’s also much…
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Epic unveils Unreal Engine advancements, Hellblade tech demo, ability to publish directly into Fortnite
[ad_1] Epic Games has held its latest State of Unreal presentation, during which it demoed new features for Unreal Engine 5.2, fresh peeks at Unreal Engine games such as NCSoft’s Project M and Ninja Theory’s Hellblade sequel, plus a live demo of Fortnite’s brand new UE5-powered creative mode. Oh, and Tim Sweeney gave…
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Redfall developer working to U-turn on single-player always online restriction
[ad_1] Redfall developer Arkane is “working actively” to remove the game’s always-online requirement when playing strictly in single-player mode. The vampire shooter’s always-online restriction raised eyebrows when it was spotted last month. Now, speaking to Eurogamer, game director Harvey Smith has revealed his team are now working to change how…
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Ubisoft sparks debate by unveiling AI tool to aid scriptwriting
[ad_1] Ubisoft has sparked debate by showing off its new Ghostwriter tool, an “AI” designed to aid its writers create dialogue for in-game NPCs. Ghostwriter was demoed on stage at GDC this week by Ubisoft researcher Ben Swanson, who stated the tool was designed for use with background dialogue, barks (generic lines…