Chris Tapsell

Developer Insomniac Games released its much anticipated New Game Plus update for Marvel's Spider-Man 2 yesterday, however it slipped up a tad and also accidentally gave players access to a development menu.

Sony has announced its PlayStation Plus games for April.

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we digest the last seven days of headlines from GDC 2024 — a conference that was unsurprisingly coloured by the past 18 months of industry turmoil. Eurogamer's Chris Tapsell was there, and joins us today to report back on what was being said on the ground.

Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot has discussed the company's strategy of experimenting with generative AI, as detailed in today's announcement of NEO NPCs — a new prototype project from Ubisoft designed to let video game characters respond with custom responses to players' speech input.

Funcom, developer of the upcoming Dune: Awakening, has issued a statement regarding the role of religion in the game after fan concerns erupted on the internet this week.

Following rumblings of an imminent release date for Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut on PC, Sony has made it official. Developer Sucker Punch's open-world samurai hit will launch via Steam and the Epic Games Store on 16th May.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's first season of post-launch content gets underway on 28th March, introducing The Joker as a new playable character. Additionally, the delayed Epic Games Store version of Suicide Squad is now scheduled to launch on 26th March.

A beefy update headed to Marvel's Spider-Man 2 will add a wardrobe of new suits and unlock a fresh New Game Plus mode for Insomniac's enjoyable superhero adventure.

PlayStation-published Helldivers 2 had a hugely successful weekend on Steam, despite some continuing server issues, with a fresh player peak of 409,367 users yesterday.

Diablo 4 is coming to Game Pass this March.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is getting a new leaderboard thanks to a «major unintended bug» which caused the Burn status to scale incorrectly.

The Pokémon Company has issued a rare statement addressing the smash hit PC and Xbox game Palworld, after claims the latter has directly copied its designs.

With Bethesda looking to ramp up the frequency of its Starfield updates in 2024 — it recently committed to a «roughly every six weeks» schedule starting in February — the studio is kicking off the new year by putting its latest patch into Steam beta next Wednesday, 17th January, with the promise of «over 100 fixes and improvements».

Valve has added a new in-game reporting tool in Steam which allows players to flag «illegal content» in games which include live-generated AI content.

Sam Barlow's Immortality — an epic mystery of self-reference and cinema — is coming to PlayStation 5 later this motnh

It's looking increasingly unlikely Starfield will have the quite same kind of longevity as its Bethesda RPG stablemates, but that isn't discouraging the studio from continuing to tinker with the space adventure's core — and one intriguing addition Bethesda has now confirmed is that «new ways of traveling» are coming at some point in 2024.

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 fans itching to return to New York for some New Game Plus action will need to wait just a little while longer; developer Insomniac Games has announced it's delaying the previously promised mode — alongside a number of other features — into «early» 2024 for some additional testing ahead of release.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 developer Sledgehammer Games has said it is «investigating» an exploit that allows players to wriggle around on the floor while prone at fast speeds.

Activision has said its new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has broken multiple player engagement records, without providing any specific player numbers.

Conveniently timed to coincide with the launch of this year's Steam autumn sale, Blizzard has announced a free trial week for Diablo 4 — plus accompanying discounts across all versions — which is now live and runs until 28th November.

The CEO of Immortals of Aveum developer Ascendant Studios has said releasing the game during such a busy window «100 percent» contributed to its poor sales figures.

Unity has announced the next version of its engine will launch in 2024 and expand on its «responsibly sourced» AI tools.

It's been just over two years since acclaimed animated League of Legends spin-off Arcane launched on Netflix, but finally its long-awaited second season has the closest thing to a release date yet. The bad news is there's still a long wait in store; the streaming service has now confirmed Arcane season two will launch in November 2024.

Microsoft and AI company Inworld AI have announced a «multi-year co-development partnership», which will see the companies work to develop a range of AI tools for Xbox's studios.

Rollerdrome, the acclaimed (and ridiculously stylish) skater shooter from OlliOlli developer Roll7, is launching for Xbox Series X/S and Game Pass on 28th November.

Microsoft's Xbox Partner Preview showcase might have an exceptionally rubbish name, but don't let that fool you into thinking it's not worth a watch! Tonight's latest instalment was a pretty decent offering all round that, while not exciting as such, did at least have some interesting reveals. There was first footage of Konami's Metal Gear Sold 3, a new game from PowerWash Simulator developer FuturLab, and more. And if you're looking for a summary of it all that won't take up 30 minutes of your time, then read on.

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 developer Insomniac Games has said it will replace a Cuban flag in Miles Morales' home with the correct Puerto Rican design.

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 mightn't be out yet, but if your excitement is so vast you're already pondering a second play-through, you'll be pleased to know the game will — like its predecessor — be getting a New Game Plus mode, but it'll be arriving sometime after launch.

It looks like the release date of Sony's PlayStation 5 Slim has leaked, along with a Marvel's Spider-Man 2 bundle.

Two weeks after getting its first small update, Starfield has just recieved another, this one focusing on performance and stability, as well as remedying a number of gameplay issues.

If you've been eagerly awaiting the arrival of Total War: Pharaoh next month, on 11th October, there's a bit of bad news — for some purchasers, at least: developer Creative Assembly has announced it's delaying the title into «early 2024», but only on the Epic Games Store.

Xbox has announced the next wave of games to join the Game Pass library.

Ascendant Studios, the developer behind the EA published Immortals of Aveum, has laid off almost half of its staff.

Sega has announced a release date for Football Manager 2024, which will debut on PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and on smartphones from 6th November.

Sega has announced the launch date for Total War Pharaoh, which will arrive as a digital download on 11th October.

EA has published its Ultimate Team top ratings for the upcoming EA Sports FC 24, which mixes male and female players for the first time.

The first piece of DLC for Soviet fantasy Atomic Heart is here.

Following EA Sports FC 24's formal unveiling earlier this month, the steady dripfeed of news continues, with EA now revealing a partnership with the Ballon D'or that'll see the presitgious award come to Player Career mode via a glitzy in-game end-of-season ceremony — for players on current-gen consoles and PC, at least.

Sony has named its offering of games available to all PlayStation Plus members for the month of August.

El Paso, Elsewhere, the latest game from developer Strange Scaffold, now has a release date in September for PC and Xbox.