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Nintendo shares have dropped slightly from a record high last week, following reports the company has internally delayed its expected Switch 2 release window into 2025.

The upcoming return of Crazy Taxi will be a «AAA» game, Sega has said.

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.

A report claiming Nintendo Switch 2 will now launch in Q1 2025 is spreading online.

Nintendo will not release its successor to Switch until Q1 2025, according to reports from Brazilian journalist Pedro Henrique Lutti Lippe and Eurogamer.

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss Microsoft's business update that brought us confirmation Xbox will launch four console exclusives — for now — on PlayStation and Nintendo Switch.

Epic Games will begin developing a mobile version of the Epic Games Store for launch on iOS in Europe, the company has said, now it has officially received an Apple Developer Account.

As Microsoft opts to launch at least some of its Xbox exclusives on rival consoles, the company's gaming boss Phil Spencer has reflected on Sony's recent, hugely-successful launch of online, cross-platform shooter Helldivers 2 on PC and PlayStation 5.

Hello and welcome to our live coverage of today's Xbox business update, where we expect Microsoft to lay out some form of plan for launching first-party Xbox games on Nintendo and PlayStation platforms.

A report by the French video game workers union has raised concerns from staff at Life is Strange and Vampyr developer Don't Nod.

Don't expect new games in any of PlayStation's biggest existing franchises before the end of this financial year, Sony has said.

Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered begins with a content warning that explains the trilogy contains «offensive depictions of people and cultures rooted in racial and ethnic prejudices».

Arceus, the god Pokémon, won't turn up in Pokémon Go for this month's upcoming Go Tour: Sinnoh.

Microsoft's gaming top brass are expected to lay out their plans to publish some Xbox games on PlayStation and Nintendo platforms via a business update released this week as a podcast.

The Thaumaturge will now launch slightly later than planned, on 4th March, despite work on the game being complete.

You may not know his name, but Richard Wells is one of the most-heard voices in video games — and now he's blowing up on TikTok.

Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies has responded to the long-running rumours of a full-on Fortnite collaboration, saying they are a «myth».

The brilliant Baldur's Gate 3 will let you lock lips with your love interest better than ever before as part of its big Patch 6 update, due next week.

Activision execs offered Infinity Ward staff a 50 percent pay increase and told staff to «take the money and get over it» after the publisher dramatically fired the developer's founders Jason West and Vince Zampella in 2010.

A series of Easter eggs point to us seeing more of Batman in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, presumably as part of a forthcoming post-launch update.

Take-Two Interactive and 2K Games have said that virtual currencies within games are «fictions created by game publishers» during a lawsuit which alleges that money is effectively stolen from players when games are shut down.

Ubisoft's live-service pirate ship game Skull and Bones is a «quadruple-A» project, company boss Yves Guillemot has said.

GTA 5 will soon pass the astonishing milestone of having sold 200m copies.

Assassin's Creed Codename Red — which takes the long-running series to feudal Japan — will launch before Ubisoft's next financial year ends in March 2025, CEO Yves Guillemot has confirmed, with the publisher's open-world Star Wars Outlaws still targeting a release in 2024.

Edmund McMillen has discussed a potential Fortnite collaboration with Epic Games, the celebrated indie designer has said.

Sony will step up to the spotlight this week with a PlayStation State of Play broadcast, it's been reported.

A cunning Palworld fan has found an unreleased Pal creature hiding away in the game's code.

Microsoft's decision to cut 1900 staff members has reportedly seen the company's games retail teams reduced, prompting fresh questions over Xbox's future in the physical games business.

Nintendo's Switch 2 will feature an eight-inch LCD screen, according to a new report.

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss today's statement from The Pokémon Company that confirms it will investigate Palworld for possible intellectual property infringement.

Nintendo Switch Online game F-Zero 99 has a fresh update today that adds the ability to create private lobbies.

Black Forest Games, the Embracer-owned studio behind Destroy All Humans! 1 and 2 remakes, has laid off around half of its staff.

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.

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.

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.

A marketing campaign designed to promote recruitment in the British Army using a custom-made Fortnite map looks to have been taken offline.

«Pokémon with guns» game Palworld has just blasted through yet another sales milestone — of 5m copies sold in three days.

The original Destiny arrived 10 years ago this year — and finally, Bungie will let players modify their character's face.

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.

A growing number of video game developers are now quietly working on projects for Nintendo's unannounced Switch 2.

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.

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.

Popular jail simulator Prison Architect will get a 3D successor, and it'll release on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on 26th March.

Five years after its initial unveiling, developer Mojang has confirmed development on Minecraft Dungeons has reached its end, and that the game's 1.17 update — which released ten months ago, back in November 2023 — will be its last.

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As Fortnite's stellar current season draws to a close (seriously, the jungle is fab), Epic is cranking the hype handle in anticipation of tomorrow's Chapter 4 Season 4, now officially titled The Final Resort, with a first trailer revealing some of what's to come.