Eurogamer News, Tips, Tricks, Ideas

Dragon's Dogma 2 has sold 2.5m units since its release on 22nd March.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth players who bought the game digitally cannot platinum the game.

Ascendant Studios' Immortals of Aveum is currently enjoying a new lease of life as a 'free' game on PlayStation Plus — and two major upgrades are coming soon. The first — patch 1.0.6.3 — adds support for high dynamic range and should be rolling out to all console versions of the game today. Perhaps more exciting is the upcoming 1.0.6.4, which brings AMD's FSR 3 frame generation to consoles for the first time, increasing frame-rate via inserted, interpolated frames.

Embracer CEO Lars Wingefors has acknowledged it's «way too early» for the company to «start talking about» acquiring new studios.

Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and known to millions as the voice of Half-Life 2's vortigaunts, has died at the age of 87.

Payday 3's Operation Medic Bag's second patch is now available.

Dredge, the sinister fishing game from Black Salt Games and publisher Team 17, has donated $100,000 New Zealand dollars to the New Zealand Whale and Dolphin Trust as it celebrates its first anniversary and teases that there's more to come for the wonderful indie horror game.

CD Projekt's chief financial officer, Piotr Nielubowicz, says the company does «not see a place for microtransactions in the case of single-player games».

How much does someone who built the foundations of Pokémon Go still play the game, eight years on? It's the first question I ask Ed Wu, senior vice president of Pokémon Go, as we set off on a walk together around a leafy London park — our phones in hand, Pokémon Go open. «I spend as much of my time beating up the game as possible,» he laughs. This is often using work-in-progress beta builds, he admits, to ensure upcoming features are bug-tested. But he still plays his «official» main account when he can — and it's clearly a source of pride that his was the first ever user account — or one of the first, he can't quite recall — registered on Pokémon Go's live server back at launch in the summer of 2016.

TimeSplitters Rewind — the fan-made recreation of TimeSplitters 1, 2 and 3's multiplayer, which has been in development since 2013 — has reemerged with its first update video in over the year, offering a fresh look at the project and an urgent call for assistance as its developers find themselves in an «incredibly challenging space» due to the current state of the industry.

Certain Affinity — the renowned Texas-based support studio most recently reported to be working on a Halo battle royale project for Microsoft — has announced a round of layoffs, which will see 25 employees lose their jobs.

A cavalcade of indie talent — including the studios behind Dead Cells, Darkest Dungeon, Vampire Survivors, Deep Rock Galactic, and Slay the Spire — has joined forces to launch a new 45-minute «no-nonsense» indie games showcase that's set to air on 10th April this year.

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss who might pick up the baton and develop a potential Baldur's Gate 4 — now that BG3 studio Larian has confirmed it is leaving the franchise behind.

Epic has announced the next lot of games going free on its PC store front, with The Outer Worlds and Thief getting the Epic Games Store freebie treatment starting Thursday, 4th April.

Earthblade, the next project from Celeste developer Extremely OK Games, won't be out in 2024, but progress is being made.

Capcom's big Monster Hunter Wilds reveal in December might have been eye-catching, but it was a little light on detail; but now, new leaks have shed a little more light on the developer's plans, claiming this latest series instalment will be fully open world and launching in Q1 2025.

Valheim publisher Coffee Stain has announced a deck-building roguelike from a couple of developers previously at Stunlock Studios, the outfit best known for V Rising.

Another entry in the Spyro series is reportedly in development with Toys for Bob.

Dragon's Dogma 2 developer Capcom has begun quizzing fans on what they'd like to see in future DLC for the game.

Twitch has once again updated its community guidelines to prohibit sexualised content, this time preventing streamers using their bodies as a green screen.

Sony has successfully won a patent infringement lawsuit in which it was being sued for $500m, after a US District Court judge ruled in the PlayStation company's favour.

Sega will shed 240 staff across its European studios, and sell off Company of Heroes developer Relic Entertainment as part of a cost-cutting drive.

It's not often we get to hear a senior developer of a Super Mario Bros. game philosophise about game design. At gamescom last year, Takashi Tezuka, executive officer at Nintendo and producer on Super Mario Bros. Wonder, and Shiro Mouri, the game's director, gave us a glimpse, as they spoke with Eurogamer about their intentions for Super Mario Bros. Wonder.

Embracer has entered an agreement to sell Gearbox Interactive to Take-Two for $460m.

Images allegedly showing the white, digital-only Xbox Series X reported to be in the works earlier this year have leaked online.

Europa, the absolutely lovely looking Ghibli-inspired exploration adventure from developer Helder Pinto, has been delayed — and will now likely launch for PC this «summer».

Nintendo has reportedly cut 120 contractor testing roles at its North American operation — with an unspecified number said to have been converted to full-time positions — as part of a major restructuring effort that comes amid claims of a testing «lull» ahead of Switch 2's arrival.

Vampire survival game V Rising is getting an official Castlevania collaboration, introducing vampire hunter Simon Belmont and a range of series-inspired cosmetics, in May.

Yellow Brick Games, the studio founded by former Dragon Age creative director Mike Laidlaw, has released a teaser trailer for its «ambitious new action RPG», ahead of a full reveal in April.

Sony has announced its PlayStation Plus games for April.

It Takes Two — the co-op platformer from Hazelight and Josef Fares (yes, of that Oscars rant) — celebrated its third anniversary earlier this week.

$400k worth of Playdate game consoles have disappeared in Las Vegas.

Reviving the beloved Mass Effect series — again! — may be a tough mission, but the veteran crew behind the upcoming Mass Effect 5 know a little something about assembling a squad to take on impossible odds.

Tomas Sala's Falconeer series will be a trilogy, the developer has announced.

Another F-Zero game is on the way to Switch.

Orbital, the 27th major update to No Man's Sky, will arrive today and revamp the game's space stations.

Marvel Rivals is an upcoming free-to-play, team-based PVP shooter for PC with the backing of Chinese publishing giant NetEase.

Creature collecting RPG Cassette Beasts will receive a multiplayer update in May, plus it's heading to mobile devices this year.

Microsoft is adding the ability to use a mouse and keyboard to its suite of games available through Xbox Cloud Gaming via browser, or the Xbox App on Windows PCs.

The next expansion for MMORPG Final Fantasy 14, Dawntrail, is up for pre-order, but the process has been beset with issues.

Phil Spencer has discussed the devastating wave of layoffs that has impacted the video games industry, and said he was «most concerned» about the overall «lack of growth».

Xbox head Phil Spencer wants to see more digital storefronts such as Epic and Itch.io on Microsoft's consoles.

Diablo 4 is set to make its Game Pass debut this Thursday, 28th March.

It's been 10 years since BioShock Infinite, and creator Ken Levine is still not done with follow-up project Judas. But the game is inching closer, evidenced recently by its appearance in trailers and now, a marketing beat where select people such as Game Awards host Geoff Keighley have now played it for several hours.

Ubisoft's Hawaii-based, open-world racing game The Crew Motorfest will arrive on Steam next month.

For many, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is still seen as a kind of Breath of the Wild 1.5 — a half-sequel that builds on 2017's revolutionary hit but, in using the same Hyrule as its overworld, doesn't fully transform it into something new.

Sony is introducing a new Community Game Help feature on PlayStation 5.

There is a Stellar Blade demo coming to PlayStation 5.

Lego Fortnite gets its second major update today, with the arrival of vehicles to build and drive around.

Xbox gaming boss Phil Spencer has discussed the idea of a Microsoft handheld games device, and how Xbox games should play on third-party handheld hardware.

It is understood the «majority» of Xbox games will eventually be coming to PlayStation.

Baldur's Gate 3 boss Swen Vincke has revealed a number of ideas cut from the game during its development — including the ability to recruit a major antagonist as a companion character.

Dragon's Dogma 2 is full of surprises, and players are still working to discover all of them. Chief of interest at the moment is the curious Dragonsplague affliction that can be acquired by Pawns.

Alan Wake developer Remedy has shared more details on its upcoming live-service multiplayer game, currently known as Condor.

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.

Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition was released on PC last week, and has seen a respectable number of players flocking to partake in Aloy's latest outing.

The Elder Scrolls 6 exists as a work-in-progress early build, Bethesda has confirmed, in a brief statement which notes the game is now very much «in development».

If you have been following the Dragon's Dogma 2 discourse over the last few days, you will be aware of the game's paid DLC. On release, developer Capcom introduced a number of items that players could purchase with real-world money, such as the Art of Metamorphosis — Character Editor DLC, which costs £1.69.

CD Projekt's patched-up Cyberpunk 2077 will be free to play on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S this weekend — perfect for the Easter bank holiday.

A senior staff member behind the continually-delayed Ubisoft shooter XDefiant has denied a report which claimed the game's late launch was due to developers «chasing Call of Duty».

Capcom has laid out its plans for future Dragon's Dogma 2 updates.

Apple and other tech giants face another legal fight — this time from the European Commission, which is now investigating the iPhone maker's alleged non-compliance with EU rules.

PlayStation has released a digital Jim Ryan bobblehead to commemorate the exec's time at the company.

Dragon Ball Sparkling! Zero has secured an ESRB rating, leading to hopes the game is content-complete and we'll get a formal release date soon.

Yes, there are a lot of references to Final Fantasy 9 in Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail's collector's edition… and no, that's not a coincidence.

Our first look at the gameplay of Sonic Toys Party – which is a Sonic and Fall Guys-esque mash-up – has popped up online.

Bend Studios' next game will be a «AAA live service» game.

CD Projekt Red says it turns down «over 90 per cent» of its team's side quest pitches.

Spyro studio Toys for Bob has reportedly reached an agreement with Microsoft for its first independent game.

Velan Studios' director of marketing, Josh Harrison, has one recommendation for studios looking to close down or «sunset» a live-service game: «make a private hosted version of your game».

Final Fantasy 14's Dawntrail will release in full on 2nd July, 2024 – the early access will drop one week prior on 28th June – so both you and the Dawntrail development team has «one week» to get through Elden Ring's eagerly anticipated DLC, Shadow of the Erdtree.

Overwatch 2's beleaguered PvE content has reportedly been scrapped.

Resident Evil 9 is reportedly being developed as an open-world game.

Jyamma Games has «officially apologised to the Xbox community» after deciding not to release the soulslike Enotria: The Last Song on Xbox in order to ensure a «superior experience» for players on PC and PS5.

GTA 6's development has reportedly fallen so far behind, the eagerly-anticipated game may miss its 2025 release window.

New co-op action roguelike, Sworn, will release on PC and consoles later this year, and it's running an open playtest next week.

You might have heard: while Larian isn't done with updating Baldur's Gate 3, the studio's next game won't be Baldur's Gate 4 or anything to do with D&D.

A long-running website for Pokémon fan game enthusiasts has shut down after being served a DMCA takedown notice.

Following the release of Echoes of the Fallen in December, Final Fantasy 16 is set to get its next slice of DLC as soon as April.

Enotria: The Last Song was initially set to release in June, but its launch date is being pushed back by developer Jyamma Games, ensuring it avoids a certain Elden Ring DLC.