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EA slashes Star Wars Battlefront 2 hero costs after fan furore
Pray they don't alter it any further.
After a day of outcry, upset and what's shaping up to be reddit's most downvoted comment ever, EA has responded to the fallout from Star Wars Battlefront 2's progression system, slashing hero costs so players can get their hands on characters such as Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker much, much quicker.
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Brilliant early access "roguevania" Dead Cells gets its big new Brutal Update tomorrow
More biomes! More monsters! More death!
Developer Motion Twin's excellent early access "roguevania" Dead Cells is getting some major additions and revisions tomorrow - including a completely overhauled character progression system - in its new Brutal Update.
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Recommended | Football Manager 2018 review
False nine?
You only need an excuse. The fundamental appeal of Football Manager is the same as it was in the Collyer brothers' debut in 1992, and if at any time in your life that appeal has spoken to you, it will do so forevermore. Really, it's just a matter of how seductively each iteration whispers its new features list at you.
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Project Hospital is a "fresh" indie take on Bullfrog's Theme Hospital, minus the Bloaty Head
Say aah.
Developer Oxymoron Games has announced Project Hospital, a hospital-themed management sim that's quite a lot like that game what Bullfrog did back in the 90s.
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Bethesda has announced releases dates for the three remaining episodes in Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus' story-based season pass DLC, The Freedom Chronicles.
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Xbox One X UK launch sales match Nintendo Switch, beat PlayStation 4 Pro
Loads of you 4K'd out for one.
Xbox One X is off to a positive start, with a UK launch week sales total which matched that of Nintendo Switch earlier this year.
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PS4 online multiplayer drops PlayStation Plus requirement for five days
Anything you've been waiting to try?
For five days this week PlayStation 4 online multiplayer will not require PlayStation Plus. Now if only the Call of Duty: WW2 servers would work...
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Call of Duty: WW2 devs accidentally gave everyone double XP from launch
Hope you made the most of it.
Call of Duty: WW2 developer Sledgehammer accidentally gave all players double XP from the launch of the game - and have only now turned it off.
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Now Warface gets a Battle Royale mode
Game unknown.
It was inevitable, wasn't it? After PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds broke Steam records and Epic saw a huge uptick in players following the launch of a Battle Royale mode for Fortnite, other developers are getting stuck into the hot new video game genre. The latest: Crytek's Warface.
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Feature | There's more to Assassin's Creed's Renaissance Italy than meets the eye
Digging deeper.
Editor's note: Rob Dwiar is a garden designer, landscape architect, horticulturist and writer who regular Eurogamer readers may remember for his analysis of The Witcher 3, Mass Effect and Dishonored, his essay on the genius of Rapture and his thoughts on the close quarters of Dead Space, Metro, The Last of Us and Oblivion. Now, to coincide with the 10-year anniversary of Assassin's Creed, Dwiar takes a closer look at Ubisoft's remarkable recreation of Renaissance Italy, and finds there's more than meets the eye.
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Call of Duty: WW2 came out two weeks ago, and while it's a cracking shooter, performance issues are threatening to derail the game's launch.
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Hot on the heels of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guest starring in Injustice 2 comes the news that Noctis, star of Final Fantasy 15, is coming to Tekken 7.
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EA's response to Star Wars: Battlefront 2 hero unlock fury isn't going down well
"Seriously? I paid $80 to have Vader locked?"
Star Wars Battlefront 2 is now out in the wild, but the negative response to its controversial progression systems shows no signs of going away.
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Here's a guest character - well, four - we hadn't expected for Injustice 2: the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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Feature | Dangerous sports for a frosty morning
Collision detection.
Sometimes a crow is the perfect companion. All the way through the demo for Lonely Mountains: Downhill, you can hear this crow, solitary as ever, that ragged call mournful one minute and sarcastic the next. And while you can't see the bird itself you can imagine it, rickety on its poky legs or arcing smoothly through the sky to find its perch in one of the game's sparse, sharp-edged trees. Everyone needs an audience, I guess, and the crow is the ideal one here, for a game about clambering on a flimsy bike and chucking yourself down an endless hill, cresting rises, sprinting towards gaps and eventually colliding with a boulder that you saw but only after it was far too late.
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Recommended | Call of Duty: WW2 review
Loot's on the ground.
It begins, unsurprisingly, on the beach. The throwback to a throwback, from Call of Duty World War to Call of Duty 2, from Medal of Honor Allied Assault all the way to Saving Private Ryan. As the bullets whistle past your ears and thud into the churning sea, as sand scatters and machine guns rattle, as soldiers scream and shout and run, there's more than a feeling that we've done this all before.
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Digital Foundry | How does Call of Duty: WW2 look on Xbox One X and PS4 Pro?
Initial analysis from Digital Foundry.
Every year, a new Call of Duty arrives, the franchise standard bearer for 60 frames per second gameplay and by extension, the end product of some of the industry's most talented engineers, miraculously working more effects and features into a minuscule 16.7ms per frame time slice. Based on what we've seen so far, WW2 can stand proud alongside the technological miracle that was last year's Infinite Warfare. Small issues aside, this is another beautiful-looking title, pushing the series on once again without unduly compromising the 60fps lock.
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Feature | Revisiting Nintendo's novelty pop hit
Funk soul Super Smash Brothers.
The name Simon Harris has meant many different things to many different people, since the musician and producer began his career as a club promoter in London in the early 1980s. In 1986 he co-founded the Music of Life label - home to material by Paul Oakenfold, Norman Cook Fatboy Slim and Afrika Bambaataa - and in 1988 released the Public Enemy-sampling hit single 'Bass (How Low Can You Go)' under his own name. Harris has remixed countless artists, from Prince to Elvis Presley, and produced several breakbeat collections.
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Digital Foundry | Doom's 'impossible' Switch port analysed in depth
A remarkable technical achievement, but are the cutbacks too much?
One of the most celebrated FPS franchise giants has finally returned to the House of Mario. Going back more than two decades, Nintendo hardware has always had a unique relationship with the series. Doom for the Super NES, sluggish though it may be, was a technical showpiece for Nintendo's 16-bit machine while the Game Boy Advance conversion felt like holding the future in your hands. There are echoes of this in Bethesda's Switch port of the Doom 2016 reboot. This is mobile technology pushed kicking and screaming to its absolute limits.
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Digital Foundry | Wolfenstein 2: the biggest jump yet from PS4 Pro to Xbox One X?
Peak resolution leaps from 1440p to full 4K - but what about performance?
Wolfenstein 2 is one of the most exceptional graphical showcases of the generation so far - a 60 frames per second shooter with beautiful dynamic lighting and shading, GPU-accelerated particles and a state-of-the-art post-process pipeline. However, it does have one weakness: performance. PS4, Pro and Xbox One can't quite lock to the target 60fps and all console versions lack the slick fluidity of the Doom 2016 reboot, running on the same engine. Which begs the question - can Xbox One X power past the frame-rate issues of the other console versions, and to what extent can it improve on PS4 Pro's impressive visuals?
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Little Nightmares' second helping of darkly adorable story DLC, known as The Hideaway, has arrived on Xbox One, PS4, and PC.
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Until Dawn developer's PSVR psychological horror game The Inpatient has been delayed
As has its VR cover shooter Bravo Team.
Sony has announced that two of its Supermassive-Games-developed PSVR titles - hospital horror The Inpatient and co-operative cover shooter Bravo Team - have been delayed.
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Feature | Video games and improv are made for each other
Chaotic tourist mode.
I started acting when I was fifteen. It was the freedom that attracted me; years of shyness and frustration shunted cleanly out of the way with scripts and imaginary characters to hide behind. A few decades of training, performing, directing, then teaching eventually lead to two years of standing on movie sets on the other side of the world. I came to understand that the key to growing as an actor was being flexible and open; in dramatic terms, being able to improvise.
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Capcom is already developing new games to release on Nintendo Switch in fiscal year 2018, Capcom COO Haruhiro Tsujiro has confirmed - and one of those is an Ace Attorney game.
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Surgeon Simulator studio has cancelled Splatoon-esque multiplayer skater Decksplash
After it failed to hit its 100k player target.
Surgeon Simulator and I Am Bread developer Bossa Studios has announced that development on its vaguely Splatoon-esque multiplayer skateboard project Decksplash will end after the game failed to reach its 100k player target during last week's free trial.
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Digital Foundry | Halo 5: Xbox One X's most impressive 4K upgrade?
The way it's meant to be played.
Step back for a moment to the year 2015. 343 Industries is releasing Halo 5: Guardians to eager fans the world over. While not completely escaping criticism, the game itself is well received and ultimately, it's a solid shooter with tight gameplay and gorgeous art direction - all delivered at a solid 60 frames per second frame-rate. However, that silky-smooth performance level came at a price: image quality. Xbox One just wasn't powerful enough to resolve everything the game had to offer, but with the release of Xbox One X, there's a strong argument that 343's vision is now fully delivered.
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Call of Duty: WW2 gets its first big update
But Headquarters is still lonely.
Call of Duty: WW2 has its first big update - but it doesn't fix the game's troubled social space.
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Star Wars Battlefront 2's free The Last Jedi DLC gets a release date
Finn! Phasma! Maps! Single-player missions!
EA has laid out the roadmap for December's The Last Jedi season of Star Wars Battlefront 2 content.
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A new FIFA Ultimate Team "exploit" has emerged that some players reckon can't be fixed.
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Recommended | Super Lucky's Tale review
Fur the win.
On the surface, Lucky the fox is a perfect example of why you should never, ever name your kid "Lucky". His debut adventure was tied to the Oculus Rift, which meant that its impact was always going to be pretty limited. Even then, in amongst all those weird treats that defined the first wave of VR, controlling a cartoon fox as he scampered around handicraft 3D worlds collecting stuff didn't have much obvious appeal. And now he's back with Super Lucky's Tale on Xbox and PC, he's run right into Mario Odyssey's release window.
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