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Video | Watch: Johnny cooks Kwama Egg Quiche from The Elder Scrolls Online
Khajiit while you flan.
I've been making video game foodstuffs in my kitchen for 22 straight weeks now. In that time, I've learned a thing or two - most notably that in-game recipes aren't always the most comprehensive.
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PlayStation 4 exclusive Horizon: Zero Dawn is getting an improved photo mode in a forthcoming patch.
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Popular PC hero shooter Paladins is now available to all as a free-to-play game on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
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Play The Division for free this weekend on PC, PS4, Xbox One
Infectious fun.
Ubisoft open world shooter The Division will be available to play for free this weekend on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
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Live-action Zelda escape game lands in London this July
Wouldn't Midna go.
The Legend of Zelda's live-action escape game will journey to London this July.
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Feature | How Edith Finch captures the weird reality of family life
House of leaves.
SPOILER ALERT! This article mentions key plot points in What Remains of Edith Finch, and I'd hate to ruin anything for you. Don't read on until you've finished a playthrough.
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Code Vein is a new "gruelling" action RPG from Bandai Namco
UPDATE: First trailer released, looks appropriately gruelling.
UPDATE 3/5/17: Bandai Namco has released the first Code Vein trailer, showing off an initial peak at gameplay. We get a glimpse of Code Vein's ruined world, and its companion system where you can recruit a citizen to become your battle partner.
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Darksiders 3 leaked with screenshots and details
UPDATE: Officially revealed in teaser trailer.
UPDATE 03/05/2017 3.47am: Darksiders 3 has officially been revealed by THQ Nordic.
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Alan Wake developer's next game gathers pace
Publisher secured, release platforms confirmed.
The next game from Remedy, creator of Alan Wake and Quantum Break, has secured a publisher.
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Feature | What's behind PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' phenomenal success?
DayZ gone by.
Sometimes I wonder what the games industry would look like had Bohemia Interactive focussed on polishing and finishing their official version of DayZ, rather than vanishing down a rabbit-hole of granularity from which they never resurfaced. Imagine if players could experience its unique PvP of tense human encounters in a zombie-strewn wilderness, of fragile alliances and galling betrayals, without having to deal with a skipful of clunk and half-baked features for almost four years.
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Recommended | TumbleSeed review
Tilting at win-mills.
Put aside any notions you might have about how good you are at video games, for TumbleSeed cares not. This game is hard.
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Feature | From RIGS to Röki, a point-and-click adventure
Meet the UK's latest indie, formed from the ashes of Guerrilla Cambridge.
Three months ago, Alex Kanaris and Tom Jones were cast adrift by Sony when it shut down Guerrilla Cambridge. Both had worked at the studio as art directors. Both had worked for Sony for 14 years.
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Julian Gollop launches $500,000 crowdfunder for X-COM spiritual successor
UPDATE: And it's funded!
UPDATE 02/05/2017: Phoenix Point, the spiritual successor to the original X-COM, has now been successfully funded. It's taken just under seven days for the project to meet its initial target of $500,000, with a mix of crowdfunding from fans and investors.
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Zelda: Breath of the Wild update lets you play with Japanese VO, English subtitles
And lots of other languages.
Zelda: Breath of the Wild has been updated to let you choose a separate voice-over language to the on-screen text.
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Portal and Left 4 Dead writer runs out of Steam.
Chet Faliszek has brought his 12 year career at Valve Software to a close, our sister site GamesIndustry.biz has revealed.
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Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is Nintendo's first UK chart topper in six years
Almost half of all US Switch owners now own a copy.
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has had a strong start in both the UK and North America, according to numbers data from both Nintendo and Chart-Track.
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Zelda: Breath of the Wild's first DLC detailed
Trials! Map tracking! Tingle armour! And more.
Nintendo has detailed the first slice of extra content coming to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild this summer, as part of the game's Expansion Pass.
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Feature | Prey was a flawed FPS with ideas worth remembering
This wasn't a triumph.
What a curious legacy Prey has left behind. This 'franchise' (imagine airquotes the size of skyscrapers) has been in existence for two decades, resulting in one single game. There are stormtroopers with better hit rates than that. In fact, up to this point Prey is probably better known for the games that never happened than the one which eventually did.
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Digital Foundry | Asus ROG Strix GTX 1080 Ti OC review: top-tier SLI tested
This GPU is incredibly fast, but how much faster are two of them?
4K displays are becoming mainstream now, prices are tumbling and graphics rendering technology is finally able to take advantage of these new screens, whether it's through checkerboarding or other upscaling, as seen on PS4 Pro, or else through sheer brute force in the PC space. Nvidia's GTX 1080 Ti still commands a price premium, but it's the most affordable GPU we've seen yet that powers PC gaming to native 4K at 60fps without too much in the way of visual compromises. And this led us to wonder: what would happen if two of them were paired in SLI?
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Review | Beat Cop review
Mean streets.
The Brooklyn of Beat Cop often feels like the New York that I love, re-rendered in pixel art. Brownstone buildings crowded with mom-and-pop stores; hotdog carts doing business, street dancers on the curb; cats lounging on window sills; metalheads rocking out, dudes bursting onto their balconies to perform their morning aerobics, unmoved by the thought of an audience. By midday, the streets are bustling. Suits and hippies, gangbangers and priests, everyone and anyone who might conceivably live in this time management-adventure hybrid of an '80s cop-simulator. More than once, Beat Cop has made me pause, nostalgic for the city of my heart.
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Digital Foundry | Prey's first hour tested on PS4 and Xbox One
How well can CryEngine handle Bethesda's latest?
Scheduled for release next week, Bethesda recently released a demo version of its new take on Prey, effectively giving you the chance to sample the first hour of the full game. After development stalled on a sequel to the original game, Prey was rebooted from scratch by Arkane Austin - and what we have here is a new take on the formula made popular by System Shock and BioShock. The revamp also brings with it new technology - specifically CryEngine - a surprising choice bearing in mind the success enjoyed by Bethesda with its own proprietary idTech and Void engines.
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Video | Watch: 6 ways Star Wars Battlefront 2 fixes Battlefront
Plus more from Outside Xbox.
Hi Eurogamers, and welcome to your weekly round-up of videos from Outside Xbox, where this week we were quietly excited about the prospect of Star Wars Battlefront.
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Feature | On NASA, the video game developer
Get your ass to Mars.
From the austere Newtonian universe of Spacewar! to the lush galactic disc of Mass Effect, video games have been taking us beyond Earth's atmosphere for decades, but in the eyes of Dr Jeff Norris of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration, few have done the spirit and practicalities of space travel justice. Speaking at this February's DICE summit in Las Vegas (video below), Norris threw down something of a gauntlet. "If you'd like games to be recognised as a great form of art, I'm afraid that some of you, not all of you, are going to need to step it up. You see, great art, doesn't just move us as individuals, it can move entire societies." For Norris, art has worth when it's bringing about "riot and revolution", when it furthers some broader cultural or political enterprise - an enterprise such as NASA itself, which has long relied upon dreamers of all kinds to relay its values and significance to the world at large.
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Digital Foundry | Digital Foundry: Let's play PC games at 8K resolution
With 8K displays coming soon, can two GTX 1080 Tis in SLI run modern games at 60fps?
Whether we like it or not - and let's face facts, it's probably the latter - 8K display technology is coming. 8K support is baked into the upcoming HDMI 2.1 standard, and in fact, if you live in the US and you have $5000 to spare, you can buy a quad-UHD screen right now: Dell's 32-inch UP3218K. The question is: using today's top-tier graphics technology, is 8K PC gaming viable? We broke out a pair of Asus Strix GTX 1080 Tis, ran them in SLI and gave it a try. The results were unpredictable, unstable, but at the same time, also quite awe-inspiring.
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Video | Watch: 7 games to play now Dark Souls is done (for now)
Lords of Similar.
It's slowly starting to sink in that with the Ringed City DLC released and completed, there won't be any new Dark Souls for the forseeable future. In some ways, it's welcome news - it'll be interesting to see what series creator Hidetaka Miyazaki turns out next - but in many other, more immediate ways, it's fairly soul destroying (sorry).
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Digital Foundry | What Remains of Edith Finch is great on PC, needs work on PS4
Super-smooth on one platform, performance issues on the other.
What Remains of Edith Finch is an evocative narrative experience with an air of mystery, a beautiful presentation and silky-smooth performance - provided you're playing on the PC. PlayStation 4 suffers by comparison, with immersion-breaking stutter, intrusive pop-in, bad frame-pacing and clear performance problems. Playing on Pro helps considerably, but issues remain.
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Video | Watch: Ian makes Johnny play that famous Silent Hills demo
Late to the P.T.
Here's something to make you feel like life goes by far too fast - It's almost 2 years to the day since P.T. got removed from the Playstation Network for good. That meant, even if you'd downloaded it previously, there was no way for you to get it back if you decided to delete it.
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Anita Sarkeesian brings Tropes vs. Women in Video Games to a close
"This is one of the most emotionally complicated projects I've ever created."
After five years, Anita Sarkeesian and the Feminist Frequency team have published their final video in the Tropes vs. Women in Video Games series.
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Recommended | Dawn of War 3 review
At last, back to war.
There is great joy to be had in watching big things smash into each other.
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Digital Foundry | Nex Machina's high-tech twin-stick magic tested on PC
Digital Foundry checks out the evolved Resogun engine operating at full 4K.
A collaboration between arcade genius Eugene Jarvis and developer Housemarque, Nex Machina takes the voxel-based technology pioneered in the brilliant Resogun and significantly enhances it to deliver an action-packed experience filled with destruction. Backing away from the 30fps approach taken in its prior twin-stick shooter, Alienation, Nex Machina doubles down on 60Hz, taking Resogun's technology to the next level. It's looking great, something we can comfortably say having spent the last few days playing a beta version of the PC version.
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