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Digital Foundry | Super Bomberman R's 60fps patch comes at a cost
Switch update improves gameplay by dropping pixel-count.
Performance improvements are commonplace when it comes to game patches but how many can claim to double the frame-rate? With the release of Super Bomberman R version 1.3, that's precisely what seems to have happened. The patch notes merely suggest an increased the frame-rate but players quickly discovered that this was far more than a small bump to performance.
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Sniper Elite 4 announces next DLC on Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 release date
Scope for battle.
Sniper Elite 4 has launched its next paid expansion and a selection of free additions - on the same day that rival long-range shooter Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 is released.
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Sniper Ghost Warrior 3's multiplayer mode isn't in the game at launch
So as "not to dilute any potential from the single player".
Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 launches today - but without its planned multiplayer portion.
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Jelly Deals: Win a copy of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
Battle Royale with cheese.
A note from the editor: Jelly Deals is a deals site launched by our parent company, Gamer Network, with a mission to find the best bargains out there. Look out for the Jelly Deals roundup of reduced-price games and kit every Saturday on Eurogamer.
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Recommended | What Remains of Edith Finch review
A house of many rooms.
Sometimes, in the aftermath of an unexpected bereavement, a family will leave their departed loved one's bedroom unchanged for weeks, months, maybe even years. The preserved room serves as a walk-in memorial, a place to feel close to the departed (their beloved books heavy on the shelf, their smell soft on the pillow), to keep them in the present even as time shunts them ever further into the past. It's a way to wrest control back from fate's capriciousness: fortune may have taken this person from me, but I choose when to let them go.
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Review | Late Shift review
Night trap.
For those who view video games as an adjunct to cinema rather than an alternative, the rise and fall of the interactive movie in the mid-1990s was something of a befuddling mystery. For a moment, and from a particular angle, the cinematic Choose Your Own Adventure, a genre facilitated by the advent of CD-Rom technology that allowed film clips to be spliced together to tell a story according to the whims of the viewer, seemed like the future of games. It was not to be.
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Surprise! Introversion's colourful and mysterious new PC game Scanner Sombre will be released this week! In two days! On Wednesday 26th April at 3pm BST!
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It looks like Double Fine's Broken Age is finally getting an Xbox One release.
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Friday the 13th: The Game gets a May release date
Just in time for summer camp.
Friday the 13th: The Game will launch on 26th May for PS4, Xbox One and Steam, publisher Gun Media has announced.
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Zelda fan is making Breath of the Wild-inspired 2D game
Play the Breath of the NES prototype now.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild began as a 2D-looking prototype, which Nintendo unveiled in a GDC talk followed by a "making of" documentary.
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Feature | A three-year-old Elite Dangerous mystery is finally unravelling
A conspiracy, a derelict megaship and a crew gone mad.
Elite Dangerous players have taken a significant step in solving a mystery that has befuddled its most rabid secret-hunters ever since the game came out.
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Not a Hero, Resident Evil 7's free epilogue expansion, has been delayed from its previous spring release window.
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Feature | Why are games so fascinated with cannibalism?
Unaccountably peckish.
There's a long inglorious tradition of cannibalism in video games, from the many flesh-eaters of the Dark Souls series through the "strange meats" of Fallout to the gaping cosmic horror that is Kirby. In the last few years, though, developers seem to have really acquired a taste for it. Take this spring's The Wild Eight - a survival game distinguished by some neat firelight effects and the preposterous, yet strangely persuasive option to eat the corpse of your previous self, providing you can find your way back to it after you respawn.
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Video | Watch: Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 takes 5 minutes to load. Here's what you can do in that time.
UPDATE: Developer CI Games responds.
UPDATE 3.45pm: Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 developer CI Games has responded to the loading time issue identified in the issue below. Here's their response in full:
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What do you actually do in Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey, the ambitious ape evolution game by Assassin's Creed creator Patrice Desilets?
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There's another ZX Spectrum crowdfunder - but this one looks promising
Next already hits £250,000 target.
There have been plenty of ZX Spectrum crowdfunders in recent years, and not all of them have gone well. Some, in fact, have been a disaster. So why should we care about yet another one?
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Red Dead Redemption GTA5 mod shut down after three-year development
Herd news to take.
A fan project to port Red Dead Redemption into GTA5 has been shut down.
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Review | Snake Pass review
Solid snake.
Here's an adage as dog-eared and cheerily British as its subject; you wait ages for a classic platformer in the style of Rare's N64 classics and then two come along in quick succession. We're weeks away from the release of Yooka-Laylee, Playtonic's vibrant throwback to the Banjo-Kazooie series, but before then we have Snake Pass. It's similarly in thrall to a sugar-sweet flavour of game once popular at the turn of the century, full of colour and a disarming charm.
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Feature | The stray dogs of The Silver Case
Hard-boiled Wonderland.
"This is the beginning of the game... You police guys stop me if you can... I desperately want to see people die, it is a thrill for me to commit murder. A bloody judgment is needed for my years of great bitterness."
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Digital Foundry | Metal Gear Solid 2 was the game that changed everything for PS2
DF Retro looks back a technological masterpiece, starting with its stunning E3 2000 reveal.
Flashback to the turn of the century and Konami stands as one of the most prolific publishers in gaming. From its 16-bit classics to its more experimental 32-bit titles, the red and orange Konami logo long stood as a seal of quality. PlayStation 2 had just launched, but the initial line-up of games was shaky - and there was a decided lack of a killer app. The reveal of Metal Gear Solid 2 at E3 2000, prior to the system's Western launch, was the turning point in the fledgling system's fortunes.
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Recommended | Little Nightmares review
Child's play.
Little Nightmares is everything you may have loved about LittleBigPlanet thrown into a sausage grinder with everything you may have dreaded in Silent Hill. A side-scrolling 3D platformer that conjures up a wealth of grisly implications within a brisk five-hour runtime, it reapplies Media Molecule's conceit of playing a nimble tot among gargantuan domestic objects to a fetid, ocean-going warren of beaten metal and oozing flesh, touched a little questionably by imagery derived from real-life atrocity.
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Video | Watch: 7 times movie games couldn't use the star's likeness
Plus more from Outside Xbox.
Hi Eurogamers, and welcome to your weekly roundup of videos from Outside Xbox. This week, inspired by Telltale's new Guardians of the Galaxy game and its non Chris Pratt Star Lord, we've been thinking about the times the developers of movie games don't have permission to use a star's likeness in their game.
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Feature | What a real-life football commentator learned when he commentated a FIFA tournament
Look at these games. Just look at these games!
It's fair to say that most people who read this will have at least an idea of what an eSport is. Whether you're actively tuning in to watch competitions, will take a look at an eSport event if it comes on or are actively uninterested in it all, you're likely to know the basics of what an eSport is and that the industry is hyped about its prospects.
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Jelly Deals roundup: Little Nightmares, Overcooked, Saints Row 4 and more
Plus: StarCraft for free, because Blizzard likes you.
A note from the editor: Jelly Deals is a deals site launched by our parent company, Gamer Network, with a mission to find the best bargains out there. Look out for the Jelly Deals roundup of reduced-price games and kit every Saturday on Eurogamer.
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Digital Foundry | Is Persona 5 on PS4 actually a 1080p remaster?
Digital Foundry looks at the PlayStation 3 release, finding a remarkably similar experience.
At a technological level, Atlus's Persona 5 is one of the most fascinating releases we've seen in quite some time. It's one of the most slick, stylish games we've played but at the same time, it's undeniably a last-gen game at its core. How can we say that with so much certainty? Well, to all intents and purposes, the PlayStation 3 version offers the same experience, with just a couple of downgrades. And by extension, the PS4 release is very much like a full HD remaster: it plays smoother, with a higher resolution but it's effectively the same game overall.
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has received a lot of accolades over its open-ended structure and unique physics engine. Indeed, all the elements react as one would expect in the real world. Flint creates fire, fire creates wind, and water douses fire.
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N++ doubles its size on Steam in free Ultimate Edition update
The game is half off this weekend.
Minimalist platformer N++ just got a massive free update on Steam that doubles the amount of content in the game.
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The Sexy Brutale's first retail run has an amusing misstep in its manual
Here's how to get the correct version.
Gothic Groundhog Day-esque adventure The Sexy Brutale is getting a retail release next week on PS4 with one minor problem: the first-run prints have compiled the manual backwards. Whoops!
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Video | Watch: Johnny plays Invisible, Inc. for the first time, ambushes many.
It's this week's Late to the Party.
Invisible, Inc. is one of those games I've been meaning to play ever since it came out. Everyone I know who's played it through is a committed enthusiast (hello Oli Welsh) and yet I never got round to booting it up.
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Feature | The YouTuber who mastered the creative kill
The act of killing.
Let's Play videos can be appealing for a variety of reasons. Sometimes you watch them because you like the personality of the presenter. Other times you want to get tips or tricks and seek a video walkthrough. And often gameplay videos are engaging because someone is trying to pull off a particularly impressive challenge, like, say, playing Dark Souls 3 with a controller made from bananas, or speedrunning a title to near perfection.
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