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What makes a rally game? Speed helps, as do puddles, and patches of muddy track. Long drifts are essential, and the thing has to look right. You want to thunder into woodland and over ice. The cars, with their glaring sponsorships, should resemble sculpted dollops of Colgate wrapped in Christmas lights - or futuristic toys. Oh, and those racks of headlamps, as if a vampire hunter were competing, are a must. With EA Sports WRC, Codemasters supplies all of this. Plus, the studio, constitutionally incapable of making a bad driving game, is now armed with the official World Rally Championship licence.

UPDATE 07/11/23: Resident Evil 4 on mobile now has a release date.

The Epic Games Store still isn't profitable.

Nintendo's Switch console has now passed 132m units sold, but the company is remaining silent on its successor.

UPDATE 07/11/23: Konami has confirmed to Eurogamer that Best Buy's listing page for Silent Hill 2 Remake was incorrect.

Sony is dropping Twitter integration from its PlayStation consoles starting next Monday, 13th November, mirroring similar decisions made by Xbox and Blizzard earlier this year.

Cities: Skylines 2 studio Colossal Order has pledged not to release paid DLC for its city building sequel until its heavily criticised performance issues have been "fixed to our standards".

Microsoft and AI company Inworld AI have announced a "multi-year co-development partnership", which will see the companies work to develop a range of AI tools for Xbox's studios.

Burnout is now available on Nintendo Switch, but it's not the Burnout you think it is.

There's an embarrassment of riches in the 136th edition of DF Direct Weekly, spread across almost two hours of 'content'. We discuss the good and the bad points of the Modern Warfare 3 campaign and EA's WRC, we spend time talking about how impressive the Switch port of Super Mario RPG is and share impressions on Apple's newly announced M3 processor line-up. However, for this Eurogamer blog, I'm going to talk about what it's like to run Marvel's Spider-Man 2 on the slowest, quantifiably worst PCIe Gen 4 SSD 'upgrade' money can buy.

Fortnite has made a sudden return to its long-lost original map for a month-long mini-season fuelled by nostalgia, and its sudden spike in popularity has blown past everyone's expectations. It's a stunning moment for Epic Games' ever-changing battle royale - even by Fortnite's own stratospheric standards - and yet I can't help but feel a tinge of sadness that this is the version of Fortnite all 44 million players picked up on Saturday.

The Invincible is my kind of science fiction. When I look up at the stars, I feel wonder and mystery, and romance, even. I believe anything is possible out there and that we only have to find it. And when I look at The Invincible, it makes me feel that way too. You can see it in the screenshots. In hues that are almost gaudy, there are sweeping desert landscapes where huge finger-like rock formations reach out as if to try and scratch the surface of strange moons behind them. There are turquoise skies fading to starry black, and boiling oranges beneath them. It's like looking at a postcard of what space could be - a space of emotional warmth and feeling. I find it mesmerising.

Retro Studios was once working on a Portal-esque first-person puzzle game called Adept.

Embracer's chief operating officer has left the company, amid a wave of restructuring and studio closures.

Award-winning singer Adele has revealed she made her son a Rust costume "from scratch" for Halloween.

Eiji Aonuma, known for his long-running work on Nintendo's Legend of Zelda series, is to be awarded a knighthood in France.

The impact of Elden Ring is still being felt as one modder has put the iconic Malenia into Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.

Two months on from the release of Starfield, players are still waiting for Bethesda to address the numerous bugs which are present. But there's a whole other group of players out there taking matters into their own hands - the team behind the Starfield Community Patch, an ambitious and surprisingly professional taskforce trying to fix the game themselves. The project came under the spotlight about a month before Starfield released. It was wild to think that a group of modders could already be working on a mod for Starfield before it had even released, but there they were - anticipating the Bethesda jank fans have come to expect.

Two members of Marvel's Spider-Man 2 narrative team have shed more light on the game's ending, and what it means for Peter Parker and Miles Morales.

UPDATE 6/11/23: The launch of Fortnite OG, featuring the game's original map, has been an enormous success for Epic Games' six-year-old battle royale.

Two Diablo 4 developers have dropped a big hint about a previously-denied secret cow level in the game fans have been searching for.

A new tour celebrating the "most iconic video game music" will kick off in May next year.

Comparisons between the OG PS5 and the PS5 Slim are out, and some say the sleeker new design is "not that much smaller" than its chunkier sibling.

Genshin Impact developer miHoYo's new game, Zenless Zone Zero, is inviting players to express their interest in an all-new beta test.

Alan Wake 2's most memorable – and surprising – chapter was almost cut.

Alan Wake 2 is sublime - a masterclass in the visual arts - and while it still manages to look fine on consoles from Xbox Series S upwards, it's with high-end PC that you get to see Remedy's masterpiece at its absolute best thanks to hardware-accelerated ray tracing, path tracing and DLSS 3.5 ray reconstruction. The question is: do you need best-of-the-best hardware like RTX 4080 or RTX 4090 to benefit from the experience? Well, it's a demanding experience to be sure, but we were happy with the results we gleaned from RTX 3080 and its nearest 40-series equivalent, RTX 4070, both running at 1440p output resolution. And of course, those settings can and will provide similar scalability on other RT-capable GPUs, though your mileage may vary.

Blizzard has revealed that it considers bringing World of Warcraft to consoles "all the time".

UPDATE 5/11/23: Larian's Michael Douse has responded to reports that Baldur's Gate 3 is coming to Xbox on 6th December.

Welcome to another episode of Inside Eurogamer, the podcast that's exclusively for Supporters, and where we take you behind the scenes to learn more about the work we do.

Naughty Dog game director, Vinit Agarwal, has confirmed that they are "still working on that game".