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Zavvi threatens customers with legal action after accidentally sending free Vitas
UPDATE: Which? offers legal advice, and it's not looking good.
UPDATE: Consumer watchdog Which? has told Eurogamer that it believes customers will have to return the PlayStation Vita consoles sent in error by Zavvi.
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Bedlam is a first-person shooter and a book
Author Christopher Brookmyre collaborates on video game / novel tie-in.
The people behind MMO The Missing Ink have announced Bedlam, a first-person shooter that ties into books penned by Scottish author Christopher Brookmyre.
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Review | Stick It to the Man review
Shrink wrapped.
To look at Zoink Games' Stick It to the Man is to see yet another quirky indie platformer, dominated by distinct art direction but likely lacking the substance that has seen the genre benchmark set so high. Like the game's open-mouthed hero Ray, though, there's a lot more to Stick It To The Man than it seems. You just have to dig a little deeper...
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Refunds available for Xbox One Battlefield 4 Premium customers
Microsoft giving £39.99 back.
Some people are successfully requesting refunds from Microsoft for Battlefield 4 Premium on Xbox One.
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Microsoft releases new Xbox One firmware update
Full of bug-fixes, but no new features.
Microsoft's first post-launch patch for Xbox One is available now and includes a set of bug-fixes for the fledgling console.
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Hearthstone patch tweaks cards, ranked play, adds gold cap
Now you start at rank Angry Chicken.
Blizzard has released a fresh update for its insanely addictive collectible card battler Hearthstone.
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Eurogamer Readers' Top 50 Games of 2013 voting
Have your say on the best games of the year.
Update: Thanks to everyone who has pointed out games missing from the list! We've been through and added them. If you wished you'd voted for something that wasn't on the list before and want to redo your entry, do feel free - we'll make sure your votes aren't counted twice. Thanks everyone!
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Review | Baldur's Gate 2: Enhanced Edition review
Re-rolled.
Would you take a chance on a roll of a die? That's every other moment in the life of an adventurer in the Forgotten Realms. To say that death is around every corner is not to repeat a cliché, it's to state a fact. It's a very, very wild world out there, with much to be found by those who dare step off the beaten track. Some things are wondrous, many are dangerous and more than a few are difficult to fully comprehend.
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Settle the score with Samurai Gunn, out now on PC
20 per cent off this week.
Minimalist Bushido dueling game Samurai Gunn is out now on PC on both Steam and developer Teknopants' website.
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Nippon Ichi's The Witch and the Hundred Knight due in March
That's not a typo.
Disgaea developer Nippon Ichi is bringing its colourful PS3-exclusive action-RPG, The Witch and the Hundred Knight, to Europe on 21st March, publisher NIS America has announced.
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Obsidian renames Project Eternity, releases a proper video
Behold Pillars of Eternity.
The working title of Project Eternity has gone; from here on out, Obsidian's Kickstarted role-playing game will be known as Pillars of Eternity.
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Double Fine announces puzzle adventure Hack 'N' Slash
Schafer: “I believe it contains algorithms."
Psychonauts and Brutal Legend developer Double Fine has announced its latest project, Hack 'N' Slash, a puzzle action game about hacking (and slashing, for that matter) due for PC, Mac and Linux during the first half of 2014.
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EA among the Human Rights Campaign's "best places to work"
Also donated $1.65 million to the American Cancer Society.
EA has come a long way in the past year. After having been named the "worst company in America" by consumer watchdog site The Consumerist last year, it's reshaped its image to now be called one of the "best places to work for LGBT equality" according to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC).
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Free-to-play Family Guy game announced for iOS, Android
Brian training.
A microtransaction-fuelled Family Guy game will launch next year for iOS and Android, Fox Digital Entertainment has revealed.
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Peggle 2 to receive Duel mode for free
Cue the Die Hard music.
Peggle 2 is going to receive the competitive Duel mode in which players compete on the same board taking turns to see who can rack up the highest score.
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Company of Heroes 2 gets both paid and free DLC today
The first game gets some added Steam features too.
Sega's World War 2 strategy sequel, Company of Heroes 2, is receiving a couple of free maps, the Southern Fronts paid DLC, and Steam Workshop integration for its user-created maps made from World Builder today.
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Rome 2 expansion Caesar in Gaul announced
UPDATE: delayed slightly to 17th December.
UPDATE: Creative Assembly has delayed slightly the Caesar in Gaul campaign pack to Tuesday 17th December "in order to give us a bit more time to squeeze in some additions to the accompanying patch".
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And God said, 'Let there be Post Master'
And Excalibur Publishing snapped it up.
Is it a bird, is it a plane, is it Chemical Spillage Simulation 2? No it's Post Master, a new game from Excalibur Publishing, due alongside Titanfall in March 2014.
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Warhammer Quest The Undead Horde expansion adds a new hero
Skeletons! Necromancers! Zombies! Vampires!
Rodeo Games will this week release an expansion to its turn-based strategy dungeon crawler Warhammer Quest that adds a new hero to the game: the Witch Hunter.
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PlayStation 4 now counts for 10% of all Twitch streaming
20 million minutes of PS4 gameplay broadcast.
PlayStation 4 has counted for 10 per cent of all Twitch streaming since the console launched in North America on 15th November.
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Feature | Doom retrospective
From the archive: 20 years of the game that didn't just change gaming forever - it changed gamers.
To mark the anniversary of Doom's release, 20 years ago today, here's a treat from the Eurogamer archive: Paul Dean's retrospective essay on the game, first published on 15th January 2012.
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Video | Happy birthday to Doom, happy birthday to Doom
20 years young! We're streaming it live from 5pm GMT.
Where the bloody hell is Doom 4? It makes me so sad that my beloved id Software can't get its s*** together on Doom 4, or so it seems at least. This should be one of the easiest sells in the world. Bright, colourful hellscapes, superfast movement and fantastical projectile weaponry, labyrinthine levels with keys and secret rooms - the antithesis to all the grit and grime of contemporary first-person shooters.
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The Walking Dead: Season Two finally gets a release date
Episode 1 launches 17th December.
UPDATE: The Walking Dead: Season Two will launch for Xbox 360 on 18th December, a day later than Telltale first announced. It'll cost $4.99 (about £3).
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Hustle Kings developer VooFoo Studios and indie publisher Ripstone have announced Pure Pool for PlayStation 4.
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Sony patent hints at new PS Move controller
Has a touch surface.
Sony has filed a patent for something that looks like a new version of the PlayStation Move controller.
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NSA, GCHQ can listen to Xbox Live chat communications
UPDATE: Microsoft insists alleged spying "wasn't done with our consent".
UPDATE #2: Microsoft has spoken out against the government surveillance of its customers and joined other technology giants such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Twitter by signing a jointly-authored document entitled 'Global Government Surveillance Reform'.
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3DS Miiverse, cross-platform eShop accounts now live
System update available now.
It's the system update we've been waiting for since the launch of Wii U a year ago. Nintendo Network user accounts are now available on 3DS, meaning you can have one unified login and eShop account for both your handheld and home console.
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Review | Broforce beta review
Get to the chopp-argh.
Eurogamer's alpha and beta reviews are reviews of games that are still in development but are already being offered for sale or funded by micro-transactions. They offer a preliminary verdict but have no score attached. For more information, read our editor's blog.
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Now there's another space MMO: Entropy
While you wait for Star Citizen and Elite, or fancy a break from Eve.
While you wait for Star Citizen and Elite - or perhaps if you're an Eve Online player looking for something different - another space combat and trading game has launched.
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Xbox One mod unlocks mouse and keyboard support
Also Wii Remote, DualShock 4.
Modders have managed to unlock mouse and keyboard support on Xbox One - as well as the use of pretty much any other kind of controller.
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