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There's a bit of bad news if you've been looking forward to fishing horror Dredge's first paid expansion: developer Black Salt Games has delayed its release from Q4 this year into 2024.

The Nintendo Switch isn't the easiest console to work with. Packing a low-power mobile processor with technology dating back to 2015, it lacks the technological grunt to keep pace with last-gen console systems - and this can result in some lacklustre third-party ports. In putting together this piece, we decided to circle back and examine some of the most disappointing Switch conversions - and we were happy to discover a range of improvements. In the case of Hello Games' No Man's Sky, we even see the developer deploy the first example we've seen of FSR 2 upscaling on the Nintendo hybrid - and the results are excellent.

Don't go into Dragon's Dogma 2 expecting it to feel massively different from Dragon's Dogma or Dark Arisen. Despite the dozen years since the original game's launch (Dragon's Dogma 2 is set to arrive for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S in early 2024), there's no huge change in gameplay, while the visual style of Capcom's fantasy RPG series also feels familiar.

Mediatonic, the UK developer behind Fall Guys, has been severely impacted by expected job losses as a result of yesterday's layoffs by Epic Games, though the studio itself will not be closed.

Legacy, the upcoming blockchain business sim from Fable creator Peter Molyneux, is set to release next month, on 26th October.

An Xbox exclusive update for Cuphead is now available to celebrate the game's sixth birthday.

Following recent leaks and rumours, Mortal Kombat boss Ed Boon is now teasing fans with potential future DLC for the series' most recent release.

The week's Game of the Week was not a tough pick. Cocoon is astonishing stuff, and happily the most thrilling game I have played this year - quite a thing to say when the year's been as rich as 2023.

UPDATE 29/09/23: Acting union SAG-AFTRA and the video game producers negotiating a successor to the Interactive Media Agreement have failed to reach a consensus.

The final update for Sonic Frontiers is now live and adds playable Tails, Amy and Knuckles for the first time in a 3D game since Sonic 06.

Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've found ourselves playing over the last few days. This time: salvaged parts, Idris Elba and animal brawls.

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we bid farewell to PlayStation boss Jim Ryan, who has announced his departure from the company after almost three decades of service.

Hello! Since today sees the celebration of 2023's Mid-Autumn Festival, we decided to take another look at Midautumn, which Liv wrote about beautifully back in June. Enjoy!

Bethesda's next fully fledged Elder Scrolls game might still be five-plus years away from release, but if you're truly suffering from series withdrawal symptoms, the company has just unceremoniously shoved a Fallout Shelter-style Elder Scrolls game onto Google Play.

Five years after its initial unveiling, developer Mojang has confirmed development on Minecraft Dungeons has reached its end, and that the game's 1.17 update - which released ten months ago, back in November 2022 - will be its last.

Grapefrukt - the studio whose backcatalogue of mini-wonders includes the acclaimed likes of Rymdkapsel, Holedown, and Twofold Inc. - has unveiled its latest game, Subpar Pool, which is coming to Steam, Switch, iOS, and Android on 12th October.

UPDATE 4.54pm: Epic has confirmed reports of widespread layoffs at the company, saying the move will affect "around 830 employees", with approximately two-thirds of those job cuts said to be in teams "outside of core development".

Magicians have a concept known as "closing the doors". It's an extremely complex, multi-stage form of lying, basically. You have a good trick, but to make it great, you go around and you spot any avenues of thinking which could lead the audience to work out how it might be done, and then you lock these avenues off, one at a time. It's misdirection, but a sort of nth dimension misdirection.

Super Mario Bros. Wonder will be playable in the UK for the first time at EGX.

Insomniac Games has detailed some of the accessibility features that'll be available in Marvel's Spider-Man 2 at launch, plus what other options it'll add to the game post-launch.

Microsoft has introduced a new update across Xbox that aims to simplify users' experiences when they set about backing up their game captures.

Xbox Cloud Gaming will be available on Meta Quest headsets in December.

October's list of titles available to Amazon Prime Gaming subscribers includes the appropriately spooky Ghostwire: Tokyo, just in time for Halloween.

The highly anticipated city simulation sequel Cities: Skylines 2 has been delayed for consoles, developer Colossal Order and publisher Paradox Interactive have announced.

Creative Assembly has begun a redundancy consultation process following news its Sega-published game Hyenas has ended development, admitting this "may, unfortunately, result in job losses".

UPDATE 2.00pm UK: Possible scalpers have already descended on the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam to grab the exclusive Pokémon merch.

Larian Studios has released hotfix number seven for Baldur's Gate 3, to address more issues with crashes and saves.

The FTC has once again resumed its case against Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, after a pause over the summer.

Valve has failed to convince the European Union's Court of Justice that it did not infringe EU law by geo-blocking activation keys on Steam.

UPDATE 11.30am UK: Layoffs at Creative Assembly are expected in the wake of Sega's decision to cancel Hyenas, Eurogamer understands, with positions across the studio affected.