Latest Articles (Page 536)

Bobby Kotick was again defended by Activision Blizzard leadership last night, during a company meeting where employees were told its new zero-tolerance policy would not apply to claims made this week against its CEO.

Nintendo has dropped a brand new update for Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit, the mixed-reality spinoff from the main Kart series.

UPDATE 18/11/21: Streamlabs will now remove OBS from its name, to avoid confusion with the separate platform OBS - as per tweets from yesterday shared below.

Developer Mojang has announced that the long-awaited second part of Minecraft's ambitious Caves & Cliffs update will finally launch on 30th November for the Java and Bedrock editions of the game - meaning it'll be coming to Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, PS4,  Switch, iOS, Android, Windows 10, Windows 11, MacOS, and Linux.

PlayStation boss Jim Ryan has reportedly penned an email to company employees criticising Bobby Kotick's response to allegations of sexual misconduct and harassment at Activision Blizzard, saying he has contacted Activision to express "deep concern" at recent news.

Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space, the second season of Telltale Games' anarchic series of episodic point-and-click adventures, is getting the remaster treatment on 8th December for Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Switch, and PC.

A limited number of subscribers to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate can stream games to their Xbox One and Series X/S consoles starting today, via a beta release of Microsoft's Xbox Cloud Gaming service, with the feature set to be made available to more users over the coming weeks.

Controversial shooter Six Days in Fallujah will now arrive in Q4 2022, publisher Victura today confirmed, rather than the game's previous vague "2021" launch window.

Jen Oneal, Blizzard's former co-lead who handed in her resignation after just three months, has revealed she only achieved a pay offer with parity to fellow co-lead Mike Ybarra after handing in her resignation letter.

The terrifying Alien: Isolation is on its way to mobile devices next month.

A group of Activision Blizzard shareholders has called for the resignation of CEO Bobby Kotick in a letter to the company's board of directors.

Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal published a powerful and damning report revealing Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick's role in the wake of allegations of sexual misconduct and mistreatment that have recently plagued the company. It's a story that details a culture of complicit silence and cover-ups, out-of-court settlements, multiple failures to communicate serious incidents to the board, and on one occasion, his allegedly threatening to have one employee killed.

Nintendo has conjured up a demo for Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain, which you can nab now via the Switch eShop.

Sonic and Tails will speed their way into Monster Hunter Rise for free on 26th November.

Amazon will stop accepting payment via Visa credit cards from 19th January in the UK, the online retail giant has announced.

Activision Blizzard staff have staged a new walkout in response to last night's damning Wall St Journal report which detailed numerous alleged instances of sexual assault and harassment at the company - and suggested its boss Bobby Kotick had failed to fully act upon them.

Saints Row has been delayed six months to August 2022.

As part of its Q3 interim report, publisher Paradox Interactive has offered an update on the beleaguered Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, saying it's "happy with the progress" being made by the game's still unknown new developer, but that it won't be in a position to provide an updated release date for "quite some time".

Riot Games has launched two of its previously revealed League of Legends spin-offs - Ruined King and Hextech Mayhem - with two new titles now confirmed for release next year.

UPDATE 8.11pm: Activision Blizzard's board of directors has issued a statement in response to the Wall Street Journal's report into the extent of CEO Bobby Kotick's knowledge of allegations of sexual misconduct and mistreatment of female employees at the company, saying it "remains confident" in Kotick's "leadership, commitment and ability". Here's the statement in full:

Forza Horizon 5 has been lauded for its technical excellence and Playground Games' commitment to inclusivity, but fans have found some non-Anglo-Saxon or European names are being blocked by the game's world filter.

This wasn't exactly the best week in Digital Foundry history - last week, one of our staff members received a succession of emails to make the blood run cold. Two-factor authentication disabled, passwords changed, backup security codes re-issued. And then? The Digital Foundry YouTube channel gets an instant brand makeover (we're Space-X now) and we're live-streaming some kind of Russian crypto-scam video to over a thousand people. Figuring out what actually happened, locking out the intruder and deleting the 'Space-X' video didn't take long and eager to get the show back on the road, we rolled out our Forza Horizon 5 PC analysis. Only to discover that about five hours later, YouTube decided to delete the channel - presumably some kind of delayed reaction to the takeover (we never found out why exactly). For reasons unknown, it took a further 18 hours to get the channel restored and we're still not clear on how Google's 2FA was defeated. Obviously it was a stressful couple of days, but looking back it's the complete void of information surrounding the episode that is the most frustrating thing of all.

Streamlabs is bringing their web-based streaming platform exclusively to Xbox consoles.

A new asymmetrical Dragon Ball multiplayer action game has been announced.

Microsoft has named its next round of additions to Xbox Game Pass, which will filter through to the subscription service over the rest of November.

Here's the good news: the much-loved Skate 2 is finally backwards compatible on Xbox Series X and S and Xbox One.

If you're of a certain vintage and inclination - and sorry to make assumptions, but given you're currently reading Eurogamer I reckon it's likely you are - you'll be familiar with an infamous review of Doom way back in 1994 that ended up asking what if you could talk to the monsters. It's an idle thought that's since passed into legend, oft-mocked and even held up as some vague prophecy, but I've only just realised it's not really that strange a notion. Maybe the mysterious reviewer behind this particular Edge legend was just really into Shin Megami Tensei, the long-running RPG series in which, yes, you absolutely can talk to the monsters.

A modder has created a "real virtual magic" mod for Skyrim VR.

Today's bumper Fortnite update 18.40 has arrived and the game's hugely-anticipated Naruto crossover is now in full swing - with the promise of Fortnite's dreaded Brute mechs returning on the horizon.

Activision has warned Call of Duty cheaters that bans may now apply "franchise wide".