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Dr Disrespect admits Twitch ban due to messages with minor "in the direction of being inappropriate"
"I'm no f***ing predator or pedophile."
Following a series of allegations from former Twitch employees last week, high-profile streamer Guy "Dr Disrespect" Beahm has admitted he was permanently banned from Twitch in 2020 after exchanging "messages with an individual minor back in 2017" that "leaned too much in the direction of being inappropriate".
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Disney Epic Mickey remake gets September release date
On Xbox, Switch, PlayStation, and PC.
Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed - THQ Nordic's promising remake of legendary designer Warren Spector's flawed but lovable 2010 platform adventure - launches for PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, and PC on 24th September this year.
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Digital Foundry | Sony's new PlayStation 2 emulator tested - and it's another disappointing effort
Subpar image quality, poor filtering options and bugs do these classics no favours.
Through the magic of emulation, it's now possible to play a selection of classic PS2 games in native PS5 apps as part of the PS Plus Premium offering. For context, the first crop of emulated PS2 classics appeared with the new PS Plus tiers back in 2022, but the games came with major issues that made them hard to recommend, including PAL/NTSC compatibility problems, flawed scaling options and delivery in a PS4 app container. Sony has a chance to offer a substantially updated experience along native PS5 apps, but the revised offering is disappointingly subpar - despite the selection of some great games, including Sly Cooper, Tomb Raider: Anniversary and Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
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As if she hasn't been through enough already, Tomb Raider's Lara Croft is now set to join Dead by Daylight as a Survivor.
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Digital Foundry | Luigi's Mansion 2 HD is a smart, clean remake of the 3DS classic
With some of the best image quality we've seen on Switch.
Released alongside the GameCube in 2001, Luigi's Mansion was judged warily by Nintendo fans before launch, but has become a bona fide classic - one that saw two eventual sequels, on 3DS in 2013 and Switch in 2019. With Switch 2 on the horizon and relatively few games in the pipeline, Nintendo has decided to release an enhanced conversion of the second game, Dark Moon, with HD visuals and other quality of life changes. The package is certainly intriguing, but how does the game hold up and what's changed in terms of its presentation?
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Feature | Don't diss patch notes - they're more exciting than we're willing to admit
Bullet-point lust.
I'm currently obsessing over the changes Wizards of the Coast is making to Dungeons & Dragons. If you don't know, there's a new edition of the game coming this year, in September, which means the whole thing - all the rules and character classes - are being updated. Over the past couple of weeks, Wizards has been revealing how. In other words, patch notes - it's been sharing patch notes. The biggest set I've ever seen.
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Amazon Prime members can claim 15 more games at no additional cost
Ahead of Prime Day.
Amazon Prime Gaming is giving members the chance to scoop up 15 games at no additional cost, as it gears up for the company's deal event known as Prime Day.
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Steam's 2024 summer sale only a couple of days away, with deals on games and hardware
Here comes the fun.
It is that time of year again, folks.
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Review | Until Then review - friendships, fears, and Filipinos
Pinoy Pride intensifies.
While the setting and inspirations are Filipino through and through, the themes of friendship, love, loss, and acceptance in this visual novel are universal.
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Feature | Black Myth: Wukong is a brilliant boss rush, but is it a Soulslike?
Chimp off the old block.
Ever since its reveal in 2020, fans have wondered if Black Myth: Wukong is truly a Soulslike. In part that's due to the Soulsborne games overshadowing any and all action games these days, but the precise combat, elaborate bosses, and seemingly high difficulty of Wukong certainly looked to be aping FromSoftware.
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Final Fantasy 14's Patch 7.0 notes reveal what to expect from Dawntrail ahead of early access launch
New quests! Graphical update! Llamas!
Square Enix has released the full patch notes for Patch 7.0, ahead of Dawntrail's early access launch later this week.
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Pokémon disqualifies contest finalists following AI art row
Numerous entries found to have "violated" rules.
The Pokémon Company has booted a bunch of fans from a Pokémon card art contest, after claims several entrants used AI to aid their submissions.
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Fallout showrunners confirm New Vegas character "involved" with season two
All good in the Brotherhood.
A little show called Fallout released back in April - you may have heard of it - which received scores of praise on its release, including in our own Fallout review that called it "a lovely, if blood-spattered, surprise". Fallout's original creator Tim Cain also had nothing but praise for the adaptation.
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Pokémon never followed up on Palworld legal threat, developer reveals
"As much as possible, I try to avoid creating new things."
Monster hit Palworld is yet to receive any formal legal threat from Nintendo or The Pokémon Company, the game's developer has confirmed, despite continuing close comparisons between its creature designs.
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An Elden Ring dataminer has unmasked the NPCs of Shadow of the Erdtree, revealing what their faces look like beneath the armour.
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Dr Disrespect ousted from own studio as new Twitch ban allegations surface
"In order to maintain our principles and standards... we needed to act."
High-profile streamer Guy "Dr Disrespect" Beahm has been ousted from Midnight Society, the game development studio he co-founded in 2021, after new allegations relating to his much-publicised Twitch ban surfaced late last week.
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Three thoughts struck me after my first encounter with Shadow of the Erdtree's electrifying Divine Beast Dancing Lion boss: "WHAT?", "Ouch", and, dimly, "What is going on under there?". And one kindly modder has now helpfully answered that last question by derobing the thing and giving us all a peek at how the sausage is made (spoilers: no sausage is involved, but there are some Dancing Lion-related spoilers ahead so proceed with caution).
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The Terra Nil team has released its first major update, known as Vita Nova, across PC and Netflix. A Switch version is also on its way.
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EU opens fresh investigation into Apple following further non-compliance claims
"Today is a very important day for the effective enforcement of the DMA."
EU regulators have opened a new investigation following claims Apple is not complying with EU rules.
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Digital Foundry | DF Weekly: Starfield mods unlock frame-rate on Xbox Series S - so how well does it run?
Homebrew 'performance mode' solutions arrive for the junior Xbox.
In this week's DF Direct, I spend a bit of time looking into the Starfield modding scene - more specifically checking out mods that aim to bring a performance mode to the Xbox Series S version of the game. As we've already covered, Bethesda did a creditable job in bringing performance options to the Xbox Series X rendition of the game, but the junior Xbox didn't get the same treatment. We pointed out that this was a shame at the time, and the mods appear to suggest that Series S could have benefited likewise.
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FIFA may not have a football game right now, but it does have a Rocket League esports tournament
It's not rocket science.
FIFA may not have released a licensed football game recently, but it's ready to team up with Rocket League to introduce an all-new category to its FIFA Esports World Cup.
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GAME denies report it will stop selling physical games, other than fulfilling pre-orders
UPDATE: "This reporting is categorically not true."
UPDATE 3.15pm UK: In a further follow-up, a spokesperson for GAME parent company Frasers Group has assured Eurogamer there has been no change in store policy at all with regards to the sale of physical games and consoles.
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Video | Are tips and guides really essential for Elden Ring newcomers to get good?
An actual beginner finds out!
The pre and post launch hype behind Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree DLC has been impossible to ignore, but has it managed to convince any of you 'never-Souls' players to finally give the game a try?
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Diablo 4's Season 5 introduces new wave-based rogue-lite mode, Infernal Hordes
Fall on your horde.
Diablo 4's Season 5 will introduce a new wave-based rogue-lite mode.
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"Things like this shouldn't happen."
War Thunder developer Gaijin Entertainment has issued an apology after it accidentally included imagery from the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in a piece of key art.
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Feature | A brutal story RPG beat the save scumming out of me
Barbarian immersion therapy.
It had been a tough couple of rounds for my clan of doomed horse Vikings. The world-shattering war between the gods and chaos now blotted out the sun. The heroes questing for the royal regalia were missing, presumed eaten by druids. All of our goats had gone insane. At least I had sacrificed enough to send my God Talkers on a divine petition to maybe, just maybe, persuade them to prevent another famine. Then a random event informed me that the devil Wakboth World Ruin had just sucker punched our elder god of language out of the sky -- wiping out them along with my biggest ally (whom they landed on) and the literal concept of words.
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Fortnite's new mode saw over a million players this weekend
Tilted Towers returns again in Reload, a take on Warzone's Resurgence.
Fortnite has launched a major new battle royale mode, Reload, which drew in more than a million players to the game over the weekend.
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State of Decay 2 developer adds touching tribute to player's father who passed away
"They made him immortal."
Undead Labs added a touching tribute into State of Decay 2, immortalising a player's father who passed away three years ago.
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Streamers continue to play Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree in weird and wonderful ways
Mind over matter.
With the release of DLC Shadow of the Erdtree, Elden Ring players are back to their old tricks by playing the game in weird and wonderful ways.
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Fortnite's Pirates of the Caribbean crossover launches next month
All bets arrr off.
Pirates of the Caribbean is coming to Fortnite next month.
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