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Anti-cheat software has been a particularly prickly issue of late, and the latest kerfuffle over the introduction of Denuvo Anti-Cheat to Doom Eternal has been no exception. After Update One rolled out on 15th May, fans expressed unhappiness that Denuvo's Anti-Cheat software (not the same as Anti-Tamper) was being implemented on the PC version as part of the patch. In particular, concerns were raised that Denuvo's software was too intrusive, as it uses a kernel-level driver - while some players attributed performance issues to the addition of the anti-cheat software. And, of course, this was all being added after many players had already purchased the game, with no ability to opt-out.

UPDATE 21/5/20: Serious Sam 4's PlayStation and Xbox versions will be held back until 2021 due to its timed-exclusivity on Stadia, publisher Devolver Digital has said.

I don't think I've ever fallen in love with a game quite as quickly as I fell in love with Umurangi Generation. Set in Tauranga during a "crisis event", the game sees you playing as a parcel courier who has a sideline taking photos. What this amounts to is a photography game that plays out in intricate and characterful chunks of levels - levels that are filled with colour, storytelling and plenty of stuff to take snaps of.

Confirming reports circulating earlier this week, developer OtherSide Entertainment has announced that Chinese corporation Tencent has assumed control of System 3 and will be "taking the System Shock franchise forward" from this point on.

Drake Hollow, the exploratory village building adventure from the studio behind The Flame in the Flood, is coming to Xbox One and PC on 17th July.

Some 14 publishers from Japan and North America have got together to host their own E3-esque conference next month, with New Game+ Expo (NGPX) promising announcements, showcases and demos from the likes of Sega and SNK on June 23rd.

A mere 13 years on from its initial release, Halo 2 has been re-released on PC as part of The Master Chief Collection - an ongoing enterprise that has attracted as much criticism as praise. So how does this port from the Xbox One conversion of Saber Interactive's Xbox 360 original fare? What extras does it bring to the table, how well does it run - and does it manage to avoid the problems and issues of some of the other games in the PC collection?

UPDATE 20/05/20: After the initial blog post left some fans unsure whether Fallout 76's Seasons would be free in the long-term, Bethesda has now clarified the battle pass-style system will remain free for all players - although those who subscribe to Fallout 1st may get some bonus rewards in future.

This autumn's Call of Duty game is called Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, according to a leak backed up by Eurogamer's own sources.

UPDATE: It really didn't take long for players to discover what was going on behind the doors in bunker 11, as members of the Modern Warzone subreddit community have already managed to clip through the walls to discover a nuclear warhead.

There has never been a Gears of War game on a PlayStation console, so the recent appearance of Gears of War 3 footage running on PlayStation 3 has understandably been a surprise.

Sinziana Velicescu, AKA @casualtimetravel on Instagram, is a very good photographer. She takes photos of architecture, but without a lot of the architecture in it. In her words, it's about "abstracting architectural details" and putting "shapes, form and composition before the actual subject". Basically, in my very, very limited understanding of the craft, it's sort of about doing architecture back to front.

Should you suddenly discover a yearning void within your being when you finally sit down to play The Last of Us Part 2 in June - one that can only be satisfied by playing The Last of Us Part 2 upon a specially branded The Last of Us Part 2 PlayStation 4 Pro and controller - then Sony is here to help. Because it has announced these things.

Developer CD Projekt's Witcher-inspired free-to-play card battler Gwent is now available on Steam, featuring cross-play support and Thronebreaker integration.

Blizzard's persistently popular hero shooter Overwatch is celebrating its fourth birthday this year, and to celebrate those celebrations, a new three-week anniversary event is currently underway on Xbox One, PS4, Switch, and PC.

Back in April, Valve confirmed its beleaguered card battler Artifact was set to receive a radical overhaul, bringing extensive gameplay changes alongside a completely new monetisation model; and now the developer has shared its plans for new-look Artifact's imminent beta.

By now, pretty much everything there is to know about 2K's Mafia: Trilogy has been leaked upon the internet; however, today brings the formal unveiling of its exhaustive mobster bundle, so, for the sake of the completion, here's everything you'll likely want to know - starting with the Definitive Edition releases of Mafia 2 and 3 today on Xbox One, PS4, and PC.

What would a Metal Gear Solid movie look like if worked on by the visual artists at ILM? As the years pass and the reality of a Metal Gear film feels less and less likely, we have at least got a glimpse at what could have been.

Recently - I say recently, it was before lockdown, so a lifetime and a half ago - I started a new game of The Witcher 3 from scratch. Not because of the Switch port; as impressive as that is, this is a big-screen game for me. A little bit because the Netflix series had pushed the game, which celebrates its fifth anniversary today, to the front of the public consciousness and so into mine. Mostly because there was nothing new I fancied playing, or rather I fancied playing nothing new - I wanted the soothing feeling of old routines, patterns of thought and movement worn smooth with use. I wanted to go on a quest and upgrade my armour, and quest again and upgrade again, like I did five summers ago. I wanted to be weak and become strong, to be drab and become stylish, to be simple and become sophisticated. I wanted a comfort game.

When Crucible was announced in September 2016, it was billed as a "last one standing third-person shooter" in which 12 hunters enter an alien hostile world, but only one emerges victorious.

The next two featured creatures for Pokémon Go's Community Day will be chosen via Twitter poll.

Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones, AKA Normal People's Connell and Marianne, will take part in a Mario Kart 8 tournament tonight for mental health charity CALM.

Mafia 2's Definitive Edition looks to be in the hands of some people already - footage of it running on PlayStation 4 Pro is out in the wild.

It looks like Epic is offering automated partial refunds on games bought via its store, which later have their price cut in a sale.

Sometimes you're just not in the mood to rip someone's spine out of their eye socket, and for those moments when levity is preferred, developer NetherRealm has just the thing, showing off more of Mortal Kombat 11 Friendship finishers ahead of their long-awaited return next week.

Rainbow Six Siege might now be in its fifth year, but the content updates keep a-coming, and next on the schedule is Operation Steel Wave, which Ubisoft has now revealed in more detail.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt turns five years old today. Can you believe it? It's become so famous I can't recall a time before it. Heck there's even a Witcher Netflix series that has made the whole thing more popular still. And although it wasn't CD Projekt Red which created the Witcher fiction, the world and characters - those honours of course go to Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski - it was that game, that third game, which broadcast it to the world.

Gamescom organisers have shared more details on this year's digital-only event, which gets underway on 27th August with the return of Geoff Keighley's Opening Night livestream.

Red Dead Redemption is a decade old today.

The PC is the ultimate evolving platform - available in all shapes and sizes, with a vast array of components designed to offer ultimate flexibility. As a consequence, PCs are everywhere, but somehow the living room continues to be the domain of the console. Plug and play ease of use is likely a primary reason for this but form factor is a crucial factor too. With its latest Ghost Canyon NUC, Intel sets its sights high. The aim is to deliver a high-end gaming experience in a case with a volume of just five litres - significantly smaller than Xbox Series X. In the process, we're looking at a potential revolution for the PC form factor and crucially, it's possible to upgrade all components within the unit.