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VR rhythm phenomenon Beat Saber leaving PC early access next week with price increase
Long-awaited official level editor arriving too.
Developer Beat Games has announced that its VR rhythm phenomenon Beat Saber will officially leave early access on PC next week, 21st May.
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Ubisoft creative director appears to confirm new Splinter Cell in random tweet
But a Ubi spokesperson insists it's just jokes.
It barely seems like a few days ago that Eurogamer was bemoaning Ubisoft's continued reluctance to properly resurrect its much loved Splinter Cell series. And now, in an entirely unexpected turn events, Ubisoft creative director Julian Gerighty appears to have rather cavalierly revealed that a new series entry is indeed in the works - although Ubisoft itself is claiming it's all jokes.
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Developer Image & Form's acclaimed RPG card-battler SteamWorld Quest will, after its successful launch on Switch last month, be heading to Steam on 31st May.
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Adorable VR mouse adventure Moss is getting a free DLC chapter next week
Oculus Quest first, other platforms to follow.
Developer Polyarc has revealed that its delightful VR fantasy adventure Moss will be getting a free DLC episode, titled Twilight Garden, starting next week.
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World of Warcraft Classic gets a release date, and a beta tomorrow
And Blizzard is doing a Ragnaros statue!
World of Warcraft Classic will be released on 27th August, Blizzard has announced, and a closed beta will begin tomorrow, 15th May.
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Nintendo Direct broadcast dated for this week
Focusing entirely on Mario Maker 2.
There's a brand new Nintendo Direct broadcast this week - and it's all about Super Mario Maker 2 for Nintendo Switch.
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Digital Foundry | Saints Row: The Third on Switch is a great idea that's poorly executed
Last-gen performance and input lag issues mar the experience.
There are two different ways to look at the Switch port of Saints Row: The Third'. From a glass half full perspective, what you're getting an exceptionally close conversion of the PS3 original, closer still if you play in handheld mode. But viewed in a glass half empty way, all of the failings of the last-gen console versions remain in full effect on this new release: let's make no bones about it, performance is poor and the controls have severe input lag issues.
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Fantastic Fetus is a Tamagotchi-style pregnancy simulator and a protest
Against Polish anti-abortion laws.
There's a game called Fantastic Fetus on itch.io right now and it's a Tamagotchi-style pregnancy simulator.
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Borderlands 2 current player numbers suggest Borderlands 3 is going to be huge
Gaiging the temperature.
If the excitement surrounding Borderlands 3's announcement hadn't already shown you the scale of the hype behind this game, look no further than past entries in the Borderlands series. Despite Borderlands 2 having been released all the way back in 2012, the game still has a surprisingly large player base - with over a million unique users playing the game every month.
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Feature | Mini Metro plays with the tube map in fascinating ways
Line out of joint.
One of the greatest tricks of the tube map is to take something elbowy and dark, a place of body heat and sudden gusts and narrow channels and sudden crowds, and render it airy, spacious, clean and elegant. I can hold these two realities in my head whenever I descend: Victoria is both a place of visible overhead cabling and those cream tiles, many pulled away to reveal stylised whitecaps of grouting beneath, and a perfect white bead threaded onto a blue line. The map and the territory are happy to coexist here.
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FIFA 19 gets a unique War Child FC kit in-game
As War Child FC Steam sale kicks off.
FIFA 19 now has a unique War Child FC kit in-game.
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Feature | Shooters: How Video Games Fund Arms Manufacturers
From marketing guns to young people to selling lucrative licenses, Simon Parkin examines the virtual weapons trade.
This piece was originally published in November 2012.
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Feature | The boy who stole Half-Life 2
From the archive: the story behind the $250m robbery.
At 6am on 7th May 2004, Axel Gembe awoke in the small German town of Schönau im Schwarzwald to find his bed surrounded by police officers. Automatic weapons were pointing at his head and the words, "Get out of bed. Do not touch the keyboard," were ringing in his ears.
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Feature | Night and the City
From the archive: Chris Donlan plays through L.A. Noire with his dad, who grew up in the city in the 1940s.
Editor's note: This week sees the re-release of L.A. Noire on PS4, Xbox One and Switch, and to mark the occasion we thought we'd return to Chris Donlan's piece on playing through the game - still one of the very best things ever published on Eurogamer, he'll hate me for saying - which first went live back in 2012. Enjoy!
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Feature | The human cost of Red Dead Redemption 2
According to the people who made it.
Red Dead Redemption 2 launched at midnight last night and, right now, millions of people around the world are playing. It's been a long wait - a friend told me recently they'd placed their pre-order over two years ago. The reviews, as expected, are positive. I can't wait to play it.
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Feature | The fall of Starbreeze
According to the people who lived through it.
At Starbreeze's 2016 Christmas meeting, held in a cinema close by to the studio's Stockholm headquarters, CEO Bo Andersson told staff the company was in rude health. Payday 2, a co-op first-person shooter Steam hit, was still making money, virtual reality investments were about getting ahead of the game, and in-development titles, such as Raid: World War 2 and Overkill's The Walking Dead, were on course for success. Starbreeze's top brass even announced a new staff bonus system. The message was loud and clear: Starbreeze had evolved from the plucky developer of Payday into a big, important, successful entertainment company.
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Starbreeze has sold its Indian subsidiary to Rockstar as its battle for survival continues.
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Ghostbusters: The Video Game remaster listed by Taiwanese ratings board
What Gozer round comes around.
It looks like developer Terminal Reality's fab 2009 Ghostbusters video game might be getting the remaster treatment - if a new listing from the Taiwanese ratings board is to be believed, at least.
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Metal Gear Solid remade in Dreams looks surprisingly authentic
Meanwhile, someone has made a Spider-Ham.
We're back with your weekly dose of Dreams goodness - and this time it's a big one, as a player is using the creator to remake Metal Gear Solid. All of it.
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You can explore Minecraft's 10-year history in a massive new interactive in-game museum
Free on PC, Xbox One, Switch, and mobile.
Minecraft is ten years old this year, and Microsoft is going big on the birthday celebrations - as is only right for one of gaming's most enduring titles. As part of those festivities, it's released a wonderful new map, featuring a huge interactive museum themed around the game's first decade.
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Review | Shakedown: Hawaii review - crime and capitalism in a sunny open world
Bank notes from a small island.
Shakedown: Hawaii is the latest game from Brian Provinciano, whose previous work, Retro City Rampage, de-made GTA for the era of 8-bit consoles and then loaded its open-world with topical memespeak gags and labour-of-love gimmicks. Shakedown: Hawaii is more of the same - more open-world crime, with 16-bit graphics this time, as a trio of characters rebuild a decrepit business empire using deeply questionable tactics. But as well as being a game about stealing cars, running people down, and shooting everyone you meet to pieces, it's also a bit of a clicker.
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Feature | Lionhead: The inside story
Hear me roar.
In October 2008, Microsoft released Lionhead's Fable 2 to critical and commercial acclaim. At a launch party an emotional Peter Molyneux held aloft glowing reviews and praised the exhausted team of developers who had spent the previous four years pouring everything they had into the game. Fable 2 would go on to win a BAFTA and become the best-selling role-playing game for the Xbox 360. Lionhead was on top of the world.
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Feature | Oddworld: Soulstorm - the quintology is back on
"Today, there are more slaves on planet Earth than there ever were..."
"Today, there are more slaves on planet Earth than there ever were in world history combined..."
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There's a bunch of unused Captain Toad levels hidden in the game's files
Turnip for the books.
Captain Toad is one of my favourite Nintendo characters, and the meteoric rise of this mycelial mascot - from a side-character in Super Mario Galaxy to the star of his own game, Treasure Tracker - has been a joy to see.
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Feature | Snakeybus is Snake on a bus and I love it beyond all words
Blockade the roads.
Snakeybus has one of the most appealing pitches for any game in an age. It's Snake - or Blockade if you're a purist - but you're a bus, and you're driving through Paris, or Miami or wherever, and as you collect passengers and drop them off your bus gets longer and longer.
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DICE disables Battlefield 5's battle royale duos mode again
"We're going to get back to the original plan today and we've disabled [its] matchmaking."
Despite only recently adding duos to the squad options in Battlefield 5's battle royale mode, Firestorm, DICE and publisher EA have now decided to remove the option, stating there simply weren't enough players making use of the mode.
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Outer Wilds becomes another Epic Games Store PC exclusive and some backers are not happy
"I would [have] preferred them asking for more money rather th[a]n timed exclusivity."
Mobius' crowdfunded space exploration game Outer Wilds is the latest title to have been snapped up by Epic for an exclusivity period with the Epic Games Store.
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Xbox Game Pass Quests are now available in six additional countries
The feature's now live in Australia, France, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, and Mexico.
Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass Quests feature has rolled out to six more countries: Australia, France, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, and Mexico.
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Wolfenstein: Youngblood will have "open-ended" levels like Dishonored
"It's quite different from what we have done before," says executive producer.
Wolfenstein: Youngblood executive producer Jerk Gustafsson has confirmed the upcoming game will have "open-ended" levels that players can complete in a variety of ways.
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Respawn will ban persistent "piggyback" cheats in Apex Legends
"We'll start instituting temp bans for players that exhibit piggy-backing behaviour."
Respawn has revealed plans to ban Apex Legends players who intentionally don't participate in matches, but instead "piggyback" onto the efforts of their teammates just to farm rewards and XP.
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