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Call of Duty: Vanguard sold over 30m copies.

Gears 6 will reportedly be announced on 9th June 2024.

Shift Up CEO has confirmed free updates and a new game plus mode will be coming to Stellar Blade.

A new investigation into developer Deck Nine - best known as the current steward of Life is Strange, a series celebrated for its diversity and inclusivity - has painted a picture of a studio where toxicity, hate speech, harassment, crunch, bullying, and abusive leadership has been able to fester as a result inaction from senior management.

After mistakenly being put live for 30 minutes on the PlayStation Store in March, the Stellar Blade demo is now finally available for anyone to try. It's a one-hour slice of the full release, due on the 26th of April - an effort that sees South Korean studio Shift Up make its first foray into AAA console development. And remarkably, the turnout is great: a slick Unreal Engine 4 action game for PS5 with Dark Souls elements, where the strength of its character rendering, combat controls and aliens versus humanity backdrop impress even within the demo's short length. On a tech level, Stellar Blade has a lot of quality on show to celebrate here, not least its bombastic in-engine cutscenes.

Nintendo Switch OLED consoles are down to their lowest ever price at Amazon UK.

Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've been playing over the past few days. This week, we're mixing it up a bit with a GDC-based indie preview special, highlighting several game demos we tried out in late March (And also it's just me, Chris - hello!).

Doesn't time fly? It feels like only yesterday I was being ushered into a darkened booth during a bustling E3 2012 to watch a behind closed doors gameplay demo of the newly-announced MMORPG The Elder Scrolls Online. Here I am now though, some 12 years later, looking at the game again for the game's 10th anniversary - a milestone that will also be celebrated in-game over the next year, spanning the time between the game's PC launch in 2014 and the release of its console port in 2015.

Nightdive Studio's remake of System Shock will get its patch 1.2 update next week, adding a new female Hacker and revised ending.

Dragon's Dogma 2 modders have been working on ways to deal with the controversial Dragonsplague mechanic that infects companion Pawns.

Pepper Grinder is one of those 2D platform games with a big idea. And its big idea is brilliant. You're a tiny character scampering around roomy levels, the camera pulled a good way out, and you have a drill. A drill! You can use it to chug through sand and dirt and emerge with a burst of speed. You can drill enemies until they're just jaw bones and cute gristle. You can use the drill to power a machine that raises the flag that ends each level. You can use the drill to operate guns, sprinklers, skidoos - you name it. More important than all that, though, Pepper Grinder is a game where the little details matter. And I knew this as soon as I saw the vines.

The sus team of voice actors for Among Us' upcoming animation is complete.

What is Call of Duty these days? I'm not sure. But I do know you can currently buy the weed-loving Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong from Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone's in-game shop.

Iconic capoeira fighter Eddy Gordo is now available in Tekken 8 as part of the game's season pass.

Helldivers 2's next Premium Warbond is set to launch next week, on 11th April.

Pepper Grinder is out now, which is wonderful - do give it a look if you're after a fun, chuggy action game with a touch of Drill Dozer to it. I played the game while surrounded by actual drills, as we're having our bathroom redone at the moment. We haven't had builders in the house for a while. We put off the current job until it reached the point where you literally couldn't emerge from the bathroom without a rusted tap in your hand and a cheerful flood of ground water following you into the hallway. It's been noisy and friendly and fascinating.

Company of Heroes developer Relic Entertainment has said it will make further layoffs, following its sale by Sega announced last week.

Last night on Married At First Sight Australia, Eden revealed she'd be hiding a terrible secret. Another bride - who I won't reveal because SPOILERS, obviously - had texted her asking if she could borrow a top, so she could wear it to… see her ex-boyfriend.

Amazon has announced the 12 games it'll be giving away to all Prime Gaming subscribers in April, with this month's offerings including Fallout 76 - whose arrival is perfectly timed to coincide with Amazon's new Fallout TV series.

With the Epic Games Store's latest weekly freebie offers now live, Epic has turned its gaze to the far-flung future of seven days time, confirming acclaimed cyberpunk action-parkour adventure Ghostrunner will be its next free title from Thursday, 11th April.

Four years after Nuclear Throne and Ridiculous Fishing developer Vlambeer announced it was shutting its doors, the highly regarded indie studio is back in the news, with co-founder Jan Willem Nijman now its full owner following Rami Ismail's decision to sell his shares.

C-Smash VRS - last year's well-recieved PSVR2 update of Sega's cult 2001 arcade and Dreamcast sci-fi sports game Cosmic Smash - is wiggling out of its headset to get a non-VR edition on PlayStation 5, also available to existing owners, later this year.

Dragon's Dogma 2 is a technically advanced title that is often quite stunning, packing some of the best lighting I've seen this generation - while the gameplay mechanics have attracted multiple plaudits. However, on the flipside, there's no doubt that it's also saddled with performance issues and configuration problems, producing an occasionally unsatisfactory experience on both PC and console platforms. Thankfully, developer Capcom has been quick to deploy the game's first patch on consoles, which promises fixes for the game's variable frame-rate and always-on motion blur, alongside a toggle to disable its ray tracing effects entirely. Has the game been comprehensively improved? Or is this just one small step towards the more polished, performant game we would have liked to have seen at launch?

One Red Dead Redemption 2 player has been rootling around in the game's audio files, and uncovered some behind the scenes bloopers as a result.

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss the unannounced but widely-expected PlayStation 5 Pro, which looks set to launch later this year.

Square Enix has launched a new merchandise shop for pets in Japan, featuring designs based on Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and Kingdom Hearts.

UPDATE 5/4/24: Roblox has provided Eurogamer a lengthy statement setting forth its views on the platform, its monetisation, and the ages of those who receive revenue through it.

If you've been to a magic show, or even just walked past one of those blokes who spray paint themselves gold and 'levitate' by Covent Garden, you'll know the feeling. First it's something between a full-blown "Woah!" and an appreciative "Neat," then the inner child dies again and it's back to boring old rationalisation. The deck was probably loaded, the audience member was probably a plant, and that levitating guy is concealing the mother of all wedgies from his hidden harness.

High street second hand games giant CEX is launching a console repair service, in partnership with established company Tech Centre.

This week's shutdown of Ubisoft racing game The Crew has prompted the launch of a concerted effort to mount political and legal challenges to the increasingly common occurence of games you've bought becoming unplayable.