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Shadow of the Tomb Raider is being review bombed on Steam following a sale that has discounted just weeks after it was released.

You can dress up as Pyramid Head in Metal Gear Survive's upcoming event.

Epic Games has shared another "Fortnitemares" tweet, teasing that a Halloween-themed event might be on its way to fan-favourite Battle Royale, Fortnite.

Valve's beta test for its upcoming Dota 2-themed virtual card game Artifact has been delayed.

Ubisoft is terminating online services for Just Dance games on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, and Wii U on 19th November 2018.

Six Foot, one of the studios behind multiplayer sci-fi shooter Dreadnought, has laid off a third of its staff, citing the shooter's delayed release and mixed reviews as reasons for the decision.

I have heard plenty of people call Resonance of Fate weird. Maybe they mean weird for that tendency of JRPGs towards the outrageously fantastical, or how, even among games notorious for contrived plots, Resonance of Fate stands out as a particularly contorted example of the form.

A Counter-Strike pro was caught cheating mid-tournament - and he tried to delete his hack while an official checked his PC.

A professional FIFA player who was also an outspoken critic of EA has quit the game after receiving a ban.

Remember Project Nova? It's the new first-person shooter set within the Eve Online universe from CCP Games and UK developer Sumo Digital. Things had been quiet on the Project Nova front, but CCP has just lifted the lid on the game, releasing a flashy teaser trailer, letting outlets run gameplay footage and signalling a closed playtest for later this year.

A Fallout "lore nut" has attempted to explain why super mutants are in Fallout 76 when at first glance it seems like they shouldn't be.

Two years after developer IO Interactive stealth added a Potato Jesus Easter egg to Hitman, a player has finally found it.

Intel has been marketing the new Core i9 9900K as the fastest gaming CPU money can buy - and while a massive amount of controversy has surrounded the accuracy of pre-release benchmarks, the logic is sound. After all, the existing Core i7 8700K holds the title, ahead of its Ryzen 7 2700X competition. The new 9900K adds two additional cores and four threads, while boosting frequencies and increasing cache - improving on the 8700K in every way. Going into this review, my only question was this: to what extent do games actually make use of the additional resources? After all, the 8700K was already a performance monster, and arguably under-utilised. Do we actually need more gaming power?

Remember Spider-Man PS4's "puddlegate"? Ahead of the game's release, people got hot under the collar about an adjustment in puddle placement in a scene which sees far less water coverage. There was a kerfuffle but, inevitably, when the game came out and people started playing and enjoying it, the kerfuffle evaporated (Digital Foundry debunked the whole thing, too).

A while ago I've had a discussion with a certain Spelunky-loving editor of this website in which I argued that most roguelikes, Spelunky in particular, were too chaotic for me to handle. I like the orderliness of a JRPG or a round-based strategy game, games where after a while things follow a reliable pattern.

Veteran UK video game magazines GamesTM and GamesMaster are to close. Both mags are in the process of publishing their final issues, Eurogamer's sister site GamesIndustry.biz announced this morning.

Days Gone will now release on 26th April 2019 instead of its previous release date in February.

Developer Digital Extremes has announced that Fortuna - Warframe's massive open-world Venus expansion - will be launching on PC in November, with an Xbox One and PlayStation 4 release due "soon after".

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' Training Mode map is now available to experience on Xbox One, developer PUBG Corp has announced, and can be accessed via the console's newly updated Public Test Server.

Developer Aurora44 has confirmed that its long-awaited co-operative action-RPG, Ashen, is still due to launch on Xbox One and PC before 2018 is through - despite the lack of release date news so close to the end of the year.

IO Interactive has announced that it's releasing a special Hallowe'en-themed DLC pack for Hitman on PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 - and it's completely free.

Splash Damage has announced that it will no longer be actively developing or updating its free-to-play multiplayer shooter Dirty Bomb, saying that it "can't financially justify continuing to work on the game".

My fondest memories of Soulcalibur, the long-running 3D fighting game from Bandai Namco, are playing on Sega's Dreamcast and Nintendo's GameCube, parrying until I felt like I could parry blindfolded. I've always loved Soulcalibur's parry - a clash of weapons, a spark, a cling! Predict your opponent's move, time the parry to perfection and counter. Soulcalibur is at its most satisfying when you get in your opponent's head and expose the chink in their armour. Parry, parry, parry, slice and dice. Done.

I had concerns about Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales. What worried me most was the story. It's the most important thing; the premise the game is sold on, and a chance to return to the world of The Witcher. How could Thronebreaker possibly follow on from the outstanding The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt? When I first played, I wasn't sure it could. The queen whose royal sabatons I was filling left me cold. I couldn't relate to her stuffy world of advisors and generals, and I didn't like them. Her mission to reclaim gold stolen by bandits? Hardly mutant monster-hunter Geralt pursuing the near-mythical Wild Hunt, is it? But Thronebreaker gets better. It gets so much better.

Fallout 76 has microtransactions - we've known that for a month or so. And the virtual currency is called Atoms - we've known that for a month or so, too.

PUBG Corp is currently engaged in a substantial effort to fix its game. I mean this quite literally: there's an ongoing campaign called FIX PUBG which is tracking the team's efforts to combat bugs in a game notorious for jankiness.

Microsoft has announced that Half-Life 2's The Orange Box, Portal, Left 4 Dead, and Left 4 Dead 2 all now feature 4K enhancements on Xbox One X.

Cast your mind back to the halcyon days of 2017, and you might recall a little something called Super Mario Odyssey. There was a lot to like in there, but one of its most delightful additions was Mario's dress-up closet, which has just gained a wonderfully ghoulish Zombie Mario outfit.

There's a treat in store for fans of Daniel Mullins' dizzyingly inventive 2016 cult hit, Pony Island; the developer's latest offering, genre-hopping murder mystery The Hex, is now available on Steam.

Another year, another Call of Duty game - and one everyone in the office is glued to thanks to Black Ops 4's take on the Battle Royale genre. Sounds like a good excuse for a Eurogamer Podcast! (Or shall we say 'CoDcast'! No?)