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Rocket League's Halloween event starts next week, gets Stranger Things tie-in

As is now tradition, Rocket League is poised to unleash its annual Haunted Hallows event for this most spooky of seasons. However, the four-wheeled footie game's Halloween celebrations are getting a bit of a shake-up this year, thanks to a special Stranger Things tie-in. Rocket League's latest Haunted Hallows event kicks off next Monday, 14th October, and will once again see players battling it out on the pitch to earn Candy Corn, which can be used in the seasonal store to unlock autumn-inspired items...

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PlayStation reportedly lays off "dozens" of employees in UK office

Sony Interactive Entertainment has reportedly laid off "dozens" of European employees based in its UK office this week, as PlayStation's North American arm continues to exert increased influence over the global business. As reported by VGC , the mass redundancies occurred on Tuesday, the same day that PlayStation US formally announced its PlayStation 5 release plans via articles in Wired magazine - an announcement that European employees allegedly had no forewarning of, and only learned about at the time of publication...

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Xbox corporate vice president Mike Ybarra announces departure from Microsoft

Mike Ybarra, corporate vice president of Microsoft's gaming division across Xbox and PC, has announced his departure from the company after almost 20 years. Ybarra initially joined Microsoft as a systems engineer in 2000, then, after several senior roles in other divisions, became part of the Xbox family in 2009 as general manager of Xbox Live. Ybarra began his current role as corporate vice president of gaming in 2017, where he oversaw the likes of Xbox Live, Xbox Game Pass, and Mixer. Announcing...

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Sci-fi strategy game Stellaris joins Xbox Game Pass for PC this month

Microsoft has confirmed the latest batch of titles coming to Xbox Game Pass on PC - and while a few have been revealed previously, some new names, including sci-fi grand strategy game Stellaris, will also be making the leap to the subscription service before the month is through. Alongside Stellaris, quirky (and tremendously entertaining ) 60-second puzzle adventure Minit joins the Xbox Game Pass line-up on PC, as does F1 2018, a racer that Eurogamer's Martin Robison called "one of the very best F1 games to date" in his Recommended review last year...

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Rockstar details enhancements coming to Red Dead Redemption 2 on PC

Ahead of Red Dead Redemption 2's long-awaited arrival on PC next month , Rockstar has detailed some of the visual and technical enhancements, plus the system specs required to enjoy them, coming to the open-world cowboy adventure on the platform. According to the developer, Red Dead Redemption 2's PC enhancements will allow for "deeper immersion", and include increased, higher quality global illumination and ambient occlusion (said to improve the game's day and night lighting), improved reflections...

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Fans have found a way to fly - sort of - in Apex Legends

It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's just Eurogamer testing something out in Apex Legends again - except this time, rather than a game ruining issue, this one is pretty fun for everyone involved. By now, most Apex players are likely to have played with or fought against a Crypto, the new hacker Legend whose abilities revolve around a speedy little drone...

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FIFA 20 TOTW 4: all players included in the fourth Team of the Week from 9th Octber

FIFA 20 TOTW 4 players listed and everyone included in the fourth Team of the Week.

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is a whopping 175GB on PC

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare weighs in at 175GB on PC. The official listing for the PC version on Battle.net details the huge storage requirement for Infinity Ward's soft reboot. For both minimum and recommended specifications, you'll need an eye-watering 175GB of available hard drive space. While Call of Duty games have in recent years ended up with a three-figure install size (there's a lot of DLC!), this is by a significant...

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This crowd-designed display aims to beat our best gaming monitor

The Eve Spectrum is a crowd-designed display built on the same advanced 1ms Nano IPS panel as our current pick for best gaming monitor.

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Mario Kart Tour update includes atrocious £39 pack that unlocks Diddy Kong

Nintendo's new Mario Kart Tour update, available now, has rotated in a fresh set of tracks, characters and kart parts to unlock via the smartphone game's gacha-style system. You can also pay up a lot of money and buy several packs upfront, which include popular characters such as Rosalina and Diddy Kong. The price of these packs is largely justified by the lumps of in-game currency they include. The characters bundled with them are just there to give the pack a family friendly face, and a character players will likely want...

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Sony's latest PS5 details: the Digital Foundry analysis

DF's detailed breakdown of Sony's latest PlayStation 5 reveal.

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Get an Arwing model for a tenner

Ubisoft's Starlink: Battle For Atlas starter pack for Nintendo Switch is now just £10. Alas, the open-world space-exploration shooter wasn't able to revive the toys-to-life concept, but incorporating Star Fox with the Switch version was nothing short of a masterstroke tie-in. Considering Nintendo failed to release its own Arwing amiibo back when it released Star Fox Zero on Wii U, the Arwing model that comes with this starter pack is worth the purchase alone. The game itself isn't bad, though if you want more parts to get the most out of the game then you're going to wind up spending more cash...

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Sony patent points to next-gen PlayStation VR

Sony's patent for a new PlayStation VR headset depicts several new features which may turn up in a next-gen version of the device. The filing (dug up by LetsGoDigital , the same site which unearthed Sony's patent for the PlayStation 5 dev kit ), originates from February 2019 but has only been made public this week. Images show plans for a PSVR headset which includes two front and one rear cameras. A further camera is included on a PlayStation Move-style controller. These headset cameras are in addition to the LEDs installed around the current unit...

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Yooka Laylee devs create Super Mario Maker 2 course

Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair developer Playtonic has put together a Super Mario Maker 2 course themed around the platformer. Titled as The Impossible Layer, this Mario level pays homage to the Impossible Lair's level-changing mechanic. In honor of the launch of #YookaLaylee and the #ImpossibleLair , the developers at @PlaytonicGames have created a special #SuperMarioMaker2 course where you?ll need to change states to progress! We?ll be sharing more courses created by talented indie devs soon, so stay tuned! pic...

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Bonanza Bros and the 16-bit difference

Bonanza Bros was the first Mega Drive game I ever played. It was the reason I was interested in the machine in the first place. Today I would put it up there with Quackshot and ToeJam & Earl as one of the handful of games that for me makes that machine so exciting. (I appreciate Gunstar Heroes belongs on this list too, but I had temporarily moved on from video games by the time that came out and I had to discover it much later.) Even now, Bonanza Bros sums up what made 16-bit gaming so astonishing...

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Overwatch's Mei is being turned into a Hong Kong protest symbol

The reaction to yesterday's news that Blizzard suspended Hearthstone player Chung "Blitzchung" Ng Waifor expressing pro-Hong Kong views has been, well, pretty severe. Posts criticising Blizzard have been all over Reddit and Twitter, while the incident has even broken into mainstream consciousness, with Republican and Democratic politicians alike calling out the decision. On r/HongKong, meanwhile,...

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Someone's stolen every item in Untitled Goose Game

If you're a curious goose, you may be interested to know it takes around seven hours to steal every single item in Untitled Goose Game. Goose fan TerakJK recorded his bird doing just that: nabbing every thing which wasn't nailed down and dragging it back to the game's pit. There's absolutely no reason in the game to do this...

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Someone should make a game about: Seven Force

Hello, and welcome to our new series which picks out interesting things that we'd love someone to make a game about. This isn't a chance for us to pretend we're game designers, more an opportunity to celebrate the range of subjects games can tackle and the sorts of things that seem filled with glorious gamey promise. Since this is Sega Week, we're doing things just a little differently on this one occasion. I often wonder what games would be like if you could play through their campaigns as one of the bosses rather than the hero...

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Disco Elysium is an RPG of overwhelming proportions

Ahead of the release of Disco Elysium next week, developer Studio Za/um shared some insight into the sheer size of its game: playthroughs should average 60 hours, with completionists looking at 90 hours. It consists of a million words. Impressive stuff, especially as a first project for a small indie developer, and even more impressive is that, after roughly seven hours with the preview build, I've seen much of quality in all that quantity. Disco Elysium is a top-down RPG inspired by pen and paper...

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Later this week, you'll be able to pre-order an official Destiny shoe

Are you a fan of moon-wizard-based multiplayer sci-fi shooters and novelty footwear? Well then have I got exciting news for you! Bootmaker Palladium and developer Bungie have birthed a Destiny themed shoe straight from the almond-shaped central opening of this most audacious Venn diagram, and it's your to pre-order later this week. Palladium's Destiny shoe is a boot with a flap, tastefully presented in, I guess, astronaut grey, and adorned with a selection of franchise-appropriate labels and logos...

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Man robs Valve, wheels $40K worth of stolen goods away in a bin

A Washington man has been charged with breaking into Valve and carting $40,000 USD worth of stolen games and equipment away in a wheelie bin. As reported by Washington news station KIRO 7 , 32-year-old Shawn Shaputis broke into Valve's offices in Lincoln Square's south tower - a building which, as noted by PC Gamer , Valve shares with the likes of Epic Games, The Pokémon Company, Samsung, and Unity - four or five times during the burglary spree in 2018. Each time, according to police, Shaputis would...

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PS4 Black Friday 2019: the best deals on consoles, games, PSVR, and more

Our regularly-updated resource for the best PS4 deals of Black Friday 2019.

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Mario Kart Tour off to Tokyo tomorrow, Rainbow Road and Rosalina incoming

Mario Kart Tour is saying farewell New York and hello Tokyo tomorrow, as Nintendo's microtransaction-laden mobile racer's globe-trotting adventure rumbles on. When Mario Kart Tour's Tokyo leg begins tomorrow, 9th October, at 7am BST in the UK (or tonight at 11pm PDT), it will introduce a brand-new track inspired by the Japanese city. That's accompanied by new Tour Spotlight Items, including a Japan-themed Mario variant, which replace Nintendo's current New-York-themed set. Alongside those limited-time...

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Apex Legends Fight or Fright Halloween event: start date, time, Shadowfall mode and challenge rewards

All the key details on Apex Legends' Fight or Fright Halloween event, including the start date, time and a full list of challenges and rewards.

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Playable fox people and gnome cyborgs coming to World of Warcraft

The next major free update to World of Warcraft will introduce two new playable races to the game: Vulpera (cute fox people) and Mechagnomes (kind of steampunk gnome cyborgs). Both belong to the Allied Races that were introduced with the current expansion Battle for Azeroth, which means they start at level 20 and can only be unlocked through grinding reputation with a particular faction in the game. Vulpera will be accessible to Horde players and Mechagnomes to Alliance. Vulpera in particular have...

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Time loop space exploration adventure Outer Wilds comes to PS4 next week

Developer Mobius Digital's wonderfully eccentric space exploration game, Outer Wilds, will finally be making its way to PlayStation 4 next week, on Tuesday, 15th October. Outer Wilds, which initially launched on Xbox One and PC earlier this year, casts players as curious spacefarers, given free rein to explore its delightfully off-kilter solar system - a hand-crafted, loosely simulated, and "constantly evolving" cosmos. There is, however, one key limitation; every 20 minutes, the entire solar system...

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Destiny 2 Divinity quest steps: Where to find Vex Cores to analyse in the Divine Fragmentation step

How to get Divinity in Destiny 2, including how to find Vex Cores to analyse as part of the Divine Fragmentation step.

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Sony announces a pair of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare PS4 bundles

Sony has announced that it will be releasing a pair of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare PS4 bundles alongside the game this October. These aren't any fancy limited edition consoles like the Death Stranding PS4 Pro , so absolutely no chance of finding a baby hiding in the controller. Nope, just a normal box with the FPS thrown in as an extra. Here's where you'll be able to get one. If any more retailers put their listings live I'll be sure to come back to update the page...

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Doom Eternal delayed until March 2020

id Software has said Doom Eternal - the follow-up to the 2016 Doom reboot - will miss its November 22nd release date. "To make sure we're delivering the best experience - for Doom Eternal to live up to our standards of speed and polish - we've made the decision to extend our launch date by a few months to March 20, 2020," read a statement...

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Fortnite Visitor Recording locations explained

Where to find Visitor Recording locations in Fortnite, including Floating Island and Retail Row.

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Blizzard under fire after punishing pro-Hong Kong Hearthstone player

As protests in Hong Kong continue to escalate, concern about Chinese censorship has now spilled over into the world of Hearthstone, as Blizzard has suspended a competitive player for voicing Hong Kong support in a competition. Earlier this week, Hong Kong player Chung "Blitzchung" Ng Wai appeared in a Grandmasters Asia Pacific post-match interview, where he signed off with a bold statement. Wearing a gas mask similar to those worn by protestors (and recently banned in Hong Kong ), Blitzchung said: "Liberate Hong Kong...

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Looks like the leaked PlayStation 5 dev kit is real

Back in August, images of a mysterious PlayStation-branded device popped up on Dutch website LetsGoDigital , purporting to be designs for a PS5 developer kit. Today, it looks like we finally have confirmation those images were legitimate. These machines, built for developers to offer an approximation of the technology available in a final launch console, are typically different in form factor to the box you'll eventually pop under your telly. But this design was more than just different . It was...

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Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair review - a brilliant and better follow-up

Where the original Yooka-Laylee had its eyes set on the past, this follow-up feels fitter and better for today.

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Sony confirms PS5 is indeed called PS5 - and it's out Christmas 2020

Sony has confirmed a few details about the PlayStation 5 - including the fact it's called PlayStation 5. The company has also announced a Christmas 2020 release window for PS5. "These updates may not be a huge surprise, but we wanted to confirm them for our PlayStation fans, as we start to reveal additional details about our vision for the next generation," Sony said in a PlayStation blog post . There's a preview of the new controller that comes with the PS5, too. Two new features include haptic feedback to replace the rumble tech in the current DualShock...

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SanDisk's official 128GB Nintendo Switch SD card is the cheapest it's ever been

This time around it's the Officially licensed SanDisk 128GB microSD card that's only £18.29 . You can also pick it up in the US for $25.49 . Article Continues Below Loading... hold tight! That makes one of our best Switch SD card picks the lowest price it has ever been on Amazon UK. While not offering as much capacity as last month's 400GB beast , there's enough room to ensure a dedicated Switch player has space to freely install enough games and updates for some time ahead. What makes this SD card officially licensed, you ask? Well, outside of the iconic Mario mushroom printed on the side...

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Destiny 2 Vex Offensive access: How to complete the Eyes on the Moon quest

How to unlock and start Vex Offensive in Destiny 2 by completing the Eyes on the Moon quest.

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Facebook integration pulled from PlayStation 4

If you've spotted Facebook integration on PlayStation 4 is now unavailable, you're not alone. The social network is no longer linked to the console, which means no sharing captured video and screenshots to the service, no cross-posting Trophies, and no linking to gameplay broadcasts. You can't search and add Facebook friends. Imported Facebook profile photos are also no longer supported, Sony has said (although, at the time of writing, I can still see photos previously saved locally). "Starting...

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Apex Legends "Fight or Fright" Halloween event starts next week

As usual, the Apex Legends leaks turned out to be accurate and Respawn has now officially announced the game's Halloween event - complete with spooky new skins and a dark new look for Kings Canyon. Fight or Fright runs from 15th October to 5th November and will feature a new game mode called Shadowfall, which will see 34 solo players drop into a nighttime version of the old Kings Canyon map. This isn't a typical battle royale mode however. Once a player is killed, they'll respawn as an undead version of their Legend forming a "Shadow Squad" with the rest of the defeated players...

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Anthem is now only 10 quid

BioWare's spluttering shooter Anthem is now just £10 on PS4 and Xbox One. The ailing RPG had aims of being the next Destiny or The Division but never managed to take off. A disastrous launch saw the game floundering from the very start amidst poor reviews and, in the months that followed, any efforts that were intended to improve Anthem's situation seemed either too little or too late. Is it worth a go for a tenner? Maybe. Even if you just decide to zip through the campaign you're probably going to feel like you've got your money's worth...

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Mizuguchi in Tokyo: When Sega made art from the arcade spirit

I waited for him on a street corner in Shibuya. It was the spring of 2000 - my first time in Japan. I was attending the Tokyo Game Show as editor of DC-UK magazine. Somehow I'd managed to score an interview with Tetsuya Mizuguchi, the impossibly cool Sega designer, once an upcoming arcade star, working on titles such as Sega Rally and Touring Car Championship, but now a wayward pioneer, leading his team at United Game Artists on Space Channel 5 and Rez. I knew about Mizuguchi as a designer of course,...

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Grid review - a slim, muscular and magnificent arcade racer

The name does it no favours at all. Back when the first Grid launched, it had the Race Driver appendage, marking it out as a successor of sorts to Codemasters' long-running, much-loved series, itself with foundations in the even more beloved brace of TOCA games for the original PlayStation. This, though, was a more fantastical take on motorsport, with a few extra bulges under the bonnet and an American twang that only became even more pronounced with 2013's disappointing sequel - a sort of Michael Bay does motorsport affair that never really seemed sure of what exactly it wanted to be...

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Concrete Genie review - a bright and thoughtful exploration of some dark and difficult themes

Ever since its announcement at 2017's Paris Games Week, PlayStation exclusive Concrete Genie has been nothing short of intriguing. The setting, the stunning art style, the artistic game play - this an ambitious game for Pixel Opus, a studio of university graduates whose only other title is Entwined, but that ambition has served them well. Concrete Genie is everything I hoped it would be. Concrete Genie review Developer: Pixel Opus Publisher: SIEE Platform: Reviewed on PS4 Availability: Out now on...

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Machinarium and the Samorost dev surprise-releases offbeat adventure Pilgrims

Amanita Design, the studio behind the wonderful likes of Machinarium, Samorost, Botanicula, and Chuchel, has surprise-released Pilgrims, a brand-new offbeat adventure that's out now on Apple Arcade and PC. Pilgrims, which begins with a priest losing his soul to a demon in a card game, plays out something like a point-and-click adventure distilled to its purest form. It's a game consisting of small single-scene story vignettes, each accessible via a lavish overworld map, and each usually involving an encounter with a quirky character in need of help...

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Planetary colonisation sim Surviving Mars is getting a post-apocalyptic follow-up

Paradox Interactive and developer Haemimont Games' planetary colonisation sim Surviving Mars (which is pretty good , you might recall) is getting a post-apocalyptic follow-up. It's called Surviving the Aftermath and will be heading to PC and consoles "late" next year. According to Paradox's largely detail-deficient Surviving the Aftermath unveiling, the game will "find new ways to utilise [the] survival management gameplay" seen in its predecessor, and will "experiment with these mechanics in new and interesting ways that we think our players will love...

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Redout dogfighter spin-off Space Assault is now available on Apple Arcade

Developer 34BigThings' dogfighter-themed Redout spin-off, Redout: Space Assault, is available now on Apple Arcade, just four months after its initial release was indefinitely delayed. 34BigThings originally announced Redout: Space Assault last June, promising that the intergalactic shooter would maintain the "adrenaline rush, high skill ceiling, frantic pace and popping aesthetics" of its excellent 2016 anti-gravity racer Redout, despite the shift in genres. Space Assault was initially due to launch...

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Bloodborne's yearly community event has returned for Halloween

For the past few years, the Bloodborne community has come together annually to bring life back into From Software's gothic action-RPG. The appropriately named Return to Yharnam started at midnight on the 5th October and will run until the 5th November. Usually the event begins some time in March to celebrate the game's original release date, but this year with Sekiro releasing around the same time , the event was left on the backburner. Until now. The rules for the event are simple - start a fresh...

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Archaeology is RuneScape's first new skill in four years

RuneScape 3 has announced the 28th skill for the game, Archaeology. This skill will introduce dig sites, new stories, weapons and relics into the game.

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Radeon RX 5500 announced: Navi comes to the mainstream

Digital Foundry breaks down the RX 5500 announcement, including US and UK prices, 1080p performance and more.

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Crossroads Inn, a fantasy pub sim, comes out in a couple of weeks

Crossroads Inn, the game in which you build and run your own fantasy pub, now has a release date, 23rd October, which is rather soon! In Crossroads Inn, there are two main modes. One is the sandbox mode you expect, where you build and run your own tavern, staffing it, supplying it, revelling in it, probably. The other mode is the campaign - there's a big old story, apparently...

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Welcome to Sega Week on Eurogamer

Good Monday, good morning and a warm welcome to Sega week here on Eurogamer. It's the first of a regular series of themed weeks we'll be bringing you on a monthly basis, whereby we explore a topic from various angles across the team, and amongst our regular news, reviews and features we'll be bringing you plenty of Sega-related pieces over the next few days. So why kick things off with Sega? Well, quite simply because it's our site and that's what we wanted to do. But there's more to it than that...

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What do I really love about Jet Set Radio Future?

Almost two decades of playing a game, off and on, should leave you with a pretty good idea of what you love about it. But Jet Set Radio Future is different. I love it, almost beyond all other games. But the thing I love about it is so hard to grasp hold of. I do not have the words. But I want the words! Jet Set Radio Future is a game about skating and spraypainting and doing tricks. I love all that stuff - it is dreamy and inspiring and it makes me feel elegant and in control and screw-the-man and all of that jazz...

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PlayStation 4 party size will double to 16

PlayStation 4's next big firmware update, v7.00, arrives this week. Its headline feature? Party chat will now support up to 16 people. Amongst all that noise, Sony has promised improved audio quality and network connectivity. And in the US, there will be an optional speech-to-text system named Chat Transcription. There's no word on us getting that here. Remote Play will also become accessible for all smartphones and tablets running Android 5...

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Fortnite finally dates its end of season 10 live event

Fortnite's end of season (and possibly end of map) live event now at last has a firm time. You'll be able to watch the fireworks this Sunday, 13th October at 7pm here in the UK - the exact moment this season is due to end. This is unusual, as Fortnite's end of season live events usually take place a day or two before the actual end of season. After Fortnite's live events finish, play simply continues. Instead, this event is scheduled to directly precede the moment Epic switches its servers off, takes the game down, and patches in the following season's files and Battle Pass...

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SanDisk's official 128GB Nintendo Switch SD card is the cheapest it's ever been

It wasn't even a couple of weeks ago we were talking about one of the cheapest Nintendo Switch SD card deals we'd ever seen. Now, we're back with another. This time around it's the Officially licensed SanDisk 128GB microSD card that's only £18.29 . You can also pick it up in the US for $25.49 . That makes one of our best Switch SD card picks the lowest price it has ever been on Amazon UK. While not offering as much capacity as last month's 400GB beast , there's enough room to ensure a dedicated Switch player has space to freely install enough games and updates for some time ahead...

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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint review - a limp and lifeless spin on the Ubisoft formula

Life in modern Ubisoft games ticks by regardless of how much - or how little - you interact with it. Stand in a spot long enough in Far Cry 5, and a critter will cross your path, scouting for a snack. Stop to look out across a canyon in Assassin's Creed Odyssey, and you might see an unsuspecting villager jumped by a cougar. Townsfolk take on both warring factions and fauna with wildly fluctuating success, and sometimes, you'll only be privy to the aftermath of these encounters as you pick through the spoils of the corpses...

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Strictly Come Dancing did Pokémon

It was Movies Week on Strictly Come Dancing over the weekend, and one couple danced to the Pokémon theme. Paralympian Will Bayley and partner Janette Manrara adopted the roles of Ash and Pikachu in a Paso Doble. The fast-paced Paso Doble is a Spanish dance, known for its sharp steps akin to military marching. One version has the male dancer portraying a bull fighter, while the female portrays his cape. It was this version which was mashed up with Pokémon - with Bayley as an Ash matador and Manrara as Pikachu in a dress...

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Trine 4 review: the biggest and best Trine yet

Trine 4 is a game I didn't know I wanted until it was on the screen before me. Three Trine games was more Trine than I ever thought I'd need, and given the title it seemed fitting to end the series as a trilogy, even if the last one was a bit duff. Trine 4 sounds like a Douglas Adams joke, only humour has never been Frozenbyte's strong point. Trine 4 review Developer: Frozenbyte Publisher: Modus Platform: Reviewed on PS4 Availability: Available October 8th on PS4, Xbox One, Switch and PC As it turns out, Trine 4 is more like Trine 3: Trine Harder...

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New Overwatch YA novel, The Hero of Numbani, set to release next year

Overwatch's deep, storied lore and thriving merchandising business have united for a new venture in fiction with The Hero of Numbani, a new young adult novel releasing next year. Popping up on Amazon and spotted by Polygon , Scholastic has revealed it will publish the Overwatch novel on 5th May, 2020. Focused on Efi Oladele, the young creator of Orisa, the "action-packed novel" also features "the fan-favourite characters Efi, Orisa, Doomfist, and Lúcio in an all-new, original story straight from the minds of the Overwatch game team and critically acclaimed author Nicky Drayden"...

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New legal challenge accuses Epic of "knowingly" creating the "very, very addictive game", Fortnite

A Canadian legal firm is preparing a class-action lawsuit against Epic Games, accusing the developer of "knowingly" creating the "very, very addictive game", Fortnite. "Epic Games, when they created Fortnite, for years and years, hired psychologists - they really dug into the human brain and they really made the effort to make it as addictive as possible," said Alessandra Esposito Chartrand, an attorney with Calex Légal (thanks CBC , Dextero ). "They knowingly put on the market a very, very addictive game which was also geared toward youth...

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NPCs will live or die depending upon your decisions in Death Stranding

Your actions - or lack thereof - can affect the outcomes of some of Death Stranding's NPCs, said creator Hideo Kojima. Addressing fans at the Garage Museum of Modern Art in Moscow, Hideo Kojima revealed that the fate of one particular sick character lies purely on the player, and what you choose to do, or not do, will affect their outcome. "We have a character who lives deep underground. He is sick and needs medicine, and Sam can deliver it," Kojima told the crowd (thanks wccftech via Reddit ). "Since this happens at the beginning of the story, this is a must...

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Bully 2 "never got off the ground", says Rockstar source

A playable build of Bully 2 "existed", according to Rockstar sources. As our friends at VGC report, while the developer has been kicking around the idea of a successor since 2008 - even going as far as writing up scenes and an outline of the story - it seems the highly-anticipated sequel "never got off the ground". Sources close to Rockstar have reportedly said that between releasing Red Dead Redemption in 2010 and the end of 2013, Rockstar New England spent between a year and 18 months working and...

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The 6 best upcoming VR games from Oculus Connect 6

There was thunderous applause at Oculus Connect 6 when Mark Zuckerberg took to the stage for his keynote speech and announced the Oculus Link. This exciting update for the Oculus Quest launches in November and is set to be a game-changer for Facebook's portable VR headset as it'll allow Quest owners to play PC VR games on their headset. I was right there in the audience when this happened and as soon as the doors to the main hall opened, I rushed inside to try the Link out for myself. The Link wasn't...

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The Writers Guild of America drops games writing category from its 2020 awards

The Writers Guild of America has confirmed it will not be including a video game writing category in its 2020 awards. In a statement to our friends at USGamer , the organisation - which has included games writing since at least 2008 - said the category would be "reinstated when there is a critical mass" of eligible video games. "There won't be a Videogame Writing Award in 2020; however, the category will be reinstated when there is a critical mass of videogames covered by the WGA in order to provide a meaningful award selection process," the WGA said...

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EA leaks the personal information of 1,600 FIFA 20 Global Series competitors

Electronic Arts has acknowledged an IT blunder has leaked the personal information of 1,600 players who signed up to participate in FIFA 20 Global Series. Registration for the competitive event opened on Thursday, 3rd October, but within half an hour it was closed again after participants reported seeing other people's personal information - including email, date of birth, EA username, and country of residence - on their sign-up screens. "At approximately 1pm UK time, we announced the registration portal page for the EA Sports FIFA 20 Global Series...

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Hot on the Trails of Falcom, Japan's longest-running RPG developer

Founded in 1981, Falcom is the longest-running RPG developer in Japan, even though it's dwarfed by its closest rivals in terms of size, production values, and international recognition. Today, the company remains a modest size of 62 employees, perhaps attributed to its founder Masayuki Kato, who often joked that he didn't want to make it any bigger because he didn't really like people. But when you've been through nearly four decades facing as much turbulence as the Japanese games industry has, there must be a secret to Falcom's longevity...

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Mortal Kombat 11's Terminator is packed with Terminator 2 references

In the movies, The Terminator's catchphrase is "I'll be back." In Mortal Kombat 11, however, the catchphrase arrives with a twist. Win a match and The Terminator, which features Arnie's likeness from the upcoming Terminator film, says, "You won't be back." Brutal. NetherRealm's Terminator is packed with references like this to the Terminator movies. Each intro and outtro is a direct reference to a moment in Terminator 2. One intro, for example, sees the Terminator walk forward, taking his trademark...

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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2 for N64 is not in development

A Zelda fan has created an impressive The Legend of Zelda demake video - and it takes the upcoming Breath of the Wild 2 right back to 1999. Modeler and animator The Regressor took Nintendo's Breath of the Wild sequel trailer it showcased during E3 in June and "demade" it - that is, recreated it using N64-style graphics, with era-perfect audio from Vince94 . The video is beat for beat the same as Nintendo's creepy original, which, for reference, is here. And here's The Regressor's demake, which for...

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24-hour Sword and Shield livestream reveals new Pokémon

The 24-hour Sword and Shield livestream is over and Pokémon fans can finally rest - except they can't because it offered a glimpse at a new Pokémon and they're losing their shit. The stream teased the appearance of the new Pokémon with galloping sounds and snippets of footage. Then fans saw its tail: Then it trotted across the background but was obscured by an Impidimp who walked in front of the camera. David Attenborough would have been furious. And then, finally, the mysterious new Pokémon was revealed in all its glory - and it looks like a My Little Pony...

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John Kirby, the ex-Nintendo lawyer Kirby was named after, dies aged 79

John Kirby, the ex-Nintendo lawyer the Kirby character was named after, has died aged 79. According to an obituary published in the New York Times , Kirby passed away on 12nd October 2019 surrounded by friends and family due to complications of a blood cancer. During Kirby's long tenure with Nintendo, he successfully defended the company during a trademark and copyright infringement suit brought by Universal City Studios over the Donkey Kong character. The 1984 case was about whether Donkey Kong violated Universal's copyright for the King Kong character...

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Ms. Marvel is a playable character in Marvel's Avengers

Ms. Marvel is a playable character in Marvel's Avengers. As part of a New York Comic-Con announcement, Square Enix and Marvel unveiled Kamala Khan as a playable character in the game. Khan, aka Ms. Marvel, is a teenager from Jersey City who has polymorph powers, which means she can get really big and really small and contort her body in unusual ways. In the game's story, Khan gains her powers on A-Day, the Avengers celebration that goes very wrong at the start of the game. Khan is about because her fan fiction comic is selected for the Avengers celebration...

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Games can be our time machines

During Eurogamer's 20th birthday celebrations, we talked a lot about gaming memories - games in relation to our personal histories, and games that shaped how game developers think about their own medium. One thing is clear - games are very dear to us on a personal level, and we can chart the rapid evolution and growth of the industry by looking at them. What's more interesting to me is whether at one point, looking back at games, we'll be able to chart changes to society or even humans as a species, the same way we do with all other media, basically...

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Iron Man VR gets new story trailer, February 2020 release date

Those eager to don helmet and slip into the shiny metal suit of super hero justice following Sony's unveiling of Iron Man VR for PS4 back in March, finally have a date for their diaries; it'll be honking thrusters and quipping into the ether on 8th February next year. Iron Man VR, as you might well imagine, casts players as playboy billionaire Tony Stark, setting them loose in a virtual reality adventure that predominantly appears to involve swooping through the air and pulverising anything that tries to get in the way...

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Where is Xur? Location, what Xur is selling in Destiny 2 this week - October 4 to October 8

Xur's location and what Xur is selling this week is never obvious when the vendor arrives in Destiny 2 each week. Every week - from Friday's daily reset until Tuesday's weekly reset - Destiny 2 is visited by the special vendor, selling rare and sometimes exclusive gear. He's achieved cult status among the game's community as a result, and is worth paying a visit every week so you don't miss out on his wares...

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Crash, Spyro and COD: WW2 are just £10/$12 in the latest Humble Monthly

The November Humble Monthly bundle is giving up not one, not two, but three games in one of the most generous early unlocks so far. You can pay £10/$12 to get access to Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy, Spyro Reignited Trilogy and Call of Duty: WW2 immediately. That's some crazy value for a trio of games that would cost well over £100 or $100 at full price! It makes a dramatic change from last month's bundle that only offered up Battletech as an early unlock when it was announced. Sonic Mania did follow a few weeks later, though...

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Destiny 2 Deathbringer quest steps: Where to find the core system vault, Bone Collector and High Conductor locations

How to get Deathbringer in Destiny 2, including how to find the core system vault, Bone Collector and High Conductor locations.

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Monster Hunter World: Iceborne is getting a Resident Evil crossover

Capcom's superb Monster Hunter World expansion Iceborne may well have only been out a month, but already the post-launch content is a-coming, and its next big event arrives in the form of a delicious crossover with none other than Resident Evil. This won't be Monster Hunter World's first crossover rodeo, of course; already, the game has welcomed in the likes of Devil May Cry, Horizon Zero Dawn, Street Fighter, Final Fantasy, Assassin's Creed, Mega Man, and The Witcher, for events both big and small...

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Destiny 2 Ralnik's Hatchet location in Traitor's Ketch explained

Where to find the Traitor's Ketch for the Ralnik's Hatchet location in Destiny 2 as part of the Essence of Jealousy quest step.

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Red Dead Redemption 2 arrives on PC next month

Surprise! Red Dead Redemption 2 is getting a PC version and it launches next month, on 5th November. It will be available via Rockstar's own PC launcher, Epic Games store, Greenman Gaming, the Humble Store, GameStop and additional digital retailers. There'll be a Google Stadia version, also. What about Steam? It will launch on Steam too - but not until December. Pre-purchase the PC version of Red Dead Redemption 2 from the Rockstar launcher and you'll get some bonuses: the snazzy War Horse mount, a treasure map, and a cash bonus for Story Mode, plus 50 Gold Bars for Red Dead Online...

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Why Apple Arcade works so well

As you might have spotted on the site this past fortnight we've been busy looking at the rather brilliant subscription service Apple Arcade, talking about games such as Where Cards Fall , Hexaflip , What the Golf and as seen earlier today, a Grindstone review . Features editor Christian Donlan has been flying the flag for us, who - alongside editor Oli Welsh and guides editor Matthew Reynolds - discuss how...

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Best gaming keyboard 2019: Digital Foundry's picks

Which is the best gaming keyboard? After extensive testing we've chosen ten favourites, including mechanical keyboards and non-mechanical keyboards.

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Watch the 24-hour Pokémon Sword and Shield livestream here

For the next 24 hours, Pokémon is holding a "livestream" direct from the Galar region, home to this year's games Sword and Shield. The "camera" is set within Glimwood Tangle (think Viridian Forest). Expect new Pokémon to pop up from the undergrowth (we've already spotted Pikachu). If you're keen to spot one of the game's new Pokédex of creatures - or simply don't have anything better to do at work this afternoon - maybe pop it on in the background...

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Destiny 2 Necromantic Strand location in Hall of Wisdom explained

Where to find the Hall of Wisdom for the Necromantic location in Destiny 2 as part of the Essence of Brutality quest step.

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After years of waiting, Destiny 2: Shadowkeep finally gives fans a huge plot moment

Back at Gamescom, Bungie bosses assured me Destiny 2: Shadowkeep would move the franchise's overarching story forward in a meaningful way . It looks like they were right! Shadowkeep's short set of opening missions, designed to reintroduce players to its reprised Moon location, begin with a whopper of a surprise. And, relatively quickly afterwards, they end with quite a tease for where things will go next. If you're still reading this and don't want to be spoiled, this is your final warning. Pyramid ships! Or ship , singular...

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Five of the Best: Mountains

Five of the Best is a weekly series celebrating the poor old parts of games we tend to overlook. Not the glitzy bits but the supporting cast. Things like crowds - whoever stops to think about a crowd? And how do you think that makes the crowd feel? But the games they're in wouldn't be the same without them, so let's big them up a bit, shall we? Also, I want your ideas! I want to know what you remember when you read the title of this week's piece, the things that spring to mind. Don't worry about what I think, no one ever does, but do jump in the comments below...

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Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Collector's Editon leans towards the light side

It's been a busy few weeks of big upcoming releases getting their own special editions. Now, following all The Last of Us Part 2 goodies , the Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Collector's Editon has been announced. It's good news if you're more drawn towards the light side, as this version of the game comes in a Light-Up Collector's Edition Box. Inside you'll find an Inner Gift Box, Exclusive Steelbook, Metal Pin Badge Set and Metallic Gold Foil Printed Art Cards. Yet again, for those of you in the UK, it's a GAME-exclusive...

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Epic responds to concerns around Fortnite's new cross-platform matchmaking

Last week, Epic began rolling out a new skill-based matchmaking system which pits players from all platforms against one another, regardless of device, regardless of input. Epic claimed it could match someone who was, for instance, a great player on mobile, with someone who was appropriately skilled on PC playing with a mouse and keyboard, to create a fair-feeling fight. It's something players have disputed. Fans have pointed to the inherent differences found when matched with those on other platforms, such as the responsiveness of controls, varying frame-rates and visual quality...

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Apex Legends players are gassing their competitors in a toilet

Since Apex Legends Season 3 dropped earlier this week , players have been exploring and experimenting in weird and wonderful ways on the new map, World's Edge. When I say exploring and experimenting, I really mean finding ways to exploit areas of the map to get kills - it's a battle royale game, what did you expect? Despite the plethora of bright and exciting new drop zones, a few players have taken a liking to the buildings with the toilets in them. A sensible decision I suppose, the Apex Legends must need somewhere to go to relieve themselves mid-match...

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Grindstone review - an instant puzzle classic on Apple Arcade

Capybara Games makes a triumphant return to colour-matching with this gratifying, tactical splatterfest.

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The Double-A Team: A Batman about town in Arkham Origins

The Double-A Team is a newish feature series honouring the unpretentious, mid-budget, gimmicky commercial action games that no-one seems to make any more. Check out our archive of Double-A pieces here! The team at Warner Bros Montreal inherited quite a bit when they made Batman: Arkham Origins. Sure, there's the big stuff like the ingenious, game-unlocking realisation that Batman should be good in a melee fight but useless (or tactical) against guns. And there's the idea that a game about Batman should showcase his detective skills as much as his ability to simply lamp people...

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Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford and former lawyer bring end to messy legal dispute

Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford and the Borderlands studio's former general counsel Wade Callender have agreed to bring their messy legal tussle to a close, with both parties announcing that the lawsuits filed against each other have been dropped. Troubles began in 2018 when Gearbox sued Callender (a close friend of Pitchford's for over 40 years) for allegedly failing to repay a $300,000 USD cash loan intended to help finance a new home purchase, as well as additional money borrowed toward personal legal fees...

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Quirky 60-second puzzle adventure Minit is currently free on the Epic Store

Minit, the quirky, critically acclaimed 60-second puzzle adventure from Willem Nijman, Dominik Johann, Jukio Kallio, and Kitty Calis is currently free on the Epic Games Store. In Minit, players embark on a kind of spirited, bite-sized RPG, presented something like an old-school top-down Game Boy adventure. Beyond the front door of Minit's duck-like protagonist lies a whole world of mysteries, enemies, people in need of help, and secrets, all waiting to be discovered. The problem, however, is that...

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Rumoured House of the Dead 1 & 2 remakes officially confirmed

Sega's classic light gun arcade shooters House of the Dead 1 & 2 are officially getting the remake treatment, although it doesn't look like they'll be releasing for a while. News of the remakes first surfaced last month when Polish website Graczpospolita reported that publisher Forever Entertainment had signed a deal with Sega to bring enhanced versions of the first two House of the Dead games to "modern platforms", with development duties being handled by MegaPixel Studio. Since then, word on the...

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Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled's spooky seasonal grand prix event starts tomorrow

Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled is getting in on the spooky seasonal action that October inevitably brings. From tomorrow, 4th October, everything's going a putrid shade of Hallowe'en, courtesy of the new Spooky Grand Prix limited-time event. The biggest addition is undoubtedly Nina's Nightmare, a Halloween-themed track that winds its way through misty marshes, eerie gardens, and the shadowy halls of a haunted mansion. "Keep your head in twisted hallways under the foreboding eyes of ancestors long...

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Pirate-y "open world farming game" Stranded Sails dated for PC and consoles

Stranded Sails, developer Lemonbomb Entertainment's really rather lovely looking single-player tropical-island-themed "open world farming game", will be washing ashore on PC, Switch, PS4, and Xbox One later this month, on 17th October. Taking inspiration from the likes of Stardew Valley and The Legend of Zelda, Stranded Sails: Explorers of the Cursed Islands (as it's more formally known) casts players as a member of a pirate crew, shipwrecked on a beautiful, if mysterious, archipelago. From there...

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Shenmue 3: an Unreal take on a classic Dreamcast experience

The announcement of Shenmue 3 several years ago is one of those moments I never expected - something which seemed like an impossibility became reality. Over 18 years after the release of Shenmue 2, the story of Ryo Huzuki would continue on modern day hardware with PlayStation 4 and PC versions confirmed. The game is set for release on November 19th but a select tier of original Kickstarter backers received access to a playable demo earlier in the week. It's our first proper taste of the game - and I'm excited by what I've played...

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Looks like Apex Legends is getting zombies for Halloween

It's October now, which means I'm legally allowed to start writing about Halloween, and what better way to kick things off than with another Apex Legends leak? Or several, in fact. A Halloween event was already on the cards for Apex - thanks, in part, to a GameStop conference leak showcasing a zombie skin for Gibraltar - along with actual confirmation of the event from Pathfinder's voice actor in a recent Dexerto interview. Apparently we can expect to see "some creepy, scary, kick-ass designs", but there appears to be more to it than just cosmetics...

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Mario Kart Tour is Nintendo's most-downloaded smartphone game at launch

More than 90 million people have downloaded Mario Kart Tour during its first week, making it Nintendo's biggest smartphone launch by quite some margin. Nintendo's next biggest launch in terms of downloads, Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, managed 14.3m during its first week of availability. Super Mario Run managed slightly fewer - 13m - but was only available on iOS to start with. SensorTower data shows the free-to-play game generated $12...

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Borderlands 3 - True Vault Hunter Mode and Mayhem Mode explained, including Mayhem Mod list

How to use both True Vault Hunter Mode and Mayhem Mode, including a list of potential Mayhem Mods.

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Borderlands - Guardian Rank and Rewards explained

Everything you need to know about the Guardian Rank, Guardian Tokens and Guardian Rewards in Borderlands 3.

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Cult shooter XIII returns to GOG

With its striking cel-shaded art style and gripping spy thriller yarn, it's no surprise that XIII has become a cult favourite shooter from the early 2000s. And now it's available again over at GOG. After a brief period of going dark, you can now get XIII for £4.99 . The timing of its return couldn't be any better, what with the XIII remake scheduled for release in 2020 ...

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