It's rare that a game released in the last gasp of December manages to not just make a lasting impression on almost a dozen-odd members of staff, but a big enough one to almost instantly supplant the last dozen months' worth of equally excellent video games they've all been playing. But that's precisely what Indiana Jones and the Great Circle has done to the Eurogamer team over these last few weeks, stealing in with hushed footsteps to lift this year's most coveted prize before any of us really knew it was happening.Read more
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What a year, huh? 2024 has been brutal for video games, a medium which has taken a bludgeoning from seemingly all angles. It's been one of the quietest years for triple-A games in recent memory and the toughest for studios of just about all sizes too.
Another day, another Nintendo
As Amazon's phenomenal TV adaptation of
Balatro may have swept the awards this year - including securing
Markus "Notch" Persson has "basically announced" Minecraft 2.
Hello and Happy New Year! Did you have a nice break? I hope so.
Atari has shared a sneak peek at its upcoming "iconic" handheld console, Gamestation Go.
Like the frost on the cars and ground this morning - and the inside of my single-glazed windows in my flat! - a new year has arrived. It's a time to take stock and look ahead and think what might be, and then run back into bed and hide under the duvet covers and refuse to come out. It's a time to plan and to begin aspirational journals you'll put down and forget about and never find again. A time to tackle the gaming backlog you keep talking about, fully in the knowledge you'll probably double it this year. It's fresh-slate time, promise time, all done in the hope you'll look back next year and discover you did something you intended to do. So, what do you want to do, from a gaming perspective?
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