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The next Call of Duty installment was announced over the weekend, along with its release platforms: Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is slated to debut across Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, PS4, and PC. Read more
Here's a new date for your bumper summer line up of video game showcases: Konami has today announced its own livestream, which will give us all a fresh look at both Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater and Silent Hill f. Read more
Xbox had a really good showing on Sunday, its showcase at the tail end of a Summer Game Fest period that has at times felt rather glib managing to make people feel happy about video games again - at least for a little bit. It was full of the kind of quirky and interesting-looking games that in years past would have been reserved for PlayStation's E3 showcase, with only a smattering of what you might call Big games with a capital B. That was until the end. Read more
For years, the rule in Hollywood was pretty simple: familiarity but with a twist. Cheers, but it's in a coffee shop, and everyone's in their twenties. Lost, but it's in LA with Joseph Fiennes. Sure, this didn't always work - I still think fondly of you, FlashForward - but it worked a lot of the time. Crucially, it was easy to grasp why it should work. We love formulas, and we love gentle variations on the formula to keep us guessing, to keep us nimble. But at the heart of it there's familiarity, and familiarity is a very, very lovely thing in the right circumstances. Read more
A caveat here first, explaining why my thoughts on this are probably irrelevant, and then some thoughts on this. Caveat: I don't think I've ever truly loved Mario Kart since one magical evening at university in which a bunch of us played Mario Kart 64, then newly released, on split-screen all night long and into the morning. I loved that game so much - each moment was such a hectic joy. And it used me up a bit. I haven't really been able to engage with the series with quite the same thrill since. Read more
The launch of Nintendo's Switch 2 has finally brought GameCube games to Nintendo Switch Online subscribers, but there's also a secret startup sound. Read more
Let's cut to the chase, if you're reading this you've probably been wondering what is going on at Eurogamer. There have been a fair number of changes recently, but work has been going on behind the scenes to build out the team, and, dare I say it, things are looking good. Read more
Shigeru Miyamoto may well be a Nintendo legend, known for giving the world iconic characters such as Mario, Zelda and Donkey Kong, but even so, fans have noticed that his name has been omitted from the credits of Mario Kart World. Read more
It feels quite apt that Xbox has really started to nail this summer showcase business these past few years. Those few years being right when the summer showcase as a concept is starting to look just a little out of date. Back in the heady E3 days, team green used to pack out their LA Live Microsoft theatre, just along from the main show floor, and then frequently go on to, most of the time, sort of biff it. In the post E3 years that moved to the slightly smaller-still-swanky Grammy Museum, as Xbox stubbornly refused to give up an inch of ground in a fight that had, actually, really ended quite a long time ago. Sony and Nintendo had long since moved to doing everything via some version of pre-recorded direct. And now this year, when it feels like it's finally cracked the summer game showcase formula for good, finally listened and learned and done all of that good stuff, it also clocked on that it might be time to follow its peers in sagely ducking out of the in-person wrestlefest at last. Read more
Things are picking up on the Mass Effect TV series. Over the weekend, it was announced that Doug Jung - known for his work on the upcoming Chief of War and as a co-writer for Star Trek Beyond - has joined Amazon's Mass Effect TV series as a showrunner. Read more
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