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• Marathon may actually have a shot as Server Slam hits it big on Steam
  
  
  Things are officially looking better for Marathon. The game’s Server Slam, essentially an open beta that’s freely available everywhere, has kicked off. This is the last chance for anyone curious about Bungie’s next big game to play it before it officially goes on sale next week. Read more Continue Reading »
  Posted on Friday February 27, 2026

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• The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin may be your next anime gacha obsession, with a hint of Ghibli, and this latest trailer may be what sells you on it
  
  
  It seems like we’re getting one of these every few months, but the world of mobile action RPGs that look like the games that, just a few years back, were only possible on consoles is expanding with another new entry. Read more Continue Reading »
  Posted on Wednesday February 25, 2026

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• Genshin Impact fans on PS4 only have six weeks to find another platform as support winds down with one final update
  
  
  Version Luna 5 of Genshin Impact is now live, but it's a bittersweet occasion for fans of HoYoverse's breakout gacha RPG – at the very least, those who are still playing the game on PlayStation 4, which is presumably true of somebody out there. Read more Continue Reading »
  Posted on Wednesday February 25, 2026

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• The Sims 4 developer hasn't forgotten about its quality of life commitment, and is back with an update on what to expect in 2026
  
  
  As the The Sims 4 continues into its second decade, the volume of new content, major expansions, and long-awaited features has grown in lockstep. Unfortunately, that has also meant that, given how old the game is, a few technical problems remain a nuisance. Read more Continue Reading »
  Posted on Wednesday February 25, 2026

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• Nioh 3 is, unsurprisingly, the fastest-selling game in the series with over a million units sold
  
  
  Even before the game came out, it was pretty easy to guess that Nioh 3 would be a hit. From the word of mouth leading up to launch, to the well-received free demo, there was little chance the action RPG wasn’t going to be a major deal. Read more Continue Reading »
  Posted on Friday February 20, 2026

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• Genshin Impact Luna 5 takes the squad back to Mondstadt, finally makes Varka playable
  
  
  The latest big content update has been revealed for HoYoverse's breakout game, Genshin Impact. Version Luna 5, which has the unusually long and needlessly layered title — Song of the Welkin Moon: Variation - Homeward, He Who Caught the Wind — is set to arrive February 25. Read more Continue Reading »
  Posted on Friday February 13, 2026

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• You're not crazy, trying to heal in Nioh 3 sometimes doesn't work - and Team Ninja is fixing it
  
  
  Nioh 3 has received a hot new update that brings plenty of bug fixes to very specific issues, but it also implements fixes for a few of the most common - and incredibly annoying - bugs. Patch 1.03.01 arrived earlier on all platforms, and it comes with a chunky ... Continue Reading »
  Posted on Friday February 13, 2026

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• Watch the Battlefield 6 Season 2 gameplay reveal here
  
  
  After a one-month delay, we’re finally days away now from the start of Battlefield 6’s Season 2 of live service. The second season is being revealed today, following weeks of teasers, and some Battlefield Labs testing of the first new map arriving with the new season. Read more Continue Reading »
  Posted on Thursday February 12, 2026

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• Diablo 4’s next class is the Warlock, but you can sort of play it today in Diablo 2: Resurrected’s new DLC
  
  
  Diablo 4’s segment in the big Diablo 30th Anniversary Spotlight was among the biggest, even if the reason most of us tuned in was somewhat spoiled earlier in the same livestream. Blizzard unveiled the Warlock, the second of two classes coming to the game with the upcoming Lord of ... Continue Reading »
  Posted on Thursday February 12, 2026

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• Battlefield 6's next season will speed up battle pass progression, and make it so Redsec players who don't own the game can actually make progress
  
  
  Ahead of the start of Battlefield 6’s Season 2 next week, Battlefield Studios has shared some insight into a few of the major goals the developer has with the Season 2 patch. The game’s second season was delayed in mid-January, and the developer even brought back Battlefield Labs to ... Continue Reading »
  Posted on Wednesday February 11, 2026

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• Watch Diablo 4 reveal the second class coming with Lord of Hatred here
  
  
  Blizzard has recently been celebrating its major running games by hosting big livestreams to reveal some major changes, and it’s now Diablo’s turn. The Diablo series is 30 years-old, so this all just ties in nicely with some of the reveals planned for tonight’s showcase. Read more Continue Reading »
  Posted on Wednesday February 11, 2026

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• Love and Deepspace ushers in the Year of the Horse with a Wuxia-inspired AU multi-banner and a restaurant management mini-game
  
  
  Love and Deepspace has kicked off the next big in-game moment and is celebrating Chinese New Year with the arrival of a new 5-Star Memory Series. This year's spring-themed banner is available now until February 27, and it comes with a host of events. Read more Continue Reading »
  Posted on Wednesday February 11, 2026

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• Romeo is a Dead Man Review: More Lynchian lunacy from one of gaming's most uncompromising studios
  
  
  When zombies, no, interdimensional aliens, eat your face clean off your skull, the only thing to do is become a cybernetic agent of the Space-Time FBI. We’ve all had those weeks. Read more Continue Reading »
  Posted on Tuesday February 10, 2026

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• Nioh 3 is killing it on Steam with over double the series' highest concurrent player count
  
  
  Nioh 3 has had a massive weekend on Steam, the type of launch you just don’t often see for Koei Tecmo games. Indeed, this has very clearly been a monumentous release for both the publisher, and developer Team Ninja. Read more Continue Reading »
  Posted on Monday February 09, 2026

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• Heartopia shows off My Little Pony collaboration, and there's a pre-launch event to hold you over
  
  
  Heartopia has officially shared initial details about its first-ever collaboration event. The game, which launched a month ago to great success on mobile, as well as Steam on PC, has already been a staple among fans of Animal Crossing and The Sims. Read more Continue Reading »
  Posted on Monday February 09, 2026

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• Honkai: Star Rail Version 4.0 brings a new world, and a Fortnite collaboration
  
  
  HoYoverse just wrapped up a big Honkai: Star Rail Special Program. We’ve been waiting for this one for a couple of weeks now thanks to a delay, but the developer has finally delivered all the news on Version 4.0, which will arrive February 13. Read more Continue Reading »
  Posted on Friday February 06, 2026

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• Nioh 3 launches, immediately becomes the most played Nioh ever on Steam
  
  
  It sounds like Koei Tecmo’s decision to finally release a Nioh game on PC day-and-date with PlayStation has paid off. The highly-anticipated Nioh 3 has gone live across both platforms, a first for a series that typically spends its initial release months as a console exclusive. Read more Continue Reading »
  Posted on Friday February 06, 2026

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• Nioh 3 review - Team Ninja’s most accomplished action game, and the series’ most accessible
  
  
  The moment Nioh 3 was revealed as Team Ninja’s next project, it immediately jumped to the top of my most anticipated games of 2026. That excitement was dampened somewhat when the studio revealed the game’s “open field” level design. I am very much over open-world games, but I was ... Continue Reading »
  Posted on Wednesday February 04, 2026

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• Starsand Island is a life and farming sim that isn't gacha, and it's out next week
  
  
  Though it may seem like we just had a big life sim release in Heartopia, 2026 actually has more than one highly-anticipated release in that particular subgenre of cozy game. The next big one on the horizon is Starsand Island, the life and farming sim from Seed Sparkle Lab. ... Continue Reading »
  Posted on Monday February 02, 2026

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• Zenelss Zone Zero Version 2.6 has you playing as an event planner and social media manager for an idol group
  
  
  Zenless Zone Zero’s latest Special Program has delivered a tonne of information about the game’s big upcoming update, Version 2.6. This latest addition kicks off celebrations in New Eridu, and it’s dubbed Encore for an Old Dream. Read more Continue Reading »
  Posted on Friday January 30, 2026

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Euro gamer

• God of War developer is working on "a new franchise within the God of War universe"
  
  
  A former senior writer from Sony Santa Monica has revealed the studio is working on "a new franchise within the God of War universe". Read more Continue Reading »
  Posted on Sunday March 01, 2026

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• Resident Evil Requiem's Steam concurrent peak is the biggest in franchise history
  
  
  Resident Evil Requiem is likely now the biggest Resident Evil game in the franchise's history, sporting a concurrent player count on Steam high enough to rival even multiplayer games. Read more Continue Reading »
  Posted on Sunday March 01, 2026

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• Marathon dev Bungie responds to Server Slam feedback, particularly around UI, PC performance, and more
  
  
  Bungie is continuing to respond to your feedback during Marathon's Server Slam event, paying particular attention to your thoughts on the UI, PC performance, and those pesky weasel error codes. Read more Continue Reading »
  Posted on Sunday March 01, 2026

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• Princess Zelda actor taught herself the "beautiful" Twilight Princess Hylian language "over coffee"
  
  
  Patricia Summersett, the voice of Princess Zelda in four Legend of Zelda games – Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom, and Hyrule Warriors spin-offs Age of Calamity and Age of Imprisonment – can "write in Twilight Princess Hylian". Read more Continue Reading »
  Posted on Sunday March 01, 2026

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• The older Pokémon (and I) get, the more I appreciate its greatest asset - inter-generational brilliance
  
  
  Sitting at my desk and racking my brain for something, anything to say about Pokémon for its thirtieth anniversary, I found myself inexplicably struggling. What do you say about a series like this? With Zelda, there's easy lines to trace about it as both reflection and architect of many ... Continue Reading »
  Posted on Sunday March 01, 2026

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• Former Highguard level designer suggests "sweaty" competitive 3v3 play "was the biggest thing that turned a lot of players off"
  
  
  A level designer laid off from Highguard developer Wildlight believes the free-to-play shooter's difficulties stem from having "leaned too far into the competitive scene". Read more Continue Reading »
  Posted on Saturday February 28, 2026

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• Doom: The Dark Ages' DLC is so big, it's "basically like a sequel"
  
  
  Doom: The Dark Ages' DLC is so big, it's "basically like a sequel". Read more Continue Reading »
  Posted on Saturday February 28, 2026

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• Bluepoint pitched a Bloodborne remake, but FromSoftware turned it down, not Sony
  
  
  Just days after Sony decided to close remake masters Bluepoint Games, a new report claims that wasn't PlayStation itself that stonewalled the idea of a Bloodborne remake by Bluepoint, but developer FromSoftware. Read more Continue Reading »
  Posted on Saturday February 28, 2026

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• Searching for Mew: the story of Pokémon's greatest mystery
  
  
  A special, long-form extract from ON Games Volume 2, which we're featuring as part of our celebration of Pokémon's 30th anniversary. Read more Continue Reading »
  Posted on Saturday February 28, 2026

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• Vampire Crawlers turns Vampire Survivors into a dungeon-crawling card game with mixed success
  
  
  Vampire Survivors was a bite-sized revelation when it arrived in 2022. It looked like someone had made it on their lunch break (I say this with love) and then proceeded to dominate lunch breaks for weeks and months to come. I'm not sure the video game industry knew what ... Continue Reading »
  Posted on Saturday February 28, 2026

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• What we've been playing - "This career is all I ever wanted to do"
  
  
  Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we've been playing. This week, we sadly say goodbye to some of the Eurogamer team, including Tom, who here says goodbye. Meanwhile, Bertie has a scattered gaming week, and Marie, as regularly as ... Continue Reading »
  Posted on Saturday February 28, 2026

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• From Atic Atac to Banjo-Kazooie, Evercade's squeezing 14 Rare classics into a cute little handheld that's launching this June
  
  
  Retro specialist Evercade has unveiled a bit of a treat for Rare fans: a cute little handheld device featuring 14 of the legendary British developer's games, spanning right back to its earliest days. Read more Continue Reading »
  Posted on Friday February 27, 2026

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• Pokémon fans react to Winds and Waves announcement - "We really got the angry bird"
  
  
  Pokémon fans have just finished watching the 30th anniversary presentation, and the debut trailer for the 10th generation games: Pokémon Winds and Waves. While thoughts and feelings are still gestating, the internet has, as ever, already begun to have its fun in reacting to the latest set of neat ... Continue Reading »
  Posted on Friday February 27, 2026

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• Amazon shares first look at Ryan Hurst as Kratos in the God of War TV series
  
  
  Amazon has shared a first look at Ryan Hurst as Kratos in the God of War TV series it's making. Read more Continue Reading »
  Posted on Friday February 27, 2026

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• Nintendo's making a mini Game Boy music player with collectible Pokémon Red and Blue music cartridges
  
  
  Nintendo is making a mini Game Boy-styled music player that will play special Pokémon Red and Blue music cartridges that look like Game Boy games. This palm-sized device is being released today. Read more Continue Reading »
  Posted on Friday February 27, 2026

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• Pokémon's 10th generation Winds and Waves will not release until 2027 and is exclusive to the Nintendo Switch 2
  
  
  Pokémon Wind and Waves, the 10th generation of mainline Pokémon games, have just been revealed during today's 30th anniversary celebratory event. It's set to release in 2027 simultaneously. Read more Continue Reading »
  Posted on Friday February 27, 2026

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• Yes, you can transfer Pokémon from the new Leaf Green and Fire Red ports to modern games as Home support confirmed
  
  
  The Pokémon company has just announced a key feature of conveniance for the upcoming Nintnedo Online versions of Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen. Pokémon you catch in these classics can be transfered over to more contemporary titles via Pokémon Home. Read more Continue Reading »
  Posted on Friday February 27, 2026

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• Here's everything announced in today’s 30th anniversary Pokémon Presents showcase
  
  
  Happy birthday, Pokémon - now officially at the age when the joints start to creak and you can really feel those hangovers kicking in. Today marks 30 years since the perennially popular creature-catching series made its Japanese Game Boy debut in the form of Pocket Monsters Red and Green, ... Continue Reading »
  Posted on Friday February 27, 2026

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• Watch today's 30th anniversary Pokémon Presents broadcast here - will we get an expected look at gen 10?
  
  
  Pokémon's 30th anniversary celebrations start with a bang this afternoon, with a special Pokémon Presents broadcast that could reveal the new generation (gen 10) of core Pokémon games. The show starts at 2pm (UK) and you can watch it in the video embedded here. Read more Continue Reading »
  Posted on Friday February 27, 2026

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• Highguard started life as a survival shooter, and Tencent pulled funding two weeks after launch, a new report claims
  
  
  A new report into what went wrong with multiplayer shooter Highguard has revealed that Tencent allegedly pulled funding from the studio two weeks after the game's launch. This was what Wildlight reportedly told staff while laying off most of the 100-person team. Read more Continue Reading »
  Posted on Friday February 27, 2026

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