Hello and welcome back to What To Play! We've returned from a little hiatus, which you definitely noticed and have been very sad about, of course. It's finally edging towards spring here in the U...
Remember a couple of years ago, when Funko announced a collaboration with Jon Burton's 10.10 Games to release new big budget video games? Well, the time has come to see exactly what this collab...
https://www.eurogamer.net/funko-fusion-is-a-co-op-clash-of-big-headed-pop-culture-brands
Supporters, we'll be recording a new episode of your exclusive Inside Eurogamer podcast tomorrow, and I want to know whether you have any questions for us. I've asked this before; you probably kn...
https://www.eurogamer.net/supporters-do-you-have-any-questions-for-our-may-2024-podcast
An iPhone version of Assassin's Creed Mirage will launch via the App Store on 6th June. You'll need an iPhone 15 Pro or Pro Max or later to play the fully-fledged PC and console game on the ...
GAME has opened pre-orders for some pricey Fallout TV series merchandise, including a £200 replica of Lucy's Vault 33 backpack, and a £200 version of the Pip-Boy 3000. The beleaguered Briti...
https://www.eurogamer.net/game-is-selling-a-200-fallout-tv-show-backpack
Stellar Blade is set to get a Boss Challenge mode in future. The news was confirmed in an interview with developer Shift Up's CEO Hyung-tae Kim by Korean outlet Nate (via Games Radar ). T...
https://www.eurogamer.net/stellar-blade-is-getting-a-boss-challenge-mode
Fallout 76 has been having a bit of a moment of late. Following the release of Amazon's hit TV adaptation , the MMO's player numbers have surged, with Bethesda recently announcing that over one m...
https://www.eurogamer.net/fallout-76-gets-chunky-bug-busting-update-following-player-surge
Five of the Best is a weekly series for supporters of Eurogamer . It's a series that highlights some of the features in games that are often overlooked. It's also about having your say, so don't ...
A short way into an extended hands-off presentation of Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn, and my main thought was: this feels a lot like a mix between God of War and Souls games, at which point creati...
Sad news this morning with the death of Paul Auster at 77. Like a lot of people, I suspect, I discovered his books in my late teens and early 20s. I read The Music of Chance at school after I'd s...
https://www.eurogamer.net/a-quick-memory-of-paul-auster-novelist-screenwriter-andgame-designer
Zynga's free-to-play 4v4 arena shooter Star Wars: Hunters finally has a release date after years of delays, with the game now set to arrive for Switch, iOS, and Android on 4th June. Star Wars...
https://www.eurogamer.net/zyngas-star-wars-hunters-finally-arrives-in-june-after-years-of-delays
Diablo 4's fourth season of post-launch content, Loot Reborn, arrives on 14th May and promises to be the dungeon-crawler's "biggest gameplay update yet". As per Blizzard's lengthy announcemen...
Following Microsoft's announcement it's once again holding an Xbox Games Showcase this June , a new report has shed some light on what we can expect to see - including a new Gears of War game an...
Square Enix has abandoned a number of in-development projects, resulting in a ¥22.1 bn (£112m) loss for the financial year. The news was shared today in a Notification of Recognition of Ext...
Form an orderly queue, as transcendent crowd puzzler Humanity is coming to Xbox. Humanity was originally released on PC and PlayStation consoles in May last year. And now, a little over a year ...
https://www.eurogamer.net/crowd-puzzler-humanity-makes-jump-from-playstation-to-xbox
Endless Ocean Luminous is the third game in a series I have never played, but that hasn't mattered a bit. It's a diving game and I can barely swim, but that hasn't mattered a bit. It's a game in ...
https://www.eurogamer.net/endless-ocean-luminous-isnt-very-good-and-i-sort-of-love-it
Xbox has announced the date of its Xbox Games Showcase in June, followed by a focused Direct on a mystery game. The Xbox Games Showcase will be livestreamed on 9th June at 6pm UK time (10am P...
https://www.eurogamer.net/xbox-games-showcase-announced-for-june-with-mystery-game-direct
If you played the Steam demo of Pine Hearts - an emotional indie game from Hyper Luminal Games - and it left you wanting more, I have good news. It will be released in full on Steam next month. ...
https://www.eurogamer.net/whimsical-narrative-adventure-pine-hearts-sets-up-camp-this-may
Deliver Us Mars developer KeokeN Interactive has laid off its team due to a lack of publishing options for its forthcoming projects, but vows to rebuild in future to continue the legacy of its g...
Microsoft has revealed its next batch of Game Pass titles, taking us into the start of May. Notable additions to this wave include the return of the original Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons (Cloud...
https://www.eurogamer.net/heres-the-first-batch-of-xbox-game-pass-titles-for-may
Housemarque yesterday teased an announcement for its sci-fi rogue-lite Returnal to celebrate the game's third anniversary. And it turns out that announcement is for a graphic novel adaptatio...
https://www.eurogamer.net/returnal-gets-graphic-novel-to-celebrate-third-anniversary
Last year, we got the first official teaser for GTA 6 , and it was quite something. We all watched Lucia make her way through Vice City as Tom Petty's Love Is a Long Road played on, breaking reco...
Considering the huge success of the Fallout TV show, it may be surprising that Bethesda doesn't have a new game to coincide with its release. Yet Bethesda boss Todd Howard believes the franch...
So you want to be a pirate, eh? Well, what with today's double whammy of a PlayStation 5 release and the launch of Season 12 – bringing with it, among other things, the first new weapons sinc...
https://www.eurogamer.net/18-nifty-things-to-do-in-sea-of-thieves-that-the-game-doesnt-tell-you
Let's be honest. Whenever playing a Jackbox party game, the urge is always there to make things a little bit more risqué than the developer may have originally had in mind. Don't lie, we all do...
https://www.eurogamer.net/jackbox-is-getting-risque-with-adults-only-naughty-pack
A new game mode is coming to free-to-play shooter The Finals called Terminal Attack. This new 5v5 mode, arriving on 2nd May, removes healing and revives to give all players just one life. ...
https://www.eurogamer.net/the-finals-adds-new-terminal-attack-mode-where-you-only-live-once
Remedy has shared an update on a number of its upcoming projects, including its Control multiplayer game and the Max Payne 1 & 2 remakes. In a recent report , the studio said its forthcoming co...
https://www.eurogamer.net/control-multiplayer-promises-a-unique-remedy-angle-on-the-genre
Pocketpair has revealed four new Pals coming to Palworld in its big summer update. In addition to the four Pals, it looks like a flamethrower weapon will be added. Presumably, too, we'll get ...
One of Xbox's greatest treasures, Sea of Thieves has finally launching on PS5 and I, Iyaaaaarrrn Higton, have swabbed my poop deck and spliced my mainbrace in anticipation for this momentous occa...
https://www.eurogamer.net/sea-of-thieves-is-now-available-on-ps5-but-how-does-it-handle
I'm switching back and forth between Hades 2 and Rotwood at the moment, which is probably why I've found myself tangled up in how the two games are similar and how they're different. On paper,...
https://www.eurogamer.net/kleis-latest-game-sounds-like-hades-but-is-nothing-like-hades
We're in the middle of a bit of a monitor revolution that comes around once every few years, as new panel types take hold and wow the crowds. That's certainly the case in 2024 with a slew of new ...
It's been a while since Bethesda's had anything significant to say about Starfield, but that should be changing soon - not only is the sci-fi RPG's Shattered Space story expansion now confirmed ...
https://www.eurogamer.net/starfields-shattered-space-expansion-out-in-autumn-city-map-stuff-due-soon
Amazon's Fallout TV adaptation is doing alright for itself; not only has it been a hit with the critics, it's been a hit with viewers too - to the tune of 65m people in its first 16 days of rele...
https://www.eurogamer.net/amazons-fallout-tv-show-was-watched-by-65m-people-in-its-first-two-weeks
Vampire Survivors - still vampire-free before you ask - has surprise-launched its brand-new Laborratory update - a "hyper realistic holiday themed" content drop so mindblowingly spectacular, dev...
If you've played Kaizen Game Works' wonderfully weird cosmic-horror-tinged vapourware deduction adventure Paradise Killer, you'll know the studio isn't afraid to mix things up, and its newly an...
It's been a good while since we first laid eyes on Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, the new narrative adventure from developer Don't Nod's Life is Strange 1 & 2 team, but the studio has now given us...
Dungeons of Hinterberg, the Austrian Zelda-like adventure, finally has a release date. As announced at tonight's ID@Xbox showcase, it's set for release on 18th July on Xbox Series X/S and Ste...
https://www.eurogamer.net/austrian-zelda-like-dungeons-of-hinterberg-gets-release-date
You could call this week's DF Direct an assemblage of patch tests as they arrived thick and fast for a range of titles, in varying degrees of scale. The addition of a 40fps 'favour quality' mode ...
Steam hit Manor Lords shifted 1m copies in its first 24 hours, publisher Hooded Horse has said. The medieval city builder/strategy hybrid was always likely to do well, being one of Steam's m...
https://www.eurogamer.net/manor-lords-sells-1m-copies-in-24-hours-reveals-whats-coming-next
With the success of the Fallout TV show , the recent release of the next-gen update for Fallout 4 and the fact that (in my humble opinion) Fallout 76 is well worth a go nowadays , there's a high...
A Stardew Valley mod will add the likes of Astarian and Shadowheart from Baldur's Gate 3. The project was shared over the weekend, with a tease of the mod's map (appropriately called Baldur's...
https://www.eurogamer.net/romanceable-baldurs-gate-3-companions-are-being-modded-into-stardew-valley
The dinky yellow Playdate handheld has plenty of odd games already - but here's an even odder proposition we thought we'd never see: WipEout. Yes, that WipEout, of PlayStation fame. Except no...
https://www.eurogamer.net/heres-how-wipeout-looks-on-playdate
It took me around 110 hours to finish Elden Ring and much of that, now, is a blur. Sure I remember some of the key beats - emerging from the catacombs into the world at the start, battles again...
The next fighter to join the Street Fighter 6 roster will be the demon Akuma, who arrives on 22nd May. His inclusion was teased by Capcom back in March , but now we know the release date and ...
https://www.eurogamer.net/akumas-arrival-in-street-fighter-6-now-has-a-date
There's a snazzy new video to celebrate 25 years of Lego Star Wars and within it, for the first time, we can see a minifigure Cal Kestis. Kestis is, of course, the protagonist of the Star War...
https://www.eurogamer.net/looks-like-star-wars-just-teased-a-cal-kestis-lego-minifigure
If you are anything like me, many of your deaths in Helldivers 2 have been the result of friendly fire. It is all part of the game's charm, really. Many an apology has been made over my headset a...
https://www.eurogamer.net/helldivers-2-patch-adds-yet-another-way-to-die-from-friendly-fire
Before I was even old enough to qualify as a teenager, I was obsessed with the works of Akira Toriyama. Dragon Ball, Dragon Quest, Dr Slump, Chrono Trigger - everything Toriyama-related I could g...
A mysterious tease from Returnal developer Housemarque Studios has promised an imminent announcement from the studio behind the hugely-popular PlayStation and PC roguelike. Housemarque posted...
https://www.eurogamer.net/returnal-developer-tease-sets-tongues-wagging
A new massively-multiplayer online RPG set in the world of Game of Thrones is reportedly being worked on by Korean publisher Nexon. That's according to a new report from The Witcher fansite R...
https://www.eurogamer.net/game-of-thrones-mmo-reportedly-in-the-works
The Tekken 8 team has revealed its roadmap for season one, with a range of battle adjustments, a free photo mode and its second DLC character all on the horizon. This summer, political powerhou...
https://www.eurogamer.net/tekken-8-season-one-roadmap-includes-dlc-fighter-the-polish-prime-minister
Moon Studios CEO Thomas Mahler has compared its new game No Rest for the Wicked to Lord of the Rings, stating there's plenty to come after the game's 1.0 release - so don't expect a third Ori ga...
https://www.eurogamer.net/no-rest-for-the-wicked-is-moon-studios-lord-of-the-rings-says-ceo
Discord has taken action after a report earlier this month detailed a web of accounts that were tracking users and archiving messages on a massive scale. The report, by 404 Media , claimed th...
https://www.eurogamer.net/after-620m-users-had-their-messages-scraped-and-sold-discord-responds
Escape from Tarkov developer Battlestate has released a second statement after it u-turned on a decision to lock an "exclusive" PvE mode to its €300 Unheard Edition following player feedback, ...
I didn't realise this while I was recording the video, but this week's VR Corner subject, ConVRgence was made by the same developer as another game that I previously featured in my Corner, Parado...
Manor Lords developer Greg Styczeń wants your help deciding what he should do about the game's global market supply mechanic. Addressing the game's considerable fanbase on the official ...
https://www.eurogamer.net/manor-lords-wants-your-help-should-its-op-trade-system-be-changed
Paramount's Knuckle show – which only debuted on Paramount's streaming service, Paramount Plus, earlier this week – will also be available to buy physically. Whilst the physical editions ha...
https://www.eurogamer.net/physical-editions-of-paramounts-knuckle-show-pop-up-in-the-us
Few games have left such an immediate impression on me as The Collage Atlas. Here are anchors dropping from a white sky, razor-thin keys opening butterfly locks, and books swarming in the wakes o...
Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone has pushed out another update for Stardew Valley. Update 1.6.6 addresses a number of bugs and some balance, gameplay, and translation issues, including restoring the...
https://www.eurogamer.net/stardew-valleys-next-patch-is-here-heres-whats-new
Escape from Tarkov developer Battlestate has u-turned on a decision to lock an "exclusive" PvE mode to its €300 Unheard Edition following player feedback, but insists it is not reneging on its ...
Bloober Team has two unannounced projects in the works: "Project C", a brand-new IP being developed in partnership with Take-Two Interactive, and "Project R", a 2025 release based on a Skybound E...
Path tracing? In Dragon's Dogma 2? The game shipped with ray-traced global illumination but a path tracer sits within Capcom's code - exposed thanks to a new mod for the PC version of the game. G...
https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2024-dragons-dogma-2-looks-stunning-with-path-tracing-on-pc
WWE 2K24 has unbanned modder WhatsTheStatus following complaints from its community. WhatsTheStatus - who was banned last week for "violation of terms" - revealed on Twitter/X that, after speak...
https://www.eurogamer.net/wwe-2k24-u-turns-on-modder-ban-following-community-backlash
Bloober Team says it is "very confident" and "excited" about Silent Hill 2 Remake. In the studio's annual report to shareholders, as translated by @pl_evil, the team expressed its excitement ab...
https://www.eurogamer.net/silent-hill-2-remake-developer-is-excited-and-very-confident
Aspyr has confirmed it has restored posters that were "inadvertently" removed from Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered in its last patch. Despite them being flagged by the official Tomb Raider website a...
https://www.eurogamer.net/tomb-raider-1-3-remastered-will-restore-pin-up-posters
This week, everyone's been talking about early access releases again. Why? The headline moment was No Rest for the Wicked developer Moon Studios defending a bumpy early access release by saying,...
https://www.eurogamer.net/manor-lords-and-a-hidden-risk-of-early-access-we-dont-talk-about
It mightn't be a huge surprise to hear - given we're talking about one of Steam's most wishlisted games in recent times - but solo developer Slavic Magic's Manor Lords is off to a flying start;...
Escape from Tarkov developer Battlestate has drawn fan ire after unveiling a €250 (€300 after tax) special edition that, alongside special advantages some are calling pay-to-win, contains an...
Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami has opened up about his decision to leave Tango Gameworks, as he wishes to break free from the survival horror genre. Mikami left Tango Gameworks - the Ze...
Animal Crossing's musical pooch KK Slider takes centre stage in a second wave of Lego sets themed around Nintendo's relaxed life sim series. KK, Isabelle and Audie minifigures are included in...
https://www.eurogamer.net/kk-slider-coming-to-new-lego-animal-crossing-sets
Meta is continuing to plough billions of dollars into its AR/VR division Reality Labs, despite losses of more than $1bn every month for most of the last two years. The Facebook and Meta Quest...
Medieval city-builder Manor Lords is out today on PC in early access, which means we finally know how much it costs. In the UK, the game costs £34.99 across Steam , GOG , Epic and Microsof...
https://www.eurogamer.net/manor-lords-pricing-revealed-as-it-launches-in-early-access
Switch 2 will feature Joy-Con controllers that connect to the main console using magnets, a new report suggests. Citing sources from accessory manufacturers, Spanish site Vandal states that...
https://www.eurogamer.net/nintendo-switch-2-report-details-magnetic-joy-con
Bungie has announced it will remove all power limits from legacy gear in Destiny 2, a major decision for fans and the final step in a now-complete U-turn on the controversial decision made four ...
Capcom is discontinuing its Ace Attorney Turnabout Collection, which combines the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy and The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles. The bundle will no longer be avai...
https://www.eurogamer.net/capcom-discontinues-ace-attorney-turnabout-collection-on-steam
Some weeks picking a favourite game is pretty easy, but there's been a lot of lovely stuff in the mix of late. Stellar Blade brings a surprisingly pleasant sense of PS2 focus to proceedings , whi...
https://www.eurogamer.net/game-of-the-week-exploring-the-other-things-that-make-a-metroidvania-great
Legendary Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama has posthumously praised new release Sand Land, a month after he passed away. Sand Land, from Bandai Namco, released this week and is based on Tor...
Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've been playing over the past few days. This week: good manors and finger patterns. If you fanc...
https://www.eurogamer.net/what-weve-been-playing-good-manors-and-finger-patterns
Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard has contributed to a boost in gaming revenue, but Xbox console sales have taken another massive hit. In its latest earnings report, Microsoft st...
Yesterday's long-awaited Fallout 4 "next-gen" update is now available to download on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S - but has so far received a mixed response from fans. It was sadly ...
Bulletstorm and Outriders studio People Can Fly has brought development of its struggling Project Dagger to a close after concluding its commercial potential was "unsatisfactory". Project Dag...
Blizzard has revealed it won't be hosting its annual BlizzCon fan convention in 2024, but says the long-running event - first seen in 2005 - may return "in future years". BlizzCon has, of cou...
UPDATE 11.40PM: Bethesda has taken to social media to address what it calls "confusion" around which versions of Fallout 4 on PlayStation are eligible for the free PS5 upgrade. "We've seen so...
An official life-sized replica of Malenia's arm, the notorious Elden Ring nemesis, is now available to pre-order. Bandai Namco has paired with high-end collectible company PureArts to creat...
https://www.eurogamer.net/enjoy-375-inches-of-malenia-with-this-elden-ring-life-size-arm-replica
With more than seven years' worth of games to pick from, there's never been a better time to delve into the BEST NINTENDO SWITCH GAMES. The line-up of games for Nintendo's handheld home console h...
Pokémon Go has quietly added Wigglet, the white-coloured and suspiciously-shaped species similar to Digglet that debuted in Nintendo Switch games Pokémon Scarlet and Violet and raised a lot of...
https://www.eurogamer.net/pokemon-go-wigglet-spawn-locations-revealed-by-fan-made-tool
It's time to take another look at a range of Windows-based handhelds and this time, we're testing the most advanced, most powerful hardware on the market right now - the actual big boys of the h...
No Rest for the Wicked feels like a bit of a missing link. In the same way that Salt and Sanctuary bridged a gap between Metroidvanias and the Souls series, No Rest exists as a stop on an imagina...
I've watched the Fallout Prime series and, like so many others, I have been dragged back into Fallout 4. The only problem is, I've done three playthroughs now - and this makes it hard to enjoy t...
It's unlikely we'll see widespread emulation of GameCube or Wii games via emulators on the iPhone App Store, a new report suggests, despite Apple giving the green light to emulation for games fr...
As reported last year, the enjoyable Assassin's Creed Mirage features a seemingly-cut post-credits scene that boasts a huge twist to the franchise's lore. Dataminers discovered the unfinishe...
Capcom has revised its full-year earnings forecast after the success of Dragon's Dogma 2 and its other popular releases over the last year. In a statement released today, the company has rai...
https://www.eurogamer.net/dragons-dogma-2-success-boosts-capcoms-expected-profits
Every Final Fantasy fan knows, there's nothing scarier than a Tonberry. Sure, the little green guys look sweet enough with their big shoes and bulging eyes. But let them get close and their knif...
https://www.eurogamer.net/final-fantasy-16-is-finally-complete-though-its-dlc-wont-appease-critics
Manor Lords releases on Steam in early access tomorrow, but pricing is still yet to be revealed. Tim Bender, CEO of the game's publisher Hooded Horse, took to reddit to defend the decision a...
Garry's Mod developer Facepunch Studios has been ordered to remove all Nintendo related items from the Steam Workshop. In a statement on Steam , the developer confirmed the takedown notice is...
https://www.eurogamer.net/garrys-mod-ordered-to-remove-all-nintendo-content-from-steam-workshop
I read a horrible theory recently that nature wants to turn lots of things into crabs. I think the theory was basically talking about crustaceans, but the gist of it was, regardless of the evolut...
Disney Dreamlight Valley is stuffing the glitter cannons and oiling its gates as it readies to welcome two new guests, with Daisy Duck and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit both now confirmed to be joinin...
The man arrested for sending death threats to Nintendo - which resulted in the cancellation of Nintendo Live Tokyo earlier this year - has reportedly been charged by Japanese police. As repo...
https://www.eurogamer.net/nintendo-death-threats-suspect-charged-by-japanese-police
I don't know if there's a universal winning formula for a great action game out there, but Stellar Blade sure has tried its hardest to reverse-engineer one. Like Bayonetta? Here, take an English ...
Yesterday, in between bouts of Manor Lords, I popped down the road to do some food shopping, and bought bread, milk, vegetables, and some other things, then walked home. It took me about 30 minut...
The boss of embattled video games publisher Embracer has reflected on a turbulent year for his company which has seen it shed thousands of jobs, shutter numerous development studios, and now - a...