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April 2021 Archive

April 30, 2021
1. Last year's Ubisoft hostage hoax reportedly the work of notorious Rainbow Six cheater
2. Titanfall 2 is free to play this weekend on Steam
3. Fall Guys has been delayed on Switch and Xbox
4. EE now offers Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and unlimited data for gaming at ?10 per month
5. CD Projekt execs get big bonuses despite messy Cyberpunk 2077 launch
6. 12 Returnal tips and tricks for surviving your next run
7. Call of Duty: Warzone players have an interesting theory to explain why everyone's on Verdansk in 1984
8. Metal Gear Solid composer has an album of Stardew Valley lullabies
9. Konami nabs Napoli exclusive for PES from 2022/23 season
10. New Pokémon Snap review - a charming return to an odd idea
11. Returnal: how a tech powerhouse puts PS5 through its paces
12. New Pokémon Snap - Illumina Spot courses: How to take a photo of Illumina Meganium, Wishiwashi, Milotic, Volcarona and Steelix
13. Outriders' biggest patch yet takes aim at the incredibly annoying snipers
14. BPM: Bullets Per Minute headed to PlayStation and Xbox
15. FIFA 21 hits EA Play and Xbox Game Pass in May
16. The joy of treating demos like a finished game
17. A 43-inch Hisense budget 4K TV is now under ?300
18. Football Manager joins clubs and players in social media boycott over online abuse
19. Hitman developer reportedly developing fantasy IP for Xbox
20. If Resident Evil Village looks too scary, here's an official puppet version
21. Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick takes a 50% pay cut, but could still earn millions in bonuses
22. Destiny's Vault of Glass returns next month
23. Activision puts Crash Bandicoot 4 dev Toys for Bob on Call of Duty: Warzone development duty
24. What we've been playing
25. Immortals Fen Rising's top-down The Lost Gods DLC launches next week
26. Are "metaverse economies" the future of video games? It's the Eurogamer News Cast!
27. Respawn would "love to deliver" more single-player PvE content for Apex Legends
28. New Pokémon Snap - Glowing Crystabloom locations in the Lental Seafloor and Ruins courses explained
29. New Pokémon Snap length explained: How long is New Pokémon Snap?
April 29, 2021
1. Netflix's Castlevania adaptation gets a trailer for its fourth and final season
2. Here's 15 minutes of gorgeous new Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart gameplay
3. Among Us confirmed for PS4, PS5 this year
4. Microsoft will slash its own store cut on PC game sales
5. Days Gone Nero Research Site locations, Nero Checkpoint locations and Nero Injector locations explained
6. Days Gone Horde locations list, maps and tips to take down a Horde
7. Apex Legends breaks down new hero and "winged avenger" Valkyrie in abilities trailer
8. Amnesia: Rebirth's less terrifying, more accessible Adventure Mode now available on PlayStation
9. Watch tonight's Ratchet & Clank focussed PlayStation State of Play here
10. Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Storm Ground looks pretty good
11. Sony-published Predator: Hunting Grounds hits Steam
12. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order gets PS5 and Xbox Series X/S ratings in Germany
13. Returnal review - magnificent and monstrous
14. Snowrunner ploughs onto Switch, Steam next month
15. Halo Infinite has cross-play and cross-progression
16. The Digital Foundry Supporter Program is relaunching with new tiers and new benefits
17. Amazon's Black Friday 2020 sale covers Watch Dogs Legion and more
18. Amazon ending ?2 Prime discount on physical game pre-orders
19. Dusting off an old favourite in Total War: Rome - Remastered
20. Respawn discusses Apex Legends server issues in mammoth blog post
21. Annapurna Interactive teases Outer Wilds DLC
22. Pokémon Go Snap Celebration event research quest: How to complete each New Pokémon Snap Celebration quest task
23. Pokémon Go Snapshot in the wild explained: How to Snapshot and get Smeargle in photobombs explained
24. Epic Games doesn't want Fortnite on Xbox Cloud Gaming
25. Destruction AllStars Season 1 launches next week, adds new character Alba
26. PlayStation still battling to get LittleBigPlanet servers back online
27. Mortal Kombat movie finally has a UK release date
28. Elite Dangerous: Odyssey alpha now lets you play with your main game ships and characters
April 28, 2021
1. Lovecraftian detective adventure The Sinking City now enhanced for Xbox Series X/S
2. Sunless Skies' enhanced Sovereign Edition out next month on PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch
3. Battlefield 5 and Wreckfest headline May's PlayStation Plus games
4. Warzone Adler intel locations explained: How to find each Hunt for Adler contract
5. Ranked Apex Legends player gets stuck in death loop after teammates betray them to farm kills
6. The Last of Us 3 has a story outline Neil Druckmann hopes will one day see the light of day
7. Call of Duty: Warzone update fixes Hunt for Adler event and shuts down under the map exploits
8. Inside Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition: the first triple-A ray tracing game
9. The Queen's golden Wii is now up for sale - priced $300,000
10. Riot "disappointed" by employee conversation with League of Legends fan project
11. BioWare is wrong, Dragon Age doesn't need to replace its disabled protagonist
12. Resident Evil Re:Verse delayed to summer 2021
13. PlayStation just had its best ever financial year as PS5 sales hit 7.8m
14. Microsoft's gaming revenue shoots up 50%
15. Digital Foundry vs. Dead Rising 3
16. Face-Off: Metro: Last Light
17. Face-Off: The Last of Us Remastered
18. Outriders - an enjoyable if flawed grind through the gears
19. Warzone nuke event part 2 time and what to expect from Season 3 explained
20. Someone should make a game about: chimneys
21. Together, alone: the radical promise of pathfinding in Death Stranding
22. Half-Life remake Black Mesa's new Xen Museum serves up a playable history of its lengthy development
April 27, 2021
1. Skybound city builder Airborne Kingdom adds expansive New Game+ mode
2. Nintendo just popped a Miitopia demo up onto Switch's eShop
3. Let's Build a Zoo is a cute zoo tycoon where you can splice up animals into silly new species
4. Surprise! Rockstar's Midnight Club Los Angeles: Complete Edition relisted on Xbox Marketplace
5. Big Fallout 76 update goes live, lets you build a second home
6. Pokémon Go adds X and Y Legendary creatures in busy May event schedule
7. Monster Hunter Rise's first big update lands tomorrow - and puts character editing behind paid DLC
8. Capcom Arcade Stadium has invincibility cheat paid DLC
9. Pokémon Go will now occasionally float sponsored gifts in hot air balloons around your screen
10. Super Mario Party online play expanded in free update
11. Vigilante Call of Duty: Warzone player hunts down under-the-map cheaters
12. Fortnite really doesn't want you to ditch its subscription in May
13. iOS update adds PlayStation 5 and Xbox controller support
14. Assassin's Creed Valhalla finally lets you turn off finisher moves
15. Knockout City launches straight into Xbox Game Pass and EA Play
16. Ask Iwata: understanding Nintendo's most charismatic leader
17. Itchy, Tasty is an enjoyably informal and informative account of how one of gaming's most iconic series found its feet
18. Street Fighter figurehead Yoshinori Ono leaves Capcom after nearly 30 years
19. Animal Crossing: New Horizons' next update brings back familiar events with "new twists"
20. Ghosts 'N Goblins Resurrection coming to PlayStation, Xbox, and PC in June
April 26, 2021
1. Planet Coaster's Ghostbusters expansion heading to consoles later this week
2. EA denies it's "pushing" FIFA players to spend on loot boxes after insider leaks marketing documents
3. Capcom extending Resident Evil Village's stingy demo window by a week
4. Resident Evil Village demo dates, times on PS5, PS4, Xbox and PC explained
5. Ratchet & Clank-focused State of Play due this week
6. This Valheim "raft luge" is just ridiculous
7. DF Direct Weekly tackles Microsoft Game Stack Live, FPS Boost and AMD FidelityFX for Xbox
8. Red Faction-style destruction revived for vehicle-building sandbox
9. May's Xbox Games with Gold titles announced
10. Apex Legends' Arenas mode is the "first step" in going beyond battle royale
11. Scavengers is a brutal and bitterly cold multiplayer survival game with a great slide
12. FPS Boost at 120fps: Battlefield, Titanfall and Mirror's Edge Catalyst tested
13. McDonald's to limit Pokémon Happy Meal toy purchases in UK
14. In Other Waters dev announces new game Project Sidereal
15. Fortnite Season 6 Battle Pass skins, including Lara Croft, Agent Jones, Raz, and Tier 100 Spire Assassin
16. Neymar Jr. arrives in Fortnite this week, turns into a mecha cat
17. Resident Evil Village's merchant features a Resi 4 Easter egg
18. Titanfall 2 is having a moment on Steam
19. Medal of Honor documentary Colette wins Academy Award
20. PEGI rates Godfall for PS4
21. Sign up now to play a "soft-launch version" of The Witcher: Monster Slayer
22. Apple Arcade dreamboat Skate City heads to consoles and PC in May
April 25, 2021
1. People Can Fly acquires Phosphor Games
2. Here's how you can buy older, unlisted games on the PlayStation Store
3. Sega is counting down to a big announcement for Yakuza spin-off Judgment
4. Almost 80k people have signed a petition demanding Sony 'approves' Days Gone 2
5. It Takes Two has sold over one million copies
6. The 16 year quest to unlock R-Type Final's 101 ships
7. Football Manager 2021 player deletes the Super League clubs and simulates the next 25 years
8. Rockstar delists Midnight Club 2 on Steam after accidentally making it available to buy for the first time in three years
April 24, 2021
1. Capcom made a life-sized towel of Lady Dimitrescu to promote Resident Evil Village in Japan
2. Outriders griefers are kicking players out of endgame missions before they can get their loot
3. Why Sherlock Holmes is called Herlock Sholmes in The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles
4. Naraka: Bladepoint beta goes live, hits over 120,000 concurrents on Steam
5. Mortal Kombat movie releases in the US - but's a no-show in the UK
6. Call of Duty: Warzone players are already killing people from under the new map
7. Pokémon Go Friendship Day Collection Challenge: How to complete the Collection Challenge and Friendship Day explained
8. Seeking alternatives to revenge narratives in games
9. Resident Evil Village's convoluted demo schedule heads to Castle Dimitrescu this weekend
April 23, 2021
1. PlayStation Now starts rolling out support for 1080p streaming this week
2. Warframe's digital-only TennoCon 2021 fan event dated for July
3. MLB The Show 21: the first multi-platform PlayStation Studios title tested
4. CD Projekt made over ?215m profit in 2020 - despite Cyberpunk 2077 refunds costing tens of millions
5. Valheim's trolls are getting hench
6. Evercade VS home console announced
7. Guitar Hero streamer gets full combo on "impossible" joke track
8. Marvel's Avengers Tachyon Anomaly event lets you play with a squad of Hulks
9. Watch Bloodborne running at 60fps on PS5 - with 4K AI upscaling
10. What we've been playing
11. Dicebreaker Recommends: 7 Wonders, a card game that lets you build a civilisation in under 20 minutes
12. Ghost of Tsushima review - a likeable, if clunky Hollywood blockbuster
13. Destiny 2's complicated new transmog system sounds like parody
14. Apex Legends trailer teases Arenas and "going beyond battle royale"
15. Ubisoft will now spend longer on each Assassin's Creed Valhalla patch before release
16. Call of Duty: Warzone dev: "current day Verdansk is gone and it's not coming back"
17. Microsoft brings FPS Boost support to 13 EA games on Xbox Series X/S today
18. The new Ring Fit Adventure/Nintendo Switch bundle is out
19. The Double-A Team: Billy Hatcher & The Giant Egg is the perfect wake-up call
20. Is Sony's U-turn on the PS3 and Vita store shutdown just delaying the inevitable? It's the Eurogamer News Cast!
21. Nintendo's new special edition Switch is a lovely Mario red
22. Nintendo planned a Switch stylus attachment for your Joy-Con
23. Finally, there's an official Nintendo Switch stylus - and it's super cheap
24. Vita's reprieve means the bittersweet arrival of its "last game" is just really sweet
April 22, 2021
1. Call of Duty: Warzone's final nuke event takes players to 1984
2. PlayStation teaming up with ex-Destiny talent to create exclusive new AAA multiplayer title
3. Sony rolling movies and TV shows into PlayStation Plus, but only in Poland for now
4. Check out the first seven minutes of the new live-action Mortal Kombat movie
5. Returnal shows that Sony can still be weird and daring
6. Farewell Jeff from the Overwatch team
7. Elite Dangerous' Odyssey expansion gets May release date on PC
8. Last Stop might be the most London game I've ever played
9. Warzone new map teasers: What we know from leaks and Rebirth from the Ashes codes so far
10. Assassin's Creed Mister Men and Little Miss books revealed
11. This year's Battlefield is the work of four EA studios
12. NieR Replicant ver. 1.22474487139... review - a better version of the weakest game in the series
13. Fortnite's old map is back... as a skin
14. Fujifilm unveils Nintendo Switch-themed mini printer
15. Trials of Fire review - seduced by sculpting the perfect RPG team
16. Call of Duty: Warzone gets perhaps its most significant weapon balance update yet
17. Lego Luigi leak confirms crying Super Mario suspicions
18. First-person Resident Evil 4 VR adds dual-wielding
19. Call of Duty: Warzone players were briefly able to play the new 1980s Verdansk map before Raven shut it down
20. Resident Evil Village demo tried and tested on PlayStation 5, PS4 and Pro
21. Xbox Series X/S update lets you see which games you can Quick Resume
22. Black Ops - Cold War: Warzone Season 3 Battle Pass skins and Operators, including Disruptor, Stringer and White Queen Tier 100 rewards
23. Watch a quick new scene from Life is Strange: True Colors
24. Song of Horror bringing its old-school third-person chills to consoles in May
25. Appreciating the deceptive simplicity of Roguelite Asura
April 21, 2021
1. Ready at Dawn's anti-gravity sci-fi sequel Lone Echo 2 launches "this summer"
2. 1080° Snowboarding spiritual successor Carve Snowboarding announced for Oculus VR
3. VR rhythm FPS Pistol Whip unveils Wild-West-themed Smoke & Thunder story campaign
4. Ubisoft turning social deduction game Werewolves Within into horror-comedy movie
5. Call of Duty: Warzone has finally nuked its map
6. Diablo Immortal moves into closed alpha with the Crusader class and 48-player raids
7. Microsoft ditches Xbox Live Gold requirement for free-to-play multiplayer from today
8. Tales of Arise launches September
9. 25GB Call of Duty: Warzone update goes live ahead of tonight's nuke event
10. The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles finally confirmed for the west
11. Here's a first look at the new Horizon Zero Dawn graphic novel
12. Mario Kart Tour passes $200m in 18 months
13. Football really could learn from video games, if it bothered to understand them
14. Two of the very best TVs for PS5 and Xbox Series X are now on offer
15. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 set photos show popular sidekick
16. Now someone's playing Call of Duty: Warzone with a piano
17. Discord ends acquisition talks with Microsoft
18. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Zombies to get weapon unlock challenges in season three
19. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake developed by Aspyr
20. Call of Duty: Warzone now has 100 million players
21. Outriders dev promises lost items will return with "god roll" values
22. Someone should make a game about: verso
April 20, 2021
1. Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan announces departure from Blizzard after 19 years
2. Payday sales featuring games, consoles and accessories are live now
3. Get 15 months of PlayStation Plus for ?34.99 today
4. Twitch is offering 21 free games to Prime members this month
5. Amazon Prime Day 2018 date leaked
6. The Nintendo Switch and Animal Crossing bundle is reduced again if you missed it on Prime Day
7. Ring Fit Adventure is now ?60 at Amazon
8. Amazon sells out over Prime Day, but these discounted Nintendo Switch bundles are available at Currys
9. How to get Binacle and Barbaracle in the latest Pokémon Go event
10. Horizon Zero Dawn and nine superb indie titles free on PlayStation in coming weeks
11. Xbox Game Pass gets Phogs!, Second Extinction, Destroy All Humans! and more soon
12. PlayStation 5: the best external SSD upgrade options tested
13. Cosy death adventure Spiritfarer gets free update today
14. Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate 2 and Icewind Dale Enhanced Editions all get a big update
15. Resident Evil Re:Verse beta returns this week
16. Portal 2 mod adds third portal with time travel
17. Outriders Legendaries: How to farm legendary weapons and armour explained
18. Rockstar issues surprise updates for LA Noire and Max Payne 3 on PC, throws in all the DLC for free
19. Marvel's Avengers creative director moves back to Naughty Dog
20. Valheim update makes hoeing less expensive
21. Why Nier matters
April 19, 2021
1. Valve finally fixes CS:GO exploit that could give hackers control of PCs
2. Ubisoft details Assassin's Creed Black Flag webtoon sequel, Shao Jun books, Netflix projects
3. Call of Duty: Warzone update nerfs ridiculously-overpowered Sykov pistol just three days after it launched
4. Celeste dev announces new project Earthblade with 'vibe revealing' teaser art and music
5. Double Fine says Psychonauts 2 is "playable" and finally launching this year
6. Everything coming to Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Warzone in season three
7. PlayStation U-turns on PS3 and Vita store shutdowns
8. Respawn announces Apex Legends Mobile test begins later in April
9. The new DF Direct Weekly tackles The Last of Us Remake rumours, Mass Effect: Legendary Edition and Nvidia GTC
10. Apex Legends reveals new character Valkyrie
11. Warzone best Sykov loadout: Our Sykov akimbo class setup recommendation and how to unlock the Sykov explained
12. eBay has 10% off Returnal, Nier Replicant, Resident Evil and Mass Effect ahead of release
13. Our recommended RTX 3070/3080 PC build: CPU, RAM and motherboard picks
14. Cyberpunk 2077 dataminer finds unreleased quest descriptions
15. Cyberpunk 2077 modders have made unused quests and "E3 V" playable
16. Resident Evil Village is looking brilliantly bonkers
17. Valve confirms second season of Netflix's DOTA: Dragon's Blood
18. You'll still kill 726 people if you try your best not to murder anyone in GTA 5
19. Valve's Dota 2's Free to Play documentary is coming to Netflix
20. Xbox Cloud Gaming to launch in beta form on PC and iOS tomorrow
21. Nier Replicant's extra content revealed in new trailer
22. Homeworld 3 is still alive
23. Warzone best R1 Shadowhunter loadout: Our R1 Shadowhunter class setup recommendation and how to unlock the R1 Shadowhunter explained
24. Meet the man driving 200 laps on the Nürburgring for charity
25. Capcom's convoluted Resident Evil Village demo rollout disrespects our time
April 18, 2021
1. Details of Apex Legends' new character leak online
2. Nintendo Japan website updates Diddy Kong's render and his fans are very excited
3. Days Gone writer says if you love a game, you should buy at full price
April 17, 2021
1. Amazon cancels its Lord of the Rings MMO
2. Nintendo suing Switch hacker Gary Bowser
3. Dr. Doak is now in the cancelled GoldenEye 007 XBLA remaster
4. Have I been pronouncing Lady Dimitrescu wrong all this time?
5. PS5 owners report the DualSense is now doing a better of job recreating PS4 rumble for back compat games
6. Treyarch restores Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War accounts incorrectly banned for cheating in Zombies
7. Path of Exile dev responds to backlash over catastrophic Ultimatum expansion launch
8. PS5 the fastest-selling console in US history
9. Call of Duty: Warzone developer promises "adjustment" for "pay-to-win" Roze skin
April 16, 2021
1. Netflix's animated Castlevania series back next month for a fourth and final season
2. Relive the memories of a life from birth to the present in Annapurna Interactive's Hindsight
3. Elite Dangerous shows off Odyssey expansion's profitable space botany
4. Outriders release time for PC, PlayStation and Xbox in BST, CEST, EDT and PDT explained
5. Outriders classes: Our best class recommendations and all Outriders class skills listed
6. Outriders crossplay support: How to play multiplayer with other platforms explained
7. Outriders World Tiers: How to farm World Tiers, plus level caps and Challenge Tiers explained
8. Cyberpunk 2077 modder restores early character placeholders
9. Lego Super Mario has started crying out for Luigi
10. Resident Evil Village Maiden demo walkthrough, secrets and discoveries explored
11. Genshin Impact's PS5 version launches late April
12. Moonpig now lets you send a Paper Mario
13. Crash Bandicoot: On the Run earned ~$700k in one week
14. Call of Duty: Warzone cheaters are using night vision goggles to show they're not worried about being banned
15. For the first time, The Elder Scrolls Online will let players acquire loot box items without paying real-world money
16. Looks like there's a new Super Monkey Ball coming
17. Tekken 7 storms past 7m sales
18. Cyberpunk 2077 helped CD Projekt to best financial results ever
19. Could Alvo be VR's answer to Call of Duty?
20. Resident Evil Village resolution and framerate revealed for all consoles
21. Call of Duty: Warzone's irradiated areas are turning players into zombies
22. What we've been playing
23. Square Enix flatly denies it is up for a sale
24. Call of Duty: Warzone just got a new "broken" pistol - and it's wreaking havoc
25. What we want next from PS5 - it's the Eurogamer News Cast!
26. Mass Effect Legendary Edition photo mode detailed
27. The Double-A Team: Cheating your way to the top in Wario Land
28. CD Projekt vows to stick with embattled Cyberpunk 2077
29. Why did Nintendo kill Mario? It's the Eurogamer News Cast!
30. Journey dev's gorgeous social adventure Sky: Children of the Light coming to Switch in June
April 15, 2021
1. Everything announced in Capcom's Resident Evil showcase
2. Magnificent space horror Alien: Isolation is free again next week on the Epic Games Store
3. Ubisoft Forward digital showcase confirmed for E3 week in June
4. Codemasters and new owner EA announce F1 2021
5. New Outriders patch aims to stamp out worrying inventory wipe bug
6. Wasteland 3's first expansion is The Battle of Steeltown
7. You can now buy Brie Larson's Fortnite loadout
8. OlliOlli World brings the superlative skate series into vivid 3D
9. Pokémon Go players report being repeatedly slapped by 7-day bans
10. Here's how Days Gone looks on PC
11. The Elder Scrolls Online's Blackwood chapter revives a city not seen since 1994's Arena
12. Sea of Thieves' Season 2 adds lucrative new fort event, crafty barrel disguise emote, more
13. Apex Legends hits 100m player milestone
14. Pokémon Go hosting New Pokémon Snap event
15. Oxenfree 2: Lost Signals announced
16. Picross S6 pencilled in for Nintendo Switch next week
17. Signs of the Sojourner will make you think differently about conversations
18. Here's everything announced in Nintendo's Indie World showcase
19. The Super Mario Bros. speedrunning community just broke the 4 minute and 55-second mark - why does that matter?
April 14, 2021
1. Wadjet Eye and Primordia dev show off surreal point-and-click carnival horror Strangeland
2. Here's a first look at the House of the Dead remake
3. Assassin's Creed Valhalla Ireland expansion delayed
4. Fez out today on Nintendo Switch
5. Yakuza 0 is just ?4 in the PSN Store Spring sale
6. Outriders players are punching their way through the endgame
7. Minecraft has split off and delayed parts of its big Caves & Cliffs update
8. Watch Nintendo's next indie Switch showcase here
9. Ubisoft launches online channel gTV in UK tomorrow
10. Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade's standalone Yuffie expansion detailed
11. Steam's Indian Harvest Festival begins today, and offers some real treats
12. Fruit Ninja+ is as wonderful as it always was
13. KT Racing's WRC 10 looks back at 50 years of rallying
14. Activision confirms it issues hardware bans to "repeat or serial" Call of Duty: Warzone cheaters
15. Cyberpunk 2077 patch 1.21 out now, stops police spawning behind the player's back on roofs
16. Activision and developer of 2017 strategy game Warzone in legal fight over Warzone trademark
17. Mass Effect Legendary Edition pre-order: where's cheapest?
18. Check out Mass Effect Legendary Edition's visual changes in new before-and-after trailer
19. A Roblox player infiltrated the White House press corps
20. PlayStation 5 update finally lets you move games to USB storage
21. Call of Duty: Warzone's big nuke event set for next week
22. Blizzard Arcade Collection adds two more games
23. Warframe dev talks accessibility, Xbox Series X/S enhancements, and more as new update arrives
24. Call of the Sea coming to PlayStation in May
25. Someone should make a game about: art on the moon
26. Life is Strange: True Colors getting free prequel comic
27. Does Sony have a responsibility to preserve its gaming history? It's the Eurogamer News Cast!
April 13, 2021
1. Acclaimed Viking RTS Northgard launching on iOS devices today
2. Capcom concludes ransomware investigation, details what happened
3. Flight Simulator's latest update out now, gives France and Benelux the makeover treatment
4. Nier: Automata "upgrade patch" announced for Steam
5. There's a new Nintendo Switch Lite, coloured blue
6. Epic Games secures $1bn funding, including $200m from Sony
7. How to get Skrelp and Clauncher in the latest Pokémon Go event
8. Pokémon Go bug makes newly-released creatures invisible
9. Horizon Zero Dawn's Aloy headed to Fortnite
10. Balan Wonderworld review: an archaic throwback as clumsy as it is enjoyable
11. Star Wars: Battlefront 2 star Janina Gavankar joins Borderlands movie cast
12. Ubisoft shutting down older Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six servers this year
13. Get up to 30% off ultrafast full fibre broadband in the Hyperoptic Spring Sale
14. Patreon pulls NSFW Bowser art following reported Nintendo copyright claim
15. It's finally time for Fortnite's horrifying Princess Fishstick
16. Venba is a cooking game obsessed with the emotional impact of food
April 12, 2021
1. Rob McElhenney's Apple TV+ game dev comedy Mythic Quest returns this week
2. Civilization 6's final free game update adds three new units, two new maps, and more
3. The best PS4 and Xbox One external hard drive
4. DF Direct Weekly: Testing the latest game patches - and what to make of the AMD GPU chiplet patent?
5. Team Fortress 2 bots now advertising paid-for "bot immunity" services
6. Grab Ghost of Tsushima and other PlayStation exclusives at their lowest prices yet
7. Homefront developer only discovered hidden TimeSplitters 2 codes after game shipped
8. Oddworld: Soulstorm review - untypically scrappy in places, but typically heartfelt
9. WWE 2K22 will attempt to get the series back on track
10. Oddworld Soulstorm - how systems-driven graphics and gameplay deliver an unforgettable experience.
11. Some distraught Outriders players have lost nearly 100 hours of progress after latest patch
12. Disco Elysium dev promises fixes for PS4 and PS5 versions
13. This Valheim mod adds Skyrim-style magic, and it's a blast
April 11, 2021
1. There's a secret co-op mode hidden in The Binding Of Isaac: Repentance
2. Here's how Respawn might be changing Apex Legends' Lifeline
3. Is Sega remastering Sonic Colors?
4. Ghost Recon Breakpoint's first "major title update" should be out soon
5. Quantic Dream responds to Paris Court of Appeals judgement to "set the record straight"
6. Crysis Remastered gets upgraded for Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5
7. Ubisoft's new chief people officer will work to ensure its "culture is anchored in safety, respect, and well-being"
8. Neopets developer is reportedly "thinking of bringing the game to the Nintendo Switch"
9. The story of Starflight, EA's sci-fi sandbox that laid the way for Mass Effect
April 10, 2021
1. Age of Empires 4 launches autumn 2021, includes Norman campaign
2. Hot Wheels Unleashed looks better than anyone would have thought
3. Sony plots big PlayStation push into mobile gaming
4. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War players are terrified of getting banned for playing Zombies to high rounds
5. Epic is losing hundreds of millions of dollars in its war against Steam
6. Here's a look at Resident Evil Village's sprawling map
7. "With great accessibility comes great inclusivity"
April 9, 2021
1. Homefront's missing unlock code to make TimeSplitters 2 fully playable has been found
2. Hello Games' The Last Campfire adds 20% more puzzling in free new update
3. Watch Aoife build the ultimate gaming PC
4. Diablo 2 alpha times and sign up access for Resurrected's technical alpha explained
5. Naughty Dog reportedly working on The Last of Us remake for PS5
6. Taiko no Tatsujin Pop Tap Beat is glorious on Apple Arcade
7. What we've been playing
8. Tiny Crossword+ brings simple grid-based magic to Apple Arcade
9. Neo: The World Ends With You launches in July
10. Netflix signs exclusive streaming deal for Sony films, including Uncharted
11. Here's 19 minutes of new Path of Exile 2 gameplay
April 8, 2021
1. Free Radical's cult classic psychokinetic thriller Second Sight returns to Steam
2. THQ Nordic's Destroy All Humans remake heading to Switch this summer
3. Alex Kidd in Miracle World remake gets June release date
4. Say goodbye to mandatory space taxis as Elite Dangerous: Odyssey's alpha enters Phase Two
5. Outriders "appreciate package" planned to make up for server issues
6. Mini Metro+ is as good as it gets
7. Bethesda delays Deathloop again
8. Capcom pulls RE:Verse open beta offline seven hours after launch
9. Intel's AI-powered Bleep tech lets you choose exactly how much online hate speech you hear
10. 13 years after it came out, Halo 3 has a new map
11. Streets of Rage 4 Mr. X Nightmare DLC adds three new playable characters
12. Star Trek: Legends is a fun RPG caught between two worlds
13. Oddworld: Soulstorm releases bug-squashing update
14. Resident Evil showcase dated for next week
15. Clap Hanz' first non-PlayStation title is essentially more Everybody's Golf
16. Fantasian gets the original Final Fantasy team back in a JRPG for all
17. PlayStation, Xbox and Valve called on to drop Six Days in Fallujah
18. Death Stranding on PC made ?20m in 2020
19. Square Enix shows Final Fantasy 14 running on PS5 for the first time
20. Outriders is only a week old and players are already kicking out Devastators from endgame co-op
21. Abandoned developer forced to deny Kojima collab rumours
22. Infinity Ward pulls two of the new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare maps surprise-added to the game last week without explanation
23. Bloober Team's haunted house horror Layers of Fear heading to PSVR later this month
April 7, 2021
1. Stop-motion-style space adventure Harold Halibut looks sublime in new story trailer
2. Here's what's coming in Stellaris' free Dick update next week
3. Previously PlayStation-exclusive FMV thriller Erica heading to Steam
4. Someone should make a game about: the Birmingham Superprix
5. Sea of Thieves teases new additions ahead of Season 2's launch next week
6. Brazilian authorities to investigate loot boxes
7. Fortnite's new gun reminds me of Luigi's vacuum cleaner
8. Diablo 2: Resurrected technical alpha lets players try single-player this weekend
9. Warhammer - Age of Sigmar: Storm Ground comes out in May
10. Capcom shows off Street Fighter 5 DLC characters Rose, Oro and Akira Kazama
11. Pac-Man 99 is the next Nintendo Switch Online battle royale
12. Destiny 2 Suited for Combat explained: How to complete the Week 9 challenge
13. Destiny 2 Salvager's Salvo: How to unlock and earn all three Salvager's Salvo ornaments
14. Call of Duty: Warzone players are seeing nukes launch and land early - with hilarious results
15. BioWare offers detailed breakdown of Mass Effect Legendary Edition's extensive changes
16. Microsoft adds touch controls to 50+ titles in Xbox Game Pass' cloud-enabled line-up
April 6, 2021
1. Pokémon Go's Easter event is an unexpectedly bad example of its loot box-style incubators
2. Raven nerfs two of Call of Duty: Warzone's most effective weapons in meta shake-up bid
3. GTA 5 returns to Xbox Game Pass this month
4. E3 2021 will be a free online-only event, ESA confirms
5. How to get Azumarill in the latest Pokémon Go Collection Challenge
6. Marvel's Avengers and Borderlands 3 join PlayStation Now lineup
7. Respawn tells disgruntled Titanfall community "help is coming ASAP" after years of DDOS attacks made online "unplayable"
8. Homefront Easter egg designed to make TimeSplitters 2 fully playable
9. Oddworld: Soulstorm launches with a couple of significant bugs
10. Here's how Pokémon Go's new referral scheme works
11. Metroid Prime 2D fan demo released
April 5, 2021
1. DF Direct Weekly: Is Intel's Rocket Lake really that bad?
2. Letting your mind go in dense, dark worlds: an interview with author Karan Mahajan
April 4, 2021
1. Cyberpunk 2077 patch 1.2: big boosts for PS4 Pro but what about the other consoles?
2. Get three Oddworld games on one Switch cartridge with The Oddworld: Collection
3. Here's when free-to-play PUBG Lite shuts down
4. There's a "ton" of "really cool" Titanfall content coming to Apex Legends Season 9
5. The FBI is investigating Counter-Strike: Global Offensive cheating
6. Outriders team hopes to share "specific details" about what went wrong at launch
7. Black Ops Cold War griefers and quitters warned to "play nice or pay the price"
8. Tencent's Timi Studios may be the "world's largest developer" now
April 3, 2021
1. Unopened Super Mario Bros. sells for $660,000, smashing world record
2. Capcom, I hope you realise what Resident Evil Village's photo mode is about to unleash
3. Outriders launch dwarfs Marvel's Avengers
4. Call of Duty: Warzone's mid-season update is not going down well
5. Link between loot boxes and problem gambling "robustly verified"
6. Surprise! Platinum Games just released Apple Arcade exclusive World of Demons
7. Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga delayed again
8. PlayStation game MLB The Show 21 launches on Xbox Game Pass day one
April 2, 2021
1. What we've been playing
2. The effortless loop-de-loop surrealism of GTA Online's racing tracks
April 1, 2021
1. Frontier addresses Elite Dangerous: Odyssey alpha's tedious space taxis and murder planets
2. Outriders is suffering login issues on launch day
3. PUBG has an April Fools' arcade minigame where you fight chickens
4. Fortnite now has the stonks man
5. Say hello to Eurogamer's new comments moderator!
6. 120fps is a game-changer for Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 on PS5 and Xbox Series consoles
7. New Fish and Bugs in May: What's arriving and leaving this month in Animal Crossing New Horizons
8. What's arriving and leaving this month in Animal Crossing?
9. New Bugs and Fish in April: Everything arriving and leaving this month in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
10. Microsoft wins $21bn US Army custom HoloLens contract
11. The wonderful Loop Hero hits 500,000 sold in a week
12. Activision battles to contain Call of Duty: Warzone map leak
13. Okay, I'm going to stick with Outriders
14. Control developer Remedy working on Alan Wake 2 - report
15. Resident Evil movie release date delayed
16. Genesis Noir review - an adventure spanning all of creation
17. Rockstar officially implementing fan-made fix that massively reduces GTA Online load times
18. Tricky Pokémon event research quest in Pokémon Go explained