Epic Games

The premium Eternal Orb top-up purchase screen from the Diablo Immortal in-game store.

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A European consumer watchdog wants you to be able to buy exactly as much in-game currency as you need, not fixed chunks

Plus a dozen other recommendations against misleading microtransaction practices

Sept. 13, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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A picture of some trees in Alan Wake 2 taken using the game's in-game Polaroid-style photo mode filter

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There is an amazing Finnish fairytale at the heart of Alan Wake 2's forests

Knowledge trees

July 19, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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A green slime in a forest in an unnamed WIP game project

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A former Fortnite tech artist is making the world's most advanced slime monster in Unreal Engine 5

Possibly featuring "Splatoon mechanics in dungeons"

July 16, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

8 comments

The player fires a shotgun at two zombiemen in Doom (1993)

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Fortnite can run Doom now, making it officially as useful as gut bacteria and rat neurons

Rocket jump racing

July 11, 2024 Nic Reuben

11 comments

A live action still of Alan Wake from Alan Wake 2

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Alan Wake 2 is getting a three episode Night Springs expansion tomorrow

Based on the in-game TV show

June 7, 2024 Graham Smith

1 comment

A pink-haired Fortnite character sits atop a vehicle and fires a Boom Bow at an enemy.

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Fortnite's new season adds War Buses, rocket-propelled fists, and a lawless desert biome

Like sand? This season's for you

May 24, 2024 Ed Thorn

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The teaser image for Fortnite's Fallout crossover, showing a Brotherhood of Steel knight looming amidst orange clouds

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Fallout is headed to Fortnite’s next season

Wrecked will kick off next Friday

May 17, 2024 Matt Jarvis

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Fortnite's Yoda back bling glitches into an infinite beam of light while the player performs the Zoidberg Scuttle emote

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Fortnite bans its Yoda backpack for opening game-crashing wormholes while doing Futurama’s Zoidberg Scuttle

Yes, really

May 8, 2024 Matt Jarvis

15 comments

A bean dressed as Han Solo riding a floating Millennium Falcon in Fall Guys' Star Wars skin pack.

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Star Wars arrives in Fall Guys this week, alongside major changes to bean physics

Less ragdolling, more air control

May 5, 2024 Graham Smith

4 comments

Lego Peely slashes a stormtrooper with a blue lightsaber in Lego Fortnite's Star Wars world

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Fortnite is now a Lego Star Wars game, with a whole new world for its survival mode in time for May the Fourth

Some non-bricky bits have been added to Battle Royale, Rocket Racing and Fortnite Festival, too

May 3, 2024 Matt Jarvis

2 comments

Wizards in an Outriders: New Horizons screenshot.

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Bulletstorm and Outriders studio have cancelled development on a co-op action RPG

Project Dagger was originally due to be published by Take-Two

April 25, 2024 Graham Smith

3 comments

A Fortnite character dances using an emote

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Fortnite will let you hide "confrontational" emotes, including the game's most popular

Don't laugh

April 23, 2024 Brendan Caldwell

23 comments

Baldur's Gate 3 Lae'zel, a Githyanke warrior companion and potential romance partner in the game.

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Baldur’s Gate 3 does what Elden Ring couldn’t, sweeps BAFTAs to become first game to win every big GOTY award

I guess you could call it a CRITICAL HIT - aha, aha

April 12, 2024 Matt Jarvis

33 comments

A man runs through Fortnite holding up tacos

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Just 66 titles saw 80 percent of all playtime in 2023, most older games like Fortnite or GTA 5

Over half of playtime was spent in games at least six years old, says new report

April 3, 2024 Nic Reuben

23 comments

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The Outer Worlds and Thief are free from Epic next week

April 4th-11th

March 28, 2024 Graham Smith

34 comments

Vehicles in the Mechanical Mayhem update for Lego Fortnite.

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Lego Fortnite gets driveable, customisable vehicles in Mechanical Mayhem update

Out now

March 26, 2024 Graham Smith

2 comments

The player blasts a ray of energy using Fortnite's first-person camera

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You'll be able to play Fortnite in first-person later this year

Creators will also soon be able to use in-game trading, proximity chat and a full physics sandbox in their custom modes

March 22, 2024 Matt Jarvis

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Adam Jensen prepares to punch someone in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

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Epic's spring sale is underway, and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is free to keep

That's a good deal

March 14, 2024 Graham Smith

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Artwork for Fortnite's Chapter 5 Season 2: Myths & Mortals, showing gods wielding guns

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Fortnite’s Myths & Mortals season lets you wield godlike powers and bullet-bend as avatar Korra later today

Chapter 5 Season 2 launch pushed back several hours after an "unexpected issue"

March 8, 2024 Matt Jarvis

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That 189GB Epic Games "hack" may have been a scam aimed at other hackers

Self-described "ransomware" hackers now self-describe as "professional fraudsters", reportedly

March 4, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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Key art for Fall Guys' survival update showing a player being struck by a blast ball above a pit of slime.

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Fall Guys survival update adds new creator tools, invisibility, and explosive rhinos

Players can now make survival levels

March 1, 2024 Graham Smith

4 comments

A screencap of a message purporting to be from hackers of Epic Games

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Epic Games reportedly hit by 189GB hack, including login and payment info

But Epic say there's "currently zero evidence" that claims are true

Feb. 28, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

23 comments

Characters including Peely and someone riding a shopping cart in artwork for Fortnite's Season OG

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Spending on third-party games via the Epic Games Store fell 13% in 2023

Epic will work on player experience in 2024

Feb. 17, 2024 Graham Smith

30 comments

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Alan Wake 2 is Remedy’s fastest-selling game yet, shifting over 1.3m copies, but hasn’t made a penny of profit

Sells 50% more than Control in half the time

Feb. 16, 2024 Matt Jarvis

91 comments

An image of Scrooge McDuck smiling and holding his hands up against a blurred backdrop of Disney Dreamlight Valley.

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Disney buy $1.5 billion stake in Fortnite publisher Epic, announce new "games and entertainment universe"

It's Disney's "biggest ever entry into the world of games"

Feb. 8, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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