Twitch is making some major changes to its tagging system, allowing streamers to more accurately define their content. The changes were revealed in a new Twitch Patch Notes stream that detailed forthcoming features. The tag system will soon be updated so that streamers can create custom tags. What’s more, the maximum limit will increase from…
The next patch for Final Fantasy 14 will include a new Island Sanctuary farming sim mode. Revealed in today’s Letter from the Producer stream, the new mode will be “relaxing solo content” that allows players to gather resources, care for creatures, build facilities, and earn special currency to purchase items. Patch 6.2 will be called…
The Quarry’s community has come up with a way for players to get hold of the Hard Pass accolade across platforms, something that was seemingly unobtainable due to a known issue. Publisher 2K revealed last month that there was an issue “causing the Hard Pass achievement/trophy to not be rewarded as intended”. The team is…
Hello! As regular readers will doubtless have spotted by now, all this week, Eurogamer has been marking Pride Month – on this, its 50th anniversary year in the UK – with a series of features celebrating the intersection of queer culture and gaming. It’s been an absolute privilege to have so many great writers share…
Ubisoft is using its games to help make players aware of the impacts of climate change. That’s according to the website Playing for the Planet, an UN-led initiative which seeks to use games to “inspire young people to learn and act in support of the environment”. For instance, for Riders Republic, Ubisoft says it will…
Sucker Punch says it has “no plans to revisit” its Infamous or Sly Cooper franchises. In a blog celebrating the studio’s 25th anniversary, the team said that whilst it was “proud to look back on the legacy of characters and stories” it had created, it is now focused “on [its] current project”. “As we approach…
Switch’s ‘impossible ports’ are the new ‘arcade perfect’ – games devised for much more powerful hardware somehow, miraculously, receiving remarkably impressive conversions onto relatively meagre hardware. However, variable performance and low resolution are also hallmarks of these otherwise astonishing technical achievements and it’s here where we need to highlight the work of Rebellion North in…
Two developers that had been working on a Fallout mod have been offered jobs by Bethesda. In a statement posted on Twitter, the lead technical adviser and project manager of Fallout: London, a “DLC-sized” mod for Fallout 4, have both been offered jobs; the former as an associate level designer, and the latter a chance…
Sony’s Santa Monica Studio has now issued a formal statement asking that all players treat its developers “with respect”. As Victoria so perfectly summarised for us at the time, yesterday was a sad day. In less than 24 hours, we got the news that Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert was no longer going to talk…
Ubisoft has confirmed it’s shortly pulling the plug on a number of its games, including Anno 2070, Far Cry 3, Ghost Recon Future Soldier, and Assassin’s Creed 2. Most of the games included on the list are getting on a bit, but three-year-old VR game Space Junkies is also getting pulled, and as its a…