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Cops in Utah have been alerted by a local resident who received a concrete brick instead of a new PlayStation 5 from eBay.

Sony's shiny new PS5 sells for $499 in the US, but just like here in the UK, stock is extremely limited and scalping is rife.

The man paid $878 - nearly double the PS5's recommended retail price - to receive his concrete, according to a statement by police in the northern Utah city of Orem.

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Twitch has removed the tag "blind playthrough" in response to feedback from gamers with disabilities.

The streaming platform encourages streamers to use alternate terms such as "first playthrough" or "no spoilers" instead.

"Happy to see Twitch has listened to everyone who shared feedback and removed the 'Blind Playthrough' tag to encourage more inclusive language for our community," tweeted Twitch's community and creator marketer, Erin "Aureylian" Wayne (thanks, Comic Book). "You can still use 'First Playthrough' or opt to use it in combination with 'No Spoilers' for the same sentiment."

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Mediatonic has dropped a tweet revealing four new upcoming costumes for Fall Guys.

Unlike its last reveal - which showed a teeny, tiny peek of Fall Guys' all-new season 3 that hardly told us anything - this one displays the new costumes in their full glory, some of which boast a decidedly festive theme.

The tweet also teased that there will be more information about the game - and possibly the upcoming new season - at The Game Awards later this week.

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Crytek has delayed some features that had originally been planned to release as part of Hunt: Showdown's upcoming 1.5 update.

"We'll get right to it: We originally announced that our next update - 1.5 - would include both a new boss and custom ammo types," the team said on the official website. "Friends, 2020 has not been kind, and we are sorry to say that we have had to move these two features to 2021.

"We know that you won't be happy to hear it, we aren't happy about the delay, but we are dedicated to making you the best possible game with the best possible features, and these two will release early next year," the statement continued. "We hope you will understand. All other changes and features in Update 1.5 will still arrive in 2020 with Update 1.4.8, and we're excited to share the details."

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Activision is suing Netflix over the appointment of its former chief financial officer, Spencer Neumann.

The suit alleges Netflix poached Neumann after he served just 18 months at the gaming giant and, according to Hollywood Reporter, is suing for "intentional interference with contract, unfair competition, and aiding and abetting breach of fiduciary duty". Consequently, it's seeking both compensatory and punitive damages and "a permanent injunction barring Netflix from soliciting its employees who are under contract".

We learned Neumann had been fired from Activision at the beginning of 2019, although neither parties expanded on why he had been let go. Hollywood Reporter claims that Netflix "knowingly induced Neumann to breach his employment contract with Activision," and "engaged in tortious conduct when Activision - with Neumann's assistance - was negotiating with Netflix over a commercial partnership to distribute Activision's linear media content".

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Upcoming awards event, The Game Awards, will include audio description for blind and partially-sighted fans when it's streamed on YouTube Gaming later this week.

In a tweet shared over the weekend, producer Geoff Keighley confirmed it will be the first time the live event has offered audio description for visually impaired players, closing his message with the statement "accessibility matters".

As Matt summarised earlier this week, The Game Awards - which will be presented by former Nintendo boss Reggie Fils-Aime, Brie Larson, Stephen A. Smith and Tom Holland amongst others this year - take place next Thursday, 10th December, at 7pm ET, which is midnight for us UK folk on Friday, 11th December. This year's show will feature Dragon Age 4's "next reveal".

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Taiwanese horror Detention is the latest video game to get an adaptation on Netflix.

As we described in our review at the time, Detention takes place in 1960s Taiwan, more than a decade into the 38-year period of martial law known as the White Terror. This was a period which plunged the country into an oppressive Orwellian nightmare that lasted nearly four decades. Around 140,000 Taiwanese citizens were imprisoned, and up to 4,000 executed for their real or perceived dissidence toward the ruling Nationalist Party of China government during the period.

It was developed by Red Candle Games, which was in the news for all the wrong reasons last year after Chinese players revolted over an in-game attack on the leader of China that resulted in the game being temporarily pulled from sale.

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The long-awaited release of Cyberpunk 2077 brings to an end years of feverish anticipation for those who have been itching to roam the streets of Night City, but it's only the latest example of gaming's fixation with the trappings of the cyberpunk genre.

It's perhaps inevitable that gaming and cyberpunk are so closely entwined, given that both were birthed in the technological boom of the 1950s and gained mainstream pop culture presence around the same time in the late 70s and early 80s. The hard part is working out how to separate the games that cherry-picked aspects of the cyberpunk aesthetic - of which there are literally hundreds - from those that are, or at least attempted to be, genuine examples of cyberpunk fiction. For that, we need to nail down the genre's key tropes; namely a dystopian outlook on the near-future, an interest in alternate digital realities, drug or technology assisted human modification, and a cultural milieu in which corporate interests have long since outranked the quaint notion of elected government.

Things got started pretty early, with adaptations of 1980s cyberpunk movies for 8-bit home computers like the ZX Spectrum. The Blade Runner game, rather cunningly, was licensed from the eerie synth score by Vangelis rather than the more costly movie despite asking you to fly your "Spinner" craft over Los Angeles, locating errant replicants then chasing them down in simple foot chases. An amusing distraction, but one that failed to grapple with the themes of cyberpunk in any meaningful way.

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With the arrival of the next console generation, it's inevitable that the hardware requirements for PC software will rise as graphical quality and complexity increases. The baseline is reset with the arrival of Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5, and we wanted to get an outline of what kind of PC graphics kit is required to match or even exceed console hardware. To do this, we broke down the visual make-up of Assassin's Creed Valhalla, matching PS5 and PC in terms of quality settings - getting a good grip on optimised settings in the process, where we measure the bang for the buck of every preset and suggest the most optimal settings for PC users.

First of all, it's worth pointing out that we may well see very different results for very different games. In assessing Watch Dogs Legion, I came to the conclusion that Xbox Series X could be matched by a PC running an Nvidia RTX 2060 Super - mostly owing to the onerous demands of ray tracing, an area where GeForce hardware has a clear advantage. With Assassin's Creed Valhalla, we see something very different. First of all, the game doesn't seem to run that well on Nvidia kit, and there's no RT in use, nullifying a key GeForce advantage. Meanwhile, AMD seems to fare significantly better. By our reckoning a Radeon RX 5700XT should get very close to the PS5 experience.

Epic has cancelled all Fortnite in-person events in 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Epic said it had no intention of holding in-person events during 2021, including a Fortnite World Cup. It will however run online competitions next year.

"Our intent is to eventually hold global in-person tournaments again, but our priority for any such event is the health and safety of our players and staff," Epic said in a blog post.

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The boss of Paradox does not expect the troubled Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 to come out during the first half of 2021.

Speaking to Swedish financial publication Placera, Paradox CEO Ebba Ljungerud said of the upcoming immersive sim: "I do not think it will come in the first half of the year, but we will see."

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, which was initially due out during the first quarter of 2020 before being delayed twice, has been dogged by controversy. In June 2020, Paradox confirmed any content designer Chris Avellone had contributed to the game would be removed following allegations of sexual assault.

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Neil Druckmann is now co-president of Naughty Dog, the studio has announced.

Druckmann joins Evan Wells at the top of the Sony-owned developer, which is famous for the Uncharted and The Last of Us series.

Druckmann, who joined Naughty Dog in 2004, was the creative director and writer of 2013's The Last of Us, creative director and lead co-writer of 2016's Uncharted 4, and creative director and lead co-writer of 2020's The Last of Us 2 (Aoife's spoiler-heavy interview with Druckmann about The Last of Us 2 is well worth a read). He served as vice president of Naughty Dog for almost three years. Alison Mori and Christian Gyrling are the new vice presidents of Naughty Dog. Mori was director of operations, and Gyrling was co-director of programming.

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Square Enix has delisted Dragon Quest 11: Echoes of an Elusive Age from various digital storefronts to coincide with the launch of the new S version.

A notice on the Steam page for Dragon Quest 11: Echoes of an Elusive Age - Digital Edition of Light reveals the game was unlisted on Valve's platform "at the request of the publisher" - and will not appear in search.

The notice says Dragon Quest 11: Echoes of an Elusive Age, which came out September 2018, is no longer available, and points to the new Dragon Quest 11 S: Echoes of an Elusive Age - Definitive Edition, which came out 3rd December 2020.

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The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut is free forever via GOG Galaxy.

To get CD Projekt's fantasy role-playing game, you have to download the GOG Galaxy app, go to "recent" view and click to claim The Witcher. Then the game should show up in your games library inside the app and in your GOG.com collection.

CD Projekt's 2007 The Witcher has been made free to download a number of times over the years, but it's worth flagging this promo as it comes just a handful of days before the launch of Cyberpunk 2077. So if you fancy getting stuck into a big old RPG in the week before CD Projekt's next big old RPG comes out, here you go.

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EverQuest is bigger than EverQuest 2, it turns out.

EverQuest, the ground-breaking fantasy MMO that launched over 20 years ago in March 1999, currently has more subscribers, more monthly active players and makes more money than EverQuest 2, which came out 16 years ago in 2004.

The factoid comes from a company called Enad Global 7 (EG7), which recently bought EverQuest owner Daybreak in a $300m deal.

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Monster Hunter: World is getting review-bombed on Steam over a racist joke in the Monster Hunter movie.

The Paul W. S. Anderson-directed Monster Hunter movie launched in China this week - and it has not gone down well there.

Niko Partners analyst Daniel Ahmad tweeted a clip of the movie that shows an American soldier ask another American soldier: "What are my knees?... What kind of knees are these?... Chi-knees."

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Why do we read cyberpunk?

Oh, cautionary tales, obviously. Cyberpunk stories show us bleak, frightening worlds where corporate power, overpopulation and mass surveillance have formed dark, soulless societies in which the individual means nothing and those in control care only about profit. They're warnings, something to frighten us away from the right decisions.

No, hold on, clearly it's about transhumanism and the ever-blurring line between mortal and machine. Augmentation, alteration, enhancement through technology; narratives that push our definitions of what humanity means and where science might take us within our own lifetimes.

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If you've been hoping for a fresh glimpse of BioWare's long-confirmed but still frustratingly elusive Dragon Age 4 (or whatever it might ultimately be called), you're in luck; EA says the game will get its "next reveal" during Thursday's The Game Awards.

The news comes via an official press release circulated to celebrate Dragon Age Day, which BioWare has marked with the release of four new stories set in the Dragon Age universe. EA says the stories, written by members of the game's narrative team, will "help paint the picture for the future of Dragon Age, including some insight into the next reveal at The Game Awards".

Those wishing to delve a little deeper and scour the four stories in the hope of unearthing clues of things to come can do so over on the official Dragon Age website. The stories in question are The Next One by Bryanna Battye, Ruins of Reality by John Dombrow, The Wake by Mary Kirby, and Minrathous Shadows by Sheryl Chee.

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Sony Pictures' long-in-the-works Metal Gear Solid movie finally seems to be heading in the right direction; Deadline reports that Oscar Isaac - most recently seen on the big screen as Star Wars' Poe Dameron - has been cast as iconic lead Solid Snake.

Jordan Vogt-Roberts, director of Kings of Summer and Kong: Skull Island (and a self-professed Metal Gear Solid fan) will continue to helm the project, having been attached to the movie for quite some time - he was initially bought onboard by Warner Bros back in 2014.

The Metal Gear movie's history goes back much further than that, of course; Hideo Kojima first shared word of a cinematic adaptation for his famed stealth-action franchise in 2006, although little progress appeared to be made in the years following, despite high-profile names like Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, and even acclaimed director Paul Thomas Anderson being linked to the project at one time or another.

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There's a double-whammy of Obsidian-Entertainment-shaped RPG freebies coming to the Epic Games Store next week, so if you've been eager to sink your adventuring mitts into either Pillars of Eternity or Tyranny, you now know where to point your internet in the coming days.

They're both good 'uns, of course, with Pillars of Eternity managing to secure itself a Eurogamer Recommended badge when it released back in 2015. It's a spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate, deliberately designed to replicate the nostalgic old-school whiff of '90s RPGs - which is to say, exactly what the 73,000 people who stumped up four million dollars to support the project on Kickstarter were hoping for.

There's overworld exploration and dungeon crawling to be done as one of the game's eleven classes - Barbarian, Chanter, Cipher, Druid, Fighter, Monk, Paladin, Priest, Ranger, Rogue, and Wizard - and the end result is an experience Eurogamer called "an RPG with [its] design firmly rooted in nostalgia, but one that absolutely doesn't rely on it to be enjoyable today."

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Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Warzone's Season One update has been delayed a week, Activision has announced.

Season One was set to launch on 10th December - the same day as Cyberpunk 2077 comes out. It will now launch on 16th December.

"It's an unprecedented amount of free content and the teams are currently prepping for the biggest Season One launch week ever seen," Activision said in a blog post.

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We've already seen some fairly creepy content based on Fall Guys (I'm still trying to forget the bean anatomy shared by the official Twitter account), and now there's even more. This time it takes the form of some suspiciously long legs, and some familiar crewmates are joining in on the action, as someone's made a Star Wars Battlefront 2 PC mod combining both Among Us and Fall Guys.

Made by TigerVenom22 and ToastedShoes, the mod replaces all original trilogy-era infantry with Fall Guys characters on the light side, and Among Us characters on the dark. Makes sense given a selection of the crewmates are basically eldritch horrors. They're capable of wielding lightsabers or using Force lightning (on the dark side at least), while the Fall Guys beans come with a range of costumes - one of which has Rowan Atkinson's face. I think there might be a joke there somewhere. My personal favourite is the extremely tall General Grievous Among Us crewmate with four floating lightsabers.

Starbreeze has paid the majority of its creditors, it's said.

The company behind Payday completed payments during the fourth quarter as part of a plan established by the Stockholm District Court on December 6, 2019.

Starbreeze has been under threat ever since the disastrous launch of Overkill's The Walking Dead on Steam. The game flopped, causing severe financial issues and the acrimonious exit of boss Bo Andersson. Check out our feature, The fall of Starbreeze for more.

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Pokémon Go has announced plans to give away an ultra-rare Shiny version of the already ultra-rare Mythical creature Celebi.

It's an eye-catching giveaway, available for a limited time later this month to tie into the release of the upcoming Pokémon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle, where Shiny Celebi appears.

Celebi was first introduced in 1999's Pokémon Gold and Silver. In the 21 years since, there have only been two other opportunities to legitimately snag its pink-coloured Shiny version without cheating: a Japanese cinema ticket promotion earlier this year, and the laborious process of soft-resetting the Virtual Console version of Pokémon Crystal likely several thousand times.

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The upcoming Mortal Kombat movie will launch on HBO Max and in cinemas on the same day in the US as part of a huge film shakeup at Warner Bros.

Warner Bros said all its 2021 releases would be available to stream instantly in the US, sending shockwaves throughout the cinema industry.

Warner Bros' current 2021 release slate includes the aforementioned Mortal Kombat, as well as blockbusters Godzilla vs. Kong, The Suicide Squad, Dune, and Matrix 4.

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It's been a long time since we've covered sports titles at Digital Foundry, but with the arrival of NBA 2K21 on the new wave of consoles, we're seeing something genuinely fascinating here, with a proper generational leap in fidelity across the board. To illustrate that, we took a look at the game primarily on PlayStation 5 and PS4 Pro, but we also spent some time with both of the Xbox Series consoles.

Delivering such a big improvement in quality is quite an achievement in my opinion. While it may not seem this way on the surface, sports games are - from what I can tell - one of the more difficult genres to work on. Truncated development schedules require annual entries in each series, meaning less time between each release but more than that, these games have to match up to a properly 'real' experience, often delivered with a TV-like presentation. A game like NBA 2K21 needs to deal with real people in real places performing complex, interlinking actions. If you're off by even a hair, you're diving straight into uncanny valley.

So what makes this so difficult? Well, nailing down the arenas and player likenesses is a huge part of the equation but it's the motion that makes this so difficult. Realistic animation, momentum and collision of each player on the court is a huge challenge. Developer Visual Concepts - whose work on this franchise dates all the way back to the Dreamcast era - is doing some great work here. While it's easy enough to spot the imperfections in the visuals, if you just let the game wash over you, it really begins to look surprisingly authentic in action. When firing on cylinders, it really does look like basketball.

Call of Duty is massive business for Activision - the company has just announced it's made over $3bn from the franchise in the last 12 months.

In a note to press, Activision said it had shifted to a "shared ecosystem business model" for Call of Duty, which has seen the launch of battle royale Warzone, mobile hit Call of Duty: Mobile, and Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold war this year.

The mention of a "shared ecosystem" relates to the emergence of Warzone and the integration of Modern Warfare and Black Ops Cold War into it. From mid-December, Black Ops Cold War and Warzone share battle pass progression, and you'll be able to level up and get XP no matter which game you play.

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Early game prototypes are often full of surprising placeholders - take the giant space Yoda in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, for instance - but one game I really wasn't expecting to find hundreds of rubber ducks in was the Demon's Souls remake.

Collin Harris, a technical artist who worked on the remake, shared a video on Twitter of a hoard of ducks being used to test the game's tech and effects. Ducks appear to explode from the table, and from the mists looms something rather more fowl...

Speaking to GamesRadar, Harris explained the duck model was created by his friend Alex, who was interning at Bluepoint Games. The model eventually made its way into the studio's asset library, and when Harris was looking for a model to carry out test demos, the duck's size and shape meant it fit the bill. "It didn't hurt that it was also a funny juxtaposition to see a bright yellow rubber duck sitting in an incredibly detailed dark fantasy environment," he said.

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I've had a kickabout with FIFA 21 on PlayStation 5, and while the gameplay is fundamentally the same as on PlayStation 4, there are some significant improvements.

For example, FIFA 21 benefits greatly from the PS5's Activities feature. Here, from the PS5 home screen, you can press a button to jump straight into the various modes within Ultimate Team without having to go through the main FIFA 21 menu first. Brilliantly, FIFA 21 next-gen ditches the annoying language selection when you boot up the game - something that has been a staple of FIFA for years. You have to log into EA's servers - there's no avoiding that - but I was able to go from the PS5 home screen to matchmaking a Division Rivals game in 20 seconds, which is remarkable. It really is quite the thing.

And once you've got a match, the game itself loads really fast - so fast in fact that there's not enough time to check out your opponent's team, which flashes on-screen just before kick-off. This is a good thing, I guess! But it is handy to know what you're up against before you start a match. Perhaps the PS5 is running too fast for its own good here.

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It's been five long years since Rocksteady's last big Batman game, but there's a new update for it today.

Download the patch and you'll get access to two slightly bizarre skins for your Dark Knight: the Zur En Arrh Batman, and the Anime Batman.

Both of these were previously unlockable if you fiddled around with WBplay, an online account service set up by publisher Warner Bros. which has now gone the way of the dodo. No tears were lost about that, but it did mean these skins were left in limbo.

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Picture it: you're in a neon-lit bar in Cyberpunk 2077, ordering a retro-future drink, when the barman says something that fires your memory. It's not the words, it's the voice, those gravelly tones, that deadpan way of speaking. It's so familiar. Where have you heard it before? Then it lands: Geralt of Rivia! The barman has the same voice as Geralt in the The Witcher video games. And - no, it can't be a coincidence - he's called Gerry?!

It seemed like a cameo opportunity too good to miss. Even Doug Cockle, the English voice of Geralt in The Witcher games, was up for it. "Absolutely!" he told me when we met a few years ago, and I wrote a piece about him.

"I have joked with [CD Projekt Red] about bringing me in as an Easter egg. I've jokingly said, 'You've gotta bring me in as a bartender the player has to interact with for at least one quest. A bartender named Gerry who has some waiting staff, Trisha or Jenny or something like that.'"

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It's Friday, it's almost Christmas, and I've been watching Pikachu scamper around my screen for the last 15 minutes. Must not drift off to sleep.

"Pikachu by the Patio" is the latest ASMR video from the Pokémon Company, which previously brought you classics of the genre such as "Charmander's Fireside Slumber" and "Squirtle's Day at the Beach".

This time, it's the turn of Pokémon's main mascot to titilate your earholes. Listen as he scuttles about, watch as he snores his own name while sleeping, and don't think too much about the real person behind the mic who had to record all of this dialogue themselves.

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It's another big week for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S, with plenty of news for us to discuss in the latest Eurogamer next-gen news cast!

We run through the latest on Amazon's PS5 delivery troubles, and ask what it's actually doing to make things right for affected customers. We then move on to the ongoing war against next-gen console scalpers - in which the latest battle was won by an unlikely source. How about eBay, which is riddled with misleading listings for a PS5?

And then we have a chat about the first significant update for the Xbox Series X and S, as well as Halo Infinite, which has been the subject of some unfounded rumours this week. Speaking of console exclusives, it turns out people are using the Xbox Series X and S to emulate PlayStation 2 games. Who needs Halo when you've got Silent Hill 2?

UPDATE 4/12/20: Oh boy. Kratos is now available in Fortnite on all platforms as part of today's in-game item shop.

To be clear, Kratos is available on all Fortnite platforms - including Xbox One and Series X/S - though anyone playing on PlayStation 5 gets a second golden armour style.

As well as the god himself (with decapitated Mimir back bling) you can also get a Guardian Shield glider and Leviathan Axe pickaxe, which comes with a frosty built-in emote.

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After disappearing early on and being almost permanently out of stock ever since, the Limited Edition Animal Crossing Nintendo Switch is back, with preorders now live on the Nintendo Store for people to claim their copy.

The actual consoles themselves will be sent out on 9th December 2020, but considering the high demand Nintendo clearly decided to start preorders now, with limits of 1-2 orders per customer depending on what bundle you buy.

All of these various bundles guarantee you a digital code to download New Horizons and a special model of the Switch, which sports ocean pastel colours and a picture of Tom Nook and his two minions battling for space on two square meters of land. It's certainly a nice midpoint between the starkly-garish Neon Red/Blue Switch and the please-don't-make-me-put-in-effort-grey model, as the Joy-Cons are also a gentle green and blue colour, just to keep the theme going. Aside from that, different bundles will get you a protective carry case for your Switch, three months of online membership so you can visit other friends' islands, or even a copy of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, just in case you want to ruin all those friendships afterwards with some merciless kart racing.

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BioWare general manager Casey Hudson and Dragon Age executive producer Mark Darrah have announced their departure from the studio.

Hudson began his tenure at BioWare back in 1998, eventually serving as project director on the likes of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Mass Effect. He parted way with the company for the first time in 2014, but returned, after a brief spell at Microsoft, in 2017.

In a new post announcing his retirement from the position of general manager at BioWare in order to "make way for the next generation of studio leaders", Casey wrote, "It's not an easy decision to make, and big changes like this always come with a certain degree of sadness."

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That big ol' 'simulator' in Flight Simulator's name certainly suggests a grasp for authenticity, but just how accurate is it really? That's what one enterprising soul attempted to discover by playing the game while on a passenger plane, and piloting the exact same route they were travelling in real-life. Turns out it's pretty damn accurate indeed.

The (admittedly wholly unscientific) experiment was conducted by Rami Ismail - formerly one half of celebrated indie studio Vlambeer - on a recent journey from Montreal, Canada, to Amsterdam, with Ismail documenting Flight Simulator's progress versus the real thing over on Twitter as the journey continued.

Following a minor directional mishap on the runway during a drizzly evening takeoff, Ismail excitedly reported in to confirm that cloud entry had been mere seconds apart between the game and real-life once airborne, with a slighter larger window of difference, of approximately 30 seconds, when leaving the clouds.

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Prison Architect developer Introversion is launching a new monthly YouTube series, titled Chris Delay's Fail Masterclass, showcasing some of its abandoned prototypes - and you'll be able to play each one in return for a one-off donation to charity.

"Behind every great video game comes a plethora of ideas, missteps dead ends and almost-made-its," explains the developer of its new YouTube venture, "Usually these embryonic prototypes get dumped in an archive and left to digitally rot, cursed to never see the light of day or feel the loving caress of a players mouse. Until today....".

Each monthly episode will aim its sights on another of Introversion's failed prototypes, and the studio's Chris Delay and Mark Morris will dissect what worked, what didn't, and explain why it was ultimately abandoned it.

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High street trade-in giant CEX has come under fire for its £815 pre-owned PlayStation 5 price - a vastly inflated figure compared to the console's standard £450 RRP.

A quick check of CEX stores local to Eurogamer's Brighton office suggests there's a decent amount of pre-owned PS5 stock available in the chain. But customers and even members of the chain's own shop staff have expressed distaste at the pricing.

Brand new PS5 consoles are essentially sold out in the UK at the moment, although Sony has said more shipments will arrive before the end of the year.

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Keiichiro Toyama, creator and director of Silent Hill, has left PlayStation after more than 20 years at SCE Japan Studio.

Toyama has formed a new company, Bokeh Game Studio, and is joined by The Last Guardian and Puppeteer's Kazunobu Sato, along with Gravity Rush lead designer Junya Okura and other former colleagues.

During his time at Sony, Toyama worked on the Siren games and then Gravity Rush and its sequel for PS4 and Vita.

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