EA has updated Need for Speed Payback’s loot crates and progression systems to make them more generous. The post-launch tweak comes as Star Wars Battlefront 2, EA’s other big launch of the season, suffers its own progression and loot crate controversies. Need for Speed developer Ghost Games detailed how it had altered the game via…
Several people were injured as thousands of far-right protesters rallied Monday in the eastern German city of Chemnitz where a knife killing, allegedly committed by a Syrian and an Iraqi, had sparked racist mob attacks that were deplored by Chancellor Angela Merkel. Hundreds of riot police separated the noisy crowd – whose mostly male members…
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 is due out on PC at some point in 2018, publisher Focus Home Interactive has announced. The sequel to 2016’s well-received Warhammer 40,000-flavoured real-time strategy space battle game includes all 12 factions from the original Games Workshop tabletop game and its expansion Armada. They are the Imperial Navy, Space Marines, Adeptus…
Asia Argento, the actress and leading #MeToo activist, has denied having a relationship with a teenage boy who accused her of sexual misconduct. Argento, 42, has been accused of sexual assault by Jimmy Bennett, a young actor, who says he was 17 when the incident took place in in a California hotel room in 2013….
Remember when EA bigshot Blake Jorgensen said you probably wouldn’t want a pink Darth Vader in Star Wars Battlefront 2? He was wrong. Someone wanted pink Darth Vader so much they decided to take matters into their own hands and make the costume themselves. Do you also remember when Jorgensen said, in the same breath,…
Russian jets struck the Syrian city of Idlib with a barrage of air strikes on Tuesday, hours after US President Donald Trump warned such a move would be a “grave mistake”. At least 23 strikes were reported in several locations around the opposition-held northwestern province of Idlib, in what appeared to be the opening salvo of…
Click:Lighting Jean-Claude Juncker has demanded that European Union governments sacrifice their vetoes on EU foreign policy decisions in a flagship speech that called for more national powers to be centralised in Brussels. The president of the European Commission called on Wednesday “for a stronger, more united Europe” that could flex its muscles as a “global…
A note from the editor: Jelly Deals is a deals site launched by our parent company, Gamer Network, with a mission to find the best bargains out there. Look out for the Jelly Deals roundup of reduced-price games and kit every Saturday on Eurogamer. Last year, the creators of both the Guitar Hero and Rock…
Switch ports of library titles? We’re all for them if the game is right and the quality of the port holds up. Capcom’s recently released Resident Evil Revelations collection is an interesting choice for conversion then, bringing together an improved port of Revelations 1 – which debuted on 3DS, remember – and its sequel, designed…
Angela Merkel’s party has come under heavy criticism over suggestions that refugees in Germany should undertake a year of low-paid community service. Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, General Secretary of the Christian Democrat party (CDU), and a possible successor to Ms Merkel, said the scheme would mean refugees would become better integrated and more accepted by the public. Marco Buschmann,…