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Original Mario voice actor Charles Martinet has shared more on how he came up with the voice for Nintendo's moustachioed plumber. Read more

Have you heard the word ' masocore ' before? It's a portmanteau of 'masochist' and 'hardcore', and it's what Team Ninja used to describe the first few games in the Nioh franchise. In an interview a long time ago , Yosuke Hayashi (general producer at Team Ninja) told me that the team working on the Nioh games never really wanted to make them 'Soulslikes', and thought that 'masocore' suited the dev…

Valve time strikes again. Three months after announcing a trio of new hardware products , including the Steam Machine, Steam Frame and Steam Controller, Valve has published a blog post detailing their delay . The new hardware was meant to arrive in the first quarter of this year, but this has now been "revisited" to the first half of the year due to the "memory and storage shortages you've likely…

Overwatch 2 had a problem. It's a problem a lot of live service games have, to be fair. It wasn't particularly exciting any more. It had a chance at launch a few years ago to excite people, to create a wave of momentum to surf thereafter, but it floundered, beset as it was with identity problems and a misguided obsession with PvE, which sounded lovely on paper but never really worked in practice.…

You wouldn't know it to hear it, but decorated video game actor Jennifer Hale - famously the voice of Mass Effect 's Commander Shepard - is the person providing the meows of new Overwatch hero Jetpack Cat. Read more

Overwatch 2 will henceforth be known as Overwatch , Blizzard has announced, as it outlines a major new plan that will revolve around free, annual, expansion-like releases for the game. The first of these - The Reign of Talon - arrives next week, on Tuesday, 10th February. Read more

Blizzard has finally announced a proper Switch 2 version of Overwatch - the game formerly known as Overwatch 2 - which it plans to release alongside the second season of The Reign of Talon this year. The current estimate for this is mid-April, Blizzard told me this afternoon. Read more

It sounds as though Blizzard is open to exploring generative AI during the development of its games. Read more

The Evercade consoles remain one of the most fascinating pieces of modern hardware on the market. Mainly aimed at collectors, but also welcoming enough so that younger gamers become interested in retro gaming, they blur the line between modern emulation and older original consoles. Now, the king of retro shooters is coming to them: Doom is invading yet another platform. Read more

We're sure we'll be hearing a lot from The Pokémon Company this year, as the massive franchise is turning 30 this month and already announced a major spinoff in Pokopia . It's also reasonable to expect news on the next generation sooner rather than later, but first, Jigglypuff might show up at this year's Super Bowl. Yes, really. Read more

A Netease spokesperson has told Eurogamer that statements made by Suda 51 on its generative AI policy are not correct, and that the company continues to work with the technology. Read more

Stardew Valley is about to turn 10 this month and I'm turning to literal dust as I type this sentence. However, that isn't stopping Eric Barone (ConcernedApe) from updating the incredibly successful life/farming sim in big ways. Read more

Despite being approached "many times", Eric 'ConcernedApe' Barone has so far said no to a Stardew Valley film or TV adaptation. However, if David Lynch had offered, it would have probably been a different story. Read more

The Nioh series isn't exactly known for its nuance: there is good and evil, strong and weak, and little in-between. From feuding clans to the machinations of political elites, this binary is at the heart of everything in Team Ninja's pseudo-historical canon. Nioh 3 takes this black-and-white worldview and applies it to the feuding Tokugawa brothers at the start of the Seventeenth Century. Your ch…