UPDATE 9/10/24: Just a quick update to let you know Sony is now selling those refurbished PS5 consoles via PlayStation Direct.
These refurbished consoles are promised to “work like new”, and retail at £389.99. Otherwise, Amazon discounted new PS5 slim consoles for £419.99 right now as well.
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ORIGINAL 11/9/2024: If the recently-announced PS5 Pro is a little too pricey for you but you have been looking to get your hands on a PlayStation 5 at some point, there is a significantly cheaper option on the horizon.
Sony is primed to start selling refurbished PS5 consoles, which it promises will be “as good as new” (although the company does note its refurbished products “may have minor cosmetic imperfections”).
While the PS5 …

Ubisoft’s efforts to improve the Star Wars Outlaws experience continue today with arrival of its newest update, this time promising further stealth tweaks, speeder improvements, performance and stability optimisations, and more.

Title Update 1.2, as the latest update is officially known, weight in at 3.8GB on PS5, 4.71GB on Xbox Series X/S, and 5.6GB on PC. Its primary goal, according to Ubisoft’s release notes, is “improving the camera on your speeder and its responsiveness”, as well as “other tweaks to ensure your adventures are smoother and more rewarding.”

Top of its list of notable changes, though, are those aforementioned stealth tweaks. Star Wars Outlaws’ previous Title Update 1.1.2 already made some initial changes to the games’s stealth sequences – w…

The Case of the Golden Idol is getting a little bit of a makeover.
Developer Color Gray Games has detailed a new Redux version of its detective murder mystery game, and it’s set for Steam and Switch.
This Redux version of Case of the Golden Idol will overhaul the game’s UI and add a new hint system. It will also offer 13 new localisations, readability and save improvements, and “dozens more” quality-of-life changes. All of this will make for a “much more seamless and enjoyable experience”, the developer said, particularly highlighting Steam Deck.

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Throne and Liberty – the latest South Korean free-to-play fantasy MMO to get a western release courtesy of Amazon Games – is off to a strong start this week, hovering near the top of Steam’s concurrent charts (albeit still behind that infernal Banana game) despite mixed reviews.

Currently, Throne and Liberty – which promises exploration and “massive-scale combat” for “thousands of players at once” across a “dynamic” open world – is Steam’s sixth most played game, with 251K concurrent players according to SteamDB. That puts it just behind Black Myth: Wukong, Banana, PUBG, and perennial Steam favourites Dota 2 and Counter-Strike 2.

It’s a strong start for Throne and Liberty, but its early launch week peak of 326,377 concurrent players pales in comparison to Ama…

UPDATE 1/10/24 9am UK: Today brings fresh condemnation from Google of Epic’s latest legal foray. A statement this morning from Dave Kleidermacher, VP Engineering, Android Security and Privacy, shared with Eurogamer, describes the litigation against Google and Samsung as “dangerous”.

“Epic’s latest lawsuit is a meritless and dangerous move,” Kleidermacher said. “Google did not request that Samsung create their Auto Blocker feature.”

Epic has argued that Samsung’s introduction of a new security feature, Auto Blocker, unfairly restricts competition by dissuading users from downloads made outside of Google and Samsung’s own stores.

“While Android allows sideloading, Google and the security community have warned users for years about the real risks associated with …

Microsoft has announced the next roster of titles set to join Xbox Game Pass in October. (Can you believe it’s October already? No, me neither.)

Headlining this month’s first crop of additions is Sifu, the kung fu combat action game that we dubbed as “elegant” in Eurogamer’s Sifu review.

The full list of Xbox Game Pass titles for October 2024 is as follows:

MLB The Show 24 (console) – 2nd October
Open Roads (console) – 2nd October
Sifu (cloud, console and PC) – 2nd October
Mad Streets (cloud, console and PC) – 7th October
Inscryption (cloud, console and PC) – 10th October

Eurogamer Newscast: When it costs £700, who exactly is the PS5 Pro for?

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Microsoft has shared an update on its sustainability efforts on Xbox from the past three years. In that time, the company has reduced its emissions by over 3bn car miles – that’s over 1.2m metric tons of CO2e.
The reduction is largely due to two initiatives. The first is players switching to the Xbox console’s energy saving options to reduce their carbon footprint by optimising updates and downloads to a time when renewable energy can be utilised.
That also includes the Shutdown (energy saving) option, which reduces power consumption while the console is turned off. This can reduce power use by 20 times compared with Sleep mode.

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Concord game director Ryan Ellis has reportedly stepped down after the beleaguered 5v5 shooter was yanked offline amid apparently disastrous sales, with staff at developer Firewalk Studios said to be in limbo while they await Sony’s decision on the future of the game.

Concord was removed from sale earlier this month, just two weeks after its launch on PS5 and PC, with Sony offering full refunds to players. In a statement released at the time, Ellis wrote, “While many qualities of the experience resonated with players, we also recognise that other aspects of the game and our initial launch didn’t land the way we’d intended.”

Ellis added that Firewalk would “explore options” and “determine the best path ahead” once the game was offline, but no further statemen…