Episode 1 of The New Eurogamer Podcast, featuring Quake legend Sujoy Roy, is now available to all. This took a little longer than expected due to faffing with RSS feeds, but you should now be able to find it in all the places you podcast. If you can't, please let me know below. Also, yes, the Eurogamer Podcast is back! But it's slightly different to what we've done before, with a new host - me! - and a new direction. I've decided to move to an interview format instead of a chat show because that's what interests me most. I like sitting people down and hearing about their lives. Some of my best work on the site, in all the many years I've worked here, has come from doing it, so that's what I'm going to be doing here. My first guest is Sujoy Roy, a name you might remember if you were a part of the Quake scene in the 90s. It's the scene Eurogamer originally grew out of, by the way, so it's a fitting place for a new series to begin. But Sujoy Roy wasn't just a Quake person - he was …
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Fortnite adds Dune’s Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya
Yesterday, Fortnite set tongues wagging when it revealed that both Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya would be joining the battle royale via their Dune characters. Artwork for the skins also included one of Dune's big ol' sandworms, though now with Fishstick's head. Long-time Dune fans reacted with typical skepticism as their beloved series was brought into 21st century pop culture. Here's the moment Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya got their first look at their new Fortnite selves: Zendaya & Timothée Chalamet react to their characters in #Fortnite ! @FNBRintel ) pic.twitter.com/4vQ7BE37ge — Fortnite News ? (@FortniteBR) October 18, 2021 This content is hosted on an external platform, which will only display it if you accept targeting cookies. Please enable cookies to view. Manage cookie settings Today, Fortnite's big 18.21 update arrived, with the meat of this year's Fortnitemares Halloween event and a big map change. Over the past few weeks, the island's growing …
Sony testing PS5 beta for easy screenshot sharing in PS mobile app
Sony is testing a limited-release beta for PS5 players to share screenshots and clips through the PlayStation app. The app update will make it far easier for users to access their game media on their phone to share straight to social media, rather than sharing directly from the console with its awkward typing function. Unfortunately, the beta is only available in Japan and Canada for the moment, but PS5 owners in those countries can download the updated app on both iOS and Android. Once enabled, the PS5 will automatically upload all captures to the cloud. They'll then be available to access on the mobile app for 14 days. From there they can be shared on social media, or directly with PSN friends and party members in the app. A limited-release beta enabling PS5 players in Canada and Japan to share their captured screenshots and game clips through PlayStation App is starting to roll out today. For details, check out: https://t.co/afVHXLbJsZ pic.twitter.com/WMVWqHP1GY — …
How Payday Studio Starbreeze Turned Things Around
Starbreeze Studios was in a perilous position several years ago, as it branched into publishing, acquired multiple studios, and planned to develop its own virtual reality headset resulted in company behind Payday spreading itself too thin. With Overkill's The Walking Dead proving to be a financially and critically disastrous game , accusations of insider trading that resulted in a police raid , Starbreeze was facing insolvency by the end of 2018. Since then, the company has dramatically reversed its fortunes thanks to a period of reconstruction that gave it the chance to pay off debts and refocus its efforts to once again become profitable. And it's largely thanks to Payday 2 that Starbreeze is on the road to recovery. "We have some awesome people who have been with the Payday IP throughout its lifecycle who are still with us, but it feels like a new company, a startup, and we're really keen on getting [back on top]," new CEO Tobias Sjögren said to GamesIndustry.Biz . …
Payday 2 Is Still Making Millions Years After Release; Sequel Teased
Payday 2 is doing well for Starbreeze Studios despite bad financial results for the company otherwise. The Swedish developer and publisher behind games such as The Darkness and Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons , didn't have a good 2019, to say the least. The company has released its end of year earnings report , and after filing for reconstruction to avoid bankruptcy in December 2018--which resulted in selling off studios and IP, and laying off 25% of its employees--the numbers don't make for pretty reading. Starbreeze's loss before tax in 2019 was 452.4 million SEK (which amounts to $46.9 million). Considering it didn't release any new games throughout the year because it was reorganising to remain solvent, a significant loss isn't too surprising. Despite this, however, net sales increased by 20% to 280 million SEK ($29.8 million), of which Payday 2 accounted for 109.4 million SEK ($11.3 million). This was fueled, in part, by the release of new content for Payday 2 in October …