Robert Purchese

A Shrek-like, very green but human-looking character, stroking their chin and looking thoughtful. They've got one of those awful gilet jackets on that people wear in the countryside - a sleeveless puffer - and they have buzzed hair. And they're radioactive green - did I mention that? It's so cursed, this image. So cursed.

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What we've been playing - old brands revitalised, ageing classics, and cursed character creators

A few of the things that have us hooked this week.

Aug. 23, 2024 Robert Purchese

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A dingy, dirty bedroom in the dark, illuminated only by a flashlight. It's the sort of thing you'd see in a horror game, except this is a farming simulator horror game. Weird, huh?

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Wishlisted | Playing one of Gamescom's strangest genre mashups in We Harvest Shadows: a farming simulator horror

Trying not to crop myself.

Aug. 21, 2024 Robert Purchese

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A dark image simple but scary 3D character holding a club aloft in a dark room. They are Granny, the eponymous monster in a mobile game. They're coming to get you.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Scary grannies

Oh dear.

Aug. 21, 2024 Robert Purchese

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A photo of Opening Night Live founder Geoff Keighley on stage at Gamescom with the acronym ONL in large letters behind him.

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Gamescom 2024 | The Gamescom Opening Night Live 2024 showcase

Mafia 3! Indy on PS5! Molyneux! Borderlands 4!

Aug. 20, 2024 Robert Purchese

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A close-up product shot of the Quell fitness equipment. It comprises two handheld controllers with a thumbstick and face buttons on, one sensor device, a charging dock for all of them, and then a neoprene belt that fixes around your midriff. Not pictured: resistance bands that can toughen the workout.

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Quell kicked my bum harder than Ring Fit, but is there space for a new gaming fitness obsession?

Here comes a new challenger.

Aug. 18, 2024 Robert Purchese

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A photo of Bertie in a vest and shorts with a fitness gaming device strapped around his waist and arms. It's called Quell. Bertie is smiling and has a visible t-shirt tan.

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What we've been playing - fitness games, old classics, and Dungeons & Dragons

A few of the things that have us hooked this week.

Aug. 16, 2024 Robert Purchese

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A masculine-looking character, viewed from behind, hunched over a computer in a dark, grey office.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Offices

Lift off.

Aug. 14, 2024 Robert Purchese

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A close-up of a huge brain-like, tentacled mind flayer face in Baldur's Gate 3.

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Supporters | Let's get evil in Baldur's Gate 3: The beginning of the end

Part 9.

Aug. 11, 2024 Robert Purchese

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A screenshot from 7 Days to Die, showing a first-person perspective of a person holding a hunting knife as a bulbous rotten zombie charges towards them. There's a feminine zombie nearby with their arms outstretched as if hungry for brains. Perhaps they are.

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What we've been playing - games that refuse to die, superb interactive fiction, and The End

A few of the things that have us hooked this week.

Aug. 9, 2024 Robert Purchese

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A huge, spiny, tusked, toothed monstrosity faces the camera. Facing it and looking up from beneath is a small, top-hatted character with pointy ears. It's Baldur's Gate 3's demon butler looking upon the Slayer.

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The making of the Dark Urge in Baldur's Gate 3

How Larian honoured BioWare's story while creating its "most heroic" playthrough yet.

Aug. 8, 2024 Robert Purchese

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A screenshot of the legendary browser-based sprinting game QWOP. It's a game where the keyboard keys Q W O and P control individual thighs and calves. It's bastardly hard to coordinate your limbs and moving forward with purpose.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Sprints

Get set, go.

Aug. 7, 2024 Robert Purchese

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Illustration artwork for the Inside Eurogamer podcast. It shows - in very simple shapes - a purple radio with a smiley face on it. A friendly radio, if you will. Around it, blue and white and purple circles decorate a turquoise background.

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Supporters | Podcast: We've got two new feature series heading your way

Word.

Aug. 5, 2024 Robert Purchese

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A pixelart image of a feminine character running towards the screen in a dark and red-hued woods. Rather you than me.

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Supporters | Yearly Supporters, we've got a Pixel Pulps Collection giveaway for you

The best things come in threes.

Aug. 4, 2024 Robert Purchese

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Bertie's paladin Percy raising a stein of beer to the camera. An eerie pale green glow surrounds him.

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What we've been playing - changing perceptions, persevering, and making the familiar feel new

A few of the things that have us hooked this week.

Aug. 2, 2024 Robert Purchese

145 comments

A paper, cloud-shaped cut out with a cloud containing a question mark drawn in the middle. It's hovering above sky-blue background.

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Supporters | Inside Eurogamer: Do you have any questions for us?

Discussing new feature series, and welcoming Katharine to the fold.

Aug. 1, 2024 Robert Purchese

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A masculine character bobs in blue water with a floating jar nearby. We see the character from the back and they are topless. The jar has a baby in. It's Death Stranding.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Places to swim

Splish, splash, splosh.

July 31, 2024 Robert Purchese

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Lucy in her Vault Dweller ensemble and Maximus in his Power Armour in Amazon's Fallout adaptation

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What we've been playing - oil rigs, court cases, and great adaptations

A few of the things that have us hooked this week.

July 26, 2024 Robert Purchese

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The El Presidente protagonist character from the Tropico series of games. They're white-skinned with fairly bushy black beard, and they have aviator sunglasses and a military dress suit and hat on. Behind them, a tropical paradise has skyscrapers and power plants on.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Presidents

The make-believe kind.

July 24, 2024 Robert Purchese

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Meeting the people of PEGI: talking age ratings, gambling, and why their famous voice only got €200

"We're not a group of corporate men in suits trying to stop everybody's fun."

July 24, 2024 Robert Purchese

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A screenshot from The Invincible, in which we see in first-person as the player reaches out to touch the domed head of a chrome robot in front of us.

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What we've been playing - space mysteries, From's kind game, and Bertie's Gate 3

A few of the things that have us hooked this week.

July 19, 2024 Robert Purchese

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A screenshot from the visual novel-style game Vampire Therapist. In it, we see the upper body of a fairly typical looking cowboy - a rugged old white man with a large moustache, longish hair and a cowboy hat and waistcoat and shirt on. He - Sam - looks uncomfortable. Maybe it's because he's standing in a red-lit goth club.

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Vampire Therapist asks: can a game really teach the fundamentals of therapy?

Freud or fraud?

July 19, 2024 Robert Purchese

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A close-up photograph of a black leather saddle and silver metal stirrup.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Mounts

Stirrup the discourse.

July 17, 2024 Robert Purchese

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A close-up of Bertie's blonde-haired, masculine human paladin in Baldur's Gate 3. They are messed up. They've got black veins crisscrossing their face and blood all over them, and their eyes glow a menacing red.

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Supporters | Let's get evil in Baldur's Gate 3: Orin and a Bhaal-oody family reunion

Part 8.

July 13, 2024 Robert Purchese

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A side-on screenshot of a mindflayer character called The Emperor in Baldur's Gate 3. They are topless so we can see their wiry, muscled body. Their squid-like apendages from their mouth tumble down over their reclining body. It's quite hot.

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Supporters | Game of the Week: The secret to Baldur's Gate 3's success is fanfiction

Just give me ursine.

July 12, 2024 Robert Purchese

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A very colourful, 80s cartoon-like piece of artwork for the game Anger Foot. It shows the game's main character on the left hand side of the screen, leaping into a group of enemies on the right hand side, foot first.

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What we've been playing - door kicking, cursed oil rigs, and surprisingly still-powerful old games

A few of the things that have us hooked this week.

July 12, 2024 Robert Purchese

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