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Chris Tapsell
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Deputy Editor of @Eurogamer. I look after reviews & features (and sometimes still write them!). Recovering guides nerd. Limit Break mentor. He/him.
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    Chris Tapsell
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    Oct 1, 2024
    Cyberpunk 2077 had one of the most notorious launches in video games. But four years on, after Phantom Liberty and many, many updates, that nightmare feels like the distant past. This is the story of what went wrong, and how the studio turned it around:
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    Saving Cyberpunk 2077: How CD Projekt Red recovered from one of video games' most disastrous...
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    Aug 23, 2024
    Reading the replies here: I never ever want to be sneering about this because it’s a serious failure of government and society, but it feels like an under-reported issue that a lot of adults are now having real difficulty with being able to read
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    Aug 23, 2024
    Spare a thought for poor Concord, a kind and earnest shooter sent out to die. eurogamer.net/spare-a-though…
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    Feb 17, 2021
    Xbox Game Pass is increasingly looking like the future of gaming - or at least Microsoft’s version of it. But what’s the real impact? Is it really sustainable? And what do the people who make and sell games really think of it?
    Is Xbox Game Pass too good to be true?
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    Chris Tapsell
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    Sep 12, 2024
    So far the ABK aquisition has resulted in several thousand fewer human beings working in video games and... what else?
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    Sep 12, 2024
    Microsoft lays off further 650 Xbox staff, no games cancelled or studios closed eurogamer.net/microsoft-lays…
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    Chris Tapsell
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    Apr 22, 2023
    I swear Dril vs Musk is like the Ents turning up to fight Saruman. The soul of an ecosystem comes to its defence, against some horrible industrialist and his fucking orcs
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    Chris Tapsell
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    May 30, 2018
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    Masuda takes the stage... "Pokémon New Title Announcement Conference"
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    Chris Tapsell
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    May 30, 2018
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    One thing I can say... it might not be what you’d expect
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    Chris Tapsell
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    Jul 14, 2016
    #PokemonGOuk is a very different game when you live in the countryside...
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    Chris Tapsell
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    Aug 29, 2023
    I'm reviewing Starfield! Only I'm not at the moment, because Bethesda has refused to provide Eurogamer, and a select few other outlets, with code. More here:
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    Eurogamer and Starfield
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    Chris Tapsell
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    Nov 14, 2022
    Every year I try not to have a public take but not this one. I cannot understand the legitimacy given to TGAs & I find the nominations every year to be a massive indictment of the wider state of games media & how easily we can be wowed by particle physics and a marketing budget.
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    Chris Tapsell
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    Aug 23, 2024
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    The article - and headline - is about a game that is quite good but ultimately dealt an impossible hand. The replies are about an imaginary different headline that says the opposite? I get it’s nothing remotely new, but sometimes I can’t help but stop and think: man.
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    Chris Tapsell
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    Nov 10, 2019
    Sorry to quote-dunk but just for the sake of stopping patent disinformation: this is an enormously dishonest and disingenuous tweet. It’s the guides section at the very bottom of the page - RPS is one of the few major sites working incredibly hard to bring attention to indies.
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    Chris Tapsell
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    Apr 29, 2021
    Here's my review of Returnal. If I could only say one thing here it would be please read past the badge eurogamer.net/articles/2021-…
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    Chris Tapsell
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    May 30, 2023
    Hello! I'm on the Diablo 4 review for Eurogamer and we're holding off for a bit. TLDR: no shop, no live public servers, and no chance we'll rush our review because of an artificial deadline means we're going to take a bit longer.
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    Where's our Diablo 4 review?
    You might've spotted some Diablo 4 reviews going live right about now, but unfortunately there won't be one from Euroga…
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