Phew! It barely feels like seven days have passed since last time, but here we are again with another Weekly Digest – in which we recap some of the highlights you might have missed over this past week on Eurogamer. And what a busy one it’s been! Connor’s been over in Paris for Evo France, reporting from the long-running fighting tournament’s inaugural European event; Jim on the video team has been delving into the decade-long (and counting) development of the promising Elder Scrolls total conversion mod Skyblivion; Tom has had his hands all over the ROG Xbox Ally X, and we’ve had a load of reviews, from the surprisingly peppy Pokémon Legends: Z-A to Double Fine’s sublime Keeper. For this week’s full recap, read on!
The Big Question – Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 vs Battlefield 6, or is there a third option waiting to strike?
What would a new week be without a fresh Big Question to ponder? And this time Eurogamer editor-in-chief Tom Orry donned his battle helmet to wade into the ever-waging war between the two major military shooters, Call of Duty and Battlefield. The latter’s off to a strong start – much to the undoubted relief of EA’s executive team following the disastrous Battlefield 2042 – while Black Ops 7’s recent closed multiplayer beta received a rather more mixed reception. And amid all this, Tom cheekily revived the eternal question: Call of Duty or Battlefield – or, perhaps, this time there’s a third contender looming? And then as ever, it was over to you.
“The shooter scene has felt stale for some time now,” Tom opined, “with apathy rampant amongst its core playerbase. It’s been a while since something to the tune of PUBG, Fortnite or Apex Legends came along and properly shook up the genre, and extraction shooters, while popular, have never really made the step up from ‘big niche’ to ‘properly mainstream’. [But] Arc Raiders might be the one to do it. A fun twist to all this is that Escape from Tarkov, the biggest extraction shooter out there, is finally leaving its early access period next month too.”
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Evo France proves the younger generation of fighting game pros aren’t just here, they’re thriving
Eurogamer’s Connor Makar this week cast his eye toward the recent Evo France fighting tournament, reporting on the new generation of talent making a name for themselves on the competitive fighting scene. 16-year-old Parisian player Neia, for instance, tore through the Tekken 8 bracket at Evo France, ultimately placing 17th out of 1,169 players – a notable achievement for her second-ever major tournament – while 15-year-old Chilean Ryu player Blaz took second place at Evo.