The COVID-19 pandemic sent the world into lockdown, and the entertainment industry into a tailspin. The movie-going experience is in limbo, streaming services are grabbing anything still on the shelf to package as fresh content, and everything from films to TV to games have been bumped due to the hardships of production with remote pipelines. […]
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands will be released on November 23, 2020, at 3pm PT/6pm ET/11pm GMT, a little less than a month than its last set release date of October 27.John Hight, executive producer of World of Warcraft, wrote a message to the community alongside unveiling a new story trailer, thanking fans for their patience […]
Far Cry 6 has been pushed back into the next fiscal year, according to Ubisoft in their latest financial earnings.In its quarterly earnings report with investors, Ubisoft revealed that due to the impact of COVID-19, Far Cry 6 and Rainbow Six Quarantine have been moved to the Fiscal Year 2021-22. For Ubisoft, the company begins […]
Sony’s long-in-development Uncharted movie adaptation finally began shooting earlier this year. Now filming on the project is complete, suggesting this feature will actually see the light of day. The movie’s official Twitter page shared the news in the following post, complete with a photo of the clapperboard and Nathan Drake’s ring. Check it out in the […]
Summary The third game in Ubisoft’s open-world series is available now. Watch Dogs: Legion takes place in a dystopian London in the near future. If you buy the game on Xbox One, you can upgrade to the next-gen version at no additional cost. Watch Dogs: Legion is out now, giving players on Xbox One the […]
While the wait continues for Cyberpunk 2077, Dark Horse Direct and CD Projekt Red debuting another exclusive new art print inspired by this futuristic world. Check out the slideshow gallery below for an exclusive look at this lithograph, which is designed by artist Rian Gonzales and features the pop star character Lizzy Wizzy. [widget path=”global/article/imagegallery” […]
Annapurna Interactive, the publisher of Outer Wilds, Sayonara Wild Hearts, and many more acclaimed games, has announced the formation of an internal development studio.There’s currently no word on the studio’s first project nor a name for the studio, but it is being formed in Los Angeles, California, with team members being sought for roles on […]
Microsoft has revealed the next set of Xbox Games With Gold titles that will be free in November and it will be the first lineup to hit the Xbox Series X and Series S.Despite these being the first Xbox Games With Gold for Xbox Series X and Series S, the lineup doesn’t include any next-gen […]
Having built a reputation on importing, streaming, and curating anime, Crunchyroll has spent the last year rolling out its own slate of originals. The next show, Onyx Equinox, feels like it could only exist in the nexus of mature animation. Created by Sofia Alexander, the show centers on an Aztec boy named Izel, who finds […]
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity has a new eShop demo available for download, which gives players a taste of the upcoming hack-and-slash game. While much of the demo has you fighting through droves of Bokoblins, the opening of the demo teases some tantalizing possibilities for the entirety of the game. In the initial cutscene, Age […]
Pokémon Sword and Shield’s Crown Tundra introduces the Galarian version of the old-school legendary birds, Zapdos, Moltres, and Articuno. In a triumph, Game Freak has captured the magic of tracking down these creatures from the original games. But once you have Zapdos, you come to find out that the thunder-based bird is a little different […]
Xbox Live Gold subscribers and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members will get four free games in November as part of the Xbox Games With Gold program. Next month’s games will roll out on Nov. 1 with third-person stealth game Aragami: Shadow Edition for Xbox One and original Xbox game Full Spectrum Warrior. Coming later in […]
Bluepoint Games and Sony have released the second gameplay trailer for Demon’s Souls. The new footage runs just under six minutes in length, showcasing gameplay from the Stonefang Tunnel. Demon’s Souls‘ Flamelurker is also on display in the latest trailer, looking as fiery as ever. See all of the above and more in action via […]
NBA 2K21 on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series will introduce The W, the first-ever single-player career mode to feature a women’s professional league. The next-gen version of 2K Sports’ flagship will also allow players to direct a WNBA team, or the entire league, in a franchise mode called MyWNBA. “Being able to recognize yourself […]
Bungie released the Destiny 2: Beyond Light launch trailer on Thursday morning, less than two weeks from the expansion’s Nov. 10 release date. And while the trailer does include a bunch of Destiny 2 gameplay set to an orchestral cover of the Rolling Stones’ “Paint It Black,” we also get a look at some of […]
Horror can be hard to get right in an interactive story. When you have the freedom to make your own decisions it can inadvertently interrupt the building moods and provocative themes the genre is built on, but developer Supermassive has proven before that it can still tell a (mostly) cohesive story no matter what players […]
The November Games with Gold lineup is here! On the Xbox One, and the soon to be released Xbox Series X|S, dispatch your adversaries from the shadows in Aragami: Shadow Edition, and test your shooter skills in the aquatic world of Swimsanity! And for our classic lineup via Backward Compatibility, be all you can be […]
Popular Pokemon-like Creature Collection MMO, Temtem, is making its console debut exclusively on the PlayStation 5 in form of Early Access. Starting December 8th, PS5 owners will be able to access four of the game’s six islands with a 30+ hour campaign in which they can capture over 100 unique Tems. Cross-play will be enabled. “The whole […]
Earlier this year, Hideo Kojima posted an image of concept art that suggested he may be working on a Death Stranding sequel – he’s now told IGN that it doesn’t represent “major plans, but just fragments of new ideas.”As part of the interviews for our new video, How Death Stranding Foresaw Our Future, we asked […]
Unfortunately, this is happening yet again. Some gamers have taken it upon themselves to send death threats to game developers. This time it’s CD Projekt RED devs who are on the receiving end of the hateful behavior. Cyberpunk 2077 Senior Game Designer, Andrzej Zawadzki, began receiving the disturbing messages after the studio announced the game’s most recent delay. […]
The official website for Final Fantasy 16 launched Thursday morning, including tons of details expanding on information from the reveal trailer. For one, we learn the protagonist’s name: Clive Rosfield. He is indeed the older brother of the red-wearing child from the trailer, Joshua Rosfield. There’s also Jill Warrick, a childhood friend to the Rosfield […]
A new image discovered by ResetEra users reveals that a cloud version of Resident Evil 3 Remake could be coming to the Nintendo Switch. Nintendo has dabbled in cloud gaming to bring games that likely otherwise wouldn’t be playable on the Switch to the console. It began with Resident Evil 7 in 2018 and was […]
Sony will seemingly continue to release new PS4 games for the next few years, after SIE CEO Jim Ryan explained that it’s “crucial” to keep the console’s huge audience of owners “engaged and happy”.Speaking to GamesIndustry, Ryan explained that the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic – and the boost given to many gaming brands as […]
Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO, Jim Ryan, has said that the company will continue to expand development studios organically but will consider “selective” mergers and acquisitions where they make sense. In an interview with Reuters, Ryan said that AAA development is “incredibly complicated and difficult,” and Sony has learned “many lessons over many years” that all […]
Play as your favorite Manga hero, check out an all-new season of your favorite shooter, and stalk your prey or be the stalked, all in this weekend’s Free Play Days. Jump Force, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, and Dead by Daylight: Special Edition are available for Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members to play from […]
Update 1.70 is out now for SIE Bend Studio’s apocalyptic action title, Days Gone. This is no ordinary patch, though. The update clocks in at a whopping 25GB, preparing the game for PlayStation 5‘s backward compatibility offerings. According to the minimal patch notes, Update 1.70 addresses various bugs, improves frame rate, and tackles Days Gone’s […]
Over the weekend, I got together with friends — via Discord — and carved pumpkins. Each October, I always seem to forget how messy and hard pumpkin carving is; typically, I end up giving up halfway through. This year, I persisted, and actually carved my favorite ghost-type Pokémon into a massive, massive pumpkin. I immediately […]
Sony has announced that PlayStation VR users who intend to buy a PlayStation 5 can submit a request to receive a free PlayStation camera adaptor that’ll enable them to play games that are supported on the next-gen console. Folks in the United States, Canada, and Mexico can request an adaptor through this link, and those […]
As PC gamers, we know that customization and control of your games and your machine is core to the gaming experience. It’s why we’ve continued to evolve Xbox Game Bar and we’re sharing some new tools that help you manage resources and performance without ever leaving your game! Just press Win+G to bring up the […]
Demon’s Souls, the latest remake from Shadow of the Colossus (PS4) developer Bluepoint Games, is hitting the PS5 launch day, and with it reviving the start of the modern Soulsborne genre. But in bringing the PS3 classic to life after so many games in the genre, both developed by original devs FromSoftware and others, Bluepoint […]
It has been an honor to work on such a legendary and beloved title as Demon’s Souls. We understand how much it means to all of you because it means so much to us. And that’s why it is with great excitement (and a little trepidation) that we present to you our newest gameplay trailer. […]
More than a decade after Demon’s Souls was released on PlayStation 3, where it delighted, perplexed, and infuriated players, a new take on the game is coming to PlayStation 5. Developer Bluepoint Games, which created 2017’s Shadow of the Colossus remake, is rebuilding Demon’s Souls from the ground up. It’s a glossier, more refined version […]
Bethesda Game Studios director Todd Howard has said it’s “hard to imagine” The Elder Scrolls 6 as a fully Xbox-exclusive game in a new interview that touches on many aspects of ZeniMax’s acquisition by Microsoft.In the interview, GamesIndustry‘s James Batchelor posed the idea that seeing The Elder Scrolls 6 as exclusive was hard to imagine, […]
Abzû creator Giant Squid and publisher Annapurna Interactive have opened digital preorders for the studio’s next title, The Pathless. The game, priced at $39.99, is now available to preorder for PS4 and Ps5 on the PlayStation Store. In addition, PC players can pre-purchase a copy on the Epic Games Store. But digital storefronts aren’t the […]
Watch Dogs 2’s lead actor, Ruffin Prentiss, has not been asked to reprise his role as Marcus Holloway for Watch Dogs Legion, all but confirming that the character will not be returning in the new game anytime soon. After the announcement of the return of original Watch Dogs star Aiden Pearce in Watch Dogs Legion, […]
Game characters – and leading game characters in particular – are so often built as a vessel for players to fill out that they end up, paradoxically, lacking much character at all. Watch Dogs 2’s Marcus Holloway was a very different kind of lead, a character that displayed a consistently sympathetic flicker between brash confidence […]
Square Enix has detailed the six realms of Final Fantasy 16’s world of Valisthea, providing us with more information about the game’s setting.As we learned from the game’s teaser website, Valisthea is a land “studded with colossal mountains of glittering crystal called Mothercrystals.” These Mothercrystals provide aether to the people of Valisthea, and wars have […]
An article written by Square Enix Producer Naoki Yoshida has detailed the world and story of Final Fantasy XVI, and introduced us to heroes Clive, Joshua, and Jill.You can read the post in full over on the PlayStation Blog, where you can check out some artwork from the game and learn more about the motivations […]
Hello everyone! This is Naoki Yoshida, producer for Final Fantasy XVI. Everyone here in the development team is currently working together on a massive scale to bring you an all-new game worthy of the Final Fantasy name. Our next major announcement is planned to take place in 2021, but ahead of that, we revealed the […]
Last Edited: 26 Oct 2020 8:09 pm Your goal here is to locate all of the ingredients for ammo. Hint: Read all of the notes in [[The Arsenal]]. SOLUTION ALERT: below are step-by-step solutions on how to do this. Once inside, head down the stairs. Continue straight on and you’ll end up in the arsenal. […]
Last Edited: 27 Oct 2020 9:37 pm This portion of the IGN guide provides tips for what to do first in Watch Dogs Legion. Tips: Things to Do First Get the Infiltrator Spiderbot. Near the start of the game you’re prompted to get one of your first Gadgets. Get the Spiderbot. They let you infiltrate […]
In this Watch Dogs: Legion guide, we’ll explain how to build a respectable team of DedSec Operatives. We’ll cover the basic of how a team works in Watch Dogs: Legion, how to recruit new members, what to look for while recruiting, when to stop recruiting, and how to remove people from your team. Why you […]
And some related news as well. The next Neo-Geo Pocket Color game on Switch is another portable fighter. The Last Blade: Beyond the Destiny, originally released on SNK’s portable in 2000, is now available for US$7.99 or equivalent on the eShop. Beyond the Destiny features 16 characters (9 unlockable from the start) and two special […]
Last Edited: 29 Oct 2020 1:17 am Poipole is an optional Legendary Pokemon available in Pokemon Sword and Shield’s Crown Tundra DLC. This page covers how to catch Poipole and how to evolve it. In order to obtain Poipole, you’ll need to have completed the Crown Tundra‘s story. This means completing Legendary Clue 1, Legendary […]
Xbox is leaning heavily into the memes by not only acknowledging the fact that its next-gen console looks like a refrigerator, but now it is actually giving away an Xbox Series X-themed refrigerator. There’s even an official world premiere video for the kitchen monolith.Announced via Xbox’s official Twitter account, the Xbox Series X Fridge is […]
Sony sent me a PS5 early, a package that I had to be up at 7 am to sign for. We’ll have plenty more to come soon enough, but first I want to talk about the experience of opening the box. Opening a new piece of tech for the first time is an adventure! It’s […]
Path of Exile’s 3.13 end-game expansion has been delayed until January because, as the developers explain in a new blog post, the original release date now coincides with Cyberpunk 2077’s new release date.“Yesterday, CD Projekt Red announced that Cyberpunk 2077 will now be released on December 10,” designer Chris Wilson writes in a new blog […]
Sony’s recent updates to the PS4, web-based PlayStation Store, and existing PlayStation apps have all been in preparation of a new more unified experience for your PSN profile. The new PlayStation App, available on iOS and Android, allows you to handle all of your essential PlayStation functions (besides playing the games) within one shared space. […]
On this week’s episode of IGN’s weekly PlayStation show, Podcast Beyond!, host Jonathon Dornbush is joined by Brian Altano, Max Scoville, and Mitchell Saltzman to discuss our first hands-on experience with the PS5. We have the PS5, so we offer a look and description of the hardware, and our thoughts on the Cooling Springs level […]
Nippon Ichi Software’s latest game, Mad Rat Dead, is a quirky mash-up of two very different genres – a platforming adventure game with rhythm-based controls. You are in control of a lab rat who has spent his whole life in a cage being experimented upon. After finally coming to the end of his miserable existence […]
