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IGN Live 2026 Lineup to Include Assassin’s Creed Black Flag, The Legend of Vox Machina, and More

IGN's multi-day in-person fan event is set to showcase the biggest names in games and entertainment. The all ages event will take place June 6th and 7th at the Magic Box in downtown LA and streams globally across IGN platforms. Tickets are on sale now. In the lead-up to the show, we’ll be revealing all of the cool guests, games, shows, movies, and merch that will be on hand to celebrate. Bookmark this page and keep checking back between now and June for a complete list of everything that’s at store for IGN Live. Games, Movies, Shows, and Celebrities Coming to IGN Live (Updating) Newly-Announced Partners Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced from Ubisoft The Legend of Vox Machina Season 4 from Critical Role, Titmouse, and Prime...

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Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced Has Major Changes

Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced, Ubisoft's long-awaited pirate game remake, will feature major changes when it launches on July 9 — with the addition of new story quests and characters, but the removal of several key features. In a detailed presentation on the game attended by IGN, Ubisoft explained that it had decided to focus solely on the single-player story of Black Flag's pirate-turned-Assassin Edward Kenway, meaning that the game's Freedom Cry DLC has not been integrated, its original multiplayer mode has been ditched, and its previous playable modern day sections have been excised. Some small modern day story offering will still be included, it sounded like, though the exact details of this are unclear. One things for...

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Olympus Rangers Announced for PC

Get your first look at the just-announced Olympus Rangers, a creature battler from developer Mechano and publisher Jandusoft that lets you build and fully customize your team, compete in multiple battle modes, and even mod your own avatars, stages, moves, and rules – then upload them to Steam Workshop to share with other players. It even supports 2D sprite and 3D gameplay. Plus, you can take all of your customized creations and compete with friends online or in local multiplayer. The creatures in Olympus Rangers are called Olys, and there are over 60 of them. In battle, a database will allow you to dig into units, moves, abilities, and modifiers in order to help craft your perfect strategy. Mod support is here as well. Check out the...

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Pragmata Now Links to Albert Wesker Memes, After Fan Snaps Up In-Game Website

Pragmata publisher Capcom has left another vacant URL in one of its video games — so, of course, a fan has snapped it up. Earlier this year, fans spotted a domain name referenced within Resident Evil: Requiem that was still available to own. One player quickly bought it up, and used it to host links to their YouTube channel and social media profiles. Speaking to IGN, the domain's new owner said he was surprised Capcom had referenced a domain it did not control (which anyone could buy, and use to host, well, anything) but would give it back if asked. Now, the situation has happened again — this time with a website address spotted in Capcom's newly-launched Pragmata. The address itself is an obvious Easter egg for Resident Evil fans, as...

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Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced Has a $200 Collector's Edition

Ubisoft's pricing for Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced has leaked ahead of the game's official unveiling — and the game will also arrive with a $200 special edition. According to the ever-reliable billbil-kun from Dealabs, Black Flag Resynced will launch on July 9 priced at $59.99 (that's £49.99 or €59.99) for a standard physical copy, or via a $199.99 Collector's Edition (that's £174.99 or €199.99). The Collector's Edition contents are headlined by a large statue of Edward sitting on top of a treasure chest, appropriately holding a big black flag. Eagle-eyed readers will remember that this is the same Black Flag statue that inexplicably popped up on clothing retail app Vinted earlier this year. Truly, every single thing about...

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Crimson Desert Gets Its Biggest Patch Yet, Adds Difficulty Settings, Much-Needed Storage Improvements, and Even Birds as Pets

Crimson Desert developer Pearl Abyss has released update 1.04.00, which makes significant improvements to the game. Chief among them is the addition of difficulty settings, new storage improvements, new pets, keyboard/mouse and controller preset options, new category tabs for the inventory, new skills, improvements to distant scenery quality, and a lot more. It’s worth digging into the details here. Hard difficulty makes it so foot item effects won’t be applied immediately, and will only take effect after the consumption animation is complete. This will make it impossible to recover health by spamming food. Instead, you're going to have to carve out the space and time to do so. In hard difficulty you also take more damage, and the...

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Australian Government Demands to Know What Roblox, Minecraft, Fortnite, and Steam are Doing to Prevent Grooming, Radicalisation

The Australian Government’s eSafety office has formally asked Roblox, Microsoft, Epic, and Valve to specifically outline how their systems are preventing child grooming and the spread of extremism. The eSafety office is an independent agency that was initially established in 2015 to combat youth cyberbullying and the online distribution of child sexual abuse material, but its role has since expanded to cover protections for all Australians from a spectrum of online risks. As per eSafety’s announcement, legally enforceable transparency notices have been issued to the aforementioned companies in the wake of its continuing concerns about platforms like Roblox, Minecraft, Fortnite, and Steam itself “being used by sexual predators to groom...

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The Baseus 20,000mAh 45W Power Bank With Dual USB-C Cables Drops to $21 After Coupon

With the prices on imported goods continuing to rise, I don't see as many 20,000mAh power banks under $25 anymore. Fortunately, there's one such deal today, although the coupon may not last very long. Amazon is currently offering the Baseus 20,000mAh 45W Power Bank for just $20.99 after coupopn code "285SJVCH". Better yet, you don't need to be an Amazon Prime member to get in on the discount. Baseus 20,000mAh 45W USB Power Bank for $21 This Baseus power bank boasts a generous 20,000mAh, or 74Whr battery capacity. If you factor in 80% power efficiency, here are the approximate number of times you can fully recharge each gaming handheld: Nintendo Switch (16Whr) about 3.7 times Nintendo Switch 2 (19Whr) about 3.1 times Steam Deck...

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You Don't Need The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2

AMD released its new processor, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2, and while it's probably (I haven't tested it) the most powerful CPU on a mainstream platform, it's overkill for PC gaming. On the surface, the 9950X3D2 looks remarkably similar to the 9950X3D that preceded it. It's also a 16-core, 32-thread desktop processor built on the Zen 5 architecture, but AMD made a pretty huge change under the hood. With the 9950X3D2, rather than having one layer of 3D V-cache, the X3D2 has, well, two of them, one on each CCD, or Core Complex Die. By adding a second bundle of cache, AMD was able to squeeze 208MB of cache onto the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2, compared to 144MB on the original 9950X3D. More cache means that more data is able to be stored directly on the...

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Halo's Kiki Wolfkill Reveals She's Left Microsoft After 28 Years

More big corporate shakeups are happening inside Microsoft. Kiki Wolfkill, art director, producer, and veteran of the Halo franchise and other big Xbox properties, revealed she's left the company as of April 17. Wolfkill dropped this bombshell on her LinkedIn page (via PC Gamer). She posted the following message: As she mentions in her post, Wolfkill was a mainstay at Microsoft for the better part of three decades. She rose to prominence in 2008 when she joined 343 Industries, eventually becoming 343's Head of Halo Transmedia and Entertainment. That put her in charge of, among other things, the controversial Halo live-action series on Showtime and Paramount+ (check out IGN's Halo Season 2 review for more). In 2022, Wolfkill was...

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Bring Your Worlds to Life with the Ovani Presents The Legendary Launch Bundle

Close your eyes and think of your favourite game. Beyond the graphics and the gameplay, what do you hear? It’s the haunting swell of an orchestra as you enter a new land, the satisfying clink of a menu selection, or the distant, rhythmic hum of a sci-fi engine. Sound isn’t just an addition to a game – it’s the soul of the experience. To help you find that perfect frequency, we are thrilled to introduce Ovani Presents: The Legendary Launch Bundle. As our first-ever dedicated audio collection, we’ve partnered with the sound maestros at Ovani to bring you a massive library of professional-grade, royalty-free assets. With a total value of over $1,000, this bundle gives you the tools to create professional soundscapes for a fraction of the...

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Star Wars Outlaws Drops to Best Price Yet on Switch 2 Ahead of May 4th

Star Wars Day - which lands on May the 4th (be with you) - is coming up much faster than you'd expect, and already we're seeing some fun deals pop up. For those looking for a video game set in a galaxy far, far away to escape into, Amazon has dropped the price of the Gold Edition of Star Wars Outlaws on Nintendo Switch 2 to just $28.02 (see it here). Overall, this is a huge 53% discount from its list price of $59.99, but it's also incredibly close to its lowest-ever price at the retailer. Quite literally just $0.02 away from it, according to price tracker camelcamelcamel. That's a fantastic offer to take advantage of, if I do say so myself. Since it's the Gold Edition, you'll get access to the season pass alongside the base game...

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Pragmata Japan Comedy Reference

There are all sorts of hidden cute moments with Diana and Hugh in Capcom’s Pragmata. But some players have recently spotted a Japanese comedy reference that Diana makes when handling the Globe REM collectable. Pragmata sees you switch between space mercenary Hugh and his human child-like android companion, Pragmata D-I-0336-7, whom he dubs Diana, as they try to escape a lunar base overrun by a hostile AI. As you explore the base, you can collect REMs (Read Earth Memories), 3D holographs of items from back home on Earth that you can give to Diana as presents to decorate the Shelter with. The first REM you come across is a globe. This unmissable item comes with a Japanese comedy reference that eagle-eyed Japanese-speaking commenters on...

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Gaming's New Lara Croft on TV's New Lara Croft

Veteran video game voice Alix Wilton Regan will soon be taking on the role of Tomb Raider’s Lara Croft, but she won’t be the only one. Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner is also scheduled to portray the same character in Prime Video’s adaptation of the series. We had the opportunity to speak to Alix Wilton Regan, who is “really honored to have been trusted with this iconic British character,” and get her take: "I actually know Sophie personally and she will be the most perfect on-camera Lara Croft that you could imagine. She's going to be wonderful." “It did need another iconic British actress to take it on for the television series. So Sophie, to me, is a very natural choice,” Wilton Regan continued: “She also looks like a Grecian...

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'We've Not Seen The Last of Joel,' Says The Last of Us Actor

The Last of Us video game actor Troy Baker has said there's more to come for his character Joel, potentially including "more games." Baker, who played Joel in Naughty Dog's The Last of Us and its sequel, made the remark while discussing the character's impact with fans — something an audience wider than video games has enjoyed with Pedro Pascal's portrayal of the character in HBO's The Last of Us TV series. Warning! Spoilers for The Last of Us video games and TV show follow: Alas, with Joel now dead in the games and the TV show, you'd think that would likely be it for the flannel-wearing hunk — but not so, said Baker, who likened the character to one potentially portrayed by many actors over time. "I hope that Pedro is not the last...

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Hellforged Announced for PC

Developer MoonPyre Studio introduces you to Hellforged, a new loot-focused bullet-hell extraction game that has you fighting off massive waves of demons. It's in development for PC and due out in Q4 2026. MoonPyre describes Hellforged's gameplay like this: "Every run is a tense loot heist. Explore the map to capture locations, unlock chests, take on challenging quests, or risk capturing rifts for endgame resources. In order to secure your hard-earned gear, you have to decide if you are willing to risk it all for even greater rewards or if you would rather recover and return to fight with new equipment next time. The choice is yours!" Check out the announcement trailer above and the first screenshots in the gallery below. You'll hae...

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Helldivers 2 Exo Experts Warbond Revealed

Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has revealed what we can expect from the next premium Warbond, Exo Experts. Helping you "stride with unwavering intent across hostile territory in a march of mech-enhanced Managed Democracy" and "demonstrate elite performance one prosperous hydraulic step at a time," the Exo Experts Warbond drops on April 28. "Machines… Our enemies… But they can also be forces for good, tools at our disposal, and when you need to fight fire with fire it is important to be an Exo Expert," the team teases on the official PlayStation blog. "The Ministry of Defense has authorised the immediate mobilisation of new Exosuits to aid in our ongoing war efforts against the enemies of Managed Democracy." As for what we get...

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Marathon Changes Announced

Marathon has doubled the amount of Depleted Patch Kits (meds) and Depleted Shield Charges (armor) consumables players can carry in a single inventory slot as Bungie fights to make its extraction shooter less punishing for newbies. Update 1.0.6.1, which is now live, addresses several QoL issues that may seem insignificant on paper, but actually make a big difference on the battlefield. For starters, the daily stock limits for Enhanced (green) and Deluxe (blue) Sponsored Kits have been increased, and you can now stack six Depleted Patch Kits and Depleted Shield Charges in a single slot in your inventory, up from 3. We should also see Recruits now drop more patch kits and shield charges "at a much higher rate." Perhaps best of all...

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Alien: Rogue Incursion - Part One Arrives on Nintendo Switch 2 Today

Alien: Rogue Incursion - Part One: Evolved Edition is now officially a Nintendo Switch 2 game, the developer Survios revealed today. The Switch 2 version of the game will incorporate the handheld's mouse controls, switching automatically to precision mouse aiming when the Joy-Con is placed on a surface. It's available on the Nintendo eShop now. Alien: Rogue Incursion - Part One: Evolved Edition originally launched as a VR game in December 2024, followed by a non-VR release on PC and PlayStation 5 on September 30, 2025. In the game, you take the role of ex-Colonial Marine Zula Hendricks as she explores the uncharted planet Purdan and meets the local xenomorphs. At IGN Live last year, Chief Product Officer TQ Jefferson talked about...

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MindsEye Staff Sue Developer

MindsEye staff members are suing developer Build a Rocket Boy, after company bosses reportedly admitted installing secret surveillance software onto employee devices. Back in February, GamesIndustry.biz reported that Build a Rocket Boy (BARB) employees discovered the addition of Teramind employee monitoring software on their computers after their machines began running slower than usual. In a subsequent company meeting, co-CEO Mark Gerhard reportedly acknowledged that the software had been installed, and blamed "the 1% that is the problem" — another reference to his repeated, unproven claims that a handful of staff members were working from within to sabotage the company. While the Teramind software has now been removed, concerns...

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Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred Review

After 2024’s Vessel of Hatred expansion left me dangling off a narrative cliff like a hapless Sanctuary peasant, Lord of Hatred had quite a lot riding on its ability to deliver on that momentum and give me a reason to become hopelessly lost in its loot-filled grind once again. The good news is that it’s done exactly that thanks to a tight, satisfying campaign, two new classes that I’ve already spent dozens of hours experimenting with and min-maxing builds for, and an endgame that’s so loaded with things to do that I occasionally forgot some of the systems even existed. If you’ve been waiting for a reason to dive back into Diablo 4’s particular brand of misery, Lord of Hatred has plenty of compelling reasons to do so. As a proper end to...

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New Dawn of War 4 Adeptus Mechanicus Trailer

Upcoming RTS Dawn of War 4 has a new CGI trailer to reveal the Adeptus Mechanicus, but it was the depiction of Necrons that sparked a debate within the Warhammer 40,000 community. The trailer acts as an introduction to the Adeptus Mechanicus, the Imperium-aligned faction within the Warhammer 40,000 universe that’s made up of cybernetically enhanced, technology-obsessed warrior priests who worship the Omnissiah, aka the Machine God. Things start off well enough, with Magos Dominus Nulpherus-1 and a fellow tech priest descending into what they believe to be a long-buried Necron tomb while on the hunt for lost knowledge. As you’d expect, the Necrons wake up, and based on how well they perform out in the field here, they should have...

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Wolfhound Preview: An 8-Bit Throwback That Has Clearly Studied the Classics

You like Wolfhound, but Wolfhound does not like you. I’m going to write about 1,180 more words about Wolfhound, and most of them are going to orbit around this intrinsic truth. You like Wolfhound because it is fun, colorful, inventive, and well-designed... and Wolfhound hates you for no known reason. It does really hate you though. It hates you and it wants to kill you. It wants you to suffer before you die. It wants to burn down your house and make you watch and salt the soil where your house once stood so nothing will ever grow there. Wolfhound looks you in the eye and then puts out a cigarette on your bare arm. It’s also a lot of fun. Wolfhound is an overt pastiche of NES-era design elements crafted together into one remarkably...

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Invincible VS Roster Guide

Invincible VS could well be the next big fighting game, and it feels like it has been a long time since we had the chance to say that. That is especially true for tie-in games, where only the likes of Dragon Ball really seem to get consistent love. Still, Invincible VS looks like a proper contender. It is a 3v3 fighting game with an impressively large cast, meaning both new players and genre veterans will have plenty of characters to experiment with. But what can you expect from each fighter, and what kind of playstyle do they bring to the table? Let’s dig into it. Invincible (Mark Grayson) Invincible, also known as Mark Grayson, is the titular hero of the series, and the son of a normal mum and a very abnormal dad. He was happily...

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John C. McGinley Warns Rooster Fans: "Everyone Is Expendable" as the Season Ends

Move over Game of Thrones, another HBO show might be ready to axe some of your beloved favorites. A second season of Rooster, the breakout comedy starring Steve Carell, Danielle Deadwyler, John C. McGinley, Phil Dunster, Connie Britton, and more, was recently announced. But a batch of new episodes doesn’t necessarily mean you can expect all of your favorite characters to return, according to McGinley, who portrays Ludlow College president Walter Mann. “As Season 1 progresses in academia at Ludlow College, everyone is expendable,” McGinley said ahead of Rooster’s Episode 7 premiere. “I can tell you [that] without wrecking things since I don't know anything [about Season 2].” McGinley has worked for years with executive producer Bill...

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Crimson Desert Kliff Motion Capture Actor Comments

Most who have played Crimson Desert will be aware of the discussion around main character Kliff and his lack of personality. The gruff Greymane is a man of few words; ‘Alright,’ which he responds with to even the most dramatic of lines of dialogue from other characters, has become a meme within the community. But Kliff’s empty personality is just a part of Crimson Desert’s overall story issues. Certainly, the game has been praised for its open world, combat, and many, many systems. But the story and Kliff himself are generally thought of as the weaker aspects of the game. From IGN's Crimson Desert review: While the world you’ll explore is full of fun stuff to do, the stories you’ll find in it are consistently bad. From the moment...

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Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced Trailer Footage Leaks

It seems there's time for one more Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced leak before the game's big reveal — with part of its trailer now circulating online. The trailer clip shows our first look at in-game footage, featuring pirate hero Edward Kenway, the legendary Blackbeard, ship combat, and lots of explosions. And already, fans have begun lining up the comparisons with the original Black Flag to see how the two versions of the game may compare. The short snippet shows Edward in his iconic pose, cutlasses drawn, then a scene on deck with Blackbeard and his telescope. There's a quick shot of Adéwalé mustering the crew to load the Jackdaw's cannons, before Edward takes the wheel and ship-to-ship combat begins. Kenway's original voice...

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Holy Moly, Crusader Kings 3 Will Let You Play as a Pope

Crusader Kings 3 is getting a new core expansion, By God Alone, and it's going to add playable popes to the Paradox strategy game alongside other new gameplay mechanics to let players influence the church. "For the first time in the Crusader Kings franchise, we're also introducing playable theocracies, allowing you to rise to the power of the Pope himself," said Mikael Andersson, lead designer on the expansion. "By God Alone extends your options of how to engage with your Christian faith and the church behind it. It gives you more strategic options for how to deal with this institution, as well as dealing with other rulers of the same faith as you." By God Alone will arrive in Q3 of this year as a paid expansion, so you've plenty of...

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The CyberPowerPC RTX 5070 Gaming PC With 32GB of DDR5 RAM Drops to $1399, Includes Pragmata

Despite the rising prices of graphics cards and DDR5 RAM, there are still good deals to be found on prebuilt gaming PCs. B&H Photo is offering one such excellent deal this week. The CyberPowerPC Gamer Supreme Liquid gaming PC, featuring a GeForce RTX 5070 GPU, is on sale for just $1399 with free shipping after a $300 off instant discount. This is a well-equipped prebuilt that pairs the GPU with an AMD Ryzen 7 processor and a generous amount of RAM and storage. For a limited time, get a digital download code for Capcom's recently released Pragmata on Steam while supplies last. This promotion ends on May 12. Full details and redemption instructions are on Nvidia.com. Save $300 Off the CyperPowerPC RTX 5070 Gaming PC The CyberPowerPC...

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Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced Reveal Timing Announced

Ubisoft has confirmed when it will officially unveil Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, via a dedicated showcase later this week. The Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced: Worldwide Reveal Showcase will be available to watch this Thursday, April 23 at 9am Pacific / 12pm Eastern / 5pm UK time. Ubisoft is even having a bit of fun here, and branding the event as the full reveal for "gaming's worst kept secret." Assassin's Creed fans will be able to tune in via YouTube at that point and see exactly what Ubisoft has in store for this freshened up version of its beloved pirate game. Already, however, today's announcement offers up one clue: Ubisoft is calling Black Flag Resynced "the iconic solo pirate adventure" — suggesting that the...

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