Arrowhead has released patch 01.004.000 for Helldivers 2, making the Into the Unjust update live and adding a number of new Terminids to fight in-game.
Here’s the official blurb:
The headline addition here is Hive Worlds, which are randomly-generated giant cave systems packed with horrible Terminids. These Hive Worlds offer a new tactical challenge, Arrowhead said, complete with “disgusting” flora and fauna and “advanced” Terminid life.
Holes in the cave roof will allow stratagems to be called down, and destructible walls within the caves let players navigate. “Bring a flashlight!” Arrowhead recommended. New enemies include the wonderfully named Rupture Spewer, the Rupture Warrior, the Rupture Charger, and the Dragonroach...
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Oscar-nominated Canadian actor Graham Greene has died aged 73.
Greene secured an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Lakota medicine man Kicking Bird in Kevin Costner's 1990 epic western, Dances With Wolves.
But he starred in scores of films and TV shows in a career spanning 45 years, including 1992’s Thunderheart, 1994’s Maverick opposite Mel Gibson, and 1995’s Die Hard with a Vengeance, where he played Detective Joe Lambert opposite Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson.
Other notable roles include Arlen Bitterbuck, a Native American man on death row in prison, in 1999’s The Green Mile, and Harry Clearwater in 2009’s The Twilight Saga: New Moon. More recently, Greene played Old Smoke in the second...
Some sales make me wince with buyer's remorse, others make me wonder if the publishers are playing a long game of price limbo. Right now though, I'm looking at a set of discounts that feel almost too good to pass up. If you love keeping your library stacked with proven hits and cult favourites, this deceptively idle Tuesday is actually an absolute treat.
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In retro news, I’m using a Space Pirate plasma blast to light 15 candles on a cake baked for Metroid: Other M, that polarising third-person action entry that tried to morph[ball] together side-scrolling heritage with Team Ninja’s cinematic flair. Back in 2010, the promise of a more story-driven Samus adventure...
Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt has issued a bizarre in-universe tease — with a date set for September 4, later this week. The message has since prompted an array of fan theories — and debates over the franchise's canon.
This afternoon, a message for New United States of America (N.U.S.A.) citizens posted by President Rosalind Myers appeared on the game's social media channels.
Dated September 4, 2025, three days from now, the post asks for "brave netruners" to help defend the N.U.S.A. from a "mounting cybersecurity threat" by taking some kind of recruitment test. What exactly this all means, however, has left fans uncertain.
For starters, some fans are wondering whether the message — which of course in reality has come from CD...
Labor Day deals have arrived to offer shoppers a little taste of savings before the big sale events kick off in the coming months. If you've been looking to stock up on video games, you're in luck: quite a few are on sale right now, including some that are back at their lowest prices yet.
Assassin’s Creed Shadows is one of these deals, with the Limited Edition (and Amazon Exclusive) version for PS5 marked down to $49.99 (see here at Amazon). This discount offers you $20 of savings from its list price of $69.99 and marks a return to its best price so far, according to price tracker camelcamelcamel.
Assassin’s Creed Shadows Down to Just $49.99
A deal like that is worth taking advantage of while it's still live, so if it's been on your...
Sony has announced a PlayStation State of Play broadcast for this week, featuring a deep dive into James Bond game 007 First Light from Hitman maker IO Interactive.
The broadcast is set to air this Wednesday, September 1 at 11am Pacific, 2pm Eastern, or 7pm UK time via PlayStation's YouTube and Twitch channels.
"In this upcoming State of Play, tune in for over 30 minutes of gameplay featuring a playthrough of Bond’s first mission as an MI6 recruit," Sony wrote of its upcoming presentation. "The action includes everything from high-speed car chases to on-foot stealth sequences and shootouts. Stay tuned after the playthrough for insights from IO Interactive on the intense espionage gameplay."
PlayStation made no mention of any other...
The fate of PlayStation's upcoming live-service game Fairgames is once again under scrutiny as its creative director, Daniel Drapeau, has confirmed he has left Haven Studios to join Warner Bros. Games Montreal.
It's the second high-profile exit of the summer, with ']studio founder Jade Raymond also exiting back in May, several weeks after an external playtest reportedly met a lukewarm response.
"As of this week, I joined WB Games Montreal Inc. as creative director," Drapeau announced in a LinkedIn post. "I can't wait to start this wonderful adventure with all the great people here at the studio. I also want to particularly thank Yves Lachance, Logan A. Lesage, and Bryan Theberge for their trust and support throughout the process. Now...
Hollow Knight: Silksong will retail for just $19.99.
While there's been a lot of rumors over the last few days — including a $20 price on Gamestop (since removed) that was later corroborated by noted leaker Billbil-kun — developer Team Cherry has now confirmed it, revealing the game will retail for $19.99 in the U.S., €19.99 in Europe, and ¥2300 in Japan.
It's an eye-catching price, not least because many publishers are quietly testing more and more expensive games. Xbox recently priced the highly-anticipated The Outer Worlds 2 for $80 — the first of its games to break the typical $70 ceiling — but after a furious backlash, ended up dropping the pre-order price to $70 "in line with current market conditions."
That's not all, either...
There’s nothing like a good sale to remind me that my wallet fears September more than tax season. Every platform is putting up tempting discounts and some of the titles are impossible to ignore. If you’re anything like me, you’ll probably start adding these to cart faster than you can rationalise the backlog. And I fear that you and I are destined to do this discount dance for the whole entire week...
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In retro news, I’m writing in a big 20th card for PlayStation Portable, the handheld powerhouse that I personally played the absolute analogue nub off at launch. To do so meant dropping 429 dollarydoos (A$699 today) on a Value Pack, and then I was on-the-go gaming like...
PC gaming is more popular than ever. You have traditional desktop PCs, handheld PCs like ROG Ally or Steam Deck, and the best of both worlds, gaming laptops. Out of all gaming laptop brands, Alienware is one of the most recognizable. If you're someone who has thought about purchasing a gaming laptop before but never ended up doing so, the latest IGN Rewards giveaway could be your chance to take one home. IGN has teamed up with Delta Force and Alienware to offer one lucky reader a Delta Force x Alienware 16 Aurora Gaming Laptop.
Win a Custom Delta Force x Alienware 16 Aurora Gaming Laptop
Valued at $1549.99, this custom Alienware 16 Aurora Gaming Laptop has everything you need to play the latest PC games wherever you are. One of the...
We've rounded up the best deals for Saturday, August 30, below, so don't miss out on these limited-time offers.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 for $34.99
As part of Amazon's extensive Labor Day deals, you can score Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4 for its lowest price ever. In our 8/10 review of the game, we wrote, "Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 proves yet again the series’ over-the-top skateboarding formula is totally timeless, even if some of the changes to THPS4 miss the mark and the soundtrack has been fumbled."
Save on the Magic: The Gathering - Final Fantasy Commander Deck Bundle
This Magic: The Gathering - Final Fantasy Commander Deck Bundle packs in all 4 decks available, and you can save over $100 this weekend at Amazon. The Final...
If you’ve played more than a few role-playing games, you’ll know how your hero's journey typically plays out. In the prologue, a terrible thing will happen – an event that demands you move quickly to prevent an apocalypse or defeat an all-encompassing evil. In the following hours, you’ll spend 90% of your time completely ignoring that impending threat, instead helping randomers you met in the pub and collecting loot from dungeons. That’s okay, though, because the big bad will always wait for you. The world perpetually teeters on the brink of extinction until you’re ready to fix it.
Not so in The Blood of Dawnwalker, the first RPG from Rebel Wolves, a new studio founded by former CD Projekt Red staff. Its campaign puts you on a clock...
We’ve released a new version of Minecraft Windows 10 Edition Beta to improve functionality and fix some reported bugs & crashes. Thanks for all the feedback so far, people!
Notable improvements & bug fixes
Real fullscreen now enabled
Sprinting should work like PC
Make FOV changeable
Other things
Anvil UI works better- you can access the main UI while renaming/repairing & can place items in the second slot
Minecarts don’t disappear when you enter the nether
“Repopulation” achievement fixed
Squid able to be pulled with a fishing rod
Creative world saves can be imported to the Trial version
Nether brick slab now craftable
You can keep chatting with your friends when you get on a boat
Fixed spawning/respawning in the Nether & in...
In the world of Kaiju No. 8, titanic, otherworldly beasts are a constant threat in Japan: to the extent that not only is there a military organisation – the Japan Anti-Kaiju Defense Force (JAKDF) – set up to deal with them, but there are also regimented clean-up crews whose jobs are to come in and cut up then cart away the often skyscraper-sized foes once they’ve been felled.
Lead character Kafka Hibino dreams of being a JAKDF officer, but at the start of the series is working in clean-up, and hoping that when there’s work to be done he doesn’t get assigned the intestines… for obvious reasons. It’s not long, however, before he’s – season one spoiler alert here – both a member of the JAKDF and dealing with the fact that he’s somehow...
In many ways, Visual Concepts’ long-running NBA 2K series mirrors the careers of players it works so hard to emulate. Sometimes, it’s a flash of potential: a hotshot rookie catching fire after putting up duds in consecutive games. Others, it’s more comparable to a wily veteran nearing retirement – we see a glimpse of talent, that peek into what it could still be. That’s what keeps me, for better or worse, hoping for the best as I start playing NBA 2K26. It’s both flashy and old school, like a “how do you do, fellow kids” teacher who wears different Jordans to class every day, it has enough cool new kicks, fits, and gimmicks to make it a much more interesting and enjoyable experience than last year’s entry, even after spending only a...
Finally, a little more than a year and a half after release, Helldivers 2 has come to Xbox, and those who still subscribe to The House Halo Built can finally drop into Hell with the rest of us. A lot has changed between now and when I first reviewed it, so this felt like a good time to reevaluate one of last year’s biggest (and most enduringly successful) games. So I fired up my Xbox and spent several hours serving up hot cups of Liber-tea and bringing managed democracy to the galaxy. And you know what? Helldivers 2 is still pretty great – and there’s a lot more of it.
Before I dive (get it? Do you get it?) into the changes, it might be a good idea to give the ol’ peepers a refresh of what I originally wrote:
Helldivers 2 is the...
From Calorie Mate snacks to hidden Kerotan frog statues, 2004’s Metal Gear Solid 3 was packed with varied real-life Easter eggs, even if they contradicted the game’s 1960s setting. One memorable gimmick for eagle-eyed players to spot in the indoor areas of MGS3 (and MGS2) was the posters of current Japanese gravure idols — female models who pose in revealing outfits.
These sexy posters make a return in the remake Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater — with an added twist. If you play on Legacy Style mode, the posters are as they were in the original. But if you are playing using the New Style mode, with its modern over-the-shoulder camera angle, you’ll notice that although the models are the same, the photos have been swapped out for...
Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater only launched this week, but modders have already been busy tweaking and improving the game.
The remake launched on August 28, and in the space of just 24 hours modders have provided all manner tweaks, from reshaping Eva's and Ocelot's faces, smoothing stuttering, improving visuals, removing the introduction, and — my favorite — even one that lets you play as series creator Hideo Kojima himself. There are already over 40 mods available to download on NexusMods right now.
Other early mods remove in-game movies — purportedly saving 21GB on your HDD — optimize the game, remove the HUD, unlock FPS "without the speed up or slow down bugs," and replace Snake with The Last of Us' Joel for some reason...
If you're responsible for any of the 40 million views of music video for the new K-Pop track Karma, from the band Stray Kids, you might have spotted an unusual cameo in the last scene. League of Legends Pro Gamer Faker (Lee Sang-hyeok) appears and performs his classic "shh" pose. He plays the part of a gamer who is revealed to have been controlling all the sporting events in the video.
If you're yet to fall prey to a K-Pop addiction, this might seem an odd footnote to the latest Stray Kids banger, but to the stans it's not that weird. The group actually gave Faker a shout out on its 2023 album 5-STAR in the song Hall of Fame, calling him "the Faker who will overturn this game board."
Stray Kids formed in South Korea in 2017 and as...
75% of Cyberpunk 2077's Nintendo Switch 2 sales were physical, CD Projekt has confirmed.
CD Projekt revealed the eye-catching stat in its latest financial results, confirming that not only did the action-RPG benefit from positioning itself as one of Nintendo Switch 2's day-one launch games, but it also found success by making the game available as physical media.
"We believe that thanks to its high quality and Switch 2 exclusive enhancements, Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition is well positioned to benefit from the [Switch 2's] growing user base," said Michał Novakovski, joint CEO. "As of June, the vast majority of sales — which is around 70% — came from physical copies sold and that reflects the strength of our offering."
Novakovski...
Labor Day weekend is a great time to get together with the family, sure, but it's also a nice little three-day window to get some serious gaming in. Assuming you don't already have a massive backlog of PC games to play, now is actually a pretty good time of year to find some video game deals. If you're looking to pick up a new game before the weekend arrives, you've got options.
We're in between major Steam sales at the moment, but another big PC games sale going on right now is the Humble Bundle Summer Sale. There are a ton of discounted games here at prices that will last through the weekend.
If you're looking for something great under $10, I've got some recommendations for you. Each of these games I've listed are wonderful for...
Konami has deployed a patch to address multiple reports of issues occurring in Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater.
Ver. 1.1.2. — which is now live across all platforms — deploys a number of fixes and improvements, addressing various scenarios where players could inadvertently cause their systems to crash.
"We’re grateful to have so many players enjoying the game and sharing valuable feedback and issue reports," the publisher wrote.
Here's the full Steam patch notes, which are similar to the updates rolled out across console:
Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater Ver. 1.1.2. Patch Notes
This update includes the following improvements and fixes:
Resolved an issue where performing consecutive survival knife attacks to secure food...
The PC and PS5 console-exclusive Lost Soul Aside only released today, August 29, but it's already sitting on a 'Mixed' Steam review score from 300+ players, many of whom have reported issues with performance and optimization.
Developer Ultizero Games was quick to respond, assuring players in a statement that it had "received your feedback regarding the performance of certain cutscenes in the prologue of Lost Soul Aside," and was "actively working on optimizations."
"Currently, some of these cutscenes are pre-rendered 4K/30fps videos, which may cause occasional stuttering during playback," the team explained. "We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused and appreciate your understanding.
"The Lost Soul Aside team...
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is a breakout hit for developer Saber Interactive, selling over 7 million copies in less than a year. As the game approaches its first anniversary, and with the hotly anticipated Patch 10 imminent, development chief Tim Willits has a lot to be happy about.
“It has not been on any streaming service,” Willits told me in an interview at gamescom 2025. “You want to play it, you got to buy it. And it's just rocking and rolling. And it wasn't overpriced. It wasn't overscoped. It wasn't over-designed."
But Space Marine 2 was not a guaranteed success. No video game is. In fact, things were looking ropey when Saber and publisher Focus Entertainment announced a significant delay to the game, from 2023 to the...
It is the driving force behind many of your favorite video games released in the last few years, but it largely flies under the radar. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, Cyberpunk 2077, and Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater are just a few of the many games that were and continue to be supported by Virtuos, one of the largest independent video game companies in the world with over 20 studios globally employing about 4,000 staff. Still, the average gamer probably doesn’t know Virtuos exists.
That’s starting to change though, with Virtuos’ profile rising with each new release. Oblivion Remastered is perhaps Virtuos’ biggest project yet, and its heavy involvement with its development was made a key part of the game’s announcement...
Summer is officially behind us, and for many of us, that’s a relief – no more baking under the unrelenting sun or pretending a fan counts as air conditioning. Instead, we’re welcoming the crisp, slightly unpredictable days of September… which, conveniently, pairs perfectly with a cosy corner and a stack of indie games.
This month’s indie line-up is packed with variety. There are gorgeous puzzle adventures, high-speed parkour challenges, unhinged story-driven mysteries and more. Whatever your taste, September 2025’s indie releases have something to pull you in. So let’s dive into some.
Hirogami – 3rd September
In Hirogami, you play as Hiro, a master of the art of Origami, who has to try and save his home from powerful digital...
Nearly a year on from the launch of MachineGames' brilliant Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, the studio is back with an additional chapter, The Order of the Giants, which arrives on September 4.
For those who enjoyed the base game's blend of puzzle-solving and fisticuffs, this fresh DLC adds more of what you love — and takes a novel approach to tuning its difficulty, based on your experience with the Great Circle so far.
Speaking to IGN last week at Gamescom, creative director Axel Torvenius and lead game designer Zeke Virant explained how The Order of the Giants will smartly adapt its combat to suit both new and veteran players, due to the DLC's addition within the base game's narrative, branching off of its Rome location. And...
Every week I tell myself I’ll resist the siren call of sales pricing, but then a stack like this lands and my resolve crumbles. If you’ve been meaning to pad out the collection or revisit some heavy hitters, now’s the moment. Today feels reasonably spicy, with old favourites, fresh blockbusters and even a few cult classics sneaking in at eyebrow-raising discounts. So get amongst 'em!
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In retro news, I’m lighting a 32-candle cake for Jurassic Park on Mega Drive. Back in ’93, this wasn’t just another licenced movie tie-in for gaming grommet me. It was one of those cartridges you’d rent for a weekend and then think about all week at school. The choice to play as...
A group of over 450 developers on the game Diablo at Blizzard have voted in favor of unionization with Communications Workers of America (CWA).
Per a press release, this new union consists of game developers, artists, designers, engineers, and support staff across the Diablo franchise, and has been formally recognized by parent company Microsoft.
"With every subsequent round of mass layoffs, I've witnessed the dread in my coworkers grow stronger because it feels like no amount of hard work is enough to protect us," said Kelly Yeo, a game producer and a member of the organizing committee. “I am overjoyed that we have formed a union—this is just the first step for us joining a movement spreading across an industry that is tired of...
We’re coming up on Labor Day weekend, which closes out the summer and, for whatever reason, tends to be a popular occasion to drop prices. Labor Day sales have already gone live at most major retailers, with deals worth checking out on everything from LEGO sets to gaming PCs.
Of course, the first thing I’m looking for in any of these sales is discounts on physical games. Surprisingly enough, Amazon's Labor Day sale has listed first-time discounts on some of the latest and greatest PS5 games, while the PlayStation Store has launched its own sale on digital editions.
Amazon Drops Prices on the Latest PS5 Games
The physical games I’ve listed above are all at or close to their lowest-ever price. The discounts aren’t mind-blowing, I...