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Xbox Games Showcase 2025: Everything Announced

The June 2025 Xbox Games Showcase has come to a close after two hours of announcements for games like The Outer Worlds 2, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, Final Fantasy, and more. It was yet another jam-packed show under Microsoft’s belt that included highlights such as Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, more Final Fantasy on Xbox, Persona 4 Revival, Grounded 2, and much, much more. Although we didn’t see things like Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls 6 or what’s next for 343 Industries and the Halo franchise, today’s presentation still managed to fill 2025 and 2026 with exciting projects that still need a bit more time in the oven. If you weren’t able to tune in or missed portions of the show, we’ve got good news: IGN has collected everything announced...

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The Biggest Reveals From IGN Live 2025 So Far

IGN Live 2025 has officially begun, and the first day of our celebration of video games and entertainment was filled with exclusive reveals, trailers, interviews, clips, stars, and so much more. To help ensure you don't miss a thing, we will be gathering the biggest moments from IGN Live right here, so be sure to keep checking back to see what surprises we have in store! Day 2 of IGN Live is almost here, and you can check out the full schedule and what to expect right here! Squid Game's Battle of Beliefs: Stars and Director on Gi-Hun and In-ho Squaring Off in Season 3 The third and final season of Squid Game is almost here, and we were not only given a sneak peek at the first episode, but we also chatted with creator/director/writer...

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Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds' Takashi Iizuka on Crossover Racers Like Minecraft's Steve and How Travel Rings Change Everything - IGN Live 2025

Alongside debuting new gameplay, Sonic Team head Takashi Iizuka joined us at IGN Live to share more about Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds and why this is one big crossover kart racer you need to play. We are just one day removed from Sonic Racing: CrossWorld's big reveal at Summer Game Fest that Hatsune Miku, Like a Dragon's Ichiban Kasuga, Persona 5's Joker, and Minecraft's Steve, Alex, and Creeper will all be guest characters, and Iizuka reflected on what the process was like in choosing who gets to join in on all the fun. "We wanted to make sure the second lap around was going to be full of surprises as you're going to a different world that you didn't even think was possible," Iizuka said. "So, when brainstorming what we could do to...

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MindsEye Director on the Importance of Allowing User-Generated Content in the Game | IGN Live 2025

With the release of MindsEye just days away, the game’s director, Leslie Benzies, paid a visit to IGN Live today to discuss the new third-person action-adventure game. MindsEye is not an open world game and Benzies said he felt, “It’s often hard in an open world to keep the story clean,” before joking that “It might be strange to go and bowl for two days when you need to save the world.” However, he added, the game does include “an open world system through the Build MindsEye system.” Benzies elaborated that a crucial component of the game for he and his collaborators was the ability it includes to add user-generated content, explaining “As you’re playing any mission, if you like a spot on the map, you can immediately start to create...

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Gearbox Says 'Take-Two Does Not Use Spyware in Its Games' as Borderlands Review-Bombing Continues

Gearbox Software has published a statement regarding the controversy surrounding changes to parent company Take-Two’s Terms of Service and fears that many Borderlands games now contain “spyware.” Published directly on Steam, where outcry has materialized in the form of review-bombing campaigns for all major Borderlands titles, the statement’s aim is to address concerns while “maintaining transparency and confidence with the community.” That means tackling two key talking points that have taken over the Borderlands fanbase for months, including fears of spyware and modding crackdowns. Gearbox makes its stance clear from the get-go: “Take-Two does not use spyware in its games.” While there are instances data will be collected, Gearbox...

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Celebrating a Decade of ARK: Survival Evolved — 10 Things Happening Now in the ARK Universe

ARK: Survival Evolved first landed on Steam’s Early Access on June 2, 2015. What began as an indie dinosaur survival sandbox game has since been downloaded tens of millions of times, seen a steady cadence of expansions, spawned multiple spinoffs, and recently been remastered. The franchise has been a massive success for developer Studio Wildcard, who is celebrating the game’s 10-year anniversary with in-game events, announcements, and new content across the world of ARK. To stick with the theme of the celebration, here are 10 things currently happening in the ARK universe. 1. Who Is Blowing Out the Candles? ARK: Survival Ascended is the aforementioned remaster of ARK: Survival Evolved that launched in 2023 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series...

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Cast Premieres the First 10 Minutes of the Game's Documentary at IGN Live 2025

The cast of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 stopped by IGN Live to not only discuss the beloved new game from Sandfall Interactive, but also to exclusively premiere an over 10-minute look at the game's making-of documentary. The exclusive clip, which you can see below, begins by putting the focus on the developers of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 on the day before launch. It then takes viewers behind the scenes of motion capture performances, including how that emotional opening scene between Gustave and Sophie came to life and another fun moment between Monoco and Verso. While the documentary is still a work in progress and the full video may change, we were able to chat with Jennifer English (Maelle), Ben Starr (Verso), Shala Nyx...

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Sea of Remnants Is Looking Like the Creepy Puppet Pirate Game To Watch in 2026 | IGN Live 2025

You might have seen an RPG with a swashbuckling theme before, but guaranteed you haven't seen one that looks like Joker Studio's Sea of Remnants. Think of a haunted toy box belonging to a deranged puppeteer, and then add a bit of glam rock for good measure. It's the perfect vibe for the story of a sailor with no memories setting out to find a cursed location, and the adventure will arrive on PC and mobile in 2026. "Our creative journey began with a spark of pure feeling—an emotional image that guided everything: 'If a puppet’s mind is soaked in water, memories slip away into the ocean, yet they still choose to return and sail again.' This early inspiration was both a playful nod to the Chinese saying “ 脑子进水” ('brain soaked with...

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Superman Arrives in Fortnite Battle Royale During Star Wars Live Event, as Death Star Detonates and Destruction Rains Down

Fortnite has just wrapped up its latest explosive live event, detonating the Death Star looming over the Island and welcoming DC Comics hero Superman in the process. Tonight's event, Death Star Sabotage, saw nearly 6 million players infiltrate the Empire's fully operational battle station that has hovered menacingly over the Fortnite battle royale Island throughout its Star Wars mini-season. Happily, and perhaps unsurprisingly, players were able to stop the station's deadly space laser from obliterating the game's map — although not without causing a bit of damage in the process. As destruction rained down, the event's closing moments saw Superman arrive — presumably to try and help with clean up duties during the game's incoming...

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Dying Light: The Beast – The First Preview

So much of Dying Light is informed by the series’ melee-first design. Its impact can be seen in the damage system that causes its grotesque zombies to fall apart with every slash of your blade, as well as the weapon crafting, which turns household tools into hilariously impractical killing machines. And, of course, it influences the parkour movement, which allows you to keep well away from chewing teeth and clawing hands. So what happens when you add guns to this close-quarters formula? And I don’t mean one or two rusty pistols, but a whole armoury stocked with shotguns, assault rifles, and plentiful ammo. That’s a question the next game in the series, Dying Light: The Beast, poses. The answer is not the obvious one. Far from...

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Square Enix Reveals Killer Inn, a New, Team-Based Social Deduction Game, at Summer Game Fest

During today's Summer Game Fest showcase, Square Enix took the spotlight to reveal a new social deduction game, Killer Inn. Killer Inn is a murder mystery developed by Tactics Studio, where players are divided up into two teams, lambs and wolves, then dropped into a big mansion together. The goal of the wolves is to murder all the lambs, while the lambs' goal is to discover who the wolves are to put a stop to their murder spree. Players explore the mansion, collecting survival tools, gear, and weapons from chests and merchants scattered throughout. Tokens can be collected from quest completion and spent to unlock certain chests for better gear. There are over 20 different characters to choose from, all with different abilities that...

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Chronicles: Medieval Aims to Take You From Middle Ages Zero to Hero

Announced at Summer Games Fest, Chronicles: Medieval is an exciting freshman effort from brand new developer Raw Power Games. While this is their first title as a studio, the team is made up of legacy talent from games like Hogwarts Legacy, Hitman, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, and more. The trailer debuted today gives a small taste of what Chronicles: Medieval is about, but we were able to take part in a special presentation to dive further into Raw Power Games’ ambitious history-carving title. Set in 1313 AD Europe, players assume the role of a created character with little to no social influence on the world around them. It’s the player’s goal from the outset to take this character, perhaps just a lowly craftsman hailing from a no-name...

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Capcom Confirms Year 3 Roster for Street Fighter 6

Capcom has confirmed the Year 3 roster of playable DLC characters for fighting game Street fighter 6. Four new DLC characters were revealed during Summer Game Fest 2025. Sagat is out this summer, C. Viper this fall, Alex early spring 2026, and finally, Ingrid late spring 2026. Street Fighter 6 Year 3 DLC characters: Sagat - Summer 2025 C. Viper - Autumn 2025 Alex - Early Spring 2026 Ingrid - Late Spring 2026 The announcement was made in a trailer starring pro wrestler Kenny Omega, who dressed up as each DLC character. Artwork shown in the video, below, reveals the new designs of each of the upcoming DLC characters, and a snippet of Sagat gameplay. We see the veteran Street Fighter villain perform his trademark Tiger Shot, Tiger...

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Dying Light: The Beast – Exclusive 30-Minute Extended Gameplay Trailer | IGN First

If you enjoyed the Dying Light: The Beast gameplay that was just shown off at the Summer Game Fest Showcase, good news: we've got a LOT more! That starts with a 30-minute exclusive extended gameplay video (watch it above) as the kickoff to our all-June-long coverage of Dying Light: The Beast through our IGN First "cover story" editorial program. Dying Light: The Beast is the upcoming new standalone entry in the first-person melee- and parkour-fueled zombie-fighting franchise, set in Castor Woods decades after the zombie outbreak that turned the world into...what you see on screen. Keep checking back all June long for more exclusive IGN First coverage! Ryan McCaffrey is IGN's executive editor of previews and host of both IGN's...

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Hitman World of Assassination Elusive Target Sees Mads Mikkelsen Reprise Iconic Casino Royale Role

While IO Interactive stays hard at work on 007 First Light, the team made an appearance at Summer Game Fest 2025 to reveal another James Bond tribute that will see Hitman World of Assassination players taking out Mads Mikkelsen’s character from Casino Royale. A trailer for the collaboration level was revealed today, showing Agent 47 as he heads to a new location to take out Le Chiffre, the iconic poker-playing villaint from 2006’s Casino Royale. This video game version of the character is even played by Mikkelsen himself, who returned to reprise his role as this latest Elusive Target, which is available right now. You can take on an iconic 007 face in Hitman: World of Assassination starting today You can also see the new trailer...

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Summer Game Fest 2025: Everything Announced

Summer Game Fest 2025 has arrived and revealed an exciting glimpse into the future of video games. The roughly two-hour show had many highlights, including the big reveal of Resident Evil Requiem, the news that Lies of P: Overture is out now, and so much more. There were a ton of announcements, trailers, reveals, and more, and this roundup has gathered all the biggest ones to ensure you don't miss a thing. Let us know below which moment from Summer Game Fest was your favorite! Resident Evil 9 Officially Revealed as Resident Evil Requiem at Summer Game Fest 2025 Capcom has finally revealed Resident Evil 9... and it's called Resident Evil Requiem. This next entry in the beloved horror franchise is set to be released on February 27...

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Wildgate, the Space Shooter From Former Blizzard Devs, Is Out Next Month

Wildgate, the space shooter from former Blizzard-led studio Moonshot Games and publisher Dreamhaven, will launch on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation on July 22 of this year. This was announced today at Summer Game Fest, during which it was also revealed that there will be a cross-platform, open beta from June 9 through June 16 on all platforms. The beta will include two new characters, one with telekinesis (Kae) and the other with a jetpack (Adrian). Additionally, the beta will add three new explorable points of interest, new daily missions, a revamped mission system, and other improvements. Wildgate was first announced back in March. It's a sci-fi multiplayer competitive shooter about a crew performing heists in space, with elements of both...

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Dying Light: The Beast Release Date Set for August With Gameplay Trailer at Summer Game Fest 2025

Techland showed up for Summer Game Fest 2025 to announce a Dying Light: The Beast release date of August 22, 2025, for PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X | S. The surprise puts the Dying Light spinoff out in just a few months, placing players back into the shoes of Kyle Crane following his absence in the 2022 sequel. It’s a release date announcement that comes with a fresh look at gameplay, as Techland teases some of the many, many ways players can beat, stab, and bash their way through hundreds of infected. Dying Light: The Beast is a standalone story in Techland’s post-apocalyptic universe. It’s available for pre-order now, granting early purchasers access to exclusive items such as the Hero of...

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Towa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree Is a Hades-Like from Bandai Namco Announced at Summer Game Fest

During Summer Game Fest today, Towa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree was announced from Bandai Namco. It's a new roguelike game made by developer Brownies that looks reminiscent of Hades, but derived instead from Eastern mysticism. Developing... Continue reading...

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Scott Pilgrim EX Is a Brand New Adventure Hearkening Back to Classic Brawlers

Following the 2021 re-release of Ubisoft's Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game, the developers of TMNT: Shredder's Revenge are taking a crack at a brand new Scott Pilgrim game. It's called Scott Pilgrim EX, and it's coming to PC, Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch in early 2026. Scott Pilgrim EX is a brand new adventure made in collaboration with Scott Pilgrim creator Bryan Lee O'Malley. It's a four-player co-op brawler with a familiar retro look and a brand new story, where you can play as Scott, Ramona, and five other members of the cast as they fight demons, robots, and other enemies in a reimagined Toronto. Appropriately, Scott Pilgrim EX will be backed by an all new soundtrack from Anamanaguchi, with art assisted by pixel artist...

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Lies of P: Overture Shadow-Dropped for PC and Consoles With New Trailer at Summer Game Fest 2025

For those excited for developer Neowiz’s highly anticipated Overture add-on content, the wait is over: the Lies of P DLC is out right now. The post-launch story content for Neowiz’s Pinocchio soulslike was shadow-dropped for PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X | S during Summer Game Fest 2025 today. It means you can stop what you’re doing right now and go play it for yourself without the need to wait for a release date announcement. You can see what lies in store with the gameplay trailer below. Lies of P: Overture is an exciting addition to Neowiz’s dark fantasy universe, but it’s surprise launch isn’t much of a surprise. The shadow-drop reveal actually leaked earlier today. You can read our full Lies of...

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Lego Voyagers Is a New 2-Player Co-Op Adventure With a Split Fiction-Style Friends Pass

Just announced at Summer Game Fest 2025, Lego Voyagers is an adorable-looking co-op game for two players from Light Studio, the developer of Lego Builder's Journey. A soothing trailer showed two tiny brick characters — Red Brick and Blue Brick, as I'm calling them — work together to build, drive and sail through various Lego landscapes. Lego Voyagers is set to launch sometime later in 2025 on Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PS5, Xbox Series X/S and offer a Split Fiction-style Friends Pass so two players can team up with just one copy of the game. An accompanying press release describes the game as an adventure about friendship and play. "When two friends make it their mission to rescue an abandoned spaceship, they embark on a...

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Lies of P: Overture Review

If you’ve marion-yet to play the fantastic, Pinocchio-inspired soulslike Lies of P, then its first DLC expansion, Overture, is filled with finely polished reasons to do so. Though it's whittled from the same timber and sticks very closely to the original stage directions, this 12-hour encore has plenty of new (and still deeply depressing) areas to explore, some additional tools to carve baddies into kindling with, and more impressively menacing bosses to drop the curtain on. Plus, it does a great job fleshing out an already awesome story by tugging on a few strings that were left dangling in the base game and landing some surprising ventrilo-twists, renewing my appreciation for just how well this fib-filled tale made me care about its...

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Arc Raiders Secures October Release Date for PC and Consoles With Trailer at Summer Game Fest 2025

Embark Studios reappeared at Summer Game Fest 2025 to announce an Arc Raiders release date of October 30, 2025, for PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X | S. The release date was revealed alongside a new trailer today. The highly anticipated follow-up project to Embark’s The Finals will take a different route than fans of the developer may be used to. Instead of dropping players into a competitive, high-stakes FPS game show, Arc Raiders is a free-to-play, multiplayer extraction adventure game set in a sci-fi version of Earth that takes place far in the future. More details about Arc Raider’s full launch will be revealed closer to its October release date. For more, be sure to read up on everything...

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Game of Thrones RTS War for Westeros Lets You Kill Jon Snow (Again) to Your Heart's Content

Game of Thrones: War for Westeros is a new real-time strategy game announced during tonight's Summer Game Fest announcement show. Coming to PC via Steam in 2026, a cinematic trailer showcased one of the Game of Thrones series' epic battles, and the ability for you to guide the result to a different outcome than in the TV show or books. As the smooth tones of Tywin Lannister (Charles Dance) narrate events, we see the Night King claim Jon Snow (with the likeness of Kit Harrington) for himself. It's probably fine, he's died at least once already. War for Westeros lets you command four factions — House Stark, House Lannister, House Targaryen or the Night King — to forge alliances or deceive enemies (and friends) as you wage war with...

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Onimusha: Way of the Sword Gets New Summer Game Fest Trailer Showing More Slashy Combat

During today's Summer Game Fest event, we saw a new trailer for Onimusha: Way of the Sword, which showed off more of the game's slashy smashy combat. Capcom's latest Onimusha was first revealed at The Game Awards last year, and is being developed for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC as the first brand new, mainline Onimusha game since Dawn of Dreams way back in 2006. In February, we got a closer look at the game's protagonist, the historic swordsman Miyamoto Musashi, who will fight off an evil force known as Malic as it tries to take over Kyoto. Onimusha: Way of the Sword is currently planned for release sometime in 2026. Developing... Continue reading...

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Atomic Heart 2 Announced at Summer Game Fest

Atomic Heart 2 is currently in development at Mundfish, as shared today in an announcement at Summer Game Fest. Additionally, Mundfish also revealed The CUBE, a new multiplayer RPG shooter set in the Atomic Heart universe. In a new trailer shown today, we got our first look at Atomic Heart 2, which is currently being worked on for both PC and console. Like its predecessor, it's an action-adventure FPS with RPG systems set in a retrofuturistic alternate-history. In a world intended to be a utopia for humans and their robot servants, advanced robotics and AI have gone rogue and torn society apart. Just before it all crumbles for good, the player steps in to stop the utter collapse of humanity. As for The CUBE, it's set in the same...

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Chronicles: Medieval Trailer Teases Ambitious Battles With Narration from Tom Hardy at Summer Game Fest 2025

Summer Game Fest 2025 came with a surprise cameo from Venom and The Dark Knight Rises actor Tom Hardy, who is involved in an ambitious new project called Chronicles: Medieval. Details about this mysterious new game were announced by Raw Power Games toward the beginning of today’s show, revealing dark footage of knights riding on horseback as they head toward a great war. Most of today’s video seems to rely on pre-rendered footage, though it does end with what appears to be a few seconds of gameplay as a leading knight marches his army toward a distant castle. It’s unclear if Hardy’s involvement stops at the narration he provided for today’s trailer. Chronicles: Medieval comes to PC via Steam early access in 2026. For more, be sure...

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Code Vein 2 Revealed at Summer Game Fest 2025

In a surprising vampiric twist, we're getting a sequel to 2019's Code Vein. It is aptly titled Code Vein 2, and it's due out 2026 across PC via Steam, PS5, and Xbox Series X and S. Publisher Bandai Namco said the debut trailer, below, introduces "a post-apocalyptic world where memories of loss echo across time and the fate of the Revenants and humanity hangs by a thread." Expect dynamic action with strategic combat, explorable environments, intense boss battles, and memorable characters that drive the rich narrative forward, players are called to wield time itself as a weapon. Here's the official blurb: Code Vein was an anime soulslike action-RPG that launched in 2019. It earned a 7/10 from us for its "enthusiasm for mixing...

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Troy Baker's Latest Gaming Role Is as a Mystery-Solving Mouse

In a brand new trailer shown today at Summer Game Fest, we got our first listen of renowned voice actor Troy Baker in his latest role: a crime-solving mouse, the star of MOUSE: P.I. For Hire. In MOUSE, Baker will play private investigator Jack Pepper, a war-hero-turned-detective, and yes, a mouse. The story begins when a cliche dame shows up at his door with a problem for him to solve, but his adventure grows and grows as he uncovers murder, corruption, and more throughout the city of Mouseburg. MOUSE is a 3D, first-person shooter that's immediately visually striking for its classic cartoon visuals, similar to the retro style of Cuphead. It's inspired by 1930s noir films and looks the part. Baker is known for his past work in...

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