TimTheTatman has revealed that he turned down an eye-watering amount of money for a sponsored Arc Raiders stream.
The streamer was speaking candidly to his audience during a September 2 broadcast when he revealed that he'd turned down a six-figure deal to play Arc Raiders on stream for four hours. While the exact dollar amount is unknown, hundreds of thousands of dollars to play a game for an afternoon is an absolutely baffling amount of money. TimTheTatman stated that he had such an unpleasant experience with the game that even a jaw-dropping amount of cash couldn't bring him back.
"For me, the game frustrated me so much, I got frustrated so much with that game that I don't want to play it ever again," he said. "Even to a point where...
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IKEA is partnering up with Skyrim in an unexpected collaboration that has fans making the same joke about The Elder Scrolls 6.
On September 2, the official IKEA accounts for Ireland and the United Kingdom posted a promotional video on Instagram, showing a mountain of familiar Skyrim memorabilia haphazardly tossed onto a snowy mountainside… alongside some comparatively modern-looking pieces.
For instance, a rune-inscribed Allen wrench is stuffed amongst the frozen Nord helmets, pots, swords, books, and wheels of cheese, while a white Kallax 4x2 shelf sits on top of the pile.
A date is then shown: September 9, 2026, along with the message, “Coming to the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.” The post’s caption says much the same thing: “A Creation...
Nothing screams Fortnite like the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, am I right?
Fortnite and Focus Features announced Wednesday that the new movie The Uprising, starring Andrew Garfield, is now available to play as a custom experience on Fortnite ahead of the Paul Greengrass-directed film’s theatrical release on September 10.
Even for Fortnite – which has a long history of pop cultural collaborations including Star Wars, Marvel, DC, LEGO, The Witcher, Godzilla and Kong, Stranger Things, John Wick, and Back to the Future – The Uprising is a curious film to cross over with.
The period drama – which may or may not (still) be a Robin Hood origin movie – chronicles the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, which was led by historical figures Wat Tyler...
Final Fantasy developer Square Enix has spoken out to address rumors that it's going private.
Japanese business magazine Sentaku recently reported that Square Enix was looking into going private, leading to a nearly 12% increase in the company's stock price on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. But this is not the case, Square Enix has said, responding to the claim.
"The September issue of the monthly magazine Sentaku carried a report regarding the possibility of Square Enix Holdings Co., LTD. (the 'Company') going private. However, this information was not announced by the Company," Square Enix said in a statement. "No consideration is currently being given within the Company to taking the Company private."
The news comes amid wider...
Perhaps no movie was primed to be a video game more than Aliens. A bunch of marines with guns up against hordes of monstrous beasties? That’s a video game, baby. That was true for the first Aliens: Fireteam Elite, a game I enjoyed but didn’t stick with for too long, and it’s also true of its sequel, which freshens that returning structure up with things like an additional player and a new class. I’m not done with Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 yet (the joys of international travel to Gamescom, I reckon), but I’ve played enough to start laying down thoughts like one of my squadmates is spiriting for an objective and my words are covering fire. The short version is this: I’m having a good time with my friends, but I am curious how long we’ll...
September is officially upon us, and while that means cooler weather is starting to blow in, it also means a fresh selection of PC games have dropped for the month courtesy of Humble Choice. This month's lineup features 8 games - including Frostpunk 2, Sonic X Shadow Generations, and Voidtrain - which members can snag for their Steam library for just $14.99.
Compared to paying full price for each of these 8 games, this is a stellar offer to jump on. That's not the end of it, either. Those who sign up to become a Humble Choice member this month will also get a free month of IGN Plus, up to 20% off in the Humble store, and 5% of the membership cost goes to a charity.
We've detailed these bonuses, alongside the games included, below so...
Character creators are no new thing when it comes to video games, especially RPGs. Fable is just one in a very long line of adventures allowing you to sculpt a hero in your image, but when it comes time to showcase a game ahead of time, decisions need to be made.
From its initial reveal onward, we’ve become accustomed to seeing multiple chosen hero appearances throughout trailers and gameplay videos, of all shapes, sizes, and genders. But that first female hero is who has become the poster child for Playground’s reboot, with some people deciding it would be a perfectly normal thing to do to complain about her not being conventionally “attractive” enough.
Well, at gamescom 2026, the Forza Horizon studio revealed a new extended look at...
Should the plural of “State of Play” be States of Play or State of Plays? Either way, Sony is starting September with two back-to-back showcase streams — a State of Play and a State of Play Japan — on Thursday, September 3. These will be the second and third State of Play of the year following the one in early June, which gave us that bloody Wolverine opening (cool) and the first big look at God of War Laufey. In its August 31 blog post, Sony didn’t provide many specifics about what to expect outside of an “extended look” at Final Fantasy VII Revelation and the typical promise of "updates and announcements," but we have some ideas about what we'll see (more on that below).
IGN will be carrying the stream; here’s everything you need to...
Key Preview Takeaways:
Playing as a Skaven makes movement feel unique compared to other 2D sidescrollers.
The level design reminded me of Hollow Knight.
The quality of the story is still TBD after my very brief 30-minute hands-on demo.
It's rare that the giant, horrible rat men of the Skaven get a starring role in a Warhammer game, despite being one of the most unique and popular factions. They're normally the fodder you chew through in a horde game like Vermintide. So Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Deathmaster immediately sets itself apart by putting you in the stinking rags of Vihneek, a resourceful rodent we're introduced to as he's being unceremoniously dumped into a festering pit full of corpses. You know, it's probably not how he...
IGN gave Atari and Pipeworks' Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee an 8.4/10 review when it launched in 2002. At the time, we said, "as far as multiplayer experiences go, Godzilla represents one of GameCube's very best." Now, senior designer Simon Strange and the rest of the team are back and ready to do it all over again.
Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee Remastered is something fans have pleaded for but never thought would actually happen. After all, it's been 24 years since the original game came out, and with no sign of the arena brawler series since Godzilla: Unleashed stomped onto the scene in 2007, there's been little hope for a proper return. That changes this November.
With remastered graphics, a playable Showa-era...
A viral fan-made Fortnite toilet chair made infamous via TikTok has apparently resurfaced via Facebook Marketplace, with the item priced at $500 and listed as in "used" condition.
The so-called "Battle Bucket" was the subject of a now-deleted 2023 TikTok video from user @usecodelitty200iq, who explained the home-made contraption was the reason he could "play Fortnite for so long without going to the bathroom."
The Battle Bucket is essentially a flip chair with a crude hole cut into the seat, and an orange five gallon Home Depot bucket underneath. A curved length of piping has also been placed at the front of the seat, arcing down into the bucket's base. On the back of the chair, a G Fuel sticker has been artfully placed.
"I call this...
Star Wars Zero Company was originally pitched as a game in the Titanfall universe.
As part of a larger report on Star Wars Zero Company, Game File's Stephen Totilo uncovered a lot of interesting details about the game's development. The big headline was that the bulk of the studio was furloughed just weeks before launch as Bit Reactor ran out of money, but there's hope that those employees will be brought back following the game's success. However, there is one other bit that caught some eyes: Zero Company wasn't initially imagined as a Star Wars game.
Game File dug up legal documents pertaining to a lawsuit between Bit Reactor leadership which paints a picture of Zero Company's development. Director Greg Foertsch worked with studio...
I've been playing a lot of The Blood of Dawnwalker over the last week or so, and while the game does successfully stress out my gaming PC, I've been surprised at just how stable it is.
Just like with Star Wars Zero Company and Halo: Campaign Evolved, The Blood of Dawnwalker runs on Unreal Engine 5, and has been shockingly free of technical problems. The game doesn't have the same issues with crashing and stuttering that Zero Company has, and scales down a lot better than Halo: Campaign Evolved does, although I would still avoid running it on something like a handheld gaming PC.
I've been primarily playing The Blood of Dawnwalker on an admittedly powerful system with an AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D, 32GB of RAM and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 –...
Hideki Kamiya has confirmed that he was “not joking” when he begged Capcom to make a less-scary version of Resident Evil Requiem for the faint of heart, even arguing that the company has become "numb" to how frightening the newer games have gotten.
In March 2026, Clovers Inc. — Kamiya’s newest game development studio — uploaded a video showing the team playing Resident Evil Requiem. Kamiya stood off to the side as one of his employees got to a cutscene near the beginning of the game, where he complained that, “I've been saying for forever, they should make a 'non-scary' mode.”
He said as much in a tweet around that same time, suggesting an alternate mode where “the zombies get all cute, the blood splatters turn into cherry blossom...
September is here, which means the Fall is here, which means some of the biggest games of the year drop this month. We've already played some of the biggest ones, so check out our previews of Marvel's Wolverine, Control Resonant, and more below.
Marvel's Wolverine
Release Date: September 15
If Insomniac has proved anything over the last eight years, it’s that they know how to make a hell of a superhero game. Spider-Man remains one of the PlayStation 4’s defining action games and a shining example of open-world design, as are both of its follow-ups. Now they’re looking to replicate that magic with Wolverine, albeit this time as a traditional linear AAA action game. I got to play about two and half hours at a recent preview event, and...
Key Preview Takeaways:
Multiplayer is split into several mission types.
Co-op Warfare is the mode that most interested me during my demo.
The 100-player lobbies are meant to be like friendly air force bases that players can roam and socialize in.
It’s hot in Germany. Most buildings don’t have air conditioning. Gamescom does, but it’s still hot and noisy, even in the business area that’s not as crowded. I’m here to talk about Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve’s multiplayer with Ace Combat Series Brand Director Kazutoki Kono and Ace Combat 8 Producer Manabu Shimomoto. I don’t get to play it myself, but I do get to see what they’re working on. And it looks impressive.
Wings of Theve’s multiplayer is built around three things: co-op and...
Rockstar Games has revealed its official GTA Online roleplaying server, nopixel V, ahead of GTA 6's launch.
Grand Theft Auto 5 is one of the most popular games of all time, and part of that is thanks to major community support. In the late 2010s and early 2020s, modders went particularly crazy with the foundation Rockstar created and utilized it for roleplaying servers, such as the extremely popular nopixel. Rockstar has embraced this side of the community, acquiring the team behind the FiveM modding platform and collaborating with nopixel itself.
Now, nopixel is gearing up to release the next iteration of its roleplaying server, which will be officially supported by Rockstar Games. The two teamed up to produce a much richer and...
Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee Remastered is the only remaster Pipeworks can confirm for now, but "a lot of stuff is on the table," and there are "a lot of conversations to be had" in the future.
The developer behind the November upgrade and the 2002 game it's based on opened up about the potential for more games in the series during an all-encompassing interview with IGN. With Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee officially coming back, the natural question we and everyone else had is: Will we be getting remasters for Godzilla: Save the Earth and Godzilla: Unleashed?
According to senior designer Simon Strange, it's too soon to say, but that doesn't mean he isn't rooting for it to happen.
"Let me tell you, I had that desire...
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 developer Infinity Ward has announced that the playable beta for the next first-person shooter in the long-running franchise has been extended until 10pm PT tonight/1am ET tomorrow morning.
"A little more time on the clock," the studio posted on its X account. We see you grinding out those Beta Rewards and camos, so we’re giving you some extra time. The #MW4 Open Beta is extended until 10 PM PT tonight. 2XP + Double Weapon XP stay active until close. Enjoy!"
Infinity Ward has already updated the beta, most recently to address TTK criticisms and tweak the weapons, but they also pushed changes out to beta testers last week as well.
It's been an unusual beta this year in the sense that a fan-favorite...
No Rest for the Wicked developer Moon Studios has delayed the game's long-awaited 1.0 launch until March 2027.
The news was confirmed today alongside a fresh trailer for the game, and an explanation that the wait would bring improved gameplay performance, a tightened class system and further polish to make the action RPG finally hit version 1.0 at "the standard it deserves."
If it feels like we've been waiting a long time for No Rest for the Wicked version 1.0, then that's because its initial PC early access build arrived back in April 2024. When the game does hit 1.0 in March 2027, it will do so for PlayStation 5 and PC. Nintendo Switch 2 and Xbox Series X/S versions are still planned, but lack a formal launch date.
As a reward for...
Erin Hunter’s Warrior Cats franchise is finally getting an officially licensed video game coming to all major platforms this fall. We got to speak with one of the developers behind the turn-based title, who opened up about the team’s creative process and what it’s like bringing the Clans to life.
As a lifelong fan of the Warrior Cats world, I couldn’t believe it when I got the chance to quiz the developers at Bamtang Games and the folks at Coolabi Group about Clans of the Forest, the upcoming turn-based role-playing game based on the four original clans of the Warriors book series.
I also get to be the one to happily break the news of its official launch date. Warrior Cats: Clans of the Forest will release on October 23, 2026 on PC...
Ubisoft just revealed a remake of 1999's Heroes of Might and Magic 3 at Gamescom, and one look at the trailer shows it goes far beyond a simple polish and port. Set to release in 2027 across console and PC, the new game will swap the original's isometric 2D view with a 3D world and add new content - a fresh prologue campaign and some fancy cinematics - and tweak the original mechanics to make the game more accessible, without diluting the gameplay.
IGN spoke to Jean-Felix Monin, Creative Director at Ubisoft China, about the project and how the still very dedicated Heroes of Might and Magic 3 fanbase has been a key part of shaping this new version.
"I would say for us, the intention behind this game was really, there's this...
Just last week, Nvidia's controversial DLSS 5 technology leaked when a DLL file was found in the NBA 2K27 beta. It shouldn't be too surprising, then, that the technology will be officially launching on September 3 in, well, NBA 2K27.
Nvidia bills DLSS 5 as a 3D-bound neural rendering technique, which takes geometry and color data from the game you're playing, and then draws an AI-generated image on top of the rendered frame. The goal is to maximize photorealism, without the massive computational cost that would require in more traditional methods. Nvidia insists that because the model is constrained by the geometry and color information in the original scene, that it won't add extra elements to the scene or misplace objects. But that's...
The Witcher 3 developer CD Projekt has confirmed you'll be able to use your existing save files with the game's generous upcoming Remastered edition — and provided detail on Achievements and Trophies, too.
Writing today via a post on X/Twitter, the studio said it had seen a number of fan questions over the game's forthcoming new edition, which will be awarded to existing owners of the game. This is even the case for Nintendo Switch owners upgrading to a copy of Remastered on Nintendo Switch 2, and free on all platforms.
"Good news: your current saves will work with the upgrade, so you can get back on the Path right where you left off," CD Projekt wrote. This is great news for lapsed fans who still haven't seen everything The Witcher 3...
It was supposed to be an easy job. Get in, set the detonators, get out, get paid. But now, with seemingly every fed in the state on my tail, it’s clear that Cop Land, one of GTA Vice City’s mid-game missions, is anything but an easy job.
You very possibly don’t like Cop Land. In fact, you might hate it. It is fiddly, easily failed, and messing up will send you right back to the start of its four-objective gauntlet. It requires wrangling the police’s uncooperative AI routines and infiltrating enemy territory, all while babysitting your partner in crime, Lance Vance. Oh, and you also have to survive a five-star wanted level chase through the city. It’s like the escort quest from hell… and it’s sort of brilliant.
To understand why...
Key Preview Takeaways:
The build I was shown was exceptionally early – shockingly so.
There are systems upon systems upon systems, as you’d expect from Paradox.
The Ancients are perhaps the most fascinating folk you’ll encounter in the wasteland.
I don't know about you, but my plans for the apocalypse involve hiding in a comfy bunker and playing hundreds of hours more of Paradox grand strategy games like Crusader Kings 3. And now I'll be able to play out the apocalypse during the apocalypse with the studio’s first new grand strategy game franchise since 2019's Imperator: Rome, Afterworld. Set in a not too far future North America that has been devastated by an intentionally vague cataclysm, it combines RTS and grand strategy...
Sony is returning with not just one, but two State of Play streams on September 3rd at 6am PT / 9am ET / 3:00pm CEST / 10:00pm JST, so get ready for a whole host of new PS5 game announcements, fresh looks at gameplay, and maybe even some other surprises. So far, Final Fantasy 7 Revelation is the only game we know will be shown, with an extended look at its vast world teased, but other "updates and announcements from PlayStation Studios and third-party partners" are promised. So, what could we see?
Well, we’ve got double the chance to see things this year, with a second showcase to follow directly after, focusing on studios from Japan and Asia. For context, last year’s equivalent stream gave us a gameplay trailer for Marvel’s Wolverine...
With Marvel’s Wolverine on the horizon, we can’t help but be excited about slipping into some lovely yellow lycra and getting short, hairy, and angry. If you’re looking to slash through some enemies with everyone’s favourite berserker, we’ve got you covered.
While there aren’t tons of games dedicated solely to Logan, there are plenty of amazing titles featuring him. Here is our definitive top ten list of the best Wolverine video games to play right now.
1. X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Look, we know the film wasn’t especially good, but the movie tie-in video game was an absolute banger. It was one of the earliest titles where you could truly rip enemies to shreds in authentic Wolverine style, and the hack-and-slash action still holds...
Psychonauts and Costume Quest maker Double Fine has launched its new game development Kickstarter project after cutting ties with Xbox, and says it'll make Brütal Legend 2 if it raises an impossible-sounding $100 million.
Double Fine is crowdfunding support for its new game jam on Kickstarter, the platform it previously used to successfully fund Broken Age, long before its recently-concluded stint as an Xbox-owned studio, and subsequent layoffs affecting 25% of its team.
With the Microsoft money pipe now severed, the maker of recent titles such as Kiln and Keeper must now fund its own experimental indie projects. And so, once again, it is holding a two-week stint of creating a series of bizarre prototypes, which fans of the company...
Bit Reactor, the studio behind Star Wars Zero Company, furloughed the majority of its staff just before the game launched.
Critically praised and currently a bestseller on Steam, Star Wars Zero Company looked to have had a brilliant launch — though the celebrations have now been marred by word of what has happened to the people who made it.
A Game File report has now highlighted comments made by Zachariah Scott, a former Bit Reactor employee, who claimed the company was "concealing the fact that the team was furloughed weeks ago" — while its CEO Greg Foertsch was busy at Gamescom last week talking about the team's next game.
While Bit Reactor has since confirmed to Game File many of its staff are now on furlough, the exact numbers...