While 2026 has so far been packed with incredible PC games, The Blood of Dawnwalker was the one that I was looking forward to the most. Not only does it come from a game director with an incredible pedigree, but ever since system requirements were first revealed in February, I knew that this game would absolutely punish my PC – and I’m into that.
Luckily, Rebel Wolves has since lightened the system requirements a bit, now only recommending an RTX 4070 Ti for 4K 60 fps gameplay, rather than the RTX 5090 I thought it was going to require at the beginning of the year. And now that I’ve had a chance to play it, I’m pleasantly surprised at its performance, even if the visuals are a little mixed.
Just like a lot of RPGs of this scope...
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Infinity Ward has addressed the state of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's time to kill and tweaked a handful of weapons in a new beta update.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's beta is coming to a close, but Infinity Ward is still updating the hell out of it. The latest update was pushed this morning before the beta officially winds down tomorrow. Per the patch notes, a bunch of weapons have been tuned following feedback from fans, including the ISO Nightshade SMG, which got a slight buff with damage improvements. The PPSH, Krait P68, Han 86, and Hyeon Burst all got various buffs as well, with the latter's headshot damage multiplier increasing from 1 to 1.1.
A handful of weapons got nerfed, but the most notable hit was taken by the M4...
Dean Hall, creator of zombie survival game DayZ and founder of RocketWerkz, seems to have a complicated relationship with his biggest hit, which was first released as a mod for Arma 2 in 2012.
"When DayZ happened, it was like dying," Hall told PC Gamer. "It ended my old life. My relationship with everyone who I knew up to that point changed completely."
"It was obviously an amazing thing that happened to me," he added. "I loved making the mod, and I loved that feeling, and I've been chasing it ever since."
The game started life as a mod for Arma 2 and its expansion pack Operation Arrowhead and was so popular with gamers that just a few months later Hall announced that Arma 2 developer Bohemia Interactive was creating a standalone...
Best Buy just launched its Labor Day sale, and we're already seeing a solid spread of deals on Magic: The Gathering bundles.
There's not too many products included in the sale, but the discounts are particularly big on recent expansions like Secrets of Strixhaven, Lorwyn Eclipse, and Marvel Super Heroes. A decent amount of the discounted bundles are targeted toward beginners, offering you a chance to rip open some packs and start playing immediately.
Naturally, all of the products are listed as "High Demand," meaning Best Buy is expecting them to sell out in the near future.
Best Buy's Labor Day Sale Has Tons of MTG Deals
The discounts are pretty much exclusively on new set releases from 2026. If you’re looking for some booster...
Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee Remastered will take on Grand Theft Auto 6 when both games launch this November, but the team behind the arena fighter said Rockstar's latest title was "never part of our thinking" when choosing a release date.
In case you haven't heard, GTA 6 comes out November 19, a choice that prompted a wave of other publishers to do everything they can to not launch their games anywhere near that date. The belief is the fallout from a game 13 years in the making will consume the weeks before and after its release, but Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee Remastered has emerged as one of the very, very few titles willing to brave the storm.
GTA 6 is indeed primed for an explosive launch, but the team at...
Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons recently released its long-awaited gameplay reveal at gamescom, and it gave us an extended look at main character Kaatri and the powers she has at her disposal.
If you weren’t already aware, Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons is a single-player, third-person, open-world action-adventure game from developer Invoke Studios where you wield forbidden magic to bend the rules, outwit obstacles, and overcome challenges through creativity. Kaatri is the warlock, and the gameplay reveal begins with her and Tasha, her witch queen patron. We see Tasha upgrade Kaatri’s Warlock’s Eye, which allows her to see Raw Magic and is the key to finding new spells and improving the ones she has.
From there, Kaatri moves to Darkon, a...
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If you're deep into the esports scene, you're likely already familiar with the SCUF Gaming brand. SCUF makes some of the best performance gaming controllers on the market. Of course, premium controllers usually command a premium price point, and SCUF is no exception. Its top-end controllers can cost upwards of $200. That's why you don't want to miss out on any opportunity to get one on sale. Fortunately, there's a pretty sweet sale going on right now.
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From now through September 13, SCUF's online store is hosting a Labor Day Sale with savings of up to 30% off its tournament grade VALOR PRO and Envision gaming controllers. The...
Housemarque co-founder Ilari Kuittinen has announced his exit from the PlayStation studio after 31 years.
The Saros developer shared the news with its followers with Kuittinen's final message, confirming today as his last with the team. It's a lengthy letter to fans that saw the studio head wave goodbye after overseeing the launch of arcade-y classics like Saros, Returnal, Resogun, and more.
"After 33 years in the games industry and 31 incredible years at Housemarque—the studio I co-founded with Harri Tikkanen—today marks my last day at the company," he said. "Starting out in 1993 with Terramarque, and then joining forces with Harri to establish Housemarque in 1995, we had a passion for games but no real blueprint for building a...
For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to be perfect for 10 seconds. To write the perfect sentence. One that sings, captures hearts, evokes emotion. To make the perfect play, to eradicate the gap between body and mind and live a complete life in an instant of pure movement. To be, for just a moment, free. There are moments in Onimusha: Way of the Sword where everything else fades. The controller falls away, the universe collapses, and the distance between you and Miyamoto Musashi is annihilated. There is nothing but move and counter move, sword clashing against sword, call and response. You will risk everything for another moment, another chance, and do it again and again until you claim victory or your chances are spent. As long...
Ever since I first got infected with Porphyric Hemophilia in The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind or ran amok in Los Angeles in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, I’ve been patiently waiting for an open-world vampire RPG that I could really sink my teeth into. Frustratingly, despite numerous attempts in all those years, I hadn’t found anything that quenched that long-standing thirst. With The Blood of Dawnwalker, an RPG that shares a ton of DNA with The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt made by some of its former developers, my hunt is finally over. Not only does it take the vampire fantasy to the neck-xt level, it also smartly finds workarounds for some of the limitations that can be a bit annoying (like having to stay out of the light), and...
Sony has confirmed not one but two PlayStation State of Play presentations will air later this week.
As part of a PlayStation.Blog post, the company revealed the first of the two showcases will start streaming this Thursday, September 3, at 6am PT / 9am ET / 3:00pm CEST / 10:00pm JST. It's promised to feature "updates and announcements from PlayStation Studios and our third-party partners" and will end with an "extended look at the vast world" of Square Enix's Final Fantasy 7 Revelation.
Then, immediately after the first show concludes, a State of Play Japan broadcast will begin. Attack on Titan and Octopath Traveler 0 voice actor Yuki Kaji has returned to host the show, which is said to "offer deep dives into upcoming games from game...
This is an IGN opinion piece from Ryan McCaffrey, who worked at Official Xbox Magazine from 2002-2012 during the original Xbox and Xbox 360 era before joining IGN, where he remains “the Xbox guy.” In the run-up to Xbox’s 25th anniversary, he’ll be sharing his memories from the platform’s first quarter-century.
I pushed my way to the front of the line of IGN editors to review South Park: The Stick of Truth in 2014. I’ve seen every episode of South Park before and since. I am of the opinion that show creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are the two premier satirists of our generation. In my view, the puppet-led Team America: World Police is a comedic masterpiece. Heck, I even love the box-office bust the guys starred in back in 1998...
Stellar Blade: Complete Edition is officially coming to Switch 2 in 2026 and, to help with the wait, we're sharing over five minutes of gameplay from this upcoming version and our chat with DongKi Lee, CTO at Shift Up, about what it took to bring this action-adventure title to Nintendo fans.
We had the chance to speak to Lee at gamescom, and he began by sharing what fans can expect when the long-awaited port of Stellar Blade arrives later this year. Oh, and you can check out the new look at gameplay on Switch 2 below!
"As you know, Stellar Blade first released on PlayStation in 2024 and then PC the year after," Lee said. "Within that year gap, we added a lot of content, including two DLCs, additional outfits, and more seasonal...
September is here, hopefully bringing an end to three solid months of UK heatwaves. Judging by the rest of the world, we’re not the only ones ready for things to cool down.
It also marks the beginning of one of gaming’s busiest release periods, with enough AAA games on the horizon to assault your console, PC, and bank balance. Even so, it’s worth making room for the smaller releases that could become your game of the year. Here are some of September’s most interesting indie games.
Grail – 1st September
Grail is a deckbuilding autobattler where your cards do the fighting for you. Your job is to upgrade, enchant, and attach stickers to them, creating cascading effects that can tear through monsters and rival players. Finding the...
Ned Luke, the actor behind Grand Theft Auto 5's Michael De Santa, said people who think Grand Theft Auto 6 looks too much like GTA 5 are "out of their minds."
Luke has remained an important figure in the GTA community since he first appeared as one of three playable professional criminals in the 2013 installment. Now that he and the rest of the world have gotten a closer look at what Rockstar Games is cooking up with GTA 6, he's stepped in to defend it from the naysayers.
One of the many, many talking points to emerge in the wake of last week's GTA 6: Extended Look was that playing as protagonists Jason and Lucia looked a little too similar to the kind of gameplay one could expect from GTA 5. While most seem to believe Rockstar has...
A new weekend has arrived, and today, you can save on Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake, Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Nintendo Switch 2, Resident Evil Requiem, Civilization VII, and more. Check out our top picks for Sunday, August 30, below.
Jurassic World 4K 7-Movie Collection for $69.99
The Jurassic series is home to some of the most iconic movies ever, and today, you can score this seven-film collection on 4K Blu-ray for $69.99. This collection packs in the original Jurassic Park trilogy, plus all four Jurassic World films.
Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake for $39.99
Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake is a very ambitious pair of remakes, breathing new life into these classics. Dragon Quest II...
Fable's main quest will take around 20 hours to beat, Playground Games has confirmed.
Associate game directors Will Kennedy and Craig Littler shared the estimated length for the 2027 fantasy RPG during a group Q&A attended by Polygon at gamescom 2026. While the Xbox and Playground say Fable will have plenty of content to keep players busy for as long as they want, players won't be sinking hundreds of hours into the main story just to reach the credits.
"We have around 15-20 hours of mainline quest gameplay, we have around 15-20 of side and open-world exploration content gameplay," Kennedy said.
As sprawling RPGs have continued to fill the space, that might come up a bit short for what some players were expecting. Open-world games...
4 Penny Coffins is Jack the Ripper Meets Among Us, with a little bit of Psychonauts thrown in for fun. In the upcoming social investigation game, up to 8 players hunt a hidden murderer through lies, shifting alibis, and hard evidence. One of the players is the Ripper, a “gleeful demon concealed behind a facade of humanity,” stalking the winding alleys and rotting byways of 1888 London.
Ahead of IGN debuting 4 Penny Coffins’s gameplay teaser during gamescom 2026, which you can see in the player below, I spoke to Other Ocean Interactive Marketing Manager Jared Petty about the game’s mechanics, unique style (think stylized gore on top of monochromatic photographs), and Tim Schafer-inspired humor.
“It's a goddamn blast,” Petty says...
EA Motive Studio's Iron Man game suffered an unexpected leak, but it may have resulted in Marvel fans being more excited about it than ever.
Leaks in the gaming world are generally perceived as bad. Just look at Grand Theft Auto 6, a game that suffered a waterfall of leaks so significant that it sent Rockstar scrambling to pick up the pieces. When a trailer for Motive's Iron Man game was hit with a leak earlier this week, however, EA chose to handle its unexpected gameplay reveal a little differently.
Unlike GTA 6, Iron Man only had to deal with a controlled (and early-in-development) peek behind the curtain, leaving fans to comb through every second of footage for highlights. Seeing Tony Stark zipping around skyscrapers and dodging...
It's been a tumultuous time for development teams around the Xbox umbrella, including Undead Labs which is in the process of changing ownership amid the "Xbox reset." This left us with tons of questions about the state of its upcoming zombie-survival game State of Decay 3 and if it'd even see the light of day. Well, I played it at gamescom 2026 and I'm happy to report that the short 30-minute demo I saw and went hands-on with shows a lot of promise. Even as an early alpha build, I got a good impression of the improved gunplay and movement, and the general feeling that this is a State of the Decay worthy of the current generation while building on the series' fundamentals.
This is still very much about community management and...
Join Us, the upcoming open-world co-op game where you can start your very own doomsday cult, just dropped a ton of new gameplay as part of IGN's gamescom programming. You can see more than 11 minutes of exclusive footage in the player below, and get a deeper look into just how the game will work.
Earlier this week, developer Wolf Haus games announced that the darkly satirical survival/action cult simulator will be available on PS5 at launch alongside the PC and Xbox Series X/S versions in March 2027. The news of Join Us' PS5 version also featured information on how 4-player co-op will work in both the campaign and free roam.
In addition to the extended gameplay, IGN can exclusively reveal a special video from Wolf Haus showing four...
There are plenty of fantastical creatures to fight in Dragon’s Dogma 2, but nowhere in the base game will you find a dragon that vomits zombies. You will find such a beast in its upcoming Dark Arisen expansion, though, and this winged atrocity marked the final challenge of a 90-minute hands-on demo I played just ahead of gamescom 2026.
The undead barfer easily ranks among Dragon’s Dogma 2’s most hideous foes – a scaly titan with an unsightly face, torn wings, and decaying flesh. At multiple points throughout the battle, it rears back its head to belch a plume of sinister smoke from its rotting maw, out of which skitters a gang of pallid corpses. It’s a creative and horrific way to introduce additional mobs to a boss fight, and for a...
Ryan Laley, the solo indie developer behind upcoming asymmetrical horror game Mimic, has shared a video confirming his gamescom was "cut short" after he and other developers had their laptops stolen.
A teary Laley took to X/Twitter to share a video explaining why his "gamescom is over early," saying that "all our laptops have been stolen" after he and others had their booths "raided" overnight. Bringing Mimic to the Cologne, Germany gaming event meant getting the opportunity to show it off to a new audience of potential partners and eager gamers alike, but stolen gear would bring that dream to an end.
"As an indie, solo dev, this s**t's expensive and hard to do all by yourself," he said. "And to have this happen is beyond frustrating...
Every year, the NBA 2K series, like our favorite NBA teams, teases enough improvements to give us a sliver of hope; a renewed sense of faith that maybe things will be even better than last time. Although that faith was rewarded last year, that hasn’t been the case in the 10 hours I’ve spent with NBA 2K27 so far. While the on-court play does feel better thanks to smoother and more responsive defensive movements, some new features, like MyCareer Eras, are the opposite. Instead, they act like magnifiers, placing a spotlight on issues that have consistently plagued this series, like an ever-growing emphasis on microtransactions. That can turn what should be an energizing session of hoops into a tiring exercise in scrutiny.
Let’s kick...
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It’s been a huge week for trailers, specifically for games (though the entertainment front hardly took the week off). Of course, the big headline from this week is GTA 6. (Did your Netflix break when you tried to log on to watch the Extended Look right when it dropped?) But gamescom has also been busy shelling out one trailer after another since Tuesday’s Opening Night Live. What’s included here is merely a tiny smattering of the biggest hits; you can peruse all of them — there are currently 187 — at your leisure on IGN’s YouTube channel.
Here are the trailers you should watch from this week (and here’s what you missed last week).
Grand Theft Auto 6 extended look
In the trailer event to end all trailer events, Rockstar finally...
Capcom is making thirsty fans’ dreams come true for Resident Evil’s 30th anniversary exhibition, revealing that it will display life-sized statues of Lady Dimitrescu and Albert Wesker.
There’s something for everyone at Capcom’s RE anniversary extravaganza. Coming to the Shibuya BEAM Gallery from October 30 to December 24, the exhibition will feature real-life recreations of iconic items and creatures from the famous horror game franchise, including “life-sized models of villains crafted with meticulous detail,” as told by SaigaNAK.
Two of these villains have been revealed, and the reactions from the internet have not disappointed.
As posted on the exhibition's official website in late August, Resident Evil antagonist Albert Wesker...
Gameplay footage from what appears to be EA Motive Studio's Iron Man game has leaked online.
Video for what seems to be EA's long-in-development Iron Man game started circulating on social media today. It's a bit more than a few cobbled-together clips, too, showing a (very unfinished) project that features not only Tony Stark's Iron Man, but what seem to be a S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier and potentially other characters that Marvel fans may recognize.
The footage, which appeaers to be part of a trailer from an early-in-development build, looks like the kind of thing you'd expect from an Iron Man game. Tony can be seen flying under bridges and through city streets, beating up armored bad guys in between shots of him tinkering on new suit...
Well lads, we've done it. We've landed ashore and now it's time to rush forward into enemy territory for God and King. The rules of engagement are simple: there's only one rule, and that rule… is to have fun. And maybe make some friends along the way? BlackMill Games' Gallipoli, the fourth in its well-established WW1 series, is its best-looking and strongest WW1 project to date, and I'm ready to party like it's 1915. Not only is Gallipoli a step above its predecessors in terms of its graphics and gameplay, it does an exemplary job of conveying a sense of historical accuracy while remaining fun to play. So chaps, keep a stiff upper lip and let's charge into certain doom, shall we?
Gallipoli is set in the Middle Eastern front, the only...
Nvidia debuted DLSS 5 back in March 2026, promising to bring neural rendering to games in order to make them look more realistic. While pretty much everyone hated it, it seems like Nvidia has continued to work on it behind the scenes: It's leaked in a build of the NBA 2K27 beta.
Twitter user @renan_maniero spotted the new DLSS file in the NBA 2K27 early access, called nvngx_dlssnr.dll. The 'nr' at the end there appears to stand for neural rendering. Just finding the file in the game's directory would be one thing, but it looks like some enterprising modders have been able to build it into some other existing games.
Some modders built a DLSS 5 mod and integrated it into Control, which was spotted by Gizmodo. In the initial post on X...