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Daily Deals: Lego Horizon Adventures, Ace Attorney Investigations Collection, Alan Wake 2, and More

The weekend is officially here, and we've rounded up the best deals you can find! Discover the best deals for Sunday, December 15, below: LEGO Horizon Adventures for $39.99 Lego Horizon Adventures is the latest game in the Horizon series, and it marks the first time a Horizon game has been playable on Nintendo Switch. In our review, we wrote, "Lego Horizon Adventures reimagines Horizon Zero Dawn with a playful Lego twist, simplifying the story while keeping the heart of its key moments and characters." Cowboy Bebop - The Complete Series for $17.99 Cowboy Bebop is one of the best anime series ever. Following the adventures of Spike, Jet, Faye, Ed, and Ein, this series is one any anime fan needs to see at least once. We have the...

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Daily Deals: Cowboy Bebop, Roblox Gift Cards, Final Fantasy XVI, and More

The weekend is officially here, and we've rounded up the best deals you can find! Discover the best deals for Saturday, December 14, below: Cowboy Bebop - The Complete Series for $17.99 Cowboy Bebop is one of the best anime series ever. Following the adventures of Spike, Jet, Faye, Ed, and Ein, this series is one any anime fan needs to see at least once. We have the series ranked as the #2 best anime of all time, writing "Cowboy Bebop has had an indelible impact that reaches far beyond anime; everyone from Orson Scott Card to Rian Johnson to Robin Williams have praised the series and cited its influence on their work." Save on Roblox Gift Cards Roblox is one of the most popular games in the world right now, and you can never have...

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Mouthwashing Review

My wife and I are expecting our first child soon, so I’ve spent the better part of a year reflecting on big concepts like leadership, responsibility, accountability, and trust. I’m considering who I am and how exactly I’m supposed to raise another human and not pass on all of my worst traits. It was in this emotionally raw state that Mouthwashing came along and punched me in the face. While mechanically simple – there’s not much to do besides talk to other characters, pick things up, and search the spaceship you are confined to – it tells its story in a way that couldn’t be done without the burden of interactivity, taking full advantage of what sets games apart from the likes of movies or TV. And I don’t use the word burden lightly, as...

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Is Elden Ring Nightreign Starting a FromSoft Multiverse?

For the first couple of minutes, the trailer for Elden Ring Nightreign is… not exactly predictable, but certainly understandable. It’s Elden Ring like we’ve never seen it before, remixed and reassembled, but still unmistakably a return to The Lands Between. And then… is that The Nameless King from Dark Souls 3? And then you rewind and pay closer attention. Yes, that is The Nameless King from Dark Souls 3, and he’s not the only boss from FromSoftware’s back catalogue making a comeback. Another rewind and another closer inspection reveals that friendly NPCs from Dark Souls have also arrived in the world of Elden Ring. Not only that, but even gameplay mechanics from across the developer’s portfolio of work have found their way into this...

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Elden Ring Nightreign Network Test Registration Opens in January Ahead of February 2025 Start

An Elden Ring Nightreign beta test starts in February 2025 with registration opening from January 10, publisher Bandai Namco has announced. The network test is a “preliminary verification test in which the selected testers play a portion of the game prior to the full game launch,” Bandai Namco said in a post on its website. “Various technical verifications of online systems will be examined by conducting large-scale network load tests.” Only the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S are listed as platforms for the network test, which means the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Steam all miss out. Elden Ring Nightreign is FromSoftware’s standalone co-operative spin-off set in a world parallel to that of 2022’s Elden Ring. It was...

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The Elder Scrolls Online Developers at ZeniMax Online Studios Have Unionized

A total of 461 employees of ZeniMax Online Studios have officially unionized under the Communications Workers of America banner, according to an announcement from the union yesterday. The union consists of web developers, designers, engineers, and graphic artists at ZeniMax Online Studios working on massively multiplayer online role-playing game The Elder Scrolls Online. They are mostly located in Maryland, but are also based in various states including California, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wisconsin. Together, the new union will be known as ZOS United-CWA. ZeniMax owner Microsoft has formally and voluntarily recognized the union already, in accordance with its past Labor Neutrality Agreement. "With a union, we are looking...

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Elden Ring Nightreign Features Bosses From Dark Souls

FromSoftware surprised everyone at The Game Awards 2024 last night with the reveal of co-op spin-off Elden Ring Nightreign, but if that's not shocking enough, it also features bosses from Dark Souls. Fans were quick to notice the debut trailer for Elden Ring Nightreign appeared to feature one of Dark Souls' most infamous bosses, the Nameless King from Dark Souls 3, and game director Junya Ishizaki confirmed to Famitsu, in an interview translated by Automaton that baddies from Dark Souls will in fact appear. Their appearances will be limited, Ishizaki said, as they represent creatures that have strayed into this twisted version of Limgrave from other universes. While he only mentioned Dark Souls, this theoretically opens the door for...

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Helldivers 2 Urban Legends Warbond Brings Reinforcements to the Fight Against the Illuminate

With the Illuminate finally live in Helldivers 2, Sony has released the new Urban Legends premium Warbond to aid players in their defence of Super Earth. The arrival of the alien Illuminate invasion fleet also brings with it new urban environments to fight in. These colony planets include narrow streets and close encounters, and so the new additions to the game revolve around a defensive, War of the Worlds-type action. Urban Legends adds Helldivers 2’s first melee secondary weapon, the SQC-19 Stun Lance. This extra-large poker offers good range and pairs well with the SH-51 Directional Shield stratagem, Arrowhead social media and community manager Katherine Baskin said in a post on the PlayStation Blog. As game director Mikael...

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The Last of Us Part 2 Is Officially Coming to PC - The Game Awards 2024

It's official. The Last of Us Part 2 is coming to PC on April 3, 2025, as we learned via a trailer at The Game Awards 2024. Yup, that's The Last of Us Part 2! It joins a growing tradition of Sony releasing its first-party exclusives on PC several years after their launch, which includes Horizon: Zero Dawn, Ghost of Tsushima, Ratchet & Clank: A Rift Apart, and God of War (2018). Earlier this year, reliable leaker Billbil-kun suggested that The Last of Us Part 2 would be the next PlayStation exclusive to join them, and even that development on it was wrapped up. However, it was speculated that its release had been held back to coincide with the 2025 release of season to of HBO's The Last of Us show...which seems to have been an...

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Dispatch Is a Star-Studded New Game With Aaron Paul, Jeffrey Wright, Laura Bailey, and More - The Game Awards 2024

In one of the starrier announcements of the night, Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul and prolific voice actor Laura Bailey took The Game Awards stage to reveal Dispatch, a game with a pretty stacked cast. Along with Paul and Bailey, the voice cast also includes Jeffrey Wright, Erin Yvette, Jacksepticeye, Moistcr1tikal, Alanah Pearce, Travis Willingham, Joel Haver, Lance Cantstopolis, Matthew Mercer, and Thot Squad — so, notably, a solid mix of traditional Hollywood actors and video game- and streaming-adjacent talent. Dispatch comes from AdHoc Studio, which was founded by several former Telltale Games devs. It'll arrive sometime in 2025. We didn't learn too much from the announcement, but from the looks of things, the Telltale DNA is...

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Helldivers 2 Adds New Faction Illuminate in Omens of Tyranny Update, and It’s Out Now - The Game Awards 2024

Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has announced and released the long-awaited Illuminate update, dubbed Omens of Tyranny. Unveiled during The Game Awards 2024, Helldivers 2 has expanded to herald the Illuminate invasion of Super Earth planets in the galactic south. This initial alien force brings with it a number of new enemies to fight against as well as brand new Super Earth colonies to fight on. These colonies introduce Helldivers 2’s first urban environments, with city streets packed with innocent civilians who are mind-controlled by the Illuminate. The Voteless, as they’re called by Super Earth, are little more than zombies who want nothing more than to team players limb from limb. In an interview with IGN, game director Mikael...

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Okami 2 Unveiled at The Game Awards 2024

In an incredible surprise no one saw coming, a big orchestra and a man with a big drum took the stage at The Game Awards 2024 to reveal Hideki Kamiya's studio's new game. And it's not an new IP - much to our delight, it's an actual, real sequel to Okami. Okami 2. We didn't see much of what Okami 2 actually will be during the show. The reveal consisted of some gorgeous music from the aforementioned orchestra and drummer, and a teaser of presumably Amaterasu running through a field toward the horizon. More to come soon, one must hope! Capcom has been seeding the ground for a new Okami, quietly, for a while now. Earlier this year, it polled fans to see if they were interested in an Okami sequel, alongside sequels for Dead Rising, Mega...

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Don’t Compare Mafia: The Old Country to GTA 6, Dev Says — They’re Not as Similar as You’d Think

It seems remarkable that Mafia: The Old Country and Grand Theft Auto 6 may end up releasing within a few months of each other, more remarkable still that they’re both owned by the same parent company. Both games are about crime, murder, and getting up to no good, and while one is set in 1900s Sicily and the other a fictional representation of Miami, you’d be forgiven for thinking the developers of Mafia: The Old Country would prefer a bit more breathing room from the behemoth that is GTA 6. But in an interview with IGN ahead of Mafia: The Old Country’s trailer reveal at The Game Awards 2024, game director Alex Cox and Hangar 13 president Nick Baynes dismissed those concerns, and even distanced their game from comparisons to GTA 6. GTA...

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Mafia: The Old Country Trailer Reveals First Look at ‘Linear, Narrative-Driven’ Sequel, Summer 2025 Release Window Confirmed - The Game Awards 2024

Mafia: The Old Country has a new trailer (officially this time!), offering a first proper look at what publisher 2K and developer Hangar 13 describe as a “linear, narrative-driven” sequel. Releasing in summer 2025 across PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S, Mafia: The Old Country is set in 1900s Sicily, years before the first Mafia game and its sequels. While it occupies a place within the existing Mafia universe, Mafia: The Old Country tells a brand new story with a new cast of characters about the origin of the mafia itself. You play a new, original protagonist called Enzo, who survived a childhood of indentured labor in Sicily’s sulfur mines to join Don Torrisi's crime family. Structurally, Mafia: The Old Country is a...

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The Next Big Sonic Game Is Sonic Racing CrossWorlds - The Game Awards 2024

Sega has announced Sonic Racing CrossWorlds with a fleeting teaser trailer at The Game Awards 2024. It's due out "soon" across PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S, and Nintendo Switch. Be sure to check out IGN's round-up of everything announced at The Game Awards 2024 for more on what's coming to the world of gaming in the years ahead. Developing... Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me. Continue reading...

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Capcom Is Finally Bringing Back Onimusha - The Game Awards 2024

Onimusha is officially back. Capcom announced that the classic action series, which last received a proper sequel on the PlayStation 2, is getting a new entry on modern consoles. The first trailer was shown during The Game Awards 2024, revealing a dark fantasy action game that bears a resemblance to popular Soulslike games. It's being developed for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Steam and is set to release in 2026. "A lone samurai steps forth—his blade sharpened, soul anew. The Onimusha series by Capcom reawakens with Onimusha: Way of the Sword, a brand new title coming in 2026," the official description reads. The original Onimusha: Warlords was released in 2001 and received a remaster in 2019. We wrote in our original review...

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Palworld's Next Expansion Is Feybreak, Arrives This Month - The Game Awards 2024

Today at The Game Awards 2024, Pocketpair brought a brand new trailer for Palworld showing off the game's previously-teased next expansion, entitled Feybreak. Feybreak is scheduled to arrive very soon, on December 23, 2024. Feybreak was teased just last month, referred to as the "largest, harshest, and most mysterious" island added to Palworld so far. It's supposedly six times bigger than Sakurajima, the last new island added. And it's coming ahead of a planned crossover with indie game Terraria, which is expected in 2025. We were fans of Palworld when it first came out in early access, giving it an 8/10 and saying that while it "may crib quite a bit from Pokemon's homework," its "deep survival mechanics and a hilarious attitude make...

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Yakuza / Like a Dragon Dev RGG Studio Announces Project Century - The Game Awards 2024

Yakuza / Like a Dragon developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio has revealed Project Century at The Game Awards 2024, a new action game set in 1915 with some absolutely fantastic vibes. Despite a pretty lengthy trailer, we don't actually know much about what Project Century is. It looks kind of like a classic Yakuza action game, with a tough guy protagonist walking around what we probably can safely assume is Japan, beating people up. But this is much gorier than we're used to seeing, the protagonist seems to be a mystery man we haven't met before, and the Japan we're exploring seems to have some sort of alt-history stuff going on? Neat! Fans will likely be surprised at the announcement given RGG Studio only revealed its last game in...

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Turok Returning as a Co-Op Dinosaur-Hunting Action Game and Ditching First-Person - The Game Awards 2024

Turok is back, but the famous dinosaur hunter is looking a little different. At Thursday's Game Awards, Saber Interactive officially announced Turok: Origins — a "new evolution" of the classic dinosaur-hunting franchise that first debuted on the Nintendo 64 and PC in 1997. In a marked shift for the franchise, Turok: Origins will feature third-person action instead of being a first-person shooter. Additionally, multiplayer will be fully integrated into its main campaign, with Turok supporting up to three players via co-op. Turok: Origins' title hero will don a high-tech "biomorphic suit" that allows him to use DNA captured from enemies, which grant him abilities like the power to summon lightning. It will feature semi-open...

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Elden Ring Nightreign: FromSoftware Game Director Explains Why the Spin-Off Exists, Reveals Whether George R. R. Martin Was Involved, and Why Fans Sho

It’s official: FromSoftware is making a multiplayer Elden Ring spin-off. One of the biggest announcements at The Game Awards 2024, Elden Ring Nightreign is sure to shock fans of FromSoftware’s Souls games. This three-player PvE game is unlike anything the legendary developer has made before, and it’s fair to say it’ll raise more than a few eyebrows across the internet. Ahead of the game’s reveal, IGN’s Tristan Ogilvie got the chance to play Elden Ring Nightreign (check out our impressions here) and interview game director Junya Ishizaki to find out where this surprise departure from the hugely successful Souls formula came from, how it all fits in with Elden Ring itself, and whether it should be considered a live service game. Read...

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Save on Meta Quest 3S, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, and More in The Game Award Sale

In case you hadn't heard, The Game Awards are happening. And to help celebrate the medium we all love, Amazon is running a sale that coincides with the festivities. You can save a bunch of money on a trio of excellent games: Final Fantsy VII Rebirth, Silent Hill 2, and Star Wars Outlaws. And if you're still on the fence about picking up a Meta Quest 3S, Amazon is throwing in $100 in digital credit if you buy one. These are great deals, but they'll only be available for a limited time, and in limited quantities. The Game Awards Sale The PS5 version of Star Wars Outlaws is already gone, so grab any of these deasl while they're available. In case there's any doubt about how good these games and this hardware is, let's take a look at our...

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Elden Ring Nightreign - We Played It!

From the discovery of sprawling, subterranean otherworlds to the startling second phases that completely turned the tables in so many of its boss fights, 2022’s Elden Ring was a mesmerising action RPG adventure that surprised players at almost every turn. Now, more than two years later it appears that developer FromSoftware isn’t done with pulling the rug out from under the feet of its fanbase just yet, with the surprise reveal of Elden Ring Nightreign, a standalone co-op spin-off that takes the cautious dungeon crawls of Elden Ring and turbocharges them into propulsive, slash ‘n’ dash speedruns. After spending some six hours of hands-on time with this bold new spin on FromSoftware’s own Soulslike formula, I can confirm that Nightreign...

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Split Fiction Is Josef Fares' New Co-op Adventure Game - The Game Awards 2024

After both teases and leaks, Hazelight Studios' new game, Split Fiction, has been officially revealed at The Game Awards. Director of Hazelight Studios Josef Fares was on hand to rapidly explain several features of his team's upcoming co-op adventure, which stars two aspiring writers who inadvertently wind up inside the same simulation of one of their stories. Discovering their stories are about to be stolen by a sinister tech company, they need to figure out how to escape "through the very worlds that they created." With each level jumping between a sci-fi world and a fantasy world, Split Fiction also promises unique mechanics for every level, including dragons that emerge as hatchlings before growing into "full-ass dragons" that...

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First Borderlands 4 Gameplay Revealed in The Game Awards 2024 Trailer

Gearbox Software has revealed the first gameplay footage for Borderlands 4 as part of a brand-new trailer shown at The Game Awards 2024. Following on from Borderlands 4's initial reveal at Gamescom, the new trailer offered fans a glimpse of what to expect from the hotly-anticipated sequel. Among other things it showed snippets of first-person shooting and a few returning characters, including Claptrap. Here's the official blurb from Gearbox: Gearbox co-founder Randy Pitchford heavily teased the trailer in the run-up to The Game Awards, promising that it would include a "never-been-seen original cinematic sequence depicting a moment that occurs about halfway between the end of Borderlands 3 and the beginning of Borderlands...

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The Outer Worlds 2 Reemerges With a Brand New Trailer - The Game Awards 2024

After several years of silence, Obsidian has reemerged with a new trailer for The Outer Worlds 2, giving us our first look at gameplay and confirmation that it'll be arriving on Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, Steam, and Game Pass in 2025. Watch the trailer below: The Outer Worlds 2 was first announced in 2021 as part of...wow, here's a throwback, the last-ever E3. At the time, we didn't know much, just that the game would feature a similar sense of humor to its predecessor. There's a bit of that in this new trailer, with the voiceover telling fans to "get ready for an adventure that took three times longer to make but will almost certainly be two times bigger." Otherwise, we just got a quick look at gameplay that's pretty similar...

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Split Fiction First Preview: We Played Josef Fares’s New Co-Op Game

I went in almost completely blind to my meeting with Josef “F*ck the Oscars!” Fares to play his new game, Split Fiction. I knew the title, and I knew that it was, to no one’s surprise, another co-op game, as has become his calling card after Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, A Way Out, and It Takes Two. That’s it. So when he fired up the build, put one of the controllers in my hand, and we started to play it together, I was probably as surprised as you were when you watched the reveal trailer at The Game Awards. It’s absolutely nothing like his previous games – thematically and most definitely visually – and it’s clear that with each new game, Fares and his team at Hazelight are giving players more and more agency over what’s happening on...

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Elden Ring Nightreign is a Standalone Co-op Spin-off - The Game Awards 2024

Developer FromSoftware and publisher Bandai Namco have announced Elden Ring Nightreign, a standalone co-operative spin-off set in a world parallel to that of 2022’s Elden Ring. Revealed with its debut trailer at The Game Awards 2024, Elden Ring Nightreign allows players to team up with two co-op partners and drop into a condensed map based on Elden Ring’s Limgrave area, with enemies and structures that are randomised at the start of each session. From there, players must hustle to defeat enemy camps and find more powerful weapons, so that when nightfall comes they have a better chance of surviving a challenging boss encounter. If players survive for three in-game days, they must take on a major boss, with eight major bosses to be...

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Thick as Thieves First Look: It Takes the Spirit of the Classic Thief and Makes it Multiplayer

Game design legend Warren Spector is known for pioneering the “immersive sim” genre – most famously the original Deus Ex, with Ultima Underworld paving the way prior to that – but now he wants to modernize it in a way he’s never tried before: multiplayer. The result is Thick as Thieves, a four-player, session-based PvPvE stealth-action game that harkens back to the original 1998 single-player stealth classic Thief: The Dark Project while adding elements (like cross-play across PC and consoles, for example) that modern audiences expect. “We wanted to create a game that was stealth-action, and not just stealth with slower pacing, ” Spector explained. The Austin-development-scene fixture is joined by fellow industry veteran Greg...

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The Next Game From the Developer of Sifu Is an Online Multiplayer Soccer Game - The Game Awards 2024

Sloclap is going in an unexpected direction with its Sifu follow-up: an online multiplayer soccer game called Rematch. Sifu is a beat 'em up set in China that revolves around cool martial arts action. Unveiled at The Game Awards 2024, Rematch is a new arcade take on soccer due out in the summer of 2025 on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S. A beta is planned for the spring. The Paris-based Sloclap, big fans of soccer and of course the French national team, has created a short, fast-paced 5v5 match experience that uses a third-person camera rather than a fixed camera. The debut trailer is below: As you can see from the footage, Rematch is set in caged virtual reality arenas, with no fouls and thus no penalties, no offsides...

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Secret Level Pac-Man Episode Is Getting Turned Into a Metroidvania With Katsuhiro Harada Producing - The Game Awards 2024

Secret Level's Pac-Man episode is getting its very own game. Titled Shadow Labyrinth, it picks up the story of the darker and edgier version of the classic Bandai Namco character. Like the Secret Level episode, you take the role of a character running a maze; their only goal being to "eat." Based on the trailer, it looks to be a Metroidvania — a marked shift for the classic franchise. Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada is among the developers involved with the development of Shadow Laybrinth, which is being made using Unity. Bandai Namco tells IGN that Shadow Labyrinth has been in development for about four years and that the Secret Level episode was made in conjunction with the game. We admittedly weren't the biggest fans of the...

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