Double Fine Productions, who recently regained the rights to its entire catalog following its pivot back to independence after Microsoft parted ways with several studios during its "Xbox reset," is honoring Tim Curry by making Brutal Legend free to download and own on PC for 666 minutes – until 3:06am PT/6:06am ET on Thursday, August 27.
Curry, who passed away today at the age of 80, voiced Doviculus in Double Fine founder Tim Schafer's 2009 heavy metal strategy game Brutal Legend. "Rest in peace, dark prince," the company wrote on its itch.io page where you can download the game on PC. IGN's own Daemon Hatfield loved Brutal Legend, giving it a 9 out of 10 in his review. "Brutal Legend is a tour de force that wraps up humor, music, and...
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Silent Hill producer Motoi Okamoto says that Konami is gunning for annual releases of new games in its flagship horror franchise.
Okamoto divulged this news in an interview with Gamesradar at Gamescom 2026, explaining that Konami is looking for fresh takes on the well-trodden beats of the Silent Hill series to keep it from stagnating.
"Our aim is to, hopefully, have an annual release of new games," he told the outlet. “If we stay laser-focused on the same American setting, that would exhaust [narrative] possibilities, and also potentially cause fatigue for the playerbase."
Okamoto also confirmed that several unannounced Silent Hill projects are currently in development. "There are still many projects that are still [in] the works...
At Gamescom Opening Night Live, CD Projekt Red announced The Witcher 3 Remastered is coming out on September 29. It will be free for everyone who already owns The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, or PC – even if you have a PS4 or Xbox One version of the game. And if you own it on Switch, you’ll be able to get the remastered game for free on Switch 2. Oh, and the two existing expansions are also free for all owners of the base game now. It's madness. The main question I had was, how will all this work? You can find the answers below.
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If you own the Switch version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, you’ll be able to get a free copy of The Witcher 3 Remastered for Switch 2.
If you own a digital copy of the...
Auroch Digital and Big Fan Games have confirmed award-winning composer Mick Gordon has contributed a new track to its upcoming ’90s-inspired boomer shooter Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2.
The first taste of the original track can be heard behind today’s new release date trailer for Boltgun 2, which is blasting its way onto PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S on October 14. It was additionally confirmed Boltgun 2 will also be coming to Switch 2 “shortly after” its debut on other platforms. The trailer showcases the first footage of the game’s chief antagonist, Vashtorr the Arkifane – described as the “daemonic demigod of inventors, engineers, scientists, and artisans.”
IGN’s latest preview of Boltgun 2 found it “brings the grimy...
Here’s something I never thought I’d say: the upcoming Call of Duty game is now available to preorder for a Nintendo console. Granted, Microsoft said it would do this, but hearing it and seeing it are two different things. The game in question is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, and the Nintendo platform is the Switch 2. You can preorder it now at Best Buy. It costs $69.99 and is out on October 23.
Preorder Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 (Switch 2)
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However, it’s definitely worth noting that physical copies of the game do not come on a game card. It’s not even a Game-Key Card. This is just a code in a box. So you’ll have...
It has been a long time since a soulslike truly humbled me. After a decade of playing FromSoftware’s games and their flock of imitators, I’ve earned a more-than-solid understanding of how to achieve victory without hurling a controller into the TV. It turns out there is some truth in the “soulslikes aren’t actually hard” line that the genre’s most battle-hardened fans parrot on Reddit – after you’ve mastered the fundamentals, climbing the Souls mountain isn’t quite the impossible challenge it first seems.
Guns of Eschaton isn’t your typical soulslike, though. It’s a first-person shooter set in an apocalyptic weird west, a setup that means a great deal of your third-person melee-focused muscle memory is utterly useless here. While it...
Final Fantasy VII Revelation Gets Pending Mature 17+ Rating, and Fan Theories Are Already Going Wild
Final Fantasy VII Revelation is available to wishlist on all major platforms, and fans have noticed that its pending rating on the Xbox store is a bit more intense than they expected.
Set to release in Spring 2027, the last entry in the Final Fantasy VII Remake Trilogy wraps up the saga for Cloud and company in their quest to protect the planet from the incoming Meteor.
We’ve gotten a few glimpses at gameplay over the last few months, showing off submarine combat, traversal via the Highwind, and an explanation of the new FITS system — but none of these point to a Mature rating.
That’s the current predicted rating that’s listed on the game’s Xbox page, which says, “Rating pending, likely Mature 17+.” As clarified by the ESRB’s rating...
Key Preview Takeaways:
The scale and detail of the battles simultaneously is very impressive.
Being able to jump into a commander at ground level for more of a third-person action mode is really cool.
It's got plenty of cool stuff but it'll put the "early" in Early Access if you decide to jump in before 1.0.
Chronicles: Medieval is one of those incredibly dense strategy games that almost immediately feels intimidating to try your hand at just because of how complicated and meticulously detailed it is. Sure, sending hundreds of your Holy Roman Empire soldiers over a hill to go lay the smack down on those smarmy Frenchmen sounds great, but are you prepared to spend hours obsessing over whether or not your mercenary troops have the...
Key Preview Takeaways:
I only got to try the 1v1 Skirmish mode on two different maps.
Visually, War for Westeros adopts the look and feel from the show, with heroes like Jon Snow and Tywin Lannister both looking like their respective actors.
The camera was problematic in my preview build.
Having grown up in the ‘90s, an era when base-building RTS games were far more prevalent than they are today, I have a special fondness for this variety of strategy game. So when a new one gets announced nowadays, the wave of nostalgia washes over me, and I take notice. That’s exactly what happened when PlaySide announced the upcoming Game of Thrones: War for Westeros RTS back at Summer Game Fest 2025. Recently, I had a chance to ride into battle...
Frosthaven is one of the best board games on the market. It served as a follow up to the immensely popular Gloomhaven board game, and is one of the most imposing dungeon-delving board games you can buy. It's also really quite expensive.
It's not often that we see any sort of discount on this game, but Amazon currently has a Lightning Deal running that drops it down to its lowest price ever. For a limited time (or while stock lasts), you can pick up this massive board game for $153. The discount is set to expire around 7:45pm PT or when the deal is fully claimed.
Frosthaven comes as an enormous box full of stuff. There's an incredibly thick rulebook, decks of cards, trays, dividers, a map, and miniatures. All-in-all, there are a few...
Massive Entertainment, developers of Tom Clancy's The Division 2, announced a new DLC for the long-running online action-RPG/third-person shooter at a community panel at Gamescom. The new expansion is called Echoes of Central Park, and a full reveal will happen on September 24.
The Manhattan-set live-service game will finally head into Central Park due to a distress call from inside it. Echoes promises a darker tone wrapped in fear and mystery, with neither players nor their in-game avatars sure about what's inside or what Central Park has been like since the outbreak.
Massive promises ample replayability for this DLC, including "a few twists" to give gameplay a unique feel. Speaking of gameplay, the developerse also want to lean...
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 will be playable on Nintendo Switch 2 for free this weekend.
Starting Friday, August 28 at 10 AM PDT, Nintendo Switch 2 players will have the opportunity to try Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 for free. The beta's second weekend will kick off, giving Nintendo fans the opportunity to try a level from the game's campaign, multiplayer, and even the battle royale, Warzone.
The Switch 2 version will boast unique features such as gyro controls, Joy-Con mouse controls, and, of course, being able to play the game on a handheld. Additionally, Switch 2 players will get free access to the game's Vault Edition content during the beta. This includes access to special skins, weapon blueprints, and more. Players can...
Publishing platform indie.io will be on hand at gamescom and PAX West in the coming weeks, and it’s bringing six games for people to try out in person. But if you’re not one of the lucky people who can be there yourself, don’t worry: all six games have free demos you can play on Steam right now, no badge or ticket required.
As tends to be the case with indie.io, their selection of games covers a wide range of genres. There’s everything from a cozy vineyard château builder to a brutal turn-based roguelite RPG. There’s a little something for all kinds of gamers, and you can try out all of them right now.
Monster Park Tycoon
If you watched IGN’s recent Indie Loop showcase, you would have seen this game under another name. Formerly...
We got off to such a great start this year, with a ton of PC games that looked great and still ran well on pretty much any hardware. One of the common themes among games like Crimson Desert, Resident Evil Requiem, and Forza Horizon 6 was that none of them were running on Unreal Engine 5. And just like Halo: Campaign Evolved last month, Star Wars: Zero Company is a great example of why I'd love it if developers simply abandoned Epic's engine altogether.
I've spent about five hours in Zero Company so far, and while that means I'm still pretty early in the otherwise fantastic game, I've still run into more than my fair share of technical issues, across all types of hardware. When the game isn't bugging out in some way, I've been having a...
I tend to appreciate risky new ideas over safe sequels, so I was pretty interested to see what the Plague Tale series would be like without its signature tornadoes of man-eating rats. But while Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy makes plenty of intriguing changes, like its focus on a different protagonist and all-new cast of supporting characters, most cause it to fall short of capturing the same magic as its predecessors. This prequel story moves away from rat armies into more ancient, unexplored horrors that don’t live up to the high standards of the series, and its shift from stealthing around as a conflict-averse child to straight up knifing folks to death in melee combat never quite works when the fighting itself is too bare bones to...
I’ve been an XCom fan for years, and while we haven’t got a new one in a while, Star Wars Zero Company seems like the perfect substitute. It’s in the Star Wars universe, which is awesome, and putting it in the middle of the Clone Wars makes it the perfect setting for a tactical game like this. And while I’ve been having a blast with it so far, it’s plagued with a lot of the same performance issues as Halo Campaign Evolved had about a month ago.
At the time of writing, my time with Zero Company has been a bit of a nightmare, filled with crashes and frame drops. I’m sure that, over time, the game will be patched to be a bit more stable, but right now, it doesn’t exactly play nice with low-to-mid-range hardware. I’ve even had some issues...
Key Preview Takeaways:
The core gameplay hits that nostalgic Crazy Taxi note.
Visuals are a bit bland.
There's not enough of the specific around-the-world locations built into the maps.
One of the defining games of Sega’s Dreamcast back in the day was the arcade driving game, Crazy Taxi, first released more than a quarter of a century ago. With its fantastic soundtrack and its frenetic driving, it is about as quintessential “early 2000s” as you can get with a video game, and it has been 12 years since the last game released bearing the Crazy Taxi banner and double that since the last console release. Recently, Sega had us out to get a little hands-on time with the brand new entry, Crazy Taxi: World Tour, that was first announced...
During the gamescom Studio livestream, IGN exclusively revealed the trailer for LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight Deluxe Edition - Mayhem Collection DLC, which features an exciting look at the new story mission starring Harley Quinn and The Joker, the Mayhem Mode, and the Sinister Pack.
LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight's Mayhem Collection DLC will be available to all Deluxe Edition owners for no extra cost on September 18, 2026, which also happens to be the same day the game launches on Nintendo Switch 2.
The big addition in the DLC is that new story mission that stars Harley Quinn and The Joker, which will see the pair working together to "orchestrate a breakout from Arkham Asylum with a going-away party Gotham City won't...
It makes a lot of sense that Star Wars Zero Company is the result of a collaboration between developers of XCOM 2 (now at Bitreactor) and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (at Respawn). Those two excellent games couldn't be much more different from each other, but their strengths come together here to create a great-looking, clever tactics game that also tells one of the better Star Wars stories we've seen since Rogue One. Excellent characters, writing, music, and cinematic flair give context and weight to a campaign that centers around a diverse group of mercenaries, with Force powers and lightsabers refreshingly taking a back seat to blasters and thermal detonators. And while its turn-based gameplay is instantly familiar to XCOM veterans like...
Geralt carefully circles the Swarmion, his steps slowly overlapping as he sizes up his foe. The creature could be easily mistaken for any generic fantasy undead or humanoid mutant, were it not for the cloud of hornets that swarm around its torso – a bizarre form of armour by any stretch of the imagination. But our Witcher is as resourceful as ever. He switches his silver sword for a chain, swinging the hooked end round and round as he chooses his target. The creature's legs, or its head? The answer is obvious. The hook sinks into the fleshy neck and pulls taught, wrenching the creature out of the hornet swarm and pulling it directly into the path of Geralt’s blade. Blood plumes from its neck. The head falls with a dull thud.
The silver...
My earliest video game memories are tied to the Blue Bomber. Barely four years old and playing through Mega Man 2 and 3 on the NES, I somehow made my way through their challenging levels. I won’t say that at that age I could comprehend the precision engineering behind their action-platforming, but I always knew there was something about those games that just felt fantastic. Fast forward 30 years, and I found myself sitting in Capcom’s offices feeling the same sensation. Mega Man: Dual Override understands that it's part of a series built firmly on its tight gameplay foundations, and from my brief time going hands-on with it, it’s looking like a worthy return for Dr Light’s most loyal creation.
As much as things change, they stay the...
Beer, swearing, and aggressive strangers. Just your average Thursday night in a North London pub. Turns out fantasy isn’t too far from reality, though, with a stroll around Fable delivering the exact same ingredients for an eventful afternoon. A hands-off presentation at gamescom 2026 gave me new insight into developer Playground Games’ Albion and the stories taking place in it. Here, I’ll walk you through everything that was shown, ahead of me going hands-on with Fable and its combat systems later — stay tuned for my impressions of that very soon. For now, it’s time to take a trip through Bowerstone and see what a full quest brings with it.
For those uninitiated in the original Fable trilogy, Bowerstone is the capital of the fantasy...
Key Preview Takeaways:
The setting has jumped way into the future
It's using the new WarCore game engine.
Customization for units is a welcome addition, though it's a bit bare-bones at the moment.
Ever since Creative Assembly released the first Total War: Warhammer back in 2016, the part of the community more interested in its futuristic sibling has been clamoring for a version set in the 41st Millennium of the long-running tabletop miniatures series. It may have taken longer than folks would have liked, but Total War: Warhammer 40K is on the horizon, and during a recent event, I had a chance to go hands-on with an early build of the strategy sequel, purging some savage Orks and spreading the word of the God Emperor. The build I got...
Key Preview Takeaways:
A new breadcrumb trail that leads you to your next quest or objective is a nice accessibility feature, but we hope there's an option to turn it off for players already familiar with Persona 4.
The big new combat feature in Revival comes in the form of “Prime Time,” a sort of super-mode that you can activate after filling a special bar.
The new voice acting is a bit of an adjustment, but we liked what/who we heard.
Last year’s Persona 3 Reload was a modern revamp of the game that wound up defining the core pillars of what the Persona would become. P3 Reload proved that Atlus could modernize its older Persona titles while maintaining its feel and identity, and now it’s Persona 4’s turn with Persona 4 Revival...
Key Preview Takeaways:
The graphics are entirely new, but the underlying classic gameplay has been preserved.
The UI has also being redone, bringing it up to modern standards from its MS-DOS-era origins.
The remake awesomely supports all of the old original and community-made maps.
In a year where Ubisoft announced and shipped the Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag remake, a revival of Heroes of Might and Magic 3 might not be the highest-profile remake project, but it’s an appreciated one nevertheless. While the announcement did not mince words about the scope and scale of the project — the 1999 title is being brought back to life for both PC and consoles — IGN got to go hands on with the game in a remote session to see how this version...
At gamescom 2026, Kabam and Herobeat Studios revealed a brand-new gameplay trailer for Wilderings that unveiled a fiery new Volcanic biome, a first look at Röhe the Moth Boss, and the confirmation that the open-world action-adventure game will be launching its Version 1.0 update in spring 2027.
Wilderings, which also encourages exploration and features fast-paced action, roguelite progression, and creature collecting, follows Abi and her companion Rif as they traverse a fractured world that is quickly being consumed by darkness.
To help in her journey, she will discover and adopt mysterious creatures known as Hântu, which she can use to help her fight, get through tough spots with their abilities, and to move about the world. In this...
After finishing the four-or-so-hour preview build of Metro 2039, the upcoming first-person shooter sequel from Ukrainian developer 4A Games and falling completely in love with it, I reached out to the team to ask some questions about how they've approached the latest entry in their post-apocalyptic franchise – both in terms of the game itself, but also in terms of how their real lives have changed since Russia's invasion of their country in 2022.
"First of all, it's impacted the team," said creative director Andriy "MLS" Shevchenko. "The world changes the team completely, their way of being, their way of thinking, and their way of understanding what's going on in general. So automatically it brings new visions and new philosophy into...
Key Preview Takeaways:
Metro 2039, very refreshingly, doesn't hold your hand. It throws you straight into the deep end.
Gameplay variety was fantastic during my 3-4 hour hands-on; I was rarely doing the same thing for very long.
Metro 2039 blew me away with its handcrafted hellscapes, intense combat, and attention to detail.
I’ve spent about 3-4 hours with Metro 2039 so far, and it’s already healing me even as the in-game version of me, dubbed The Stranger in this sequel, struggles to breathe through a gas mask whose filters don’t last long, thus requiring me to craft new ones from items scrounged by scouring every last inch of its post-apocalyptic world as the countdown timer on my wristwatch constantly ticks down, threatening to...
Key Preview Takeaways:
Showa's delightfully odd take on pop culture makes it unique.
Combat depth and mechanical feel are lacking in its present state.
It's genuinely funny (in a good way).
Showa American Story is, if nothing else, a profoundly wacky action-RPG. Five years have passed since its initial reveal in 2021, and with barely any updates in recent years, players have been left wondering: In an era where the Chinese AAA single-player market is rapidly expanding, can a game with such an eccentric tone actually carve out its own identity?
We recently had the chance to go hands-on with about two hours of Showa American Story. Based on an introduction by Creative Director Xiangyu Luo and our own gameplay experience, here is what...
Konami is partnering up with a celebrity kitty named ‘one-eared Uno’ to debut a special Metal Gear cat toy collection available at CatCon 2026.
If you didn’t know there was a cat convention, now you do. CatCon is a yearly event that brings together cat lovers from all over the globe to Pasadena, California, featuring special exhibits, workshops, adoption drives, and meet-and-greets with celebrity cats.
One of those cats, affectionately named ‘one-eared Uno,’ and her owner, Kat Curtis, will host a special meet-and-greet event at the Konami booth at CatCon this year to celebrate the release of some special Metal Gear-themed cat toys.
These offerings include cat scratch boxes modeled after the iconic cardboard boxes that Big Boss and...