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Civilization 7 PC Specs Revealed: Here are the Requirements for Minimum, Recommended, and Ultra Settings

Publisher 2K Games and developer Firaxis Games have published Sid Meier’s Civilization 7 PC requirements ahead of its launch early next year. The team behind the latest addition to the historically based 4X series detailed minimum, recommended, and ultra settings for PC users in a post on X/Twitter. It’s an extensive list of everything players need to know before they plot a course for their grand global plans, letting them know what they’ll need if they want to dive in when launch arrives in February. Although Civilization 7 is also scheduled to come to MacOS and Linux/SteamOS, 2K says it doesn’t have requirements to share for these platforms “at this time.” A full list of everything you need to know about the PC version of...

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We Asked the Monster Hunter and Sonic Devs About the PS5 Pro, and They Had Very Different Answers

The PlayStation 5 Pro has divided fans since it was announced in September, and game developers have differing outlooks on the new premium console as well. Speaking with the developers behind Sonic the Hedgehog and Monster Hunter Wilds during Tokyo Game Show 2024 last weekend, each expressed interest in the added power the PS5 Pro affords. But when it comes to what it means for their individual games, their opinions start to diverge. Monster Hunter series producer Ryozo Tsujimoto errs on the positive side, saying that Wilds team knew they definitely wanted to support the PS5 Pro as soon as they learned about it. Developed on the powerful RE Engine, Monster Hunter has lately been known for its graphical prowess, making the PS5 Pro a...

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Metal Gear Solid Delta's Modern Camera Made the Game So Easy Konami Bumped Up the Difficulty

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater (officially Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater) is a remake of the original Metal Gear Solid 3 that adds a full third-person mode to the game, but being able to run and gun made it so easy Konami manually bumped up the difficulty. In an interview with Famitsu translated by Automaton, creative producer Yuji Korekado discussed the two gameplay modes available in Metal Gear Solid Delta: Legacy Style and New Style. The former is an exact recreation of the 2004 game, essentially a top-down camera with a fixed perspective, while the latter features modern gameplay in a third-person mode. Another difference between the two modes is that New Style gives players the ability to move while aiming and shooting...

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Synduality Echo of Ada Preview: Mech-ing a New Friend

Synduality Echo of Ada is a curious game with a post-apocalyptic world, mechs, and idyllic AI companions. It even has its own anime tie-in called Synduality Noir. To be honest, it hadn’t even crossed my radar until recently, but after spending some time with this PvPvE extraction shooter and talking to the developers, I’m intrigued, to say the least. I played the first hour or so of Synduality Echo of Ada, the same portion that was recently available during the closed network test. The game begins with a condensed history told with comic book-like storyboarding. Many years ago, the world as we know it was destroyed after a poisonous rain called The Tears of the New Moon not only decimated the population, but spawned vicious monsters...

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Rogue Waters: A Pirate Roguelike With Plenty of Story

If you yearn for the thrill of seafaring adventures and the power to summon mythical beasts like the Kraken, Rogue Waters is your ticket to pirate paradise. As its name suggests, Rogue Waters is a roguelike, but one with a heavier emphasis on story than a lot of others in the genre. You take control of […] Continue reading...

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Tales of Graces f Remastered Hands-On: A Tasteful Modernization of a Classic RPG

Tales of Graces f is often heralded as having the best combat of the long-running action-RPG series, and it’s unfortunately been “stuck” on the PS3 - at least over in the West, since its initial release here in 2012. Bandai Namco only just announced Tales of Graces f Remastered, and it’s being released on pretty much all platforms–Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S|X, and PC. I had the chance to go hands-on with Tales of Graces f Remastered and talk to the game’s producer, Yuki Ishikawa. In Tales of Graces f Remastered, Asbel Lhant makes many lifelong friends as a child. There’s Hubert Lhant, his brother; Sophie, an amnesiac; Cheria Barnes; a girl from his village; and Richard, a prince from a neighboring kingdom...

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Avatar: The Last Airbender Is Getting a AAA RPG With Saber Interactive and Paramount Game Studios - EXCLUSIVE

Avatar: The Last Airbender is getting its first AAA game, IGN can exclusively reveal. Paramount Game Studios and Saber Interactive announced today a new action-RPG based in what's called in the Avatar Legends universe, the label based on the world first introduced by Nickelodeon's Avatar: The Last Airbender. It's in collaboration with Avatar Studios, the division launched by original show creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko in 2021 with the goal of expanding the Avatar universe. It's still in early development, so details are a little slim at the moment, but the companies call it "the biggest video game in franchise history." It will be made for both PC and consoles and tell a new story in the universe that's being...

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Konami Says Remaking Metal Gear Solid 1 Would Be Harder Than Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

Konami has said remaking the first Metal Gear Solid would be much more complicated than its incoming remake of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. In an interview with Famitsu translated by Genki on X/Twitter, Metal Gear Solid series producer Noriaki Okamura didn't shut down the possibility of other remakes but made clear they wouldn't be coming anytime soon. This is because a remake of the first Metal Gear Solid, alongside the original two Metal Gear games released for the MSX2 and Nintendo Entertainment System, would require the creation of many brand new elements. Remaking the third game as Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater (officially Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater), was seemingly much simpler, and previews for the game have...

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God of War Ragnarok 'Please Shut Up' Mod Turns Off All Companion Puzzle Hints

God of War Ragnarok is now available on PC and, while Sony itself released an option to tone down puzzle hints from companions, one fan has released the Please Shut Up mod to cut them altogether. Though 2022's God of War Ragnarok was incredibly well received, selling a whopping 11 million copies in less than three months and earning a 10/10 in IGN's review, one gripe players had was with companions throwing out puzzle solutions before players had a chance to solve them themselves. Sony took action almost two years later by releasing a feature that would "reduce the frequency" of these hints, but this is only available in the PC version for now. NexusMods user Mophead01 said these changes did "little to resolve the problem," however...

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Throne and Liberty’s First Post-Launch Patch Includes Bug Fixes for the UI, Settings, and Performance Improvements

Throne and Liberty developer NCSoft has released the Amazon Games-published MMO’s first post-launch patch, 1.1.0. It includes bug fixes for the user interface and settings, and performance improvements. It's worth noting that on PS5 specifically, patch 1.1.0 makes optimizations to reduce screen tearing issues, and on Xbox Series X and S, it increases the resolution of the world map. Throne and Liberty got off to a huge start on Steam this week, with a peak concurrent player count of 326,377 putting it behind only Valve’s own Dota 2 and Counter-Strike 2, and the evergreen Banana. While Throne and Liberty also launched on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S, Sony and Microsoft do not make player numbers public. Its early performance...

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Blizzard Releases Game-Changing Diablo 4 Patch Notes for 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 Ahead of Vessel of Hatred’s Launch

Blizzard has detailed what to expect from Diablo 4’s upcoming Vessel of Hatred expansion and Season 6 Hatred Rising, and published the patch notes for both the 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 updates ahead of launch. The patch notes for both updates, below, contain a long list of changes coming to Blizzard’s record-breaking action role-playing game alongside Season 6, called Hatred Rising, which kicks off October 7 at 4 pm PDT. Vessel of Hatred, Diablo 4's first expansion, officially goes live alongside Season 6 on October 7 at 4pm PDT globally. During a pre-launch livestream, developers from Blizzard outlined the post-patch 2.0 Public Test Realm (PTR) changes, which touch on everything from progression and itemization to class balance and...

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Save 100 Bucks on a Steam Deck OLED, 180 off a Meta Quest 3, FC25 for $59, and More!

Welcome to a Thursday of high-end hardware savings. For starters, you can get a chunk of change off the sumptuous screen stylings of the Steam Deck OLED. For seconds, there's a bit of a fire sale going on for the discontinuing Meta Quest 3 128GB. Take it from an owner of both; these are very worthy acquisitions and gateways to hours of fun. In retro news, I’m celebrating the PC bday of Sonic CD, a port from the ill-fated Mega-CD. It started as a Sonic 1 enhancement but bloomed into a unique, Back to the Future romp, and my 16-bit brain was blown by this version’s superior 60fps, CD crisp soundtrack, anime cutscenes, and the Super Peel Out mechanic. It also debuted Amy Rose, Super Mario Kart-looking Special Stages, and the coolest...

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Steven Spielberg Apparently Won't Play Uncharted Because He's a Big PC Gamer and Only Likes Mouse and Keyboard

Steven Spielberg's love of video games is well-documented. There are numerous pictures of him posing next to classic arcade games like Donkey Kong, Missile Command, and Space Invaders, and he's been involved in various video game-related projects over the years, including directing the film adaptation of Ready Player One. But while many adults lose their passion for gaming as the grow older, Spielberg is apparently still at it. There's just one thing: he doesn't like controllers. "He loves story games and I'm always trying to get him to play Uncharted because it's Indiana Jones and I'm like, 'Hey, you'd appreciate this.' But he's like, 'I can't do controllers. I can only do keyboard and mouse,'" said his son Max Spielberg, himself a...

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The Witcher 3 Gets Spooky With Slew of Halloween-Themed Mods

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt modding community is embracing spooky season by releasing a slew of Halloween-themed mods for the beloved role-playing game. October is now upon us and NexusMods users are getting ready for All Hallow's Eve by turning the nine-year-old The Witcher 3 into a fall wonderland complete with pumpkin patches and black cats, with help from developer CD Projekt Red's official modding tool REDkit. Setting the scene is ShapranArt's Fall Is Coming mod, which predictably turns the green trees of The Continent into hues of orange and brown. Farmers' fields across Temeria and Redania will also sprout pumpkins instead of their usual crops. NexusMods user lisembart97 has paid particular attention to the famous Inn at the...

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Larian Studios Head Suggests Next Game May Come in 2029, but Maybe Not: ‘Don’t Hold Us to a Date’

Larian Studios head Swen Vincke suggested during an acceptance speech at an awards ceremony in Malaysia today that fans could expect the studio’s next game in around 2028 or 2029. Speaking on stage at the SEA Game Awards 2024 where the company received a Special Recognition Award, Vincke said, “We need to work hard on the next game so we can be back here in five years”. But speaking to IGN immediately afterwards, he walked it back, saying with a chuckle, “I knew you’d pick up on that. It was just a joke. I don’t know, we’ll release it when it’s ready. They’re big games and it takes time, so don’t hold us to a date.” Larian Studios opened multiple development studios around the world to aid with the development of Baldur’s Gate 3, as...

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Final Fantasy 14 Pauses Housing Demolition in the Wake of Hurricane Helene

Square Enix is temporarily suspending the auto-demolition of houses in Final Fantasy XIV in the wake of Hurricane Helene, which devastated several states in September. The developer wrote in a post on Lodestone, "From all of us on the FFXIV development and management team, our hearts go out to those who were affected late last month by Hurricane Helene in North America. Due to the damages and other factors, we have decided to temporarily suspend the automatic demolition of estates." Housing demolition is an automatic process in Final Fantasy XIV, and will happen if you don't set foot in your house for at least 45 days. The idea is to give other players a chance to claim the parcel of land, which is a hot commodity in Eorzea. Indeed...

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Until Dawn Remake Leak Reveals Revamped Intro in 3 Hours of PS5 Gameplay

Close to three hours of gameplay from the PlayStation 5 and PC remake of Until Dawn has been streamed on Twitch, revealing the revamped opening of the fan-favorite horror game. Insider Gaming spotted Twitch user Nikolai7PT streaming two hours and 47 minutes of the remake ahead of its October 4 release date. The stream begins from the very beginning of Until Dawn so covers everything from the title screen up to Chapter 3. It's therefore the first look at the new prologue created by remake studio Ballistic Moon. We won't spoil how it unfolds here, but creative director Neil McEwan previously said it had "given the Washingtons extra screen time to explore their close family bond and get to know them a little better." Ballistic moon...

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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 Devs Threaten to Take Action to Prevent Toxic Behavior: 'You Don’t Want to Insult Henry Cavill'

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 developer Saber Interactive and publisher Focus Entertainment have issued a warning to toxic players, saying they really do not want to find themselves insulting Henry Cavill. As revealed last month, Warhammer 40,000 superfan Henry Cavill is very much enjoying Space Marine 2. In an Instagram post, the Superman and Witcher star praised the developers at Saber for the action game set in Games Workshop’s grimdark universe, although revealed he failed to complete the campaign solo on the Angel of Death difficulty, which is the hardest of the four difficulties available. As we can see from the photo above, Cavill was smart enough to paste over his username with the word “nope.” Yes, that means you could...

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Frostpunk 2 Dev Delays Its Next Game, The Alters, to Early 2025

Frostpunk 2 and This War of Mine developer 11 bit studios has announced a delay to its next game, The Alters, from the fourth quarter of 2024 to the first quarter of 2025. In a statement sent to Polish finance publication bankier.pl, 11 bit studios president Przemysław Marszał said the delay was necessary to improve the quality of the game. "The production schedule for The Alters was very tight,” Marszał said. “There was uncertainty as to whether the developers would have enough time to complete all the work in the quality we all expect. After so many years of production, the risk that the game will have any shortcomings is unnecessary for us.” The Alters is a survival video game set for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S...

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PSA: Silent Hill 2 Remake Spoilers Have Leaked Online

Those looking forward to Bloober Team's remake of Silent Hill 2 may want to brace for jump scares as basically the entire game has now leaked online. While Silent Hill 2 originally launched 23 years ago and Bloober Team has vowed not to change the story, there's perhaps not as much risk for spoilers as brand new games. But plenty of players will be experiencing the survival horror classic for the first time through the remake, and Silent Hill 2 plot points will be appearing on social media instead of just in wikis and playthroughs. Some fans have already received the game ahead of its October 8 release date, with physical copies seemingly shipped early once again proving the cause. Others, like Luke76bg on ResetEra, posted a...

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In Defence of Alien: Isolation

Across the many stories set in the Alien universe, there’s evidence to suggest the xenomorphs are part of some kind of hivemind that, at some level, operates as a collective consciousness. The same cannot be said for IGN: This website is the work of a large group of individuals with varied – and sometimes directly conflicting – perspectives on pretty much every single game. But a review, by its very nature, can only reflect the perspective of one person. A decade ago, our own Ryan McCaffrey gave Alien: Isolation a 5.9 in his review, noting that, among other things, its genuine scares were “diluted by repetition and padding.” He wasn’t alone in that reaction, and other major review outlets gave it similar scores for similar reasons...

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After Laying Off 830 Employees, Tim Sweeney Says Fortnite Maker Epic Is Now ‘Financially Sound’

Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney has insisted the company is now “financially sound” after a tumultuous period in which 830 staff were laid off. In September 2023, the North Carolina studio behind Fortnite and Unreal Engine suffered a significant round of layoffs that saw 830 employees, about 16% of its workforce, lose their jobs. Separately, Epic divested music service platform Bandcamp and spun off most of SuperAwesome, a kid-safe technology company. These were acquired by Epic Games in 2022 and 2020, respectively. Around 250 people left Epic through the divestitures. At the time, Sweeney said Epic had been spending “way more money than we earn, investing in the next evolution of Epic and growing Fortnite as a metaverse-inspired...

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Lords of the Fallen 2 Enters Full Development as CI Games Reveals New Details

Lords of the Fallen publisher CI Games has confirmed the 2026 sequel has entered full development while revealing a handful of details about the action role-playing game. Eurogamer spotted the tidbits in CI Games' latest financial report, where the publisher revealed Lords of the Fallen 2 (for lack of an official name) will have a "more commercial" art style and narrative, suggesting it wants the game to have more mainstream appeal. CI Games also promised gameplay improvements, more game mode options, and full "shared-progression" co-op alongside the "core" single-player campaign, all developed with "elevated production values" fueled by Unreal Engine 5. The publisher confirmed it had received a "major investment" from Epic Games...

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Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree Patch 1.15 Fixes Bugs and Makes Performance Improvements

Elden Ring developer FromSoftware has released patch 1.15 for the action game and its expansion, Shadow of the Erdtree across PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S, and PC via Steam. Patch 1.15 comes hot on the heels of Elden Ring’s big balance-changing 1.14 update, and thus does not contain any further balance changes or additional features. Check out the patch notes below, courtesy of publisher Bandai Namco. Elden Ring is one of the biggest video games of recent years, selling an incredible 25 million copies since going on sale in 2022. The Shadow of the Erdtree DLC is a hit, too, selling five million in just three days despite tough requirements. IGN's Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree review returned a...

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Amid Nintendo’s Pokémon Lawsuit, Palworld Dev Pocketpair Signs Deal for Mobile Version

Palworld developer Pocketpair has signed a deal with PUBG company Krafton to develop a mobile version of the hit game. Krafton, fresh from acquiring Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks from Microsoft, has now inked a licensing agreement with Pocketpair to expand the Palworld intellectual property to mobile devices, Gematsu reported. Krafton’s subsidiary PUBG Studios will develop the mobile version of Palworld, which reimagines and adapts the core gameplay elements for mobile. No release window was mentioned. PUBG Studios is the development arm behind the phenomenally successful battle royale as well as its equally successful mobile versions. Indeed, PUBG Mobile has had over one billion players since launching in March 2018. The...

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Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Director Stepping Back from Sequel After Cancer Diagnosis

Castlevania veteran Shutaro Ida has announced that he will be stepping back from work on Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night 2 following his recent cancer diagnosis. The game developer, who worked on a long list of entries in Konami’s Castlevania series and more recently directed 2019’s Bloodstained, announced the news in a post on X/Twitter. He says he’ll be offloading some of his responsibilities with the rest of the team at developer ArtPlay now that he has begun his cancer battle. “I, SHUTARO, also known as Curry Boy and Curry Sage, have been diagnosed with cancer and have begun my battle with the disease. I have already started talking about the sequel to Bloodstained, and have ideas for the game and such. From now on, the...

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Throne and Liberty Rushes to #4 on Steam Charts After Release Despite Server Issues and Mixed Reviews

Throne and Liberty is off to a very strong start. The new MMORPG by NCSoft and Amazon Games has already rushed to number four on Steam, behind only Dota 2, Counter-Strike 2, and that one banana game. At the time of this article, Throne and Liberty sits at around 292,116 concurrents, putting in the top half of the list of Steam's ten most popular games. Its early performance is all the more impressive in light of mixed reviews, most of which have focused on its server issues and microtransactions. Indeed, server issues seem to be the biggest problem facing Throne and Liberty, with fans complaining about spending 45 minutes creating a character only to get disconnected. What's more, it doesn't appear possible to choose a different...

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The Sims Community Is Blowing Up Amid Project Rene Leaks Suggesting Big Changes Are in Store

Nearly two years ago, EA began teasing Project Rene, a new installment in the Sims series that most players assumed would end up becoming The Sims 5. However, in the wake of EA announcing that it did not have plans for The Sims 5 last month, a new set of screenshots from Project Rene have leaked, and the community is upset over some pretty big presumed changes that have been made since the game's reveal. Over the past week, several apparent images from a recent playtest of Project Rene have leaked online, showing off some of the game's new features for the first time. While Project Rene is still in development, quite a few players have taken to the internet to criticize its altered art style, limited scope, and apparent use of...

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Baldur's Gate 3's Big Evil Endings and Mod Patch Is Officially Out on Console

Console-playing Baldur's Gate 3 fans no longer have to look at PC players in envy — Patch 7 is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and Mac today. Highlights of the patch include 13 new endings for players doing evil runs, including unique new endings for each Origin character, as well as revamped split-screen. But the real highlight is the new Mod Manager, allowing console players to take advantage of the bevy of mods players have made for the hit RPG. Patch 7 hit PC a little less than a month ago, bringing with it the official mod toolkit. Since then, Larian says on its Steam page, players have uploaded 1,000 mods and racked up more than 15 million downloads. While console players can't use the official toolkit to create...

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Baldur's Gate 3 Players Have Downloaded More Than 15 Million Mods Since Patch 7 Arrived

Baldur's Gate 3 players have uploaded more than 1,000 mods and downloaded more than 15 million since Larian Studios released an official toolkit alongside Patch 7 on September 9. This is only on PC too, as Larian shared the stats alongside announcing the highly anticipated Patch 7 arrives on console today. "We’ve watched as you’ve customised your dice with flames and iridescent pearl, lightened the load of gold in your packs, and adjusted your party limit from 4 to 16. Because who needs personal space anyway?" Larian said in a Steam post. Patch 7 hitting consoles also means mods do too, of course, meaning these numbers will likely increase exponentially. The 1,000 uploads and 15 million downloads is only counting the official...

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