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With Assassin's Creed Shadows getting delayed into 2025, it is now in direct competition with Ghost of Yotei, the Ghost of Tsushima sequel announced during yesterday's Sony State of Play. The move begs comparison between the two, as they're both games set in feudal Japan and feature classical images of ninjas, samurai, and ronin. But despite the similarities, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot says there's room enough for two big open-world action-adventure games set in Japan. "There's a lot of space for very high-quality games, and those two games can sell very well," Guillemot said. On what differentiates the two, Guillemot focused on Assassin's Creed Shadows' dual protagonists, which allows players to take control of either a ninja or a...
In a note to investors on Wednesday, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot acknowledged that the company's "second quarter fell short of expectations" and vowed to launch "a review aimed at further improving our execution." But Guillemot also addressed some of the cultural conversations happening around the company lately, which have intensified around Star Wars Outlaws and the upcoming Assassin's Creed Shadows (which was delayed to February 2025 today) in particular. "We remain committed to creating games for fans and players that everyone can enjoy.” "Finally, let me address some of the polarized comments around Ubisoft lately," Guillemot said. "I want to reaffirm that we are an entertainment-first company, creating games for the broadest...
Ubisoft is returning to Day 1 Steam releases starting with the recently-delayed Assassin's Creed Shadows, a move that is seemingly in response to softer-than-expected sales for Star Wars Outlaws. The shift reflects the dominance of Steam as well as some pretty major changes that are happening within Ubisoft. Earlier this week, Steam broke its record for PC players online, hitting 38,366,479 concurrents. The move is seemingly an acknowledgment that any PC game that doesn't launch on Steam is going to leave behind a significant portion of the audience. Ubisoft isn't the only company embracing Steam. Blizzard, which once kept its exclusively on Battle.net, announced that Diablo 4 would be coming to Steam almost exactly one year ago...
Ubisoft has admitted its open world Star Wars Outlaws has underperformed and announced a Steam release date alongside. A financial update from Ubisoft announced a number of significant changes at the company including the delay of premiere title Assassin's Creed Shadows. This came alongside word that Star Wars Outlaws had a "softer than expected launch" and a November 21 release date for Steam. "Despite solid ratings (Metacritic 76) and user scores across the First Party and Epic stores (3.9/5) that reflect an immersive and authentic Star Wars universe, Star Wars Outlaws initial sales proved softer than expected," Ubisoft said. "In response to player feedback, Ubisoft’s development teams are currently fully mobilized to swiftly...
Alientrap Games has announced DuneCrawl, an upcoming open-world online co-op privateering adventure where you and your friends explore the sand seas aboard your Dune Crawler, a huge walking crustacean outfitted with cannons and treasure maps. It's due out in the first half of 2025 on Steam. The developers say, "Travel through sprawling, lush, hand drawn environments to unfold the story surrounding the mystery of the Dune Crawlers. Interact with quest-giving NPCs, defend the local towns from bandits, discover hidden plunder, ride armored scarabs and defend your title as the greatest freebooter this side of the seven sands." Check out the announcement trailer above and the first screenshots in the gallery below. More succinctly, an...
Somewhat famously, the fourth game in the Dragon Age series has gone through a lot of changes in the ten years since Dragon Age: Inquisition. What’s now known as Dragon Age: The Veilguard began development in 2015 and in that time, reports emerged of Dragon Age 4 going the live-service route, with a heavy multiplayer component. The eventual confirmation that EA would let BioWare go full single-player with Dragon Age 4, keeping with the series’ history, led to a major sigh of relief from many fans. And when I got my hands on the game last month for our IGN First coverage (read my full preview here), I struggled to catch any whiffs of its multiplayer past in the gameplay, so I can only imagine the overhaul that was done behind the...
The Metaphor: ReFantazio Prologue Demo is available today across Xbox, PlayStation, and PC, developer Atlus has announced. The demo is already available on Xbox Series X and comes to PlayStation 5 and PC very soon at 9am Pacific / 12noon Eastern / 5pm UK. It features a sizeable chunk of the incoming fantasy role-playing and progress will carry over to the main game upon its October 11 launch. "In the Prologue Demo, players can experience some of the early game narrative, explore social elements, and discover the city as they get a head start on their adventure ahead of the October 11 launch," Atlus said. The demo includes the first four dungeons; the ability to unlock seven of the more than 40 classes, called Archetypes; an...
Ubisoft has delayed Assassin's Creed Shadows by three months. The open-world adventure game was due out November 12, 2024. It now launches February 14, 2025. In a statement, Ubisoft said it needs more time "to polish and refine the experience, pushing further some of our key features." Meanwhile, Ubisoft confirmed that Assassin's Creed Shadows will release on Steam, unlike the company's previous major release, Star Wars Outlaws. Preorders will be refunded, and all future preorders will be granted the first expansion for free. 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...
Sony's latest PlayStation live stream has come to an end and we've gathered all of the news and trailers from the event today. The September Sony State of Play yesterday focused on updates about upcoming PS5 and PS VR2 games and we got a closer look at how the PlayStation 5 Pro is enhancing games. You can dive into all of the latest PlayStation news and trailers from the show below, and we will continue to cover any new developments about these games on IGN as we learn more. Ghost of Tsushima 2 Announced as Ghost of Yotei Arguably the biggest announcement from the show yesterday was that the sequel to Ghost of Tsushima will be arriving in 2025. The new game will be titled Ghost of Yotei and focus a new protagonist, Atsu. The...
The PlayStation 5 Pro has officially been revealed, and developers will be releasing new-and-improved modes for their games that will take advantage of all that new horsepower. But what will it mean, really? At a recent PlayStation 5 Pro preview event, we spoke with the technical leads of some of PlayStation’s biggest games, including Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, The Last of Us Part 2, and others, to discuss what improvements we can expect to see now that there’s a more powerful PlayStation 5 on the market. There are three key features of the PS5 Pro as explained by lead architect Mark Cerny during the announcement presentation. The upgraded GPU will allow for 45% faster rendering for gameplay, advanced ray tracing will create better...
Capcom has released the Monster Hunter Wilds PC system requirements after revealing the game's release date at the PlayStation Showcase last night. An update to the game's website revealed the specs, confirming both the minimum and recommended requirements. It also revealed Monster Hunter Wilds will require 140GB of SSD storage to run. To run the game at minimum settings, meaning at an upscaled 1080p resolution and 30 frames per second, players will need an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Super or AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT graphics card. As for the processor, players need an Intel Core i5-10600, Intel Corei3-12100F, or AMD Ryzen 5 3600 alongside 16GB of RAM (6GB of VRAM). Running Monster Hunter Wilds at a full 1080p resolution and 60 frames...
The creator of the high-profile God of War Ragnarok PSN-bypass mod has reportedly pulled it offline without explanation. Just days after the PlayStation game God of War Ragnarok launched on PC to a ‘mixed’ Steam user review rating over its forced PlayStation Network account linking, a mod was released that bypassed the requirement entirely. Sony had made it clear on the God of War Ragnarok Steam page that a PlayStation Network account would be required to play Sony Santa Monica’s purely single-player adventure, but that failed to prevent a number of negative reviews singling out the policy. One modder going by the name iArtorias took matters into their own hands by stripping out the PSN requirement. iArtorias’ NoPSSDK mod, which...
The Legacy of Kain franchise is enjoying a major resurgence in 2024. Fresh off the reveal of Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver 1-2 Remastered at Sony's latest State of Play, Dark Horse is debuting a pair of killer statues featuring series icons Kain and Raziel. Check out the slideshow gallery below for an exclusive first look at the Legacy of Kain: Kain and Raziel statues: These statues previously appeared in prototype form at SDCC 2024 (where they inadvertently leaked the existence of Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver 1-2 Remastered), but now they're available to preorder exclusively on the Dark Horse Direct website. The two polyresin statues will be sold separately but are designed to be displayed as a diorama, depicting a major battle between...
One of the most impressive mechanics in Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is its Tyranid swarm technology. Built upon the tech used to power swarming zombies in developer Saber Interactive’s World War Z, it sees hundreds of the terrifying xenos swarm not only in the distance but close to you and your squad mates. It’s an incredible sight to behold: the Tyranid swarm crashing over the landscape in the distance and, closer to the player, clumping together to climb walls or emerge from higher-up platforms before assaulting the Space Marine squad’s position. It adds a sense of scale and impending doom to Space Marine 2, and makes some of the game’s set pieces truly memorable. What’s more, you can actually shoot individual Tyranid units as...
Palworld’s long-awaited PlayStation 5 release shadow-dropped yesterday, September 24 after an announcement during Sony’s State of Play broadcast, but while gamers in 68 countries worldwide were downloading the survival and crafting game dubbed 'Pokémon with guns' on PlayStation, Japanese gamers were blocked from doing so. The official Japanese Palworld account tweeted that the game’s PS5 release in Japan “has not yet been decided” but failed to explain why. "We apologize to everyone in Japan who was looking forward to it, but all of our staff will do our best to deliver it to PS5 users as soon as possible, so we hope you will wait for a little longer," read the statement. "We look forward to your continued support of Palworld." It...
Konami has released a chunky PC patch for the Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1 which brings it to version 2.0.0. The Metal Gear Solid website said the patch is currently only available on PC via Steam but coming to other platforms at a later date. It coincides with the release of Steam Trading Card and Badges support, though this isn’t unlocked via the patch itself. Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty is perhaps getting the most changes. These include expanded screen settings to include resolution options, the ability to switch cutscenes between their original version and a high resolution version, and additional control settings. Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is also getting the expanded screen settings and controller...
Mortal Kombat 1 developer NetherRealm decided on its next game three years ago, Ed Boon has confirmed. In a tweet, Boon said NetherRealm planned to support Mortal Kombat 1 “for a long time to come,” after an interview with ComicBook quoted the developer as saying “NetherRealm's next game has been in development for three years.” “Love the fact that there is excitement for our next game,” Boon later clarified. “And I don’t want to be a stickler for words... “But we haven’t been working on our next game for three years already. The actual quote was that we knew what our next game was going to be three years ago. “NetherRealm is still fully committed to supporting Mortal Kombat 1 for a long time to come.” Boon’s comments come as...
The self-inflicted video game leaks are showing no signs of slowing down as Microsoft has now leaked a handful of Minecraft reveals from the September 28 Minecraft Live showcase. Reddit user ozzAR0th spotted an update to the Minecraft Live website that included a 'Watch the Highlights' section as if the showcase had already wrapped. “Get the latest and greatest news from this year’s show,” it said. These highlights will include “a first look at the pale garden and its hostile mob, the creaking,” though no further details were shared on what this possible biome and baddie will be. The showcase will also reveal “insight into bundles and Hardcore mode.” Finally, fans can expect more information on the somewhat infamous A Minecraft...
Welcome back to saving a bunch on top games while reminiscing on the retro greats that made us. I'll be your host for today's discounts, which include a slightly cheaper Black Myth: Wukong and $12 VR games for anybody who bought a PS VR2 to play the best of PCVR. That's what I'll be buying 'em for, at least. In olden times news, I'm equipping the Grunt Birthday Party Skull for Halo 3's 17th. The AU launch for this was more or less a life event for myself and many of you—to the tune of 50K units ($6M) sold in 24 hours. Perspective check: That was one-in-four Xbox 360 owners, and a bigger dollar debut than the previous title holder, The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (the film). Personally, I was stoked to finally "finish the...
Sony has announced the PlayStation Plus monthly games for October 2024 at today's State of Play, which will be available from October 1 through November 4, 2024. The biggest edition to the line-up is WWE 2K24 on PS4 and PS5, which IGN gave an 8/10 in its review and compared to its predecessor saying, "While not drastically different, WWE 2K24 is better in almost every way, touting small but smart additions to well-tested systems and modes as opposed to taking bigger risks." Next up is last year's remake of Dead Space on PS5, which we gave a 9/10 and called "a superb remake and undoubtedly the definitive way to experience one of the best survival horror shooters that Capcom never made." Finally, PS Plus users will get access to Doki...
The upcoming LEGO-Horizon crossover, LEGO Horizon Adventures, received a release date: it will be released on November 14 for PS5, PC, and Nintendo Switch – matching the date that Sony accidentally leaked last month. LEGO Horizon Adventures, a family friendly take on Guerrilla's two-game (so far) series about Aloy and her survival in a world taken over by machines, was announced back in early June. We got to play it in June; check out our preview impressions. We also wondered about who exactly this game is for – though it is pretty cool that everything in the game could apparently be built out of real-life LEGO sets. Catch up on everything announced at today's State of Play livestream. Ryan McCaffrey is IGN's executive editor of...
Sony has confirmed that Horizon Zero Dawn will be the next in its string of remasters, officially unveiling the project at today's State of Play. Its release date is October 31. The new project will include 10 hours of re-recorded dialogue along with other visual enhancements. Those who already own the PS4 version will be able to upgrade for $9.99. While this is the studio's first official look at project, Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered was seemingly accidentally confirmed last week via an ESRB rating. A remaster had been heavily rumored for some time before that, however, with reports of its existence stemming back to 2022. Those rumors only ramped up back in May after Sony pulled Horizon Zero Dawn from PS Plus. Sony hadn't...
During the Sony's September 2024 State of Play livestream, Capcom showed a new story trailer for Monster Hunter Wilds. But the big news was the reveal of the game's launch date: the Monster Hunter Wilds release date is February 28, 2025, and it'll be available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. For a recap on everything else, check out our roundup of everything announced during State of Play. This story is developing. Continue reading...
We already knew Keanu Reeves would be voicing Shadow in the upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog 3, but he's taking his voice talents to Sega's video games as well. Announced during today's Sony State of Play (in a moment of pure "wait, was that Keanu?"), Reeves will voice Shadow as part of an upcoming Sonic x Shadow Generations DLC, the "Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Movie Pack." Interestingly, the update will arrive on December 12, a week before Sonic the Hedgehog 3's release on December 20, and be inspired by scenes in the movie. It's certainly the latest big development in what Sega's dubbed "The Year of Shadow," — and really, it's hard to get a bigger headliner for it than Reeves. We first learned that Reeves would be playing the famous hedgehog...
During a segment featuring PS5 Pro architect Mark Cerny in today's Sony State of Play, a number of games were confirmed to support Sony's upcoming mid-gen refresh console, including Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Metal Gear Solid Delta, Resident Evil 4 Remake, and Assassin's Creed Shadows. Cerny referenced his 10-minute presentation from earlier this month in the new State of Play before teeing up a montage of big-name third-party games that will support Sony's $700 enhanced PS5. Though we haven't yet played them on PS5, we have recently had hands-on previews with Dragon Age: The Veilguard (twice, in fact) and Metal Gear Solid Delta, which we felt was an incredibly faithful remake for better and for worse. Resident Evil 4 Remake...
Just days after Nintendo sued developer Pocketpair for alleged patent infringement, Pokemon-with-guns game Palworld has appeared at Sony's State of Play in a surprising shadow drop: the game is out on PS5 at last, starting today. The monster battling adventure materialized during the State of Play today featuring a player character cheekily designed to look rather like Horizon: Zero Dawn's Aloy, complete with a team of pals. We didn't really see any new game details in the trailer, but it concluded with the message that the game is out today on PS5. Palworld's release on PS5 comes just after the news that Nintendo and The Pokemon Company are filing a lawsuit against developer Pocketpair, alleging that Palworld infringes on multiple...
The Screen Actors Guild — American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) has officially called a strike against League of Legends, with the union saying that a company that produces the game, Formosa Interactive LLC, tried to subvert the ongoing video game strike. SAG-AFTRA posted a strongly worded statement on its website today, accusing Formosa of “a flagrant violation of labor law.” According to the statement, Formosa allegedly tried to “cancel” one of its struck video games after the start of the strike. When the company was told that was not possible, SAG-AFTRA says, Formosa “secretly transferred the game to a shell company and sent out casting notices for ‘NON-UNION’ talent only.” SAG-AFTRA calls the alleged...
Activision has announced all the changes coming to Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Multiplayer based on feedback to the recent beta. Black Ops 6, due out October 25, has Multiplayer developed by Treyarch, with the Campaign developed by Warzone developer Raven. Treyarch outlined the various changes to Multiplayer that will be made in time for Black Ops 6’s release date. The developer also addressed the ongoing community debate about the size of the multiplayer maps after the beta maps revolved around very small, often chaotic close quarters gameplay. Treyarch insisted the majority of Black Ops 6’s 12 core 6v6 maps at launch are medium-sized, and that the eight maps in the beta “trended smaller in size” and included some Strike maps...
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