Spoiler warning: The below interview contains FULL SPOILERS for Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard finally debuted this Halloween, concluding with an intense final act full of shocking twists and devastating consequences. Unsurprisingly, choice and consequence both ended up being integral threads in the fabric of the game. Whether it’s sacrificing one city to save another, deciding the future of the griffins, or, yes, choosing just what happens to our bald elven antagonist Solas, you’re making some pretty big moves on the continent of Thedas.
Fans have been quick to theorize what we might expect in a potential Dragon Age 5, especially after the massive reveals we got in this installment of the series. While DA5...
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Going all the way back to Origins, your choices – and the consequences of those choices – have been a major part of Dragon Age history, with each player character making decisions that have massive implications on the world of Thedas. Did you have the old god baby with Morrigan in Origins? Did you side with the mages or templars in Dragon Age II? Did you drink from the Well of Sorrows in Inquisition? And, for the love of The Maker, who did you smooch?
In line with that theme, starting with Inquisition, you could actually import your world states from previous games via BioWare’s online database, The Keep. That means if you did have the old god baby with Morrigan, the kid could actually show up in Inquisition, along with many other...
One of the best deals in gaming skipped the whole Black Friday/Cyber Monday cycle and plopped itself down on the internet this morning. Woot (a deals-centric retailer owned by Amazon) has brought back a super low price on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. You can get a 3-month subscription for just $33.99. And if you’re a new customer, you can enter code GAMEPASS at checkout to get an extra $5 off, knocking it down to $28.99. Either way, that’s the best deal you’re going to find on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate anytime soon, and it happens to line up nicely with the release of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.
3-Month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Subscription for as Low as $28.99
Woot looks pretty barebones for a retailer, but it's owned by Amazon, so...
Path of Exile 2 developer Grinding Gear Games has confirmed plans to make the Early Access launch available to pre-download, and announced the game’s global release times.
Path of Exile 2 is GGG’s hotly anticipated free-to-play action role-playing sequel set years after the original game. Players return to the world of Wraeclast and seek to end a spreading corruption, with six character classes, each with two Ascendancy Classes, available to play at the launch of Early Access later this week. There’s co-op for up to six players, but you can play solo. Check out IGN’s Path of Exile 2 preview, where we gave the Mercenary class a whirl and got a first look at the endgame, for more.
In a forum post, GGG said it’s making the standalone PC...
In a recent behind-closed-doors demo, we played a section of Monster Hunter Wilds and asked the developers about changes made to weapons and other systems, the biggest being the separation of Equipment Skills between weapons and armor. Read on for more details.
As I played the demo, I realized major changes have been made to the Skills system, where damage-increasing skills and weapon-specific skills like Attack Up and Focus can only be found on or applied to the weapons themselves – a pretty impactful change.
Watch new gameplay of Monster Hunter Wilds above, including footage of Seikret and camp customization.
This is the new Equipment Skill system. In interviews, the dev team referred to skills for your weapons casually as...
Ubisoft is officially discontinuing XDefiant in 2025, the publisher announced Tuesday, with all new purchases and registrations being discontinued immediately. As part of the shutdown, the publisher plans to shut down its production studios in San Francisco and Osaka while ramping down its site in Sydney, with up to 177 employees losing their jobs. Roughly half of the XDefiant team will be assigned roles elsewhere.
Chief Studios and Portfolio Officer Marie-Sophie de Waubert revealed the news in an email sent to Ubisoft employees that was subsequently posted online, saying that the shooter was "not able to attract and retain enough players in the long run to compete at the level we aim for in the very demanding free-to-play FPS...
Nighdive Studios seems to have quietly announced a The Thing: Remastered release date of December 5, 2024.
It’s a launch plan that will see the survival horror reimagining arriving later this week if the release date promised in a recent Xbox Wire post is accurate. The post, which was published late last week, specifically covers new Xbox game releases from December 2 through December 6, mentioning titles such as The Thaumaturge, Marvel Rivals, and early access for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. Considering Nightdive has yet to announce a proper date and its official Steam page still says launch is simply “coming soon,” The Thing: Remastered’s inclusion should raise some eyebrows.
Nightdive announced its latest remaster at IGN...
Microsoft has announced the games coming to Xbox Game Pass in December 2024, headlined by Indiana Jones and the Great Circle but also including the likes of Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is the highly anticipated release from Wolfenstein developer MachineGames and is Indy's first proper foray into the video game space. Players are tasked with uncovering one of history's greatest mysteries in the first person single player adventure, and arrives as a day one title on December 9.
"Generations of gamers both new and old should care [about this game]," IGN said in our preview. "Because as good as the studio’s recent Wolfenstein reboots were, The Great Circle might be even better."
Crash Team Racing...
Microsoft has revealed the games leaving Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass in December 2024, with titles such as Rise of the Tomb Raider and The Quarry both leaving.
The Xbox Game Pass website has been updated to reveal a total of 13 games are leaving the two services: seven on Xbox Game Pass and six on PC Game Pass. Forza Horizon 4 is also leaving, though this was announced alongside a complete delisting in June.
Those looking to continue playing the leaving games, with the exception of Forza Horizon 4, can buy them outright for 20% off their full price until their delisting date in the next two weeks.
All Games Leaving Xbox Game Pass in December 2024
Amnesia: The Bunker
Forager
Forza Horizon 4
The Quarry
Tin Hearts
Rainbow Billy...
The world’s pre-eminent snake-fearing archaeologist is making his long-awaited return to the world of video games soon but what if you can’t wait? Well, thankfully if you’re a big fan of hats, melting Nazis, and finding things that should be in a museum, then we’ve got good news because the world is full of games […]
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“First-person shooter” is a broad term. It can mean everything from a monster-filled horror game like F.E.A.R., to a sci-fi adventure like Metroid Prime, to a demon-eviscerating romp like Doom. Even narrowing it down to a label like “military FPS” still puts the linear campaign of Call of Duty, the enormous PvP clashes of Battlefield, and the white knuckle extractions of Escape from Tarkov under a single umbrella. Delta Force, the latest entry in a now 26-year-old shooter series, is probably best defined as a bit of each of those last three – with a dedicated large-scale PvP mode, a separate extraction shooter mode, and an (as yet unreleased) campaign, it sits somewhat awkwardly at the center of a that Venn diagram. It is still too...
Intel has finally announced the Intel Arc B580 and B570 next-generation graphics cards. Built on its 'Battlemage' architecture, they are both budget-friendly GPUs aimed at making PC gaming just a bit more accessible.
The Intel Arc B580 and B570 follow in the footsteps of the A770 and A750, which were both aimed at 1080p gaming, with some light ray tracing thrown in for good measure. With these next-generation cards, Intel has introduced a new architecture, along with new XMX AI cores that should make the next iteration of XeSS (Xe Super Sampling) much more competitive with Nvidia's DLSS and Sony's PSSR.
The Intel Arc B580 features 20 Xe-Cores across 5 compute units, or as Intel calls them 'Render Slices'. Each Xe-Core features 8...
Elden Ring director and FromSoftware president Hidetaka Miyazaki has said the developer is not currently considering making Elden Ring 2 but won't shut down the possibility in the future.
Miyazaki said at the PlayStation Partner Awards 2024 Japan Asia, attended by IGN Japan and translated by Automaton, that FromSoftware has several projects in the works but none are continuations of Elden Ring, its most successful game to date.
"We’re not really considering developments such as an Elden Ring 2," Miyazaki said, though made clear FromSoftware is open to returning to the Elden Ring franchise "in some form in the future." The projects in development are works in progress at the moment but diverse in genre, with some directed by Miyazaki...
Developer Infold Games has revealed the preload and global release times for Infinity Nikki, the open-world dress up role-playing game from former The Legend of Zelda director Kentaro Tominaga coming to PlayStation 5, PC via the Epic Games Store, iOS, and Android.
The highly anticipated sequel, which logged more than 35 million pre-registrations in its lead up to launch, is now available to preload, meaning players can download it ahead of time to begin playing the moment becomes available on December 5, or even December 4 in some locations.
Infold Games released a story trailer to celebrate this preload availability, which can be watched below, and also announced some bonuses players who pick up Infinity Nikki at launch can enjoy in...
GSC Game World creative director Maria Grygorovych shows me a message on her phone. It’s proof, she says, that she’s telling me the truth about Stalker 2’s A-Life 2.0 system. The message is about why mention of A-Life 2.0 was pulled from Stalker 2’s Steam page and replaced with a generic description about the way AI works in the game. It turns out that Maria found out the description had changed when she saw players complaining about it on Reddit.
Stalker 2 launched late last month to a positive reception on Steam and one million sales. It’s a success for the Ukrainian studio, a miracle, really, considering the harrowing circumstances that followed Russian’s full-scale invasion of the country in 2022. Stalker 2 suffers from...
The Game Awards has revealed 30 games nominated by fans as part of the Players' Voice Award — a fan award that is selected through the official website.
As expected the selections include many of the most popular games released in 2024, including official Game of the Year nominees Astro Bot, Balatro, and Black Myth: Wukong. Dragon Age: The Veilguard also makes the cut, as does the Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree expansion and ongoing games such as Fortnite and Final Fantasy XIV.
The complete list is below.
Astro Bot
Balatro
Black Myth Wukong
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
Final Fantasy XIV
Fortnite
Genshin Impact...
As part of a Woot's Cyber Monday Sale, you can score an Anker PowerCore 737 24,000mAh 140W Power Bank for only $69.99. Amazon Prime members get free shipping, otherwise pay a $6 flat rate shipping fee. This is the best price we've seen for one of our favorite Steam Deck and Asus ROG Ally X chargers. I have owned this power bank for over a year; it has been on multiple flights and road trips and is still lasting strong.
Anker 737 24,000mAh 140W Power Bank for $73.99
The Anker 737 is a hefty power bank, measuring 4.6"x2.2"x2" and weighing in at 1.4lbs. This is something you'd put in your travel bag or backpack instead of your pocket. It has two USB Type-C ports and one USB Type-A port. The USB Type-C ports support a maximum of 140W of...
Hear ye, hear ye! The hit board game Splendor is on sale for $19.99 at Amazon right now for Cyber Monday — a 50% markdown from the game's $39.99 retail price, which saves those who purchase it a total of $20.00. It's the best deal we've seen on this beloved strategy game all year, including its discounted price during Prime Day in October.
Get Splendor Now for $19.99
Splendor was released in 2014 and has remained a popular title among board game enthusiasts since. The beauty of Splendor lies in its simplicity: It's a great game to bust out a family gathering for players of all ages and experience levels due to its intuitive ruleset and average 30-minute playtime. Once you get a handle on the basic premise of the game, there's room for...
Black Friday had plenty of great video game deals, and thankfully, many of them carried over into Cyber Monday. If you've been itching to jump into the world of Space Marine 2, the game is still discounted at Amazon to $49.99 for PS5 and Xbox Series X. This is $20 off its original price of $69.99, and considering we think it's one of the best games of 2024, it's definitely worth picking up.
This deal likely won't stick around for long past Cyber Monday, so act fast to add it to your virtual shopping cart before it's gone.
IGN's Chris Reed gave this game an 8/10 in our Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 review. He said it's "a terrific third-person shooter with a compelling story, loads of weapons that are a blast to use, and a...
Naraka: Bladepoint is back for another edition of Naraka Fest. The last one in June celebrated the game’s third anniversary and included teases about collaborations, info about in-game events, and a deep dive into Perdoria, the game’s newest map. This time around, it’s sure to be full of even more info and reveals, and IGN will host a livestream of the show. Here’s all the info you need to watch the event live, as well as what kind of new reveals to expect.
Naraka Fest Date, Time, and How to Watch
The show will be livestreamed on Tuesday, December 3 starting at 8 p.m. Pacific. That’s 11 p.m. Eastern, 10 p.m. Central, and 9 p.m. Mountain. You can tune in to watch it live on any of these channels:
IGN.com (our homepage)
IGN’s...
Amazon has announced the Prime Gaming December 2024 lineup, which includes the likes of Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, Overcooked 2, and Dredge.
Star Wars: Bounty Hunter is the revived 2002 GameCube and PlayStation 2 action adventure game, which acts as a prequel to Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones and lets you play as Jango Fett, who is hired to capture a Dark Jedi.
Overcooked 2 is the popular food-flavored co-op party game from Team17. And Dredge is the well-received 2023 fishing horror role-playing adventure game developed by Black Salt Games and published by Team17. IGN's Dredge review returned an 8/10. We said: "Dredge's slow dive into Lovecraftian horror intermingles with its simple fishing and sailing mechanics to...
All December long, we'll be exclusively covering the upcoming first-person medieval role-playing game sequel Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 as part of our IGN First "cover story" program. To kick things off, we've got a big chunk of exclusive new gameplay from the opening segments of the game. Watch it in the video above.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is being developed by Warhorse Studios. It was announced back in August of this year (watch the announcement trailer below). The first game was given an 8 out of 10 in IGN's review, and the sequel looks to build on the great foundation the original laid down in 2018.
As December rolls on, we'll have an exclusive new hands-on preview, a deep-dive on the key characters you'll meet, little...
Iconiq Studios has revealed more details about Tomb Raider: The Crypt of Chronos, including how it compares to the games and what modes players can expect. Furthermore, IGN can exclusively reveal a first look at the Lara Croft miniature that will be included in the game.
Tomb Raider: The Crypt of Chronos is set to start its Kickstarter in late May 2025, and you can check out the first look at how Lara will look in the game below. She is posed with her dual pistols and is standing atop a column with a confident smile on her face.
This board game take on Tomb Raider is meant to represent so much of what fans love about the game, including exploration, puzzle-solving, and combat. During the game, Lara is on a journey to the island of...
GOG is delisting Warcraft 1 and Warcraft 2 from its store at the request of Blizzard just weeks after the games entered its preservation program and, perhaps not coincidentally, just weeks after Blizzard released remastered versions of both games.
The CD Projekt-owned storefront announced the two games will be delisted on December 13 "at the publisher's request." Those who own them through GOG can still expect "a seamless experience and tech support" that will preserve "their experiences for years to come," however.
GOG is also offering fans who don't yet own Warcraft 1 and 2 a discount code for the games, with users who enter "MakeWarcraftLiveForever" able to get a $2 or equivalent price reduction on the bundle containing both...
The best indie games in December are here to ease you through the impending Holidays. It’s absurd that we’re talking about the end of the year when we’re all very certain it was January just last week, but the march of time is an unstoppable and terrifying force, so here we are. Anyway, existential crisis […]
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Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero is on sale for Cyber Monday, dropping to just $49.94 at Amazon. That's a serious $20 discount and the best price on the game since it launched not too long ago. The discount is available for both PS5 and Xbox, but this is also your last chance to secure the offer as it will most definitely expire by the end of the day today.
This is one of the best gaming deals available right now in the Cyber Monday sales, and well worth picking up for yourself or for the Dragon Ball fan in your life.
In his IGN review, Jarrett Green said: "Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero is a final flash from the past, sometimes to a fault, as demonstrated by its archaic menus and remedial training tools. Its Episode Battles have the kind...
If you go by last year’s finalists for Best Independent Game at The Game Awards, there are indie games, and there are “indie” games. That is, there are independent games financed and made by individuals or teams free from the influence of a major publisher, and there are “independent” games that are… actually owned by billion-dollar South Korean corporations.
But if you’re not interested in the debate about what can be named an indie game and what can’t, there is a third type of Indy game, and they are named after a dog.
After well over 10 years since his last dedicated digital adventure, Indiana Jones is returning to video games in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, which is arriving imminently on PC, Xbox, and Game Pass.
But how...
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is down to just $49.99 in the Cyber Monday sales, or $69.99 for the Deluxe Edition. It's just for Xbox players, but at $20 off, it's still a wonderful offer and one of the best Xbox Cyber Monday deals right now. The action RPG is also down to $62.99 for those on PS5, which is a minor discount in comparison, but still worth mentioning in case you still want to pick up the game.
In their 9/10 review of the game, Leana Hafer said: "Dragon Age: The Veilguard refreshes and reinvigorates a storied series that stumbled through its middle years, and leaves no doubt that it deserves its place in the RPG pantheon. The next Mass Effect is going to have a very tough act to follow, which is not something I ever imagined...
Marvel Rivals developer NetEase has revealed the remaining characters set to appear at launch, including a first look at Wolverine.
The 6v6 team-based hero shooter is packed with characters from the Marvel universe (think Overwatch but Marvel) and launches December 6 with 33 heroes unlocked and free to play. Five new characters were revealed over the weekend: Squirrel Girl, Black Widow, Cloak & Dagger, Iron Fist, and Wolverine. While fans are debating the look of each character in the game, the design of Wolverine has sparked the most vociferous response, both positive and negative.
The Wolverine here is certainly... different. Not only is he not wearing his iconic mask, this Wolverine looks a lot younger than most were seemingly...
A Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 player appears to have become the first in the world to hit Prestige Master level 1,000, revealing the previously unknown rewards for doing so in the process — but not everyone in the community is happy about it.
A screenshot of gameplay from a Call of Duty player called ‘Aldredd’ revealed the milestone had been achieved, shocking players. The grind for experience points (XP) and ‘prestige’ (resetting progress and leveling up all over again after hitting 55) is part of the Call of Duty experience, and for many is the driving motivation to play for months, sometimes years on end. But a player already hitting the maximum possible level, with Black Ops 6 little over a month old, was thought impossible.
That's...