Game Science has released a 15-minute gameplay trailer for its Black Myth: Wukong follow-up, Black Myth: Zhong Kui. It gives us a closer look at the new protagonist, combat, and the world, and is packed with impressive details.
The trailer begins with a peaceful seaside environment, foliage moving to a gentle breeze. The new protagonist stumbles onto a beachfront. He makes his way inside a cave before bumping into an old man eating some meat. The pair build a raft — are they both stranded on this beach? — and try to head out onto the water, but a towering wave appears to tear up their plans.
We then get a look at combat. Carrying the old man on his back, the protagonist encounters a pack of ghoulish enemies, who he defeats with sword...
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's beta will utilize a divisive new matchmaking system in addition to the open matchmaking introduced last year.
Matchmaking is an extremely hot topic within the Call of Duty community, as it can dictate how much fun you might have playing online. Are you going to get steamrolled? Are you going to absolutely massacre the other team? A lot of that is in the hands of an algorithim pitting you against certain players. With Modern Warfare 4, the Call of Duty team has revealed its plans for what fans can expect in the beta this coming weekend.
In a new thread, the Call of Duty team confirmed that the beta will feature the new matchmaking system introduced in Black Ops 7 Season 5, as well as the open...
As part of its 60th Anniversary Sale, Best Buy is offering a major discount on a premium docking station for your handheld gaming PC. For a limited time, you can pick up the Razer Chroma Docking Station for a low price of $36 with free shipping. That's 60% off the normal list price of $90. This dock is compatible with a wide range of handhelds, including the Steam Deck, ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X, and Lenovo Legion Go 2, among others.
Save 60% Off the Razer Chroma Docking Station for Handhelds
The Razer Chroma is one of the more premium handheld docking stations around, and its retail price certainly reflects it. It features a universal stand design that accomodates most handheld gaming PCs and tablets, and there's even an adjustable hinge...
Key Preview Takeaways:
The unique visual style is instantly appealing.
The '90s-style adventure-meets-survival-horror gameplay makes it feel unique in 2026.
Monster variety is lacking in the short, early-game demo we played.
I’m continually impressed with how many interesting and unique ideas for video games still manage to pop out, even as we’ve got literally thousands coming out every year now. If you haven’t heard of Silver Pines yet, it’s a pixelated 2D survival horror that answers the question, “What might Alan Wake be like if it were made for the PS1 in the ‘90s?”, and it’s something I didn’t realize I needed in my life until now. After playing the first hour of this creepy, stressful demon lovechild of Silent Hill and The...
The Witcher 3 developers were so focused on making a realistic environment for players that they accidentally created a morbidly hilarious side effect for the game’s female NPCs.
In an interview with Edge Magazine, CD Projekt Red quest designer Philipp Weber opened up about the unintended consequences of this strategy, saying the team was so honed in on creating a believable world that they ended up causing chaos, instead.
Weber explained that they wanted to give NPCs authentic behaviors to increase immersion and reward players for exploring the nooks and crannies of The Continent, particularly where small villages in the countryside were concerned.
"Because we were focused on the countryside, it was easier for players to become...
The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 beta will fix some issues that have plagued the series for the better part of a decade.
In a new blog post, Activision said it is reducing the number of times players will be prompted with the "update requires restart" message. For the last six years or so, Call of Duty players have been forced to restart their game right after booting up to apply new updates and patches. It's extremely annoying and slows down how fast you can get into the action. With the Modern Warfare 4 beta, the team is planning to reduce how often you see this upon booting up the game, but you might still get this screen if you're playing while an update is pushed out.
During the beta, your platform will dictate how much you see...
Control Resonant sees developer Remedy Entertainment take one step further into the world of RPGs, following its first experiments with the original Control. But this isn’t a studio that likes to follow conventions. Rather than rewarding you with XP for finishing missions, taking down bosses, and completing side activities as most games in the genre would, Resonant hands upgrades to the world around you. The open zones of this corrupted Manhattan react to you defeating the big threats infecting it, growing much more dangerous with each new zone conquered. We’ve already taken a look at how this sequel’s combat has evolved, but now it’s time to see how the threats you’ll be taking down have changed in turn.
As Control’s story expands...
Subnautica 2 Early Access 1.2 is out now, adding the Buddy System to the underwater survival and crafting game.
Developer Unknown Worlds has also announced a $100,000 donation to the appropriately named ocean cleanup non-profit The Ocean Cleanup.
Unknown Worlds previously donated a portion of proceeds from the original Subnautica to The Ocean Cleanup on World Environment Day in 2019, and has continued to support ocean conservation efforts since.
“Subnautica began with a love for the ocean, and it means a great deal to continue the conservation work we started with the original game through this donation to The Ocean Cleanup,” said executive producer Fernando Melo. “We will keep doing our part to protect the ocean we have spent so...
RuneScape: Dragonwilds will be available as a day one Xbox Game Pass title next month, developer Jagex has announced.
The open world, co-op, crafting and survival game is the first standalone title in Jagex’s long-running medieval MMORPG franchise, and the first RuneScape game set for consoles. It’s sold over 1 million copies during early access already.
Here’s the official blurb:
RuneScape: Dragonwilds launches on September 15 in 1.0 form, which includes the brand-new Scorned Wilderness update, alongside all content from the upcoming Umbral Sands expansion. As confirmed at State of Play in June, RuneScape: Dragonwilds is also a day one launch on PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium.
RuneScape: Dragonwilds launches its 1.0 version...
LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight’s upcoming DLC won’t be out for another month, but you can get a sneak preview very soon. A brand-new trailer for the game’s Mayhem Collection DLC will be shown exclusively during IGN’s gamescom Studio programming Wednesday, August 26.
The game, from TT Games and Warner Bros. Games, released this past May. According to our review, it features “a strong open-world Gotham and trademark Lego slapstick humour [powering] a fantastic plastic parody of Batman’s greatest hits." The Mayhem Collection DLC comes out September 18 and is included for players who purchased the LEGO Batman's Deluxe Edition.
According to LEGO, the Mayhem Collection features “the Joker and Harley Quinn as playable characters...
Legendary game designer Harvey Smith has said he pleaded with Microsoft to let his team release one final patch to improve the poorly-received Xbox console exclusive Redfall — even though he had been "fired."
First-person vampire shooter Redfall launched to negative reviews in 2023, and proved to be the final project for Arkane Austin, the Texas-based team behind 2017's Prey, which also worked on Dishonored and its sequel.
Smith, who served as lead game designer on 2000's Deus Ex, then creative director of Dishonored and Dishonored 2, found himself out of work in May 2024 when it was announced that Arkane Austin would be shut down, with ongoing work on Redfall's post-launch roadmap canned as a result.
But the studio had been hard at...
Decorated veteran game developer Harvey Smith (Dishonored series, original Deus Ex series), most recently of Arkane Austin – which Xbox shut down in 2024 following the failure of Redfall – has opened a new game development studio. Dubbed Black Pony Immersive, it will indeed focus on the "immersive sim" genre that Smith helped pioneer evolve through his work as co-creative director on Dishonored, creative director on Dishonored 2, and lead game designer on the original Deus Ex (which, not for nothing, this particular writer ranks as a top-10 game of all-time).
"My favorite gaming memories come from seeing players approach challenges with creativity, deep-diving into our world building," Smith said. "We try to reward players for their...
Horizon 3 remains years away from release, with a “tiny team” said to be working on planning it out at developer Guerrilla Games.
A new report into the fate of multiplayer spinoff Horizon Hunters Gathering from Bloomberg also contains a brief update on the next single-player Horizon game, which is set to continue Aloy’s story from 2017’s Zero Dawn and 2022’s Forbidden West.
"A tiny team has been plotting out the next single-player Horizon game but it remains years away from completion, according to the people familiar with the studio’s plans,” Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier reported.
Rather than jump straight into Horizon 3 after Forbidden West, Guerrilla Games focused on Horizon Hunters Gathering, which is now being rebooted. The wait...
Sony has reportedly rebooted PlayStation live-service game Horizon Hunters Gathering after negative feedback from playtests.
Horizon Hunters Gathering is a multiplayer, cartoony spinoff from Guerrilla’s mainline, single-player Horizon series, which is known for its photorealistic visuals. Upon its announcement in February, Horizon Hunters Gathering was compared to Capcom’s Monster Hunter series, although many questioned whether it would find an audience.
Closed playtests followed earlier this year, with a launch across PlayStation 5 and PC expected to follow. However, according to Bloomberg, Sony has ordered a reboot of the game amid negative feedback from the playtests. Apparently, Guerrilla has been working to reboot the game since...
Key Preview Takeaways:
This Arthurian-legend action-RPG leans into its King Arthur inspirations in a really impressive way.
The two boss fights in my demo were extremely satisfying combat encounters.
Despite the combat being fun, Gwendolyn's movement controls still need some fine-tuning.
In Tides of Annihilation it isn’t just London Bridge that’s falling down, it’s the entire city that’s been razed to ruins by an unknown presence invading from a mysterious otherworld, and you’re the only human survivor left to stop it. This action adventure heavily inspired by Arthurian legend made a serious splash when it was announced early last year, but I was initially concerned that the fast-paced slash ‘em up from first-time developer Eclipse...
Subnautica 2 gets its Buddy system update today, August 19. It adds a number of new features revolving around multiplayer in the underwater survival and crafting game.
In a new video, creative director Anthony Gallegos ran through everything players can expect from the co-op focused 1.2 update, which adds Proximity Chat, Player Trading and Revives, and an all-new Tracking Tag.
Gallegos said 1.2 includes developer Unknown Worlds’ first iteration of Subnautica 2 proximity chat. It includes an in-game voice chat option that you can use with your friends to talk locally with each other. As you get farther away it will switch to a radio-sounding voice that will progressively break up to a point where you can almost not hear your friend. “I...
This is an IGN opinion piece from Ryan McCaffrey, who worked at Official Xbox Magazine from 2002-2012 during the original Xbox and Xbox 360 era before joining IGN, where he remains “the Xbox guy.” In the run-up to Xbox’s 25th anniversary, he’ll be sharing his memories from the platform’s first quarter-century.
Those of you who’ve been reading my stuff long enough may remember that when I reviewed Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, the third game in Ubisoft’s stellar Tom Clancy stealth series, for Official Xbox Magazine, I awarded it 9.9 out of 10 (interestingly enough, IGN wrote the shortest news story ever about it back then). It was, at the time, the highest score the magazine had ever given. And it wasn’t even as high as I wanted to go...
Eight months after the Switch 2 edition of Stardew Valley was released digitally, a physical edition of the upgrade has popped up at Fangamer.
The physical Switch 2 edition, which is listed at $39, might not be the most worthwhile purchase for anyone who already owns the OG. It technically includes the original Switch version of the game, which is almost always under $35 on Amazon, and the otherwise free Switch 2 upgrade pack.
As someone who doesn’t have a physical edition of the game, however, I'm feeling very inclined. What you’re really paying those $5 extra for is a beautiful cartridge and the new Switch 2 packaging. Five years ago I would have said that’s a pretty silly thing to cough up a couple extra bucks for, but in 2026, I...
The Call of Duty socials team accidentally posted an internal marketing image for Modern Warfare 4, and fans suspect it may be AI-generated.
Earlier today, the Call of Duty Twitter account posted a render of a soldier walking toward the camera while promoting the game's appearance at Gamescom. Eagle-eyed fans examined the image and noticed that the soldier's gun appeared to be warped in an odd way, possibly suggesting the image was AI-generated. The graphic was eventually taken down, and the Call of Duty team stated that it was posted by mistake.
"Earlier today, an image was mistakenly posted to one of the Call of Duty accounts," said a Call of Duty rep on social media. "It included a temporary render from a marketing style guide...
Keep those mobile electronics - including your handheld gaming PCs - charged up with a portable power bank. As part of its ongoing Back to School Sale, Amazon is offering the Baseus 20,000mAh 45W Power Bank for an affordable $20.99 after coupon code "OJAGXRO6". Better yet, you don't need to be an Amazon Prime member to get this deal.
Baseus 20,000mAh 45W USB Power Bank for $21
This Baseus power bank boasts a generous 20,000mAh, or 74Whr battery capacity. If you factor in 80% power efficiency, here are the approximate number of times you can fully recharge each gaming handheld:
Nintendo Switch (16Whr) about 3.7 times
Nintendo Switch 2 (19Whr) about 3.1 times
Steam Deck (40Whr) about 1.5 times
Apple iPhone 17 (14.3Whr) about 4.1 times...
Bethesda has released a new patch for Fallout 4 that updates the Creation Kit and makes a number of crash and bug fixes.
The update, out now for the 11-year-old open-world post-apocalyptic role-playing game, increases the BA2 archive limit from 256 to 1024 to better accommodate larger collections of mods, Bethesda said in patch notes published on Steam. Meanwhile, Creations up to 2GB in size can now be uploaded for Xbox.
As for crash fixes, Bethesda said the update fixed a crash when the player opens the Virtual Keyboard on a Steam Deck device, which will help out players on Valve’s handheld.
Bethesda had warned Fallout 4 players to log into their game before today’s update to save their load order. Once your load order is saved...
Control Resonant has been hit by a last-minute delay that will impact the launch of its physical editions.
While the Control sequel will still arrive digitally for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on September 24, fans wanting a boxed copy will now need to wait until October 15 to play.
"Get ready to unleash Dylan Faden's paranatural abilities in warped Manhattan on September 24," developer Remedy wrote today in a statement posted to social media. "We need just a little more time to deliver the physical version to you, but rest assured - nothing stays contained forever."
On the upside, if you are waiting until October to play Control Resonant, you'll have more time to play the absolute glut of other games also launching next...
Microsoft has announced the Xbox Game Pass August 2026 Wave 2 lineup, and it includes a number of day-one releases.
Available tomorrow, August 19, is Vapor World: Over the Mind as a day one launch on Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass. Vapor World: Over The Mind is a narrative-driven souls-like platformer focused on deflection combat.
Blood Dungeon (Cloud, XBOX Series X|S, and PC) is another day one launch on Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, this time on August 25. It’s a 2D platforming survival game from the creators of Nidhogg.
Here’s a big one: Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy launches on August 27 across Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass as a day one release. “Follow Sophia’s journey to the Minotaur’s Island, where she faces...
Sony held its planned Phantom Blade Zero State of Play livestream with — somewhat surprisingly — the comments turned on, and they went exactly how everyone thought they would.
The YouTube chat, for example, was dominated by “no disc no buy” comments, which drowned out comments about the promising looking action game itself. It was a similar situation on Twitch.
None of this should come as a surprise, given fans had called out this first State of Play since Sony’s announcement sent shockwaves through the video game industry as a likely battleground for the ongoing backlash to the impending end of PlayStation disc production from 2028.
“Will buy when it's available PHYSICALLY,” read one comment. “Wow! It may look great but it will...
Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis will include an RPG-like skill tree, herb brewing and a new chargeable focus meter in its reimagining of the series' first game.
The remake, which is in development at Trek to Yomi studio Flying Wild Hog, in collaboration with the series' lead studio Crystal Dynamics, updates the franchise's iconic original adventure with snazzy new visuals and gameplay more familiar to modern audiences.
A new video detailing Legacy of Atlantis' combat and progression has now gone into detail on this gameplay, which includes elements inspired by the more recent Tomb Raider reboot trilogy. For example, a skill tree has been revealed that shows how players will redeem in-game artifacts for skill points, which unlock a web...
Video game developer legend Warren Spector has announced his retirement from video game development.
The 70-year-old founding father of the immersive sim genre announced his retirement in a post on LinkedIn, saying he felt he had done what he set out to do over the course of his glittering career. He now plans to write a book or two and do some lecturing or consulting.
Spector announced his retirement admitting there are still a few games he’d like to make, but said the video game business had changed and he doesn’t find it fun anymore. He also left the door open to a return to development at some point in the future.
Here’s Spector’s statement in full:
Let me cut right to the chase. I'm retiring from game development. At least I...
Some fans are expressing some confusion after seeing the latest gameplay footage from Eclipse Glow Games’ Tides of Annihilation, which features some distinct graphical changes that were made to its main character’s face.
Tides of Annihilation has experienced a few big changes over the last month. In mid-July, acclaimed voice actress Jennifer English announced she was abdicating the role of the game’s main character, Gwendolyn, citing concerns surrounding her mental and physical health.
And in mid-August, Eclipse Glow Games showed off 40 minutes of uninterrupted gameplay footage, giving us one of the most in-depth looks at the title we’ve seen thus far… but not everyone was happy with what they saw.
While impressions of the game’s...
A recent Star Citizen development stream went horribly wrong, resulting in some fans losing confidence in the long-awaited sci-fi game.
Earlier this month, the team at CIG decided to do a live stream showing off the current internal build of Star Citizen following player complaints over new content in the game. The developers heard players were having a bad time with this content and decided to do a stream of an internal build to paint a picture of the "intended" experience. Essentially, they were hoping it would show players that they're fixing issues and that this is a very temporary inconvenience... unfortunately, things went terribly wrong.
The developers kept running into bugs that showed the game is indeed broken. The developers...
Kingdom Hearts is having a big moment on Steam, becoming the platform’s second best-selling game in the United States following the Kingdom Hearts IV gameplay trailer that was shown at D23 over the weekend.
Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5+2.5 Remix, a hefty compilation of games in the series, is soaring on Steam’s Top Sellers list, reaching second place as the most-purchased title within the U.S. on August 17, 2026. Data from SteamsCharts shows it accrued a peak player count of 10,139 players over the last 24 hours, with just over 8,000 players actively playing the game as of two hours prior to writing this article.
It helps that Steam is currently having a massive sale for the franchise, with collections of the games listed at 70% off until...
TikTok streamer Jay Lucarelli tried for nearly 2,000 attempts over the course of a week to throw a perfect game with now-retired Astros pitcher Roy Oswalt in MVP Baseball 2005, the classic pro baseball sim – and last one ever made by EA. On attempt number 1,993, Lucraelli finally did it.
The final out came on a line-drive comebacker to Oswalt, retiring then-Red Sox catcher Doug Mirabelli after he threw a down-and-in slider that Mirabelli hit hard but hit it right at the central figure in Lucarelli's weeklong quest.
"That's it. That's it! That's the no-hitter!" the streamer exclaimed after finally achieving his goal. It didn't come easy in the ninth, with Lucarelli falling behind the leadoff batter 3-0 before getting him on a lineout...