The ESA has made the head-scratching claim that private Minecraft servers are "illegal," arguing that they're considered a form of "piracy" in a recent hearing.
During a California State Senate hearing over the Protect Our Games Act (a Stop Killing Games bill that would force game publishers to ensure games remain playable if servers are shut down), Assemblyman Chris Ward was questioned by the committee about how feasible it would be to keep games running on private servers if official support concluded. Ward noted that both Minecraft and Call of Duty utilize community servers, meaning it's a solution that already exists in some cases.
However, ESA’s VP of State Government Affairs, Jennifer Gibbons, objected to his claim and stated...
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Bethesda will launch The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered for Nintendo Switch 2 on August 11, digitally via the eShop and in a physical edition that includes the full base game on a cartridge.
Boxed copies will include a proper cartridge (not a Game-Key Card) which also grants access to the Shivering Isles and Knights of the Nine story expansions (Bethesda is less clear about whether these are also on the card) and additional content you'll have to download. Still, this isn't a GTA 6 situation, with only a code in the game's box.
This includes the Fighter's Stronghold, Spell Tomes, Vile Lair, Mehrune's Razor, The Thieves Den, Wizard's Tower, The Orrery and the infamous Horse Armor Pack DLC. Finally, you'll get a code that grants...
Previewing a fighting game is tricky. It’s a notoriously dense genre and every game speaks its own language, has new things you need to learn, and rewires some part of your brain. Getting good at one fighter will help you be good at others, but true mastery requires the grind. So when I sat down with Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game for a brief 30-minute appointment, I was both excited to finally get my hands on it (I’ve missed the previous playable tests) and deeply aware of the passing of every minute of my half-hour demo.
Let’s get the obvious stuff out of the way first: Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game is absolutely gorgeous. It looks like the anime, as you’d hope and want it to, animations are stunning, and it feels smooth in...
The world lies in ruins. The Great Relic has been destroyed, plunging the land of Arsilutus into the Void. Men and monsters alike roam, butchering and cursing the survivors. As the First Guardian, you must put the pieces back together, reform the Great Relic, and pull the world back from the brink. No pressure.
It's a somewhat familiar setup, but The Relic: First Guardian is honest about its inspiration, and clear about where it seeks to carve an identity of its own. I had a chance to see this for myself in our recent hands-on demo. After several hours exploring Arsilutus, I’ve plundered ruins, slain monsters, and grown my power. It’s a dark and dangerous world, with many stories to tell, starting with fire…and screams.
Dead Men do...
This is an IGN opinion piece from writer Jeremy Peel. He’s an FPS fan who's played 200 hours of Marathon and is currently blitzing a Heroic playthrough of Halo: Combat Evolved ahead of the remake.
Destiny 2 is dead. That’s one way of looking at it. Another is that Destiny 2 has finally solidified, after almost 10 years in flux. At times, the mercurial FPS was expanding with new stories and dungeons; at others shrinking as Bungie battled with the associated bloat of a live-service shooter. With one hand, the developer rewarded players with new activities, subclasses and exotic weapons to chase down; with the other, it took away, diminishing the power of the gear that Guardians had fought so hard for with each seasonal reset.
Now, with...
After Baldur’s Gate 3’s enormous success, Baldur’s Gate 4 feels like an inevitability. That’s how the entertainment industry normally works: if a product everyone loves makes hundreds of millions of dollars, it’s guaranteed a sequel. But I’m not sure that established thinking works when it comes to Baldur’s Gate 4.
First off, Larian itself moved on from Dungeons & Dragons to make Divinity. In an interview with IGN at GDC 2024, CEO Swen Vincke revealed Larian began work on Baldur’s Gate 3 DLC and even gave some thought to a potential Baldur's Gate 4 before pivoting away to other projects because the team was "going through the motions." "You could see the team was doing it because everyone felt like we had to do it, but it wasn’t really...
Legendary game director Hideki Kamiya has described his vision for a cosy Resident Evil sequel starring Leon S. Kennedy in his retirement, in what would be a bold new direction for the survival horror franchise.
Kamiya, who directed Leon's introduction to the series in Resident Evil 2, recently made headlines when he was filmed jokingly suggesting that there should be a "non-scary mode" for Resident Evil Requiem, where he could just enjoy the series' puzzles.
Now, Kamiya appears to have thought more about this idea — as he has pitched a distinctly non-scary sounding Resident Evil sequel on social media. Responding to a fan who asked if Kamiya could one day develop a new Resident Evil game that tied up the storylines of Leon and Claire...
There is fresh concern for State of Decay 3 and its developer Undead Labs this morning, after reports overnight suggested both are under threat of closure as part of impending layoffs at Xbox.
Gamesbeat reported on work being done behind the scenes to find a buyer for Undead Labs, which is based in Seattle, Washington — a report that was backed up by Windows Central. If a buyer can't be found, the reports indicate, Microsoft may cancel State of Decay 3.
Undead Labs is one of a number of Microsoft-owned studios reportedly fighting to prevent a closure order. Psychonauts developer Double Fine, South of Midnight developer Compulsion, and Hellblade developer Ninja Theory are also said to be in talks with Microsoft over potentially buying...
On the back of Bandai Namco’s announcement that Tekken’s much-loved, martial arts marsupial Roger Jr. will be coming to Tekken 8 as part of a salvo of ‘Season 3’ DLC characters, former Tekken director Katsuhiro Harada has confirmed that he had a hand in the kangaroo’s clever reveal.
Debuted at EVO 2026, Bandai Namco aired a brief teaser for Roger Jr.’s upcoming arrival that was clear homage to a 10-year-old viral video out of Australia of a man punching an aggressive kangaroo right in the snout. For context, it was in the process of rescuing a dog – which the kangaroo had in a headlock at the time.
“Back in September of last year, when we decided to bring Roger back, I sent the team a YouTube link to ‘that famous video’ because I...
A live-action Persona TV show is reportedly in development at Netflix.
The streamer has begun work on a series adaptation of Sega and Atlus' critically acclaimed RPG franchise, according to Variety. Star Trek: Picard and 9-1-1 alum Christopher Monfette is attached to write the show while also serving as its executive producer and showrunner.
21 Laps' Shawn Levy and Robert Atwood are also attached to executive produce, as are Dmitri M. Johnson, Michael Lawrence Goldberg, and Timothy I. Stevenson of Story Kitchen. Sega producer Toru Nakahara will also aid as an executive producer. Netflix declined Variety's request for comment.
It's unclear if its plot will pull directly from any particular entry or tell a new story entirely. Five...
The first Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 teaser is here, and fans have already found some of the locations the new season pulled from Cyberpunk 2077.
Netflix, CD Projekt Red, and Studio Trigger returned with a minute-and-a-half teaser for Season 2 of its anime adaptation today. As if there was ever any doubt, it's a brutal trailer, using Rico Nasty's "You Can't Run From Me" to show how characters like Weak Kingsley, D, Roman Carax, and Talia Yang will tear back into Night City.
Despite offering such a small slice of the 10 episodes set to premiere this fall, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 has already given fans a lot to sink their teeth into. Watchers have been so starved for updates that some Cyberpunk 2077 players have already loaded back into...
You certainly could make a case for MenaRD being the best Street Fighter 6 player in the world right now. His win at Sunday's Evolution Championship Series in Las Vegas brings him up to four total Evo wins, with two back-to-back wins at Evo in Las Vegas (2025-2026) and two back-to-back wins at Evo Japan (2024-2025). And while his Blanka looked dominant throughout the tournament, one of the more interesting stories that came out of the Street Fighter 6 top eight was the fact that in his most crucial matches, Mena opted against using the character that he's most well known for.
In Winners Semis, Mena started off by using M. Bison, going 2-2 with Shigematsu's Blanka. After swapping to Blanka for the mirror match in the deciding game...
Unionized Xbox employees are pushing back against the company's looming layoffs and have outlined various demands.
Earlier today, the CWA (Communications Workers of America) held a press conference in which various unionized Xbox employees spoke out against Microsoft. The conference was held ahead of reported layoffs at Xbox, which insiders have stated will be a "bloodbath."
It's also a painful reminder of last year's layoffs at Microsoft, where 9,000 people lost their jobs across the entire company (not just Xbox) and resulted in multiple projects being cancelled, including the long-awaited reboot of Perfect Dark. The studio behind that game, The Initative, was also shuttered without having ever released a game.
The upcoming...
Tech accessory company dbrand has canceled its Steam Machine Companion Cube enclosure effective immediately because it didn't ask Valve for permission to make it in the first place.
The company offered fans of the massively popular cosmetic a lengthy explanation – and an apology – with a post on its subreddit. Refunds are already in the works as of today, with buyers encouraged to reach out if they haven't received one by the end of the week.
Unfortunately, dbrand's account of the Companion Cube kerfuffle is painfully simple: "We built the idea into something real without ever asking Valve if we could."
"We’re going to regret that decision for a very long time," it added.
The accessory company recounts the events of November 12...
Unionized Xbox workers have demanded layoff protections ahead of what is reportedly a significant round of cuts to Microsoft’s gaming business.
CWA members have called for immediate bargaining following the reports that sweeping layoffs will be finalized at the end of Microsoft's fiscal year on June 30.
Earlier this month, Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier said the Xbox layoffs will likely result in a "bloodbath" of job losses and studio closures, leaving developers "punished" simply for following Microsoft's orders.
Word of Xbox staff redundancies and development studio shutdowns is now rife, following an ominous warning from newly-installed Xbox CEO Asha Sharma that the console maker's slim profit margin was no longer sustainable. While...
This is an IGN opinion piece from writer Brendan Graeber. He reviewed Deltarune’s first four chapters and has been analysing the mysteries of Toby Fox’s mind for over a decade.
A little more than a year ago today, developer Toby Fox and his team released the long awaited third and fourth chapters of Deltarune, a parallel story to Fox’s own hit indie RPG, Undertale. Arriving seven years after the very first chapter was released as a free demo, I and other fans have now obsessed over the trajectory of Detarune’s story for eight years. Aside from just decoding the events I’ve played through so far, this long duration also gave me plenty of time to mull over where Deltarune’s story was headed in its fifth chapter, which arrived just last...
Roblox has pulled back the curtain on a selection of six new 18+ games, including Drifters, an extraction shooter developed by Bungie co-founder Alexander Seropian.
Roblox Studio unveiled the new games as part of Roblox Incubator, a six-month program that allows experienced developers to "take promising novel game concepts from prototype to polished games." The 2026 cohort includes 26 teams, with Roblox Studio providing support throughout development, with "additional resources and support" made available as teams reach certain milestones.
The six new early-in-development Roblox games look to bring 18-and-older players in the U.S. lots of variety. Although our first look at the projects is limited to short clips and screenshots, it...
Even though big summer sales like Amazon Prime Day are behind us, Best Buy isn't slowing down just yet. If you're still hoping to score some video game deals, the retailer has dropped some seriously good discounts on a selection of Square Enix games.
To highlight a few of our favorites, Best Buy is offering Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth on PS5 for $19.99, Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade on Switch 2 for $29.99, and Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake on PS5 for $19.99, but that's not all. Have a look through even more of our top picks from the retailer below.
Some of the deal prices above even match prices we saw during Prime Day - like on Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade - making now as good a time as any to grab...
Something about collaborations with Sonic the Hedgehog seem to dial in the right balance between good-natured fun and the sensibilities of the franchise. At the last Summer Game Fest, I quite enjoyed my time with Sonic Racing Crossworlds and it turned out to be a damn good game. This year at SGF, I played Sonic Pico Park, and across all the bigger demos I saw – including RGG’s upcoming Stranger Than Heaven – this little co-op puzzle-platformer is the one I came away from with the biggest smile, eager to tell my peers about why they shouldn’t overlook it.
What’s Pico Park? And What’s Sonic Got to Do With It?
Part of it is the inherent charm of the Pico Park games that fosters a natural kind of cooperation and problem-solving between...
This is an IGN opinion piece from writer Matt Cabral, who's been playing Resident Evil religiously ever since the Spencer Mansion welcomed him through its creaking double doors back in 1996.
The big Summer Game Fest reveal of Resident Evil Veronica probably had some fans – especially those raised on the fright-filled franchise's recent remakes – eliciting a collective, "It's about damn time."
Not because these more contemporary players of the 30-year-old series have heard so much about the cult-favorite, non-numbered entry – originally a Sega Dreamcast exclusive dubbed Resident Evil – Code: Veronica – and are eager to finally discover what the fuss is about. And not because they're relieved all the rumors and speculation regarding...
Launching on June 10, Meccha Chameleon is a Japanese indie game that has exploded in popularity on Steam. In just 16 days, the game surpassed over 10 million sales. Over on X, one of the developers has spilled some surprising behind-the-scenes details on the making of this breakthrough indie hit.
Meccha Chameleon is a fresh twist on hide and seek. Players are split into Hider and Seeker teams, and to win, the Seekers must find all the Hiders within the time limit. Hiders disguise themselves using the game’s key mechanic: by spray painting their plain white bodies to match their surroundings. The goal is to blend into the background like a chameleon and evade detection by the opposing team. Players frantically trying to manually paint...
Summer is well and truly here, which means it’s the perfect time to hide indoors from the giant ball of fire in the sky and settle in with some excellent games.
Luckily, there are plenty of new indie games arriving this month, and they all look spectacular in their own way. So sit back, grab an ice pack from the freezer, and let’s get into this month’s indie highlights.
Cat Squeeze – 1st July
Cat Squeeze is a delightfully strange puzzle game where you guide a little cat through a series of pipes, squeezing through mazes and bursting out the other side in search of food. It’s an unhinged concept, sure, but there’s something oddly cosy about controlling an exploding cat on a snack-fuelled adventure. There’s also a demo available now...
Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer has given Amazon’s Fallout show the thumbs up, saying it’s one of the best video game adaptations ever seen on film or television.
Fallout Season 2 is set in New Vegas, which was the setting and title of Obsidian’s much-loved 2010 entry, Fallout: New Vegas. Sawyer was director and designer on that game, so he’s a great person to ask about Amazon’s adaptation. And that’s exactly what The 41st Precinct did in a new video interview about Sawyer’s career.
Responding, Sawyer was very enthusiastic, even though he has a few criticisms that he’s not even sure he would classify as actual criticisms.
“I think it's an amazing adaptation,” Sawyer began. “Like, honestly. I know that the bar is not always...
Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls has revealed the final three playable characters rounding out its roster, and there are a number of fan-favorites in there as well as a quick look at a PlayStation icon.
The fifth team in Arc System Works’ tag fighting game is called Samurai Outriders, and it includes the previously announced Ghost Rider and three new playable characters: Blade, Deadpool, and Loki.
The look at Deadpool, voiced by Nolan North, is particularly fun, as it includes a number of Easter eggs. We see Deadpool perform his own version of ‘Toasty!’ from Mortal Kombat, do Johnny Cage's famous Ball Buster move, perform the Jack-O'-Pose from Arc System Works’ own Guilty Gear series, and there’s even a fun nod to the fan expectation that...
Dead or Alive 6 Last Round has fallen to "Mostly Negative" reviews on Steam as players warn of persistent bugs, lacking features, and a requirement to rebuy some previously owned DLC.
At the time of this story's publication, only a staggering 23% percent of ratings for the PC version of the 3D fighting game are positive following its June 24 launch. It all stems from a variety of criticisms being lobbed against the re-release, as veteran players and newcomers alike demand fixes.
When Dead or Alive 6 Last Round arrived last week, it replaced the now-delisted original 2019 version of the game. Koei Tecmo and Team Ninja positioned the new version as a slight upgrade that bundles in new features, with the promise that new DLC is also in...
SNK told us how they managed to pull off one of Kenshiro's most iconic moves without sacrificing their Teen ESRB rating.
Kenshiro is the latest guest character from an anime to make a splash in a mainline fighting game, punching his way into Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves this June.
We got the chance to sit down with producer Shinya Tamaki and director Hayato Konya ahead of his release at Evo 2026, who explained the difficulties they faced in translating Hoktuo No Ken’s comparatively gory fighting style into Fatal Fury’s decidedly less grisly hand-to-hand combat.
Part of this problem necessitated finding a balance between Kenshiro’s status as a Bruce Lee-inspired martial artist and the use of his special technique, the Hokuto...
The 2026 Summer of Gaming is upon us, and that naturally means wallet pain - in a good way. So what should you be earning your bucks for over the next 12 months?
Thankfully, this year’s game announcements and reveals have delivered big-time for every major platfom. Friends, we’re eating good. This is our pick of the biggest and best titles coming to PS5, Xbox Series X and Nintendo Switch 2.
New release? Earn when you want stuff. Deliver with Uber Eats.
Final Fantasy VII Revelation
It’s hard to believe that the third and final installment of Square Enix’s brilliantly remastered Final Fantasy VII series is nearly here. Anticipation for this reveal (or Revelation, as it were) was understandably high, but even the most ardent fan...
The announcement of Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls from developer ArcSystem Works was met with near universal excitement when it was revealed last year at Sony's State of Play. Some of that excitement took a hit during the first beta due to some issues with the games' tag and assist mechanics, but the changes made in the subsequent play tests seem to have brought people back around. At Evo 2026, I got a chance to speak with Battle Director Kazuto Sekine, Producer Takeshi Yamanaka, Michael Francisco of Marvel Games, to talk about the feedback gained from that first beta, the design philosophy of creating Tokon characters, and how they approached creating their version of Magneto, one of the most iconic Marvel characters in the world of...
A new weekend has arrived, and today, you can save on Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade, Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake, the Criterion Collection Blu-ray Sale, and more. Check out our top picks for Sunday, June 28, below.
Save on Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade
Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade is the ultimate version of the first chapter in the Final Fantasy VII remake series, following Cloud Strife and the party from the very beginning through the escape from Midgar. You can score Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade for $29.99 on the Nintendo Switch 2 and $19.99 on the PlayStation 5. If you want to prepare for Final Fantasy VII Revelation next year, this is where to start your journey.
50% Off Criterion Collection Sale...
Netflix has revealed first character details and a fall release window for its anime sequel series, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2.
Netflix, CD Projekt Red, and Studio Trigger took to X/Twitter to roll out information about the new cast of characters coming to Season 2 of the Cyberpunk 2077 anime spin-off. It came with the promise of a fall 2026 release window, narrowing down its premiere timeline as fans await a more specific release date.
Meanwhile, the announcement came with a sneak peek at four new characters: Weak Kingsley, D, Roman Carax, and Talia Yang. The new gang graces the cover of the first Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 poster, which you can see below.
Netflix published information about the four new Night City names across social...