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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
EA Sports has released Title Update 2 for FC 25, which makes a relatively small number of changes to the game a week after launch.
Perhaps the highlight here is a fix for button inputs sometimes not being registered when performing actions in the menus.
Sluggish, unresponsive menus have been a problem with EA Sports’ FIFA series for years, but this year’s FC 25 seems to have it particularly bad. As the patch notes below reveal, sometimes button inputs wouldn’t even work in the menus, so perhaps that’s part of the reason.
Elsewhere, EA Sports is taking a leaf out of Nintendo’s update book with a raft of vague stability improvements.
EA Sports FC 25 Title Update 2 patch notes:
General, Audio, and Visual
Addressed the following...
Tekken 8 boss Katsuhiro Harada has stepped into the ongoing row over the sale of a premium DLC stage after fans accused publisher Bandai Namco of “corporate greed.”
This week, alongside the release of DLC character Heihachi Mishima and the accompanying free story mode expansion, Bandai Namco sold the Genmaji Temple stage for $4.99, sparking a backlash from fans who had expected the stage to be made available for free — as the stage that accompanied the release of prior DLC character Lidia Sobieska was.
Part of the frustration comes from mismanaged expectations and the Tekken 8 community’s feeling that Bandai Namco is overreaching here given the game itself and its DLC character pass comes with a premium price tag. Currently, paying...
If various news events in recent years have ever caused you to wonder, “What the heck has been going on at Blizzard Entertainment?” Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier’s new book has an answer for you.
Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment is Schreier’s third book on the games industry, following Blood, Sweat, and Pixels (2017) and Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry (2021). While both of Schreier’s previous books canvas multiple studios along a particular theme, Play Nice turns a focused lens on one of the most interesting and tumultuous studios in video games.
Play Nice covers three decades of Blizzard history, bookended by the foundation of the company by Allen Adham and Mike...
Smite 2 developer Hi-Rez Studios has laid off an undisclosed number of employees as the MOBA sequel struggles throughout its early access period.
Hi-Rez Studios CEO Stewart Chisam announced the layoffs on X/Twitter alongside a shift in strategy for Smite 2, which launched in early access on August 27 and is planned for a full, free-to-play launch in 2025.
"We’re making some difficult but necessary changes to ensure Hi-Rez's long-term success, with a specific focus on positioning Smite 2 for a long and sustainable future," Chisam said.
We’re making some difficult but necessary changes to ensure Hi-Rez's long-term success.
"As part of this internal reorganization and reprioritization, we are laying off some team members across...
Hi-Fi Rush 2 looks like a certainty following PUBG company Krafton’s acquisition of Tango Gameworks.
Microsoft shocked the video game world when it closed Japanese studio Tango Gameworks earlier this year as part of devastating cuts that saw 1,900 staff let go from its gaming business.
Three months later Krafton announced its intention to buy Tango Gameworks. Only the Hi-Fi Rush intellectual property was brought over as part of the studio transfer from Microsoft-owned Zenimax Media to Krafton, leaving the likes of The Evil Within and Ghostwire: Tokyo behind.
In a new interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Krafton’s head of corporate development Maria Park was asked about the company’s plan for the Hi-Fi Rush franchise following the...
Epic is adding new time limit controls to Fortnite and the Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN), giving parents another tool in keeping their kids from playing the popular battle royale every waking moment of the day.
In an official blog, Epic revealed the new additions to its parental controls, which also includes time reports. The tool will allow parents to decide when and how long kids can play Fortnite, with the tool offering the ability to set specific time windows of availability.
If the time limit controls are active, kids will start seeing in-game notifications when they have 30 minutes left. Once it expires, kids won't be able to play again until the next window of availability, meaning they will have to find another way to...
Sony has released the PlayStation Plus Essential Tier games for October 2024, meaning subscribers can now download Dead Space (PS5), WWE 2K24 (PS4 and PS5), and Doki Doki Literature Club Plus (PS4 and PS5).
First revealed on during Sony's 2024 State of Play, all three games are available at no extra cost to PlayStation Plus subscribers until November 4.
Dead Space is perhaps the biggest game in October's line-up. It arrived in 2023 as a remake of the survival horror classic that puts players aboard a desolate space station with very little to protect them from the invading hoards of aliens.
"Dead Space is a superb remake and undoubtedly the definitive way to experience one of the best survival horror shooters that Capcom never...
Games Workshop is famously protective of the Warhammer 40,000 intellectual property, so much so that it carefully controls adaptations of its grimdark tabletop game to make sure everything is as lore accurate as possible.
That protective work went on during the development of Space Marine 2, now the most-played Warhammer video game of all time on Steam. Developer Saber Interactive worked closely with Games Workshop over Space Marine 2’s four-year development to ensure it was as authentic as possible, right down to the nuts and bolts of a Space Marine’s armor.
Speaking to IGN, Saber Interactive Chief Creative Officer Tim Willits discussed its working relationship with Games Workshop, and some of the challenges it faced ensuring Space...
The main party members of Baldur's Gate 3 — including characters such as Karlach, Astarion, and Shadowheart — are getting official Dungeons & Dragons miniatures from WizKids.
The D&D Icons of the Realms: Baldur's Gate 3 box set is now available to preorder on the WizKids website for $49.99 and comes with seven minis in total.
Alongside Karlach the tiefling barbarian, Astarion the elf rogue, and half elf cleric Shadowheart, the box set also includes Gale the human wizard, Lae'zel the githyanki fighter, Wyll the human warlock, and Withers, the wise zombie man who revives fallen allies and summons companions in Baldur's Gate 3.
"Transport your favorite characters from the screen to the tabletop with the new D&D Icons of the Realms...
Square Enix has provided an update on the potential for an Xbox port of Final Fantasy 16, saying it wants to release the game on Microsoft’s console but can’t share a release date yet.
Speaking to Video Games, Square Enix’s Naoki ‘Yoshi-P’ Yoshida, producer of both Final Fantasy 14 and Final Fantasy 16, strongly suggested Final Fantasy 16 will eventually come out on Xbox by telling fans not to give up hope.
"Of course we did announce the PC version of the game, so looking towards the Xbox version, we do want to release it on Xbox,” Yoshida said.
“But when it comes to the specifics such as when the game would be available and such, we are not in a position to be able to share anything. But of course, I want to say that it’s not as if...
Liam Hemsworth may not have watched The Witcher show or read the original book series before being cast by Netflix as Geralt of Rivia, but he was a big fan of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
The actor, who'll portray Geralt in Season 4 and the final Season 5 after Cavill stepped down, said on Live With Killy and Mark that he played The Witcher 3 at launch and was otherwise a big gamer.
"I hadn't seen the TV show and I hadn't read the books but I played the video game like ten years ago or something," Hemsworth said. "It's still, to this day, one of the best video games of all time, and Netflix came to me almost two years ago now and said that they wanted me to step in and take over, and I was really excited by taking on that character...
If you're lucky, you've got a bunch of free days going on right now, and they need to be filled with games. I've therefore sniffed through every online store in a search for the best gaming bargains of the day. They're new, they're old, but most importantly, they're quite a bit cheaper than their original asking price. So stop reading and get scrolling / saving!
In retro news, I'm celebrating the 37th birthday of the mighty Sega Master System. I somehow pleaded my way into one of these when this oversized oblong started to be bundled with two controllers, a light phaser, and two games (Hang On and Safari Hunt). Boasting newer, improved hardware compared to its worthy NES rival, Sega's 8-bit beast seized a significant market share lead...
We learned a lot of new information about Monster Hunter Wilds at Tokyo Game Show 2024 during the Capcom Online Program and extended Scarlet Forest gameplay stream, including the reveal of the foul Congala and fowl Yian Kut-ku. Both monsters are returning to the series after a long absence. Here’s a quick breakdown of everything we’ve learned with comments from the developers.
The Fanged Beast Congalala, a Farting Pink Ape
Technically, we could’ve made an educated guess that Congalala would be returning to the series thanks to the distinctly pink armor the hunter was wearing in the official Dual Blades showcase. But it was finally officially confirmed during the Scarlet Forest gameplay stream, where the developers said fans have...