It may be a few days late, but fear not, the IGN UK Podcast is back for more video game, film, and chocolate snack-related chat. Cardy, Matt, and Emma have got both Call of Duty: Black Ops 6's campaign and multiplayer to talk about this week, as well as A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead. There's also a cheeky little Endless Search to play, and, of course, your feedback.
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It's the final week before the U.S. 2024 presidential election, and in the waning hours of her campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris is making a bid to a group that's not often targeted in such races: gamers.
Today, Harris' campaign is launching its own Fortnite map: Freedom Town, USA. It's a custom creative map themed around some of Harris' campaign pledges, including tax breaks for small businesses and a focus on affordable housing. The map can be found in Fortnite Creative starting today using code 733155366547.
Freedom Town, USA is joined by political takeovers of at least eight other Fortnite Creative maps by Fortnite creators Jordan "Huskerss" Thomas, Morgan "MODELMORG" Pope, Lyah "Himalyahs" Barberan, and Khairi "Kdot"...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Outperforms Modern Warfare 2 and 3 on Steam, Though Still Falls to Warzone
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has outperformed both Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 3 on Steam but falls short of Warzone 2.0's peak player count.
Data from player tracking website SteamDB shows the Call of Duty app saw a peak concurrent player count of 306,460 in Black Ops 6's first weekend on sale. It peaked at 263,174 during Modern Warfare 2's opening weekend in 2022 and just 190,707 for the universally panned Modern Warfare 3.
Warzone 2.0 still has the best debut of a recent Call of Duty with a peak of 491,670 players, but the free to play battle royale is much more accessible than the $69.99 Black Ops 6.
This SteamDB data is the best indication of how Black Ops 6 is performing, as neither Xbox or PlayStation release player...
Uber One is teaming up with IGN to launch an epic giveaway to help budding EA SPORTS FC™ 25 players who are Uber One members improve their game on the pitch. Thanks to Uber One, three Uber One members have a chance to win an EA SPORTS FC™ 25 prize pack which includes a 4K Ultra HD TV, PlayStation 5 Slim Disc Console and more!Better yet, every Uber One member who enters will score an EA SPORTS FC™ 25 Ultimate Team™ Pack*!
Three prize winners will score:
A 4K Ultra HD TV and soundbar
A PlayStation 5 Slim Disc Console
A copy of EA SPORTS FC™ 25 on PlayStation 5
1-on-1 coaching session with EA SPORTS FC™ 25 pro Dylan Banks FC
For EA SPORTS FC™ 25 players looking for tips on how to improve their in-game skills, be sure to checkout the...
The weekend is officially here, and we've rounded up the best deals you can find! Discover the best deals for Sunday, October 27, below:
Sonic X Shadow Generations for $39.99
Sonic X Shadow Generations just released this week, and you can already save $10 off a Nintendo Switch copy at Woot. This package includes a remastered version of Sonic Generations and a brand-new campaign focused on Shadow. Both 2D and 3D levels are included, making for the ultimate package for any Sonic fan.
Save on Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is on sale for the very first time at Amazon. With the game's outstanding success, physical copies have been somewhat hard to come by recently, so this is a great deal overall. If...
Video game remakes are everywhere these days. We’ve just had a new version of Silent Hill 2, the Final Fantasy 7 remake trilogy is in full swing, and a recreation of Metal Gear Solid 3 is on the horizon. But few people know remakes quite as well as Shinji Mikami. The co-creator of Resident Evil has watched teams craft highly-successful recreations of his own games, and back in 2001 even helmed the remake of the first project he ever headed up - making him the director of both Resident Evil and Resident Evil.
So, if there’s anyone who knows what makes a good remake, it’s Shinji Mikami. “I think the comprehensive and fundamental understanding of what it was that made the original work in the first place is probably the most important...
The weekend is officially here, and we've rounded up the best deals you can find! Discover the best deals for Saturday, October 26, below:
Sonic X Shadow Generations for $39.99
Sonic X Shadow Generations just released this week, and you can already save $10 off a Nintendo Switch copy at Woot. This package includes a remastered version of Sonic Generations and a brand-new campaign focused on Shadow. Both 2D and 3D levels are included, making for the ultimate package for any Sonic fan.
Silent Hill 2 for PS5
Bloober Team's remake of Silent Hill 2 is on sale for the very first time this weekend at Amazon. Recreating one of Konami's most beloved titles was never going to be easy, but the Silent Hill 2 remake delivers an immersive horror...
As a fan of the Life is Strange series you may have found yourself looking at the series and debating which game is the best and you would not be alone in doing that. After all, many of us like pitting the things we love against each other in a battle royale to see which […]
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For the majority of its runtime, Cyberpunk 2077 is an action-packed RPG. Even if you hone your protagonist, V, into a stealth ninja assassin, the neon-soaked Night City is still frequently the stage for tense combat encounters. That is, however, until Somewhat Damaged, one of the Phantom Liberty expansion’s final quests. Inside a bunker buried deep beneath the city, Cyberpunk 2077 leaves its RPG structure behind and morphs into a survival horror. A relentless robotic hunter stalks you through chambers and corridors, and there’s nothing your weapons can do to stop it.
To find out how this level and its terrifying mechanical monster were created, we spoke to staff from developer CD Projekt Red. With their insight, we examine how...
Apple is developing a movie based on Oregon Trail, the beloved educational computer game that has spawned multiple generations of in-jokes and memes among gamers.
THR reports that the film, which is currently early in development, will be an action-comedy with a handful of musical numbers in the vein of Barbie. Will Speck and Josh Gordon are reportedly attached to direct, with Kenny and Keith Lucas penning the screenplay alongside Max Reisman. The story, as you might expect, will be about a 19th-century covered wagon train traveling to the Willamette Valley in Oregon.
The musical aspect offers a glimpse of what to expect, suggesting that it will be a fairly irreverent take on the historical adventure. Songwriters and producers Benji...
Insomniac Games has published an update for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 that allows players to take advantage of the graphics and performance options for the upcoming PlayStation 5 Pro.
The Sony developer announced the update, along with a similar update for 2021’s Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, on social media today. Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 patch 1.004 is almost entirely focused granting owners of the soon-to-release console additional visual options to ensure they are either swinging through New York City with improved graphics or a higher framerate.
Insomniac says that the default will be set to Performance Pro mode, which targets 60fps “while retaining the image quality of the standard Fidelity mode through use of PlayStation Spectral...
Note: This review specifically covers the Zombies mode in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. For our thoughts on the other modes, see our single-player campaign review or our multiplayer review in progress.
You ever wonder how we got here? Not in an existential, “where did we come from?” kind of way, but more specifically “how did a one-off, co-op survival mode in a video game that used to put quotes about the horrors of war on screen when you died turn into this?” 16 years on, it’s hard to reconcile what the original Nazi Zombies mode from 2008’s World at War used to be with the outrageous, Resident Evil 6-inspired campfest I spent several red-eyed hours playing late last night. I’m not saying any of this in a bad way, mind you; Black Ops...
Lenovo has just dropped the price of the Lenovo Legion Go 1TB handheld gaming PC. It's normally $750, but a $150 promo code "LEGIONGOPROMO" drops it to $599.99 with free shipping. The Legion Go is one of the best gaming handhelds on the market, especially if you prefer a Windows-based operating system. It's more similar to the Asus ROG Ally than the Steam Deck, but with a bigger and sharper display, detachable controllers, and a larger battery.
$150 Off the Lenovo Legion Go 1TB Gaming Handheld
The Lenovo Legion Go is a Windows-based gaming handheld that's powered by an AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme APU with Radeon graphics and 16GB RAM, which is the same configuration as the one found in the $700 Asus ROG Ally Z1 Extreme. However, it boasts a...
Original Silent Hill art director and Pyramid Head creator Masahiro Ito has said he was too busy making Silent Hill games to get a girlfriend.
PC Gamer spotted a handful of X/Twitter posts from Ito who made clear that his time as a game developer wasn't all sunshine and daisies — and not just because he was working on the terrifying survival horror franchise.
For a four-year period between 1999 and 2003, Konami released Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2, and Silent Hill 3, and Ito was heavily involved in their creation.
"All the time I was attending my art university or was developing Silent Hill 1, 2, 3, and a cancelled title, I never had any girlfriends cause I had no time for it," Ito said. "I never thought I was a genius, but I was...
Sonic x Shadow Generations has already sold one million units, Sega has announced, despite only coming out today, October 25.
Being a souped up remake of 2011's Sonic Generations didn't slow down the Blue Blur on the sales front, with the figure covering worldwide sales on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S, Nintendo Switch, and PC.
Alongside the remake portion comes Shadow Generations, a brand new chunk of gameplay similar to how Super Mario 3D World was enhanced by Bowser's Fury in the Nintendo Switch remake.
"Sonic x Shadow Generations is a title that combines two games: Sonic Generations, where players can enjoy speedrunning various stages with Classic Sonic and Modern Sonic, enhanced with new elements...
Following Ubisoft's widely criticized disbanding of the Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown team, the publishing director of Baldur's Gate 3 has taken to X/Twitter to add his view, saying that Ubisoft's publishing strategy "just isn't sensible."
In a post spotted by PC Gamer, Michael Douse said of Ubisoft that the last "notable game" on its platform (the Ubisoft store) was "arguably Far Cry 6 in 2021."
"The Crew, Mirage and Avatar came in 2023 and didn’t perform, so you can assume subscriptions were at a lull when PoP released by 2024. Which means people wouldn’t be launching their store all too much.
"If it had released on Steam not only would it have been a market success, but there would likely be a sequel because the team are so...
Bloober Team was once known for creating smaller scale horror games such as Layers of Fear and The Medium, but with the Silent Hill 2 remake and incoming Cronos: The New Dawn, it's looking to reach new heights as a developer.
IGN spoke with Cronos director and producer Jacek Zieba alongside director and designer Wojciech Piejko to discuss the past, present, and future of Bloober Team soon after it revealed Cronos and just days after the Silent Hill 2 remake was released to critical acclaim and one million sales.
Coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S, and PC via Steam, Cronos is set in a post apocalyptic 1980s Poland and promises a "twisted time travel story" in Bloober Team's first foray into an original survival horror...
The CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, is getting a pay raise. A $30 million one.
According to a proxy filing published earlier this week and spotted by NBC, Nadella's compensation for the fiscal year 2024 totaled $79,106,183. $2.5 million of this was his base salary, $71.24 million was stock awards, $5.2 million was non-equity incentive plan compensation, and the rest was a mixture of other types of compensation.
This is significantly higher than last year, when Nadella's compensation totaled $48.5 million. While Nadella's base salary remained flat between years, he saw a massive jump in the past fiscal year in stock awards, going from $39.24 million last year to $71.24 million this year.
Per the filing, the ratio of total annual...
Bloober Team has released a patch for the Silent Hill 2 remake which brings the game to Version 1.05 and fixes a progress breaking bug.
The patch notes were released on Steam and focus predominantly on the issue introduced in Version 1.04, which stopped some players progressing past the Labyrinth section of the survival horror game.
"We are happy to announce a new update for Silent Hill 2 that addresses a critical issue in the Labyrinth level, after Patch 1.04 for both Steam and PlayStation 5 players, and introduces Steam Cloud save functionality for PC players on Steam," Bloober Team said. The full patch notes are available below.
Bloober Team said it was aware of the issue on October 22 when the bug was discovered. Several Silent...
Valve has finally fixed a problem with Team Fortress 2 that’s been in the game since it launched 17 years ago.
Ever since the influential hero shooter came out on October 10, 2007, the Scout’s pants on the blue side were the wrong color. Now, among patch notes for a recently released Team Fortress 2 update, Valve buried the big news: Scout’s pants are now fixed.
Here’s the rather innocuous line from the patch notes:
Fixed BLU Scout using the incorrect team color pants
In typical Valve fashion, it made the change without explanation or fanfare. No explanation for why it’s taken 17 years to change the color of Scout’s pants, and no reason for why it’s done so only now. Ever mysterious, Valve is.
It’s fair to say the reaction from...
Blizzard’s World of Warcraft is no stranger to costly in-game cosmetics, but its latest super expensive mount is so popular it’s causing a shortage of WoW Tokens in the in-game auction house.
The mount in question is the Trader's Gilded Brutosaur, which you can see in the screenshot below.
What’s so special about it, and why does it cost an eye-watering $90? It comes with a 20th Anniversary themed harness encrusted with gems representing World of Warcraft’s expansions. But beyond that, it features actually useful systems not normally found on mounts: it lets you check the in-game auction house and the mail while riding it out and about the world of Azeroth via characters Morten and Killia riding alongside the beast.
Fueling the...
Note: This review specifically covers the single-player campaign of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. For our thoughts on the other modes, see our multiplayer review in progress – and for Zombies, stand by!
A spy thriller worthy of the name, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6's campaign is a hugely welcome reinvigoration of the long-running first-person shooter series. It looks back at what has historically made the best CoD single-player modes so great and throws its own exciting and novel ideas into the mix, to fantastic effect. Telling one of the most engaging stories the series has ever seen, Black Ops 6’s enticing variety and impressive scale provide a stellar return to form.
Ever since the 2003 original, CoD campaigns have been heavily...
Black Ops 6 comes out today, October 25, and it does something no other Call of duty game has done before: launch straight into Game Pass.
Following Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard, the pressure is now on its gaming business to deliver. With that in mind, Xbox boss Phil Spencer has decided to take the plunge and release Black Ops 6 as a day one Game Pass game, albeit restricted to the Ultimate and PC Game Pass tiers.
This is a momentous moment not just for Call of Duty but for Game Pass, which has struggled for growth in recent years. Latest official figures put Game Pass subscriber numbers at 34 million. That’s 34 million paying subscribers across console, PC, and cloud. Indeed Microsoft...
In 1991, I went to see Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze. The Turtles were barely using their weapons now, Casey Jones was gone, and April O’Neil wasn’t Judith Hoag anymore – which was like coming back after holidays to find the classmate you had a crush on had changed schools. Put simply, it wasn’t what I’d expected, and I find myself in a similar position with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed. What I expected was a basic 3D beat ’em up that would be over in a few hours. What we got is actually a 14-hour light RPG, with a basic 3D beat ’em up tying together long sections of exposition and relationship building. Unfortunately, like with The Secret of the Ooze, moving in an unexpected direction...
After the success of Halloween (1978), Friday the 13th kicked off the 80's by taking the slasher genre to gorey new heights. Jason Voorhees first appeared (sort of) to terrify teens at a Crystal Lake summer camp, and its safe to say the original Friday the 13th is essential viewing for any horror fan. 12 movies and 11 directors later, the hockey-mask wearing horror villain has become a zombie, gone to space, and battled a fellow slasher icon.
For those looking to watch or rewatch the films ahead of Halloween or the next Friday the 13th in December, here's where you can stream all of the Friday the 13th movies right now.
Where to Watch the Friday the 13th Movies Online
Over the years, the Friday the 13th movies have been pretty hard...
Thank your own personal deity—possibly Black Doom—it's Friday! Let's round out your week with two free games worth adding to your pile of shame (NiGHTS and Moving Out). Also, I have the best prices for the behemoth in the room, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and an absolute ton of Yakuza titles. Whatever you choose, have a great weekend!
In retro news, I'm baking a citrus-based cake for The Orange Box, one of the most value-filled compilations ever devised. We met when I was just a junior freelancer who'd drawn the short straw (because that particular magazine's stable of veteran reviewers looked at the slim deadline, then the five game to-do list, and went, "Nope"). Four sleepless nights later, I recall deliriously trying to tell anybody...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is following a recent trend by adding an arachophobia setting to Zombies, but its solution somehow seems even worse.
As part of its blog detailing Black Ops 6's various acccessibility features, Activision showed off its new arachnophobia mode, explaining, "For the first time in Black Ops 6 Zombies, a new arachnophobia toggle feature will be available. This setting will allow players to change the appearance of spider-like enemies in Zombies without affecting their game play."
The description is accompanied by a screenshot that shows a spider beast crawling toward the player on one side, and what it looks like when the arachnophobia mode is turned on. It seems the toggle simply removes the spider creatures...
With the recent success of Metaphor: Refantazio and Sonic x Shadow Generations, it’s safe to say Sega is having a pretty good year. While those may be the final big game releases from the publisher in 2024, Sega officially caps off its year of releases with a TV show based on the Yakuza game series. That’s a cause for celebration, and, more importantly, some discounts.
With the new TV show Like a Dragon: Yakuza premiering today on Prime Video, Amazon has dropped prices on most of the Yakuza games. The critically acclaimed turn-based RPG Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is at its lowest price yet.
$40 Off Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth on PS5 or Xbox Series X
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is the most recent addition to the Yakuza...
If you're an IGN Plus member, a new game is available to claim now with IGN Rewards. You can claim a free Rugrats: Adventures in Gameland key for PC via Epic Games Store with your membership while supplies last. If you're a fan of 2D platformers, this is the perfect game for you to try out.
Claim a Free Rugrats: Adventures in Gameland Key!
Developed as an NES game, indie teams, The MIX Games and Wallride teamed up to make a modern classic game with Rugrats: Adventures in Gameland. The game sees Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, and Lil transform Tommy's house into a video game world that has all sorts of surprises in store. Each of the babies is playable, meaning you have four unique characters to choose from. Additionally, you'll find that...
Few games defined the Xbox 360/PS3/Wii generation as much as Bioware’s Mass Effect trilogy. Whether you picked the red strawberry, blue raspberry, or green apple ending, characters like Commander Shepard, Wrex, Garrus, and others have become icons among the video game pantheon. Which is to say that when Mass Effect: The Board Game - Priority: Hagalaz was announced, I was stoked, and even more so when I got an early copy to play for this review. After rolling some dice with my old crew from the Normandy, I have to say, this board game version of Mass Effect is a pretty fun little romp.
Mass Effect: The Board Game – Priority: Hagalaz
Designed by Eric Lang and Calvin Wong Tze Loon (both of whom we interviewed in our preview) with art by...