Korea-based developer Mayfly is developing Project Revenant, a unique 2D sidescrolling action game for PC where you'll need to use your mouse to specifically target enemies in order to hit them. No spray-and-pray here! Watch the new trailer above and check out almost two dozen gameplay screenshots in the gallery below.
"This is not a game where you can spray bullets and hope for the best," the developers said. "To survive, you must master the unique combat system known as 'Precision Aiming,' where only enemies directly under your cursor will take damage. This is not a game where you can spray bullets and hope for the best. You’ll need to carefully analyze each enemy’s position and attack pattern, then strike with accuracy. Headshot an...
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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.
Inside. Holy shit. That’s still the first thing that comes to mind when I think about that game. It has now been 10 years since it was released… as an Xbox exclusive. I expect most people probably don’t remember this, but Inside was, for a brief few days in late June/early July 2016, only available on Xbox One. It then released the following week on PC, but it would be almost two months until it arrived on PS4 at the end of...
Kingdom Hearts is one of nine billion-dollar franchises Disney has under its video game banner.
The news comes ahead of a hotly anticipated panel at D23, where Disney is expected to talk about Kingdom Hearts 4.
In a blog post, Disney said its Disney Games Group portfolio “spans nine billion-dollar franchises including Kingdom Hearts and Marvel Strike Force.” More than half of these billion-dollar franchises have come out in the last 12 years.
Disney games have driven an estimated $3.5 billion in consumer spend annually for the past four years — and crossed $4 billion this past fiscal year, Disney said. That includes all Marvel games, all Star Wars games, indeed all games based on any Disney IP, of which there are many.
Upcoming...
Over the next few months, I’m going to be taking a look back at each of the core Grand Theft Auto games and replaying them in the lead-up to the arrival of Grand Theft Auto 6. What we’ll be putting together won’t be traditional re-reviews, and they won’t carry IGN’s typical score out of 10, because it really wouldn’t be at all fair to simply pick apart old games published multiple hardware generations ago and make them sweat under the harsher standards of 2026. What we will be doing, however, is re-examining what made each GTA remarkable upon the time of its release, digging into what they achieved and the legacies they established, and rediscovering how much fun each of them remain today. We’ll also be identifying both the parts of the...
We're rapidly racing towards the holidays (I know it's only August, but in the video game world, "Fall" starts in earnest in August), and that means we've got a ton of big games coming our way over the next few months. Most of them aren't named Grand Theft Auto 6, even! And so we thought we'd start a new weekly roundup of game preview coverage on IGN in case you missed anything over the course of the week. Some heavy hitters stepped up to the plate this week: Marvel's Wolverine, Star Wars: Zero Company, Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, and Job Simulator: Human Relations. Be sure to click through for the full previews of each game below, and buckle up – it's going to be one heck of a sprint to 2026's finish line in the video game world...
Cast your mind back to November 2011, and two big fantasy games based on established IPs came out pretty much at the same time: Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, which went on to sell over 65 million copies, and Snowblind Studios’ The Lord of the Rings: War in the North, which failed commercially.
In retrospect, it was perhaps unwise for publisher Warner Bros. to release The Lord of the Rings: War in the North in the same week as Skyrim, given the extreme hype Bethesda’s behemoth enjoyed ahead of launch. But that’s exactly what Warner Bros. did — despite, it seems, the advice not to do so that it received from at least one high-ranking developer it had on its books.
Christian Allen was the design director on the WB Games Seattle...
Xbox's separation from Compulsion Games – one of four studios it spun out independently during the recent Xbox "reset" amidst thousands of layoffs – appears to be complete, as the developer itself is now listed as the publisher of 2025's award-winning South of Midnight on Steam instead of Xbox Game Studios. The change was first pointed out by indie developer Michael Klamerus on Bluesky. (Hat tip to IGN Discord member Tommy for flagging it to us.)
Interestingly, Xbox Game Studios is still listed as the publisher of Double Fine's Psychonauts 2 on Steam despite the San Francisco game developer also becoming independent after Xbox's recent sweeping changes. The same is also currently true for Undead Labs' State of Decay 3 and Ninja...
Netflix is shuttering its Los Angeles-based game studio Night School, best known for side-scrolling psychological thrillers Oxenfree and Oxenfree 2: Lost Signals.
The streamer is also shutting down Moonloot, its game studio based in Helsinki, Finland, which has not yet released any titles but was developing an unannounced life-sim project.
Speaking with GameFile, a Netflix spokesperson confirmed the company still intends to release games on its platform, saying this latest move was an effort to streamline these efforts.
“We see an opportunity to be more focused in our execution, so we are making organizational changes to the business to match those priorities,” the spokesperson said. “We are incredibly grateful to the talented...
I remember where I was the first time my friends and I beat Andross in Star Fox 64. We’d been trading controllers all day, but Brian was the one who pulled it off. I remember the light streaming through the big windows of his media room, the way it flanked his TV. I remember the way we cheered. I was eight years old. I also remember introducing it to my then-girlfriend-now-wife more than a decade later, and I remember watching my friends play through it for the first time earlier this year. Normally, I try not to compare one piece of art to another when I’m writing a review. It’s bad practice and poor criticism. But Wild Blue Skies invites nostalgic comparisons like this at every turn, and is lesser for them. It often pulls directly...
One of the creators of Halo has issued a few choice words for Xbox’s latest remake of Combat Evolved, specifically the ring we see in the main menu and the lack of PvP.
Marcus Lehto was one of the key people behind the creation of Halo at Bungie, and while he left the studio a long time ago, he is still a popular figure among fans of the first-person shooter franchise. So when Lehto took aim at a Halo ring in the recently released Halo: Campaign Evolved, fans took notice.
“While Forerunner tech was metal (not stone) it was also ancient, vast, alive, and a tomb to the horrors that lurked within,” he began in a series of tweets on X. “It had seen hundreds of millennia of conflict. Yet the game shows it as shiny metal that looks like it...
Magic Design Studios, the developer behind 2022's excellent Have a Nice Death, has revealed its newest project, called Nautus. It's double-sided exploration game, where things are cozy and comfortable on the island surface, but when you take your upgradeable and customizable submarine below the water, things get far more mysterious. It's playable solo or in four-player co-op, and it's in development for PC.
The team describes Nautus's setup like this: "After getting an unsettling radio message from your uncle you’ll go out on an adventure, where you arrive at the remote N.A.U.T.U.S. research station only to find the local scientists have lost their memories and developed a paralyzing phobia of the ocean. As the only one brave enough to...
Here's a first look at gameplay footage from Game of Thrones: War for Westeros, the upcoming real-time strategy title that lets you conqueror the Seven Kingdoms on your own terms.
Want a different ending to Game of Thrones? You're not alone, and happily you don't need to be when playing War for Westeros either — as you can capture the Iron Throne solo with a different or against others in multiplayer.
Today's glimpse shows a horde of soldiers dressed in red and holding Lannister banners, charging forward into battle. But oh, what's this? A gigantic shadow of a dragon flying overhead? I wonder what will happen next! Ah well, it is barbecue season.
Previous teases have confirmed that many of the characters and houses you'd expect will...
Releasing recently on August 11, Insight Editions' Call of Duty Black Ops Zombies: The Art of Treyarch is topping several best-seller charts at Amazon right now.
It's even appeared at #2 in the comic charts, most surprisingly, despite it being an art book and not a graphic novel, only behind the latest issue of Absolute Batman.
Besides that, it's now available for $46.60, and 7% off its MSRP of $49.99. It's not the biggest discount in the world, but it's still notable for a fairly new release.
I'm sure many of us still fondly look back on the glory days of CoD: Zombies, and do have some sense of wistful nostalgia for it. Well, this art book fully engages your nostalgia, that's for sure.
"The Art of Treyarch" takes the reader...
Creative Assembly’s Total War: Warhammer 3 will soon get the biggest piece of DLC in the series’ 10-year history, with Lords of the End Times due out on September 24.
This massive expansion for the strategy game set in Games Workshop’s fantasy universe adds four new Legendary Lords as well as loads of new units. In a first for the series, any purchase of the DLC content grants standalone access to the Immortal Empires campaign (this means you don’t need to own any Total War: Warhammer game to play), and the expansion launches alongside a major free update featuring Vampire Queen Neferata.
Each new Legendary Lord represents a brand-new strategic gameplay experience inspired by Warhammer lore, Creative Assembly said.
Total War...
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.
Not every band hits it big with their first record. Sometimes it takes an extra album or two for the right storm of creativity to create lightning in a bottle. So too is this the case with video game development studios. Treyarch is one notable example: it was best known for making mostly mediocre licensed superhero games (ironic, given the subject matter of this column) before it broke out big as Infinity Ward’s partner on...
Embracer group has offered updates on a number of its upcoming video games, narrowing some release windows for big titles.
Tomb Raider: Catalyst, the next Kingdom Come game from Warhorse, and Darksiders 4 are all due out during the 2028 financial year, Embracer Group CEO, Phil Rogers, said. That means — as it stands now, we all know how video game development can go — all three high-profile games will be released by April 2028, as Embracer’s financial year ends on March 31. But not before April 1, 2027, when the next financial year begins.
Speaking of this financial year, Metro 2039 and Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis are both due out in February 2027, and had confirmed release dates already. If you're wondering, Legacy of Atlantis is...
Earlier this week, UK studio Kinetic Games (of Phasmophobia fame) showcased the first batch of titles to be released under their new indie publishing arm, Kinetic Publishing. From a whimsical wizarding life-sim to a metroidvania that takes place on the back of a giant snail (!), here’s a breakdown of what was revealed.
Contact Protocol
Choices, paperwork, torpedoes and teabags – that’s how the dev team behind Contact Protocol describe their game, but this sci-fi workplace sim has a lot more going on beneath the surface.
You play as the security officer aboard PALE HORSE, a vessel owned by Galileo Corporation, which is heading to Jupiter's biggest moon. In this reality, humanity has spread throughout the solar system and PALE HORSE is...
This is an IGN opinion piece from writer Jeremy Peel, who had played over 200 hours of 'regular' Marathon before trying out the new experimental Vault Breaker PvE mode, which is live until August 18.
The vault’s door rolls back with a yelping alarm, as if the very act of opening comes as a shock after a century of stillness and silence. Its stalactite-strewn staging area is home to trolleys laden with toolboxes – a suggestion that this place once knew human hands. But further in, the walkways narrow to crawlspaces walled by thick pipes and electrical cabling – the domain of only the most unfortunate engineers aboard the UESC Marathon. Vents coat the floor in frost, and a simple sign warns staff to ‘WORK IN PAIRS, LEAVE IN PAIRS’...
For Phantom Blade Zero, the team at developer S-Game is clearly pulling out all the stops in order to bring its bold and exciting vision for kungfupunk to life. By drafting in action movie megastar and martial arts master Donnie Yen to serve as co-producer on its wuxia-inspired action RPG, the Chinese developer is ensuring that every kick, punch, and scintillating sword-slice is delivered with the utmost authenticity and heart-stopping intensity.
In 2025, I was fortunate enough to be invited over to S-Game’s Shanghai studio to get an insight into its groundbreaking approach to kung fu motion capture, and to speak with both creative director Soulframe Liang and Donnie Yen himself. It was genuinely spectacular to see Donnie’s team in...
The boss of Rideshare Stimulator publisher Saber Interactive has confirmed that an AI label will be added to the game's Steam page, following public criticism.
Speaking to IGN, Saber CEO Matthew Karch said that the publisher wasn't "shying away" from the game's AI-powered features, which include generative speech and text in a secondary mode. "Once it's finalized we will update the Steam page," he added.
"In Rideshare we added an unrelated experimental mode to the game to play around with these concepts," Karch told us, referencing its Free Ride mode which features an "infinite" number of characters. "It's not the core experience. And even in this case it required us adding two writers and multiple coders to work with AI tools to try...
As fans continue to suggest potential subtitles for The Elder Scrolls 6 based on the number of asterisks in Xbox boss Asha Sharma’s tweet, a theory that Bethesda hid the actual name in Starfield years ago has emerged — and it’s pretty compelling.
As we reported yesterday, The Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel has emerged as the frontrunner for the title of the game. But it turns out that Bethesda might have teased Sentinel in the Starfield character creation screen back in 2023.
As various members of the community have pointed out, the character ID number in the Starfield character creation screen spells out Sentinel perfectly if you divide the numbers into pairs and use the numbers as the letters of the alphabet.
“This title was at our...
The official Old School Runescape X account has responded after a player managed to get their Fishing skill up to level 99 catching only shrimp and anchovies.
Fishing is an integral part of the Old School Runescape experience. There are several different tools players can use to catch fish or other marine critters, such as various types of fishing rods, harpoons, lobster traps, and much more.
One of the first tools players get in the game is a small fishing net, which, you guessed it, can only be used to catch small prey like shrimp, minnows, monkfish and anchovies. It can’t catch anything larger than these species, and it can only be used at certain fishing spots throughout the world (not counting swamp lizards and salamanders when...
Now that Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls is officially out in the wild, dataminers have wasted no time digging through the game’s files, and they’ve found some interesting heroes mentioned within them.
Marvel’s latest fighting game has had quite a week. After stuttering issues plagued the PC version upon launch, Arc System Works was quick to implement a fix, turning the tide of public opinion from dismal to delighted.
Many blamed these PC problems on Arc System Works’ anti-datamining measures, which seem to have paid off; one reputable source claimed they couldn’t find much, crediting the developer for their efforts in ‘cleaning up’ the game’s data. In other comments, they said they haven’t come across anything new regarding upcoming...
When I first saw the Steam Machine at Valve's office back in October 2025, the company told me that it'd release the files to 3D print new faceplates for the mini gaming PC. And while there have been plenty of 3D-printed faceplates out there, a stonemason has cut a Steam Machine faceplate from the same marble Michelangelo used.
I spotted these faceplates on Reddit, where user /u/GinoWT showed off three faceplates they made from different stones. The first of these was Statuario from Carrara, which is "the same quarry basin Michelangelo worked from," according to the thread. They made faceplates from Sahara Noir (with a beautiful gold stripe going across it) and Roman Travertine as well.
Each slab is 5–6mm thick and bonded onto a 3D...
Halo: Campaign Evolved, the recently released Unreal Engine 5 remake of the campaign half of original Xbox killer app Halo: Combat Evolved, has sold 1.2 million copies across Xbox, PlayStation 5, and Steam, according to estimates from Alinea Analytics.
Alinea estimates revenue so far – bear in mind that Campaign Evolved has only been out for two weeks so far – stands at approximately $67 million. The firm estimates the split in purchases by platform to be about 42% on Xbox, 41% on PS5, and 17% on Steam. Alinea's Rhys Elliott calls the sales figures "soft" so far, citing too high a price for a package lacking in competitive multiplayer, while also offering far less content than for more money than the $40 Halo: The Master Chief...
Microsoft has announced a pair of highly-detailed Gears of War: E-Day Limited Edition 3D-moulded Xbox controllers, which look just as gruff and grizzled as you'd expect.
The offering is headlined by the Gears of War: E-Day Limited Edition, which features charred black 3D-sculpted grips and blood-red core. Then there's the Gears of War: E-Day Limited Edition with Xbox Design Lab, which features a silver skull and two crossed Chainsaw Lancers that you can customize further.
Expect to pay $89.99 / £84.99 / €89.99 for the main Gears of War: E-Day Limited Edition controller — exactly the same price as the previous limited edition Forza Horizon 6 controller — with pre-orders going live now ahead of its official launch on September 30. The...
Gears of War: E-Day is Microsoft’s major Xbox exclusive for the coming holiday season. It’s a prequel to the gritty chainsaw-slinging series that helped make the Xbox 360 the best console of its generation. To go along with E-Day in the Xbox Series X|S era, Microsoft is releasing a limited-edition Gears of War: E-Day-themed wireless controller. It costs $89.99 is set to release on September 30. Preorders are live now at Amazon and all the other major retailers.
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E-Day in the Gears universe stands for “Emergence Day.” That’s the day when the Locust Horde emerged from underground on the planet Sera and attacked...
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 4 has been hit by a delay of two-and-a-half months.
Previously set to launch on September 17, developer King Art Games has now confirmed its real-time strategy title will now debut on December 3, with early access from November 30.
Significantly, this moves Dawn of War 4 out of the September video game crush, which is itself caused by publishers hoping to get ahead of the behemoth that is GTA 6 in November. Games launching next month include Marvel's Wolverine, The Blood of Dawnwalker, Control Resonant, Silent Hill Townfall, and Onimusha Way of the Sword.
"As we approached the final stages of development, we saw an opportunity to further enhance Dawn of War 4 and deliver the quality of experience we've...
A new short film known as Midnight Drop will turn Halo 2's highly anticipated midnight release into the worst night for a group of gamers.
The trailer for a short film titled Midnight Drop has been circulating online. The film, directed by Ricky Staffieri, follows a group of excited gamers as they document the most exciting night of their lives: the midnight launch of Halo 2 on November 9th, 2004. However, what should be an electric night of suiting up as Master Chief and slaying the Covenant turns into a fight for their own lives. A pair of criminals show up and rob the store as it's ringing up customers, eventually unraveling into a hostage situation.
This movie takes one of the biggest entertainment launches of the early 2000s and...
CD Projekt has confirmed layoffs on The Witcher multiplayer spinoff, codenamed Project Sirius.
First reported by Kotaku, nine staff working on the game were cut. In a statement issued to IGN, CD Projekt confirmed four staff in its Boston office and five in its Warsaw headquarters lost their jobs, with nine others told they could apply for potential roles on other projects. As of April 30, Project Sirius had 83 staff working on it. That number is now presumably closer to 60.
“We adjusted the size of the Sirius team to reflect the project’s needs at this stage of development,” CD Projekt said. As a result, four people in Boston and five in Warsaw are leaving the company, while nine others have been invited to internal recruitment...