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Welcome back to IGN Game Scoop!, the ONLY video game podcast! This week your Omega Cops -- Daemon Hatfield, Tina Amini, Sam Claiborn, and Justin Davis -- are discussing Breath of the Wild 2, one game's "devastating" experience with PlayStation Plus, The Witcher, and more. And, of course, they play Video Game 20 Questions.Watch the video above or hit the link below to your favorite podcast service.Listen on:Apple PodcastsYouTubeSpotifyStitcherFind previous episodes here!Continue reading...

Club Penguin's fan-made recreation has been shut down and seized by police over copyright issues.Three individuals were arrested following action taken by Disney, who owned the original site and shut it down in 2017, but they have since been released. As reported by TechCrunch, Club Penguin Rewritten was set up later that year but as of April 2022 has ceased to exist.The website's Discord was emptied except for one message from an admin that said "we have voluntarily given control over the website to the police for them to continue their copyright investigation."A statement was also published on the Club Penguin Rewritten website from DC Daryl Fryatt of the City of London Police's IP crime unit (PIPCU) that said a complaint was...

Since Elden Ring’s release, there’s been no shortage of critical praise for its intricately crafted yet expansive open world, its complex combat, and the level of detail found in every corner. But Elden Ring isn't just a superb video game in the many obvious ways to analyze it. It's also an entire social media platform unto itself.FromSoftware has been including a messaging system akin to a social media platform within its games for years now, as anyone who's been Soulsing since the dawn of Demon’s Souls can tell you. Every game since has included the option for players connected online to leave messages on the ground anywhere in the world. Players can't just write anything they want, though. They compose messages out of pre-existing...

343 Industries has not only shared more details on Catalyst and Breaker - Halo Infinite's newest maps arriving in Season 2 "Lone Wolves" - but it has also provided fans with a video flythrough of each one.The info and flythrough were both shared on Halo Waypoint, and the map previews you can see below show more about "the ancient and weathered ruins of Catalyst and the expansive, sand-blasted scrapyard site of Breaker."Halo Infinite's multiplayer level designer Tyler Ensrude also stopped by to talk about the process of creating these new maps and tease some of what Spartans can expect when Catalyst and Breaker launch alongside Season 2 "Lone Wolves" on May 3, 2022.To begin, Ensrude revealed a bit about how the team builds a...

Blizzard has shown gameplay and broken down the abilities of Overwatch 2's new hero, Sojourn.Revealed in a blog post on the Overwatch website, Sojourn's arsenal is headlined by a massive railgun that makes her an ideal mid-range character.It fires rapid projectiles that generate energy upon hitting enemies, which is then used to power a much stronger blast that acts as Sojourn's secondary. The railgun, though a fairly simple weapon, therefore scales with player skill as accuracy directly affects secondary damage."We wanted to make a mid-range hero that rewards accuracy, but still make it fun for varying levels of skill and gameplay," said senior hero designer Josh Noh.Another ability is the Disruptor Shot, an AOE attack that...

Zero-G sandbox game Hardspace: Shipbreaker is about to head out of early access.A new announcement has revealed that the unique FPS is getting its full official launch on May 24, 2022 – two years after it first became available on Steam Early Access.“Dust off your mag-gloves and charge your split-saw, we’ve got some great news!” reads the announcement. “The date for Hardspace: Shipbreaker’s 1.0 Update, and its full release from Early Access, is set. Your first shift in the full version will begin on May 24, 2022.”Hardspace: Shipbreaker is a unique spin on the FPS genre as you’re given cutting-edge salvaging tech and tasked with carving up derelict spaceships to recover valuable materials - and it's all in the name of paying off...

Hideo Kojima mysteriously posted a photo of PlayStation Studios before clarifying that his studio will remain independent.Around 1 pm in the afternoon Japan time, Kojima posted a picture of the PlayStation Studios banner with games from all of Sony's first-party studios and also Death Stranding. This cryptic tweet immediately kicked off speculation that Kojima Productions officially joined PlayStation Studios.Kojima followed up 10 minutes later by clarifying Kojima Productions is still an independent company.In a follow-up tweet, independently translated by IGN, Kojima writes, "I seem to have invited misinterpretation, but KojiPro has been and will continue to be an independent production studio."IGN has reached out to Kojima...

Roblox is getting an official Sonic the Hedgehog game backed by Sega called Sonic Speed Simulator. It's available for purchase for now but will go free-to-play this weekend on April 16 at 10 AM EST.According to Eurogamer, the publisher and developer for Sonic Speed Simulator is Gamefam, a studio completely dedicated to creating content for the Roblox platform.Sonic Speed Simulator will receive weekly updates and players can run through multiple unique worlds, including the iconic Emerald Hills. By racing against friends, players can earn rewards such as pets and Sonic character skins. If Sonic Speed Simulator reaches 10,000 "likes" from players in Roblox, then the players in the Roblox community can receive an exclusive Sonic the...

The next-gen update for Witcher 3 was recently pushed to 2023, but CD Projekt Red wants fans to know that it's not in "development hell." Speaking during the developer's latest financial earnings call, a CD Projekt Red representative addressed questions about the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series version being postponed."When it comes to next-gen launch of Witcher 3, there's one comment I wanted to make. I've been looking at headlines around the internet and one drew my attention: 'Witcher 3 next-gen delayed indefinitely.' "[This] sounds like the game is in sort of development hell. I want to say it's not a fact. There have been a lot of insinuations that we're going to launch June of next year. That's completely not the case," the...

Fortnite is partnering with the Coachella music festival in yet another instance of the popular battle royale encroaching on the real world. The sound and fashion of the annual show are coming to Fortnite, an Epic Games blog post revealed, as a ton of Coachella themed items are being added to the store.Players can also listen to a selection of songs from the upcoming festival in-game, which includes artists such as Harry Styles, Billie Eilish, and Doja Cat, by tuning in to Icon Radio while driving around the map.The collaboration comes just days after Sony and LEGO's parent company KIRKBI invested $2 billion in Epic Games' metaverse and the partnership with Coachella certainly leans into the idea of bringing "the real world" into...

Cyberpunk 2077's first expansion is slated to be released in 2023, CD Projekt Red President Adam Kicinski announced during today's earnings call. It offers a window into the ongoing development of the expansion, and Cyberpunk 2077 at large, which CDPR has pledged to continue supporting.According to Kicinski, the Cyberpunk 2077 expansion is being developed by multiple "agile teams," which were implemented as part of the "transformation process" that began after Cyberpunk 2077's disastrous development. He didn't elaborate on what the expansion would entail, but did say that it will be developed in the same framework with the Witcher franchise."We're fully committed to the Cyberpunk franchise and intend to develop it further,"...

Cyberpunk 2077 has sold more than 18 million copies while The Witcher 3 has now surpassed more than 40 million and 65 million as a franchise overall.CD Projekt Red's latest financial earnings report revealed the latest figures for the studio's two cornerstone franchises. The developer also confirmed these numbers were for copies of the games sold through to customers and not just to retailers.Cyberpunk suffered a pretty catastrophic launch as console versions of the game were riddled with bugs, but CD Projekt Red has slowly built the game to a better standard and it finally launched the next-gen versions in February.The financial report also revealed that CD Projekt Red plans to continue supporting the game throughout 2022 and...

Blizzard has revealed the origin story for Overwatch 2's new hero, Sojourn.A new trailer (below) shared how the series' first Black female hero came to be involved with Overwatch, with her story being directly linked to Soldier: 76 (aka Jack Morrison)."My unit of the Canadian Special Forces teamed up with Overwatch during the Omnic crisis," Sojourn says in the trailer. "Jack Morrison and I worked well together and after the war he reached out."While it doesn't show any actual gameplay, Sojourn can be seen holding a large gun reminiscent of Soldier: 76's weapon, and the trailer description said she's equipped with cybernetic abilities.Sojourn seemingly served with Overwatch sometime between the original and second game, saying...

If you want to take in the full scope of the Halo cross-media universe, you need to be reading dark Horse's Halo comics. Fortunately, that task is about to get much easier thanks to the release of a softcover omnibus collection called Halo: Initiation and Escalation Compendium.This hefty graphic novel collects the entirety of Halo: Initiation and Halo: Escalation, totaling 27 issues and 650 pages. Both series greatly expand on the story of Spartan-IV Sarah Palmer, with Initiation serving as a prequel to 2012's Halo 4 and Escalation picking up where the game leaves off.Check out the cover to Halo: Initiation and Escalation Compendium below:Here's the official description for the compendium:In the dark years following the war...

The full version of eFootball has finally been released but it's still missing some of the PES series' major modes.Master League, Team Play, Co-Op, Match Lobby, and Edit are all missing from the 1.0 update that promised to turn the game from what Konami called "basically a demo" into the fully-fledged version of its new soccer series.These modes "will unfortunately not be included in v1.0.0", the game's official Twitter account tweeted (below). "We ask for your kind patience until they are ready," it said.The missing Master League is the manager mode from PES where players start with a basic team and build it up to brilliance. It's something of a signature mode for the PES series, but it seems Konami is placing less importance...

I’m hardly alone in describing Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters as ‘XCOM with Space Marines.’ But now that I've gotten my hands on it, it's much clearer how that actually changes up the tactical formula. Enemy Unknown can feel like a horror game sometimes, as you're hunted by Chrysalids and Mutons through eerie crash sites and warehouses. But in Chaos Gate, there's no mistaking it: the Daemons are the prey, and you are the hunters.That's not to say deploying into literal Hell is completely without tension. It's definitely possible to get into some bad situations if you aren't careful. But when you send your point man to kick down the doors of a massive space cathedral and send various creepy cultists scattering for cover...

Let's turn tomorrow's Good Friday into Great Friday with some gaming discounts. A number of top deals have leapt out at me this morning, including crowd-pleasing LEGO titles and a Steam sale where everything seems to mill around 56% off (or more). I'd also pay particular attention to that Witcher 3 GOTY bargain—CDPR has just delayed their intended upgrade of it. Acquire cheaply now, before said next-gen patch arrives.Notable Sales for Nintendo SwitchPurchase Cheaply for PCExciting Offers for XO/XSProduct Savings for PS4/PS5Adam’s our Aussie deals wrangler. You can watch him game on YouTube.Continue reading...

Just in case you didn’t think Call of Duty could get any crazier, season 3 seems to hint that Godzilla himself will show up to wreak havoc.Call of Duty released Season 3’s “Classified Arms” trailer that has the team uncovering a mysterious device while searching for the released Nebula gas released by the Nazis.The device is broadcasting an audio signal that’s heard at the end of the cinematic. The audio itself is somewhat broken up but sounds suspiciously like Godzilla’s signature roar.YouTuber PrestigeIsKey posted a screenshot on his Twitter account of the audio ran through a spectrograph and found the words “Monsters Are Real.” And another Twitter user replied with a looping sound of Godzilla’s orca-like sound that matches...

You’re not supposed to connect an external GPU to the Steam Deck, but someone did it anyway.YouTuber ETA Prime not only managed to get it working, but was able to play games like Elden Ring at 4K with maxed out settings. Valve has repeatedly said that external graphics cards aren’t compatible, but ETA Prime was able to make it happen anyway.They managed it by utilizing the Steam Deck’s M.2 PCIe x4 socket, which is normally meant for storage. ETA Prime used an external graphics card M.2 dock that plugs into the storage socket at one end and the graphics card at the other end. While that only allows the Steam Deck to use four lanes of PCIe, it still worked regardless. To complete the “build”, ETA Prime connected both the M.2 dock...

EA Motive has shared new information regarding the team's progress regarding how some weapons sound in its upcoming remake of Dead Space.In a recent tweet shared on the official Dead Space Twitter account, EA Motive showed off the updated sound designs for the Plasma Cutter and Pulse Rifle. To compare how much the improvements have been made, EA Motive compared the sound of both weapons using the sound from the original Dead Space, the build shown off during its developer update live stream last March, and how both weapons currently sound when you fire them.Of course, Dead Space Remake is still in development, with Motive Studios noting that the current sound of both weapons does not represent how either may sound when the final...

Final Fantasy XIV players are already having fun with the MMO’s new Adventurer Plate feature. The player card system might've just been introduced in patch 6.1 earlier this week, but it’s already bringing out both the weird and wonderful of this gargantuan player base.Adventurer Plates show off player information, like a Calling Card in Call of Duty, or a Hunter Card in Monster Hunter. You’ll see Adventurer Cards at the beginning of PvP activities in Final Fantasy XIV, including the new Crystalline Conflict activity, for example, to show you the players you’re matched up alongside on your team.Players can customize these cards by posing their characters, adding effects, and more. And while it's easy enough to set a simple pose for...

CD Projekt Red announced it is delaying the next-gen version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt indefinitely, and will no longer be releasing the upgrade in Q2.Part of the delay may have to do with the change in the developer. Previously, the update was being developed externally by Saber Interactive, but CD Projekt Red has elected to bring the remainder of the game's development in-house“We have decided to have our in-house development team conduct the remaining work on the next-gen version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt,” a recent Tweet on The Witcher’s account reads. “We are currently evaluating the scope of work to be done and thus have to postpone Q2 release until further notice. We'll update you as soon as we can. Thank you for your...

QuakeCon 2022 will once again be a digital-only event when it returns from August 18 to 20.The yearly celebration of id Software games like Quake and Doom (and often their Bethesda stablemates) will mark its third anniversary as an online event, but organisers said they're fully committed to returning in-person next year.They added: "An event of this size required months of planning, and in this case, we had to make decisions when there was still too much uncertainty to commit to successfully executing an in-person QuakeCon."Organisers said that, while they're disappointed to remain online for another year, the digital event will feature the full programming of an in-person version including online meet-ups, giveaways, charity...

Destiny developer Bungie has said that it is committed to remote working for "most current and future roles".Announcing its intentions on Twitter (below), and spotted by Kotaku, Bungie said it would be adopting a "digital-first" approach for future job positions. California, Florida, Illinois, Oregon, North Carolina, Texas, and Washington are the "approved" states that are fully remote eligible.It's currently unconfirmed why fully remote roles are only available in these seven states, or if Bungie plans on extending the offerings to other parts of the U.S., but IGN has reached out for comment regarding these matters.Bungie has become the first major AAA video game company to declare a near-fully remote approach indefinitely...

Hello Games' new project would feel impossible to create even with 1,000 people behind it, the developer has said.Speaking to IGN, studio co-founder and managing director Sean Murray said that, while it's not a sequel to No Man's Sky, the new game is just as ambitious.He said: "For a while now we've been working on something pretty ambitious in the background. It's a small team but we like it that way."Similar to No Man's Sky, it's the kind of project that even if we had a thousand people working on it, it'd still seem impossible."The game was in "very early" development as of September last year but Murray reassured that, while No Man's Sky is still receiving regular updates and isn't finished by a long shot, the two games...

There are some absolutely incredible PS4 games on sale right now, with the vast majority dropping to just $10 in the latest spring sales. From God of War to The Last of Us Remastered, Until Dawn, Ratchet & Clank, The Nathan Drake Collection, and more. There are so many great games here, and they've all been discounted.If you've been playing Elden Ring recently, and want to get even more of what developer FromSoftware has to offer, then should definitely check out Bloodborne as well. It's also down to just $10 at Best Buy, and I promise you won't be disappointed with your purchase.Greatest Hits PS4 Games on Sale Right Now for $10Sure, some of these games are available via the PS Plus Collection, and that means likely a part of PS...

Oddworld: Soulstorm being a free game on PlayStation Plus was "devastating" for sales according to its creator.Lorne Lanning, founder of Oddworld Inhabitants, said the game was downloaded close to four million times through PS Plus, significantly more than the studio's expectations of 50 to 100,000.Speaking on the Xbox Expansion Pass podcast, spotted by Video Games Chronicle, Lanning said there was nothing malicious about the deal on Sony's end but circumstances made it "a double-edged sword".Soulstorm was free to download in April 2021, the same month it launched, and while Sony has never made clear how it comes to this agreement with developers, it's understood that a one-off payment is made.Lanning explained that Oddworld...

Space pirates are coming to No Man's Sky today with the Outlaws update.Developer Hello Games announced that, while the previous Sentinels update focused on ground combat, Outlaws will overhaul space combat and add other new features.These are headlined by the introduction of a pirate underworld that lets players embody Han Solo in new rebellion and smuggling missions. Outlaws have taken over space stations across the galaxy and turned them into dangerous, lawless places where players can purchase illegal goods and smuggle them out for a considerable cash reward.The update also adds the speedy Solar Starship, the first new ship type in more than two years, and for players worried about giving up a previous vessel to make room...

Final Fantasy XIV Patch 6.1 is finally live, and so are the patch notes for the newest content drop.Alongside a new story questline, Patch 6.1 also includes a new 24-player Alliance Raid, housing options, and much more. As always, Final Fantasy 14 Patch Notes are quite in-depth, but you can read below for a summary of some of the biggest new content and changes.Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker 6.1Patch Notes - Newfound Adventure10 New Main Scenario Quests starting with Newfound Adventure 4 new Chronicles of a New Era quests starting with A Mission in Mor Dhona 4 new Role Quests starting with Bitter Snow New chapters have been added to New Game+ Certain main scenario quests for A Realm Reborn have been revisedOperation Archon The...

This week the Unlocked crew are joined by a very special guest host, Adam Cole! Discussions include speculation about what we can expect from Halo Infinite Season 2, the Kingdom Hearts 4 reveal, and Cyberpunk 2077's upcoming story expansion. Also, have you guys tried Destin's cookies yet?Subscribe on any of your favorite podcast feeds, to our YouTube channel, or grab an MP3 download of this week's episode.If you missed any of the news featured this week, you can read more about them here:Halo Infinite Multiplayer - Season 2 Cyberpunk 2077 Story Expansion Kingdom Hearts 4 RevealYou can be featured on Unlocked by tweeting us a video Loot Box question! Tweet your question and tag Ryan at @DMC_Ryan!Miranda Sanchez is the...