A hefty Star Wars Outlaws update coming in at 8.5gb was released on PS5 last night, bringing with it a 40fps mode and bug fixes. But it's causing problems for some PS5 players who have already made progress into Ubisoft's sandbox Star Wars game.
In the wake of releasing Star Wars Outlaws Patch 1.000.002, Ubisoft sent the following message to some players warning them that they may encounter issues with their current save if they were playing on an older version.
The progression blockers that Ubisoft alludes to sees some players stranded in space after completing a certain games. Players on social media have reported encountering the progress block and having to start new games as a result.
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Activision has detailed the PC system requirements for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 ahead of its closed beta test this weekend.
The publisher revealed the minimum and recommended specifications in a post on its website. Essentially, playing Black Ops 6 will require nearly the same hardware as what was needed with last year’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
That includes the storage required to download the game, which calls for an SSD with 149GB of space. It’s still a lot of room on any kind of device, but at least it’s better than the 300GB rumor that floated around earlier this year. Players can also still cling to the promise that Activision will continue working on customizable download options ahead of the full launch in October...
IGN's Star Wars Outlaws maps are here! Our interactive maps track essential locations across Akiva, Kijimi, Tatooine, and Toshara, including Main Quests and Side Quests for those wanting to complete every objective. They also show Treasures and Collectibles, so you know exactly where to go to find loot.
Star Wars Outlaws Interactive Maps
The available map filters for our Akiva, Kijimi, Tatooine, and Toshara Star Wars Outlaws interactive maps include:
Locations, such as Landmarks, Compounds, and Imperial Compounds.
Collectibles, including Nix Treasures, Jet's Journals, and Treasures.
Items, including locations for Containers, Speeder Trophies, and Clothing.
Quests, such as Intel, Faction Quests, Key Part Intel, and Main Quests.
Other...
The previously teased new Rune Factory game, Project Dragon finally has an official name and release window, thanks to a Nintendo Partner Direct today. It's now called Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma, and it's coming out in spring of next year.
Guardians of Azuma takes place in, well, Azuma, a land that underwent something called the "Celestial Collapse" some time ago. Since that time, the four seasons have yet to return to the land. You play as a hero who awakens with no memories and is greeted by Woolby, a creature with a connection to the dragon god. As an earth dancer, your job is to restore nature to Azuma and bring back the missing runes.
It's Rune Factory, so you'll spend a lot of time sprucing up a farm and various other...
Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine 2 developer Saber Interactive has finally confirmed what fans can expect from its seasonal post-launch content model.
The hotly anticipated action game launches in September, and during that time Saber plans to release various patches aimed at fixing issues players report.
After that, Season Pass owners can expect a drip-feed of content and cosmetics based on specific Space Marine chapters. “The Season Pass has been envisioned as a way to enhance your customisation for your character,” Saber stressed. “All the gameplay additions listed here in the roadmap (including weapons, game modes, and maps) are intended to arrive in free game patches and will be accessible to everyone.”
Season 2 runs from October...
The August 27, 2024 Nintendo Direct has now finished and IGN has you covered with the biggest and best news (and everything else) revealed.
This two-in-one showcase, which began with an Indie World Showcase and ended with a Partner Showcase, began at 7am Pacific / 10am Eastern / 3pm UK and featured roughly 40 minutes of announcements on games coming to the Nintendo Switch.
Fans hoping for news on the next Nintendo console should set their expectations low, however, as the company made no mention of the highly anticipated Nintendo Switch successor.
Yakuza Kiwami Coming to Nintendo Switch in October
The (remake of the) first Yakuza game is coming to Nintendo Switch after the series was absent on the platform for years.
Revealed...
After an unexpected delay and quietly vanishing for a year, Suikoden 1 and 2 HD Remaster has reemerged with a new release date of March 6, 2025.
In today's Nintendo Partner Direct, we got a new look at the remastered collection, whose full title is Suikoden 1 & 2 HD Remaster: Gate Dawn and Dunan Unification Wars. The trailer highlighted two new features being added in the remaster, the ability to speed up combat to 2x and 4x speeds, and an auto-battle button.
Suikoden 1 and 2 HD Remaster was first announced back in 2022 with a plan for a 2023 release date. At the time, we learned that the game would be getting a significant visual overhaul with new screen effects, pixel sprites, and environment art. All character portraits have been...
Pizza Tower launches on Switch today, as revealed during Nintendo’s Indie World Showcase.
The fast-paced 2D platformer inspired by the Wario Land series launched on PC last year, but finally arrives on Switch today, August 27. You play as Peppino Spaghetti, a manic pizza man with many abilities like charging, super jumping and dashing.
IGN’s Pizza Tower review returned a 9/10. We said: “Pizza Tower is a blisteringly fast 2D platformer with an unmistakable art style and unforgettable soundtrack that transcends its Wario Land inspirations and finds its own identity as one of the most energetic, fun, and creative 2D platformers in recent memory.”
For more, check out everything announced during Nintendo Direct August 2024.
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Today, Nintendo's Indie World Showcase opened with a treat for Balatro fans. The game is getting collaborations with four exciting properties later today in the new Friends of Jimbo update: The Witcher, Vampire Survivors, Dave the Diver, and Among Us.
The collaborations appear to contain themed decks with cards styled after characters from each game, potentially with exciting new effects. The Dave the Diver deck, for instance, changes the number cards to fruit, and the Among Us deck seems to include death animations for playing certain hands. Given the nature of Balatro, it's possible that some of the new additions are cards with interesting twists.
The trailer was short, so it's not quite clear the extent to which each theme...
It would be an understatement to say that Visions of Mana has high expectations to live up to. There hasn’t been a main entry in the Mana series in nearly 20 years, with only spin-offs and 3D remakes of older games tiding fans over in the meantime. But thankfully, the wait was worth it. Although there are a few glaring flaws, Visions of Mana successfully brings the series into the modern age with excellent combat and class systems, as well as a new cast of likable characters. It's not only a great Mana game, but it’s become one of my personal favorite JRPGs in years.
If I could sum up my impressions of Visions of Mana’s storytelling in its opening acts with one word, it would be “simple” – and I mean that as a compliment. I’m a big...
More than 37 million players were online on Steam for the first time in the PC platform's history thanks to the raging success of Black Myth: Wukong.
As reported by PC Gamer, Steam hit a new record number of concurrent players on August 25, 2024, as exactly 37,266,324 users were online at once according to player tracking website SteamDB.
The popularity of Steam is always increasing gradually but this spike in players, taking it from around 34 million during most of July and early August to the eventual 37 million number, coincided with the record-breaking release of Black Myth: Wukong.
The action role-playing game set within Chinese mythology and the famous story Journey to the West launched to an enormous 2,223,179 concurrent...
Worms Armageddon: Anniversary Edition appears set for an announcement after a rating for the game popped up online.
Gematsu spotted Worms Armageddon: Anniversary Edition for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch via a rating in Taiwan.
Worms Armageddon, which is still available today across multiple storefronts, is considered by many to be the best Worms game ever made. Team17’s 1999 turn-based strategy classic launched for PC before getting PlayStation, Dreamcast, Nintendo 64, and Game Boy Color ports.
Players control a team of up to eight earthworms and must defeat the enemy team using everything from melee weapons to airstrikes. It’s unclear what this Anniversary Edition will add to the...
Dragons, double-headed rats and blood-drinking sword-wielding tigers; Black Myth: Wukong is filled with fantastical creatures for the staff-swinging simian protagonist to confront in battle across dense jungles, dusty mountains and temple ruins. Known as Yaoguai, the monsters you’ll encounter have their origin in Chinese mythology and are especially inspired by the classical novel Journey to the West. Here’s a look at some of the mythical creatures you’ll discover in the early game…
Multiple Monkeys
Journey to the West’s most well known character is arguably Sun Wukong, the monkey king who joins the monk on his pilgrimage to retrieve sacred buddhist texts in the Chinese novel. For English audiences, the 1942 abridged translation by...
NBA 2K has revealed the top 10 players and ratings featured in NBA 2K25, a list which includes the Denver Nuggets' Nikola Jokić, the Los Angeles Lakers' LeBron James, and the Golden State Warriors' Stephen Curry.
The full list of players arrived via the NBA itself, which confirmed reigning Most Valuable Player Jokić has retained his position at the top, but slipped from a 98 overall to a 97 overall (perhaps after the Nuggets lost in the Western Conference Semi Finals after winning the NBA Championship last year).
This puts him in a shared first place with two other Europeans at 97 overall: Luka Dončić of the 2024 Western Conference Champions Dallas Mavericks, and Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks. Both are up from last...
It looks like Sony accidentally published the LEGO Horizon Adventures release date on the PlayStation website.
Gematsu reports that redditor foreveryoung1108 spotted a November 14 release date for the PlayStation 5, PC, and Nintendo Switch spin-off on the PlayStation website. That release date is no longer live.
Current speculation is that the release date is set to be announced during today’s Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase, which follows Nintendo’s Indie World Showcase due to kick off at 7am PT/10am ET.
LEGO Horizon Adventures has appeared at prior Nintendo showcase events, most recently June’s Nintendo Direct, so it would make sense that a release date would pop up today.
LEGO Horizon Adventures is an action adventure game...
If you’re on the hunt for an impractically large, American truck that doesn’t run on conventional fuel and looks ridiculous, are you going to go with a stainless steel Tesla triangle that wants to eat your fingers, or would you opt for an 11-foot tall, methanol-powered brute that can do literal backflips? I know which one I’d choose. If my friends and family are going to dunk on me for driving a truck that looks deeply unserious, it’s going to be because it’s dressed like a spooky pirate.
Monster Jam Showdown is equally devoted to these five-ton doofuses shaped like dogs and dinosaurs. While it’s very modest in scope, developer Milestone has injected this family-friendly racer with an enjoyably drift-heavy driving feel, a wild range...
Welcome back, potential spacefarers, to a Star Wars Outlaws Tuesday of (inter)stellar bargains. Word is, it's pretty decent; my learned local colleague 7'ed it, and we're orbiting a 77 on Metacritic. Speaking personally, I clocked it and instantly felt Force Pulled back into reloading for a side activities mop up. When you're as time poor as I am, that result is rarer than Endorian hen's teeth.
In retro news, I’m celebrating the 15th birthday of Punch-Out!!, a knockout of a revival that socked well above its weight on Wii. I have vivid memories of having to import an EU version of this (due to a weird delay for the Aussie market) in order to write the first in-magazine player’s guide for this region. Ultimately, Little Mac’s slugfest...
Dragon Ball has many inspirations, none more notable than Journey to the West — the famous Chinese novel that also served as the basis for Black Myth: Wukong. Now Dragon Ball Z and Black Myth: Wukong are being united thanks to a new mod that replaces The Destined One with Son Goku.
The new mod is a relatively straightforward swap — no kamehameha or going Super Saiyan here — but it is pretty neat to see Goku running around Black Myth: Wukong's incredibly detailed world. He can even zip around on the equivalent of the Flying Nimbus, the magic cloud that itself was borrowed from Journey to the West and appears in Black Myth: Wukong. Check it out in the video below.
You can download the Son Goku Black Myth: Wukong mod right here.
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A pair of back-to-back Nintendo Directs have been announced for tomorrow, one focused on indie games and another focused on larger, third-party partners.
Which means that Hollow Knight fans are once again preparing for inevitable heartbreak if Hollow Knight: Silksong doesn't appear.
If you've somehow missed this entire saga, Hollow Knight: Silksong is the eagerly-awaited sequel to 2017 Metroidvania Hollow Knight. Hollow Knight was adored by critics and fans alike (we gave it a 9.4/10), so in 2019 when developer Team Cherry revealed a sequel, it was met with enthusiasm.
When Silksong was revealed, it didn't come alongside a release window. But ever since its 2019 unveiling, fans have been foaming at the mouth waiting for it to...
It's no secret that today's wrestlers, whether from AEW or WWE, are massive gamers. Nevertheless, that doesn't stop the phenomenon of witnessing superstars like AEW's Will Ospreay displaying his affinity for Assassin's Creed with a thematic entrance at yesterday's All In pay-per-view any less remarkable.
August 25 was AEW's All In pay-per-view in Wembley Stadium, one of the biggest pay-per-view events in wrestling. One of the matches at the stacked four-hour event was Ospreay competing against Maxwell Jacob Friedman for the newly minted American championship.
Ospreay, the babyface, and out-and-proud Assassin's Creed fan, made a statement before entering the ring with an Assassin's Creed Shadow's inspired entrance. The entrance also...
Konami has released a wealth of new screenshots from Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, the remake of Metal Gear Solid 3 officially called Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater.
The screenshots, below, show the remake isn't changing either the serious tactical espionage action of the original or the ridiculous, almost cartoonish elements. Protagonist Snake can be seen creeping around enemies in the forest and shooting at a rubber duck.
Snake can also be seen in various states of battle worn, from feeling fresh in new camouflage to going topless covered in blood. It also shows a handful of enemies, a revamped UI, and the first person mode players can jump into when looking for some extra precision.
Announced in May 2023 after a series...
Looking to level up your gaming setup? The Amazon Gaming sale has all kinds of monitors available right now, from cutting-edge screens to budget-friendly power houses Our UK deals picks deliver everything from stunning visuals to lightning-fast response times. The right monitor can make all the difference in your gaming experience, so here are our top UK Deals picks to help you find the best monitor for you at a score:
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MSI QD-OLED delivers on every kind of game with its 34" curved display and 1800R curvature. Ultra-wide visuals are epic, but MSI QD-OLED ups the game with its 175 Hz refresh rate and ultra-fast 0.03 ms response time...
As far as Star Wars video games go, we’ve taken countless turns at twirling lightsabers and unleashing flashy Force powers, but Star Wars Outlaws swaggers into the cantina, slinks down into a booth with its holster clip unbuttoned, and argues that those are no match for a good blaster at your side. This open-world – or rather, open-worlds – action game features a level of gunbattles and broken promises befitting the legend that is Chewbacca’s best mate. However, Star Wars Outlaws essentially delivers a Han Solo-like experience in both good and bad ways; it has some handsome looks and a strong sense of adventure, but it’s also somewhat scruffy around the edges and is liable to let you down from time to time.
Of course, given that its...
Sony's live service shooter Concord, available on PlayStation 5 and PC, has debuted to a tragic 697 peak concurrent players on Steam.
Data from player tracking website SteamDB reveals Concord, which debuted on August 20, 2024 through the $59.99 Digital Deluxe Edition or August 23 through the $39.99 Standard Edition, had a peak player count of 697 on August 23.
Helldivers 2, another live service game from Sony which launched in February 2024, hit a peak concurrent player count of 155,926 during its opening weekend, The Finals hit 242,619, and even Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leage, which was dubbed a disappointment by Warner Bros. Discovery boss David Zaslav and caused a $200 million hit to revenue, debuted with 12,786 peak...
Techland is removing the Dying Light 2: Stay Human Ultimate Edition from sale in September 2024 after promising anyone who owns it will gain access to Dying Light: The Beast for free.
In a post on X/Twitter, Techland revealed the Ultimate Edition will be removed from sale on September 30, 2024. Anyone who owns it already or buys or upgrades to it before this date will retain all features and benefits, including a free version of The Beast.
This is an upcoming four player cooperative entry that acts more as a first person shooter than a survival horror game and was originally developed as the long awaited "Story DLC 2" from Dying Light 2 before becoming a standalone project.
The $99.99 Ultimate Edition of Dying Light 2 was set to...
Few games truly deserve the remake treatment as much as Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. Arguably the best stealth-action game of its generation, back in 2004 it pushed the PlayStation 2 to its very limits – so much so that the hardware occasionally weighed down its ambitions. Twenty years later, a complete remake from Konami using the power of modern consoles has the potential to unlock the full, uncompromised vision of the game’s original creators. Instead, this new, Kojima-less Metal Gear Solid Delta seems more like a very shiny HD remaster than the elegant remake it could have been. It’s an admittedly beautiful nostalgia trip, but almost faithful to a fault.
In a recent hands-on demonstration I was able to play through Metal Gear...
The weekend is officially here, and we've rounded up the best deals you can find! Discover the best deals for Sunday, August 25, below:
2021 9th Gen Apple iPad 10.2" 64GB for $199
Amazon is offering the 9th gen (2021) Apple iPad 10.2" Wi-Fi 64GB tablet for only $199. This is the best price we've ever seen for this particular model, and right now, it's $100 cheaper than the newest 10th gen model. This is the most affordable iPad model you can get brand new with a warranty.
LEGO Star Wars Luke Skywalker's Landspeeder UCS Set for $150.49
LEGO fans, this deal is one you do not want to miss. You can save $90 off the Ultimate Collector's Series set of Luke's Landspeeder. This iconic vehicle from A New Hope is recreated with brimming...
The weekend is officially here, and we've rounded up the best deals you can find! Discover the best deals for Sunday, August 24, below:
2021 9th Gen Apple iPad 10.2" 64GB for $199
Amazon is offering the 9th gen (2021) Apple iPad 10.2" Wi-Fi 64GB tablet for only $199. This is the best price we've ever seen for this particular model, and right now, it's $100 cheaper than the newest 10th gen model. This is the most affordable iPad model you can get brand new with a warranty.
Monster Hunter Stories Collection for $39.99
The recently released Monster Hunter Stories Collection includes both Monster Hunter Stories and Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin. This marks the first time that players can experience the first game with the...
At the time I'm writing this, I've put about seven hours into World of Warcraft: The War Within – basically every moment between when it unlocked and when I could no longer keep my eyes open. And that's very early to say anything definitive. But… I have a very good feeling about this one, you guys. From the story, to the environments, to the new features, this is World of Warcraft firing on all cylinders. I'm not utterly blown away or anything that hyperbolic, but compared to the last three expansions' launches, the warm glow of new adventure is hitting different this time.
I've been taking my sweet time – relatively speaking – so while some bedlamites had already hit 80 inside of a couple hours, I logged off for the night at level...
With over 100 million players, the Nikki series is a beloved dress-up RPG developed by Infold Games, the overseas label of China’s Papergames.
An action game with a focus on dressing up may sound like a game for casual players. However, Infinity Nikki – the series’ newest installment, coming to PC, PlayStation 5 and mobile – is an open-world game in which platforming action is a key feature. The debut trailer in which main character Nikki traverses a vast open world in a myriad of different outfits surprised fans of the series and newcomers alike.
In May, IGN published our impressions after playing a three-hour demo. We were impressed by how fun and unique Infinity Nikki’s open world is. From its approachable controls and satisfying...