Ubisoft’s share price has fallen following the launch of Star Wars Outlaws, which some analysts have said has come in below expectations.
Massive Entertainment’s Star Wars Outlaws, the first open-world Star Wars video game, launched on August 27 and since then Ubisoft’s share price has fallen 12.6% to a near 10-year low of 15.22 euros. At the time of this article’s publication, Ubisoft was valued at 1.96 billion euro.
Ubisoft failed to announce a sales target for Star Wars Outlaws ahead of launch, although it did say it expected the game to boost its earnings. According to Reuters, J.P.Morgan analyst Daniel Kerven said Star Wars Outlaws “has struggled to meet our sales expectations despite positive critical reviews.” IGN's Star Wars...
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Sony’s shock announcement of Concord’s shutdown just two weeks after it went on sale has sent its remaining players into overdrive as they desperately try to secure its Platinum trophy before it’s too late.
PlayStation Studios’ ill-fated first-person hero shooter, which suffered a drastically low player count upon launch, goes dark on September 6, with all players set to receive a refund. Ryan Ellis, director at Sony-owned developer Firewalk, said: "while many qualities of the experience resonated with players, we also recognize that other aspects of the game and our initial launch didn’t land the way we’d intended."
Soon after that announcement, reports indicated that Concord players were throwing Rivalry matches in a bid to earn...
Developer Supermassive Games once dared us to survive until dawn, now the interactive slasher movie specialist wants us to be dead by daylight in The Casting of Frank Stone. This story-based spin-off of the popular asymmetric multiplayer sneak-and-slash ‘em up attempts to flesh out a backstory for the malevolent source of all evil in the Dead by Daylight universe, known as The Entity. However, aging, quicktime event-heavy gameplay, dismally superficial combat, an underdeveloped cast of characters, and a complete absence of scares make for a six-hour slog that’s barely worth staying up past your bedtime for.
While Dead by Daylight’s character roster has swelled to include a who’s who of nightmare-haunting horror icons like Leatherface...
Amazon is offering the powerful and high capacity Anker PowerCore 737 24,000mAh USB Power Bank for only $93.99, a 37% price drop from its original $150 MSRP. This is close to the highest capacity power bank you're allowed to bring on airplane carry-on, and it also boasts a massive 140W of USB power delivery to charge even the hungriest MacBook Pro.
Anker PowerCore 737 24,000mAh Power Bank for $93.99
with 140W of USB Type-C Power Delivery
The Anker PowerCore 737 can be used like any other power bank; it does a fine job of charging any of your standard mobile electronics. It has two USB Type-C ports and one USB Type-A port. One of the USB Type-C ports is bi-directional, meaning it can be used to charge devices AND it can also be used...
PlayStation hero shooter Concord will be taken offline on September 6, 2024 and all players will receive a full refund, Sony announced today.
Announced on the PlayStation Blog, director Ryan Ellis said "while many qualities of the experience resonated with players, we also recognize that other aspects of the game and our initial launch didn’t land the way we’d intended."
Concord will therefore be taken offline so Sony and developer Firewalk Studios can "explore options, including those that will better reach our players."
The game will be removed from sale immediately and anyone who purchased on the PlayStation Store or PlayStation Direct will be refunded to their original payment methods. Those who purchased on Steam and the Epic...
Our IGN First coverage of Dragon Age: The Veilguard is in full swing, and as part of our recent trip to BioWare we got to take an exclusive look at a brand new area that shed new light on its exploration, its companion sidequests, and more.
The new gameplay, which includes commentary from co-directors Corinne Busche and John Epler, offers the clearest look yet at The Veilguard's moment to moment exploration, showing it to be much more open-ended than it appeared when it was first revealed. You can watch the full video right here.
Taking place at a later point in The Veilguard's story, the journey begins in The Lighthouse — the hub area set within the Fade where you can spend time with your companions — and continues into the...
Microsoft has announced the first wave of games coming to Xbox Game Pass in September 2024, headlined by Age of Empire spin-off Age of Mythology: Retold.
This real time strategy game blends its beloved Age of Empire roots with vast mythologies from around the world, letting players not only overcome other nations but plenty of monsters too. It comes straight to Game Pass upon its September 4 launch.
Next up is Expeditions: A MudRunner Game on September 5. Another action packed entry in the long running franchise, Expeditions blends camp and crew management with its core gameplay of exploring mountains and valleys in myriad off road vehicles. "Expeditions: A MudRunner Game isn’t a replacement for the supremely addictive SnowRunner...
Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics is coming to Xbox after all despite controversially being announced for PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, and PC with no Microsoft console in sight.
The Marvel vs. Capcom X/Twitter account confirmed the game would be coming to Xbox One and will therefore be backwards compatible via the Xbox Series consoles. It was similarly announced for PlayStation 4 and not PlayStation 5.
Xbox fans will have to wait longer, however, as while other platforms are getting the collection — which brings seven fan favorite fighting games together on modern consoles — on September 12, 2024, the Xbox version has the vague release window of 2025.
"We're excited to announce that after technical discussions...
Cyberpunk 2077: The Board Game from CD Projekt Red and Go On Board has reached its crowdfunding goal in a mere 10 minutes and 4 seconds.
The campaign, which went live on crowdfunding website Gamefound at 6am Pacific, was fully funded by 6:10am. The board game is currently, less than two hours later, 777% funded, with $778,783 donated.
"Cyberpunk 2077: The Board Game is a cooperative, story driven tactical action game with for one to four players which explores a "what if?" scenario which alters a crucial event from the video game," the synopsis reads.
It features 13 missions, unique mechanics, and characters from CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk universe including V, Judy, Panam, and Jackie.
"The dynamic and fast-paced board game...
Xbox boss Phil Spencer has admitted he's perhaps not the best judge of what games will be successful, saying he passed over the chance to publish both Destiny and Guitar Hero in the past.
Eurogamer spotted an interview with Spencer at video game convention PAX West in which he said he initially got the wrong impression of Destiny despite Microsoft having such close connections to its developer Bungle, creator of the flagship Xbox franchise Halo.
"I have to be honest, when Destiny 1 came out, and I might have played some of the preview builds that we were doing on Xbox, it didn't really click with me," Spencer said. "I'm not a big PvP player. You can see my player history; it's not a lot of what I do. And I was a little worried I was...
Jyamma Games has indefinitely delayed the release of its Soulslike Enotria: The Last Song on Xbox because Microsoft "decided to ignore" it.
As reported by Windows Central, Jyamma Games announced the delay just two weeks ahead of Enotria's September 19, 2024 release date, and PlayStation 5 and PC versions will go ahead. The harshest words came in Discord posts following the reveal, with Jyamma CEO Jacky Greco saying "obviously they don't care about Enotria and they don't care about you."
Greco said Jyamma has Xbox Series X and S versions of the game ready to go but hasn't received support to actually release them on the platforms for two months. IGN has asked Microsoft for comment.
Obviously they don't care about Enotria and they...
Welcome to a Tuesday teeming with wonderful gaming deals and (in a minute) an important quarter-century celebration. Today is a pretty even mix of best preorder prices on the hottest stuff just around the corner and slightly older things that you never should have ignored. This being said, that tactic sure worked out well for you in the money department, o' Patient One. So kudos!
In retro news, I’m celebrating the 25th birthday of Pokémon Yellow: Special Pikachu Edition. Though I had already played the absolute cartridge pins off Blue the year previous, I was powerless to resist this Pokémon the Series-inspired rejig of the originals. Mostly because it had everybody’s favourite electro-rat as a companion (plus distorted soundbites!)...
Rocksteady Studios has reportedly laid off several staff members as a result of the disastrous release of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.
Anonymous employees told Eurogamer that the Rocksteady quality assurance team had been cut from 33 members to 15 with poor sales of Suicide Squad (which cost owner Warner Bros. Discovery a $200 million hit to revenue) cited directly.
Rocksteady management has allegedly acknowledgedthat product quality will take a hit as a result of the lay offs, as remaining QA testers struggle to uphold the same standard as the team once double in size.
The 18 staff members affected reportedly included junior employees and veteran team members who were at the studio more than five years. IGN has asked...
In July of 2023, Baldur's Gate 3 was hardly a blip on my radar. When it was released one month later, it became one of my favorite games of all time.
Now, the game is celebrating its one-year anniversary. Its seventh major patch, which will add official modding support and new endings to the game, is right around the corner, and developer Larian Studios launched a brand new YouTube channel to provide behind-the-scenes looks at the game and its developers. Between its critical acclaim, numerous awards, and financial success, Baldur's Gate 3 is worth celebrating, but its meteoric rise to success was just as surprising to the developers at Larian as it was to the rest of the gaming community.
"At every single point, I thought it was...
Ballistic Moon, the developer behind the PlayStation 5 and PC remake of Until Dawn, has laid off several staff members.
Eurogamer first reported that at least two staff members had announced their departure on LinkedIn but 11 Ballistic Moon developers have now either posted about being made redundant or marked themselves as "open to work" and looking to start somewhere new immediately.
It's unclear exactly how many of these staff were laid off, or if the number is greater than 11, but IGN has asked Ballistic Moon for comment.
"Like many others in this wonderful but turbulent industry, I am sadly being made redundant from my role," said junior game designer Cassy Cornish in a LinkedIn post. "Unfortunately my current role at...
From the moment its cinematic announcement trailer revealed that it would be played from a first-person perspective, Avowed has been viewed as Obsidian Entertainment’s answer to Skyrim. It’s a position Obsidian itself has tried to distance itself from, largely because Avowed is a smaller scale RPG made up of interconnected zones rather than a huge, sprawling open world game. Despite this, the Skyrim comparison makes a certain amount of sense; after proving it could do Bethesda games better than Bethesda itself with Fallout: New Vegas, Obsidian created its own Fallout analogue in 2019’s The Outer Worlds. It cut short the agonising wait for Fallout 5 with a similar style of RPG (sure, it wasn’t open world, but it was directed by Fallout’s...
Amazon has discounted one of the best Steam Deck micro SD card options on the market today. The Lexar 1TB Play microSDXC Memory Card is the perfect storage solution for portable gaming devices like the Steam Deck, Nintendo Switch, ROG Ally X, and more. It's down to just $66.49, or £61.74 if you're in the UK. That's a significant price drop versus its $129.99 list price, and well worth picking up while it's still on sale.
The Lexar 1TB Play Micro SD works wonderfully expanding your overall storage, especially if you've opted for the 64GB Steam Deck. Your portable PC will likely fill up very quickly when installing games like Hogwarts Legacy or Cyberpunk 2077, so an SD card is a smart, and surprisingly affordable investment. Plus...
Baldur's Gate 3's highly anticipated (and potentially final) Patch 7 comes to PC this week, developer Larian Studios has announced.
The studio's X/Twitter account shared a video of CEO Swen Vincke confirming the release window at PAX West, though no specific date was confirmed. "Patch 7 is coming out next week," he said last week, meaning it will arrive sometime between September 2 and September 8, 2024.
The console and Mac version of Patch 7 still has no release date, though Larian previously said it would arrive in September. "With so many changes and new features arriving in this patch, it’ll take a little longer to get these to you on console and Mac, but don’t worry, you’ll be murdering your enemies and installing mods in no...
Voice acting legend Jennifer Hale, who's appeared in the likes of Metal Gear Solid, Baldur's Gate, Mass Effect, and more, has commented on the ongoing video game strikes and the threat of artificial intelligence.
Hale told Variety that "AI is coming for us all" and is a key factor behind the current Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) strikes, though something that makes things particularly difficult.
"The truth is, AI is just a tool like a hammer," she said. "If I take my hammer, I could build you a house. I can also take that same hammer and I can smash your skin and destroy who you are.”
Hale continued: "If you use something that originated in our body or our voices, can we please...
Legendary Capcom developer Hideaki Itsuno, who most recently directed Dragon's Dogma 2 and Devil May Cry 5, has left the company after more than 30 years.
Itsuno announced his departure on X/Twitter but assured fans he wasn't quitting video games all together. He left Capcom in August and will begin a new project in a new environment from sometime in September.
"At the end of August 2024, I will be leaving Capcom after 30 years and five months," Itsuno said. "Thank you for your long term support of the games and characters I have been responsible for. I hope you will continue to support Capcom's games and characters.
"From September, I will start developing a new game in a new environment. I hope to create fun, beautiful games that...
We're back with another UK Daily Deals. Today, the highlights include the biggest single-player game of the year Black Myth Wukong, which is now down to just £44.99 on PC. There's also the Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree Collector's Edition which has dropped in price yet again, now down to just £139.99 at Amazon for PS5 and Xbox. Plus, we're also featuring discounts on beats Studio3 headphones, Under Armour men's running shoes, and the perfect 1TB micro SD card for Steam Deck or Switch.
TL;DR - Best UK Deals Today
Black Myth: Wukong (PC, Steam)
One of the year's biggest games has a nice little discount at the moment for PC players. Right now at Green Man Gaming, you can score Black Myth: Wukong (both the Standard and Digital...
What’s the greatest NES game of all time? Super Mario Bros 3? Perhaps it’s Mega-Man 2, or The Legend of Zelda? There’s almost certainly no definitive answer to the single best game on the console, but what If I told you one of its greatest games was one that not only shattered the perception of what you could achieve on the NES, but was also a game you’ve (probably) never heard of?
Gimmick!, developed by Japanese studio Sunsoft, was a Nintendo Entertainment System masterpiece. But despite critical acclaim – including praise from industry legends Shigeru Miyamoto and Masahiro Sakurai – it was almost immediately forgotten, in no small part thanks to the fact it was only ever released in Japan and one small Scandinavian pocket of the...
For the last week, there’s been a lot of online discussion on Sony’s newly-launched multiplayer shooter, Concord. But it’s not because everyone’s playing it – it’s because seemingly no one is.
Plenty of games don’t sell well at launch, but observers have latched onto Concord’s dramatic failure due to its high-profile nature as a Sony first-party game, and its shockingly low Steam concurrent player numbers at launch. Upon its August 23 debut, Concord only had 697 Steam concurrent players, and it hasn’t risen any higher since. At the time I’m writing this, 130 entire people are playing Sony’s brand new, first-party game on Steam. That’s real, real low, even for a game with middling critical reviews (we gave it a 7/10, which at IGN means...
Gearbox Software attended PAX West 2024 to reveal a collection of concept art and new details for its recently announced looter-shooter sequel, Borderlands 4.
Each shot highlights new foreign locations for players to explore while also not revealing too much about how the fourth Borderlands game will shake up the formula. If there’s one thing to take away from the concept art drop it’s that Gearbox wants to give players a variety of areas to loot and shoot through. One image shows a smokey, candle-lit room decorated with glowing blue lighting, while another shows a small neon town surrounded by snowy mountains. You can see some of what Borderlands 4 has in store in the gallery below.
“The Borderlands universe is super interesting...
Few premises are more immediately appealing than Squirrel with a Gun’s. A sandbox game where you control a gun-toting rodent and wreak havoc on the local population? Yes, please! And that premise certainly delivers to some extent, with quite a few laugh-out-loud funny moments right out the gate and a lot of enjoyment to be found in the goofy adventure’s opening hours. But this wacky Sciuridae simulator isn’t sitting on a stockpile of comedic acorns, instead stuffing its cheeks with silly gags all in one go, before finding its stores empty as the winter season fast approaches. Compounding that short-lived mirth are fairly serious performance issues, including regular crashes that made me repeat long stretches, which really took the wind...
Star Wars Outlaws is one of the biggest gaming releases of 2024, and IGN is your ultimate destination for the game. Whether you're looking for guides to assist your journey through each of the massive planets or for a review to determine if you're going to pick up the game, we've got you covered.
Detailed Map Genie Maps for Each Planet
The IGN team has Map Genie maps live for each planet in the game, ensuring you won't miss a collectible or side quest in your playthrough! These maps will continue to be updated throughout the next week, but dozens of collectibles are already live across four planets!
Leading Game Help
IGN is your go-to for all the latest guides on Star Wars Outlaws, from a complete walkthrough to tips on Kessel...
Amazon Games said it "regrets confusion" over remarks by CEO Christoph Hartmann on voice acting and AI that drew sharp criticism online, seeking to clarify that it thinks generative AI needs to be used "responsibly" and calling actors "essential creative contributors."
Amazon's statement was in response to a lengthy comment from Hartmann, in which he mused on the difficulties games face with lengthy development cycles, and suggested that AI may "streamline processes" and help shorten the time it takes to make games. Asked for his thoughts on the SAG-AFTRA union strike seeking better AI protections, Hartmann responded in part:
"[W]hen we talk about AI, first of all, hopefully it will help us to have new gameplay ideas, which has...
There’s something… well… magical about 2010’s Wii-exclusive Epic Mickey getting a remake in 2024. As those who played the original know, the game itself is a quest through a realm of forgotten Disney characters and attractions called the Wasteland and, after playing a demo of Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed at D23, I’m more confident than ever that this adventure with an impressive new coat of paint will thankfully not be lost to the unforgiving hands of time, like some that sadly came before it.
What impressed me the most about Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed is how much it looks and, perhaps most importantly, feels like a 2024 game. In our original Epic Mickey review, we gave it an 8/10 and said that this ‘Great’ game was held back by a...
When Showa American Story was first announced in 2022, its reveal trailer depicting a parallel 1991 in which the United States had become a colony of Japan went viral, with nearly half a million views on IGN’s YouTube channel alone. It has been a year since the last update via an interview with IGN Japan. Chinese developer Nekcom has since pushed back the game’s release, switched development from Unreal Engine 4 to 5, and devoted additional time and resources in order to meet gamers’ intense expectations.
Now, in a fresh interview with Creative Director XY.Luo, IGN can exclusively reveal a brand new boss character and several new screenshots that show how work is progressing on this fascinating new game.
Gokou is the impressive new...
Star Wars: Outlaws may focus on a new character - smuggler, thief, and all-around scoundrel Kay Vess - but it’s also a story set smack dab in the middle of the original Star Wars trilogy. The game takes place in between the events of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. That leaves plenty of room for familiar heroes and villains to appear during the course of the game, and they definitely do.
How exactly does Outlaws fit into the bigger picture of the Original Trilogy? How does the game forge connections between Kay and iconic Star Wars heroes and villains? Here’s what you need to know.
Warning: this article contains full spoilers for Star Wars: Outlaws!
Lady Qi’ra and Crimson Dawn
In Outlaws, Kay slowly makes a name for...