Final Fantasy Resonance has made waves since it was announced during the June 2026 Nintendo Direct with it being the first HD-2D Final Fantasy, which also brings the series back to turn-based combat while adapting the story of the now-inactive mobile game Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius. I really enjoyed the three hours I got to play in an exclusive hands-on preview, and can't wait to see how it may just capture that classic Final Fantasy experience many of us had as kids. And two of those kids from decades ago include the producer and director of Final Fantasy Resonance: Keisuke Nakashima and Hiroto Furuya, respectively.
I was able to catch up with Nakashima and Furuya after my preview to talk all about Final Fantasy Resonance –...
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Microsoft is reportedly planning to shut down South of Midnight and We Happy Few developer Compulsion Games.
Kotaku reports that the layoffs may total more than 90 staff, just months after the Canadian studio was advertising jobs for a new IP. Microsoft has yet to comment. Compulsion Games also developed 2013’s Contrast.
The news comes just hours after it emerged that head of Xbox Game Studios Craig Duncan and chief of staff Louise O'Connor had left Microsoft after decades at the company.
South of Midnight, an action adventure game set in a fictionalized American Deep South, launched in April 2025 and while it was well-received by critics, it failed to find a significant audience. It launched on PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch 2...
In the opening minutes of Final Fantasy 7 Revelation’s reveal trailer, developer Square Enix reintroduces us to the Highwind. Fans of the original PlayStation game will remember its multi-propeller majesty with fondness; this was the vehicle that unlocked complete go-anywhere freedom across Final Fantasy 7’s world map. Unrestricted by rivers, oceans, or mountain ranges, you could soar at high speed around the globe. And, provided there was a safe space to land, you could explore any location that caught your eye.
That landing caveat doesn’t apply to Revelation’s Highwind. It doesn’t need to touch the ground, because it’s you who will be doing the descent this time. Almost certainly inspired by the original’s late-game airborne...
Fortnite players will soon be free to share their love for Dr. Stone as part of a new limited-time Crunchyroll Anime Island experience.
Crunchyroll revealed its custom in-game island for the Epic Games experience today. This weekend, from June 19-21, fans will be able to hop into the Dr. Stone island for themed gameplay, science-themed challenges, and more before the show's fourth and final season, Dr. Stone: Science Future, comes to an end on Crunchyroll June 25.
This is a fully themed Dr. Stone destination with a screening area set up to play Science Future Episode 25, Future Engine, within the Fortnite experience itself. Exclusive content, such as creator insights, will also be available for fans to enjoy.
It's a celebration of...
The recent slate of Hot Wheels video games from developer Milestone really captures that youthful wonder and excitement of unpacking fresh toy cars from the box and racing them down those twisting, orange playset tracks. With two Hot Wheels games under their belt, along with the underrated anime-racing game Screamer, the creators at Milestone are taking another swing at a new Hot Wheels arcade racer – but this time, they're taking the massive selection of toy cars into an open-world playset.
At Summer Game Fest 2026, we were able to get our first hands-on with Hot Wheels: Infinite Rush, which moves away from dedicated tracks set within living rooms and imaginary landscapes and into multiple open-world zones packed with missions and...
No one would accuse poncle's hit game Vampire Survivors of being an especially story-driven experience. It's all about the addictive gameplay loop. But there is lore driving this roguelike action game, and Titan Comics is poised to flesh out that lore with a new Vampire Survivors spinoff series.
IGN can exclusively reveal the first artwork from Titan's Vampire Survivors comic. Get a closer look in the slideshow gallery below:
Vampire Survivors is written by David Hazan (Nottingham) and illustrated by Jimmy Kucaj (Dread The Halls). Here's the official summary of the series:
“It's been incredibly fun to bring Vampire Survivors' iconically eclectic cast of characters to life in a way we've never seen them before," said Hazan in a...
There's a new announcement today from EA, but it's not a fresh Battlefield or Titanfall game. Instead, the publishing giant has announced EA Advertising — a platform designed to place brands directly into its portfolio of popular sports titles, such as Madden NFL and EA Sports FC.
EA said its enormous audience of more than 120 million monthly players was the perfect place for companies to advertise at scale, through "dynamic, real-time placements, from stadium signage to custom in-game content, designed to enhance, not disrupt, the player experience."
Brands could offer sponsored in-game challenges, EA suggested, with branded cosmetic items as rewards. Alternatively, companies could pay to sponsor on-pitch digital advertising boards...
Capcom has announced plans to pull Dragon’s Dogma 2 microtransactions from sale ahead of the release of the Dark Arisen expansion.
The company will discontinue the Deluxe Edition of the action RPG as well as “certain DLC items” on June 24. This comes alongside a permanent discount for the digital version of the base game.
In a post on social media, Capcom listed the microtransactions it was pulling from sale, including the character editor and the warp location marker.
Dragon’s Dogma 2 was criticized at launch back in 2024 for its microtransactions, with over 21 available on launch day. These ranged in price from $0.99 to $4.99, and included an Explorer’s Camping Kit for $2.99, a $0.99 gaol key that lets you escape from gaol but...
Fortnite fans are forking out real money on eBay for rare species of Sprite — the game's cute new, Pokémon-like creatures that can be collected and traded.
Completed eBay listings show people have paid up to $100 for the promise of rare species being shared with them in-game. Hundreds of listings reveal players choosing to spend on the game's most uncommon varieties — including the coveted Zero Point Sprite — and their various rarer special-colored variants.
Sprite collecting arrived in Fortnite last weekend as a key part of the battle royale game's most recent season, which introduced extraction mechanics for the first time. The gameplay loop here sees players discovering creatures, levelling them up in power, then securing them for...
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced plans for a social media ban for under-16s. Starmer said the government hopes to pass regulation before Christmas, with the ban coming into effect by spring 2027.
The affected platforms include TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter / X, Snapchat, and Instagram, but not messaging services like WhatsApp or Signal.
"A full ban is the right choice... I am not prepared to compromise on the safety and happiness of our children," Starmer told the nation in a televised statement.
The government also plans to block livestreaming for under-16s, including on gaming platforms, which suggests Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft may need to adjust their console policies in the UK. Similarly, the likes of Twitch...
Behaviour Interactive has revealed that Terrifier icon Art the Clown is coming to Dead by Daylight as part of a new Chapter in November.
The studio behind the ongoing asymmetrical multiplayer game announced its latest horror movie collaboration during the 10th Anniversary Broadcast today. It’s a reveal that will see one of the most brutal killers in horror movie history cut, stab, and smile his way into the game, with the Chapter currently planned to arrive at some point in November 2026.
For now, all we know about the fall crossover is that it will see Dead by Daylight receive content based on Damien Leone's Terrifier movie series. You can see the logo and release window reveal below.
With Friday the 13th, Child's Play, Saw...
The upcoming Dead by Daylight movie will be helmed by Icelandic film director Thordur Palsson (The Damned, The Valhalla Murders), using a screenplay from Alexandre Aja (director of Never Let Go, Crawl, and Piranha 3D) and David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick (the writer of three films in The Conjuring series, and both Aquaman films).
The news was announced during the Dead by Daylight 10th anniversary broadcast, with Blumhouse founder Jason Blum and producer Stephen Mulrooney joining Palsson on stage.
"For me, the main thing is capturing the feeling of playing Dead by Daylight," said Palsson. "The main thing is I want to capture the feeling of looking over your shoulder. I want to capture the dread, the tension, the fear of what's waiting...
As months of teases come to a head, Behaviour Interactive is ready to unpack major reveals with its big Dead by Daylight 10th Anniversary Broadcast, and we're here to gather all of the highlights.
Through ups, downs, and steel beams named Jim, Dead by Daylight has survived 10 years as not only an endlessly mutating asymmetrical horror game but also an enormously popular multiplayer game in general. Since its original release on June 14, 2016, Behaviour has injected a collection of original Killers and Survivors, as well as an ever-expanding roster of licensed collaborations that have seen franchises like Child's Play, Halloween, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Resident Evil, Saw, Silent Hill, Alien, Five Nights at Freddy's, and many, many...
Dan Houser doesn’t care that much if you get all the way to the story credits on his games, as long as you’re having fun in the worlds he’s created. “If someone enjoyed a game, that's great,” the Rockstar co-founder and Grand Theft Auto/Red Dead Redemption writer said at a panel at the Tribeca Festival in New York City on Saturday. “If you can’t finish a story, but you loved it in other ways: Great, I don't care. I mean, I would like it if you finish the story because I spent ages on it.
If you enjoyed it, that's enough for you.”
Houser’s longtime creative partner Lazlow — who founded the multimedia studio Absurd Ventures with Houser after leaving Rockstar in 2020 — also sat on the panel, adding: “We also love burying very deep Easter...
A new report has claimed Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is speeding up development on new The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, and Halo games as Microsoft considers restructuring or spinning off its gaming branch.
Details on the potential shakeup come from The Information (via Reuters), which reported on the latest in a long line of recent shifts at the company. It says that, according to three of its sources, Microsoft hasn't ruled out turning the brand into a wholly-owned subsidiary.
It's said the move could result in Xbox being operated as a joint venture with other partners or even potentially sold. Though how seriously the company is considering the potential strategy is unclear, it's reported that Microsoft currently has no imminent restructuring...
Ubisoft has published a new Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced deep dive, promising loads of new content that wasn't present in the original release.
The publisher put a spyglass up to how the remake expands on the 2013 pirate game with a blog post on its website today. It's a lengthy message that teases new Blackbeard missions, reworked assassination and tailing missions, tweaked level design, a skip time feature, and more as Ubisoft does its best to justify a revisit for one of its franchise's most beloved entries.
Remakes sometimes boil down to offer little more than updated visuals and minor gameplay tweaks, but that doesn't seem to be the case for Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced. The post begins with the tease that a new...
After years of hints, remakes, leaks, and spin-offs, Atlus has officially confirmed the existence of Persona 6, the next mainline game in the iconic RPG series. Here’s everything we know about the new game, including what’s been officially confirmed as well as the most recent spread of leaks and rumors.
The Road to an Official Announcement
Persona 6 was officially announced on June 7, 2026, at an official Xbox Games Showcase. The reveal announcement happened to coincide with the series' 30th anniversary, and included a short teaser with some delightfully creepy imagery.
Persona 6 was first teased all the way back in 2018, when the Persona studio's chief director, Kazuhisa Wada, told Dengeki PlayStation (later translated by Persona...
The upcoming genre-blending “musical Lovecraftian renovation” game There Are No Ghosts at the Grand has announced Broadway actor and singer Alex Brightman as the voice of its lead character, Chris. Brightman has been nominated twice for Best Actor in a Musical at the Tonys — in 2016 for School of Rock and 2019 for Beetlejuice. He’s currently starring in Schmigadoon! on Broadway and voices multiple characters on the animated series Hazbin Hotel.
The reveal comes on the heels of the game taking the top prize among 12 submissions at the 25th anniversary of the Tribeca Games Festival in New York City. There Are No Ghosts at the Grand is the debut from British studio Friday Sundae, and I had the chance to play a 30-ish minute demo and...
Dark Souls and Elden Ring creator Hidetaka Miyazaki recently commented on the shareholder pressure that is putting FromSoftware parent company Kadokawa in the news lately. Reassuring fans, he insisted that Fromsoftware can still “freely make the kind of games we want to make without excessive interference."
Kadokawa has been in the news in Japan lately, as an activist investment firm has gradually acquired the largest stake in the Japanese multimedia conglomerate. As previously reported by IGN back in March, Oasis Management Company is a major activist investor in Kadokawa that has raised its stake to 13.76%, according to Kadokawa’s latest AGM announcement. For context, this even beats out second biggest shareholder Sony’s 11.01%...
Activision has confirmed Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 campaign early access, which begins October 16 — a full week before the game’s release date.
Modern Warfare 4 is the first Call of Duty game to get Campaign early access since 2023's Modern Warfare 3, whose Campaign was poorly received (IGN awarded it 4/10). 2024's Black Ops 6 and 2025's Black Ops 7 both skipped Campaign early access, so perhaps Modern Warfare 4 returning to the feature signals a confidence in this year's Campaign at Activision.
In a blog post, Activision said that to gain access to Campaign early access, you have to pre-order the game. This applies to those pre-ordering or pre-purchasing the Standard Digital Edition or Vault Edition of the game on Xbox Series...
The Yakuza / Like a Dragon series has largely found its footing as an action-brawler, extending to the Judgment games and perhaps informing parts of the turn-based combat systems in its RPGs. Stranger Than Heaven, which has a direct lineage with the rest of those games, takes a much different turn when it comes to action combat. No longer are you like Kiryu beating down waves of menacing men with swift combos and over-the-top heat actions like a superhero. You're the scrappy Makoto Daito, who moves like a boxer in a game that asks you to take deliberate, calculated shots by controlling each of his limbs individually – whether he's using his bare knuckles or any of the melee weapons he keeps tucked.
After playing roughly an hour of...
To the casual observer, Assassin’s Creed Black Flag might seem like yet another pretty looking upgrade to a popular game quickly put together for the sole purpose of cashing in on hits of yesteryear, but that’s not how the team at Ubisoft approached this rather ambitious remake to one of the most beloved Assassin’s Creed games. Not only has this seafaring adventure been completely overhauled in the same Ubisoft Anvil engine that Assassin’s Creed Shadows used, but some pretty large changes have been made to combat and other various game mechanics (which you can read about in our preview from last month).
But one surprising area that has certainly not been neglected is the story, and the lead writer of the original game, Darby McDevitt...
As Destiny 2 fans mourn the game's final update, Bungie's former community manager has blasted players fixated on comparing its player count with fledgling extraction shooter Marathon — and said that the company's current issues began long before its arrival, as well as Sony's acquisition.
Since Marathon debuted in March, and particularly since Bungie announced it was ending development of new Destiny 2 content, fans have continually compared the numbers of players in each game — and scrutinized Marathon's lower player count in particular.
To many, every time Destiny 2 spiked in popularity, its rising player count was proof that Bungie (and Sony) had acted too soon in ending support. Every fresh ebb for Marathon, meanwhile, served as...
Developer Odaclick Game Studio and publisher Trailmark Games have announced The Walking Dead: Streets of Survival, a new pixelated beat 'em up starring Rick Grimes, Daryl Dixon, and Michonne.
This single-player game set in the world of AMC's zombie franchise was announced today with its first trailer. It's set to come to PC via Steam, Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X | S, though no release date was shared.
In The Walking Dead: Streets of Survival's first 30-second gameplay clip, it looks like Rick, Daryl, and Michonne will be the three characters players can control, with each sporting their own unique weapons, pulled directly from the main show. While Rick can be seen wielding his trusty magnum revolver...
It was striking to see actor Ben Starr stride out onto the Summer Game Fest stage at the weekend to give a double-thumbs up in support of Fortnite - though perhaps not for the reasons Epic would have liked. For many years, the battle royale has been the Polaris that CEOs and shareholders have steered their ships towards, representing the promise of steady success and a ready audience built around a single game. That daydream curdled in the post-pandemic era, when Fortnite became the focal point of metaverse mania: a grand philosophy for digital shopping malls that inspired gabbled essays from executives, yet failed to coalesce into anything tangible.
Now the money which fuelled that movement has been funnelled into the next pipedream...
In about 16 minutes of hands-on time with Bad Magpie, I torched flowers, added even more chaos to the mess humans left behind with a sonic bird call, and thoroughly disgruntled some innocent mice. Bad Magpie is instantly charming, and from what I played, has great puzzles to go with its chaos.
Bad Magpie follows a magpie that's been left behind by her flock after an injury leaves it unable to fly. The magpie comes across a beautiful fallen star that also has a love for shiny trinkets. Alone and looking for company, the magpie decides to collect trinkets for the star to try and win it over. In the demo, I was tasked with getting a red badge for the star. When I came across it in a dark school playground, it was swiftly scooped up by...
Xbox will likely undergo studio shutdowns and consider ad-supported subscription models following newly-installed CEO Asha Sharma's blunt warning that a corporate "reset" was now necessary, gaming analysts have told IGN.
Sharma's memo to Xbox employees, subsequently published publicly online, painted an unflinching portrait of the problems facing Microsoft's gaming division — and made it clear that difficult decisions were now necessary in the coming days. Indeed, the memo's arrival prompted a report by Bloomberg that suggested a wave of layoffs would arrive as soon as next month — bringing excitement around the brand crashing back to earth after an encouraging Xbox Games Showcase, which included peeks at numerous upcoming blockbusters...
Crimson Desert is a hit, selling over 6 million copies in less than three months. Despite initial reception at launch being mixed, the sprawling single-player open world action adventure has caught on with fans, who have marveled at the sheer number of updates Pearl Abyss has pumped out on a weekly basis, each one improving the quality of the game and added new content in a meaningful — and often surprising — way.
But there’s no sign of Pearl Abyss slowing down. The South Korean studio has said it wants to ensure Crimson Desert receives long-term support, outlining a summer roadmap of content that includes improvements to the core narrative – a recurring criticism of the game. And there’s even DLC in the works.
During Summer Game Fest...
Resident Evil’s overall timeline can be a little hard to follow depending upon your entry point to the series. But producer Yoshiaki Hirabayashi has emphasized that, with Resident Evil Veronica, Capcom is reworking the story to make sure its place in the chronology is clear, while ensuring the remake keeps what fans loved about the original.
Japanese news outlet Famitsu reported on a recent Summer Games Fest press conference with Hirabayashi on the Resident Evil – Code: Veronica remake, due out in 2027.
The original Code: Veronica was released 27 years ago, and there have been many Resi games released since then. Story-wise, Hirabayashi noted that for the Veronica remake Capcom has been taking into account plotlines in other games...
Nintendo may only receive a $30,000 payout if it wins its high-profile legal battle with Palworld developer Pocketpair, an IP expert has said. But it's looking increasingly likely that Nintendo will lose.
Nintendo and The Pokémon Company are currently embroiled in ongoing litigation with Pocketpair in Japan, with patents that revolve around how Pokémon games work at the heart of the lawsuit.
Palworld arrived on Steam priced $30 and launched straight into Game Pass on Xbox and PC in early 2024, breaking sales and concurrent player number records in the process. Pocketpair boss Takuro Mizobe has said Palworld's launch was so big that the developer couldn’t handle the massive profits the game generated. Still, Pocketpair acted swiftly to...