Today is a special day for Nintendo fans, marking the date the company held its September 2023 Nintendo Direct. The latest show lasted about 40 minutes, filled with exciting announcements on games coming to Nintendo's hybrid console this winter.
There were a ton of announcements, and if you missed today's broadcast, fear not. This roundup goes over all the biggest news and reveals that came from the September 2023 Nintendo Direct.
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door HD Announced
Another beloved game from Nintendo's portfolio is getting the remastered treatment. This time, it's Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. We did not get a ton of information outside of updated visuals and the fact that it will be out next year on the Nintendo...
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Phantom Liberty, the first and only major expansion for Cyberpunk 2077, is nearly here. The highly anticipated DLC, which adds new quests, stories, locations, characters, and abilities, will be accompanied by a major update to the base game that adds all-new, highly requested gameplay systems.
In anticipation of the expansion and base game update, we’ve compiled this overview of everything we know about Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, including its release date, platforms, price, gameplay updates, story details, and more.You can also check out our preview of Phantom Liberty for an extended demo.
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty Release Date
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty will be released on September 26. You can see the full list...
Starfield has a quite remarkable glitch that lets you take everything a major vendor has and sell it back to him for infinite money.
The glitch, spotted by redditor Heretic0 and verified by IGN, revolves around the small puddle outside Shepherd's General Store in Akila City. Here’s how it works:
Shift into third-person
Crouch
Move to the small puddle directly outside Shepherd's General Store
Profit
Incredibly, this puddle grants guilt-free access to what appears to be the Shepherd's General Store vendor chest hidden underneath the map. You can grab all the many items within (watch out for encumbrance!), then sell them for money. Adding insult to injury, you can sell the items to Emerson Shepherd himself. Perhaps that’s why he...
The creator of popular Steam survival game Rust has hit out at Unity amid the ongoing furore around new charges.
Unity sent shockwaves through the video game industry when it announced a new policy that means some developers will have to pay a small fee every time someone downloads a game built on Unity's game engine.
The Unity Runtime Fee, scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2024, was universally panned by developers on social media following the announcement. Unity later walked back some aspects of the policy amid escalating anger from developers, insisting the fee would only apply to the initial installation of a game, and that developers would not be on the hook for installations through subscription services such as Xbox Game...
Baldur’s Gate 3’s third major patch launches September 21, developer Larian has announced. Patch 3 launches alongside full support for Baldur’s Gate 3 on Mac.
The hope with Patch 3 is Larian is able to address ongoing performance issues, particularly with Act 3, across PC and console now the sprawling Dungeons and Dragons-themed role-playing game is out on PlayStation 5.
As IGN reported, Baldur's Gate 3’s split-screen mostly works fine, but performance tanks when two characters explore different parts of a city, with the frames per second fluctuating especially in the densely populated Act 3.
Split-screen has proven to be a pain point for Baldur's Gate 3, particularly on Xbox. Larian compromised by removing split-screen from the...
Well, it's a particularly notable day for Resi Evil fans. In 2002, the remake train started with a GameCube reimagining of 1996's Resident Evil. On the same day one year previous, PS2 folks got a taste of Code Veronica—a brilliant entry that was the first to include a real-time 3D environment. I humbly invite Capcom to remake it at their earliest possible convenience.
This Day in Gaming
Aussie birthdays for notable games and hardware
- Mario Golf (N64) 1994. Sequel
- Omega Boost (PS) 1999.
- Resident Evil Code: Veronica (PS2) 2001.
- Resident Evil (GC) 2002. Sequel
- Dead Rising (X360) 2006.
- Yakuza (PS2) 2006. Remake
- Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection (PSP) 2006.
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider (PC,PS4,XO) 2018.
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The Unity Games That Could be Impacted Most by Controversial Fees, From Silksong to Cult of the Lamb
Unity caused a firestorm of backlash from game developers on social media yesterday following its announcement that it would begin charging developers a small fee every time someone downloads a game built on Unity's game engine.
Even though Unity has already walked back some aspects of the Unity Runtime Fee, the controversial policy is still scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2024. This is causing many developers to contemplate the future of their games — including both titles built on Unity that are already released and games currently in development with Unity's game engine.
So, what does this all mean for you, the player? Right now, it's all up in the air. Some developers are seriously considering de-listing their games from...
A busy week sees us digging into a number of topics, including our hands-on impressions of Forza Motorsport, Gearbox reportedly being put back up for sale by the financially wobbly Embracer Group, saluting Epic Games Chief Creative Office Donald Mustard upon his retirement as we remember his three awesome Xbox exclusives from the OG Xbox and Xbox 360 days, the Xbox MasterCard and why you should be careful with it, and more!
Subscribe on any of your favorite podcast feeds, to our YouTube channel, or grab an MP3 of this week's episode. For more awesome content, check out IGN racing game guru Luke Reilly's recent in-depth Forza Motorsport hands-on preview in the video below!
For more next-gen coverage, make sure to check out our Xbox...
Unity Acknowledges 'Confusion and Frustration' Among Developers But Won't Walk Back Install Fee Plan
Game developers are still furious about Unity's planned install fees, but the platform holder is holding fast to its new policy, arguing that "90 percent of [Unity] customers will not be affected by this change.
Ackowledging the "confusion and frustration" stemming from the proposed runtime fees, Unity sought to clarify questions about how the company defines and counts installs — one of the major sticking points around the new policy. Unity has previously said that it will charge $0.20 per install for any game with more than 200,000 installs, raising questions about multiple installs, Game Pass, and other issues.
Unity claims it will only count "net new installs" on any devices starting January 1. It also says developers won't pay...
Those looking for more information about Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name and Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth will want to mark their calendars for Sept. 19, as SEGA has announced a RGG Like a Dragon Direct for that day.
The stream, Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio’s first dedicated Western broadcast, promises to share "the latest news, trailers, and more" for aforementioned titles and will serve as the dev team’s counterpart to the RGG Summit airing from Japan. It will air on SEGA’s Twitch and YouTube channels at 9 p.m. PT on Sept. 19.
Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name is just a few months from release, hitting Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and PC on Nov. 9. We have less information...
I just got my hands on Mortal Kombat 1 a few days ago, so a full review won’t be ready for a little bit, but it’s already making a strong impression.
If there’s one thing you can applaud Netherrealm for with regards to the gameplay system of each new Mortal Kombat game since MK9, it’s that each one plays dramatically different from the last without sacrificing that very distinct Mortal Kombat feel. So it’s not surprising that, even before we get to the crazy Kameo system, Mortal Kombat 1 makes some drastic changes from MK11 that really set it apart. For starters, it returns the meter management to just one meter that governs enhanced special moves, breakers, and now jump cancels out of uppercuts; fatal blows are still around, but are...
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Jedi: Survivor director Stig Asmussen is leaving Electronic Arts, Bloomberg reports.
"After careful thought and consideration, Stig Asmussen has decided to leave Respawn to pursue other adventures, and we wish him the best of luck," an EA spokesperson said. "Veteran Respawn leaders will be stepping up to guide the team as they continue their work on Star Wars Jedi: Survivor."
Asmussen has been a director at Respawn Entertainment since 14. Before that he worked at Sony Interactive Entertainment, where he worked primarily on the God of War series, including helming God of War III. Asmussen has not disclosed his next destination.
The Star Wars: Jedi series has been a notable success story for EA...
Among Us could be another major casualty of Unity's new installation fee, which has sparked chaos throughout the games industry since its announcement yesterday. Speaking with IGN, Innersloth programmer Forest Willard confirmed that "pulling Among Us for a while" is on the table while the developer looks for a solution.
"We're lucky to have the resources that we could swap engines and I see no reason to pay Unity for nothing while we do it," Willard said. "I'm really hoping they'll just walk it back, but they should honestly be afraid of how much trust they're burning with whatever this maneuver is."
Willard has been among the most vocal detractors of the new policy, which will seek to charge developers a nominal fee for each install...
Sega announced that it will be bringing over Demon Slayer - Sweep the Board to Nintendo Switch in 2024.
It’s a board game that looks to be similar to that of Mario Party and allows up to four people to play together, either locally or online. There will be several characters from the Demon Slayer cast that players can choose from, including Tanjiro Kamado, Zenitsu Agatsuma, Unosuke Hashibira, and nine other Hashiras. Additionally, Nezuko Kamado will be in the game as a support character.
Players will participate in a variety of mini-games and the game board will switch between day and night. As players move forward on the board, different events will trigger and they must work together to bring down demons in their way.
It’s...
There’s an old joke about 4X games that goes something like this: after you spend several hours on YouTube watching tutorials, you get to fumble your way through a playthrough with a vague idea of what you’re doing before you inevitably make some fatal mistake you don’t recognize until much, much later. Then you restart and do a little better. Star Trek: Infinite isn’t interested in re-inventing the galactic wheel - this is a 4X game’s 4X game - but it does do a good job of bringing Trek into the space that publisher Paradox Interactive has boldly charted over the years.
From the jump, Star Trek: Infinite lets you choose from four factions: the Federation, the Klingon Empire, the Romulan Empire, and the Cardassian Union. The...
Starfield developer Bethesda has outlined a raft of improvements coming to the space role-playing game post-launch.
In a blog post, Bethesda said Starfield’s first update is a small hotfix targeted at the few top issues it’s seeing. But after that, players can expect a regular interval of updates that have “top community requested features”.
These features include DLSS support on PC, perhaps the most-requested update from PC players. Also of note is an eat button for food. Currently, Starfield does not let you eat food as you see it in the game world, so an eat food button would save a lot of time.
Here’s the list:
Brightness and Contrast controls
HDR Calibration Menu
FOV Slider
Nvidia DLSS Support (PC)
32:9 Ultrawide Monitor...
You know we’ve entered a new era in the increasingly crowded soulslike arms race when we’re now turning classic children’s stories into dark, twisted Bloodborne pseudo-sequels, but hey: here we are. Yes, Lies of P is yet another game inspired by the dark and unforgiving FromSoftware masterpieces that have captured the hearts of so many (myself included), but it’s also an undeniably impressive standout amid a sea of games chasing the soulslike trend. It suffers from some uneven difficulty and overly linear level design, but its impressive story, extremely well-tuned combat, and memorable areas and boss fights mean that this isn’t one you should miss out on. It’s fair to say that sometimes Lies of P emulates its inspiration so closely it...
Square Enix has lost nearly $2 billion in value since the launch of Final Fantasy 16 in June, and a new report has cast doubt on the company’s ability to recover.
Shares in the company have plummeted nearly 30% since Final Fantasy 16 came out on June 22, closing on September 13 at their lowest point since May last year.
The PlayStation 5 exclusive sold three million copies during launch week, a figure that sparked a debate online about whether it had met Square Enix’s sales targets. Square Enix told IGN in July sales of Final Fantasy 16 were “extremely strong”, and insisted the game had sold well relative to the PS5 install base.
IGN sources familiar with the performance of Final Fantasy 16 confirmed sales had slowed considerably...
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, the upcoming cRPG set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe developed by Owlcat Games, now has a release date, as revealed in the new trailer that you can watch above. That date is December 7, 2023. The trailer also reveals that the game is being released on more than just PC and Mac: it'll also hit the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S that same day.
The turn-based cRPG will be another big release in what has been a massive year for RPGs, capping off a year in which the genre has added Starfield, Baldur's Gate 3, Sea of Stars, Final Fantasy 16, and Diablo 4 (among others) to its ranks. The new trailer also introduces Marazhai, the last of your 10 available companions who Owlcat describes as "one of the Drukhari, a...
Microsoft has announced the full list of games coming day one with Xbox Game Pass Core tomorrow, September 14.
Xbox Game Pass Core, which has replaced Xbox Live Gold, includes 36 games to play on Xbox Series X and S and Xbox One. There’s a mix of games from Microsoft’s first-party developers, Bethesda games, and a smattering of third-party titles.
Here’s the list in full:
Among Us
Astroneer
Celeste
Dead Cells
Descenders
Dishonored 2
Doom Eternal Standard Edition
Fable Anniversary
Fallout 4
Fallout 76
Firewatch
Forza Horizon 4 Standard Edition
Gang Beasts
Gears 5 Game of the Year Edition
Golf with your Friends
Grounded
Halo 5: Guardians
Halo Wars 2
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
Human Fall Flat
Inside
Limbo
Ori & the Will of the Wisps...
Mortal Kombat 1 will launch without crossplay.
A tweet from the official Mortal Kombat account signalled that the feature is still coming, but won’t arrive until some point following the fighting game’s release on September 14.
“Launch is just around the corner and we can’t wait for everyone to sink their teeth into #MK1,” reads the tweet. “Regarding Kross-Play, it will not be available at launch, but know we are hard at work at implementing the feature into the game and it will be koming post launch.”
Crossplay has been a ‘will it or won’t it’ feature for Mortal Kombat 1, with a listing on the game’s Steam page popping up before being deleted. Developer NetherRealm has yet to confirm which platforms will see crossplay, but the...
The developer of superb action-roguelite Cult of the Lamb has threatened to delete the game on January 1 amid a row with game engine company Unity.
Unity sent shockwaves through the video game industry last night when it announced a new policy that meant some developers would have to pay a small fee every time someone downloads a game built on Unity's game engine.
The Unity Runtime Fee, scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2024, was universally panned by developers on social media following the announcement. Unity later walked back some aspects of the policy amid escalating anger from developers, insisting the fee would only apply to the initial installation of a game, and that developers would not be on the hook for installations...
Nvidia has released an update that aims to improve Starfield performance.
The update targets performance on RTX 30 and 40-series cards. In a blog post, Nvidia said internal tests showed 40-series GPUs see on average a 5% increase in performance.
“Today, Nvidia is releasing a Resizable BAR profile for Starfield which increases performance on GeForce RTX 40 Series and GeForce RTX 30 Series desktop and laptop GPUs,” Nvidia said. “In our testing scenario, GeForce RTX 40 Series desktop GPUs see on average a 5% increase in performance. The Starfield Resizable BAR update will be pushed via an Over-The-Air (OTA) update from NVIDIA and will be automatically applied for gamers running the latest Game Ready Driver (537.34) or the previous...
In recent years, Apple has shifted more and more focus to adding gaming-centric features to its hardware, mostly on Mac computers. The Apple Wonderlust Event confirmed the iPhone 15 Pro is joining in, with the next Apple flagship smartphone set to receive native versions of AAA games including Resident Evil Village, Assassin's Creed Mirage, and more in the coming months.
In an off-hand demo attended by IGN, Resident Evil Village ran natively on the iPhone 15 Pro at a stable 30 frames per second. The fact that Resident Evil Village, a game released a little over two years ago, is running natively on a smartphone and is not a cloud version or a watered-down version of the game is nothing short of impressive. While we did not get...
Welcome to a new day of mad deals, my hands-on look at Assassin's Creed Mirage, and me feeling old again. Why? Because 30 years ago was the first time Aussies could buy Mortal Kombat on Mega Drive, and then enter ABACABB for the blood code. Speaking of, I'm seeing plenty of great deals on the upcoming reboot, Mortal Kombat 1, right here. I genuinely like how it's breathing fresh new life into the franchise with death.
This Day in Gaming
Aussie birthdays for notable games and hardware
- Mortal Kombat (GEN, GG,MS) 1993. Reboot
- Mario Kart: Super Circuit (GBA) 2001. Sequel
- Commandos 2: Men of Courage (XB) 2002.
- Tekken 4 (PS2) 2002. Sequel
- Rocksmith (PS3,X360) 2012.
- Tekken Tag Tournament 2 (PS3,X360) 2012.
- Rhythm...
In some big Sims news today, EA has confirmed that The Sims 5, codenamed Project Rene, will be “free to download when it's ready."
“This means that when Project Rene is ready and fully open to players, you will be able to join, play and explore it without a subscription, core game purchase or energy mechanics,” EA elaborated in a blog post today during a new Behind the Sims presentation. “We want playing to be super easy for you to invite or join friends and experience new features, stories and challenges.”
The blog post went on to say that the next Sims game won’t replace The Sims 4, but that the two will exist “side by side": "We will continue to support both at the same time and will plan to bring more exciting content to The Sims...
To say I've taken a stab at the Assassin’s Creed franchise would be quite the understatement. An understabment. I took my oaths in 2007, at the altar of Altaïr. I’ve gone under the hood of more than 15 games in this killer series about serial killers. I've spent 2,454 years “consciousness commuting” in an Animus. Whenever a new AC is announced, my ears prick up quicker than dual hidden blades.
That said and while the last few Animus updates were interesting, I miss the time when Abstergo’s fancy sunbed was an undisputed killer app. Every new ARPG revision since AC: Syndicate (2015) has required a bigger leap of faith on my behalf, though the franchise's throughline—making interesting slices of history come to life with death—has...
Game developers aren't happy with a new policy from Unity that will cost developers a small fee every time someone downloads a game built on Unity's game engine.
It's called the Unity Runtime Fee, and the new pricing model will apply to developers who reach a certain amount of installs and revenue.
"We are introducing a Unity Runtime Fee that is based upon each time a qualifying game is downloaded by an end user," Unity's announcement reads in part. "We chose this because each time a game is downloaded, the Unity Runtime is also installed. Also we believe that an initial install-based fee allows creators to keep the ongoing financial gains from player engagement, unlike a revenue share."
The Unity Runtime Fee is scheduled to take...
So you’ve made your way out into the Starfield and embarked on a journey to discover the secrets of the known universe. But what happens at the end of Bethesda’s latest RPG?
If you’ve reached the end of Starfield, you might be wondering exactly what you just experienced. Luckily, we’re here to help you make sense of it all. Read on below for our explainer on just what exactly happens at the end of Starfield, and what waits for you afterwards.
Warning, full spoilers ahead beyond this point for the end of Starfield.
Starfield's Biggest Secret, Revealed
On the surface, Starfield is a highly straightforward game. You play as an Asteroid miner who encounters a mysterious artifact that sends you on a vision quest. Following this...
Apple says its iPhone 15 Pro represents the "next generation of mobile gaming", with support for console and PC games previously unavailable on mobile hardware.
Revealed at today's Apple Wonderlust Event, iPhone 15 Pro is getting a lineup of AAA games, including native versions of Resident Evil 4 Remake, Resident Evil Village, Death Stranding, and Assassin's Creed Mirage. Apple also teased huge performance upgrades and ray tracing for gaming on iPhone.
This represents a huge milestone for mobile gaming, as Assassin's Creed Mirage's release on iPhone 15 Pro will mark the first time that a console/PC Assassin's Creed game will run natively on iOS. Not to be confused with cloud streaming or the upcoming mobile-only Assassin's Creed...