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Marvel Snap to Get Tournament Mode Aimed at High-Skilled Players

Marvel Snap gets a new competitive tournament mode June 13. As revealed by Second Dinner development chief Ben Brode during Summer Game Fest, Conquest mode adds a new single loss, elimination-style tournament to the mobile phone and PC card game. Conquest takes place over the course of each in-game season, with exclusive rewards up for grabs. (Conquest has no impact on a player’s Marvel Snap season rank.) Here’s how it works: from June 13 players can participate in Conquest for free by entering the first level of the mode, dubbed the Proving Grounds. Winners get a Silver Ticket, which is then used to try Silver Conquest. Conquer that and you get a Gold Ticket. Win in Gold Conquest and you get the Infinite Ticket. Then, during the...

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Warhammer 40k: Space Marine 2 Summer Game Fest Trailer Reveals Co-op and Narrows Release Date

A new trailer for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 has unveiled the game's co-op mode, which supports up to three players throughout the campaign. Revealed at Summer Game Fest 2023, the game is set to come to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC sometime this winter. The new look opens with a cutscene setting the stage for a battle against a Tyranid splinter fleet on Avarax and Kodaku. We then saw a montage of third-person shooting across space stations, cities, and the wilderness, promising the same bloody action of the original. Then comes the big reveal, when Titus is joined by two other soldiers to blast through the hordes of Tyranids. Geoff Keighley also showed off Space Marine 2 at The Game Awards last year, revealing...

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Honkai: Star Rail Gets PlayStation 5 Release Window in New Trailer

A flashy new trailer for Honkai: Star Rail was shown during today's Summer Game Fest showcase, narrowing its PlayStation 5 release window to Q4 of 2023 and showing off a new character. Three different characters were shown in some quick action, followed by a short glimpse of the PS5 battle UI before the release window was announced. Earlier this year our Honkai: Star Rail review gave it a 9, calling it "a free-to-play RPG that might hook you for months – without making you feel like you have to pay." This story is developing... Continue reading...

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Lies of P Demo Out Now, Release Date Pushed Back Slightly to September

Neowiz has announced and released a Lies of P demo as part of Summer Game Fest. The publisher has also confirmed a slight delay to September 19. Lies of P previously had an August release window. The demo features the first two chapters of the Souls-like inspired by the story of Pinocchio. There are three boss fights and several locations to explore. You get an introduction to key characters and a chance to try out the weapon assemble feature, Legion Arm loadouts, and several discoverable outfits. Lies of P is set in the Belle Époque-inspired city of Krat. It’s described as a living nightmare, with deadly puppets and a plague to contend with. You play as P, a puppet who fights to find Geppetto and finally become human. Check out...

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Remnant 2's Release Date Has Been Revealed, and it's Coming Sooner Than You Think

During the Summer Game Fest show today, Gunfire Games' upcoming cooperative soulslike received a new trailer, which, among other things, revealed the release date. The sequel to the original "Dark Souls with guns," Remnant 2, will be available on July 25th, just over a month away. The trailer showed off some of the new realms players will be able to visit, including Narude, an otherworldly plane of darkness that's unlike anywhere we've visited in Remnant so far. IGN covered Remnant 2 extensively when it was our IGN First game in March, including its first-ever hands-on preview and a detailed look at the developer's ambitious procedurally generated levels and storylines. Travis Northup is a writer for IGN. You can follow him on...

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New Trailer for Path of Exile 2 Teases a Free-to-Play Diablo 4 Alternative

Grinding Gear Games has released a new teaser trailer for the hotly-anticipated action role-playing sequel Path of Exile 2. The “Ngamakanui” teaser, shown during Summer Game Fest, features typical ARPG combat in a dark, gory, monster-filled environment. It mentions more of the game will be shown during ExileCon in July. The Path of Exile 2 teaser comes hot on the heels of the launch of Diablo 4, which is Blizzard’s fastest-selling game ever. 2013’s Path of Exile is a long-standing resident of the top 100 most-played games list on Steam, where it enjoys a “very positive” user review rating. Path of Exile 2 introduces a new seven-act storyline campaign, with updated visuals and gameplay. Both Path of Exile and the sequel share the...

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Witchfire Release Date Revealed at Summer Game Fest

Polish indie game developer, The Astronauts, announced today that its upcoming dark fantasy first-person shooter Witchfire will release on Early Access this September. As part of Summer Game Fest 2023, the developer confirmed that Witchfire will be released on September 20 of this year on the Epic Games Store. Outside of a firm release date, we also got a new gameplay trailer to tie us over until September. The new trailer, which you can watch below, gives us another look at the grim and bleak fantasy world players will venture across. Witchfire was announced back in 2017 at The Game Awards that year and news on the game has been seldom for the last several years. It would not be until 2022, at last year's Summer Games Fest, that...

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Mortal Kombat 1 Kameo Gameplay Showcased in New Summer Game Fest Trailer

Mortal Kombat 1 looks as absurdly violent as you'd hope, as brand new extended gameplay today showed some absolutely gruesome fatalities, one after another, and characters such as Liu Kang, Sub Zero, Scorpion, and Raiden showcased. Revealed at Summer Game Fest, the new Mortal Kombat 1 trailer also showed off our first real look at assist characters, or Kameos. Mortal Kombat creator Ed Boon also took the stage after the trailer, detailing that Mortal Kombat 1 takes place in a "new timeline" where characters we've seen before have their stories told in a brand new way in a "reboot" of sorts. Kameo fighters are chosen during character select after choosing your main fighter, and can be called out multiple times during a fight to assist...

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Summer Game Fest 2023: Everything Announced

Summer Game Fest 2023 is finally here, and Geoff Keighley's show is kicking off a full week of reveals and updates on brand new and previously-announced games. In the past, we've seen games like The Last of Us Part 1 and Marvel's Midnight Suns, so some AAA games can definitely appear at any moment. We're keeping track of everything announced during the show, live as it happens. So read on to learn about every reveal at Summer Game Fest 2023. And, to tune in for yourself, check out how to watch Summer Game Fest and what to expect. Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Is Coming Next Year Summer Game Fest kicked off with a surprise: A brand new Prince of Persia game is coming out early next year. Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is coming...

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Blasphemous 2 Gets New Trailer and Release Date

We already knew that Blasphemous 2 would launch sometime this year. And today, we got a firm release date for the game, which is due this summer. As part of IGN's Summer of Gaming announcements, we learned that the 2D side-scrolling Metroidvania game will arrive on PC, PS5, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox Series X/S on August 24. Set after the events of the Wounds of Eventide DLC, Blasphemous 2 will include the trademark pixel-based art and the return of The Penitent One. Originally released in 2020, Blasphemous is a Metroidvania action-adventure with a distinctive art style and challenging combat. Its sequel was originally announced nearly two years ago at Gamescom 2021. As expected in a sequel, Blasphemous 2 will introduce new weapons...

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Reality-Shifting Puzzle Game Viewfinder Hits PS5 in July, Demo Out Now

Reality-bending puzzle game Viewfinder launches as a PS5 console exclusive on July 18, Sad Owl Studios has announced. PS5 owners can now download a demo from the PlayStation Store. It will help them get to grips with the subtleties of the gameplay mechanics ahead of Viewfinder’s full release, after which the demo will remain permanently available. At the time of writing no price was confirmed, and the PC version has yet to receive an official release date. In order to progress through Viewfinder’s story, the player needs to reshape the game’s digital world by manipulating and placing pieces of art, found objects, and photographs the user has captured using the in-game camera - hence the title, Viewfinder. Upon being set in...

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Friday the 13th: The Game Will No Longer Be Available to Buy After This Year

Friday the 13th: The Game will no longer be available to buy after this year, publisher Gun Interactive has announced. It's due to the expiration of the Friday the 13th licence, set for December 31 2023. In a statement posted on the official Friday the 13th: The Game Twitter account, Gun said that after December 31, 2023, it will no longer be able to sell physical or digital copies of the asymmetrical survival horror multiplayer game. Though the statement notes the game will continue to be playable "through at least December 31, 2024," provided you bought the game before the end of this year. While there will be at least one more year of support for Friday the 13th: The Game after it is no longer available to buy, it is important...

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Growth of Video Game Subscription Spending Stalls, New Data Suggests

The U.S. video game subscription market is likely approaching a plateau in terms of player spending, according to new data from analytics firm Circana. According to the company’s Games Market Dynamics report, in April 2023 game subscription spending in the U.S. was only 2% higher than in the same period last year. “Finding new subscribers beyond the console ownership base has proven very difficult thus far,” Circana executive director Mat Piscatella said in a tweet. Sony’s PlayStation Plus saw zero growth in subscribers year-on-year ending March 31. As of the end of March, Plus had 47.4 million subscribers. This comes despite the launch of PS Plus Premium and PS Plus Extra in June last year. Microsoft’s Game Pass hit 25 million...

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The Day Before Devs Insist Steam Page Will Return Soon, Reveal New Gameplay Details

The Day Before developer Fntastic has insisted the game's Steam page, which was removed in January over a trademark dispute, will be back online soon. Speaking to Well Played, Fntastic claimed it was "the first to start using this name related to the video game" and said it's "optimistic about regaining our name through legal proceedings as swiftly as possible". Though it didn't give a timeline for this, despite The Day Before set to launch in just five months on November 10, Fntastic said the "Steam page will be reinstated soon". The Day Before was removed from Steam after the developers of a 2010 countdown app of the same name found out about the video game. Fntastic postponed The Day Before's release date as a result of the...

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Witcher Community Rallies Around Geralt Actor Doug Cockle In Wake of Prostate Cancer Diagnosis

Doug Cockle, the actor who portrayed Geralt of Rivera in The Witcher series of video games, has revealed he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer in a move to raise awareness of the life-threatening disease. The news prompted an outpouring of support from industry professionals and fans alike. “I had no idea,” wrote Cockle in response to a tweet from charity Prostate Cancer UK. “Random check and Boom… I have full blown prostate cancer. Treatment ongoing but looking good so far. Men over 50… get a PSA test… just in case.” Industry peers and friends were quick to wish the actor a speedy recovery, and express gratitude to him for sharing his diagnosis. ”Sending our best wishes! We know you can beat this, witcher,” commented the...

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Magic the Gathering's One-of-a-Kind Lord of the Rings Card Is Already Worth $1 Million

Magic: The Gathering's upcoming Lord of the Rings expansion includes a one-of-a-kind One Ring card that collectors are already willing to pay $1 million for. Trading card buying and collecting company Dave and Adam's Card World has issued an unprecedented $1 million bounty for the special One Ring card, doubling the $500,000 offered by fellow collector and investor Cassius Marsh Sr. Announcing their $1 million bounty on Twitter (below), if this amount is actually paid for the One Ring it will easily become the most expensive and sought after Magic: The Gathering card of all time. The record is currently held by a Beta set Black Lotus which sold for $540,000 in March. There are caveats, however, that don't guarantee the One Ring...

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Whoopi Goldberg Really Wants Blizzard to Release Diablo 4 on Mac

Diablo 4 is Blizzard’s fastest-selling game, but one customer can’t play it. That customer is Oscar-winning Ghost actress Whoopi Goldberg, who said she bought the action role-playing game thinking she could play it on her Mac like its predecessors. Diablo 4, unfortunately for Goldberg, is only available for PC, PlayStation, and Xbox. In a video posted to her Instagram account, first reported by Entertainment Weekly, Goldberg pleaded with Blizzard to release Diablo 4 on Mac. "This is what I'm asking you, Blizzard," Goldberg said. "This is Whoopi. You know how much I love Diablo. I would like y'all to let those of us who use our Apples to play… allow us to play on the Apple. Take Diablo 4 and let us do it and have a great time.”...

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Why Capcom Shouldn't Skip a Resident Evil: Code Veronica Remake

Resident Evil: Code Veronica starts ominously. An opening crawl tells us a mid-western town, Raccoon City, has been completely decimated due to a T-Virus outbreak. Helicopters fly towards a mysterious island where Claire Redfield’s unloaded and then knocked out – she was captured by the Umbrella Corporation while infiltrating a Parisian lab. She was looking for her brother, the infamous police officer Chris Redfield. In a flashback, Claire sprints down a hallway, a machine gun firing at her, shards of glass going everywhere. She’s soon cornered and captured, but not without setting a few Umbrella employees on fire. If any of the series’ early installments deserves a comeback, it’s Code Veronica. It’s an opening cutscene as instantly...

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Fans Have Revealed What Their Own Final Fantasy IX Remake Looks Like

After three years, an extremely dedicated group of Final Fantasy IX fans have shared a hands-on gameplay demo, showcasing their own take on what a remake of the game would look like. The latest update from the project was a 25-minute video of a full gameplay demo. Unfortunately, however, this is the furthest this remake will go and you'll probably never be able to play it, as the group behind the project has said in the past that it has no intentions to publicly release this unless they receive consent from Square Enix. As they put it on their website: “Memoria Project is a proof of concept and is not meant to be viewed as a playable product. We will never do anything to infringe upon Square Enix’s copyright.” Still, at least we get...

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Madden NFL 24 Revealed: 10 Things to Know After Our First Hands-On

Madden NFL has even more to prove than usual this year. Heading into its fourth year in the PS5 / Xbox Series X generation, EA’s storied football series has more in common with the Chicago Bears than the reigning champion Kansas City Chiefs. The last three entries have been battered by fans and critics alike, with last year’s release averaging a 69 on Metacritic. As in previous years, EA’s strategy is to basically play defense and ignore the bad press, claiming that players are actually very happy while keeping the focus on the game it wants to promote. EA revealed Madden 24 to a group of reporters and influencers at a press event last week, opting to move away from the staggered info drops from previous years in favor of a more...

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Winnie the Pooh Is Now the Subject of a Bizarre Indie Horror Game

Twice Different, the Australian-based indie game studio behind the 2020 card crawler Ring of Pain, has announced a bizarre horror game featuring our favorite silly old bear, Winnie's Hole. Introduced out of nowhere at the end of the Blessing Show yesterday, the game is a Steam-exclusive rogue-lite genre blend where you play as a virus traveling through Winnie the Pooh's body. As you spread throughout the bear's rotund vessel like a cancer, you branch out the map and gather the resources you need to capture healthy cells and mutate them to grow as many extra appendages and eyes to transform Winnie into a monstrosity of your liking and adapt his form for survival. As you progress through the game and infect more animal residents of the...

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Guerrilla Collective Showcase 2023: Games to Watch

Happy Summer of Gaming, everyone! A busy week of announcements was kicked off today with the Guerrilla Collective Showcase, an annual celebration of upcoming indie games that was bursting with new trailers and gameplay. Look, there were a lot of games shown off during that show today, and we encourage you to go watch the entire show when you get the chance. But for now, we picked out a handful of our absolute favorites to highlight - check these out, check them all out: Super Space Club I think I felt my stress levels drop at least 40% watching the release date trailer for Super Space Club. It's a colorful arcade space shooter where you control a tiny triangle of a space ship zipping around the screen, pew pewing meteors and other...

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Warhaven Is a 16v16 Multiplayer Warfare Game that Looks to Redefine the Sword Action Genre

Warhaven isn’t trying to create another epic medieval war game, instead, it wants to take what fans love about that period and fuse it with modern elements to redefine the sword action genre. While the battles may seem chaotic, Warhaven puts you in control of one of six warriors and back-to-back with 15 others to take down your enemies to secure an incredible victory with style and power. This third-person combat experience is meant to be visceral and weighty. You will feel every swing and hit, plus taking down your foes will feel as rewarding as ever. Warhaven is an upcoming free-to-play game, and so to help you with the wait we are breaking down five reasons why you and your friends should give it a shot this summer. Battle with...

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Re-Emerges With New Screenshots and Refund Offer

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is back from the dead with an offer of refunds and a fresh batch of screenshots. In a message to fans, publisher Paradox acknowledged it had been some time since the last update on the long-awaited but troubled role-playing game. The sequel to developer Troika Games' much-loved 2004 cult-classic RPG was announced four years ago and at one point was due out in 2020. But the game was heavily-delayed and its developer, Hardsuit Labs, suffered a number of high-profile exits. In 2021, Paradox admitted it almost cancelled the project after ditching Hardsuit Labs, delaying the game indefinitely, and cancelling new pre-orders Now, Paradox has announced it will show more of Bloodlines 2 this September...

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge Gets New Playable DLC Character Later This Year

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge gets a new Dimension Shellshock DLC for PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation and Xbox One later this year, publisher Dotemu and developer Tribute Games have announced. The DLC adds Usagi Yojimbo as a new playable character to the well-received beat ‘em-up. The rabbit samurai is the star of the self-titled comic book series and has popped up in the various Turtles animated series. There’s also a new game mode, fresh original music from composer Tee Lopes, and alternative colour schemes for playable fighters. Meanwhile, a second free update is set to be released, which adds an additional range of colour palette options separate from those included within the Dimension Shellshock DLC...

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Perils of Always-Online Highlighted After Diablo 4 Player’s Level 100 Hardcore Character Dies After a Disconnect

The first Diablo 4 player to hit Level 100 in Hardcore mode was left speechless after his character was lost forever following a disconnect. Souaïb ‘carn’ Hanaf was livestreaming Diablo 4 when the game disconnected. After logging back in, carn discovered his max level Hardcore Barbarian was gone, leaving him no option but to create another character and start all over again. Diablo 4’s Hardcore mode features permadeath, which means if a character dies it’s gone for good. Clearly upset and confused, carn wonders whether he has suffered a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. He then spends some time searching Diablo 4’s menus for a trace of his character, to no avail. “This is the one thing when I was playing the beta that I...

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No Man’s Sky’s New Singularity Update Is About AI Corruption

No Man’s Sky’s next big update is about AI and robot uprisings. The update, out today for all formats, is dubbed Singularity. It is the 10th major update for the long-running space exploration game. Singularity forms a part of a much longer narrative arc that kicked off in the Interceptor update and is set to play out as the year goes on. Players investigate curious robot heads that are delivering cryptic clues across the galaxy. The story is about AI corruption and robotic uprisings, with Hello Games teasing “strong hints of what’s to come in No Man’s Sky”. “Throughout the five week long expedition, the whole community will be working with Nada and Polo on the space anomaly to try to breathe new life into the galaxy, and work...

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Now Diablo 4 Is Out in the Wild, the True Horror of Its Costly Microtransactions Has Revealed Itself

Diablo 4 launched proper yesterday, June 6, and now all players can see just how pricey its microtransactions are. Blizzard’s $70 action role-playing game leans heavily on in-game monetisation, with plans for various battle passes post-launch. Available now, however, is the in-game shop, which has become a bone of contention among fans. Diablo 4’s shop sells cosmetics only. There are no gameplay-affecting items up for sale. While that is very much a good thing, and in keeping with promises Blizzard made before launch, the pricing of some of these cosmetics has raised eyebrows. Take the Triune Apostate armour set, for example. It weighs in at 2,500 Platinum. Platinum is Diablo 4’s premium in-game currency, and must itself be bought...

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Counter-Strike 2 Lets Players Refund Weapons

Counter-Strike 2 now lets players refund their weapons. Developer Valve confirmed the feature, which Counter-Strike players have long-called for, in the tweet below. “Bought the wrong thing? Meant to buy a different weapon, armor, or grenade? Sell your purchase back and buy again (during buy time).” Currently, Counter-Strike does not allow refunds under any circumstances, which means if you buy a gun in error you either have to use it or fork out more cash to buy another. It’s worth noting Counter-Strike rival Valorant, from Riot, does offer refunds. The addition of refunds comes as part of a significant update for Counter-Strike 2, which is currently available to play as part of a limited test. The update also includes a...

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Summer Game Fest 2023: How to Watch and What to Expect

IGN's Summer of Gaming is officially on, and the events keep rolling with Summer Game Fest 2023 on Thursday, June 8. With E3 being cancelled, Summer Game Fest promises to be one of the biggest events of the season. Jeff Keighley's show debuted some heavy hitters last year, like The Last of Us Part 1 and Marvel's Midnight Suns, so there's definitely potential for juicy surprises this time around, especially since it's a live in-person event this year. If you want to tune into Summer Game Fest we'll point you to where you can watch the livsetream and let you know when it starts. We'll even do a bit of speculation about what to expect! Summer Game Fest 2023 Start Time Summer Game Fest kicks off on June 8, 2023 at 12pm PT/ 3PM ET/8PM...

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