The Life Is Strange franchise has taken on a second life outside the video game world, expanding into a series of spinoff comics and novels. Now Titan Comics is back with a new limited series called Life Is Strange: Forget-Me-Not.
All week long, Titan will be revealing the cover art for Life Is Strange: Forget-Me-Not #1. IGN can exclusively debut the first cover, illustrated by Barnstormers artist Tula Lotay. Check it out below:
Life Is Strange: Forget-Me-Not is set after the events of 2021's Life Is Strange: True Colors. The series is written by Zoe Thorogood (Joe Hill's Rain). Life Is Strange: Dust artist Claudia Leonardi and colorist Andrea Izzo are both returning for the new series. Here's Titan's official description for Life...
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It’s a new era for EA Sports’ football games, with the long-running FIFA series no more. EA FC 24, due out later in September, is EA Sports’ first non-FIFA game, and with it comes a fresh assessment of the real-life footballers whose virtual counterparts star in the game.
Today, EA has revealed the top 24 men and women’s ratings for FC 24, confirming who the developers at EA Sports reckon are the four best footballers on earth.
FC 24 has four players with an overall rating of 91. They are:
Kylian Mbappé 91 Ligue 1 Uber Eats
Alexia Putellas 91 Liga F
Erling Haaland 91 Premier League
Kevin De Bruyne 91 Premier League
FC 24 lets male and female players play with and against each other in Ultimate Team, the game’s most popular and...
It’s been six years since Forza Motorsport 7 was released, and a fraction under two years since it was delisted. That’s right; it’s been over 725 days since you could buy a Forza Motorsport game this side of the second-hand market. Fortunately, that’s about to change next month – but ahead of the much-anticipated launch of Forza Motorsport on PC and Xbox Series X|S consoles on October 10, 2023 we’ve finally been able to get behind the wheel. Unsurprisingly, it does look and feel fabulous – but it’s the more thoughtful tweaks to the moment-to-moment racing out on track that have me the most interested.
While our time with the Forza Motorsport preview build has essentially been unlimited since we were granted access to it, we should...
Deliciously pulpy horror storytelling was at the heart of the original Alan Wake. It returns for the sequel, too, but the Stephen King-isms look to be confined to The Dark Place; the New York-styled nightmare cage the titular writer is trapped in. Out in the real world (or at least what seems like the real world) – the domain of our second protagonist, FBI agent Saga Anderson – developer Remedy Entertainment has crafted a new collage from pieces of its favourite detective stories. The eerie shadows of True Detective, Seven, and The Silence of the Lambs creep through Alan Wake 2’s gorgeous digital depiction of the Pacific Northwest.
For this month’s IGN First, I visited Remedy’s studio in Finland to play Alan Wake 2. Across more than...
Starfield is getting official mod support in 2024 according to Bethesda development chief Todd Howard.
Speaking to Famitsu and translated by IGN, Howard didn't say exactly when official mod support would be released but did suggest it's likely coming through the Creation Kit also available for Fallout 4 and The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim.
"Once mods are supported, you’ll be able to do almost anything, just like in our previous games," Howard said. "Mod support will be available next year, and we love mods too, so we’ll go all-in."
Fallout 4 and Skyrim's Creation Kits let players access the same tools Bethesda used to actually create the games, letting more advanced mods be created with greater ease. Skyrim's was released in 2012 while...
A list of six PlayStation Plus Extra games due out in September has hit the internet.
The ever-reliable billbil-kun of Dealabs revealed September’s selection of PS Plus Extra games:
NieR Replicant (PS4)
Star Ocean: The Divine Force (PS5, PS4)
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim (PS4)
Sid Meier’s Civilization 6 (PS4)
Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2
Unpacking (PS5, PS4)
NieR Replicant, full title NieR Replicant Ver. 1.22474487139, is the upgraded prequel of NieR:Automata. IGN's review returned an 8/10: "Improved visuals and smoothed out combat go a long way in Nier's update, but it's the story that's the star of the show."
Unpacking, one of the best indie games of 2021, is a puzzle game about putting life's bits and bobs in the right place...
Playing Starfield and wondering why the NPCs look like they’re dead inside? One developer reckons they’ve worked out why.
Character and tech artist Delaney King took to X to post a fascinating look into the eyes of Starfield’s characters, explaining why their smiles look fake.
According to King, who has worked on the likes of Dragon Age and God of War, the character smiles have an issue with the orbicularis oculi muscle not contracting, which gives a "Duchenne smile". The effect is a smile that looks fake. Rather than look genuine, this sort of smile makes it look like you’re lying or constipated. If you watch The Boys, you’ll know this sort of smile from the superb Anthony Starr, who plays Homelander.
King references András Arató...
This year has seen the release of a truly absurd number of excellent games. One of the first to hit shelves, all the way back in March, was a from-the-ground-up remake of the all-time classic Resident Evil 4. It’s safe to say the remake was successful, earning a 10/10 “masterpiece” rating in our review. So here’s some good news for horror game fans heading into spooky Halloween season: all console versions of RE4 Remake are on sale for $39.99 at Best Buy. Amazon has the PS4 version on sale for the same price.
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Capcom has been absolutely killing it with Resident Evil games in recent years. That includes original games (Resident Evil 7 and Village), but it also includes remakes of the older games from the '90s and...
Some of Steam’s oldest user accounts are turning 20-years old this week, and Valve is celebrating the anniversary by handing out special digital badges featuring the original Steam colour scheme to the gaming veterans.
Steam first opened its figurative doors all the way back in September 2003, and has since grown into the largest digital PC gaming storefront in the world, which is actively used by tens of millions of players each day.
“In case anyone's curious about the odd colours, that's the colour scheme for the original Steam UI when it first launched,” commented Redditor Penndrachen, referring to the badge's army green colour scheme, which prompted a mixed reaction from players who remembered the platform's earliest days. “I...
Gearbox, the U.S. game company behind the Borderlands series, is reportedly up for sale.
Reuters reports Gearbox parent company Embracer is weighing up its options, one of which is a sale. Apparently Embracer has received interest from a number of third-parties. Neither Embracer nor Gearbox have issued comment.
Embattled Embracer is currently undergoing a significant restructuring that has already seen the closure of Volition, the long-running studio behind the Saints Row series.
Earlier this year, Embracer announced it would start to close studios and cancel games as a $2 billion deal reportedly with Saudi government funded company Savvy Games Group fell through at the last moment.
Embracer Group had been on an acquisition spree...
Starfield has overtaken The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim's all-time concurrent players record on Steam in its first weekend available after full launch.
Data from SteamDB shows Starfield sitting in 27th place in Steam's all-time list, while Skyrim is now in 31st. Starfield hit a peak of 330,723 concurrent players on September 10, while Skyrim's record peaked 12 years ago at 287,411. The space epic fell short of developer Bethesda's previous release Fallout 4, however, which sits in 16th place overall with 472,962.
While it's perhaps surprising to some that Starfield hasn't achieved a higher spot on the list, having topped six million players overall with one million concurrents on launch day, its inclusion on Xbox Game Pass has likely...
Starfield modders are having their fun with Bethesda’s space role-playing game, making some weird and wonderful concoctions as well as some really useful, quality-of-life improvements. Now, modders are turning their attention to Star Wars.
Perhaps the most impressive Star Wars-related mod for Starfield so far is this Galactic Civil War Conversion, created by kboykboy, which turns the United Colonies cops into Stormtroopers. This fantastic-looking mod replaces the models of the UC police uniform with accurate Stormtrooper armour, so you can continue to interact with the NPCs as if they were UC security.
Kboykboy has some ambitious plans for the mod. They intend to replace all UC armour with Imperial versions, as well as all Freestar...
Allow me to groggily welcome you to another working week of cheap gaming deals. Chalk that up to me spending way too many hours space-jockeying through Starfield. Through this hyperspace hangover, I've still found you some notable bargains on some other future stars worth visiting. Namely, Assassin's Creed Mirage, Mortal Kombat 1, CoD MW3, and more.
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Aussie birthdays for notable games and hardware
- Resident Evil (SAT) 1997.
- Puppeteer (PS3) 2013.
- Danganronpa 2 (PSV) 2014.
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“One of the first things I wrote in machine code was an expanding starfield. Just literally flying through it, and I found it mesmerizing. I thought ‘It has to be a game.’” That was the moment David Braben, co-creator of Elite and founder of Frontier Developments, changed space games forever. It was video games’ equivalent of the Big Bang, the birth of an idea that would eventually go on to shape four decades of space games and, eventually, Starfield.
In the early 1980s, space games were pretty rudimentary and there was little more to them than flying a ship and shooting aliens. David Braben, who at the time was an undergraduate at Cambridge University, had the idea that a game set in space could be so much more.
“We had Space...
Space combat in Starfield only gets more challenging as you progress through the main story, but the Frontier isn't going to get any better unless you invest in it. Instead of upgrading the ship you've got buying a new ship, we'd recommend earning ships for free.
One of the best ships you can get in Starfield is called the Razorleaf, and the only way you can get it is by completing a side mission called Mantis. It's a higher-level mission, but it's worth strongarming for the rewards. Not only is the Razorleaf fast, equipped with great weapons, and worth over 120,000 credits, but it also comes with a shielded cargo hold if you're looking to smuggle contraband. Plus you'll get other great rewards with the ship.
In order to start the...
Space Week is still happening over here at IGN, and today we're proud to present the winners of our best space game Face-Off! After thousands and thousands of 1v1 battles with matchups like No Man's Sky vs. the brand-new Starfield and Starcraft vs. Destiny 2, the ultimate space game has been chosen by you.
So, which game claimed the top spot for the best space game and will forever be immortalized in the stars above? Drumroll please...
We're IGN and Mass Effect 2 is your favorite space game on the Citadel! Yes, with an 89.3% win percentage, Mass Effect 2 and its incredible cast of characters, unforgettable suicide mission, and choices that carried over and mattered from the original have risen above the rest of the pack.
We...
Spanning over 16 titles, the Grand Theft Auto series has garnered quite a reputation during its time as one of gaming’s seminal franchises. No matter which entry you visit, you’ll find a sprawling open world filled with high-speed car chases, daring heists, intense gunfights and a huge metropolis to explore. But while carnage and police pursuits are largely Grand Theft Auto’s bread and butter, it’s not the only thing fans rely on Rockstar to provide.
Alongside a fully interactive sandbox, Grand Theft Auto games are lorded for their stories. Across over two decades of releases, the franchise has transformed into a crime saga like no other, telling the tales of an array of ambitious criminals completing seemingly impossible scores...
Hello, IGN Reviewers in training. Welcome to week two of community reviews, in which we give you the opportunity to score your favorite (or not-so-favorite) games that are based on a specific theme. Last week our theme was space, but with so many more games in space that we didn't include on the initial playlist, we decided to remix it, add some more, and give more games a chance to share in the spotlight.
For those of you who missed the rollout of Community Reviews, you can check it out here. Remember, the biggest and best games, based on User Review scores, will make the leaderboard showcasing what the IGN audience believes to be the best games of all time. So here is your chance to tell the world why you think a game you've played...
The traveling discount aisle, Xûr, is now live in Destiny 2 for the weekend until next week's reset. If you're looking to get you some shiny new Exotic armor or weapons for your Guardian, look no further.
Each week, Xûr has a random assortment of Exotic armor, one for each Guardian class, as well as a random Exotic Weapon and an Exotic Engram available for purchase. In addition to his Exotic wares, he's got a random collection of Legendary weapons and armor to deck out your Guardians.
We've rounded up all the info on Xûr for the week including where to find Xûr, which Exotic weapons and armor are available, as well as which Legendary weapons you should pick up, either for PvE or PvP.
Where Is Xûr Today?
Xûr's location today can be...
Epic Games Chief Creative Officer Donald Mustard, one of the key architects behind Fortnite’s massive success, is retiring this month.
Mustard announced the news today on social media platform X (formerly Twitter), writing that he’s “excited to spend time with my wife and family and am forever grateful for [Epic Games CEO] @timsweeney and the Epic Games family.” You can read his full statement below.
In 2005, Mustard founded Salt Lake City-based studio Chair Entertainment, which released its first game, Undertow, for Xbox 360’s Live Arcade service in 2007.
Chair was acquired by Epic Games in 2008 and there, Mustard would direct beloved 2009 Metroidvania Shadow Complex (today’s news might be a little deflating for those still...
While playing through Starfield's 19 Main Missions you'll unlock some cool things, but one set of very cool things is a game changer. We will spoil it below for those who are OK with that sort of thing, but suffice it to say: We highly recommend playing through a specific amount of the Main Missions to unlock a very cool thing that you'll want to use in the remaining Main Missions, Side Missions, faction quests, and basically every opportunity — and it's something that, if you get it early, it gets even better the more you play.
This tip is so good. For real. We wish someone would have told us this before we started playing.
Which Main Missions to Mainline
Intrigued? OK, here's the spoiler free version: Simply unlock and beat the...
Baldur's Gate 3 recently launched on PS5. Like the PC version, it includes support for split-screen, allowing PS5 owners to play with their friends who are playing Larian Studios' critically acclaimed RPG on PC. But while split-screen mostly works fine, IGN has nevertheless encountered some issues.
We discuss these issues in our new performance review of Baldur's Gate 3, where we compare the PS5 and PC versions of the game. Reviewer Michael Thompson says that the game's performance tanks when two characters explore different parts of a city, with the frames per second fluctuating while conducting the test in Act 3.
He notes that the CPU is being taxed while doing this work and not the GPU. Thompson reports an average of 27.3 frames...
Roblox Corporation announced today that its popular game platform will be coming to PlayStation consoles next month.
At the 2023 Roblox Developers Conference (RDC), the company confirmed that both PS4 and PS5 versions of Roblox will be available starting in October. Roblox is already available on Xbox, in addition to PC, Mac, iOS, and Android, with a Meta Quest version receiving a broader launch sometime this month.
The press release from Roblox Corporation notes that PS4 and PS5 owners can anticipate access to "the full catalog of Roblox experiences," implying that users playing Roblox on another platform can log into their account and pick up where they left off.
Roblox was originally released in 2006 and has become a juggernaut...
After sharing a sneak peek during a recent episode of Hot Ones featuring Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon, Netherrealm Studios has released a new trailer today spotlighting the Jean-Claude Van Damme skin in Mortal Kombat 1.
The new trailer shows off Van Damme fighting a few characters, including Johnny Cage, the former being an alternative skin for the Mortal Kombat veteran that can only be unlocked if you purchase Premium/Kollector's editions of the game. The costume the Van Damme skin wears even resembles the outfit worn in the 1988 film Bloodsport.
Van Damme becoming a playable character in the next installment in the Mortal Kombat franchise comes full circle as the character, dating back to the original Mortal Kombat game, when...
In Home Sweet Home : Online by Yggdrazil Group, you have to do what you can to hang onto your humanity–until the rules change on a dime, and you become the hunter who stalks the darkness for fresh blood. Four players then struggle to survive against the beast's onslaught. It's a familiar gameplay scenario, but there's a big difference with Home Sweet Home : Online's structure: It does away with the imbalance issues and clogged lobbies that plague other "massive monster versus tiny hunters" 4v1 games. There's no delay, and easier matchmaking.
Home Sweet Home : Online's mechanics guarantee that everyone is playing by the same rule set, so you always have a shot at coming out on top. Everyone starts every match on the same footing, but...
Starfield players have already made some incredibly useful mods, like a fix for the frustrating inventory system or the addition of DLSS support, but they've also added some very silly things like hairy chests, colourful juice boxes, and the lasagne loving cat Garfield.
That's not to say the creators of these mods aren't looking to provide a service and more options for players, of course. The Hairy Chest for Men of Starfield mod by kosmos84 comes with two options to suit different needs, for example: Normal and Furball.
Another from KaySato upgrades the bland juice boxes of Starfield: "This mod adds unique textures for the boring grey drink packs, giving more variety and immersion."
Other players have created similar mods to spice...
Last week we discussed Starfield. This week - the week of its official launch - three other IGN UK crewmates discuss their experiences of Bethesda's spacefaring RPG. Join Matt, Jesse, and Emma as they analyse the layers of roleplaying and space exploration, before moving on the sing even more praises of Baldur's Gate 3 (now available on PS5!) There's also a bit of Counter-Strike 2 chat, an enthusiastic assesment of Armored Core 6, and your feedback.
Tell us your thoughts on Starfield, Baldur's Gate 3, and any other RPG you fancy. Or, of course, whatever food you've been eating this week. Get in touch at ign_ukfeedback@ign.com
IGN UK Podcast 713: Starfield - Bethesda Strikes Back
IGN UK Podcast 712: Starfield - The Good, The Bad...
In late 2001, the dot-com crash struck ZeniMax, and a team of thirty-some developers in the company’s basement feared for their jobs. They were late delivering their new role-playing game, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, to Microsoft; their board of directors had begun having doubts about the whole videogame enterprise. People were pulling seven-day workweeks on something none of them were sure would ever see the light of day. Morale was in the toilet.
When project leader Todd Howard called an off-site meeting, mere months ahead of launch, most of his crew thought they were being laid off. In fact, it was to be the most important moment in the studio’s history. Howard had sent out emails to everyone on his team days earlier, asking...
The creator of viral Steam hit Only Up! has pulled the game from the storefront, citing “stress”.
Only Up! is a rock-hard physics-based platformer that went viral in May after high-profile streamers and YouTubers showcased their often futile attempts to make it to the top.
In an update on Steam spotted by PCGamesN, Only Up!’s creator described themselves as a solo developer, and said the unexpected hit was their first experience of video game development.
Only Up! is “a game I did for creativity, to test myself, and where I made a lot of mistakes” they admitted. “The game has kept me under a lot of stress all these months. Now I want to put the game behind me.”
The developer, who published Only Up! on Steam under the name SCKR...
A Japanese man has been sentenced to two years in prison and fined ¥1 million (around $6,785) after monetising gameplay videos on YouTube.
As reported by Japanese outlet Asahi Shimbun (translated by The Verge and verified by IGN), 53-year-old Shinobu Yoshida was convicted for violating copyright law after uploading the videos without publisher permission. This is the first conviction of its kind in Japan, according to Asahi Shimbun.
Yoshida uploaded gameplay videos of visual novel Steins;Gate: My Darling’s Embrace and other videos summarising episodes of the Steins;Gate and Spy x Family anime shows. Monetising the videos, meaning to earn revenue from them, is what violated a Japanese law that prohibits making money from copyrighted...