DayZ Badlands, the new expansion of Bohemia Interactive’s post-apocalyptic open-world zombie survival game DayZ, just hit PCs and consoles, and now you have the chance to take home a special limited edition keepsake from the game.
Now available exclusively at the IGN Store, the DayZ Badlands: Collector's Vinyl Box Set features stunning artwork, premium materials, and a suite of items including:
2LP vinyl of the DayZ and DayZ Badlands original soundtracks
A foldout ION PMC travel chart of Nasdara Province
Premium A4 art print of Nasdara's landscape
Morse code poster for new radio gameplay
3 Badlands lore-based patches: Nasdara police, ION PMC Group, and rebel tribe’s flag
Retailing for $140, the DayZ Badlands: Collector's Vinyl...
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The last time Call of Duty attempted an extraction shooter, we were living in a world without Arc Raiders in it. The DMZ beta that came with 2022’s Modern Warfare 2 was a valiant first draft, but one that ultimately failed to hook a sizable player base with its shoot, loot, and extract loop. Now the genre’s outlook is seemingly very different, with a boom in player interest thanks to the initial success of Embark Studios’ sci-fi shooter at the back end of 2025. With its popularity not quite where it was some months ago, the jury remains out on whether extraction shooters will ever be able to topple the battle royale anytime soon, if ever. But Infinity Ward is willing to try to find that out for itself with Modern Warfare 4 and its DMZ...
Key Preview Takeaways:
Combat leans heavily into parrying.
The demo we played shows promise, but we’re hoping for more depth in the final version.
The concept feels like a mix of Alita: Battle Angel and Cyberpunk 2077.
No other gameplay maneuver has had as much impact on modern action games as the parry. This ultimate skill suits both aggressive and defensive playstyles, letting you stylishly tip the scales of battle unscathed. Games like Sekiro, Lies of P, and the recent Onimusha: Way of the Sword lean into that focused combat style action fans have embraced. The upcoming ReBlade: The Death Spiral looks set to join that growing catalog of top-level action games that give you the tools and the satisfaction of tearing through...
Bethesda has put its weight behind a trio of new Fallout 4 mods as part of the ongoing Fallout Day celebrations.
The Verified Creations label sees Bethesda support modders in an official capacity as they build upon the now 11-year-old post-apocalyptic role-playing game. First up we have FEVer Dreams, from Kinggath Creations, which comes out today, October 20. It’s a free escape room-style dungeon that “inundates players with hallucinations and flashbacks, including conversations with their spouse.” What’s interesting here is FEVer Dreams features the voice of Courtenay Taylor, who played the female sole Survivor in Fallout 4, and Brian T. Delaney, who played the male Sole Survivor in Fallout 4. That’s pretty impressive for a mod...
Strauss Zelnick and Hiroki Totoki, the heads of Take-Two Interactive and Sony Group Corporation, agreed that AI won’t replace humans in the entertainment business during a talk at the Paley International Summit in New York City on Tuesday morning. They did, however, explain that they do see the technology as a valuable tool.
“I don’t think an AI could replace humans because, particularly in the entertainment field, I think creativity is quite important. Creativity is for humans, not AI,” Totoki said. “How to use the technology profile is important. Of course, I encourage my people to use AI in a certain manner, but at [the] same time we try to keep the rights and rights holders and creators and artists.”
“One of our division heads has...
This is an IGN opinion piece from Matt Purslow, who has been playing campaign shooters since he was old enough to master WASD+mouse. He has completed every Call of Duty campaign at least once.
Warning: this article features some minor spoilers for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4.
We’re in the final months of the year, so it’s time for the annual coin flip: is the latest Call of Duty campaign one of the good ones? The FPS series struggles with a curse few others do, zig-zagging between highs and lows, its annual cadence only making this undulating quality all the more prominent. In the last three years alone we’ve had one of its best campaigns sandwiched between two of its very worst. Thankfully, that on/off nature continues in 2026...
We've known for a while that Valve is working on a Steam Deck 2, but it's waiting for a chip that'll provide a "true next-generation" experience. Now, though, a potential APU for the handheld has appeared online, sparking speculation that work is ramping up.
The benchmark was posted on OpenBenchmarking, and shows an AMD APU codenamed 'Gainsborough,' with 6 cores and 12 threads, along with 24GB of LPDDR5 memory. However, while the the CPU side of the leaked chip is much more powerful, with 50% more cores, there is no information about the GPU, with even the graphics architecture remaining a mystery.
It's not the first time that the Gainsborough chip has appeared online. Earlier this month, Moore's Law is Dead spotted import documents...
With Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse recently released, and marking a rare entry into the legendary franchise not developed solely by Konami, we thought it’d be fun to rank the top ten entries in the series so far.
While we’re always a little saddened by how few games we get in this series these days (and how long we’ve had to wait for more Bloodstained), it’s safe to say this is going to be a great year for vampire-slaying fans.
Here is our definitive list of the best Castlevania games of all time.
10. Castlevania (NES)
While it may not look as mind-blowing today as it did back in 1986, the original NES classic is where it all began. It might not have fully nailed the “Metroidvania” formula yet, leaning heavily into traditional...
Stupid Never Dies is a single-player action game built on one philosophy: attack, attack, and attack some more. After playing the demo, it’s clear that all the game’s mechanics are built around rewarding aggressive play, giving gameplay a sense of momentum and progress.
You play as Davy, the world’s weakest zombie who needs to fight his way through layers of a monster-filled dungeon to take down KOM (the King of Monsters) and save a frozen girl he fell in love with at first sight. Oh, and you enter the dungeon by being flushed down a toilet. That should give you a pretty good idea of the tone, which is quirky, chaotic, and paired with a pop-punk visual style that gives the game its own unique vibe.
“How does the world’s weakest...
A former Call of Duty designer has argued that developers should get royalties when older games are ported to new systems, saying it's "hard to watch" Xbox make money from the recently released and hugely successful Black Ops 1 and 2 ports on PlayStation.
Former Treyarch level designer Gavin Goslin took to LinkedIn to discuss the PS5 and PS4 re-releases, which he said amounted to Microsoft and Activision "printing money off of work completed over a decade ago."
The pair of games reportedly sold 11.2 million copies combined in July, earning around $435 million in one month, according to estimates from Alinea Analytics (thanks, VGC). “The recent Black Ops 1 and Black Ops 2 digital drops on PlayStation proved a couple of things,” Goslin...
To evoke the classics is also to hold yourself to the high standard set by them. With Final Fantasy Resonance bringing the venerated series back to its origins with turn-based combat, and wielding Square’s HD-2D art style to modernize nostalgia for the pixel art era, it plucks at something I've longed for as someone who grew up in the SNES generation. While I've expressed my love for the Octopath Traveler series time and again, Final Fantasy has of course crystalized into something meaningful over the past several decades. But as much as Resonance looks like a torchbearer for classic RPGs, it also goes for a style of storytelling that often rings hollow. So, I think of it as a game of moments – when a genre-fusing boss theme graces your...
Steam Next Fest is back, which means our libraries are about to fill up with demos for games we had never heard of yesterday and cannot stop thinking about today. The October 2026 edition runs from 19–26 October, giving us one week to explore thousands of upcoming PC games without spending a penny.
That is far too many demos for any sensible person to play, so we have done some of the digging for you. Whether you fancy rebuilding a town, delivering post through a mountain wilderness, racing on the ceiling, or throwing a skyscraper at another monster, these are ten of our favourites from Steam Next Fest October 2026.
Emberville
Emberville starts with an amnesiac hero waking inside Vitromotus, an enormous underground prison where...
CD Projekt has announced a surprise update to Cyberpunk 2077, due out this week.
The Cyberpunk 2077 Edgerunners 2 Update (2.5) launches Thursday, October 22, and while CD Projekt kept the details quiet, it has confirmed it will feature content "inspired" by the anime. Edgerunners 2 hits Netflix today, so this update is well-timed to capitalize on heightened interest in all things Cyberpunk 2077.
But what, exactly, is in the update itself? CD Projekt took to social media to confirm that Cyberpunk 2077 will get "new items and features," which includes the content inspired by Edgerunners 2."
"Update 2.5 will be dropping on October 22, 2026, marking yet another opportunity to dive back into Night City or experience it for the very first...
Techland’s founder and CEO, Paweł Marchewka, recently hosted a Discord AMA with fans of the company’s parkour-fueled zombie series, during which he announced the end of support for Dying Light: The Beast. The game landed last year as a standalone release, despite its original positioning as an expansion for Dying Light 2.
The Beast recently got the Restored Land update, which allowed players to clear out the zombies across the map and bring civilization back to the world. But now support is ending for The Beast, which Techland never planned as a game the company would support long term.
Dying Light: The Beast is a complete game, and that’s how players should approach it — much like Dying Light 1 is today,” Marchewka said, via Insider...
Talk of Star Wars Battlefront 3 has ramped up this week, with a number of studios reportedly in with a chance of developing the shooter sequel.
The rumor kicked off when Giant Bomb’s Jeff Grubb read out a snippet from Electronic Gaming Monthly’s revived Quarterman column, which claimed Disney has “big plans” for the Star Wars Battlefront series. According to EGM, Lucasfilm is looking for a development partner for Battlefront 3, and two studios are “circling” the project: DICE, developer of Battlefield and Battlefront, and Bungie, developer of Halo, Destiny, and Marathon.
The potential for a Battlefront 3 is hugely exciting for fans of the series, of course, and if it does end up green lit, DICE would be the obvious course to develop...
Having just returned to Oz from a review trip at Infinity Ward, I was in a pretty good position to judge how authentic (and fun) a Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Pop-Up Experience could be. As luck would have it, Sydney recently hosted just such a shenanigan for press, content creators, lucky Xbox Fan Fest attendees and there were some limited slots open to the public via registrations. I infiltrated it fully.
Let me bust out my Tac-map and give you a sitrep on how the organisers decided to… well, run DMZ (as in a recreation of a real Korean demilitarised zone). The result was a limited-time, MW4-themed mini-extravaganza built around a series of virtual and physical challenges. In next to no time, my objectives list was overflowing...
Hellraiser creator Clive Barker was worried the franchise's new video game would be "overly censored," but he's "proud as f**k" of "how far they've been able to push it."
The mind behind one of horror's most twisted franchises spoke about his feelings on Saber Interactive's Hellraiser: Revival during a recent chat with Dread Central. Where other adaptations of iconic properties often come and go, Barker only had nice things to say about the experience.
"I was fearful at one point that the game would be overly censored but I’m genuinely astonished by how far they’ve been able to push it," he said.
So as not to mince words, Barker clarified: "I'm proud as f**k at the end result."
It's about as much praise as Saber and Hellraiser fans...
Steam Next Fest, Valve's festival for indie games and demos, started earlier today, and while there are usually a ton of low-effort games included, there seems to be more than usual this time around.
Browsing through the Next Fest, it's easy to spot plenty of games with art that looks like it was generated with a quick ChatGPT prompt. And now that Claude Opus 5.5 is out and has been at the center of the decompilation and mashup mod explosion that's been happening over the last few weeks, it's not surprising that there'd be a deluge of games that are either being promoted using AI-generated images or were just flat-out generated with AI.
Unsurprisingly, there are a lot of Steam fans who aren't exactly excited about having to dig...
Storm is one of a handful of female characters in Marvel Rivals with just one Legendary skin, and the pushback around this fact has become so great that even rapper Sexyy Red is speaking up about it.
Marvel Rivals published a statement to its official social media profiles on October 15 that outlined its plans to improve moderation regarding speech violations from players. And while this post sparked its own debate among the game’s fanbase, it prompted a request of a different kind from "Sticky" rapper Sexyy Red.
In a quote-retweet, Sexyy Red asked the official Marvel Rivals account when Storm is finally getting another Legendary skin, writing, “When y’all gon give Storm her legendary skin?”
Fans, of course, were mostly stunned that...
Rockstar Games gave GTA 6s' developers so much freedom to add cool details that not even the studio's top executives are aware of everything in the game.
The latest behind-the-scenes information on GTA 6 comes from Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier, who expanded upon his trip to the Rockstar North offices in Edinburgh, Scotland, after previously sharing other highlights last week. One of the more noteworthy bits shared in his 18-minute video's runtime is that the team who spent a decade or so making next month's Grand Theft Auto game had quite a bit of freedom to add details simply because they thought they might be cool.
Schreier said he'd guess that "not even top developers" at Rockstar know every tiny detail added to Vice City and...
Whalefall, the movie that sees Austin Abrams attempt to fight his way out of the belly of a sperm whale, has a fan in Hideo Kojima. The Metal Gear Solid creator and serious movie buff shared his thoughts on the film over the weekend, revealing a love for whales that has been with him since school — but says Whalefall has, as a result, put him off snacking on squid.
"It was a literary film that explored, in a somewhat metafictional way, the Steinbeck-like relationship between whales and humans as part of an ecosystem, alongside the familial bond between father and son. The visual effects were also outstanding. However, I don’t think I’ll be eating squid for a while," he wrote on Twitter/X.
Director and writer Brian Duffield spoke to...
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 has cast Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima in a role that will see him reprise his part from Cyberpunk 2077.
Series game developer CD Projekt Red confirmed the news in a social media post on X/Twitter. The message teased that it's more than a throwaway part, too, as Kojima will be seen playing "the famous braindance director who was at Konpeki Plaza in Cyberpunk 2077" (via X's machine translation).
The real-life game director was quick to respond and share his excitement, as well as a few pictures from his time recording his lines. His full statement, minus a few fun emojis, is as follows: "I make a cameo appearance in the anime series Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 as Hideyoshi Oshima, the character who...
Since it acquired the F1 license in 2009, UK-based studio Codemasters has walked a precarious sim-cade tightrope with its F1 games. It’s never been as rigorous in its physics simulation as iRacing, rFactor or Assetto Corsa Competizione, but neither has it shied away from capturing the details and demands of the sport and packaging them up into an entertaining and ultimately rewarding race weekend.
But replicating those details will introduce a difficult new element when it comes to the next F1 game. Machine learning AI supercomputers are taking control away from Formula One drivers. Borne of the new 2026 season regulation changes, it’s a phenomenon that’s usually subtle because it works by controlling the power deployment of extremely...
With 22 games in its mainline series and a 23rd inbound, Call of Duty is a well-oiled machine, arriving every year like a tactically placed care package to offer multiple modes for every type of player. Modern Warfare 4 refuses to break that trend, with a dedicated campaign, DMZ extraction mode, and the ever-present multiplayer. But how will Modern Warfare 4’s multiplayer stack up against what came before? What king does it need to topple to be declared the best in class? Let’s find out.
These are the 10 best Call of Duty Multiplayer Games.
10. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2023)
Infinity Ward’s second game in its Modern Warfare reboot series proved divisive. A year later, Sledgehammer Games was given the difficult task of taking...
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4’s campaign is available now in early access, and is arguably the strongest the series has been since its 2019 revival. Those who have played it will be aware that a lot of its heroes and villains meet their end in one of the darkest COD entries to date. It makes it all feel like a bow being tied on this particular storyline. Activision has confirmed a new Call of Duty subfranchise outside of the traditional Modern Warfare and Black Ops rotation is in the works, further signalling that it may be the end of this particular road.
But is that Activision’s plan, or if MW4 turns out to be a smash success, will the developer be tempted to head back to Captain Price and gang well one more time? The final mission...
After six years of silence, Riot Games' League of Legends-themed virtual K-pop girl group, K/DA, has returned with Firestarter, a comeback single created by the animation studio behind Arkane.
The single leads K/DA's new EP, set to come out on October 21, which would mark the group's second major release since All Out in 2020.
Returning to the lineup are MIYEON and SOYEON of i-dle, alongside Sophie Powers and Mimi Webb who bring new voices to K/DA’s latest era. The group has previously featured artists including Madison Beer and Jaira Burns, while Seraphine, who joined the virtual girl group for More in 2020 and was voiced by Lexie Liu, is notably absent from the new release. Behind the track are producers Kill Dave and Sebastien...
With Cricket 26 developer Big Ant Studios holding somewhat of a monopoly on the cricket videogame genre for more than a decade, fans of the world's second most popular sport have been crying out for some competition within the genre. The good news is that Don Bradman Cricket Jr has just been announced by Tru Blu Games. The bad news is that at first glance it seems less like a serious contender confidently striding to the crease, and more like a pitch-invader who's sprinting waywardly around the outfield for a brief bit of fun.
With chunky, cartoon visuals that look like they were created inside Roblox, Don Bradman Cricket Jr appears to be positioning itself as a sort of NBA Jam-esque take on the most beer-friendly of summer sports. The...
Google researchers have released a paper claiming that four Google Gemini 4 Argon AI agents just beat Minecraft without any help from humans. It took them just over 27 hours to take down the Ender Dragon in what is believed to be a world first.
Of course, it’s not as simple as just turning up and firing arrows at the thing. To reach The End and defeat the Ender Dragon in Minecraft, there are a series of trials you have to complete.
You have to get Ender Pearls, Ender Rods, and craft Eyes of Ender, before tracking down a Stronghold and completing a puzzle. This takes a fair bit of farming and requires you to work up through the basic Minecraft tools.
To start the test, Google placed a team of four agents into a random Minecraft seed...
A modder has used AI to put Middle-earth: Shadow of War’s Nemesis System inside Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption 2.
The enRage mod, created by nicklovin99, tracks how individual enemies feel about you. This works largely the same way as Shadow of War's much-loved Nemesis System, creating rivalries on the fly and disrupting the ranks of rival gangs. And, like the Nemesis System, enRage names every single NPC in the game. Some like you, some fear you, and some want you dead.
It groups people by gangs, groups, and affiliations, so you’ve got the O’Driscoll Boys, Lemoyne Raiders, the U.S. Army, The Klan, the Wapiti people, the Bronte Family, the Murfee Brood, the Skinner Brothers, Van der Linde, and unaffiliated randoms. These are all...
Last December, co-creator of Call of Duty and co-founder of Respawn Entertainment, Vince Zampella, passed away in a car accident. He left behind an enduring legacy as one of the people who shaped first-person shooters and changed video games forever.
This week saw the release of Modern Warfare 4, the latest entry in a series that Zampella led the inception of almost 20 years ago in 2007. His contribution is honoured by his former studio, Infinity Ward, in the credits for its campaign.
Upon completion of the game’s final mission, which takes place midway through the credits, his name and the others belonging to those who have sadly passed away during its production are the first to appear on screen. These include Rainer Yang, Matt...