“I don't know if I've ever played a character that I've connected with more,” enthuses Meli Grant, voice actress for Apex Legend’s Catalyst, the game’s first trans character. It’s clear from the huge smile on her face that she loves playing the controller Legend, who was first introduced back in November 2022. “There are so many fun little parallels that we've discovered as we were recording the character, just crossover between the Venn diagram of Catalyst's sense of humor and her sort of wry, sort of snarky energy and things that I can relate to in my life.”
Catalyst has since become a hugely popular character in Apex and also an LGBTQ+ icon, joining an already-diverse roster list in the game – something that’s incredibly important...
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If you’re looking to save on some of this year’s most exciting games - like The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Final Fantasy XVI, or Diablo IV - GameStop has a Buy 2 Get 1 Free sale going on right now for pre-owned games. This includes some excellent newer releases like those previously mentioned. Check out some of the games included in the sale below, and to see all of the pre-owned games available in the sale, click here.
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For those with a My Best Buy Plus/Total membership, you can also save on select Nintendo games at Best Buy right now through their Buy 2 Get 1 Free sale. This sale even includes preorders for newly announced games like Super Mario Bros. Wonder and Super...
Fans hoping for a Psychonauts 3 reveal shouldn't get their hopes up as franchise creator and Double Fine Productions founder Tim Schafer has said it's not being worked on at the moment.
Schafer told Cressup on YouTube that Double Fine is currently in a "closed doors" stage and isn't ready to talk about what it's working on, but he personally isn't working on a sequel to 2021's Psychonauts 2.
"I’m not working on Psychonauts 3," he said plainly. "We’re kind of at the ‘Willy Wonka, closed doors’ phase. But soon we could open and cause a lot of harm to a lot of children, just like Willy Wonka."
This comes despite what many thought was an obvious Psychonauts 3 tease ahead of the 2023 Xbox Games Showcase, though Schafer insisted he didn't...
The Treasure Goblin is not meant to instill fear in the hearts and minds of Diablo 4 players. It is, after all, an enemy that spits out loot and cannot attack. And yet, players across Sanctuary have a newfound fear of the unassuming demon after it killed a raft of high-level Hardcore characters.
Let’s start with Diablo 4 player Killthuzad. Icy-Veins reported this Hardcore character unexpectedly died to a Treasure Goblin while running a tier 37 Nightmare Dungeon. Stunned into silence, Killthuzad has no option but to return to the character creation screen. They eventually get up from their gaming chair and put their head in their hands.
What happened here? Killthuzad had the Death Pulse affix enabled. This means "killing a monster...
Someone has found Magic: The Gathering's Lord of the Rings The One Ring card, which currently has a bounty of $2 million.
As reported by The Gamer, the one-of-a-kind One Ring card avoided the grasp of sticky-fingered children and was instead found by someone who was aware of its value and immediately submitted the card for authentication with the leading card grading firm, the PSA.
Trading card buying and collecting company Dave and Adam's Card World upped its initial $1 million bounty of the card and is now willing to pay $2 million for it, though the transaction has not yet happened as the card has only just emerged. The owner of the card wants to remain anonymous, according to the PSA.
The One Ring received a Mint 9 grading from...
Ever wanted to experience the Marvel Cinematic Universe of RPGs? The Trails series is exactly that. More specifically, The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie is the Avengers: Endgame of RPGs. It’s the culmination of three different subseries within Trails and two decades’ worth of meticulous storytelling, easily totaling over 100 hours of gameplay time between its story, combat, and post-game activities. Despite a bloated cast of characters resulting from combining the expansive Trails series, impeccable pacing makes every event and interaction manageable. With its politically engaging story and strategically fun turn-based gameplay, it's one of the best RPGs of 2023.
Reverie is able to pack so much content in because its...
The studio head of Football Manager developer Sports Interactive has said PlayStation's claim that Xbox Game Pass is "value destructive" is not true.
The United States' Federal Trade Commission spent the last week battling Microsoft in court over Xbox's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, during which PlayStation boss Jim Ryan said publishers do not like Game Pass.
Sports Interactive head Miles Jacobson refuted this to Eurogamer, however, saying Game Pass has been a positive experience for Football Manager.
"Different studios will have different data, because different games work well in different situations."
"Every studio is going to have different opinions on this," Jacobson said. "Different studios will have different data...
Wondering if you’ll be able to squeeze in a playthrough of Baldur’s Gate 3 before Starfield comes out? Be warned: one run takes on average 75 to 100 hours, developer Larian has said.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is a sprawling open-ended role-playing game from the makers of the Divinity: Original Sin series. Larian announced it had brought the PC version release date forward a month, from August 31 to August 3, in order to avoid a clash with the likes of Bethesda’s upcoming behemoth Starfield in early September. The PlayStation 5 version, meanwhile, is delayed slightly to September 6, and the Xbox Series X and S versions are without a release window (more on Baldur’s Gate 3’s Xbox hold-up here).
Speaking to IGN, Larian boss Swen Vincke said the...
Hold the front page, Valve's Steam Deck has gotten only its second-ever major discount in the brand new Steam Summer Sale for 2023. That's right, you can currently get up to 20% off the portable gaming PC, bringing the 512GB model down from $649 to $519.20, a healthy $129.80 discount overall.
The 64GB model is also 10% off, down to $359, while the 256GB model is 15% off, down to $449.95. Check out our Steam Deck review or ROG Ally vs Steam Deck comparison for more details on the handy device. Steam's Summer Sale is running until July 13, so you've got a little bit of time to weigh up your options before committing to any big purchases as well.
Best Steam Deck Accessories To Consider
If you're picking up a Steam Deck during the...
We've officially made it halfway through 2023. Congrats to everybody. To celebrate, Cardy, Mat, and Wes are here to share their favourite games, films, and TV shows from the year so far. But that isn't all, they then look ahead to the rest of 2023 to what they're most excited for.
Want to let us know which games you’re most excited for later this year, or just want to tell us the weirdest thing you've had as a pizza topping? Drop us an email: ign_ukfeedback@ign.com.
IGN UK Podcast 703: The Best of 2023 So Far
IGN UK Podcast 702: The Good and Bad of Final Fantasy 16
IGN UK Podcast 701: Starfield, RoboCop & Friar Tuck
IGN UK Podcast 700: Geoff's Big Night
IGN UK Podcast 699: Diablo 4: Chilli Heatwave
IGN UK Podcast 698: Snake N' Wake...
With the Microsoft vs. FTC trial concluding, with a verdict expected next week, we discuss and analyze seven big things we've learned so far, from the fate of Bethesda game exclusivity to the other publishers Microsoft considered buying and more! Plus: our own investigative report into the state of The Initiative and the Perfect Dark reboot.
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 my recent interview with Todd Howard, who discussed the realization of his vision for Starfield after eight years, how Red Dead Redemption 2 was something of an inspiration, what his future holds, and more!
For more next-gen coverage, make sure to...
Prepare thy wallets. Gird the storage space of yon hard drive. The Steam Summer sale — that annual migration of funds from your bank account to Valve's coffers — has begun. I've taken the liberty of picking out not only the best stuff but also the best stuff often done cheaper at competing storefronts (if you use the supplied code). Happy hunting!
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Saber Interactive is working on a football-themed take on its popular NBA Playground series, with former NFL player and social activist Colin Kaepernick taking center stage on the game's cover.
Like NBA Playgrounds, Wild Card Football will include hundreds of real-life football players, including T.J. Watt, Jalen Hurts, Amon-Ra St. Brown, and more. But while it features real NFL players, it's not an NFL game, meaning you won't be able to play as the Kansas City Chiefs or the Minnesota Vikings.
Instead, you can create your own customized seven-on-seven team with players "reimagined Playgrounds-style." The gameplay is reminiscent of arcade classics like NFL Blitz, with special Wild Cards granting powers like super strength and...
The Steam Summer Sale, that most special event of the summer, is now live, and for only the second time since release, the Steam Deck is on sale.
All three versions of the Steam Deck are discounted, with the biggest discount going to the most expensive 512GB version. The 64GB version is marked down 10% to $359.10, the 256GB version is marked down 15% to $449.95 and the 512GB with the premium screen is marked down 20% to $519.20.
Valve's nice little handheld PC-gaming machine is a great bargain, and it's basically how Valve is trying to lure you into their Steam ecosystem to buy games on sale several times a year. I can't tell you how many PC games I own, that I bought on sale, that I've literally never even installed. It's a lot, and...
During today's Annapurna Interactive showcase, the publisher announced that it's no longer just a publisher. It's developing its first in-house game, based on the Blade Runner franchise, entitled Blade Runner 2033: Labyrinth.
Though we saw a brief teaser trailer today, we don't have too many specific details about what Blade Runner 2033 will entail. We know it takes place in (surprise!) 2033 in a dystopian LA after the Blackout, wedged firmly between the original Blade Runner and the sequel, Blade Runner 2049. We don't know any details about genre or gameplay, but it will supposedly have a strong focus on narrative. And development is being led by Chelsea Hash, who formerly worked on both Solar Ash and What Remains of Edith Finch...
To a T is a new episodic 3D adventure from Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi and Uvula that stars a teenager stuck in a t-pose.
To a T, which has no release date or window as of yet, was featured in the Annapurna Interactive Showcase and the trailer was a hilarious look at the world that promises to have a "strong focus on character, interaction, story, and exploration."
The teen you play as only wishes to live a normal life, and you will join them on their journey to realize that their "unique posture" has much more than meets the eye and that they are "the perfect shape."
Alongside going to school, exploring your small coastal town, dealing with bullies, and adventuring with your mom and adorable dog, you will also learn...
Thirsty Suitors is a very unique game that features turn-based combat against your exes, skateboarding, cooking, and so much more, and it will be released on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S (Game Pass!), Xbox One, PC, and Switch on November 2, 2023.
Thirsty Suitors was featured at the Annapurna Interactive Showcase and we also got a new trailer that shows off some of the adventures ahead for Jala, who must learn to "handle her demanding parents, reconcile with her exes, and mend broken friendships in time for her sister's wedding."
As if that wasn't enough packed into a game, Thirsty Suitors is also a stylish celebration of South Asian culture that takes great inspiration from the developers' lived experiences.
Each of Thirsty Suitors'...
The Annapurna Interactive Showcase has returned for 2023 and it was filled with a wide range of unique and wonderful-looking games. From the first Blade Runner game in 25 years that also happens to be the first in-house game for Annapurna Interactive to release dates for Thirsty Suitors and Cocoon to the news that Stray was headed to Xbox, the 30-minute show was not a disappointment.
However, it did go by pretty quickly and it can be hard to keep track of everything announced, so this article will gather all the biggest reveals and the trailers that went along with them so you don't miss a thing!
Blade Runner 2033: Labyrinth Is Annapurna Interactive's First In-House Game
Blade Runner 2033: Labyrinth is not only the first Blade...
Cat lovers, rejoice! Stray will finally be making its way to Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One on August 10, 2023.
Stray was first released on PS5, PS4, and PC on July 19, 2022, and it follows a stray cat in a cybercity of the future. While the world itself may be futuristic and fantastical, you are just an ordinary, yet awesome and smart cat.
To get an idea of what that means, be sure to check out our list of the 10 totally normal "cat things" you can do in Stray, including knocking things over, clawing up carpets and walls, typing gibberish on a keyboard, and more.
In our Stray review, we said, "The new ideas it introduces along the way help keep things as fresh as a new bag of litter, too, even if not all of those ideas work quite as...
Cocoon, the much-anticipated world jumping game from Geometric Interactive and the lead gameplay designer of Limbo and Inside, will officially be released on Xbox Series X/S (Game Pass!), Xbox One, PS5, PS4, Switch, and PC via Steam on September 29, 2023.
Cocoon's release date was revealed alongside a brand-new gameplay trailer at the Annapurna Interactive Showcase and we got another glimpse of the puzzler that allows you to not only jump in and out of worlds, but to actually use those worlds to solve puzzles.
Each world becomes an orb when you jump out of it, and you can carry it with you to solve puzzles and even unlock its unique ability to help you finish your quest and power you up. You can also use the world jumping mechanic...
I try to be an optimist in life, and that includes my career and the coverage I lead at IGN. I’d rather celebrate great games than tear down flawed ones. I’d rather look ahead to the games I’m most excited about than lament the ones that aren’t being made yet. And in the case of Microsoft’s in-progress case against the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC), I’d rather look ahead to what it would look like for Team Xbox to win the case rather than lose it.
However, given that a loss is well within the realm of possibility (you might laugh at that if you’ve been following the case closely, given the forest’s worth of wrong trees the FTC’s lawyers have been trying to bark up with Xbox executives on the stand, but stranger things...
Scorn, the horror puzzle adventure game released last year on Xbox Series X/S and PC, is coming to PS5, PlayStation and Ebb Software announced today.
While there was no firm release date other than "later this year," a new PlayStation Blog post shared some new details on what PS5 players can expect from the upcoming horror game. This includes support for the PS5's DualSense controller, which according to Ebb Software Technical Artist Jovan Vučković, the controller will aim to "deepen the player's immersion and to let the whole world "breathe" in a new way."
"Since there is no spoken dialogue in the game, we have put a strong emphasis on environmental storytelling, " the PlayStation blog notes. "[H]ence haptics are a great addition to...
Silent Hill 2 Remake and Layers of Fear developer Bloober team is officially moving on from psychological horror games to instead focus on something more "mass-market".
As reported by Engadget, 2023's Layers of Fear — which was an all-in-one remake of sorts of the first two games and their DLC — will be the studio's final foray into the psychological horror genre, which also included games like The Medium, Blair Witch, and Observer.
Switching over to what's internally known as Bloober Team 3.0, however, the studio will begin making horror games that are more action focused and require more from the player, perhaps closer to something like Resident Evil.
"We focused on the story, we focused on the mood, we focused on the quality of...
Dark Horse is releasing a truly epic action figure of the one and only Doom Slayer. This 1:6 scale figure is modeled after the iconic hero's appearance in Doom Eternal, and it looks primed and ready to slaughter the legions of Hell.
Check out the slideshow gallery below for an exclusive first look at this amazing Doom Slayer figure:
This Doom Slayer figure measures 12 inches tall and features 32 points of articulation. Highly articulated 1:6 scale figures are a bit of a departure for Dark Horse, which tends to focus on statues and non-articulated figurines like the Cyberpunk 2077 series of figures. However, in this case, Dark Horse has teamed up with the designers of Mondo to bring the Doom Slayer to life. The figure is sculpted by...
Microsoft has announced that the Xbox Games with Gold line-up for July 2023 includes Darkwood and When the Past was Around.
Revealed on the Xbox Wire, the two Games with Gold offerings will be available to anyone with Xbox Live Gold or Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, with Darkwood available from July 1 to 31 and When the Past was Around available from July 16 to August 15.
Originally released in 2017, Darkwood is a top down survival horror game designed to be challenging. Players must craft weapons, prepare traps, and fortify hideouts in order to survive the night, but use the day to explore and scavenge the eerie forests of the Soviet Bloc.
IGN named it among the best horror games of that year. "In a genre oversaturated with...
Baldur’s Gate 3 is one of the most-anticipated role-playing games of 2023. It launches in August on PC, then in September on PlayStation 5. But why is there no release date for the Xbox Series X and S versions? At first glance, you might have thought Sony’s Jim Ryan had bundled developer Larian a basket full of cash to secure Baldur’s Gate 3 console exclusivity, but this is not the case. There is no exclusivity deal going on here. Which begs the question: what’s up with Baldur’s Gate 3 on Xbox Series consoles?
The truth has to do with Larian’s ongoing struggle to get Baldur’s Gate 3’s two-player split-screen co-op running well enough on the Xbox Series S, and a Microsoft policy that enforces gameplay feature parity across Xbox Series...
Big news for Baldur’s Gate 3 fans: developer Larian has brought forward the PC release by a month, avoiding a potentially brutal clash with Bethesda’s behemoth Starfield.
Baldur’s Gate 3 was planned for launch on August 31, a day before Starfield’s effective September 1 release date. Now, the PC version of Baldur’s Gate 3 launches August 3, giving it a month head-start on Starfield.
The PlayStation 5 version, however, is delayed a week to September 6. The Xbox version is still without a release window, as is the Mac version.
In a community update, Larian said the new release date “means the PC version of Baldur’s Gate 3 will be released at a time where you’ll have more time to play it”. That’s a thinly-veiled nod to players who were...
Sega has said it has a very close relationship with Microsoft but made clear the company is not for sale after court documents revealed Xbox boss Phil Spencer was interested in acquiring it.
When asked by Bloomberg if Sega was open to being purchased by a bigger publisher, co-chief operating officer Shuji Utsumi simply said: "No, not now."
The FTC's ongoing legal battle to stop Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard revealed on June 26 that Spencer went to Microsoft CFO Amy Hood and CEO Satya Nadella to request approval to approach Sega and acquire its gaming studios.
This fell through, of course, and while Sega has no plans to be acquired by Microsoft, it insists the two still have a strong relationship.
"We are very close...
Developer Bamtang Games and publisher Game Mill Entertainment have announced Avatar: The Last Airbender: Quest for Balance, an upcoming action-adventure game that will let you play solo or in two-player local or online co-op as your choice of nine different Avatar: The Last Airbender characters. It's due out this Fall on all major platforms (PC, Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S).
The four elements (earth, wind, fire, and water) will be the focal point of the puzzles you'll encounter. Side quests, character upgrades, and interactions with iconic characters from the franchise are all promised. Check out the first trailer at the top of this page.
The nine playable characters include Aang, Toph, Sokka, and...
The PC version of Konami's Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol 1 does not support mouse and keyboard and fans aren't happy.
The Steam pages for the original trilogy of games were listed earlier in June then quickly taken down, but not before fans noticed the lack of mouse and keyboard support. While many were hoping Konami's takedown of the pages meant this issue was being fixed, they have now reemerged with the same message.
"Metal Gear Solid Master Collection version requires a controller in order to play," reads the Steam page for the first game. "Playing with a keyboard and mouse isn't supported." Equivalent messages can be seen on the other games' pages too.
"No keyboard controls it seems," said LordEmmerich on Twitter...