Blizzard and Diablo 4 players are bracing themselves for an “expected surge” this weekend, with some fearful of big queues and potential downtime.
Blizzard apologised to disgruntled Diablo 4 players yesterday, June 8, after servers went down and login attempts resulted in error code 300202.
“I apologize again for the downtime but we should be good to go again,” Diablo development chief Rod Fergusson tweeted yesterday after Blizzard got Diablo 4 back up and running.
“Really appreciate your patience as we continue to hit record highs for concurrency and prepare for the expected surge this weekend. Thank you!”
Diablo 4 is Blizzard’s fastest-selling game and a hit with critics, but as an always-online action role-playing game server...
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Activision has pulled the Nickmercs Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone skin after the Faze Clan streamer posted an anti-LGBTQ+ tweet.
The official Call of Duty Twitter account replied to a post from Call of Duty-focused website CharlieIntel that speculated the Nickmercs skin was removed due to the anti-LGBTQ+ comment.
"Due to recent events, we have removed the 'NICKMERCS Operator' bundle from the Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone store," it said. "We are focused on celebrating Pride with our employees and community."
Nickmercs, a Faze Clan member who has 6.7 million followers on Twitch and two million on Twitter, replied to a tweet from eSports broadcaster Chris Puckett that showed a clash between anti and pro LGBTQ+...
Thank your own personal deity—possibly Bahamut—it's Friday. We're going to round this week out in style by saying "halo" to a Microsoft Studios sale on Steam. I've also spotted a bunch of AAA gold on Switch and PS5 that are worth hoarding. Possibly in a big pile, with precious gems (read: the older games also in my lists).
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The best kind of games to play in a group are the ones where you are laughing the entire time without needlessly walking away upset on whether or not you won the last round. That is exactly how I felt after playing two straight hours of Party Animals, the latest big party game on the horizon. Playing as one of many cute bipedal animals trying to punch, headbutt, and straight up kill one another, there was an endless amount of yelling and cheering regardless of whether we were working as a team or if it was every player for themselves. Even though it is still a work in progress, this is shaping up to be a chaotic playground – like all good party games should be.
It’s hard not to mention that Party Animals seems to be directly inspired...
The Devolver Direct has returned for another hilarious showcase, and this year it featured a presentation from Volv-E, a company that is totally real and not fake at all and promises to build games with "generative algorithms and deep-learning techniques" that doesn't need any real-life developers at all! What could go wrong with that!?
In all seriousness though, 2023's Devolver Direct featured new looks at four exciting games -Baby Steps, Human Fall Flat 2, The Talos Principle 2, and Wizard With a Gun. This roundup will share all you need to know about these new titles alongside the trailers of the gameplay so you can see how the look for yourself.
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Diablo 4 has suffered significant server issues, with error code 300202 confronting players upon login across all platforms.
The always-online action role-playing game was unplayable during much of today, June 8, and players took to the internet to report their troubles.
Across social media, Blizzard accounts have apologised and said staff are working to fix the game.
“We apologize once again for the inconvenience caused by today's outages,” Blizzard tweeted. “We're working to resolve this as quickly as possible!”
“We're aware of the issues and are working as fast as we can to rectify it,” Diablo development chief Rod Fergusson tweeted. “Thank you for your patience.”
As Blizzard battles to restore Diablo 4, players have once...
Paradox has announced a new grand strategy game set in the Star Trek universe.
Star Trek: Infinite is developed by Quantum League maker Nimble Giant Entertainment, and was revealed during Summer Game Fest. The teaser trailer shows a Federation fleet approach the Borg. Art shows famous Star Trek characters such as Captain Picard, Dukat and Gowron.
A full reveal is set for June 16, aka Picard Day.
Nimble Giant is best-known for its work on 2016's Master of Orion, which according to our review was "built on a moderately successful but bland execution of the inside-the-box formula". Other releases include the aforementioned Quantum League and Champions of Regnum. Paradox, for its part, has built a name for itself in the strategy space...
Cocoon, the upcoming game from Geometric Interactive and the lead gameplay designer of Limbo and Inside, received a brand-new gameplay trailer at Day of the Devs 2023 that showcased its unique world jumping mechanic.
Cocoon looks to set itself apart by giving you the ability to explore multiple worlds and then jump out of them at will. While that doesn't sound too revolutionary, it's what happens after that very well could be. As the trailer shows, when you jump out of a world, it becomes an orb that you can carry with you.
Furthermore, each orb/world also has a unique ability that can be unlocked and they will be able to use it in any of the worlds you may enter. In addition, players can use those orbs to solve puzzles, including...
While Summer Game Fest may be the big ticket show, Day of the Devs deserves just as much attention as it is filled with incredible indie games from developers around the world that are creating some of the most creative and unique experiences around.
This year's show was no different and featured 15 games, including another look at Cocoon, which is the upcoming puzzle-adventure game from one of the designers of Inside and Limbo. We were also treated to a game called Hauntii, which stars a ghost who can haunt objects and use their abilities, and Été, which promises to deliver a black-and-white world that begs for you to add color to it.
There were so many more, and we encourage you to read all about them below and watch all the...
Under the Waves, an ocean exploration game from Quantic Dream and developer Parallel Studio, will debut on Aug. 29, 2023, it was announced during today's Summer Game Fest.
It will be released for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and PC. The narrative-driven adventure game showed off a new look during the livestream as well, giving a glimpse of some soothing underwater footage. Watch the trailer below.
Under the Waves was first revealed during Gamescom 2022's Opening Night Show and follows a man named Stan, an oil company diver in a techno-futuristic 1970s who's exploring the depths of the North Sea while dealing with a life-changing loss. While he's under the sea, a strange series of events forces him to face...
During Summer Game Fest, we got our latest look at The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria, as well as a release window: Fall 2023.
The game is billed as a "survival crafting" adventure set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth. In practice, that means a game that looks a bit like Deep Rock Galactic, but with LotR Dwarves instead of space Dwarves. Moria, of course, is the labyrinthine mine known for producing mithril, the mythical metal prized for its strength and resiliency in dwarven armscrafting.
Return to Moria will tell an original story, as the Dwarves of Middle-earth set out to reclaim their ancestral homeland. For more information, check out our rundown of the game from when it was announced last year.
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Palworld, a game seemingly about collecting monster friends and then equipping them with firearms, has set an early access release window for January of next year.
Announced in a new trailer during today's Summer Game Fest showcase, it showed a variety of adorable 3D creatures to befriend, as well as a wide range of weapons to use and some survival-crafting components like cooking.
Palworld was originally revealed in a trailer last May, and immediately caught people's attention with its familiar but very different take on a monster collecting game.
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Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden, the new action RPG by the studio behind Vampyr and the first two Life is Strange games, showed off its first gameplay during Summer Game Fest.
The trailer showcases Banishers' haunting atmosphere as well as its combat, featuring ghosts, wolves, and other apparitions who are being... well... banished. First announced at last year's Game Awards, he full game will feature main characters Red and Antea as they "defeat and banish the souls that torment the living."
"Heavy decisions will lie on your path as you decide the fate of New Eden's inhabitants—be they living people or wandering souls—dramatically impacting your story and the challenges you’ll face," the official release promises.
This puts it in...
A brand new Prince of Persia game has been revealed as part of this year’s Summer Game Fest showcase.
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is a new 2D action platformer, developed by Rayman Legends studio Ubisoft Montpellier. Playing as a Persian warrior named Sargon, you will explore the cursed region of Mount Qaf in search of the missing Prince Ghassan.
Built using a Metroidvania structure, the large map spans a variety of Persian mythology-inspired environments including the “majestic” Citadel of Knowledge and outdoor regions such as the Hyrcanian Forest. Each area contains platforming dangers, puzzles, and combat encounters, as well as new time powers to unlock and side quests to complete.
The trailer at Summer Game Fest showed off...
A sequel to Yes, Your Grace, a popular indie game known for its high-quality pixel art, was revealed at Summer Game Fest. Titled Yes, Your Grace Snowfall, it will be a “cinematic kingdom management RPG.”
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At this year's Summer Game Fest, Remedy Entertainment shared new gameplay footage of Alan Wake 2.
Remedy Entertainment Creative Director Sam Lake appeared on stage to talk a bit more about the game before showing off a gameplay demo focusing on Saga Anderson. At last month's PlayStation Showcase, we learned that Saga Anderson is a new character who will also be one of two playable characters in the sequel. Anderson is an FBI agent who has been sent to Bright Falls to investigate some "ritual murders," according to Lake.
Alan Wake 2 will be released on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC on October 17, 2023. Though if you are looking to buy a physical copy, you might be out of luck. Shortly after the release date was revealed, Remedy...
Today at Summer Game Fest, Larian Studios revealed that actor Jason Isaacs will be playing a major antagonist in Baldur's Gate 3: a character named Lord Enver Gortash.
In the game, Gortash has stepped up as the protector of Baldur's Gate after the disappearance of Duke Ravengard. He's the designer of a group of magic, clockwork warriors known as the Steel Watchers, and wields quite a bit of power as a result.
Isaacs is no stranger to villain roles, notably honing the character of Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter films from 2001 to 2011, as well as Captain Hook in 2003's Peter Pan. Other recent roles include Vasili in Hotel Mumbai and Field Marshal Zhukov in The Death of Stalin. In games, he's recently voiced roles in Marvel's...
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...
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...
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."
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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.
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...